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Congratulations to SWWIMer Amy Lemmon on today's feature on @slowdownshow.org! "Poem about everything except—" was originally published in SWWIM Every Day: www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...

SWWIM Weekly Spotlight Literary Magazines Dear Booze Ann Cefola Esther Poetry Journal Susan Aizenberg, Clayre Benzadón, Maya Bernstein, Susan Michele Coronel, Jessica de Koninck, Lesléa Newman, Rebekah Wolman ONE ART: a journal of poetry Sara Ries Dziekonski, Gloria Heffernan, Talia Pinzari OxMag Jen Karetnick* Posit Genevieve Kaplan River Teeth Emma Bolden, Jenny Molberg Shenandoah Sayuri Matsuura Ayers, Susanna Rich Sky Island Journal Bex Hainsworth, Katy Luxem South Florida Poetry Journal Devon Balwit, Merrill Oliver Douglas, Liz Grisaru, Olga Livshin Swing Suzanne Frischkorn, Jessica Lee

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM Literary Magazines 3Elements Literary Review Devon Balwit, KT Herr, Shannon K. Winston Variant Lit Arielle Kaplan, Grace H. Zhou, Jane Zwart Awards 2025 Helena Whitehill Book Award Finalists: Kylie Q. Gallatly; Semi-Finalists: Ellene Glenn Moore RHINO 2026 Founders' Prize Runner-Up: Liz Ahl Riot in Your Throat Open Reading Period Winner: Sonia Greenfield Books Texas A&M University Press Caridad Moro-Gronlier*, Through the Lens Features & Columns Electric Lit Lolita Stewart-White

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM Features & Columns Poetry Foundation Jennifer Jean Second Coming Lynn McGee tweetspeak Betsy Mars University of Arizona Poetry Center blog Trish Hopkinson Reviews North American Review Reviewed: Susan Rich *SWWIM Every Day Editor **SWWIM Every Day Staff

Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts!

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Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/2/27/harvest

Image of two hands clasped tightly with the quote in bright yellow "Every prayer is a gentle wish for a time machine" by Marion Wrenn

From “Harvest” by Marion Wrenn

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Flyer in shades of pink, ivory, and red that says Breakfast Club with Radar and SWWIM, Friday March 6, 8:00AM, Bistro 300, Hyatt Regency, Baltimore Inner Harbor, *Free to attend, each poet covers the cost of their own breakfast. Logos of Radar Poetry and SWWIM.

Remember to mark your calendars for our AWP offsite Breakfast Club with Radar and SWWIM on Friday, March 6th at 8:00 AM. Join us at Bistro 300 located in the Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor. Free to attend. Each poet covers the cost of their own breakfast.

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Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/2/26/audiometry

Image of rushing clouds through a dark blue sky with the quote in pale blue "The air chooses which sounds to swallow into its vanishing mouth" by Rachel Becker

From “Audiometry” by Rachel Becker

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Poem excerpt ”Delight and fear twinned in our hearts.” Image: Two girls silhouetted under a streetlamp.

Thank you @swwim.bsky.social for publishing this poem today, and for all they do for writers and writing. 🙏❤️

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/2/25/susan-gone

Image of two women standing beneath an orange light on cobblestone reflecting light and the quote in bright yellow "Delight and fear twinned in our hearts" by Veronica Kornberg

From “Susan, Gone” by Veronica Kornberg @vkornberg.bsky.social

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Admissions is free. Cash bar available.

❤️ This year’s Offsite. On Purpose. is dedicated in loving memory to Jennifer Martelli (1962-2025).

#SWWIMWithUs #NELLE #MER #PerugiaPress #WhaleRoadReview #CultivatingVoicesLIVEPoetry #Baltimore #womenpoets #AWP #AWP26 #Offsitereading #OffsiteOnPurpose

SWWIM, MER, NELLE, Whale Road Review, Perugia Press, & Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry present “Off Site. On Purpose,” a night of life-affirming poetry on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 7:00 PM (doors open at 6:30), Westminster Hall, 519 W. Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.

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SWWIM Readers Eggie, Leila Farjami, Dani Janae, Arden Levine, and Susan Rich with photos of each poet.

THE READERS SWWIM Eggie Leila Farjami Dani Janae Arden Levine Susan Rich MER Eileen Cleary Jennifer Militello Carla Panciera Donna Vorreyer Karolina Zapal NELLE Saara Myrene Raappana (read by Halley M. Cotton) Zoë Ryder White Melissa Crowe Maria Nazos Kate Northrop Perugia Press Catherine Anderson Nancy K. Pearson Abby E. Murray Carolina Hotchandani Holli Carrell Whale Road Review Ashley Hajimirsadeghi Sally Rosen Kindred Annie Marhefka Yamini Pathak Jessica L. Walsh Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Jen Cheng Anya Kirshbaum Janet MacFadyen Dorsía Smith Silva Mona Zamfirescu

SWWIM MER NELLE Perugia Press Whale Road Review Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Present Off Site. On Purpose. dedicated in loving memory to Jennifer Martelli (image of red rose) A reading featuring many of today's most inspiring women & nonbinary writers & poets Wednesday, March 4th 7:00PM (Doors 6:30) Westminster Hall 519 W. Fayette Street Baltimore, MD 21201 #AWP26

We are thrilled to highlight these five brilliant and talented SWWIM poets, as well as the wonderful readers of our partner organizations, at the upcoming “Off Site. On Purpose” reading next week in Baltimore.

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/2/24/how-to-reach-the-moon-by-folding

Image of mathematical equations on a chalboard in blue and purple ink with a quote in pale blue "We are all imperfect logic, math-matched" by Sarah Ann Winn

From “How to Reach the Moon by Folding” by Sarah Ann Winn @poetcamp.bsky.social

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Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/2/23/freud-with-his-family-at-home

Image of watercolor tray in bright colors with a wide brush and a quote in bright blue "on Tuesday we were painting with watercolors making fish faces" by Doritt Carroll

From “Freud with his family at home” by Doritt Carroll

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❤️ Thank you so much for sharing.

This poem is so spot-on sensual, so a perfect moment, a gray day at the beach, I can feel the delicious weight in my belly at the denouement.

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM Literary Magazines Anacapa Review Tresha Faye Haefner, Jen Karetnick*, Kathleen McGookey, Lindsay Rockwell Anti-Heroin Chic Sherry Abaldo, Ellen Austin-Li, Sara Eddy, Valentina Gnup, Nancy Huggett, Megan Merchant, Rachel Neve-Midbar, Kelly R. Samuels, Merna Dyer Skinner, Angela Sucich Blackbox Manifold Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, David Eileen, Shara McCallum Ezra Ann Cefola The Margins Jia-Rui Cook New Verse News Susan Cohen** ONE ART: a journal of poetry Sarah Carey, Valentina Gnup, Betsy Mars, Marjorie Maddox Pithead Chapel Patricia Caspers

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM Literary Magazines PLUME Kelli Russell Agodon, Patricia Clark, Kelle Groom, Leah Umansky Prairie Schooner Lolita Stewart-White River Heron Review Liz Ahl, Tresha Faye Haefner, Judy Kaber, Candice Kelsey, Iris Rosenberg, Rose Strode Shot Glass Journal Holiday Noel Campanella Terrain.org Suzanne Edison Vox Populi Cynthia Atkins Awards 2025 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry Winner: Jia-Rui Cook 2025 River Heron Editors Prize Finalist: Annette Sisson Books Tupelo Press Other Paths for Shahrazad: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Arab Women, Editor: Jennifer Jean

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM Features & Columns Autumn Sky Poetry Daily Laura Foley Second Coming Ruth Hoberman Reviews PLUME Reviewer: Elizabeth Sylvia ** tweetspeak Sarah Carey Interviews PLUME Lauren Camp Southern Review of Books Lolita Stewart-White Terrain.org Elizabeth Jacobson *SWWIM Every Day Editor **SWWIM Every Day Staff

Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts!

#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #ItsLit #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/2/20/the-boy

Silhouette of a boy on a bicycle against a dark blue sky with a quote in pale yellow "the boy doesn't believe in worship" by Shlagha Borah

From “the boy” by Shlagha Borah

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Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/2/19/pareidolia

Image of vast ocean scene beneath bright wisps of cloud with the back of a woman standing looking out in a swimsuit and a quote in pale blue "the blasé hand of youth flipping the bird to my future self" by Jodi Balas

From “Pareidolia” by Jodi Balas

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Yay!!! We're so excited.

Oh hey — it’s the woman who writes “ope!” on her annotations of my poems! Gwenyth Wheat, a near-perfect human, has a beautiful piece at SWWIM Everyday today 💛

I can't wait to kick off my AWP at this reading!

Westminster Hall*, 519 W. Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. Admission is free. Cash bar available.

*A former Presbyterian church, Westminster Hall and Burying Ground is an historic site and the resting place of Edgar Allan Poe (and others).

❤️ This year’s Offsite. On Purpose. is dedicated in loving memory to Jennifer Martelli (1962-2025), our friend & colleague, one of the founders of this annual reading, a fierce advocate for poetry, dedicated to progressive causes, & a brilliant poet.

A pale pink flyer with text in crimson red that says "SWWIM, MER, NELLE, Perugia Press, Whale Road Review, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Present OFFSITE. ON PURPOSE. dedicated in loving memory to Jennifer Martelli" An image of a red rose followed by text that reads "A reading featuring many of today's most inspiring women & nonbinary writers & poets, Wednesday, March 4th 7:00 PM (Doors 6:30), Westminster Hall, 519 W. Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 #AWP26"

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 open at 6:30 PM).