One of the best takeaways from my presence on this platform is poets and small presses that connect me to exceptional writing -- and, times being what they are, that sustain a positive connection to America and Americans. Thank you for your work -- I will be buying the whole lot 📚

We have seven books coming out this month: five poetry titles and two in our new Plainwater Nonfiction Series. What we do is small. It’s not scalable. It’s not replicable by a generative LLM. It’s born out of love for our authors and joy in the work. Your orders and support sustain us. 🙏💙🌊

I want to say this about J.D.’s book as well, as a lover of books broadly about place and nature, etc, as many of you are—this one will surprise you and stay with you, both for its substance and style.

It’s here! In one of its fields of origin. So grateful to @riverriverbooks.bsky.social for giving The Visible Field a home.

love the writer, love the press, can't wait for this beautiful book...

This book is transformative. Order it now.

Friends, it’s so good.

Truly.

GOOD MORNING, COVER REVEAL! Our final spring cover is here! Nonfiction & so striking. Welcome to Backyard Alchemy, on life with other creatures in a time of salvage by J.D. Ho, design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social. @nematode.bsky.social 📚💙🎉 You can preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...

Opened a beautiful new box of bookmarks last night! 🌙 With a quote from JD Ho’s Backyard Alchemy. You’ll be able to find both at @riverriverbooks.bsky.social’s table at AWP Baltimore next month 📚💙

I am not feeling well and BLESS the teen and their muscles for lifting the poetry boxes tonight, delivered after—checks my auntie’s notes—pumpkin time. @riverriverbooks.bsky.social Can’t wait to open these tomorrow! 📚💙

Love to see @preetivangani.bsky.social’s FIFTY MOTHERS featured on Alta’s 13 New February Books list! 📚❤️ Preorder your copy here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...

We just sent out our poetry digital ARCs—we will send our nonfiction digital ARCs out later this week. 💌 Do give us a holler if you’d like to be added to our reviewers email list. We do not send an abundance of emails, and you can request print copies this way as well 📫

Simply to be alive here is to be at risk. Amorak Huey / @amorak.bsky.social 🌷

Editor @amorak.bsky.social’s MOUTH is in the world!!! 📚💜🎉

Good morning to There Is News Along the Ohio River by Beth Gilstrap, cover design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, and cover photograph by author @bettysueblue.bsky.social! 📚❤️🎉 Preorders now open here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...

Our friends at Loblolly Press have included two of our forthcoming poetry titles in their Picks for Winter 2026! 🙏💙📚🎉 Elane Kim’s Antibody and Preeti Vangani’s Fifty Mothers, which are available for preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/ @preetivangani.bsky.social

“Faith is sustaining. It keeps us going when we are knee-deep in garbage.” J.D. Ho, Backyard Alchemy Forthcoming February 24, 2026 🎉🎉🎉 @nematode.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

I am on page 94 of proofing 215 pages of @riverriverbooks.bsky.social nonfiction brilliance by @nematode.bsky.social but wow god made me slow 📚📚📚

Dropping the link here because Oh! You will want to get your sweet hands on Beth’s beautiful & searing & attentive & human & aching collection 📚💙🎉👇 riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...

COVER REVEAL & PREORDERS ARE OPEN! I’m thrilled to share to the cover for my forthcoming hybrid/micro CNF collection from @riverriverbooks! Thank you to @han.vanderhart & @amorakhuey for believing in my odd, sad bird & my eternal gratitude to brilliant designer, @albyfischer for this gorgeousness!

Good morning to There Is News Along the Ohio River by Beth Gilstrap, cover design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, and cover photograph by author @bettysueblue.bsky.social! 📚❤️🎉 Preorders now open here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...

Book 25 of 2026 - The Visible Field: Poems by @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social - thank you for the #ARC! A beautiful book of lyrically gorgeous poems. My biggest takeaway is the use of language #100SmallPress #BookSky #Poetry www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Adore whoever ordered a book and addressed it to “Me Me.” Expect an email to confirm recipient name today, haha. 📚❤️

Read a new review of Jameela F. Dallis’s Encounters for the Living and the Dead by Beth Brown Preston here: www.sinisterwisdom.org/node/1024

Good morning to books to the printers! 📚💙🎉🎉

“And what I don’t tell my students is that I / am so bad at taking care of anything including myself” @thecorlew.bsky.social reads Carla Sofia Ferreira’s poem “Today My Students Tell Me” on The L&E Podcast 📚💙🎙️ Find A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us here: riverriverbooks.org/store/A-Geog...

So excited that Joe Wilkins’ Pastoral, 1994 is featured over on @thelinebreak.bsky.social 😍🙏📚💙🎙️ We love you, @thecorlew.bsky.social and @bobsykora.bsky.social! Find your copy of Pastoral, 1994 here: joewilkins.org/pastoral-1994/

Friday Links is UP! Featuring @riverriverbooks.bsky.social @timphillipslaw.bsky.social @katpham.bsky.social @justinellis.bsky.social @ddayen.bsky.social @hkappklote.bsky.social @bookishjulia.bsky.social @jeremyerwin.bsky.social and MORE! www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162657962

“An antibody is often used in lab to help visualize the proteins we want to see, provided we know what we’re looking for; they make visible what already exists but cannot be seen.” Read our new Five Questions interview with poet Elane Kim here 👇📚💙🎉

I just took inventory for @riverriverbooks.bsky.social in anticipation of our spring titles and who made this mess?! Everything will be clean and ordered soon. Under Frida’s eye, y’all

Don’t miss this new interview with @egcunningham.bsky.social over at @robmclennan.bsky.social’s blog: robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/01/12-o... 📚💙

Read our full Five Questions interview with Preeti Vangani, author of Fifty Mothers (February, 2026) here: riverriverbooks.beehiiv.com/p/five-quest... @preetivangani.bsky.social 📚❤️🎉

We love this interview with @riverriverbooks.bsky.social poet @egcunningham.bsky.social, and all the work @robmclennan.bsky.social does for writers 💙💙💙 Thank you, Rob! 🙏🎉

12 or 20 (second series) questions with E.G. Cunningham @egcunningham.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/01/12-o...

"All / the next day I walk the prairie, argent blue light thick / in the sage at sunup, remembering that light, in theory, / is a tangible thing..." River River poet Corrie Williamson with four amazing new poems in Outskirts Literary Journal -- www.outskirtslit.com/corrie-willi...

Did you know the incredible @riverriverbooks.bsky.social has all their spring poetry titles up for preorder? If not, or if you haven't read all their past books yet, here's where to go. I can't recommend their books highly enough! riverriverbooks.org/store/

Oh, hi there 🥰📚💙 Yes, you. Holler if you’d like to be added to our reviewers list, and receive digital Advance Review Copies (ARCs) of our forthcoming titles.

Reviewers: we have fresh digital ARCs of our spring poetry titles in the house! Let us know if you’d like one or several. email [email protected] to request a copy 📚💙

“…this collection has all the joys of ecopoetry without its singular focus, making environmentalism feel intertwined with the speaker’s emotional life.” So grateful for this deeply reflective review of @egcunningham.bsky.social’s FIELD NOTES by @mkzariel.bsky.social in the Seattle Star 📚💙

“…the idea of place in writing these elegies, is stained with the weight of how far could my mother and I journey to, how far could I be when I was living on my “father's clock” as the poem, Gridlock says, with the speaker jammed in horrendous Bombay traffic.” Preeti Vangani

“I was writing about grief and sex and the kind of fate that turns up in Greek tragedy and film noir, about the ways people hurt one another whether they mean to or not. Once that poem was true, the rest of the book came together.” Jennifer A Sutherland riverriverbooks.beehiiv.com/p/five-quest...

I love this so much.

“… to celebrate we canopy / in the desert where the sun singing sand on a loop / becomes sensemaking …” Stunning poem from River River poet Lauren Camp in the January issue of The Nation —

Visit our bookshop today and preorder our spring poetry titles today—we have FIVE forthcoming by @preetivangani.bsky.social , @esylviapoet.bsky.social, @jasutherland.bsky.social, @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social, and Elane Kim! 💙📚🎉 👉 riverriverbooks.org/store/

I don't know. A book of poetry probably doesn't much matter in any large world-changing sense at the best of times, and these obviously are not the best of times. Still, I would love for a few of you to read this book about the body and maybe find some tenderness in it.

If you're in the Bowling Green area, I'm working on a launch event and will let you know when I get that set up. If you would consider writing a review and want a digital ARC, message me and I can email you one.

Order from the press here: www3.uwsp.edu/english/corn... (scroll down for the Portage Poetry Series new releases

So proud of editor @amorak.bsky.social and the forthcoming publication of MOUTH, which you can preorder via the link below 🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations, Amorak!

Take some time to rest & celebrate the work of a poet this weekend. 💜 Taking a break is essential.