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This incredible poem from Susan Rich in BLUE ATLAS 💙 Day 6 - #SealeyChallenge @susanrich-poet18.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

Poets, get your manuscripts ready! Perugia Press’s annual prize opens August 1. Open to women poets, inclusive of all gender-expansive definitions of that term, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Full guidelines & submission info in linktree. Can’t wait to read your work!

🚨SALE!🚨I noticed a certain retailer is selling my book for less than $5 and thought I should offer copies for the same price! So, if you've been wanting to read DRESSING THE BEAR, l'd love to send you it! $5 INCLUDES SHIPPING, until I run out! DM me! And thank you in advance! 💙 @triohousepress.org

Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of Saba Keramati and her book Self-Mythology (U. of Arkansas Press, 2024).🌟 @sabadilla15.bsky.social @uarkpress.bsky.social

Carolina Hotchandani’s debut collection, “conceived in loss, examines shifts in identity due to Partition, immigration, illness, and birth.” THE BOOK EATERS is published in @perugiapress.bsky.social & featured in our #APAHeritageMonth reading list: perugiapress.org/product/the-...

Feeling grateful (also floored) to turn to a page in Poetry Magazine & find this poem I wrote, with all admiration, after Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes." Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.

"When I say land sometimes I mean belief. When I say ocean I mean all the rest unarticulated with the mouth's profane shape" -Amanda Hawkins from WHEN I SAY THE BONES I MEAN THE BONES @wapress.bsky.social

"I was often told to smile by complete strangers as if a six-year-old girl in patched bellbottoms & a Mork & Mindy t-shirt wasn't cheerful enough" - @majda.bsky.social from IN THE HOUSE OF MODERN UPBRINGING FOR GIRLS @wapress.bsky.social

A powerful and intimate exploration into the violence of loss within the female experience set against motifs of climate change, disease and generational trauma. I, DIVIDED by @chelsdingman.bsky.social (@lsupress.bsky.social) #NationalPoetryMonth Day 19 ❤️ #poetry #poetrycommunity #ecohumanscape

This poem by @nyingling.bsky.social in the new Sixth Finch: 🔥🔥🔥 I'll be thinking about that ending for a long time.

Our spring issue is live: sixthfinch.com Featuring @meganalpert.bsky.social @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social @timothyliupoet.bsky.social @thatjanemorton.bsky.social @katnuernberger.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social @dustinkpearson.bsky.social @dia-roth.bsky.social @pagestar.bsky.social and more

Grateful to @sixthfinch.bsky.social for publishing two of my poems. Check out the whole issue here: sixthfinch.com/mainspring25...

Gratitude to Nicholas Yingling for this gift of reading, seeing & sharing Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry Press, 2021). Appreciate this so much! 🌹📖💞 @nyingling.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

"We blend bone meal with soil at the base of rosebushes, tendering roots with the dust of other lives" - @rholanderpoet.bsky.social from UNCERTAIN ACROBATS

The Kari Ann Flickinger Memorial Literary Prize returns – and this time, it's for fiction. Run by @ballerinibookpress.bsky.social with the support of Kari's family and her partner Bill Abney, the award this year will be judged by @rfredekenter.bsky.social. Find out more here ... bit.ly/3Raw18J

"No lungs, no heart, no breath- irresistible now, what might you see? A bird's dying shudder or lovers knotted in a plotline of release? You're an example now of nothing, a fountain of nowhere-" -Susan Rich from BLUE ATLAS @redhenpress.bsky.social

My book is out wherever you like to buy books! In the Uk it’s online with @waterstones.bsky.social as well as @foylesforbooks.bsky.social in the USA I like bookshop.org/p/books/in-t...

"Now we are splayed out like dummies in the mud, like shot soldiers, like angels telling lies about the stars." -Joe Wilkins from PASTORAL, 1994 @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

Today is the last day to get your work in! Subs close tonight at midnight (PT). shopoetryjournal.submittable.com/submit/31379...

Really stoked to have a new poem in the spring issue of @theshorepoetry.bsky.social! I have long admired this journal, & I’m grateful to the editors for including me—& alongside so many poets I love! Happy World Poetry Day, too, friends! 💙 Read the issue here: www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-25

Dorianne Laux 💙 from WHAT WE CARRY

"Give the termites your worry / about affording the rent. They too / are saying, eat / the rich." - @stevenleyva.bsky.social from THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY

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"How he unhooked the curtains and wrapped me, naked, in what light they still held" - @meganmerchant.bsky.social from HORTENSIA, IN WINTER

"What you taste with abandon even God cannot take from you" -Chris Abani from SMOKING THE BIBLE @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

I have 6 copies of this book left & 5 copies of Poets of Queens 2. If you DM me your proof of donation to any of these, I will send you a signed copy. California Fire Foundation L.A. Fire Department Foundation Pasadena Humane Society American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles World Central Kitchen

If anyone says “DEI” or “Newsom” or whatever abt the LA fires, point to the massive, unprecedented climate disasters happening globally outside the range of either of these factors and say, “anti-climate, pro-fossil-fuel policies” over and over until they pass out from the burden of that truth

In case this is of use for friends in Los Angeles area:

"In his bath my son looks half- drowned, lying so still, his hair a scarf of weed, his eyes closed, and only the water breathing." -Catherine Barnett from INTO PERFECT SPHERES SUCH HOLES ARE PIERCED @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

Another one from Wilder, written just after we elected Trump the first time, when so many ppl were saying no no, it won't be that bad, it's all bluster, it's just talk. And here we are in the witch's house again/still. You can read the full poem online here! www.indolentbooks.com/what-rough-b...

"if not to sleep, then to obey the dark" - Jenny George from AFTER IMAGE @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

Spending my holiday with these lovely essays by @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social

Joe Wenderoth

Hey all! Pleiades Magazine is now on Bluesky—give us a follow? 🙏🏼✨🦭@pleiadesmag.bsky.social

"where you awoke last night to find the fabric of space wrinkled / like the bridge above your nose" - @rubenq.bsky.social from BRUTAL COMPANION

Jenny George is one of my favorite poets. Her books are fantastic, and this poem is fantastic. poems.com/poem/eurydice/

"We were simply" [...] "before you died." I love this poem & the many ways you can read it & make it last. Dressing the Bear by @susanlleary.bsky.social ✨️💙✨️ #poetry

Sealey Challenge: Bestiary by Donika Kelly

"box trucks and networks can be so lonesome, so owned. & I am alone tonight, trying to remember that we don't want what we think we want." -Rosie Stockton from PERMANENT VOLTA

It's always a good time to listen to @luaz.bsky.social's wisdom, and on @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social to boot! Don't miss!

"I am the body next to but unlike yours. You already know me. You already know what I'm made of." -Rachel Zucker from MUSEUM OF ACCIDENTS

Sealey Challenge: Dear Memphis by Rachel Edelman

Once again thinking about these perfect two stanzas from Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Jerusalem”

Win a book for your Sealey Challenge TBR pile from @triohousepress.bsky.social — just post a photo of one of our titles and tag us before 11:59 pm on July 31! One entry per tagged post. 📚💜💛

Today's poem is "From the Trial of Joan of Arc" by Nicholas Yingling from The Fire Road www.versedaily.org/2024/fromthe...

Delighted to have this new poem appear in Poetry Review alongside so many poets I admire, like Alice Oswald, Kim Addonizio, Holly Amos & Carl Phillips...

"It all exists, but we may need to soften our bones to be born into it. Think dew on the sea, think hammered gold, think zygote. We may have to be both borne and boat." -Claire Wahmanholm