“America, aromatic // with ravages.” Lauren Camp, An Eye in Each Square riverriverbooks.org/store

It’s blurb request time for There Is News Along the Ohio River, a hybrid flash CNF collection forthcoming from @riverriverbooks in February. It’s a quick & I hope, impactful read about my life & life in general at the Kentucky/Indiana border/ Louisville from 2020-2022. Details below. HMU.

Jameela F. Dallis reading from Encounters for the Living and the Dead at So and So Books in Raleigh, last night! 💙📚🎉 We had to place a second printing, two days after publication, because we were nearly out of books! 🎉🎉🎉 riverriverbooks.org/store

Just finished this book and. Wow. @riverriverbooks.bsky.social The way the poems shift their language in a parallel gesture to the ever changing photographs. So good!

Are you thinking about treating yourself to a book today? Here is my weekly reminder that Unrivered is now in pre-orders at @sundresspub.bsky.social - on sale for the price of a couple of fancy coffees - AND if you order soon, this little broadside swag included. tinyurl.com/4pj96v59

Perugia out here doing such good and beautiful work 🙏🎉🎉🎉 We are big fans. (We are POETRY BARN-SIZED FANS, haha 😉) @rholanderpoet.bsky.social

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

Still buzzing from connecting with writers and indie presses at the Punch Bucket Lit festival in Asheville this Saturday. @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social Jakeela Dallis Kelly Riedesel Loblolly Press.

In return, I am so very much over-the-moon by this amazingly kind reception of the review!

Oh so very much over-the-moon by this lovely & attentive first review of Jameela F. Dallis’s Encounters for the Living and the Dead by Lillian Durr in @dogyardmag.com 💙📚🎉 Read review in full here! 👉 www.dogyardmag.com

Small press books are such a joy—Animal Heart Press, Loblolly Press, Belle Point Press here! 📚💙 “formed by the grit / of the heart” indeed. I cannot say how important it is to support small presses right now directly. Many have alternative distribution models; they are the life of literature.

Thrilled I got to be there tonight to celebrate one of my dearest friends in the world as she launched her first book into the world! Congratulations, Jameela Dallis on ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social)!

Found friend of the press @tomsnarsky.bsky.social’s new at @animalheartpress.bsky.social along with @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social 🥰🙏💙🎉🎉

Three more pieces from There Is News Along the Ohio River (forthcoming Feb ‘26 from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social) got picked up! The world is terrible but this week the things I’ve made (both word and food-related) have gotten some love.

Come see us at #PunchBucketLit! riverriverbooks.org/store

Note: our table will have KN95s at #PunchBucketLit book fair tomorrow!

We are soo happy for the wonderful interview with Jameela F. Dallis in the @indyweek.bsky.social! 🎉🎉 (Thanks to interviewer Shelbi Polk and editor Sarah Edwards!) Come hear Jameela read at her launch this Sunday at Delafia wine bar, and get your copy of Encounters signed! riverriverbooks.org/store

Y’all keeping us busy with the poetry preorders 🙏🥰 Thank you! 📚💙 riverriverbooks.org/store

We are soo happy for the wonderful interview with Jameela F. Dallis in the @indyweek.bsky.social! 🎉🎉 (Thanks to interviewer Shelbi Polk and editor Sarah Edwards!) Come hear Jameela read at her launch this Sunday at Delafia wine bar, and get your copy of Encounters signed! riverriverbooks.org/store

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

One of the unpublished pieces from my forthcoming hybrid/flash CNF book (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social) got picked up. I haven’t sent work out in awhile. I haven’t been able to work on any of MY writing for awhile. This country is a right wing fascist hellscape I’d like to leave so idk how to feel.

Maryland writers! Event with @riverriverbooks.bsky.social author @jasutherland.bsky.social and @markdanowsky.bsky.social! 💙📚 ✍️ LIT PANEL / WORKSHOP SATURDAY 9.27 11am MOUNTAIN CITY TRADITIONAL ARTS 25 E MAIN ST., FROSTBURG, MD WHAT WORK IS: WRITERS ON LABOR AND INJUSTICE.

Right? Credit the author and tag the press and it’s all good. I can’t think of any small press that doesn’t 💛 this. It’s the opposite of copyright infringement—it’s word of mouth publicity and there’s nothing better! ✨

Do presses like it when you share photos of their books? Poems? Pages? Interiors? THIS PRESS DOES 💙💙💙 Good lord, tag us and let us know and thank youuuu 🥰🙏🎉🎉🎉

Not to brag (this is a brag) but all our preorders are at the post office! Expect POEMS IN YOUR MAILBOX! 🌊 🌊 📚 riverriverbooks.org/store

We did it! We will have all our preorders out tomorrow 🌊 🌊 📚 Expect fresh poetry this week, readers. riverriverbooks.org/store

Props to the poetry reader who ordered themselves a beautiful book and when prompted to input the addressee wrote “me” in the order field. Yes! You! Poems for you! 🌊 🌊📚💙

Our author @egcunningham.bsky.social unboxes FIELD NOTES! 🌾✨ Watch: www.instagram.com/reel/DOhKwEO... Purchase: riverriverbooks.org/store

Looking forward to PUNCH BUCKET LIT, next week! Come by and see us, Asheville folks. 📚💙 www.punchbucketlit.org/festival-2025

Thanks @riverriverbooks.bsky.social . My classroom just got a bit cooler

And on SEPTEMBER 21, Jameela Dallis is having a launch party to celebrate the arrival of her debut poetry collection, ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD 🎉🎉🎉 Delafia wine bar, 6pm Reading & book signing 5pm seasonal pop up by chef Phoebe Lawless Hope to see you there, Durham! 🍂 ✨

Reading with Jameela F. Dallis and Erin L. Miller on September 25, 7pm, at So & So Books in Raleigh—hope to see y’all there! 📚💙 facebook.com/events/s/poe...

Behind-the-scenes action shot as we begin shipping preorders of Encounters for the Living and the Dead! Press pup sleeping like a good boy. riverriverbooks.org/store

This review is everything poetry readers, writers, and editors could ask for in a review—generous, astute, understanding of larger conceptual frameworks through which the individual poems move 🙏💙 We are so, so grateful to Melissa Crowe for this gift of attention. www.bearreview.com/bear-reviews...

Find Joe Wilkins’ Pastoral, 1994 here: riverriverbooks.org/store

Having recently read the collection, really enjoyed listening to this on the drive to and from school this week. Among other things, carrying some new thoughts on sonnet form into the classroom. Thanks, Joe and @hanvanderhart.bsky.social!

Perhaps you would like a visual peek inside FIELD NOTES by E.G. Cunningham 🌾 Preorder today: riverriverbooks.org/store @egcunningham.bsky.social

“Juxtaposition as rhetoric, the tension of the quick turn—over and over, Williamson makes the most of poetry’s moves to say more than she says, to make me feel and then to think.” —Melissa Crowe review Corrie Williamson’s Your Mother’s Bear Gun in Bear Review @melissacrowe.bsky.social

Our 2025 titles—love how beautiful the spines of our books are 🥰🙏💙📚 🌊 🌊 riverriverbooks.org/store

It’s gonna be gorgeous (it’s already gorgeous 🥰🙏💙 🌊 🌊) @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

We are planning on being at Punch Bucket Lit this year, y’all, and will be bringing some of these sweet posters with us, in case you’d like one 🌊 🌊📚💙

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Our Fall 2025 broadside have arrived, and they are SO PRETTY! 🥰🎉🎉 They feature the work of @egcunningham.bsky.social and Jameela F. Dallis, from Field Notes and Encounters for the Living and the Dead, respectively, both forthcoming next month! Preorder your bundle here: riverriverbooks.org/store/

Tabling today at Poets’ Playground, Boxyard RTP. Come by and say hi, be laden with stickers, read a poem, talk with Han 💜💜💜 riverriverbooks.org/store/

I am so excited to have a book coming out with @riverriverbooks.bsky.social !

Our summer 2025 Open Reading Period selections are here! These manuscripts absolutely astonished us—we can’t wait for you to read them. Coming to you in Fall 2026 and Spring 2027 🎉🎉🎉 @carolynroliver.bsky.social @mirandeb.bsky.social riverriverbooks.org/store/

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