This issue of the Eco-Update also has a review of @hilaratzabi.bsky.social's eco-poetry collection, "There Are Still Woods" from @juneroadpress.bsky.social

What has 464 poetry collections, chapbooks, and anthologies? Our Poetry of 2025 roundup, featuring an incredible wealth of poetry published by independent literary presses this year! www.clmp.org/news/poetry-...

June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social (Poetry; pays) opened to poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

We’re open for submissions! This winter’s reading period is for individual poems for our first anthology rather than full-length manuscripts. Details at www.juneroadpress.com/submissions!

June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social is open to submissions for Poetry Anthology (Volume 1). #CallforSubmissions

Wonderful evening at Mac’s last week celebrating the debut from local poet Mary Simmons 🐦‍⬛ Our very own Olivia Mirmohamed opened the night with a reading from her thesis 💫 Get “Mother, Daughter, Auger” at Mac’s or online here: www.juneroadpress.com/mother-daugh... @juneroadpress.bsky.social

It’s pub day for MOTHER, DAUGHTER, AUGUR by Mary Simmons! This book is lush and dark, full of omens and wolves and women transforming. Think of it as a Victorian naturalist’s collection gathered from folklore and myth and ballet and fables. More at juneroadpress.com/mother-daughter-augur! 🍂✨

So glad to be spending time with Level Watch by Mary Ardery, by June Road Press, a woman-owned boutique press publishing some gorgeous books. In this chapbook, she weaves recovery and nature, threads that resonate deeply with my own writing interests, together with such clarity and depth.

Abbie Kiefer’s CERTAIN SHELTER is one of three New Hampshire Literary Award finalists in poetry! 🤩 Winners will be announced at a ceremony on October 18. Check out the full list here: nhwritersproject.org/finalists-an...

Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!

"Ardery’s debut is both a memoir of survival and a meditation on what it means to carry weight — literal and metaphorical — and to keep walking anyway." @sara-eastler.bsky.social reviews LEVEL WATCH by Mary Ardery. @juneroadpress.bsky.social

Perugia out here doing such good and beautiful work 🙏🎉🎉🎉 We are big fans. (We are POETRY BARN-SIZED FANS, haha 😉) @rholanderpoet.bsky.social

New #poetry #books from Carcanet Press, Grid Books, Nightboat Books, Brick Books, @juneroadpress.bsky.social, Copper Canyon Press, @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social, W. W. Norton, Red Hen Press, University of Nevada Press & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Happiest of joint publication days to FIELD NOTES by E.G. Cunningham and ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD by Jameela F. Dallis! 🎉🎉🎉 We could not be prouder of our fall titles and their authors. Congratulations, Liz and Jameela! riverriverbooks.org/store @egcunningham.bsky.social

We are also SO happy to share a publication day today with @juneroadpress.bsky.social, another incredible small press with a tremendous editor in Sara Arnold. Mary Ardery’s Level Watch is out today! 🎉🎉🎉 www.juneroadpress.com/level-watch

It’s pub day for Level Watch! If you appreciate narrative poetry with a strong sense of place that deeply engages with the wilderness, this book will move you, whether you’re familiar with the Blue Ridge backdrop or want to let these pages transport you there. More at juneroadpress.com/level-watch!✨

Join us for a cozy Sunday-night virtual craft chat on 9/28 to celebrate the launch of Level Watch in two weeks, featuring Abbie Kiefer! Register at bit.ly/level-watch-launch ✨

Summer reading: CERTAIN SHELTER by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2024). Here are poems for a mother, “All These Things I Can’t Remember” & a father, “I Don’t Like Baseball, Just the Red Sox.” I recommend the @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social about this incredible debut. ♥️

Thanks to @sundresspub.bsky.social and guest editor Alexis Ivy for featuring poems from CERTAIN SHELTER as part of The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed this week. @juneroadpress.bsky.social sundressblog.com/2025/07/28/t...

✨Cover reveal!✨ Our second fall title, Mother, Daughter, Augur, comes out the week of Halloween. It’s a lush, dark, dreamlike book about women and love and bodies and stories and time. Ways to preorder, blurbs, audio clips, pictures, a playlist, and more at juneroadpress.com/mother-daughter-augur!

Jami Macarty reviews 'Songs for the Land-Bound' by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, poems that navigate motherhood, marriage, and aging through contrasting forms. https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/booksongs-for-the-land-bound-by-violeta-garcia-mendoza/ #bookreviews #booknews #poetry #reading

"The boomerang released / for its returning" I so love the images, the sounds, the line-breaks &&& in this & so many other poems from @violetagm.bsky.social's SONGS FOR THE LAND-BOUND (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2024)! 🌟🥰🌟 #poetry #bookSky 📚💙

So proud of my @juneroadpress.bsky.social pressmate @mardery.bsky.social. LEVEL WATCH is gorgeous. Do future-you a favor and pre-order! www.juneroadpress.com/level-watch

It’s high time for a cover reveal! Level Watch is Mary Ardery’s debut collection, out September 23. This one’s as outdoorsy and as place-based as they come. Find out more about it at juneroadpress.com/level-watch, where there are also audio clips, preorder links, a playlist, and more. 🌲🥾✨

In WHEN I WAS THE WIND, “four cardinal directions point the way through this inner wilderness, through trials and initiations, suffering and discovery.” Hannah Lee Jones’s debut collection (@juneroadpress.bsky.social) is featured in our #APAHeritageMonth list: www.juneroadpress.com/when-i-was-t...

We love the Hoffer Award, which has now recognized three of our books—the latest an honorable mention for Violeta-Garcia-Mendoza’s Songs for the Land-Bound! 🤩 Full list of this year’s poetry winners here: www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-...

Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of Mariella Saavedra Carquin and her book Maps You Can’t Make (June Road Press, 2023).🌟 @juneroadpress.bsky.social

This month we’re celebrating the work of Mariella Saavedra Carquin in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book Maps You Can’t Make (June Road Press, 2023), and you can learn more about this poet on our website (linktree in bio). @juneroadpress.bsky.social

This month we're celebrating the work of Mariella Saavedra Carquin in our "Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight." Check it out to read one of her poems and learn more about this poet: perugiapress.org/2025/04/emer... @juneroadpress.bsky.social

Thanks to @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social for the chance to talk about ordering a manuscript and writing oddball poems. spkofmarvels.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/a...

Five years ago, The Cortland Review published one of my earliest CERTAIN SHELTER poems, before I was even sure I had a book to write. Today they published one of the last ones I wrote for the book. Grateful to @christiangullette.bsky.social and the whole staff. www.cortlandreview.com/issue-94/abb...

These debut poetry collections carry a depth and insight that’s only possible with time.

Find us at the AWP bookfair for the third time around—table 318! ✨

We’re delighted to announce our new authors for this year—two Marys (go figure)! Mary Ardery and Mary Simmons will have woodsy, wonderful debut collections out in the fall, and we’ll be sharing lots more details along the way. But first: AWP next week in LA! Find us at at table 318! 😎☀️

A pleasure to chat with @sakeriver.com on Keep the Channel Open. We talked about ephemerality, poems about tv, and how it feels to be bad at something. At one point, Mike said it was like I was interviewing him—and I kind of was, because I'm nosy like that. www.keepthechannelopen.com/episodes/202...

I recently had the chance to read for the beautifully produced Rice Pudding Poetry podcast, a project from Rice Public Library in Kittery, Maine. Some of my favorite past episodes include work from James Crews, @sdeflitchy.bsky.social, and Stuart Kestenbaum. ricepudding.podbean.com/e/episode-16...

Reviewing books is such a labor of love. Very grateful to Mary for her thoughtful take on Certain Shelter and to the team at Museum of Americana. @juneroadpress.bsky.social

Tune in here to let Abbie Kiefer read you poems from Certain Shelter (@juneroadpress.bsky.social), and start your Monday off right: share.transistor.fm/s/05f5c3ef New episode with Joe Wilkins (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social) airing tomorrow! 🎙️📚💙

We’re thrilled to announce the 35 grant recipients of the Small Press Future Fund! These publishers, formerly distributed by SPD, will receive grants for projects that will help strengthen operations as they move forward. Thanks to the Mellon Foundation for its support! www.clmp.org/press-center...

Two new poems up today at @electriclit.bsky.social about Princess Peach and composting and the human condition. That photo and headline? The best. Thanks, Electric Lit. electricliterature.com/two-poems-by...

Poems about impressing your kid at Super Mario 2 and outliving Martha Stewart’s magazine. (@abbiekiefer.bsky.social) https://electricliterature.com/two-poems-by-abbie-kiefer/

Such a pleasure to record this episode with @hanvanderhart.bsky.social. Listen in!

I hope, I hope you just click on this link and listen to Abbie read her poems. And then order her book from @juneroadpress.bsky.social. That’s my hope. 💙💙💙

Of praising the minor, or June, of labor, of the labor that looks like nothing, of grief and disappointment, of Maine and models of the ordinary. Episode 65 with @abbiekiefer.bsky.social is now live! Start the episode to hear Abbie read from Certain Shelter (@juneroadpress.bsky.social) 🎙️💙

New episode this week with Abbie Kiefer, author of Certain Comfort (@juneroadpress.bsky.social)! 🎙️💙 @abbiekiefer.bsky.social www.juneroadpress.com/certain-shel...

We’re ringing in the new year with a little bonus, knowing how busy the holidays can be—a one-week extension of our reading period! We’ll continue to accept full-length manuscript submissions through January 8. Details at juneroadpress.com/submissions! 🥂✨

Newsletter for Boxing Day! Hope it gives you some New Year’s book gifting inspiration 📚✨

Read Violeta Garcia-Mendoza’s poem “Midwinter” in full here, and listen to Episode 62: (Of Midwinter Poems, Rewilding, and Tercets) share.transistor.fm/s/12198fdd #poetry #podcast

Thanks to @commonmag.bsky.social for publishing this conversation between my friend Theresa Monteiro and me. We talked about writing poetry that's rooted in domestic spaces and how we can find both mystery and meaning in the quotidian. www.thecommononline.org/churning-up-... 1h