New #poetry #books from Carcanet Press, Grid Books, Nightboat Books, Brick Books, @juneroadpress.bsky.social, Copper Canyon Press, @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social, W. W. Norton, Red Hen Press, University of Nevada Press & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

"[Ram] presents a revealing and heartbreaking collection that asks the reader to think about what they remember the most about those they have lost." Read @carriganak.bsky.social's full review. @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/verses-of-mo...

New #poetry #books from University of Iowa Press, @redhenpress.bsky.social, Tin House Books, Persea, @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, Nightwood Editions, Coach House Books, @boa-editions.bsky.social, New Directions & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

"This poem, couched in the conventions of the contemporary sonnet, explores my latest, decisive encounter with a doctor’s office." Read three #poems by Robin Arble along with words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

Check out our round-up of #poetry #chapbooks published in August 2025 by @finishinglinepress.bsky.social, Bottlecap Press, Sybil Journal, Kelsay Books, @driftwoodpress.bsky.social & @weslpress.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/poetry-chapb...

"When I accept that I’m not very smart, mostly just perplexed and a little scared, I write poems about ghosts and circle farms." Read a #poem from Selma Asotić's new #book, Say Fire. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity @archipelagobooks.bsky.social phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

“I wondered, if ‘all the world’s a stage,’ what role had I just been assigned?” Read the featured #Chapbook #Poem of the Month for September 2025 along with words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity @scottlamascus.bsky.social phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...

New #poetry #books from Futurepoem, Contra Mundum Press, @milkweededitions.bsky.social, University of Arizona Press, @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social, Wave Books, Fordham University Press, Black Ocean, Akashic Books & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

"Anchored by sensory detail, the poem journeys between childhood safety and adult experience in a canyon town shaped by rivers and monsoons." Read three #poems by Kristiane Weeks-Rogers along with words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

New #poetry #books from @carcanet.bsky.social, Texas Review Press, Station Hill Press, Acre Books, Guernica Editions, Exile Editions, @milkweededitions.bsky.social, Persea Books, @coppercanyoncrafts.bsky.social, Soft Skull & more. #writingcommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 8/19 from Black Square Editions, Cardboard House Press, Flood Editions, @blacklawrence.bsky.social, @milkweededitions.bsky.social, Etruscan Press & @redhenpress.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

"Love had made me stronger in a lot of ways, but also showed me the weakest parts of myself that were left crystallized for him to see." Read three poems by Alexandra Meyer along with words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

Check out our round-up of #poetry #chapbooks from Bottlecap Press, @finishinglinepress.bsky.social, @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social, Red Bird Chapbooks, Prolific Pulse Press, Ballerini Book Press & Middle Creek Publishing. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/poetry-chapb...

Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 8/12 from Brick Books, @regalhouse.bsky.social, @faberbooks.bsky.social, @bullcitypress.com, @blacklawrence.bsky.social & @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Aiden Hunt reviews 'I Ask My Mother to Sing: Mother Poems of Li-Young Lee' edited by Oliver Egger, new and older poems exploring a mother relationship and a family's exile from China. #bookreviews #booknews #poetry #reading @weslpress @PhillyChapbook

"This poem lives in the weirdness of the suburban mall spaces a lot of us grew up visiting (or loitering in!), places that feel like they could be anywhere and nowhere at once." Read a #poem from Max McDonough's #chapbook. @blacklawrence.bsky.social phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

"I wanted to sit with a particular end-of-summer indulgence, where a host has saved specialty foods to welcome visiting friends and family" Read a #poem from Winshen Liu’s #chapbook Paper Money. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity @driftwoodpress.bsky.social phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...

New #poetry #books from @seagullbooks.bsky.social, Persea, @weslpress.bsky.social, @buttonpoetry.bsky.social, @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, @wwnorton.com & @graywolfpress.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Philly Chapbook Review is calling for #submissions of original #poetry between August 1 and September 15 for our Fall 2025 issue and beyond. Full details can be found at the link: phillychapbookreview.org/call-for-fal...

Read a note from editor @aidenhunt.bsky.social about PCR's Summer #poetry and new poetry reader opportunities brought by our growing original poetry submissions. phillychapbookreview.org/july-25-poet...

“My poetry tries to examine … the difference between the lives we live inside ourselves and the lives we expose to other people.” Read five #poems by William Doreski along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/five-poems-b...

"Yoga, the walks, and the writing became a daily exercise in paying attention—to the world, to the bodies in the world around me and to my own body…" Read the a #poem from Lisa Sewell’s #book Flood Plain. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

New #poetry #chapbooks from @sarabandebooks.bsky.social, @smallharborpub.bsky.social, The Bodily Press, Moon Tide Press, Kelsay Books, boats against the current, Inkfish Press, @bullcitypress.com, Bottlecap Press & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/poetry-chapb...

New #poetry #books from @blacklawrence.bsky.social, TCU Press, Vanderbilt University Press, University of Utah Press, @carcanet.bsky.social, @tupelopress.bsky.social, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social, Phoneme Media & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

"A well-made poem is a knot, but not a tangle. The well-made knot of a poem can disentangle readers from illusion, to free them from confusion. Poetry is a form of disillusionment." New #Chapbook #Poem by Li-Young Lee. #writingcommunity @weslpress.bsky.social phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...

Check out new #poetry #books from Gaudy Boy, @lsupress.bsky.social , Nightboat Books, @tupelopress.bsky.social, @triohousepress.org, @buttonpoetry.bsky.social, CHAX, Black Ocean, @citylightsbooks.bsky.social & Penguin Books. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Aiden Hunt reviews Pulitzer Prize Winner 'To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement' by Benjamin Nathans. https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/to-the-success-of-our-hopeless-cause-by-benjamin-nathans/ #bookreviews #booknews #readingcommunity

Check out new #poetry #books from @carcanet.bsky.social, St. Augustine's Press, University Of Iowa Press, Rising Action, Ayin Press, @thesongcave.bsky.social, NYRB Poets, White Pine Press & @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

I was recently invited to participate in a project called The Creative Process that interviews working writers and artists about their lives and creative practice to inspire university students. The resulting interview is live here: www.creativeprocess.info/writers-inte...

Check out new #poetry #books for the week off 6/17 from Blazevox, @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social, @driftwoodpress.bsky.social, @blacklawrence.bsky.social, @kentuckypress.bsky.social & Nightboat Books. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

"I can’t begin to imagine doctors in Gaza courageously practicing medicine while intentionally targeted by the Israeli army aided by the United States." Read the featured #Chapbook #Poem by @marklupinetti.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...

Check out our round-up of #poetry #chapbooks published in May 2025 by @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social, Glass Lyre Press, @finishinglinepress.bsky.social, Bottlecap Press & @smallharborpub.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/poetry-chapb...

Check out new #poetry #books from Lavender Ink / Diálogos, dispersed holdings, Main Street Rag, University Press of Colorado, Curbstone Books 2, @aaknopf.bsky.social, @redhenpress.bsky.social & @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

"...she has a sense of style, a modicum of grace, and she recognizes her place in the cosmic order, where revolution rules every other Wednesday and twice, of course, on Sundays..." Read three #poems by Bart Edelman. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

"[C]ould there be a poetry that does investigate the body without explosion?" Read an excerpt from @leighsugar.bsky.social's book, FREELAND, from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, along with words from the author. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 6/3 from Stephen F. Austin University Press, City Point Press, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social & @buttonpoetry.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

New #poetry #books for the week of 5/27 from White Stag Publishing, @atbaypress.bsky.social, Nine Mile Arts, Gaudy Boy, @anvilpress.bsky.social, @tupelopress.bsky.social, White Pine Press & @boa-editions.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

"In my fantasy world, I would be able to communicate with the animals I see every day." Read five naturalist poems by poet Jane Ellen Glasser, along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/five-poems-b...

"The poet invites readers into her process of reconstructing herself after a traumatic fracturing that began in childhood" Check out my latest review, published by @therumpus.net on @diannelyantigua.bsky.social's Good Monster (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) therumpus.net/2025/05/21/d...

Check out new #poetry #books from Talonbooks, Mosaic Press, World Poetry, @blacklawrence.bsky.social, Bloodaxe Books, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, Black Ocean, @sarabandebooks.bsky.social, @tinhouse.bsky.social & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

"Bashir’s elegant debut collection investigates identity as the result of choices between individual appetites and cultural frames." Read @lowermelody.bsky.social's full review of Desire/Halves by @jaiofearth.bsky.social. #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/multilingual...

Check out new #poetry #books from World Poetry, Black Lawrence Press, Duke University Press Books, Nightboat Books, Zephyr Press, Phoneme Media, @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, @redhenpress.bsky.social & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“Since women aren't allowed the power of our anger, we take it out on each other, and that's what this poem is hinting at.” Read four #poems by @christafairbrother.bsky.social, along with words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetry phillychapbookreview.org/four-poems-b...

“I love New Year’s and the promise of a new start, but I like to remind myself that you can start fresh at any point throughout the year.” New #poem from @elinorserumgard.bsky.social’s #chapbook from Bottlecap Press, Analogous Annum. #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...

#Poetry #books from Grid Books, Burnside Review Press, Winter Editions, Talonbooks, Caitlin Press, Black Ocean, Granta Books, CavanKerry Press, Nightboat Books, Graywolf Press, Wave Books, @scribnerbooks.bsky.social & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Check out my latest review for @newpages.bsky.social: "Medieval English historian Dan Jones dramatically delivers with Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King." www.newpages.com/blog/books/b...

Philly Chapbook Review is now open to original #poetry #submissions of three to five #poems for our Summer 2025 issue from now until June 15. Full details can be found at the link: phillychapbookreview.org/call-for-sum...

I'm so excited - Philly Poetry Chapbook Review kindly decided to feature a poem from my forthcoming #poetry collection!! Thank you! phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt... #booksky 💙📚 📝 📖 #skypoets

"This poem was a chance for me to zoom in on the calm before the storm." Read a #poem from Colleen S. Harris’s (@warmaiden.bsky.social) new book from Main Street Rag, The Light Becomes Us. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

New #poetry #books from Unbound Edition Press, Archipelago, Station Hill Press, New Directions, Ugly Duckling Presse, Guernica Editions, Sarabande Books, Nightboat Books, BOA Editions, Washington Square Press & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...