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HAD@havehashad· 22d

legit super love HAD submitter vibes. y'all are the best.

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if my deep-seated anxiety is right and you end up disliking this poem so much that you decide you actually really really hate me as a person and want to dedicate your life to seeing me fail, just know that I'm so so sorry. either way, thanks for your time!

HAD@havehashad· 23d

How about a list of errands for Sunday? Today from Daniella Sinder "To divorce your pain from your personality and find that nothing remains To speak kindly to yourself" https://www.havehashad.com/2x6mb

July 19, 2026
Errands
Daniella Sinder
To lie in the mud first in childhood and later, eternally

To watch a former love grow old from behind a dog's Instagram account

To buy the bottle for its label and laugh at the first sip

To divorce your pain from your personality and find that nothing remains

To speak kindly to yourself (but only out of spite)

To manage expectations and still say, I love you

To envision a future held by arms merely reaching for the next morning

To fear the intuition you once fought to understand

To learn new terminology for your experiences and wish the world had fewer words

To fall asleep entwined and yearn for infinite language

HAD@havehashad· 24d

brilliant poem and use of form today from Theo Nguyen ! https://www.havehashad.com/gmp6i

HAD@havehashad· 26d

I really thought this was gonna read "I think this piece is a little eerie and nostalgic and pretty--all the things I... know you like" and was ready to be all, hell yeah, I do like those things, shoutout to you for knowing my tastes!

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I think this piece is a little eerie and nostalgic and pretty--all the things I like for my writing to be. Hope you enjoy!

HAD@havehashad· 26d

I love this dumb little journal we've built with all y'all's help.

what is it

who knows??
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This is one of the weirder/nerdier things I've ever written so I saved it for a HAD call. :)

HAD@havehashad· 26d

POP-UP SUBMISSION CALL TIME! Open right now, until we hit 70. * any genre, but would love to see prose * any length, but shorter the better * two pieces ok, but encourage you only send one havehashad.submittable.com/submit/36274...

Submissions are open RIGHT NOW. Will be open for 70 submissions.

Open to technically anything, but would really love to see the teeniest tiniest pieces of prose you've got.

In other words...

- open to all genre, but would really love to see prose
- open to any word length, but the shorter the better
- you can send two pieces, but really encourage you only send one
no theme

Will probably do this same call sometime in the next 12–168 hours, depending on how fast I get through these and how life goes, so if you don't make this in time, keep an eye on our socials?

Thanks!
-Aaron

HAD@havehashad· 27d

"Still, I sat there for an hour, as if regret could arrive late and find me waiting." today from Jonna Kihlman! https://www.havehashad.com/ozo4c

July 15, 2026
Three Days Later
Jonna Kihlman
You asked me to come and see you before you left. I told you I had plans. The truth was I didn't trust myself not to fall back. Three days later I bought a train ticket to your city. I watched fields turn into buildings outside the train window. Walked the white cobbles of your street. Sat beneath a tree in the park across from your house and looked at the front door. Nothing happened. No curtains moved. No footsteps crossed the hall. No shadow passed the window. You were already gone. Still, I sat there for an hour, as if regret could arrive late and find me waiting.

HAD@havehashad· Jul 12

today let's rank eutrapelia on a scale of buffoonery and boorishness with Billy Sheehan: "2. There are jokes in my mother’s eulogy – jokes I believe she would have enjoyed. They land." https://www.havehashad.com/kbt71

HAD@havehashad· Jul 11

today from Lili Lin!! https://www.havehashad.com/g2ce5

July 11, 2026
horse/mother
by Lili Lin

what i didn’t know before

was that

a horse is born

ready to run.

this concept:

the last

przewalski

my mother told me

the scar on her arm was from a motorcycle.

a teenage accident;

i try to imagine

my mother,

young

wild and free

HAD@havehashad· Jul 10

"The side effect of prednisone... is a poem." today from Robin Neidhard! https://www.havehashad.com/6kmnw

July 10, 2026
Warning Label for Prednisone
Robin Neidhard
after Shira Erlichman

The side effect of prednisone (is a moon face. The side effect of a moon face is no one will recognize you anymore. The side effect of no one recognizing you is that you’ll question your own existence. The side effect of questioning your own existence is that at some point you’ll no longer care. The side effect of not caring is saying fuck it. The side effect of saying fuck it is bringing home two cats. The side effect of bringing home two cats is needing more cats. The side effect of all these cats is partial healing. The side effect of partial healing is vivid dreams of running down the street again after being paralyzed. The side effect of running down the street in dreams is you’ll believe you can do anything. The side effect of self-belief is open skies and a full heart. The side effect of open skies and a full heart is a gentle return to yourself. The side effect of a gentle return to yourself is ta

HAD@havehashad· Jul 7

"Giving someone the bird. Birds. Crows & ravens, especially. Also loons, kookaburras, cockatoos, cassowaries, roseate spoonbills, & shoebill storks w their prominent noses. I love prominent noses." — Renee Kalagayan LOVE a square block of text list poem! https://www.havehashad.com/xi1xr

July 7, 2026
FEATURES THAT I PARTICULARLY LIKE
Renee Kalagayan
After Sei Shōnagon

When my three-year-old cousin presses buttons on his toys with his middle finger. Middle fingers. Giving someone the bird. Birds. Crows and ravens, especially. Also loons, kookaburras, cockatoos, cassowaries, roseate spoonbills, and shoebill storks with their prominent noses. I love prominent noses. Women whose noses make them look like birds or witches or that spread wide when they laugh. Women who laugh. Women who are bewitching. Women who be witching. Women who call their group of friends a coven. My coven. Emma, Isabella, Jessica, Karina, and my little cousin Ina. Ina’s nose. When Ina’s nose crinkles in the middle when she smiles, like a drawbridge being raised. Bridges. Bridges over cars. Freckles bespeckled over the bridge of a nose. Bridges in songs. Bridges over water. Bridges over troubled water. Troubled water. Breakwater. Drinking water on a break from work. Poems that feel like fresh water af

HAD@havehashad· Jul 5

"All Small Pete ever wanted to do was fish, which drove his industrious neighbors crazy." let's go 🎣 today with Ken Pisani ! https://www.havehashad.com/mhvxi

July 5, 2026
Small Pete
by Ken Pisani

All Small Pete ever wanted to do was fish, which drove his industrious neighbors crazy. (With envy?) They worked to have all that they wanted, including jet packs to take them to castles in the sky . . . while all Small Pete had was time to fish. (He lived in a hole in the ground.) Despite a lifetime sitting by the river, rod in hand, line in water, Small Pete had never caught a fish. But he didn’t care because—technically—“fishing” did not require the actual catching of a fish. The townspeople disagreed, insisting that fishing required the end result of a fish. Finally, they’d had enough of Small Pete’s lazy affrontery. They arrested him and charged him with temporalcide (“killing time”). And sentenced Small Pete to death. But it was customary to grant the condemned man’s last request. And all Small Pete wanted was to fish. You can find Small Pete by the side of the river, rod in hand, line in water, and not a fish in sight.

HAD@havehashad· Jul 4

Isabelle Correa has a beautiful new poem at HAD today! https://www.havehashad.com/y45dh

HAD@havehashad· Jul 2

two today from Rachel Beachy, the second being this little piece of magic: https://www.havehashad.com/ku8w4

Poem in Which I Practice Optimism
“For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.”

Maybe the baby was born so big
the shoes never fit or the baby lived
someplace warm and went around
barefoot or the baby was held all
the time so his feet never even
touched the ground.

HAD@havehashad· Jul 1

incredibly fun one today from Garrett Mostowski!! https://www.havehashad.com/5sfwn

HAD@havehashad· Jun 30

Hope Neyer !! https://www.havehashad.com/e0ahn

June 30, 2026
Not in this one, but:
by Hope Neyer

In another world, you and I get really into backpacking. You grow out your beard. I braid my hair with strips of cloth. In the silent forest of this different circumstance, we speak softly to each other.

In some other time, you and I watch rockets launch from Cape Canaveral. You hold me in wonder on the wet ground. I lean into your chest in the countdown. We watch the breaking sky and speak softly to each other.

In some other bodies, you and I are barn owls. You make short flights at dusk, return to me. I kill voles and rabbits and leave the bones in open fields. Our eyes are huge. They reflect a waxing moon and we speak softly to each other.

HAD@havehashad· Jun 26

banger today from Avery Steigerwald 🔥 https://www.havehashad.com/flrwx

June 26, 2026
Preventable Things
by Avery Steigerwald

car crash without a seatbelt /
mistakes / summer colds /
winter colds / viral
infection / post-viral
infection / the things you
can’t prevent without your
prophetic dreams / death /
disease / life / pregnancy /
the extinction of penguins /
love / losing someone you
love / finding someone you
love / fibroids / autoimmune
disease / people-pleasing /
redundancy / regret / tears

HAD@havehashad· Jun 23

hell yeah from Spencer Eckart "He’s got on a montera hat and manoletina shoes to match. Oh, not this—anything but this. There’s a mirror in the lounge area. I have on a montera and manoletinas to match also. Dammit. This is not what I wanted this to be." https://www.havehashad.com/pgjkv

HAD@havehashad· Jun 21

"We made out in the walk-in freezer, stopped at a taco stand in the back alley for vegetarian burritos on the walk home. When he left for Wisconsin, I was the only employee remaining." today from Susan Muth! https://www.havehashad.com/107k1

HAD@havehashad· Jun 17

the bio is half the fun, can't urge you strongly enough to click through for that but today, from Mitch Nobis, a kinda quintessential "HAD piece": https://www.havehashad.com/el4pt

June 17, 2026
I Drive By a Bunch of Teenagers With My Window Down While Listening to an Audiobook by Sir David Attenborough and Right as I Pass Them He Loudly Says “Then The Couple Mates”
by Mitchell Nobis

They laugh.

HAD@havehashad· Jun 16

"Sexual Orientation • Heterosexual • Homosexual • Okay, so it’s 1999 and The Mummy is in theaters and everyone is falling in love with men and women and eyeliner as thick as the lid of a sarcophagus..." today from Frances Klein! https://www.havehashad.com/lk1uf

June 16, 2026
Demographics
Frances Klein
Sexual Orientation (select one)

Heterosexual
Homosexual
Okay, so it’s 1999 and The Mummy is in theaters and everyone is falling in love with men and women and eyeliner as thick as the lid of a sarcophagus and all the teens are doodling on their notebooks in loopy cursive, Mr. Rachel Weisz’s Belted Tanktop, and Mrs. Brendan Fraser’s Center-Part Bangs, and Arnold Vosloo’s Shaved Head and the small towns of America aren’t so small when you sit in the dark with desert stretching past the horizon, and we all see the movie every weekend, tickets are cheap if you smuggle in your own snacks, cargo pants pockets stuffed with Skittles, and the ticket taker doesn’t notice because he’s making eyes at the cardboard cutout of Brendan, we all are, we all want to be all four lips and two tongues inside the big kiss at the end, want to be every locust buzzing out of Imhotep’s unhinged jaws, we have no words for what we feel, know only that something inside us h

HAD@havehashad· Jun 8

GETTING there!!

screenshot of Submittable showing 91 submissions (down from starting at 926!)

HAD@havehashad· Jun 8

I have perhaps bad news for you...

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Y'all are so funny pls never go bald ily

tip jar

HAD@havehashad· Jun 6

crazy to be excited about getting the total number of submissions down to a "manageable" number... and that still means a ridiculous number of submissions

screenshot of Submittable showing 266 submissions (down from original number of 926)

HAD@havehashad· Jun 6

big HAD title energy

a screenshot from tumblr, with a painting of a landscape and the silhouette of a person (with big, possibly headpiece, possible made of antlers) pointing, and in the background, and big blobby outline of a kind of animal or something giving a thumbs up.

og poster: "yo bro is it safe down there in the woods? yeah man it's cool" by Tomislav Jagnjic

reply post: I thought this was just a joke but nope, that's literally what the artist named this piece

HAD@havehashad· Jun 6

I don't go to therapy, I just every now and then read and respond to hundreds of submissions as fast as I can, while enjoying the nice and/or unhinged things I strongly insinuated it would be nice if people said in their cover letters

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you ever go to therapy and go omg i cannot even begin to talk about my issues until i develop a sexual fixation on taxidermy or something because right now they are SOOOOOOOO cliche

HAD@havehashad· Jun 5

New here? :) But also... it IS indeed currently feeling less possible than it did even just a day or two ago...

screenshot of Submittable email, a reply to a rejection:

You are so funny. You don’t actually read through 900 pieces it’s just not humanly possible :)

HAD@havehashad· Jun 5

thinking, again, about our postcard submission call. 200 postcards over a handful of days, all shoved into my old apt mailbox. and the voicemail call, where I listened to them all in the car, while driving across the country with my buddy. just about time for something like one of those again...

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Devastating that we have to use submittable instead of carrier pigeons and smoke signals. Where's the whimsy?

HAD@havehashad· Jun 5

These Erin Dorney Scrabble Poems are so great and inventive and fun. "These visual poems were conceptualized by hand on a Scrabble board using a standard bag of 100 tiles." and they come with a couple of bonus HAD poems! https://www.havehashad.com/ft5su

HAD@havehashad· Jun 5

I don't think I have (and so now I'm feeling like probably *I* don't understand romance) but I almost certainly will now!