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05/07/2025

Tonight! Tonight! Tonight! Follow to see the the reading live!

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🦎🌈We are keeping the poetry celebration going with a fantastic group of local poets heading to Tombolo Books for an event featuring Chameleon Chimera: An Anthology of Florida Poets!🦎🌈

Join Yael Valencia Aldana, Tyler Gillespie, Gianna Russo, & Helen Pruitt Wallace at the bookstore to hear more about this gorgeous collection! 🎉🎉🎉

🗓️May 7, 2025
⏰7:00pm
📍Tombolo Books
RSVP and grab books at tombolobooks.com

Chameleon Chimera: An Anthology of Florida Poets is a unique collection of Florida poetry curated by Lenny DellaRocca. Each poet was invited to contribute and then nominated another poet. This collection traces a geographic line through Florida neighborhoods from Miami to Hollywood, to Surfside, to Saint Petersburg, to Jacksonville, to Tampa, to Palm Beach, to Apalachicola and beyond. 🐚🌊🌴

05/06/2025

New visual erasure poetry from C. Show

Born Blue
I don’t know why
we drag the
weight of out past selves behind us
every mistake chained to our heels
so we say - we can’t move forward…

Unconsummated
Moments like these—
leather jacket creases
reflecting by the light
of a street lamp as your
mouth draws close to his
ear whispering promises then…

link in bio

           

04/26/2025

We are rescheduling our live with the wonderful Anjanette Delgado. Keep you eyes open for the new time for our convo 💕🐙

04/25/2025

Join us for an Instagram live with amazing, acclaimed, award-winning Boricua, author, poet, and journalist, Anjanette Delgado . She joins Purple Ink’s Managing Editor, Yael Valencia Aldana , to discuss her poem in The Bimbo Anthology and all things Anjanette. Don’t miss this awesome conversation.

04/21/2025

New poetry from Sasha Weiss & D.S. Maolalai in Tender Masculinities. New content weekly! Link in bio!

04/17/2025

Thank you Broward College and Elisa Albo for host and this event for Chameleon Chimera: an Anthology of Florida Poets. It was wonderful to read to the students and staff.

A special thank you to all the poets and editor, Lenny DellaRocca , who traveled from all over South Florida for this event

Romi Tarlamis
Steve Kronen
Brendan Walsh
Meryl Stratford
Rita Maria Martinez .maria.martinez.poet
Barbra Nightingale
Richard Ryal Richard Ryal

Photos by and Rita Maria Martinez

04/03/2025

Read the latest Tender Masculinities post, Samuel Collins Hicks’s powerful nonfiction piece Very Truly Yours. He rips the Band-Aid off of the fraught and relationship with his abusive father. Yet, somehow, makes it funny. Link in bio.

04/03/2025

We love this essay and this book!

Out now…includes my essay “Writing an Erotic Romance.” It’s edgy and emotional. I don’t write many personal pieces, but this one is. I’m excited to be in this beautiful collection. Buy link in comments.

04/02/2025

Bimbo us here!! Finally! She’s worth the wait! Click the link in our bio for a preview. And follow us for updates!

04/01/2025

The Tender Masculinities folio is live, celebrating the soft underbelly of maleness. This first round features poems from John Whalen-Bridge, whose work inspired this folio, and our chapbook finalist Li Zhuang . The folio was edited by .marr Image by Tytti Heikkinen. New content every Thursday. Link in the bio.


              

03/06/2025

Sending out more contributor copies 📧

02/27/2025

The results are in!

Chen Chen picked Nur Turkmani’s manuscript Octobers as our winner. And… Megan Alyse’s Go Home, You’re Drunk, and Li Zhuang’s But Octopi Don’t Sing as runners-up.



Congratulations! We are so excited to get your work out into the world