I have started a Substack. It’s called The Real Review. My first post is three reviews, of recently published collections by Kelli Russell Agodon, Andrea Damic, and Patricia Nelson. I would love it if you took a few minutes to read it! nataliemarino1.substack.com/three-reviews

My poem “Ode to Maggie Murdaugh” is the the latest issue of Puerto del Sol:

My poem “Capitalism as Protagonist or Heart of Darkness” appears the latest issue of The Indianapolis Review 💜

The current age of AI has allowed polished average work to flourish. I am disappointed to be saying that as the new standard, even when written by actual humans, soulless writing that takes no risks is increasingly at the forefront.

My poem “Confession” appears in Terrapin Books’s recent anthology The Color Wheel, edited by Diane Lockward.

www.npr.org/2026/04/09/n... One of the many reasons we need single-payer healthcare (that would include long-term care) is the rapidly decreasing fertility rate. Without a young labor force and younger relatives and friends, who will care for all the elderly in 20-40 years?

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My poem “On Limitation” appears in the latest issue of Flight: A Literary Sampler. Thank you Frances and Will for including my work!

A second poem of mine that appears in the latest issue of Pictura Journal is “Portrait of Fortune.”

My poem “Butterfly” appears in Issue 6 of Pictura. Thank you AJ Wright for including my work!

Everyone knows the solution, but many richer people don’t like it: tax wealth instead of income. If this happened, over 90% of Americans wouldn’t pay any taxes.

💙 I am so honored to have my very short story about the impossibility of what nostalgia promises in the latest issue of -ette

Thank you Beth and Nora for including my work.

I was interviewed by Hayden’s Ferry Review about my poem “”Self-Portrait as Poem” that was published in issue #76: haydensferryreview.com/blog/3-quest...

“The Sky’s Vast Blue” is one of three of my poems published by Cultural Daily today. Thank you Bunkong Tuon! www.culturaldaily.com/natalie-mari...

I have several copies of my new chapbook End of Revels (Bottlecap Press) ready to mail out. Please let me know if you are interested in a signed copy.

Thank you @stonecirclereview.bsky.social and @leepottspoet.bsky.social for publishing my work!

My poetry chapbook, END OF REVELS, told in the voice of Sylvia Plath at the time of her death, is now available from Bottlecap Press: bottlecap.press/products/end...

My poem “Paraphrase” was recently published on West Trade Review’s substack.

My poem “After the War” appears in the October 2025 issue of The Inflectionist Review. Thank you so much John Sibley Williams.

My poem “Weldon Kees Looks Back” has been nominated for Best of the Net 2026 by Blood+Honey ❤️💜❤️

My poem “Ode to Ocean” appears in issue #3 of Phylum Press’s journal.

Thank you Chila Woychik and Eastern Iowa Review for including my poem “Epilogue” in your anthology Best Prose Poetry 2025.

It’s life’s illusions I recall. -Joni Mitchell, “Both Sides Now”

“IKEA pear cider and another year knowing you can’t feel full from excess”

NEW POEM #264: "excuses to mark a day" by Jessica Lee McMillan (@jessicaleemcmillan.com) "how many clinking glasses do you remember or cigarette breaks I remember eating watermelon in the dark one night more than any drink or birthday cake" stonecirclereview.com/excuses-to-m...

Thank you @thedodgemag.bsky.social for featuring my poem “Sky as Smoke” in your latest issue!

Happy Wednesday! Today we're excited to feature more poetry from our Summer 2025 Issue, this time from Natalie Marino @nataliemarino.bsky.social ! Read her poem "Sky as Smoke" on our website (link in bio) and check out the rest of our Summer 2025 Issue!

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I am excited to say that my poem “Sky as Smoke” appears in the summer issue of the Dodge.

I am honored to have a poem in the latest issue of Half Mystic!

I have three poems featured in the inaugural issue of Aesterion Lit, including “Elegy to City.” www.aesterion.com/summer-2025

My poem “Train as Metaphor” appears in the latest issue of Welter (University of Baltimore). Thank you to the editors!

My very short story “A Masculine Man” appears in the latest issue of Gooseberry Pie Lit! Thank you Jeff Harvey for including my work.

I am honored that my poem “Mother as Myth-Maker” appears in the latest issue of Atlanta Review. Thank you to the editors!

I am honored that my poem “Self-Portrait as Poem” is featured in issue #76 of Hayden’s Ferry Review. Thank you so much to the editors!

My prose poem “Lucky Break,” about my uncle Jim, who was a national pool champion in the 1970s, was published by Blood Honey Lit today. Thank you editor David Estingel!

My poem “Today the Clouds are Big as Countries” (originally published by Philly Chapbook Review) has been translated into Italian! Thank you Matteo Fais!

The second of two poems of mine recently published by Cable Street is “The Window.” Thank you @danadelibovi.bsky.social and the team for including my work!

Happy to have three poems in here with @nataliemarino.bsky.social lovely work and the rest of the authors. 😃

Our Spring 2025 issue is here! Work by Raphael Rubinstein, @nataliemarino.bsky.social, @dcazdn.bsky.social, Gail Elizabeth Williams, @janschmidtwriter.bsky.social, Ian C. Smith, and many more. cablestreet.org/issue-8-tabl...

I am honored that editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social and Cable Street included my poem “Namesake” in the latest issue 💜❤️💜.

Thank you so must Poetry Is Currency!

I agree with all of this.

🤩 this poem is so good 💜❤️💜

Good choice! Beautiful poem by @nataliemarino.bsky.social

Living a life hard as dirt, my mother became a blue mountain. In the end, she was a quiet bird. In the end a cathedral bled into sky. This poem from the $ vault is "Mothers and Daughters" by @nataliemarino.bsky.social! poetrycurrency.com/poem/natalie...

Great new poem by Natalie Marino - "Portrait of America as Dennis Rader." @nataliemarino.bsky.social villaineralit.com/2025/03/11/p...

THIS BOOK, y'all. This is the one.

Things are getting 1930s Germany in here … (This photo is borrowed from Lit Mag News, a substack written by Becky Tuch)