🔥Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for the DEATH TO THE BULLSHIT ARTISTS OF SOUTH TEXAS 11th Anniversary Edition by Fernando A. Flores! Order now on our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social 🔥 hostpublications.com/collections/...

“Today’s poem carries that same energy of self-discovery, inevitable change, and an extravagance of living,” shares Major in today’s encore episode. Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social‬: bit.ly/3IUaqAj

This will be our thread for W4G's Sealey Challenge. To support us, fill out the sponsor pledge form or contribute directly now. Include W4G in the notes section so we can keep track. Our goal is $1k in pledges and contributions this month: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...

Still flying high from last week's I Scream Social at Alienated Majesty Books! We featured Julie Poole, Marzetta, Ari Kelly, & Austen Scheib!

We're so excited and grateful to see @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social's and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva's poetry collections named as finalists for @lambdaliterary.org's 2025 Lammy Awards in Gay Poetry and LGBTQ+ Poetry! 🎉 Check out the full list of finalists across all categories: tinyurl.com/yc5uu4ea

Sign up for Stop Cop Cities Everywhere, August 26th on zoom. To benefit the Sameer Project’s North Gaza campaign! www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/sto...

Read WILDFLOWER from @luckyjefferson.com for #DisabilityPrideMonth! This digital issue celebrating eight autistic BIPOC writers features writing by J. D. Harlock, Shel Moring, Greta McGee, and more: luckyjefferson.com/wildflower/

🌻Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for WAYWARD CREATURES by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes! On our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social! hostpublications.com/products/way...

Today’s Featured Poem: “the city that loves the bomb” by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social from Book of Provocations published by @hostpublications.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/the-cit...

🌿🚑 Another day, another chance to double your donation. Poet Alina Stefanescu is offering to match up to $500 for Sameer Project's Medical campaign. Yesterday's was met in a day. Can we do the same? These funds are urgently needed! ❤️‍🩹 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

mónica teresa ortiz’s BOOK OF PROVOCATIONS (@hostpublications.bsky.social‬) is on our reading list for #PrideMonth! The poems in this collection “explore catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression.” hostpublications.com/products/boo...

Read m. mick powell’s THREESOME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA for #PrideMonth! This collection from @hostpublications.bsky.social “sings about Black queer femmehood in harmonies of multiple voices, asserting the self as ever-changing and voluminous.” hostpublications.com/collections/...

A look inside LOCAL REMEDIES by Chiagoziem Jideofor, forthcoming from Host Publications Spring 2026! @poetrydaily.bsky.social poems.com/poem/local-r...

Submissions close this Sunday (06.15.25) at 11:59pm CDT! Host Publications is looking for full-length poetry manuscripts written by historically marginalized writers! hostpublications.submittable.com/submit

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Happy Pride, cuties! Loving the @clmporg.bsky.social Pride Month Reading List which includes BOOK OF PROVOCATIONS by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social & THREESOME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA by @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social in great, small press company! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

♥️ Host Publications is open for full-length poetry submissions through June 15th, 2025. Works we dream of publishing include: collections of intersectional, radical ecopoetics; collections that hybridize poetry w/ other forms; docupoetics + more. hostpublications.submittable.com/submit/32369...

Meg Day, a dear poet, educator, and friend could use your support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-me...

Thank you, Texas Observer, for this feature. I'm proud to be the Poet Laureate of Texas and beyond grateful for the incredible community of outstanding poets across the state. Poetry is for the people! Praise the people! 🙌🏽✨️💛 Read: www.texasobserver.org/texas-first-...

Please join us for this reading full of people I admire deeply. More importantly, RSVP as soon as you can so that the Gaza Poets receive support as soon as possible.

Will be reading only unpublished stuff :)

🌊 Patiently waiting for this stellar reading w/ @workshops4gaza.bsky.social hosted by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social & featuring @summ.bsky.social @miparhizkar.bsky.social Ignacio Carvajal, Ayling Zulema Dominguez, Destiny Hemphill, Mallika Singh & Jesús Valles | www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...

Torch Literary Arts was awarded the first-ever Writing Organization Award by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) at the 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Los Angeles! Read more: torchliteraryarts.org/news/torch-l... #AWP25

I had absolutely too much fun at #AWP25! No one parties like the poets, my god. Thank you to everyone who showed me kindness, filled me with hope, pointed me in the direction of great literature, & listened to me endlessly champion our Host Publications writers! A dream moment in this hard world 💖

♥️ We're celebrating National Poetry Month reading & writing poetry, going on long hikes w/ our besties & reading poems by the creek, w/ cake, perhaps a snail mail exquisite corpse! Tell us how you're celebrating! We're offering 20% off at HostPublications.com if you need to grow your poetry stack!

See you at AWP!

First day as the inaugural Prizer Arts & Letters Smithville Artist-in-Residence. Gonna make art, write poems, play with my puppy son, and breathe. Public events coming in May. ✨️

☀️Listen: Forthcoming Host Publications poet CHIAGOZIEM JIDEOFOR read "a name, a condition" read by Ucheoma Onwutuebe, published by the good folks at Shō Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social soundcloud.com/shopoetryjou...

#AWP2025 Los Angeles :: March 28th, 7pm :: Join us for POETICS OF LIBERATION at The Count's Den featuring @amandajohnston.bsky.social @arizona-tea.bsky.social @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social @cloudelfina.bsky.social @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social @croptopassassin.bsky.social @anelflores.bsky.social & more!

Spring 2026 closes out with LOCAL REMEDIES by CHIAGOZIEM JIDEOFOR!

THE HUNGERING YEARS by @summ.bsky.social will launch February 2026!

Texas Poet Laureate @amandajohnston.bsky.social 's PRAISESONG FOR THE PEOPLE ANTHOLOGY will be released this September!

We are celebrating the 2025 Joe W. Bratcher Prize Winner this November: THEY/SHE/HE: RITUAL TO FORGET YOUR (UN)BECOMING by @deziree-the-writer.bsky.social

WAYWARD CREATURES by HEIDI ANDREA RESTREPO RHODES, forthcoming August 2025 <3!

♥️ We are honored to announce our Fall 2025 & Spring 2026 forthcoming titles! Click through to the blog for all the juicy details! hostpublications.com/blogs/news/a...

book incoming from @hostpublications.bsky.social feb 2026 💜

Looking for the perfect Valentine’s or Galentine’s Day gift? 💝✨ Celebrate World Read Aloud Day with Torch and show your love for Black women writers! 🗓️ On Feb. 5th & 6th: Shop Kendra Scott Jewelry and use our Torch Code GIVEBACK-IMGQX to have 20% of your purchase donated to support Torch. 💛

Austin: did you know that every month we throw a feminist reading & ice cream party? This Friday, we're featuring writer-activists who inspire us, fill us w/ hope, & getting us writing! Join us at Alienated Majesty to celebrate Gaby Benitez, Sara Bawany, and Texas Poet Laureate Amanda Johnston! 7pm!

Separated at birth? #Disappearance @hostpublications.bsky.social

We're endlessly inspired by Fernando A. Flores (Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas, Host Publications 2018) and love every word in this interview with Fernando and Huizache Mag on writing: Read it in full here: huizachemag.org/fernando-a-f...

Today’s Featured Poem: “Returning to the Village” by Stephanie Niu, from Survived By: an Atlas of Disappearance, published by @hostpublications.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/returni...

🌊 Today's featured poem on @poetrydaily.bsky.social is "Returning to the VIllage" by Host Publications poet Stephanie Niu! poems.com/poem/returni...