New issue of Whale Road Review just dropped!!! 🍂 🎃 Grab your teas and pumpkin spice lattes and indulge some poems, prose, and pedagogy as a treat!

@whaleroadreview.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social thank you for publishing Dad Calls her Gazelle www.whaleroadreview.com/harvey/

Happy to have a poem in the current WRR :)

I‘ve wanted to have a poem in Whale Road Review for a long time & now I finally do! Woohoo!! Thanks @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social! www.whaleroadreview.com/taylor-5/

Incredibly proud to be included in this issue!

Since I live in a place without colorful leaves or colder weather to make it feel like fall, our fall issues are my favorite harbingers of the season. This Fall 2025 issue is full of earnest language and surprising humor, and these pieces are packed with autumn. www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-40

Finished proofreading @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Issue 40! (How are we on 40 already??) Prepare for some beautiful poetry and flash this fall. 🎃📚⛈️☕️ You’ll find God, or ashes, or tree bones, or the occult, chipped mugs after the Fall, jack o’lanterns & wombs, movies in DNA, paper bags & rosaries.

Stoked to be refilling tea and reading proofs for this fall’s issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social! I don’t just say this about anything, I’m sincerely in awe at the poems and flash prose we get the honor of publishing every time. 🔥

Get ready for more Whale Road Review prose & poetry & pedagogy bangers dropping VERY SOON. 🐳 @whaleroadreview.bsky.social

So pleased to have a review of UK writer James Roderick Burns' chapbook, Salamander Street, in this fine publication - @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @davidbridie.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social

Congrats to Molly Bolton for being a Best of the Net finalist! Read her "Cosmic Slip" in Issue 33 of Whale Road Review. www.whaleroadreview.com/bolton/

New Issue of Whale Road is here💙

Been traveling for three weeks and absent from here, but I wanted to share this new piece in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, a hybrid piece that features grief, Ophelia, and the weather. I'd be grateful if you read it... This one is special to me. www.whaleroadreview.com/vorreyer-4/

“bless me, Father for I am imaginative and the desert is long” ❤️ 📦 🌅 🌈 Chelsea Catherine’s “an atheist’s prayer” is a wonderful opening to the newly dropped Issue 39 of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/catherine/

" I didn’t work on a poem for a boss or for a salary, but I worked on my poem because it was an intellectual challenge." from @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/hirt

I wrote “Smothering Villanelle” with poetry queens Beth Gylys & Denise Duhamel. It’s a contoured villanelle using Julie Kane & Erica Reid’s “The Double Image Redux.” Thank you, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social & @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social. #poetrysky #poetrynews #poems

Do you ever read something and feel like it’s reading you back? Our summer issue is doing this to me. My dad died just over a month ago (“A storm cannot grieve, but a grief can be a storm.” – Donna Vorreyer, “These Currents Turn Awry”).

Many thanks to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social , editor of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, for promoting my poem "Exorcised Vampire": www.whaleroadreview.com/sheahen/

Just donated. ❤️ Please help in any little way.

I remember this! This hits different now that I’ve finally read Flannery O’Connor through a grad school lit seminar.

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed through an entire interview before, but @mybadpoetrythepod.bsky.social made it happen. Thanks to Aaron and Dave for the hilarious conversation about my old poems! www.mybadpoetry.com/a-prayer-cou...

One of our contributors has cancer. Please join us in giving Chad Gusler some support. ❤️ gofund.me/124918ba

#FF It’s National Walnut Day! Give some ❤️ and a follow to these folks in the lit community beginning with the letter “W”: @westchesterreview.bsky.social @westofcanon.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @whiptailjournal.bsky.social @wildwillowmagazine.bsky.social Cont ⬇️

2. "Grubb Run Sonnet" considers Abraham/Issaac and me/my own children at @whaleroadreview.bsky.social.

We're so sad to learn that Martha Silano has passed. It was an honor to publish her work. "Because solving’s just another word for letting go." - from "Why I'd Make a Great Chemist" by Martha Silano www.whaleroadreview.com/silano-2/

What a joy to celebrate 10 years of Whale Road Review at AWP last week! We had sparkling cider toasts, nonstop author signings, and a fantastic off-site event with @swwim.bsky.social, @merliterary.bsky, @perugiapress.bsky.social, and Cultivating Voices Live Poetry!

The amazing AWP pix keep rolling in! Here’s board member Shoshana Olidort w/ Editor/Director Rebecca Olander & poet Melody S. Gee at our offsite & w/ some of the other co-organizers, Catherine Esposito Prescott & Mary Block from @swwim.bsky.social & Katie Manning from @whaleroadreview.bsky.social ♥️

So many beautiful moments at AWP—The amazing poets and writers who read at our two off site events, Off site.On purpose. with our colleagues from @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @swwim.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social and @cultivatingvoiceslive

This was an AMAZING event. If they pull together this “Off Site/ On Purpose” group reading again next year, seek it out! Powerful poems and an exceptionally warm, inclusive vibe @merliterary.bsky.social @swwim.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social

What a joy to meet @mfitejohnson.bsky.social, (whose work I’ve enjoyed in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social) at #AWP25 and to get her lovely poetry collections! 📚 ✨

Still buzzing from last night’s 🔥Off Site. On Purpose. reading - every piece was strong & moving & beautifully shared. Gratitude to all the readers, the audience & our amazing collaborators: @merliterary.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @swwim.bsky.social & #cultivatingvoiceslivepoetry 🌟♥️✨

Find us at Booth 948 at #awp25! Our E-i-C @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social will be there most of the time, and we'll have book signings with many delightful contributors and staff!

Please check out my book review of the late Wendy Barker’s final collection of poetry, “Those Roads, These Moons” (www.instagram.com/alabravapress), which just came out in “Whale Road Review: A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose” (www.whaleroadreview.com/wendy-barker)! @whaleroadreview.bsky.social

here's my silly little awp graphic. excited to rep @manyworlds.place at Out Like a Lamb + sign with @featherproof.bsky.social + @whaleroadreview.bsky.social. Plus, check out the offsite I'm co-hosting with the incredible @cdeskilson.bsky.social, A Night of Trans Horror!

It’s time! Last Syllable Issue 4 is officially LIVE! 🚨 Dive into a stunning collection of poetry, prose, and ideas that linger beyond the final word. Read, reflect, and revel in the artistry. ✨ Explore the issue now: lastsyllablelit.com/issue-iv. #LastSyllable #NewIssue #LiteraryMagazine

“The stars of dust in each droplet on my child’s face form a map. Each solar system points the way …” @christytending.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/tending/

“She knows she should be careful, protect them in case she wants to display them again but it’s too much work. They’re so small.” @suzyeynon.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/eynon/

“From a Frankenstein-esque retelling of the Genesis narrative to childhood memories, Chelsea Jackson’s debut book, All Things Holy & Heathen, stays true to her creative mission […] explore what it means to be human.” So, this review made me buy the book. ✨ www.whaleroadreview.com/chelsea-jack...

Beautiful poem by @poetbex.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social!

I’ve had four poems published this week and I’m pleased to unveil the final piece, ‘Moeritherium’, which is in the latest issue of the wonderful @whaleroadreview.bsky.social! 💙 whaleroadreview.com/hainsworth/

If you're going to #AWP25 in LA next week, here's where you can find me! I'll be doing author signings with @troublemakerfire.bsky.social @querenciapress.bsky.social and @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, and doing 3 readings (maybe 4 if I'm lucky at the auction), so I hope to see you there!

Two RIYT poets ( @wordperv.bsky.social & @mfitejohnson.bsky.social), one amazing poem, published by @whaleroadreview.bsky.social!

Here's a new poem from @whaleroadreview.bsky.social . Thank you to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social . It's a poem from my new manuscript, ORDINARY SPLENDOR. A love poem. www.whaleroadreview.com/umansky/?fbc...

So excited to have a poem in this beautiful issue!

Such a pleasure to review this beautiful book by Theresa Monteiro in the latest issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social. www.whaleroadreview.com/theresa-mont...

Happy Issue Release Day to @whaleroadreview.bsky.social!! Founded by our professor @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social 😊

Feeling grateful to have a poem out in Whale Road Review's new issue. "Pricks” was written during a time when I was struggling with my body's physical limitations and also with the world's restrictions on women's bodies. Read the issue @whaleroadreview.bsky.social. #whaleroadreview #pricks #poem

Thanks @whaleroadreview.bsky.social and EIC @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for including my mom in this issue. Still miss her. www.whaleroadreview.com/huggett/

We are LIVE with Issue 38 of Whale Road Review! We’ve ancient mammals and anxiety, wild oceans and moss, evolutionaries and creations, seafood and friendship, infertility and whimsy, ancestors and asexuality. 🪸 🌊 🦭

New spring issue just dropped!