ONE WEEK left to apply to the 2026 Summer Poetry Teachers Institute!
📒 FREE professional development
📒 Open to K–12 teachers and community college educators
📒 Runs July 13–17, 2026 in Chicago, IL
Deadline: March 20
Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends https://theonion.com/crab-just-happy-to-be-in-bucket-with-all-his-friends/
Yeah, AWP was chill. Why do you ask?
me: writers you admire are just people. you can talk to them. it’s really OK.
also me:
CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S./Israeli airstrikes.
The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.
Oh what a night! Thank you to everyone who came out to our offsite. Special thanks to all of the talented readers and brave open mic folks. #AWP26
Once again, Baltimore rules. 💅
Hey, AWPeople! Tonight is our shared reading and open mic with these wonderful writers and partner publications.
We know your dance cards are pretty full, so save a waltz for us! 🦏 #AWP #AWP26
[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]
Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
Unfortunately, I went to multiple shops that had way cool clothes, but not in fat people sizes; as a result, I will go back to being the same kind of evil I was at 13. Apologies.
Best of Chicago is out now! Check out this year's ballot winners voted on by nearly 40,000 Chicagoans in over 200 categories. 🏆 chicagoreader.com/best
Been in Baltimore 36 hours, and have seen some of the most kickass walking sticks and canes of my life. Hell yeah.
Submissions for issue 22 (autumn/winter 2026) are now open until 31 March! We’re looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays ✨
bansheepress.org/submit
On International Sex Worker Rights Day, we honor sex worker leadership everywhere. The Sex Worker Giving Circle at Third Wave Fund has opened our 2026 grant cycle!
Apply by April 2 for 2-year grants of $35K/year. Learn more & apply: bit.ly/swgc2026 #InternationalSexWorkerRightsDay #SWGivingCircle
In a country where nearly 40 percent of fourth graders struggle to read at even a basic level, Steubenville, Ohio, has succeeded in teaching virtually all of its students to read well.
The young writers of Baltimore have wonderful recommendations for those of us visiting their home for #AWP26! Thank you all! 😍
Today's Feature:
"red-chested & unequivocally american" by Sabrina Siew from Black Warrior Review, #52.1
Read here:
poems.com/poem/red-che...
Just do yourself a favor and press play.
Friends, the @awpwriter.org conference is nearly upon us! Next Wednesday to be exact. 💗
Make sure to stop by Booth 1284 to spend some time with the RHINO crew, and our friends at Guild Literary Complex and @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social #AWP26
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.
Congratulations to the Ralph Hamilton Editors' Prize and Translation Prize winners! 🎉
🎉 Rani Ruado
🎉 Mickie Kennedy
🎉 Margaret Wack
🎉 Clara Burghelea, translating Ioana Vintilă
All of these poems are in the 50th Anniversary issue of RHINO, and they're available to read early on our website!
“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit
you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table
you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from
This Ramadan, this Lent, this last stretch of cold before spring, we can reach out to each other.
Please join us in congratulating our Founders' Prize winners, selected by Guest Judge Matthew Olzmann!
🎉 “There Are Lights to Turn On After Dusk” by Lindsey Wayland
🎉 "What grieving is or returning home after the flood" by Sara Cooper
🎉 "You Try To Fix It" by Liz Ahl @surlyacres.bsky.social
The crash met last weekend to plan for 2026 being RHINO’s 50th ANNIVERSARY! 👏🥳🦏
We have a lot of exciting ideas and big plans. We can’t do it without you, so get your party clothes ready!
Punxsutawney Phil predicted humanity would annihilate itself through tribalism and environmental indifference
