“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.

In an essay from our latest issue, Morten Høi Jensen finds out who at TIME Magazine was reading T.S. Eliot in 1944. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/in-the-mar...

“… and once, for me, John, dream your groundbird soul / into the frame of this brown pelican …” Richard O’Brien communes and commutes with John Clare.

This poem, 'John Clare Reaches the Pacific,' is very dear to my heart and I'm thrilled to see it in print in the summer issue of @nimrodjournal.bsky.social thanks to @bdralyuk.bsky.social. I wrote it on an Amtrak from Portland to LA in September 2022, from which I really did see a lot of pelicans.

Damn, this one is good. The phonetics are so pleasing and the imagery is just electric. Something to chew on for me today.

This poem of biological and geological insight thinks beyond our time—rather, sees our time clearly, as a fragment of a long history. Those who seem to inherit the world are only inheritors for a moment. Extinction visits all our houses.

Today our newsletter subscribers received a poem by Fady Joudah from our new Summer 2025 issue. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/lizard-sho...

Very pleased to have a poem in the summer issue of Nimrod Journal, along with quite a few friends and poets I'm happy to meet. Thanks again to editor Boris Dralyuk.

I have a poem in this issue of Nimrod alongside many top-notch poets...

Really delighted to have two poems in this - one about John Clare in California and another about Wheel of Fortune, after Henry Vaughan. I’d love to see if any of you find it in the wild!

Delighted to be in the latest issue of @nimrodjournal.bsky.social with bits from a seedy sequence. Many thanks to editor-in-chief, @bdralyuk.bsky.social, for the faith.

Could not be more proud of this one.

Our Summer 2025 issue is out in the world. Click through to read the full table of contents. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/our-new-is...

Read the poem. You’ll smile ruefully at the fragility of our refuges and of our poses.

Today our newsletter readers received a keenly observed, atmospheric poem by Tony Whedon from the Winter 2025 issue. Swing down to Little Havana: nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/little-hav...

In this interview, our editorial assistant, emerging Tulsan poet and photographer Stasha Cole, sat down with Ron Padgett, whose career began across the street from @utulsa.bsky.social in the late 1950s.

Today our free newsletter subscribers received a piece from our coming Summer 2025 issue—an interview with Tulsa’s own Ron Padgett, whose new collection, PINK DUST, is out with @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/ron-padget...

Today is Giving Day at the TU! Please consider supporting @nimrodjournal.bsky.social! We are extremely lucky to have a stable home at TU, when so many other journals are losing theirs… Give whatever you can, and prove TU right: Literature matters! givingday.utulsa.edu/campaigns/ni...

The best team any EiC could ask for!

Our indispensable Editorial Assistant, Stasha Cole, files a report on her trip to @awpwriter.bsky.social with Managing Editor Hachi Chuku! nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/nimrod-at-awp

Today our readers received an exquisite, sharp-sighted poem from our latest issue by Tyson Hausdoerffer, inspired, in form and feeling, by Sappho. Sink your talons in at substack.com/@nimrodjournal, and subscribe!

Today, on World Poetry Day, our readers received a poem by Dai Weina, translated from Chinese by @liangyujing.bsky.social, from the Winter 2025 issue. Subscribe to our free newsletter to receive more work weekly, and support us by subscribing to the journal as well!

Today our readers received, by email, the first poem in Roger Craik’s folio from the Winter 2025 issue. Craik’s work took Second Place in the 2024 Pablo Neruda Award competition, judged by Paisley Rekdal. Sign up and, if you can, subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/nimrodjo...