New #poetry #books from Cardboard House Press, Broadstone Books, Parthian Books, Chax Press, Faber & Faber, Seven Stories Press, Copper Canyon Press, Coach House Books, Nightboat Books, @thesongcave.bsky.social & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Editor Aiden Hunt provides information about changes to PCR's name, format, and staff in this editor's note, which also contains links to our Spring calls for submissions. phillychapbookreview.org/may-26-new-s...

Philly Chapbook Review is calling for #submissions of original #poetry and #fiction from May 1 and June 15 for our Summer 2026 issue and beyond. Submissions welcome from #writers everywhere. Full details can be found at the link: phillychapbookreview.org/call-for-sum... #callforsubmissions

Check out our round-up of #poetry #chapbooks published in April 2026 by Bottlecap Press, Kelsay Books, @the-ethelzine.bsky.social, @buttonpoetry.bsky.social, Rockwood Press & @nupress.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/poetry-chapb...

“This poem was inspired by a dream… I had this strange feeling when I woke up that it meant something more and started writing a poem to see if anything would reveal itself to me.” Read the featured #Excerpt #Poem. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

New #poetry #books from SUNY Press, Trio House Press, @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social, W.W. Norton, @fsgbooks.bsky.social, Coach House Books, @unvpress.bsky.social, Milkweed Editions, Bloodaxe Books, Alice James Books & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Check out a featured poem from our early days.

“After a loss in my family, I discovered one grieves for both the living who hide their pain and for the dead who sleep in silence.” Read two #poems by Patricia Wallace, along with a few words about "Fox." #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/two-poems-by...

“…what interested me was the idea of a character who didn’t do what he was capable of . because of either a lack of will or a seemingly perverse one.” Read the featured #Chapbook #Poem, along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...

New #poetry #books from Book*hug Press, CavanKerry Press, Grid Books, @boa-editions.bsky.social, Phoneme Media, Nightboat Books, Polygon, Persea, Invisible Books, Anvil Press, @omnidawn.bsky.social & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Philly Chapbook Review is calling for #submissions of original #poetry and #fiction from May 1 and June 15 for our Summer 2026 issue and beyond. Read this post for details. phillychapbookreview.org/call-for-sum...

#Poet John deSouza (@finnbarfella.bsky.social) discusses his #chapbook, This Rough Magic, his creative process, and the influence of John Ashberry in this #interview with editor Danielle McMahon. (@dehm000.bsky.social) #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/a-conversati...

New #poetry #books from University of Chicago Press, Marsh Hawk Press, Guernica Editions, Tupelo Press, She Writes Press, Autumn House Press, Talonbooks, Copper Canyon Press, BOA Editions, University Of Iowa Press & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“Children in these circumstances are deprived of love at a formative stage and learn to immediately behave like adults without the benefit of the learning path of childhood.” Read three #poems by Andrew Pelham-Burn. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

New #poetry #books from Hachette Australia, Song Cave, Black Lawrence Press, Milkweed Editions, Nightboat Books, @boa-editions.bsky.social, @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social, Coffee House Press & @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Another big #NationalPoetryMonth week with #books from Write Bloody, SUNY Press, Ecco, @aaknopf.bsky.social, Talonbooks, Wave Books, Bloodaxe Books, Alice James Books, Archipelago, BOA Editions, Fonograf Editions & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“I wanted to explore how time was registered not only by the calendar and clock, but also in the various utilitarian tasks of my mother’s life.” Read three #poems by Ron Mohring, along with a few words. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

New #poetry #chapbooks from @stanchion.bsky.social, b l u s h, Dancing Girl Press, @blacklawrence.bsky.social, Broadstone Books, @papillotepress.bsky.social, @the-ethelzine.bsky.social, TRP & @finishinglinepress.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/poetry-chapb...

“I think about the olive trees I have never seen but that I know grow on my ancestors’ land somewhere against the soft slope of a mountain in Lebanon.” —Yasmin Mariam Kloth’s poem “Before” in @phillychapbook.bsky.social #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth phillychapbookreview.org/two-poems-by...

Big publishing week for #NationalPoetryMonth with #poetry #books from @wesmediaproject.bsky.social, Graywolf Press, Knopf, Nightboat Books, Wave Books, @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, Coffee House Press, BOA Editions, @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social & many more. phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“The nexus of the erotic, the social, and the body felt relevant to what I was experiencing at the end of the 20th Century.” Read the featured #Excerpt #Poem of the Month, along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

“The concept of personifying a slow burn deeply resonated with who I thought myself to be—a slow burn, love flickering around me.” Read the featured #Chapbook #Poem of the Month, along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...

New #poetry #books from @umasspress.bsky.social, Parthian Books, Tupelo Press, Guernica Editions, Fence Books, Brick Books, Liveright, Ecco, Nightwood Editions, @redhenpress.bsky.social, TCU Press & Harbour Publishing. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“The language suggests a quiet, internal resolution: even if the relationship cannot exist in this life, it can still be held, briefly and lovingly, in language.” Read three #poems by Abbey Green. #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

“In this world the dead are labeled ‘victory.’ The dead and one upright man akimbo and another releasing a bayonet and what looks like a small grenade.” —Jennifer Nelson, in @phillychapbook.bsky.social & our #WomensHistoryMonth reading list phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

New #poetry #books from Shanti Arts, University of Chicago Press, @princetonupress.bsky.social, @milkweededitions.bsky.social, Washington Square Press, Duke University Press, NYRB Poets, Beacon Press, CLASH Books & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“There’s no take it easy. You toss all night until you rise. Step foot on grass cut too short to blow a whistle.” —Thea Matthews, “American Girl: Fort Hood, 2023” in @phillychapbook.bsky.social & on our #WomensHistoryMonth list: phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 3/17 from @subpresspoetry.bsky.social, @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social, @caitlinpress.bsky.social, @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social & @regalhouse.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“Trying to conjure a word sound that doesn't exist in English creates a scaffolding for poetic reconstruction of the extractive colonial violence that rendered the phooti karpas cotton extinct.” Read three #poems by @sophianaz.bsky.social. #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

Philly Chapbook Review is calling for #submissions of original #poetry between February 1 and March 15 for our Spring 2026 issue and beyond. Submissions welcome from #poets everywhere. Full details can be found at the link: phillychapbookreview.org/call-for-spr... #callforsubmissions

New #poetry #chapbooks published in February 2026 by Moonstone Press, @smallharborpub.bsky.social, The Poetry Box, @weslpress.bsky.social, Rockwood Press, Vinegar Press, Bottlecap Press & @finishinglinepress.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/poetry-chapb...

New #poetry #books from Saturnalia Books, Brick Books, Curbstone Books 2, Four Way Books, LSU Press, Alice James Books, Knopf, Milkweed Editions, Persea, W. W. Norton, @yalepress.bsky.social, Hub City Press & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“The poem focuses ... on the way online algorithms ‘read’ internet history related to pregnancy, then deliver the most painful possible ads and content” Read the featured #Excerpt #Poem of the Month. @fklein907.bsky.social #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

“It is laborious to hold on to a culture removed, one for which I am a perpetual novice. I do, however, try, and I bring my children with me.” Read the featured #Chapbook #Poem of the Month. @smallharborpub.bsky.social #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...

New #poetry #books from @milkweededitions.bsky.social, @fordhampress.bsky.social, RIZE, @weslpress.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, @upittpress.bsky.social, Knopf, Etruscan Press, @redhenpress.bsky.social & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“Hollywood Babylon brewed the myth That’s digested without tasting truth Malnourished due to how she drank…” Read Allison Whittenberg’s “Eaten,” featured in @phillychapbook.bsky.social & our #BlackHistoryMonth reading list: phillychapbookreview.org/four-poems-b...

Philly Chapbook Review is calling for #submissions of original #poetry between February 1 and March 15 for our Spring 2026 issue and beyond. Submissions welcome from #poets everywhere. Full details can be found at the link: phillychapbookreview.org/call-for-spr... #callforsubmissions

“My work has always found a focus in the bodies of women, and watching the mix of strength and fragility in women...” Read four #poems by Betty Stanton (@fadingbetty.bsky.social), along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/four-poems-b...

New #poetry #books from Seagull Books, Mad Creek Books, Milkweed Editions, @ugapress.bsky.social, Guernica Editions, @univnebpress.bsky.social, @tinhouse.bsky.social, Black Lawrence Press, @upittpress.bsky.social & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

"I am most comfortable in a chair with a pen looking at nature through a window. And yet nature is something my mind is also totally immersed in…" Poet Lisa Low #interview with Contributor Saudamini Siegrist. #chapbook #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/a-conversati...

Editor @aidenhunt.bsky.social begins year three with a call for applications for section editors and other editorial and production staff in this editor's note. phillychapbookreview.org/february-26-...

New #poetry #books from @smallharborpub.bsky.social, Diaphanes, @cmupress.bsky.social, Tupelo Press, @fsgbooks.bsky.social, Liveright, @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, @upittpress.bsky.social, @weslpress.bsky.social & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Philly Chapbook Review is calling for #submissions of original #poetry between February 1 and March 15 for our Spring 2026 issue and beyond. Submissions welcome from #poets everywhere. Full details can be found at the link: phillychapbookreview.org/call-for-spr... #callforsubmissions

“The poem captures us both there in the dreaded check up appointment: me clenching crinkling paper, scared of what the lab reports say…” Read three #poems by Mary Whitlow, along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

Check out our round-up of #poetry #chapbooks published in January 2026 by @finishinglinepress.bsky.social, Bottlecap Press, Cyberwit.Net, Dancing Girl Press & Moonstone Press. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/poetry-chapb...

New #poetry #books from Etruscan Press, TRP: The University Press of SHSU, LSU Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Milkweed Editions, Knopf, W. W. Norton, University of Arizona Press, Criterion Books & Curbstone Books 2. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“It’s one of my greatest regrets. The tears well up just thinking about it. I didn’t grieve her properly. I’m grieving her now.” Read the featured #Excerpt #Poem, along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

“In my mind, the narrator recognizes that Harper's fate could very well have been his own, and I hope that readers can relate, in the sense that we all have done reckless things, especially in our youth…” Read the #Chapbook #Poem by @rich-jordan.bsky.social. phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...

New #poetry #books from Shanti Arts, Clare Songbirds, Button Poetry, CavanKerry Press, University of Alberta Press, Wesleyan University Press, Hub City Press, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Soft Skull & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...