✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 38: Erin L. McCoy's WRECKS (@noemipress.bsky.social). "I appreciated [McCoy's] skillful weaving of textures and materials in a book that comes to resemble less the chaos of the wreck than the natural artistry and ingenuity of a nest." Listen/subscribe/rate/share!

Intriguing autumn harvest of ARCs to consider for VerseCurious. Thanks to @akashicbooks.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social and @tinhouse.bsky.social/ @zandoprojects.bsky.social for sending!

📚🚨VerseCurious is back from summer hiatus with Episode 37: Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE (@fordhampress.bsky.social). "Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE holds us, briefly, back from the fray, provides the curative caesura." Listen/enjoy/rate/share/subscribe!

VerseCurious returns shortly from its customary summer holiday with new #poetry reviews of work by #LGBTQIA+, #BIPOC, #women and debut authors. Up next: a collection published by @fordhampress.bsky.social. Watch this space!

#Juneteenth is a day to celebrate Black excellence. Check out Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS, published by @triohousepress.org and reviewed recently on VerseCurious.

We love the @versecurious.bsky.social podcast - 10 minute audio reviews of recent and forthcoming poetry books by @tagreathouse.bsky.social @martheaus.bsky.social Erin Marie Lynch and other poets we love. Please follow them and subscribe!!

Get a Listen of Ep. 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS (@triohousepress.org)... "Have grace, Perkins enjoins in the collection's titular poem—grace which is 'a story we keep / because we cannot keep each other.'" Listen/share/rate. #poetry #poems #poets #books

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS (@triohousepress.org). "Perkins's [...] fierce debut [...] asks us to feel deeply, despite a world that attempts to deaden our ability to feel with unending indignities..." Listen/share/rate. #poetry #poems #poets #books

ICYMI This Week: ✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 35: Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE, from @omnidawn.bsky.social . "[Naomie's story] ends up being the story not so much of pandemic survival as survival, proper." Listen/share/rate. #poetry #poems #poets #books #NationalPoetryMonth

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 35: Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE, from @omnidawn.bsky.social. "[Naomie's story] ends up being the story not so much of pandemic survival as survival, proper." Listen/share/rate. #poetry #poems #poets #NationalPoetryMonth

It’s pub day for Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT (Persea). Have a listen! Also, of course, happy #NationalPoetryMonth. #poetry #poems #poets #books #readers

Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT, arrives from Persea Books next week. Hear all about it in Episode 34. "[This collection's] thematic seriousness beckons us closer, & the playful slipperiness reminds us that joy is a radical response to difficulty." #poetry #poems #poets #books #readers

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 34: Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT, from Persea Books. "[This collection's] thematic seriousness beckons us closer, and the playful slipperiness reminds us that joy is a radical response to difficulty." #poetry #poems #poets podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Benjamin Landry reviewed Rachel Trousdale's Five-Paragraph Essay on the Mind-Body Problem, winner of the Cardinal Poetry Prize. Hear the full episode: redcircle.com/shows/c74b01... #Poetry #RachelTrousdale #CardinalPoetryPrize

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @briankspears.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @angelatopping.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/03/poet...

✨📚New Release: Episode 33: Rachel Trousdale's FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY ON THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM📚✨ @weslpress.bsky.social "Rachel Trousdale's MIND-BODY PROBLEM is a steadying collection in our most turbulent of times." Listen/share/subscribe/rate. #poetry #poems #books podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Good #Book News: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD is new in the world! Have a listen.

Day after book recommendation (@harvardpress.bsky.social) for thinking people in increasingly cruel times:

Exciting! Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD (Milkweed) arrives in a week. Prepare by listening to the brief review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get pods. Rate/share/enjoy VerseCurious, the podcast of new #poetry #book reviews featuring the work of LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, women and debut #poets.

It’s a joy to have Benjamin Landry’s close and thoughtful reading of The Museum of Unnatural Histories as the first full review of my debut collection. Thank you @1benjaminlandry.bsky.social for taking such care in linking my book to the larger world w/ your review at @versecurious.bsky.social

✨📚NEW REVIEW📚✨Episode 32: Annie Wenstrup's THE MUSEUM OF UNNATURAL HISTORIES (@weslpress). "We need #poets and #poetry like Wenstrup’s to take these risks, to shock the archive, to make us see the unnatural tendencies of our current endeavors." Listen/share/rate! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

We see you with that “What-books-do-I-buy-for-the-people-I-love?” December panic in your eye 👀 . VerseCurious has you covered, with brief reviews of great new #poetry titles. Have a listen, then make informed gift choices! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

NEW REVIEW! VerseCurious Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD "Askia Ba writes with verve and attitude." Want to hear more? Listen/subscribe/rate VerseCurious @ Apple Podcasts. Follow VC on Bluesky & share what you think. #poetry #poems #poets #books #TBR

📚✨NEW REVIEW RELEASED✨📚 VerseCurious Ep. 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD "Askia Ba writes with verve and attitude." Want to hear more? Listen/subscribe/rate @ Apple Podcasts. Follow VerseCurious on Bluesky & share what you think. #poetry #poetrybluesky #poems #poets #poetrycommunity #books

If you run a small or independent #poetry #press that produces physical galleys/ARCs & you are about to publish a #poet that fits VerseCurious’s emphasis (LGBTQIA+/BIPOC/women/debut), drop me a message. The TBR stack is getting low, & I am always looking for great new presses/ #books to review.

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elizabethclarkwessel ‘s excellent NONE OF IT BELONGS TO ME arrived from @gameoverbooks on Saturday. Have a listen to the VerseCurious review over at Apple Podcasts (or wherever you get your pods) and then consider ordering your copy. Congrats to all involved! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

ICYMI, yesterday saw a new release from VC, Episode 27: Elizabeth Clark Wessel’s NONE OF IT BELONGS TO ME, arriving from @gameoverbooks on 6/15. It’s a great debut collection, and you’ll want to hear all about it. Have a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

📖📘NEW REVIEW📙📚Episode 27: Elizabeth Clark Wessel’s forthcoming NONE OF IT BELONGS TO ME (@gameoverbooks) “excels at the sort of density that characterizes memorable work.” Listen/subscribe/rate/share over at VerseCurious on 🍎Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

New VerseCurious Review! Episode 26: Stephanie Choi’s THE LENGEST NEOI (@uiowapress). “A #poetry of determination and care.” Listen at Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

New VerseCurious Review! Episode 25 brings news of Jennifer Richter's DEAR FUTURE (The Word Works). Celebrate #nationalpoetrymonth with this engaging collection. Hear all about it on VerseCurious, available at Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Today’s the Daye! Congratulations to Tyree Daye on the publication of his compelling A LITTLE BUMP IN THE EARTH (@copper_canyon_press). Hear all about it over at the VerseCurious podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Tyree Daye’s excellent A LITTLEST BUMP IN THE EARTH (@copper_canyon_press) arrives tomorrow! Have a listen to the VerseCurious take over at Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

VerseCurious thus far in 2024: Reviews of Alison C. Rollins’s BLACK BELL, Tyree Daye’s A LITTLE BUMP IN THE EARTH (@copper_canyon_press) and Sheila Carter-Jones’s EVERY HARD SWEETNESS. Have a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

ICYMI, this week VerseCurious reviewed A LITTLE BUMP IN THE EARTH (Copper Canyon), the intriguing forthcoming collection from Tyree Daye. Have a listen? Available on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

New Episode! Check out the VerseCurious review of Tyree Daye's A LITTLE BUMP IN THE EARTH (@copper_canyon_press), now available on Apple Podcasts and all other major podcast distributors. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Sheila Carter-Jones's captivating EVERY HARD SWEETNESS (BOA), an examination in poetry of her father's 1965 unlawful imprisonment in an asylum, arrives in April. Get a sneak peek here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

NEW EPISODE! Sheila Carter-Jones’s EVERY HARD SWEETNESS (BOA Editions) recounts the nearly 7 year sentence her father served in an asylum, beginning in 1965, for the crime of being Black in America. Glad to review it during #BlackHistoryMonth. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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Resurrecting this thread while we’re at it. Give your favorite indie publishers a follow 🙌

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These two compelling collections arrive on the same day (Feb. 6)! Cynthia Marie Hoffman's EXPLODING HEAD @perseabooks Fahima Ife's SEPTET FOR THE LUMINOUS ONES @weslpress Catch a review of each over @ VerseCurious, on 🍎 Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

NEW VERSECURIOUS REVIEW “Alison C. Rollins’s BLACK BELL is an ambitious magpie of a book. It holds its gaze on the past & succeeds in making the past ring startlingly into our present.“ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v... Enjoy/share/rate/subscribe to VerseCurious as it nears its 1000th download!

NEW RELEASE: A Review of Alison C. Rollins’s BLACK BELL (@copper_canyon_press; April) “Alison C. Rollins’s BLACK BELL is an ambitious magpie of a book. It holds its gaze on the past and succeeds in making the past ring startlingly into our present.“ Hear it: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

ICYMI, this week VerseCurious welcomed 2024 with a review of Fahima Ife’s SEPTET FOR THE LUMINOUS ONES (@weslpress). Have a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Looking forward to perusing these spring/summer galleys from Copper Canyon Press.

NEW (YEAR) RELEASE! Review of Fahima Ife’s SEPTET FOR THE LUMINOUS ONES (@weslpress). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Incoming: review of Fahima Ife’s SEPTET FOR THE LUMINOUS ONES!