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| Literary Feature | "I like to stare into space and hear nothing" // An Interview with Poet Liza Hudock www.neonpajamas.com/blog/liza-hu... @floodeditions.bsky.social

Jay Wright. from Postage Stamps (2023, @floodeditions.bsky.social )

Christopher Spaide on Colarusso's Pettygod, forthcoming this month! "Again and again, what gives structure to Colarusso’s many-tongued collection . . . is prayer, the postures and registers of a poet speaking up or down to that titular 'pettyg-d.'" lithub.com/the-thing-we...

| End of the Year Feature | My Favorite Reads of 2025 www.neonpajamas.com/blog/favorit...

On Thursday, December 11, the Poetry Society will welcome Jennifer Moxley and Prageeta Sharma for the final installment in the fall ’25 PSA Reading Series. Thursday, December 11 7:00 p.m. $10 in-person / $5 streaming Free for members https://ow.ly/biww50XAOXQ

Ron Charles writes in the Washington-Post Book World on Jennifer Moxley's The Midnight Work, that it "offers clear-eyed reflections that skirt but never succumb to despair."

Now Available! Signal Flow by William Fuller. "Signal Flow is a clear statement of what's possible in the twenty-first century—non-totalizing, democratic in its equivalence of anticipation, expectation and unpredictability, and optimistic in its assessment of the power for renewal." Larry Price

Read Chris Waddington's lovely review of Liza Hudock's Reveille: "The authority of these remarkable poems is wrapped up in their matter-of-fact tone — neither dismissive, nor casual about grief, but made taut by Hudock’s effort to find meaning . . ." www.ronslate.com/on-reveille-...

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this prose poem by Liza Hudock omg @floodeditions.bsky.social

Thanks @floodeditions.bsky.social, looking forward to another 25 years.

Liza Hudock @floodeditions.bsky.social

Now available! Jennifer Moxley's The Midnight Work: "In a time where many of us seem hypnotized by apocalyptic visions, Moxley celebrates everyday life, even in extraordinary circumstances. This is now unusual enough, I think, to be called brave."―Rae Armantrout

Today’s Featured Poem: What Sparks Poetry: Liza Hudock on "Hope" from Reveille published by Flood Editions Read here: poems.com/poem/hope-2/

Today's Featured Poem: "Crayola Da Gamba" by Merril Gilfillan from Three Roans In the Shallows, One of Them Blue published by @floodeditions.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/crayola...

Forthcoming next month: The Midnight Work by Jennifer Moxley. "In a time where many of us seem hypnotized by apocalyptic visions, Moxley celebrates everyday life, even in extraordinary circumstances. This is now unusual enough, I think, to be called brave."—Rae Armantrout

John Wilkinson discusses an elegy by Jennifer Moxley that's forthcoming in her book The Midnight Work... fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/elegies-on...

Publication day for REVEILLE by Liza Hudock! Order from Flood Editions, Wesleyan University Press, HFS Books, or your independent bookseller. www.weslpress.org/979898578748...

"Liza Hudock’s debut collection, Reveille, reflects on ordinary life with such humility that her artfulness sneaks up on you like a coyote at twilight."—Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Graham Foust @floodeditions.bsky.social

When a flood recedes, the ground looks unfamiliar. Everything is out of place and all the witnesses can say is this is where the water was. —Liza Hudock

Read the title poem from Liza Hudock's Reveille, forthcoming from Flood Editions in August! friendsofwriters.org/2025/07/30/a...

Graham Foust feature on "Poets on the Plains"... www.hppr.org/podcast/hppr...

Just reread Ronald Johnson’s amazing The Book of the Green Man (a lovely British reprint from @uniformbooks.bsky.social ), reaffirming that he is one of my favorite poets and rekindling my interest in doing a deep dive into the connections between his poetry and his cookbooks. 1/2

Patrick James Dunagan reviews She Is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann, in the new issue of Rain Taxi: "There’s a sense of an outside force working on Eckermann’s consciousness, taking her toward a higher understanding of her relationship with the physical environment." raintaxi.com/rain-taxi-re...

also my copy of this arrived today. Be more ARK www.weslpress.org/979898578747...

Elaine Equi @elaineequi.bsky.social quotes Ronald Johnson's ARK in this characteristically alert poem responding to Peter Halley's artwork. We recommend Equi's new book, OUT OF THE BLANK, just published by @coffeehousepress.bsky.social www.flagartfoundation.org/spotlight-pe...

With the warbler migration approaching full bore here in North America, I think of Merrill Gilfillan’s 2006 “Warbler Haibun,” out of Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue (Flood Editions, 2024). A little string excerpted out of its bounty and fervor:

wonderful cover (Flood Editions, design: Quemadura, drawing by Charles Burchfield, 1915)

Forthcoming October: Jennifer Moxley’s The Midnight Work is a meditation on the fragility of memory and love in the increasingly mediated post-Covid world of polarized politics and climate change. It addresses old friends, living and dead, in a series of epistles among more condensed lyric poems.

At The Common, Nathaniel Perry has a perceptive recommendation of Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems by Merrill Gilfillan: "like a weird novel, or like an atlas, or like a guidebook, or like an aviary, or like a bestiary . . ." www.thecommononline.org/what-were-re...

Our latest books, postcards, and catalog will be available next week at the AWP in Los Angeles, booth #605. Please say hello!

Graham Foust @floodeditions.bsky.social

FORTHCOMING IN AUGUST: Liza Hudock's Reveille, an unvarnished look at the tenacious ties that bind us to family, home, and to ways of talking. "The world, in poem after poem, somehow transfigures into the personal with startling effect. A magnificent, memorable debut" (August Kleinzahler).

NOW AVAILABLE! Ronald Johnson's ARK: "Of all the ambitious, syncretic, idiosyncratic, American modernist long poems (and we have had more than a few), ARK is the most spiritual, the most celebratory, and maybe the most fun."—Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker www.floodeditions.com/books-by-tit...

Flood Editions t-shirt, a collaboration with the artist Brian Calvin, using an image from his book DAYS. Beautifully silkscreened by Love Shack Press. Available domestically, while supplies last, for $27 with free shipping: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

"Rigel leaves a ripple— / otter / through black water." Merrill Gilfillan, "Night Sky, Pawnee Creek" from Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems

Be sure to catch Sophocles' Ajax, in John Tipton's translation, brought to the stage of the Scena Theatre in Washington, DC!

Christopher Spaide Recommends Ali Cobby Eckermann at LitHub: "Stand back, and the book’s narrative contours might suggest a visionary quest, a chronicle of mothers and daughters, or a do-over at a creation myth..." lithub.com/listen-to-th...

This is the best book of poems I've read in a while. @floodeditions.bsky.social never disappoints, I know, but this is special

📚 7. THE LONG FORM by Kate Briggs. About: intimate forms of nurturance (holding, feeding, sleeping-beside). Also about: our raw experience of objects and phenomena, and our use of narrative to structure and convey this experience. Flawlessly balanced—easily my favorite novel of the 2020s to date.

Readers in Asheville, NC can find Merrill Gilfillan's new Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems, at Malaprop's Bookstore! www.malaprops.com/book/9798985...

John Tipton's translation of Ajax, Sophocles' tragedy, is brought to the stage by Scena Theatre in Washington, DC: dctheaterarts.org/2025/01/26/s...

Forthcoming in March: a beautiful new printing of Ronald Johnson's ARK! “Of all the ambitious, syncretic, idiosyncratic, American modernist long poems . . . ARK is the most spiritual, the most celebratory, and maybe the most fun.”—Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker www.floodeditions.com/books-by-tit...

Thnk you @clmporg.bsky.social for including new titles by Ali Cobby Eckermann and Merrill Gilfillan on the list of books launching this month! www.clmp.org/news/books-l...

For those in New York: artist (and Flood author) Brian Calvin has paintings in The Glasse, a group exhibition that also includes Mary Corman, Nick Doty, Maureen Gallace, and Jason Tomme; January 16 – February 19 at Planthouse. www.antonkerngallery.com/news/279-bri...

Graham Foust

For readers with an interest in Indigenous literatures, Ali Cobby Eckermann's She Is the Earth offers a door into Aboriginal Australian poetry. With a reciprocity between inner and outer realities, it tells a story of becoming, “a ritual made of self.” www.floodeditions.com/books-by-tit...