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Have had these amazing poems open in a tab for days. ❤️

from "Winter Math" On winter days my ankle is a lake of snow, blue, deep, cold and ravenous, a school of tiny fish that rise now and then to sip the air but never take the line for fear it's baited. Jennifer A Sutherland in Issue ll oi Biscuit Hill

River River author @jasutherland.bsky.social has two new poems in Issue #11 of Biscuit Hill!

Read both here: www.thebiscuithill.com/issue11

Plan on putting your flannel pants on, making a cup of hot cocoa, and joining us for POETRY tonight! 🌙 ❄️ Extra points if you bring your needlework 🙏🥰🪡

Bookstore Bookstore selling contemporary poetry collections published by River River Books.

Post office run todaaay! 📚💙🎉 Prize submissions, review copies, two book drawings.

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They should look into financializing labor again by paying a people a living wage

We love this, too 🥰🎉🎉🎉 Congrats, Chiara!!!

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🥰🙏🎉🎉🎉 Loved working on it with you, Zoë, and sooo excited for The Visible Field to be in the world!!!

I’m utterly smitten with this press and this cover. Lucky me, and thank you, @riverriverbooks.bsky.social and @albanfischer.bsky.social 💙💙💙

E.G. Cunningham’s Field Notes, a book of poems with an expansive landscape photograph on its cover, held in front of my cluttered kitchen counter and purple chrysanthemums, pomander balls, sunglasses, kids melatonin, etc

Also, hello from my cluttered kitchen counter. I have two (2) copies of Field Notes that received VERY light rain damage on the lower back pages in transit home from Punch Bucket Lit, so they cannot be sold, but I’d love to send them out as review copies.

Holler at me me if you’d like one. —Han

Congratulations @fakeourway.bsky.social and @katebbeall.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 DM us your address and which book you’d like 🙏💙📚

🥰🙏🎉🎉 (Thank you, Donna!!)

Gorgeous cover, once again @albanfischer.bsky.social ! I can't wait for this one. Congrats, @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social!

"When I was an envelope, I enclosed / a red scrap," Zoë Ryder White writes with her subtle grace. In The Visible Field, we see that the book itself is a casing which hides within itself a field of study: of a life, with its landscapes, children, friends and memories and confinements. Here is hidden vision, given to us by a specific poet, whose eye is generous and playful, who coaxes the readers to question the messiness of the whole business of language. "To read out of order / is to arrange one's affection / deliberately," one poem posits in its dissolution of the object of a book. I will continue ponder the idiosyncratic wisdoms of these poems. —Bianca Stone, author of The Near and Distant World

Bianca Stone on The Visible Field

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The Visible Field moves with boundless enthusiasm for each moment's last burnishing. These poems let you curl into a space you didn't know existed yet somehow expected. Let's call it the visible field of imagination. Zoë Ryder White knows how to get there. She writes, "The people in me keep me / up late talking, sometimes / laughing, carrying on." Every line is a chance to be curious by "the world, shucked, the world / inside the world." -Lauren Camp, author of An Eye in Each Square

Lauren Camp on The Visible Field

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Zoë Ryder White's poems are strong and vital and astonishingly satisfying and they are satisfying not only in their ease of movement from the real world to the symbolic one, their genius for metaphoric transformation, the narrative verve they display, their deep, visually alert representations of nature, their rhetorical keenness and toughness, but also, and most vitally, in their psychological transparency and intimacy. A spectacular book that can be read and read and read again. —Vijay Seshadri, author of That Was Now, This Is Then, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Vijay Seshadri on The Visible Field

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Dark blue cover with pale blue flowers and botanicals, like photo-sensitive paper. White lettering of title and author’s name: THE VISIBLE FIELD Zoe Ryder White

Good morning to our newest cover:
The Visible Field by Zoë Ryder White, design by Alban Fischer! 📚🎉 ✨

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River River Books' Newsletter Poetry news from your favorite micro poetry press, co-edited by Amorak Huey and Han VanderHart.

Your morning reminder that we have a newsletter with cover reveals, coupon codes, author interviews, and more 📚💙

I loved Gina Myers's WORKS AND DAYS, a long poem from the edge of late capitalism. I also just finished Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove which is exquisite and which I started in January and had to put away for a while.

Update: editor had a migraine last night, drawing today! 📚📚📚

Actually going to do an old-fashioned names-in-a-hat draw. Because we grow very weary of letting machines choose numbers for us.

I can’t decide if “enjoy” is the right word for how I feel about this book, but it’s hypnotizing me for sure.

We’ll select two winners later today! 🍂

Shop local and support your independent bookstores and presses 💙📚🙏🥰 We’ll ship to you for free!

Your TBR stack is calling you, it’s whispers like tendrils of ivy. That book on the moon. The graphic novel. Those new poetry books. The Sally Rooney novel you started at the airport 👀📚💙

Don’t buy anything today. ✊

Read a book. Rest as much as you can.

(Write a list of things to buy later.)

#nobuy #blackfriday 📚💙

Oooh! Love expansive ekphrasis work 🙏❤️