Andrew Walker

Curating Your Personal Library in praise of browsing bookstores

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This week I wrote about the best way to spend your Saturday afternoons: browsing bookstores. Check it:

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MY HERESIES poems ALINA STEFANESCU

Happy #PubDay to Alina Stefanescu’s MY HERESIES!! In these poems, @alinaetc.bsky.social probes the boundaries the sacred and the profane—a hauntological mapping of life, love, family, and womanhood.

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Submit now or forever hold your peace. Only 1 day left to submit to the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize and the Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize!

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Fig Cartography by Jane Flett — Passages North Associate Poetry Editor Jenn McMahon on today’s bonus poem: Toeing an often unseen line between violence and romance, Jane Flett’s “Fig Cartography” is wonderfully bittersweet. Try as we might “not t...

Poetry Jenn McMahon on today’s bonus poem: "Exploring emotional entanglement further, in the final moments of the poem, Flett details the dance of attraction through the lens of complex bio mutualistic give and take."

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Form Rejection! On Your Birthday

I am BEGGING y’all to stop calling el*n’s fascist, propagandist rhetoric “whining.” Be serious for once in your life please

Green is one of my favorite colors and every year I fail to remember to wear green on Wear Green Day

An Interview with Sarah Minor, Judge of the 2025 Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize — Passages North Sarah Minor is a writer and interdisciplinary artist. She's the author of Carousel , forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2026, Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press ...

Check out our interview with Sarah Minor, judge of this year's Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize, conudcted by CNF/Hybrids associate editor, Barbra Lounsbury.

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We are still open for submission for our Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize judged by Diane Seuss! Enter your best poems for a chance to win some $$$ and publication in Passages North!

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Might save a life.

Democrats like Jeffries spent the entire election calling Trump a fascist threat to democracy and now they can’t figure out why people expect aggressive opposition

WE HESITATE The days to come are a watershed. You have to improve your portrait of God To make it plain. It is on the list, You and your bodies are on the line. The new past now unfurls like a great somber hope Above the treeline, like a giant’s hand Placed tentatively on the hurrying clouds. The basins come to be full and complex But it is not enough. Concern and embarrassment Grow rank. Once they have come home there is no cursing. Fires disturb the evening. No one can hear the story. Or sometimes people just forget Like a child. It took me months To get that discipline banned, and what is the use, To ban that? You remain a sane, yet sophisticated, person: Rooted in twilight, dreaming, a piece of traffic.

You have to improve your portrait of God

John Ashbery

Do you have a visually-striking essay? Or a formally-inventive memoir? Or even just a darn-good piece on velociraptors? You should submit it to our CNF contest! Subs open now until April 15

Check out our interview with Diane Seuss, judge of the 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize, conducted by Alex Watanen.

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JFK was 43 when he became president! We don't have to keep electing people in their 70s!

Thems fightin words

Gonna invent a word processing software with Poem Mode™️ which turns off grammar suggestions but only when you’re poeming.

Issue 46 of Passages North is now available!

Featuring work from Nancy Nguyen, May-lee Chai (翟梅莉), Steve Gergley, Will Musgrove, Allison Field Bell, Areej Quraishi, Kenton K. Yee, Matthew Tuckner, Mike Nagel, Acie Clark, Sara Mae, and many, many more!

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That’s right! Our poetry and nonfiction contests are NOW OPEN until April 15th!

Do I have any cigarettes? Oh, you mean NA weed?

In b4 dems start celebrating how many more people Biden’s migrant detainment centers held than Trump’s 🙃🙃🙃🙃

Sending acceptances for a lit mag is wild. What do you mean I get to make someone’s day with a simple lil email?? Magical.

Just wrote a poem I’m really happy with. Can’t wait to see how much of it I hate tomorrow.

A literary rejection? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within my Submittable?

Anyway read my essay “Stuff” in Black Warrior Review 50.2 if you’re into frustrating reads.

Ever since reading House of Leaves my one writing goal has been to make something that is good but mentally exhausting.

Sometimes an essay is a poem. Sometime, though less often, a short story is a poem. And sometimes, on those rare, cloudless nights, a poem, too, can be a poem.

Just spent the entire day writing*!

*thinking about clouds

Hey that’s me! I’m a workshop attendee!