This is one of my podcast favorites. Both because @kdwinchester.bsky.social is a good friend and because I love how she promotes Appalachian stories and poetry. And this episode with @noahsoltau.bsky.social of @redbranchreview.bsky.social was especially enjoyable!

Come to the Emporium in Knoxville tomorrow and hang out with us! — #litmag #smallpress #appalachia

We want to keep making books and @readappalachia.bsky.social wants to help. www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/... — #appalachia #poetry #fiction

Catherine Niolet is in Issue 4! Her prose piece, “Ring,” is memorable and surreal. — #redbranchreview #litmag #fiction #appalachia

Marianne Worthington is in Issue 4! She’s a linchpin of Appalachian writing. We’re so happy to have her work in our pages. — #appalachia #marianneworthington #redbranchreview #poetry

Maggie Rue Hess is in Issue 4! Her work is magical. — #appalachia #redbranchreview #poetry #knoxville

Issue 4 cover reveal and contributors! This is a good one, folks. — #art #poetry #fiction #redbranchreview #knoxville #tennessee #appalachia

Our lit mag features are great ways to learn more about the publication process and editors behind the scenes. Our new post is an interview with @redbranchreview.bsky.social out of Knoxville, TN. @noahsoltau.bsky.social Read here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/kaleidosco...

Elated to have a contract with Madville Publishing and editor Linda Parsons! My debut poetry collection, Titanfall, will be out in the world next fall. — #poetry #smallpress #madville #appalachia

@redbranchreview.bsky.social merch in the wild

New work in @storysouth.bsky.social Thanks to the editors! — #poetry #appalachia

“We are part of networks, yes. Literary, professional, transactional. We are part of systems. Cultural, economic, political. We pick over other people’s leavings for survival, to make a profit, for inspiration." “A Vulture in Walter Benjamin's Library" by @noahsoltau.bsky.social

Our Managing Editor @noahsoltau.bsky.social got to represent us at the Appalachian Studies Symposium at The University of Tennessee. — #litmag #redbranchreview

www.susurrusthemagazine.com/a-vulture-in... @susurrusmag.bsky.social #nonfiction #litmag

#poetry @inkinthirds.bsky.social

[email protected], @hiramlarew.bsky.social, Gregory Lobas, Kathleen Reeves, @tylerps.bsky.social, Sean Sexton, @noahsoltau.bsky.social, Cynthia Stock, @jasutherland.bsky.social, and Ren Koppel Torres

Send us your best work, your most incisive work, your most devastating work. — #art #poetry #prose #callforsubmissions

We have books, conversation, and some goodies. Stop by the Exhibitor Hall and say hello!

Come say hi!

This was so much fun! Can’t wait to do it again.

We are open for #submissions through May 1! Send us your best work. www.redbranchreview.org/submissions.... #poetry #fiction #art #callforsubmissions #appalachia

New piece out in @themarbledsigh.bsky.social It’s fun to share space with @redbranchreview.bsky.social contributor Laura Dennis

Another Demigod poem is out in the world! Thanks to Andrew at Nude Bruce Review. The letter from the editors is 🔥 nudebrucereview.com/wp-content/u... — #poetry #appalachia

You can listen to me read this new piece in Harbor Review on their website! www.harbor-review.com/issue-14 — #poetry #appalachia

We’re doing First Fridays at Union Ave! RSVP here: unionavebooks.com/event/2025-0... — #poetry #reading #knoxville #appalachia

Got a new piece out by Hidden Peak Press. Knoxville is still scruffy. hiddenpeakpress.com/2025/02/17/n... — #poetry #knoxville #appalachia

I’ll be yapping about open education with the cool kids tomorrow. Conference is free. Registration below: acaweb.org/open-appalac... #education #highered #pedagogy

On Friday, a bunch of my friends and I will be yapping about things like #freedom , #equality , and the academy, if you want to join us. www.acaweb.org/open-appalac... — #appalachia #education #highered

tfw your students complain about you online because they have to read and write.

Melissa Newman’s #art gives big Hannah Höch vibes. It’s what we all need. www.redbranchreview.org — #art #appalachia #litmag #redbranchreview

Also, buddies, even a burning dumpster fire needs #art and #poetry in it. So that’s what we’re going to keep doing here and @redbranchreview.bsky.social we’re going to talk about the cool stuff you all are doing and make space for you to do it. Stay weird. People are looking for what you’re doing.

This week it’s Rita Dove and Baldwin.

Got my contributor copy of Untelling today. It’s a beautifully produced volume. It’s full of work by people I admire. My only disappointment is in art’s limited capacity to change circumstance, even as it surgically and transcendently describes it. — #poetry #art #war #media #education

Here’s a #poem about war and burning churches and natural disasters for no particular reason. I know it’s hard, but don’t forget to love each other. — #poetry

This is a *banger* of an opener. #poetry

When rejections and almost-but-not-quites have you questioning your writing, read this. https://buff.ly/3PzkRJz

New territory for us, new work, probably topical, definitely worth listening to. — #music #poetry #appalachia

This is so cool. #appalachia

#writers are really people who write #books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. Walter Benjamin, “Unpacking my Library”

I hope your emotional support cups of #coffee were delicious today.

Best rejection yet. Huge. In fact, confirms my suspicions that I might know what I’m doing. #poetry #litmag #writing

Writers from #Kentucky feature prominently in Issues II and III. I’m grateful to Crystal Wilkinson, Frank X. Walker, and Silas House for the visibility they’ve brought to our magazine. Can’t wait to read more when we open for submissions again in March.

Louise Glück wrote that “we look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” I think that’s mostly true (language, culture, etc.,) but these #books sure made me reconsider what I’d seen. What books have done that for you? #literature #booksky #fiction #poetry #philosophy

I do prefer the etymology of “redneck” that stems from the West Virginia mine wars rather than the derogatory term for white yeoman farmers and their sunburns. #solidarity and class consciousness are so much cooler than poverty porn, classism, and racism.

Sometimes you don’t even need to write the poem.

Us trying to figure out funding for Red Branch:

Every year I have the same two reactions to reading really good submissions: 1) “Who are these people, and why haven’t I heard of them?!” And 2) “Oh my God, I know who this person is and their work is amazing!” I recommend starting your own #litmag for these feelings alone.

“Never Shall I Forget,” by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel #poetry #holocaustremeberance