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1 of 3 poems by Douglas Cole for issue 25.2 thediagram.com/25_2/cole.html

1 of 5 poems by @kinseymads for our new issue thediagram.com/25_2/cantrell.…

until you look like the answer to a question nobody asks. — @calhounpoems, "Unpreserved" thediagram.com/25_2/calhoun.h…
"Teeth exposed, as though being made to smile at its own fate, to participate in this staging of masculinity, to take it and take it and take it and say Yes, Sir. Thank you, Sir. Thank you, Mr President." @AndreBagoo for issue 25.2 thediagram.com/25_2/bagoo.html

Sharing my @Wigleaf Top 50 longlisted flash #3: “Situation Like This” published by @EL_DIAGRAM 💙 thediagram.com/24_3/bell.html
So taut, twisty, perfect. 2 poems from John Arthur in @EL_DIAGRAM thediagram.com/25_2/arthur.ht…
The "feelings / non-feelings" in this poem by Catherine Weiss from the new issue of @EL_DIAGRAM.
"Basic Elements of A.C. Servomechanism" From Arthur Porter's 'Cybernetic Simplified,' Barnes & Noble Inc, 1969

"I need more content to be content contentment, I meant I mean more condiments condoms, I meant more condolences more control a continent of content" Excerpt of "A Strange Blue Glow" by John Arthur thediagram.com/25_2/arthur.ht…
Zaid Aldarghme for our latest issue: thediagram.com/25_2/aldarghme…

Wow, what an incredible @Wigleaf Top 50 list and Longlist! Congrats everyone! I can’t believe I have 3 pieces on the Longlist! Thank you @flashfroglitmag @GooseberryPie99 & @EL_DIAGRAM for publishing my work 💙
The @Wigleaf Top 50 2025 & the Longlist are up! Thank you to our Guest Selecting Editor @samanito & to our Readers & Associate Series Editors! Let’s celebrate the writers, readers, & journals in the literary community—all for the love: wigleaf.com!
Excerpt of 'Sick Day' by @JesseLKercheval thediagram.com/25_1/kercheval…




Another diagram from Richard Merrill's 'Radical Agriculture,' 1976 thediagram.com/25_1/thetreadm…

"Hypothetical Barrel Used to Convey Concept of Limiting Factors, Where Water Level in Barrel Indicates Population Size of Particular Insect Which in Turn Is Determined by Height of Shortest Stave" Richard Merrill, 'Radical Agriculture,' 1976 thediagram.com/25_1/hypotheti…

"Anticipating the prime of my life— a foremost habit, finally, of stitching together a so-called self & calling bullshit on how I've choreographed its smokescreen. Its separateness." From 1 of 2 poems by Haley Joy Harris thediagram.com/25_1/harris.ht…
"Words contain so much past if unsaid and so much future if they are heard." — Abby Hagler, 'A Hammer' thediagram.com/25_1/hagler.ht…
"He'll slide his socked feet throughout the carpet, waiting for her return, and think about the times in another apartment, years ago, when there wasn't ever any silence, and if there was, it wasn't like this." From "Knots" by Nichole Gould: thediagram.com/25_1/gould.html
1 of 4 poems by Carrie George for our new issue: thediagram.com/25_1/george.ht…

“This room fills with air when I leave it, / like a heart with blood, or lives with time— / the matters of course ticked off / like seconds or groceries presently needed / and absently bought.” —@paulmguest, “Apogean” @EL_DIAGRAM thediagram.com/1_1/guest1.html