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Five Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Marsh grass bows in the breeze.
A slow boat drones on the river.
The moon rises to a first star.
How could writing
Ever lead to anything?”

Read five new poems by Joseph Torra on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...

Sex Positive Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Lauren called me a “femcel” today. I’m just from a conservative household. They didn’t let me eat M&Ms until I was ten.”

Read new fiction by Iris Lee on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/sex-...

Don't Worry About Donald Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“You never heard anything like it. She was screaming screams like off this earth and Russell gave her his shirt and she just kept screaming and screaming.”

Today on R&R, read another new story by Dale Herd (1940-2026):

www.relegationbooks.com/article/don-...

And if you’re going to the #AWP26 Bookfair (open to the public in Baltimore for $25 on Saturday), stop by the Relegation Books booth T708 for some very limited edition merch, including @rnrmagazine.bsky.social tees, as well as lots of copies of The Relegation Reader, and more!

#booksky

cc @coffeehousepress.bsky.social

At the Blue Fox Inn Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I’d never done anything like this before. Berg cheated on his wife all the time. Now I was going to be just as bad as Berg.”

It’s Dale Herd (1940-2026) week on R&R. We’ll have two new Herd stories on the site, beginning today with “At the Blue Fox Inn”:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/at-t...

The Dog Wants to Fuck My Leg Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I am a man. I am an average man. I am the most average-looking man on planet Earth. When I walk outside, no one pays any attention to me.”

Read new fiction by Guillaume Morissette (@anxietyissue.bsky.social) on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/the-...

Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“ther ar pot holes on
th road 2 heven

or at leest

sum lips in th
concrete that ar mor
thn eliptikul”

Read three new poems by bill bissett on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“The older man is bald, wears a grey suit and tie, is a bit shorter than the others. They have identical noses. Not one of them wears underwear. And their hairy scrotums brush the insides of their hairy legs.”

Read three new poems by Michael Earl Craig:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“The older man is bald, wears a grey suit and tie, is a bit shorter than the others. They have identical noses. Not one of them wears underwear. And their hairy scrotums brush the insides of their hairy legs.”

Read three new poems by Michael Earl Craig:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

I have three poems in the new issue of the Southwest Review (@southwestreview.bsky.social). Here is one of them.

Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“two legs converged in a hazel wood and I
I let myself be swallowed by
coniference.”

Read three new poems Sophia Dahlin on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

some praise for Robert Ward:

Traffic School Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“It was funny when you heard a random siren. Didn’t bother you at all. But when you knew the siren was calling your name, it cut through your chest, and swirled around inside you like a bullet.”

Read new fiction by Robert Ward on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/traf...

Planning on being in Baltimore for #AWP26? I’ll be at the Relegation Books booth with copies of The Relegation Reader, international contemporary literary fiction (Roundabout, The Trees), @rnrmagazine.bsky.social tees with a poem by Baltimore poet Donald Berger on them and more! Stop by & say hello.

Three Stories Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“And then it all made sense on the afternoon of Pearl Harbor Day, as I watched her sitting in the bay window eating a cluster of green grapes.”

Read three new stories by Stephen Mortland (@stephenmortland.bsky.social) on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

Trickle Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“No one knows how it happened. But it happened.”

Read new fiction by Jessica Westhead on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/tric...

Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

““Do you grow up as I walk away,
Or fade out into another world?
I don’t recall you saying much about it.”

Read three new poems by Michael Wolfe on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I want to cry and sneeze at the same time I'm weird but without motives.”

Read four new poems by John Coletti on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

Seven Stories Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“The first thing she hears in the morning (the sound that always wakes her up) is the typewriter in her husband’s study. But when she opens her eyes she sees him sleeping next to her.”

Read new stories by Ariel Magnus, trans. from the Spanish by Kit Maude:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/seve...

Seven Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“That food bank was once a petrol station, which was once a field where my sister looked after a horse. Mostly she just brushed it and blew softly into its nose. Some horses like that.”

Read seven new poems by James Brown:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/seve...

Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

Thrilled to have four new poems up on R&R, a really beautiful online literary journal!

www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Do you like the way I have divided
this poem into six-line stanzas,
to give it more gravitas? Serious
poets divide their poems into
stanzas.”

Read four new poems by Stuart Ross (@razovsky.bsky.social) on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“A voice jumped out of a device that you had thought you had turned off. Stuff like that happens a lot these days. Just waiting for the pin to drop. Or bomb.”

Read four new poems by Gillian McCain on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

Mr. Mayor Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I liked the sound the school copier made. Sometimes when I needed to clear my head, I made blank copies or copies with a single word—‘apple’ maybe, or ‘petroleum.’”

Read new fiction by Dalton Monk on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/mr-m...

Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“You love poetry and baseball--are they like one another?

They both get you used to something--and then comes a surprise. You love it.”

Read three new poems by Canada’s first Poet Laureate, George Bowering:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

A Robbery Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Someone cleared their throat. I looked southwest toward the promise of a never-ending day, then we all grimaced up at the sky that now seemed to be pressing down on us like the stubborn lid of some overfilled thing.”

Read new fiction by Corey Lof on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/a-ro...

Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“sitting among the old men
each singular at his own table
separated by empty chairs
unwrapping Burger King Whoppers
my Burger is Impossible”

Read four new poems by Bob Rosenthal:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

Five poems up today via R&R.
Many thanks to the brilliant editor, @josephgrantham.bsky.social!

Five Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

ICYMI— five new poems of mine are up over at @rnrmagazine.bsky.social!
www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...