🧡 Last call for signed copies of Chiagoziem Jideofor's debut poetry collection LOCAL REMEDIES! 🧡 Available through @asterismbooks.bsky.social or our website: hostpublications.com

I love getting these treasures in the mail @hostpublications.bsky.social #poetry #books #hostpublications

🌊 The Wilder Constellation of Aliveness: Rob Colgate interview heidi Andrea restrepo rhodes for @foglifterpress.bsky.social | 🌊https://www.foglifterjournal.com/rob-interviews-heidi

“I have never felt quite Human, and this has taken me down very rich and meaningful paths of reading and kinning with the strange, the creaturely, and the more-than-human..." Read more on our blog: www.foglifterjournal.com/rob-intervie...

🧡 The Hungering Years: Summer Farah on Holding a Magnifying Glass to Everything, interviewed by Laura Villareal for @adimagazine.bsky.social | @summ.bsky.social adimagazine.com/articles/the...

Austin: Excited to be reading at Alienated Majesty on April 10th in celebration of Chiagoziem Jideofor's debut from @hostpublications.bsky.social, local remedies! www.alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/49023...

❤️ We're open for full-length poetry submissions through June 1st! Send us your strangest, queerest, most tender, riotous writing! hostpublications.submittable.com/submit

🌊 "Crossing" by C. Rees is featured this week in Maggie Smith's The Slowdown: www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2026...

We were so excited to connect with Annar Veröld-Miranda, publisher at @hostpublications.bsky.social—which recently won the 2026 Constellation Award! Read more about the press’s history, recent and forthcoming titles, and submission window (open through June 1!) here: www.clmp.org/news/member-...

LGBTQ+ Poetry Finalists Cont’d: Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming by Eli Clare. @dukepress.bsky.social Wayward Creatures by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes. YEET! by @jasonbcrawford @omnidawn.bsky.social #Lammys2026

Host Publications is open for submissions through June 1st! Click through to learn what we’re looking for & our guidelines! ❤️ hostpublications.submittable.com/submit

💜 Last call to pre-order a signed copy of THE HUNGERING YEARS by SUMMER FARAH!!! @summ.bsky.social hostpublications.com/products/the...

Our warmest congratulations to @hostpublications.bsky.social, winner of the $10,000 Constellation Award! Learn more about the Constellation Award, launched by CLMP in 2021 with the support of Penguin Random House: www.clmp.org/press-center...

❤️ Awesome coverage in today's @austinchronicle.bsky.social Crosstalk on Host Publications receiving The Constellation Award! @clmporg.bsky.social Such a big honor to bring this award home! www.austinchronicle.com/music/crosst...

We are overjoyed to announce that Host Publications has been awarded The Constellation Award by @clmporg.bsky.social !!! In a moment when we are discouraged to do the work we do, we are surprised, overwhelmed, and completely honored to be celebrated in this way. www.clmp.org/press-center...

We're thrilled to announce that @hostpublications.bsky.social, based in Austin, Texas, is the winner of the $10,000 Constellation Award! www.clmp.org/press-center...

dezireé a. brown’s THEY/SHE/HE: RITUAL TO FORGET YOUR UNBECOMING is on our reading list for #BlackHistoryMonth! This collection “maps the odyssey of a life lived in transition and serves as an archive of Black transmasc experience.” @hostpublications.bsky.social hostpublications.com/products/the...

💜 Order THE HUNGERING YEARS by @summ.bsky.social now for a SIGNED copy & limited-edition goods! hostpublications.com/products/the...

Looking for the latest Palestinian poetry? I got you. Pre order The Hungering Years by Summer Farah: hostpublications.com/collections/...

💙 The Host Dispatch Returns for Season 6! S6E1 is in conversation with poet and author of WAYWARD CREATURES, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes | Listen on iHeart (or wherever) 💙 www.iheart.com/podcast/338-...

💜 On the blog: The Hungering Years Companion Reading List curated by @summ.bsky.social 💜https://hostpublications.com/blogs/news/the-hungering-years-companion-reading-list

🌞On the Blog: Host Publications has a new face, and it is luminous, view our new mascot, Varo and read about the behind the scenes process as we worked with linocut artist Eva Frederick! 🌞 hostpublications.com/blogs/news/v...

This is the best contemporary poetry book I've read in the past couple of years. Wow. It's rare that I feeI exactly what the poet intended, that their words can push my ego aside and I can glimpse their internal life. Absolutely (beauti/power)ful hostpublications.com/products/the...

you can now pre-order THE HUNGERING YEARS, out from @hostpublications.bsky.social 2.24.26 💜🌻 hostpublications.com/collections/...

🔥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. ✨️