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Self romancing is always the best!!!

I may have fainted when I read this amazing lineup!

Anti-Fascist Love Poem image, featuring the graphic of a black hand with red painted nails taking off its own handcuff. Text: Anti-Fascist Love Poem HAN VANDERHART DOMINIQUE AHKONG MICHAEL TODD COHEN Reading ADRIAN DALLAS FRANDLE JENNIFER A SUTHERLAND CATHERINE ROCKWOOD JOHNNY CORDOVA ELIZABETH SYLVIA RITA MOOKERJEE AMORAK HUEY ERIN VACHON TARA SHEA K. IVER Baltimore, MD Saturday, March 7|7-9pm Fells Point 1640 Thames Street (use entrance to: 1636)

You like love poems? Anti-Fascist love poems? Erin Vachon and I have been working on organizing this reading to take place during AWP this year—hope you can join us. @erinvachon.bsky.social 🖤 💪

Happy birthday, Todd! Hope you have a lovely, language-filled day. Also, this is an excellent Valentine's Day prompt!

We'd love to see what you're writing/making!

We love to hear it: contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was listed one of the TOP FIVE poetry collections of 2025 by @electricliterature.com! 👏 🎉

Joan Kwon Glass on the Jersey boardwalk, having just read Strike Sparks by Sharon Olds.

Today we're highlighting Joan Kwon Glass’ poem MASCOT from our JANUARY ISSUE. ✨ You can read about the inspiration behind her piece right here: buff.ly/SJABLw5

Thanks to Alina Stefanescu, author of MY HERESIES, for this dramatic reading from Guillermo Stitch's forthcoming THE COAST OF EVERYTHING. https://thecoastofe... Alina Stefanescu Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING

Thanks to @alinaetc.bsky.social  for this reading from @guillermostitch.bsky.social 's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, coming this Bloomsday.

DMV friends! I hope to see you on Wednesday at the Dupont Underground's Read the Room series! I'll be reading poems from my three books.

I just practiced and timed the set, but I'm open to requests, if you have them!

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Farm workers. The fields on the field. The legacies of slavery and colonialism—the sugar cane plantation, labor power, power crisis—despite it all, the future reaches through the tv to the past to make our postcolonial present.

The people of the Americas live on: seguimos aquí.

Today is the last day to enter to win a free, signed copy of Perforated through Goodreads!
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This week we're featuring Ruth Awad @ruthawad.bsky.social and her poem "East Palestine, Ohio" from our Special Issue OUT NOW! Be sure to check out the rest of her work and our Special Issue on our website, linked in bio!

This is so beautiful and gut-wrenching, Koss. So glad to have read it.

If this isn't overkill, here is the poem. Note I also have five micros and this is really a great issue, so be sure to read the whole thing! www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com

Oh no, I'm so sorry your day started with that.

Hi all! We are $226 away from meeting my birthday fundraiser goal. We are so damn close to reaching our $3k goal to establish the Harbor Editions Seaton Book Prize for LGBTQIA+ emerging writers & fund it for two years.

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Donna Vorreyer January Inquiries Is it cold where you are? Snow shurs off the roof and thunders to the pavement/and I am so cold I wear a hat in the house/I could turn up the heat but I'm being responsible/the first snow of the year/salt trucks overzealous in their sowing/crystals stuck in my shoes/the dog's paws/the snow wet and heavy/though not deep/thirty minutes was all it took to clear the driveway/without your help/and the sky has been so gray for days now/that I'm convinced the sun is dead/or at least in hiding/and if it doesn't show up soon/I may cry/it is winter/and you are not here Do I miss you? I wonder sometimes/does your body miss my body/when it's not next to yours/do you talk to the air when I'm not there/is my absence/a princess pea/a wooden splinter/a stone in your shoe/an itch you can't reach/or is it a Wile E Coyote shaped hole/an empty chair/a car stuck in the ditch/after sliding on the ice/off kilter and unable to move forward/and there, that's more proof that winter is here/ice imagery comes too easily/my Midwestern heart has always been filled with that cold/when you are not here When will you be home? Eight days isn't a long time/but with you gone/I feel myself collapsing like a black hole, burrowing into myself until I become pinprick/silent scream/incapable introvert/and I know I will see you soon/the space your body takes up in the house/in my hearm in my head refilled/and I am punch-drunk/honeysuckled/waiting to see you/because it is winter/and the sky is scribbled leac smeared charcoal/and you/ you will be my sun/my spark/my lantern/my warm warm light 12| SOUTH DAKOTA REVIEW

White Bold Text reading South Dakota Review across the top - Black Bold text reading 60.1 in the bottom right corner. Both are placed over a macro photo of a green leaf feathered with deep red with water droplets clinging to it.

Received my copies of South Dakota Review in today's mail containing two of my poems sharing space with some of my fave poets like Lauren Camp and Jessica Cuello. Here's one, a winter love poem written a while ago...

Congrats, my friend! I love Elegy at the Chain Bridge so very much!

Congrats to Todd Davis! And also to Runner’s Up Kaecey McCormick and Allison Field Bell. Congrats as well to my fellow finalists! Looking forward to being in the issue this spring.

Subscribers to my Substack receive The Writing Jar, weekly posts to support your writing practice. Today I shared a writing prompt based on a close reading of two poems. Subscribe today for access!
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Happy Pub Day to MORE FLOWERS! SUPPORT MINNESOTA! SUPPORT TRIO HOUSE PRESS! SUPPORT MORE FLOWERS! DONATE any amount to a cause in support of Minnesota or PRE-ORDER / ORDER any book or e-book from Trio House Press, DM me the receipt, and I'll send you a copy of MORE FLOWERS! Thank you for supporting people in crisis who matter deeply to me and for supporting a beloved Minneapolis-based publisher! Love and gratitude to all.

🌸 Happy Pub Day 🌸 to MORE FLOWERS! None of this happens alone & I’m grateful to so many for their support in bringing this book to life!

In honor of the release, I’d also like to offer some light where we need it most, so please consider donating or ordering a book from @triohousepress.org!

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Up the Staircase Quarterly a journal of poetry and art

Issue #72 has dropped over at www.upthestaircase.org ❄️

New poetry by Oliver Brooks, Emma Bolden, Kelli Dianne Rule, Alex Turissini, Angelique Zobitz, Meia Geddes, Angie Macri, Nicole Dufalla, Anya Kirshbaum, Aditi Bhattacharjee, Pamela Manche Pearce, and Natalie Zhang.

Have you signed up for Brandel's reading with Diane Seuss? Join us on Monday for some truly transcendent poetry.

that explains my bedroom.

i feel seen! they feel like a security blanket, too.

I totally get it. But glad to see you on here, miss your voice.

Hope you're doing okay, my friend. Your work always matters.

Also issue 2 and 3 are still on sale. I am actively reading for issue 4 so please send me amazing poems and tell other folks to send me amazing poems.

I will!

Burgundy colored flyer with rose-colored text that reads Save the Date, Offsite. On Purpose. Presented by SWWIM, MER, NELLE, Perugia Press, Whale Road Review, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry, Wednesday March 4th 7:00PM (Doors Open 6:30), Westminster Hall, 519 W. Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21201

SWWIM, MER, NELLE, Whale Road Review, Perugia Press, & Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry present “Off Site. On Purpose,” featuring many of today's most inspiring women poets! Join us for a night of life-affirming poetry on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM (doors 6:30 PM).

@merliterary.bsky.social