"This language offers one possible framing through which to appreciate the law’s capacity to hope for, request, and even command commitment to a more just future." Read two #poems by Maggie Wang, along with a few words. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/two-poems-by...

Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 6/30 from @essaypress.bsky.social, @salmonpoetry.bsky.social & @triohousepress.org. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Check out PCR's two entries: Alexandra Burack and Evan Wang.

Be sure to bookmark our #PrideMonth reading list for year-round reading recommendations from lit mags and indie presses: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

"[A] long time ago I realized, and more or less accepted, that I would commune with most of my poet teachers and comrades via their work, not in person. And my work is how I talk to them." #poet #chapbook #interview. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/a-conversati...

Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 6/23 from Shanti Arts, Fernwood Press, @omnidawn.bsky.social, Lynx House Press, @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social, White Pine Press, @blairpub.bsky.social & @graywolfpress.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

So happy to have these poems in PCR. Working with Aiden and Heather was a wonderful process and made the poem stronger. Hope you read (and submit)!

"Like a lot of my poems, this one reaches toward something impossibly out of grasp. But as Reed suggests, maybe that’s the power of a poem, to momentarily touch something out of our reach." Read three #poems by @scottweaver.bsky.social. #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

Check out our round-up of #poetry #chapbooks published in May 2026 by @whittlemicropress.bsky.social, Small Harbor Publishing, Bull City Press, @parlyareepress.bsky.social, Antiphony, Finishing Line Press & Bottlecap Press. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/poetry-chapb...

New #poetry #books from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social, Burnside Review Press, @yesyesbooks.bsky.social, Madville Publishing, Black Lawrence Press, Dzanc Books, @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social & @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“Allowing flickering sentiments and images to play against one another, I replicated one form of consciousness. A surprising aspect of the poem: the sudden appearance of figures of government.” Read the #Excerpt #Poem. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

“That June, flowers bloomed everywhere in Northern California—as if to honor her, to celebrate her life.” Read the featured #Chapbook #Poem of the Month, along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...

Writers, mid-month submission deadlines are coming up at @fahmidangroup.bsky.social, @superpresent.bsky.social, @phillychapbook.bsky.social, @zoeticpress.bsky.social, @variantlit.bsky.social, and more indie publishers! Find details here: www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

There are five days left to submit original #poetry, #flashfiction, and short #fiction to Philly Chapbook Review 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 new #poetry #books for the week of 6/9 from Roof Books, @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, Fire Ant Books, @kayapress.bsky.social, @thedialpress.bsky.social, @holycowpubs.bsky.social & @pauldrybooks.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

"Every time I plucked a few of the little orange sun sugars to take inside, their garden smell lingered on my fingers." Read three #poems by @kaitquinn.com, along with a few words about "The Tomato." #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

Read a #chapbook #review of Marie Scarles' The Catastrophes by contributing editor, D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social). #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity @finishinglinepress.bsky.social phillychapbookreview.org/the-lines-of...

Here is the opening paragraph of my latest review, up today at @phillychapbook.bsky.social: "The Lines of Landscape: on THE CATASTROPHES by Marie Scarles" (2025: @finishinglinepress.bsky.social)

Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 6/2 from @omnidawn.bsky.social, Persea, W. W. Norton, The Unnamed Press, The University Press of Kentucky, @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, Scribner & @driftwoodpress.bsky.social. #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. Submissions welcome from #writers everywhere. Full details can be found at the link: phillychapbookreview.org/call-for-sum... #callforsubmissions

Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 5/26 from University of Alabama Press, @pizamapress.bsky.social, @upcolorado.bsky.social & @fsgbooks.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“Look upon me, Love, my mother said to God. Love looked down, God saw her, and I was born the first time. That’s my mother’s story.” Li-Young Lee’s “The Blessed Knot,” featured in @phillychapbook.bsky.social & our #APAHeritageMonth list: phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...

"I kept thinking about how easily adults learn to stop seeing what's right in front of them, especially when they're somewhere between one country and another, neither arriving nor leaving." Read four #poems by Nivara Lune. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/four-poems-b...

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...