What a short stunner by Ross Gay!!

Cheers for MFA student @okwudilin.bsky.social! #UMNProud @lambdaliterary.org

Autumn House is excited to announce the winner of our 2025 Nonfiction Prize: I Am Mostly Bad Blood by Starr Davis, selected by May-lee Chai! We're honored to share this book with the world in October 2026. #nonfiction #bookprize #publishing #memoir

Huge congratulations to all the CLMP members shortlisted— @unboundedition.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social @blacklawrence.bsky.social @fourwaybooks.bsky.social @autumnhousepress.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social @yesyesbooks.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social & more!

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Huge congratulations to @okwudilin.bsky.social, whose stunning debut collection TERMINAL MALADIES has been named a 2025 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry! We're so proud to see his work recognized by @lambdaliterary.org and deeply appreciate their support!

I feel so honored to see that Terminal Maladies is a finalist for the @lambdaliterary.org Awards. My sincere gratitude to the judges, to my publisher @autumnhousepress.bsky.social and to everyone who has read this book.

Brotherless Night will be translated into Sinhala!

This Saturday (07/19) at the Castle Shannon Library from 1:00 – 3:00 PM, hear Clare Beams, Sherrie Flick, Adriana E. Ramírez, and Lisa Slage Robinson at the Summer Literary Festival. Authors will read from their latest works, followed by Q&A and a book signing. Free and open to the public!

Shenandoah’s 75th anniversary double issue just dropped! www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/#poetry Amazing poems by @janezwart.bsky.social @sallypoet.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @carlosaglive.bsky.social @rosswhite.com @casswhit.bsky.social @darleneanitascott.bsky.social 1/2

@rosebudbenoni.bsky.social @haydensaunier.bsky.social @okwudilin.bsky.social @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social @beingpoetry.bsky.social @emmaneale.bsky.social & so many others! 2/2

I have a poem in the 75th anniversary issue of Shenandoah. My sincere gratitude to Beth Staples and Lesley Wheeler for including my work in this milestone issue. www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/on-th...

"The readers should be ready to shed some tears." Thanks to @southeastreview.bsky.social and Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé for this lovely review of @okwudilin.bsky.social's collection TERMINAL MALADIES!

In advance of the book's pub date in late October, I'm going to periodically share the blurbs I've received for No Longer at This Address. First up is this wonderfully generous blurb from Michael McGriff. Pre-order link in bio!

When anyone asks you why even write poetry:

COVER REVEAL! My eighth collection of poetry, NMLCT, will be published September 02, 2025 by ECW Press. I'm thrilled to be able to share the cover with you, and especially thrilled that it features art by renowned Canadian sculptor David Altmejd.

“The word ‘white’ is a code, the way the word ‘fascism’ is, words to try to signal emergency near damages too deep and wide to describe.” Up now: “Fort Jabalia: Fourteen ways of looking at white” by Suzanne Gardinier. Art by @jeanmariecasbarian.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/fort-ja...

This a remarkably respectful and insightful obituary for one of the all-time greats. "People who did not know that ["Making Love] was about love between two men loved that song . . . Love is love. Between a man and a woman, between two men, between two women. Love is universal, like music.”

Announcing the finalists for the 11th annual NER award for Emerging Writers: Temperance Aghamohammadi, Cristina Alexandra Pop, Zen Ren, Nathan Curtis Roberts, Laura Schmitt, & Tianyi. The winner will be announced in March. Congratulations to all six finalists! www.nereview.com/2025/02/24/a...

It was a good mail day! Deep thanks to Rick Barot and @kathyfagan.bsky.social for their endorsements, as well as to @kevinprufer.bsky.social, @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social, Hadara Bar-Nadav, and Randall Mann for their edits, advice, and support. And thanks, as ever, to @milkweededitions.bsky.social.

Thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for featuring TERMINAL MALADIES by Okwudili Nebeolisa (@okwudilin.bsky.social) in their "Reading List for Black History Month 2025"! What an amazing line-up! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

ANOTHER YEAR COME BY WS MERWIN I have nothing new to ask of you, Future, heaven of the poor. I am still wearing the same things. I am still begging the same question By the same light, Eating the same stone, And the hands of the clock still knock without entering.

You can make the stars spell out anything if you stare long and hard enough — Carl Phillips

Me: Are you from Nigeria Uber Driver: Yes. Beautiful country. Me: Are you sure you're from Nigeria? A Nigerian won't call Nigeria a ‘Beautiful country’. It's not that it's not beautiful. Uber Driver: 😂😂 No I'm not from Nigeria. I'm from Somalia.

Introducing Staging Style: A Quarterly Online Craft Series We are seeking brief essays, 900-2,000 words, that trouble the conventional prescriptiveness of “craft." Edited by Leslie Sainz. Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Learn more: newenglandreview.submittable.com/submit/31775...

I’m excited to read these debut novels this year.

Authors, agents, publishers! Final week to submit books to #JhalakPrize25 awards: 1.    Jhalak Prose Prize 2.    Jhalak Poetry Prize 3.    Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize Deadline: 13 December 2024 Send in those fabulous books!

I couldn't understand what an editor had scribbled something on the rejection slip, so I took a picture of it and asked an online site that decodes handwriting to tell me what had been written and it told me exactly what the editor had written, even with punctuations. This is when I love AI.

In a new Behind the Byline interview, NER managing editor Leslie Sainz (@lesannsai.bsky.social) talks with author Jessica Treadway about distillation, first-person narration, conscious and unconscious influences, and her short story "Tribute" from issue 45.3. sites.middlebury.edu/newenglandre...

Announcing our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominations: Congratulations to Imad Rahman, Laura Schmitt (@schmittpod.bsky.social), Daniel Borzutzky, Fay Dillof, Ben Miller, & Kyle Minor!

This anthology is a great assembly of African poets. Including those whose works have inspired my craft. I would say I am lucky of course. And I believe @rasaq_malik would say the same. Thanks to Bibi Ukonu of GriotsLounge. Folks say this cover bams; I have to agree with them!

Every year I somehow come across this poem. Thought of sharing it

Feeling ok about AI all of a sudden...

Fewer things can go wrong with fewer lines — Oksana Maksymchuk

#Trump probably ordered some Mc Donald's.

If you really want to see All the things you don't need Go to Amazon Black Friday Deals

Exciting book reading and chat ahead this month! Okwudili Nebeolisa @NebeolisaO is at the Brown Bamboo Bench with Hussain Ahmed @HussainAhmedNG on Sat. Nov. 30th, 2024. Register to join the convo! We can't wait to see you all at the bench!

Join us this Wednesday as we hear two terrific City College poets, Rayn Page Valleau and Seann Weir. Their work is compelling, and fun. I'll be introducing them. See you at the Speakeasy at the Gin Mill by 7:30 PM. Your first sarsaparilla is on me!

Honestly the way “the media” is tut-tutting about Bluesky must mean everyone on here is doing something right.

I guess it took a suspension from Facebook to get me to post here for the first time.