porkbellypress.com/poetry/notes Jessie’s poetry moves through the world with hunger and tooth, examines how the breeze moves through the body, conforms to it, how memory imprints, how to call fire, how to howl, to rip through life and devour each moment. (Porkbelly Press 2025)

Thank you for your patience while we make our way through the queue! Responses will be going out to everything in the queue this month (barring any further catastrophic shenanigans of 2025). Orders are being processed as normal, though postal delays are possible due to USPS overload for holidays.

Reading micro chapbooks through the end of July. Considering poetry, micro fiction, micro essay, hybrid, and art chaps 8-10 pages. porkbellypress.com/subs Full info here. We read via Submittable. #callforsubmissions #micropress #handbound #chapbooks

Emily F. Kerlin's THE SWORD SWALLOWERS is now available from Porkbelly Press! #poetry #performance #hunger #swordswallower porkbellypress.com/poetry/sword

Happy release day to Sarah Josephine Pennington's WHERE THE BLUEGRASS GROWS, JUNE 1916. In addition to Sarah's words, some of the poems include lines or images sourced from a vintage Kentucky newspaper. #appalachian #southeasternkentucky #kentucky #poetry #appalachianpoetry #handbound #chapbook

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Sugared Water's latest issue is out this week! porkbellypress.com/009 Featuring work by: Tim Duffy B. Fulton Jennes Lindsay Keller-Madsen Steph Kleid Barbara Lawhorn Melanie H. Manuel Jessa Queyrouze Susan Rich Hannah Yerington Danielle Weeks Elizabeth Wing #litmag #sugaredwater #porkbellypress

Over 100 publications re-opened today, including @3lobedmag.bsky.social @cincinnatireview.bsky.social @anmlymag.bsky.social @echapbooks.bsky.social @narrativemag.bsky.social @terrainorg.bsky.social @burnsidereview.bsky.social @salamandermag.bsky.social @porkbellypress.bsky.social

Happy release day to Esinam Bediako's SELF-TALK, a hybrid #chapbook. porkbellypress.com/hybrid/self-...

I’m really excited to announce my first chapbook, “Trans Artifacts: Bones Between My Teeth,” will be published by Porkbelly Press in 2026/7!

Happy release day to Love Me, Love My Belly #zine issue no. 8! #bodyimage #body #autonomy #abortionrights #survival porkbellypress.com/mags/belly8 Work by 9 poets & writers on the subject of the body. See the content warnings on the 'additional info' page for more on topics this issue includes.

forthcoming in 2026/7 to Porkbelly Press. ✨ Chapbooks by Hilda Downer, Debbie Feit, Audrey Gidman, Fay L. Loomis, Trinity Tibe, Sasha Weiss, Ren Wilding, and Juliette Zhu.

Happy Poetry Month! 🤘 For the month of April, use promo code POMO25 for 20% off orders of $20 or more. ✨ We’re working on new titles to bring to you. This sale includes pre-orders. 🦇 #poetrymonth #micropress #readmore #getlit #chapbook #anthologies

Nishat Ahmed, Brown Boy (@porkbellypress.bsky.social, 2021). I found myself gravitating more towards the prose poems in this collection. It holds well together, showing a navigation of identity and self. (It was reviewed by Gnashing Teeth here: gnashingteethpublishing.com/book-review-...)

The next issue of Sugared Water is awaiting a last confirmation of acceptance before launching. We're very close! LMLMB no. 8 is almost ready too—just a cover to go. Several chapbooks are in the last bit of proofing process and cover design stages. Can't wait to share them with you. ✨

One of my favorite anthologies ever. So many beautiful poets in its pages. And how about this gorgeous cover? Perfection.

Working on the last round of consideration for our latest batch of chapbooks. We've narrowed down to 25 manuscripts to choose from. Each year we receive a few more than the last, and those final decisions are difficult. Thank you for your patience + your rad work! #getlit #micropress #chapbooks

Gods & ghosts, what a high bar @porkbellypress.bsky.social sets for micropresses! Just 👀 this hyperpersonalized package presentation! They had me at hand-stitched, but these books (@robertokaji.bsky.social’s “Texas Flood” & Tina Mozelle Braziel’s “Rooted by Thirst”) are literal enchantment.

Congrats to all the Bram Stoker Award finalists, including Mari Ness, author of PP #poetry chapbook A FEW MYTHIC PATHS! bramstokerawards.horror.org/front-page/t...

Happy printversary to Billie R. Tadros' #chapbook: Billie R. Tadros’ inter: burial places is at once like a confession and a chant, carrying us through a narrative of seeking, something lost, desire, full of language like “your lips always decanting like prayer.” https://buff.ly/4hZOmRR #poetry

Happy printversary to our #anthology BRAMBLE & THORN. #limitededition https://buff.ly/40XoVKG "Don’t worry if she seems hungry; she’s always hungry; she has her mind already made, blade sharpened to meet the wolf’s heart." #anthology #sharp #fiercegirls #feminist #witchy #spooky #survival

Happy printversary to EPISTOLARY, our #anthology of #letters. #limitededition #handbound #anthology Still on of my fav anthos. ✍️ 📖 https://buff.ly/3OiDTmW #poetry #cnf #fiction

Happy release day to Jordan E. McNeil's INTO THE WOODS WE MUST GO. #speculative #chapbook #handbound https://buff.ly/3YPtNic McNeil’s chapbook of linked micro fictions is alluring in its call to step into the woods, coaxing the reader off the path, enchanting in its call to cross the threshold.

Happy printversary to Amorak Huey's A MAP OF THE FARM THREE MILES FROM THE END OF HAPPY HOLLOW ROAD. Huey's poems investigates place and the things that memory and reflection have made of it. https://buff.ly/3OeRHyS #poetry #place #farm #landscape #childhood

Happy printversary to Adrie Rose's I WILL WRITE A LOVE POEM. Rose’s poetry leads us on a journey through vulnerable, distilled moments spun with steel underpinnings. #poetry #persistence #trauma #survival https://buff.ly/3Vo0djh #readmore #getlit #micropress #porkbellypress #chapbook

Happy printversary to Kristi Carter's DAUGHTER SHAMAN SINGS BLOOD ANTHEM, a #chapbook of #poetry. Carter’s work investigates the intersection of intergenerational trauma, survival, feminism, and power. https://buff.ly/3Zchmi3 #survival #voice #agency #scars

We are open for our next themed issue celebrating 20 years of The Fourth River! Submissions are free for BIPOC writers until 11/22. Send us your birds! 4thriver.submittable.com/submit

without tenderness, we are in hell. —Adrienne Rich * & so to tenderness I add my action. —Aracelis Girmay

The two quotes I always share with poets & writers about submitting their work are: "Don't self-select" and "It's their job to say no, not yours." I believe that, more often than not, the biggest obstacle to publication is ourselves. #writinglife

Happy printversary to Colleen S. Harris-Keith's SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED. Some Assembly Required is a sampling of Colleen S. Harris-Keith’s poetry dealing with motherhood, marriage, and a life shared. #poetry #motherhood #porkbllypress #micropress #handbound #chapbook

Happy printversary to the limited edition HAUNTED #anthology, featuring the work of 22 poets. About things persistently present, things that occupy the mind and refuse to let go, from language to memory to specter. https://buff.ly/3ZbO03k #readmore #haunting #ghost #memory #death

Happy Printversary to Sayuri Ayers' THE MAIDEN IN THE MOON 🌙 a #chapbook of #essays on #motherhood #mentalhealth #recovery #lyricessay Ayers’ chapbook is a lyric essay investigating relationships, mental illness, pregnancy, and family weaving through folktale and childhood memory.

Love Me, Love My Belly #zine #guidelines are here: porkbellypress.com/bellysub - #poetry - #essay - #art Seeking work where body is the central theme. Up to 5 poems, up to 3k essays, up to 5 artworks. #micropress #porkbellypress #zinelove #getlit #readmore #lmlmb #bodyimagezine #survival

Love Me, Love My Belly #bodyimage #zine is reading to fill the last few pages in January's issue 8. porkbellypress.submittable.com/submit It’s about the space between us, our differences, our scars, our wobbly bits, and our power as it relates to the bodies we live in. #body #survival #haes

Happy release day to Susan Milchman's MASCARA, BOOBS + HEADBANDS, a #chapbook of #poems #goldenshovel borrowing 80s song lyrics for inspiration. #handbound #chapbook #micropress #porkbellypress #susanmilchman #poetry porkbellypress.com/poetry/mascara 🦇✨