Purchase a beautiful print copy of our 10th issue! It's 40+ pages of art and poetry ✨️ bicoastalreview.submittable.com/submit

New publisher listing for: Bicoastal Review Ekphrastic Poetry Contest @bicoastalreview.bsky.social (Poetry; pays; fee-based). #WritingCommunity

Check out IALA board member Shahé Mankerian's new poem, "The Hangman," published in Issue 10 of @bicoastalreview.bsky.social ! 📓 Read the full poem here: bit.ly/3Hzqd7i P.S. You can also hear an audio recording of Shahé reading his poem at the above link! 🎙️

From Brenna Twohy's book, Swallowtail: bit.ly/swallowtailBK #poem #books #writing

Our new issue is live, full of poetry and art. Check it out! 🌌🌊✨️ www.bicoastalreview.com/9 #poetry #poetryjournal #blueskypoets #literaryjournal #bicoastalreview #digitalart #readmorepoetry

A new review on our site - Scraping for Joy: The Automatic and the Carnal in Matthew Dickman’s "All American Poem" 📖 check it out! www.bicoastalreview.com/matthewdickman

"to find in the midst of hell / what isn't hell" From Katie Farris's book, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. Published by @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/farrisstanding #poem #books #writing

"Man loves to idealize, but when the dream becomes reality indifference is triggered. " - Marcel Proust

This is just a reminder to NOT buy any books from Amazon during this sale (or ever). They are very intentionally trying to undercut local book stores a week before Independent Bookstore day on April 26th Shop Local and Fuck Amazon. Also, don't forget to cancel your Amazon Prime. #booksky #shoplocal

Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure. Deadline: July 1st More details: medium.com/anomalyblog/...

“They’ll never write poetry” is a hell of a thing to say on behalf of a regime striving to make poetry and all other human expression illegal

She lives the poetry she cannot write. - Oscar Wilde

Absolutely livid to have my tax dollars paying for all of this instead of libraries, environmental protection, feeding children, due process, medical research, teachers, history, human rights, higher education accessibility, health care, poetry, clean water, safe food, art, and beauty.

[20] Visual poetry!

From Mikko Harvey's book, Let the World Have You. Published by @houseofanansi.bsky.social #poem #books #writing

“Our valleys will no longer sustain us” A poem by Diane di Prima.

Encroaching city. Photographer Robert Linn. #photography, #RobertLinn, #LandscapePhotography, #wildlifephotography, #Deer, #buck, #cityscape

Richard Hugo: "All you ever had for sure."

Three things every writer should cultivate: 1. Insatiable curiosity: the desire to never stop learning & experimenting. 2. Perseverance: with a sky-high tolerance for rejections. 3. Progress over perfection: embracing messy/ bad writing as part of the process.

What a generous and thoughtful reading of Rara Avis. Many thanks to @stevenleyva.bsky.social and Washington Independent Review of Books.

The poem that's currently haunting me... (originally in yalereview.bsky.social)

Tonight, I’m going to be chatting about poetry & reading from my new book on the Rattlecast with @rattlepoetry.bsky.social! I’ll be on at 8:15 pm EST. Here’s the link to watch: www.youtube.com/live/xWqgtrj...

We're grateful for the Black poets whose work enriches, shapes, and challenges our poetry landscape. This week, we feature stunning poets: NIKKI WALLSCHLAEGER (@nikkimwalls.bsky.social), PATRICIA SPEARS JONES (@pksj51.bsky.social), KEITH S. WILSON (@keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social), and JUNE JORDAN.

We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

Today is the last day to submit to our poetry contest! ✨️📚 #poetrycontest #poetrycommunity #poets #writingcommunity #writers #literaryjournal

From The Essential June Jordan. #poetry #books #writing

We have a new interview up with poet Sarah Schweig @sarahvschweig.bsky.social on poetry (her award winning new book), philosophy, and life in a crumbling society. Check it out! www.bicoastalreview.com/sarahschweiginterview

it’s this poem

Jane Hirshfield

Charles Wright

. "The heart is a smaller cousin of the sun..." —Joy Harjo #poetry #poem #poems

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

Something to re-read on a cold cloudy day. #wsmerwin #poetry

A little James Schuyler Valentine this morning.

We have a new interview up with @garthgreenwell.bsky.social on the challenges and realities of the writing life. and check out his amazing books! www.bicoastalreview.com/garthgreenwell

@ohiopoetry.bsky.social thanks for being our 600th follower 📚

This poem either delights people or terrifies them.

Turning 40 be like…

A master at work

Jane Hirshfield

Submit your poems to our contest before it closes! ✨️ #poetrycommunity #nycpoetry #poetry #poetrycontest bicoastalreview.submittable.com/submit

Aspirations 🖤 —Czeslaw Milosz #poetry #poem #poems

Congratulations to our 2024 Poetry Prize winner Stacey Johnson & finalists Stacey Balkun, Samuel Burt, Chloe Cook, Marina Kraiskaya Brown, Jacob Benavides, Rose McLarney, Dana Roeser, L.S. Klatt, Sally O'Keeffe, Cindy Juyoung Ok, Ellen June Wright, and Matthew Zhao.

I had the honor of reading for the latest issue of @bicoastalreview.bsky.social and I hope all of you check it out and love it as much as I do. <3 www.bicoastalreview.com/8 #poetry #poetrysky #litmag

I read this on dark days for a little solace.

“The Chorus These Poets Create” is a portfolio curated by Francisco Aragón, Laura Villareal, and Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine in the December issue to celebrate Letras Latinas, a literary initiative that has championed Latine poetry for 20 years. 🙏 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

From Marie Howe's book, What the Living Do. #poem #poetry #mariehowe #writing #books

‘That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.’ — Ivan Turgenev writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

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New interview with fiction writer Joe Baumann! ✏️ 📖 and check out our past conversations with some amazing poets 💙 www.bicoastalreview.com/interviews