Karin Lessing, from “Sea-Foam”

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

Today on Glass! "High Sierra Incantation" by Lisa Zerkle (@lisazerkle.bsky.social)! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Grateful to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for our conversation about Unrivered & writing community. I'm always afraid to do interviews and podcasts, but Han makes it feel easy.

We're thrilled to announce our 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net Nominations! Congrats and good luck Anthony Thomas Lombardi, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, @wendywisner.bsky.social, Carly Joy Miller, @erinmizrahi.bsky.social, and @icarus-flies.bsky.social!

America is already complicit in Netanyahu’s campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and now Trump wants to send him $6.4B more in offensive weapons. Our priority should be ending the war and returning the hostages  — not funneling MORE taxpayer dollars to Netanyahu to bomb starving Gaza.

At last!!!

This was such lovely and powerful reading. Thanks for the intro. substack.com/profile/1294...

NEW POEM #268: "We Almost Lived Somewhere Else" by Vaneeza Sohail 3 Mother of smoke, we can’t breathe so you give us rain we find laughter between sheets of anguish stonecirclereview.com/we-almost-li... #Poetry

One of my Sunday rituals has become reading Devin Kelly's blog Ordinary Plots open.substack.com/pub/ordinary...

still looking for reviewers/interviewers/other-forms-of-coverage for my debut poetry collection THE HUNGERING YEARS 💜🍃 please reach out (summerfarah.com) ‼️

Bored Trump Spends Night Channel Surfing For New Shows To Cancel https://theonion.com/bored-trump-spends-night-channel-surfing-for-new-shows-to-cancel/

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Just got the shot. Age permitted: 12yrs & up, at that pharmacy/location (??) 🤷‍♀️🙃

I wrote about what the desperate attempt to find a trans connection to the Charlie Kirk assassination tells us about the deep psychological impulses at work in Trumpism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

This is what a @riverriverbooks.bsky.social mailday looks like 😍😍😍😍😍 📚💙💙💙

My column in the new issue of @thenation.com, in which I argue that liberals who are finally acknowledging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza must atone for nearly two years of complicity.

NPR plans to make trims totaling more than $5 million over the course of the coming fiscal year to bring its annual budget into balance. Meanwhile, local stations are asking for more help.

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Piazza" by Nicholas Pagano stonecirclereview.com/piazza/

📣 NEW RELEASE ALERT! 📣 Boa Editions is thrilled to announce that Aracelis Girmay's new collection of poetry GREEN OF ALL HEADS is out now! We have signed paperbacks and hardcovers for sale on our store in limited supply! Purchase yourself a copy today at boaeditions.org. Spread the word🍃

The offensive expanded the same day that independent U.N. experts accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.

“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

1/ We in the US have a new Poet Laureate! Congratulations, Arthur Sze! “Sze says he intends to focus on promoting translated poetry. ‘As laureate I feel a great responsibility to promote the ways poetry, especially poetry in translation, >

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47/250 by Sunday evening! Please share and donate to help displaced families. Our first goal is 50 baskets for 50 families. Please help!

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Once again I am asking. Do you want to review my book ❗

If you were ever told to be wary of an accumulation of abstractions in poetry... Jane Hirshfield in this week's New Yorker has an answer.

Just signed up for my COVID 19 booster @ my local CVS. No age restriction. I'm in MD. Our insurance includes CVS (not sure if that matters).

That ending!! 🔥💖🔥 And this book! 😍 Hurry, there's still time to pre-order @hollicarrell.bsky.social's APOSTASIES from @perugiapress.bsky.social!!! 📚💙

That ending!! 🔥💖🔥 And this book! 😍 Hurry, there's still time to pre-order @hollicarrell.bsky.social's APOSTASIES from @perugiapress.bsky.social!!! 📚💙

The Israeli military has been dropping incendiary bombs on tents and residential buildings in Gaza. Israel is violently forcing Palestinians in Gaza City to leave, but they have nowhere to go.

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Congrats to Omar El Akkad for making the National Book Award longlist in nonfiction for One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This ICYMI, what better time to listen to our conversation about this incredible book Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar... #freepalestine

Due to a technical snafu Café Muse with Nancy Miller Gomez and Sahar Muradi will now be Friday the 12th! Register here for the link sites.google.com/view/cafe-mu...

searching the internet for a rare out-of-print novella in limited-edition box set form willing to pay $$$ @meeklingpress.bsky.social meeklingpress.com/onthestairs/

NOW READING POEMS! Third Annual Broadside Contest 2025 Judge Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Winning Broadsides designed by poet/artist Lindsay Lusby Deadline: November 1 Full Guidelines and submission: ashlandpoetrypress.submittable.com/submit #poetrycommunity #poetrycontest #poetrysubmissions #poems

I love these flies, I love this poem, and I sure love Aracelis Girmay's #poetry! 🪰🪰💖🪰🪰 This poem is from GREEN OF ALL HEADS, her latest collection, about to come out @boa-editions.bsky.social 📚💙

I love these flies, I love this poem, and I sure love Aracelis Girmay's #poetry! 🪰🪰💖🪰🪰 This poem is from GREEN OF ALL HEADS, her latest collection, about to come out @boa-editions.bsky.social 📚💙

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Leila Chatti wrestles with not writing and the “project of staying alive.”

After Congress clawed back public media funding, PBS says it's cutting 15% of its staff, or more than 100 jobs.

Sunbreak by Emily Rosko in the latest @senecareview.bsky.social 🥰💖🥰

They came out GREAT—if you have ordered one (or order one), I’ll be putting in one or two extra for giving away/posting in other places 💙📚 riverriverbooks.org/store

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... "The Trump administration plans to detain immigrants in the nation's largest maximum-security prison – a Louisiana lock-up with a notorious history as a "prison plantation."

Sunbreak by Emily Rosko in the latest @senecareview.bsky.social 🥰💖🥰

How lucky I am to have this chance to read next week on 9/9 with Julia Kolchinsky & Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bosky.social @notatawp.bsky.social

Still super proud of this weird book: a collection of tiny fictions / prose poems disguised as one-act plays. Comprised of ten sections, each one begins with a different type of cloud. xraylitmag.com/shop/cardboa...