How to start a book 🔥🔥🔥 (Brandon Shimoda, HYDRA MEDUSA)

Gettysburg College has decided to shut down its prestigious literary magazine, Gettysburg Review, without consultation with the people who run it.

Submissions are open through the end of October for @kenyonreview.bsky.social’s Forough Farrokhzad Folio, guest edited by Kenyon Review Fellow Cindy Juyoung Ok kenyonreview.org/submit/speci...

On 11/19 & 12/10, 2 US Eastern, online, I'll give the inaugural Linkages Lectures—on the fundamental structures of my imagination, the alphabet and the drawn and written line. Thanks to all at Annulet for the invitation and to @drebelle.bsky.social for the nomination. Really looking forward to this.

it is chiles en nogada season, which means sustained heartburn season as we melt into the ever evaporating fall

I wish there were a bookmark option here for things I would like to return to read later. Any workarounds?

Sometimes going deeper means just going on. - Brandon Shimoda on his poem “The Bell” from his recent work HYDRA MEDUSA (Nightboat Books) poems.com/features/wha...

Al Filreis gathers Hoa Nguyen, Maya Pindyck, and Laynie Browne to talk about two of the poems (#1 and #4) in Mina Loy’s “Love Songs” series for POEMTALK: jacket2.org/content/poem...

the application for the 2024 Periplus Fellowship—offering mentorship and community to writers of color—is now open ❤️‍🔥 you can learn more & apply by 10/27, pls help spread the word docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Harmony Holiday on Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharp: www.bookforum.com/print/3001/c... and more generosity with a playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/35n... Brilliance all around

I gifted myself a chapbook subscription from After Hours Editions, which hasn’t disappointed yet. Molly Ledbetter’s chapbook is GREAT. It feels like I’m having a conversation with a curious and funny friend in which I have nothing to say and am glad for it bc I just want to listen and keep on. 1/2

Because nothing but blood tastes like blood… Facts About Deer by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: poems.com/poem/facts-a...

paying attention to paying attention today yielded the following: a black ant carrying a dead black ant, paint the color of sky on a clear day lost across three lanes of traffic, a congregation of grackles in a landscape of rocks after a smattering of rain. now to read.

Details for sending work: annuletpoeticsjournal.com/Submissions

Yo latinx writers @barrelhouse.bsky.social is open for submissions for a new online issue on LATINE MONSTERS, guest edited by our friend Ofelia Montelongo. Full submission call is here: barrelhouse.submittable.com/submit/27189...

C.T. Salazar and Casie Dodd of @bellepointpress.bsky.social created a remarkable anthology here, which is now available for purchase: bellepointpress.com/products/mid...