The novelists encounter the poets at the literary festival.

“Diane, I'm holding in my hand a small box of chocolate bunnies." On this day in 1990, Twin Peaks premiered. #90shorror #90sSciFi #horrorfamily #horrorcommunity #ABCTV #TwinPeaks

Today’s Feature: “Ars Poetica” by @bridgetlowe.bsky.social from @newenglandreview.bsky.social Read here:

Every year, The Southern Review rewards our writers for outstanding work. Congratulations to the recipients of our 2025 awards: Mesha Maren, Debbie Urbanski, Bridget Lowe, Antonella Lettieri, Seán McDonagh, and Joshua Bennett. For a full list of the winning pieces, visit: https://bit.ly/tsrawards25

In celebration of our upcoming Winter 2025-26 issue, we're having a release reading! Join us at Trident Booksellers in Boston on January 21st, at 6 pm, for a reading from Winter 2025-26 contributors Alice Hoffman, Maggie Dietz, Shara McCallum, and Bridget Lowe. Register here: https://bit.ly/45p2CPn

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

It's #blackfriday here at the ILT: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (2nd Dublin edn.) Two single-sided black pages face each other at pp. 56-57. "The ‘blackness’ is printed on both sides of the leaf with what appears to be a solid woodblock." The Laurence Sterne Trust

In a new Behind the Byline interview, staff reader Carolyn Orosz talks with NER 46.2 poet Bridget Lowe about the reflexive nature of meaning-making, brokering the relationship between form and content, and radical wonder. Read their conversation here: nereview.com/bridget-lowe/

Love when I open a magazine and the first poem is fantastic @bridgetlowe.bsky.social @newenglandreview.bsky.social