I'm thrilled to be in the latest Crab Orchard Review & to have this poem, part of a new manuscript I'm working on, find a home alongside so many writers I admire! www.flipsnack.com/AB7B77BBDC9/...

Answers for @bettysueblue.bsky.social - add yours to her list! 1. For me, hybrid means between/beyond genres. 2. I prepare the way I know how to prepare generally, but perhaps it lends itself to hybrid things: read/view/listen widely, regardless of genre or time period or art form.

"I'm four. My brother, Chris, is about two. We kneel at the foot of the carpeted stairs, stuck inside our waiting." New CNF: "Self-Portrait with Death" by Scott Garson www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/garson/se...

In an ancient desert village in Mauritania, librarians are fighting to protect some of the oldest books in West Africa from the elements. Temperatures are rising rapidly and desertification threatens to bury buildings. Kang-Chun Cheng shares photos: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

"Six inches of rain / in the past week, and the Harpeth spills // its floodplain, eats into the trails, trebles // like a fever, steady and slow, knocking down / whatever stands in its way." Read "My Daughter Wanted to Go for a Hike, a Real Hike" by Gary McDowell: swiftslitmag.com/gary-mcdowell

Comic is by Lynda Barry. Here's a version of it with alt text. (Thank you @alex-awoos.bsky.social!)

"but they are determined to exist, with the ancient / cloaks of their furred wings-kings of outlasting;" Read three poems from @kristi-maxwell.bsky.social from an Inger Christensen-inspired series: swiftslitmag.com/kristi-maxwell

"the voice did / want the rope to add up to something more / than rope" Read three poems by Lauren Mallett in our newest issue: swiftslitmag.com/lauren-mallett

"The water loved you so well, loved you through your whisper-thin topsoil / until you were saturated, birch and cedar and spruce roots / swimming in silt like migrated mangroves, / and you carried that love down / to meet the reaching sea." - @fklein907.bsky.social swiftslitmag.com/frances-klein

Sometimes I tell other stories, but today I’m thinking about my mom: 1) She’d walk my sister and me to the public library each week with a kid wagon to put our books in 2) She traded used books with her friend by the grocery bag 3) She talked books with my grandfather & then with me

"When they asked me why I stole the flute, I said / because it was beautiful..." Read "My Statement" by Paul Hostovsky in the newest issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social here: swiftslitmag.com/paul-hostovsky

"washing / the leaves & ashes from the street // tender & in a forgotten key that can't / be shaken out" Read two new poems by @cold-eternals.bsky.social in the newest issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social here: swiftslitmag.com/ryan-collins

Check out our most recent newsletter about all things happening here at AQ HQ, including a new issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social & a peek at our next project ...! accumulate-quiet.beehiiv.com/p/april-2026...

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In other news, I am really excited to share some new initiatives we're launching at The Rumpus including increased pay, writing and editorial fellowships, and microgrants. therumpus.net/2026/03/31/e...

time is an essential ingredient for writing. you have to spend time struggling to find original language, to think in original ways. and you have to waste time. and you have to grow older. and you have to unlearn things. and you have to sit with yourself again and again and again

Thanks to @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social and the swifts folks for taking two poems about Ketchikan’s recent landslides *cue Stevie Nicks*

It’s spring and the second issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social is out! Incredible work from @cold-eternals.bsky.social @fklein907.bsky.social @kristi-maxwell.bsky.social & more! You can read it here: www.swiftslitmag.com

I look forward to reading this anthology every year & today it’s out!

Thanks for including me in your first issue with so many other writers I love to read.

“Here in the buzzing dim… the outside world disappears, the timeline slips.” Our final featured writer from our inaugural issue is the fantastic @djvorreyer.bsky.social! swiftslitmag.com/donna-vorreyer

Spending the week at The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow working on polishing some older manuscripts & drafting a new one. Making lots of progress & grateful for the time & space. Thanks to Westminster for the A.P. Green Fellowship to support this trip & other research this year!

“In the early dark, / I begin the slow work / of stitching something…” Read “Needlework” and two other incredible poems by Brynn Martin in our inaugural issue today: swiftslitmag.com/brynn-martin

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

"The patterns / of distance are well established between us. Is an unread poem / a kind of broken promise?" Every time we see a new @amorak.bsky.social poem, we make sure to read it. Be sure to read his newest in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social: swiftslitmag.com/amorak-huey

“The sky purpling over high / cane would be enough” A phenomenal new poem from @jackbedell.bsky.social in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social: swiftslitmag.com/jack-b-bedell

“The punctum is the camera - really an iPhone - and me, as I am now. Though my voice punctures the past at times.” Read the full visual essay “Progue” by Lindsey D. Alexander in our first issue here: swiftslitmag.com/lindsey-d-al...

“For the first time in English, all the short fiction that Ingeborg Bachmann wrote in her lifetime in a single volume. Available Sep 29, 2026” (!!!) @ndbooks.bsky.social 🔥🔥🙌 www.ndbooks.com/book/the-com...

Thrilled and honored to be included. Thank you Phillip and @[email protected].

If you haven’t signed up for it already, check out the first edition of our newsletter! You can read what we’re about, see a note from our editor @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social, & learn about our first project @swiftslitmag.bsky.social here: accumulate-quiet.beehiiv.com/p/welcome-to...

So delighted to have work in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social alongside poets I admire.

The first writer in our first issue is the phenomenal @mollyakin.bsky.social! swiftslitmag.com/molly-akin

COVER REVEAL & PREORDERS ARE OPEN! I’m thrilled to share to the cover for my forthcoming hybrid/micro CNF collection from @riverriverbooks! Thank you to @han.vanderhart & @amorakhuey for believing in my odd, sad bird & my eternal gratitude to brilliant designer, @albyfischer for this gorgeousness!

My newsletter’s back up & running after a little break! This month features a fantastic @susanpoet.bsky.social poem, the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social, a video poem, & more. jeremymichaelreed.beehiiv.com/p/february-2...

Thrilled to have two pieces in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social!

Honored to be in this first issue with so many writers I admire. Please check out the issue - it's small and beautiful and a perfect one-sit read. Thanks to @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social for his hard work in curating a new space for writers.

Really grateful to have a poem in the debut issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social ! Big thanks to @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social for including me! 👇🏻

Cannot be more excited for Issue One to be out for everyone to read! Incredible, incredible work here from @mollyakin.bsky.social @jackbedell.bsky.social @amorak.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social & more!

Spending time with this new poem by @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social in @newyorker.com this morning

Mouth comes out this week.

Did you know the incredible @riverriverbooks.bsky.social has all their spring poetry titles up for preorder? If not, or if you haven't read all their past books yet, here's where to go. I can't recommend their books highly enough! riverriverbooks.org/store/

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

One of my great joys this year has been launching Tiny Cat Press (tinycatpress.com), which will focus on handmade, limited-edition chaps. I'm already itching to find the next tiny book to make! (But I just started a semester, so maybe that's a bad idea right this minute.)

Just realizing 2026 for @ndbooks.bsky.social includes another of their Pessoa series (!!), a new Kamau Brathwaite (!!!) and a repub of all three parts of The Arrivants (!!!!) - I need to start saving now

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Poetry

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Autobiography

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Criticism

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction

Strange Horizons is still open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors! More info about this submission window: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... Submission guidelines: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti... We look forward to reading your stories!