Happy New Year, writers! The contest windows are open! nimrodjournal.submittable.com/submit

Go on over to read my little New Year’s note and, more importantly, Nicholas Pierce’s interview with Erin O’Luanaigh, who writes smashing poems like this:

Read an interview with Erin O’Luanaigh about her debut collection, AVAIL (@pauldrybooks.bsky.social), by Nicholas Pierce, along with her poem “His Girl Friday” from our Summer 2025 issue. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/falling-in...

We could not be more excited to read your submissions to our annual literary contests! Please go to our site to learn more (link in bio, URL in the image).

We are excited to reveal the judges of our 2026 Literary Awards! Learn more about their work and enjoy a poem by Rachel Hadas from our coming Winter issue: nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/the-2026-l...

I enjoy every single part of the job @nimrodjournal.bsky.social, but this is certainly a highlight. It is a joy to hear our prize winners read!

If you weren’t able to join us for the 2025 Literary Prize presentation, you can view it here. An inspiring double reading! Our thanks to our winners and judges, including @talianeffson.bsky.social, @nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social, and @randallmann.bsky.social! youtube.com/watch?v=r53p...

Join us in just under 30 minutes!

Do tune in to hear work you won’t soon forget!

Please join us on Friday, November 14, at 2pm CST, to celebrate and hear the winners of NIMROD’s annual literary awards, Michael Lavers and Talia Neffson, with judges Randall Mann and Nancy Jooyoun Kim. Zoom address in post below.

We’re open!

#poetrycommunity #callforsubmissions

Read an interview with past contributor Rosa Castellano—conducted by our Managing Editor, Hachi Chuku—and remember: our general submission window opens tomorrow! nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/a-sharply-...

I love the mellifluous movement of these lines, which meditate on and mimic the transition of night into day, of season into season, of experience into memory. Poured gold.

Today our newsletter readers received two vivid, meditative poems from Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s new sequence, “Gold.” These appeared in our Summer 2025 issue.

“Belief in that ozone does float by and on to the layer of night accommodating accidental stars—belief or excess of feeling, a surplus of cloth. From “Small Hours,” by Jana Prikryl in the Winter 2025 issue of @nimrodjournal.bsky.social.

The rare still fee-free submission opportunity, opening 1 November (@derekjgwilliams.bsky.social)

Authors, start your engines!

“The garments have shipped and the fabric remaining accepts another use, a shape. A tailor made thee. Then see it float away.” From “Small Hours,” by Jana Prikryl in the Winter 2025 issue of @nimrodjournal.bsky.social.

Great poems both.

Read two poems from our Winter 2025 issue that “find support in Shakespeare’s lines, trying on his blank verse and tailoring it to their specifications”—Jana Prikryl’s “Small Hours” and Meg Kim’s (@megpieinflight.bsky.social) “The Second Line.” nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/rehearsals...

We're delighted to announce a new issue of A.E Stallings' Echolocations newsletter. In this issue she explores two poems from the Summer 2025 issue of @nimrodjournal.bsky.social: Curse the Mediterranean, my Enemy by @jonnyteklit.bsky.social and Eulogy for Dada (Who Loved to Waltz) by M. I. Devine.

“Two poems from the Summer 2025 issue I recently saw online knocked my socks off. That’s a pretty good ratio for any magazine … Also, and here is another good sign I think, they are both by poets new to me.” You said it, @aestallings.bsky.social!

Thank you, @aestallings.bsky.social, for reading these poems from our latest issue with such sensitivity and enthusiasm! www.english.ox.ac.uk/echolocation...

A classic riddle from @nimrodjournal.bsky.social’s Summer 2025 issue and Leslie Monsour’s new collection.

Who doesn’t like a good riddle? Here is a classic, newly translated by Leslie Monsour: nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/the-ultima...

Day 17: “Bullets” by Ye Chun in @nimrodjournal.bsky.social. Love the repetition and structure of this piece. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/bullets

These two poems are extraordinary. Go you-know-where to read Khadijah Queen’s “Amphitheater of the Three Gauls”; here is its partner, Edward Carter’s “Blvd de Sébastopol.”

This morning our free newsletter readers received a pair of poems from the Summer 2025 issue that capture the experience of sensing history rumble beneath one’s feet. Read them here: nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/history-li...

Today our free newsletter readers received a poem by Jane Greer, who passed away on July 22 of this year. We are honored to have published one of her final poems, and to know that the issue reached her and brought her joy. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/packed-car...

I love it when famous fathers get together.

Today our free newsletter readers received the daddy of all papa poems by M. I. Devine, from our Summer 2025 issue.

Today our free newsletter subscribers received the first in an occasional series of essays, available exclusively online, that explore important cultural issues from unusual angles. Go over to read Brock Allen on friendship, on and off the screen. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/casual-per...

Thank you, Maryann! And thank you @nimrodjournal.bsky.social‬ & ‪@bdralyuk.bsky.social‬ & Randall Mann. <3 <3 <3

What a lineup! We are very proud.

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025 literary competitions! Randall Mann has awarded the top Neruda Poetry Prize to Michael Lavers, and Nancy Jooyoun Kim has awarded the top Porter Fiction Prize to Talia Neffson. 1/5

A few months ago, I thought I was done writing these. But maybe not quite yet? I’m so grateful to @bdralyuk.bsky.social and everybody at @nimrodjournal.bsky.social for publishing this sonnet. I hope you like it. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/elizabetha...

Today our free newsletter readers received a special preview—a poem by Shane McCrae, which will appear in our Winter 2026 issue. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/elizabetha...

A fine pantoum for #WorldRefugeeDay

Today our free newsletter subscribers received a powerful pantoum by Jonny Teklit from our Summer 2025 issue.

"much like any other land, except bullets for ten dollars a box." How many times do we have to scream it? Graveyards full of children and it never ends. Nobody deserves their life cut short by gun violence, dreams unrealized. A beautiful, haunting work on an unfortunately always relevant topic.

“… I know bodies—restless, reasonless, / knots and rocks of aches and wants I’d kneaded down, each within the reach of a bullet …” A poem for today, about a woman who had sought a better life.

Today our free newsletter subscribers received a poem from our latest issue—Ye Chun’s ghazal in the voice of Tan Xiaojie, one of eight people murdered in an attack on spa workers in and around Atlanta in 2021. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/bullets

Congratulations to Erin O’Luanaigh, whose “Comedy of Remarriage”—one of three poems in the Summer 2025 issue—was shared on the Best American Poetry blog! (Stanley Cavell couldn’t have said it better himself…)

“He would come, sooner or later, ruffled and drenched dark with rain, one wing broken by the storm, his feathers tattered and filthy, his tail black with tar, a castaway crippled by the sea’s fury, a deposed, greedy sovereign: he would return to rule over that shattered realm.”

Today our free newsletter subscribers received a brilliant short story from our Summer 2025 issue, Monica Pareschi’s “The Seagulls,” translated from Italian by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/the-seagulls

A crackerjack piece of detective work and cultural history.