“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...

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

I adore @phillychapbook.bsky.social-proud to have 5 #poems there, all improved through Aiden & team's kind editorial work. You can read "Si No Sana Hoy, Sanará Mañana," "Inflammation As Girl," "Spivey’s II," "Mothers," & "Brentwood’s Daughter" now! #booksky #criplit @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 💙📚 📖 📝

“I am always struck by the juxtaposition of the biology and science of illness versus the life of the person living with it...” Read five #poems by Colleen S. Harris (@warmaiden.bsky.social), along with a few words. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/five-poems-b...

Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 1/27 from @driftwoodpress.bsky.social, @triohousepress.org, Wheelbarrow Books, @amistadbooks.bsky.social & @zephyrpress.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Check out new #poetry #books from @thirtywestph.com, Madville Publishing, Thirdhand Books, @aaknopf.bsky.social, @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, Paul Dry Books, University of Arizona Press & @scribnerbooks.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“Instead of providing any solution to the issue, the poem is ready to be open to the ambiguity that can enable doubt, tenderness, and resilience to co-exist.” Read three #poems by Abraham Aondoana. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

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

Check out "The Egg of Anything," a poem from Paula Bohince's latest collection, A Violence, in the @phillychapbook.bsky.social:

New #poetry #books from Black Square Editions, NYRB Poets, Roof Books, LSU Press, W. W. Norton, Tin House, Wesleyan University Press, Princeton University Press, UNM Press, Bloodaxe Books, Nightboat Books, Soft Skull & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“The #poem is filled with moments of ‘O’ sounds and ‘Ah’ sounds, mimicking the O of the egg and the Ah of the open jaw. I like that the poem is compact in its little form, also a bit egg-like.” @princetonupress.bsky.social #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

“‘Aphasia’ is about communication and miscommunication in a relationship, and finding the correct words for expressions of love and desire can be difficult.” Read the #Chapbook #Poem, along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...

New #poetry #books from Kelsay Books, Inanna Publications, Unsolicited Press, @lsupress.bsky.social, @weslpress.bsky.social, Milkweed Editions, Kulturalis, Button Poetry & Michigan State University Press. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

“Managing [my husband’s] pain became fraught in the last week of his life…The poem explores the vulnerability and intimacy found in such a crisis.” Read five #poems by Amy Riddell, along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/five-poems-b...

“From the height of the camel, I could see the ruins of Palmyra and a medieval castle on a hill. Present day Wadi Rum in Jordan has no evidence of an ancient civilization in the desert..” Read two #poems by Sandy Feinstein. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/two-poems-by...

Philly Chapbook Review is calling for #submissions of original #poetry between November 1 and December 15 for our Winter 2025 issue and beyond. We also now welcome submissions from #poets everywhere. Full details can be found at the link: phillychapbookreview.org/winter-call-... #callforsubmissions

Editor Aiden Hunt announces Philly Chapbook Review's 2026 Pushcart Prize anthology nominations in this editor's note and provides links to, and a carousel of, the nominated poems. phillychapbookreview.org/december-25-...

Check out our round-up of #poetry #chapbooks published in November 2025 by BUNNY, Anstruther Press, @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social, Rockwood Press, @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social, Bottlecap Press & Finishing Line Press. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/poetry-chapb...

“Zen poets, past and present, who experience deep absorption in the grandeur of this world may even gain wisdom through the way of poetry, Shidō (詩道).” Read the featured Excerpt #Poem of the Month, along with a few words. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

“'You Left the Fridge Open Again' transforms an ordinary domestic moment into a meditation on tenderness and decay.” Read three #poems by Veronica Tucker, along with a few words about "You Left the Fridge Open Again." #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...

“...3 weeks of bicycling for groceries with a bandana tied around my nose and mouth informs ‘Red Tide’.” Read the featured #Chapbook #Poem for December 2025, along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity @newsthatstays.bsky.social phillychapbookreview.org/chapbook-poe...