River River Books

A copy of There is News Along the Ohio River by Beth Go strap next to a pink axolotl puppet

There's an axolotl to love about @bettysueblue.bsky.social incredible book!

[The dream says it’s more stripper] by Zoë Ryder White "You bring the tea cake, the sweet demeanor."

"See how it compensates?
It gets sloppy. It spills
down its bra. It’s sticky. It howls.
Milkweed. Remember?
You’ll be enmeshed soon."

River River poet @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social with a poem at Only Poems today -- www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-dream-...

ELECTRIC LIT screenshot featuring cover of Preeti Vangani’s FIFTY MOTHERS and the text: airplanes, share a plate of vada sambar, with her voice urging us on, teasing us, keeping us rooted in the living: FIFTY MOTHERS POEMS PREETI ANGANIC My first book, Mother Tongue Apologize, contained poems that were tightly tied to the moment of my mother's passing: Those poems felt raw, hot, and urgent to write.

“An elegy, D. A. Powell writes in an essay titled ‘Structures of the Elegy,’ is a ‘paradise of remembering.’”

—Preeti Vangani, for @electricliterature.com
@preetivangani.bsky.social 📚💙

Read “7 Poetry Books That Expand What an Elegy Can Look Like” here: electricliterature.com/7-poetry-boo...

Amazing to see so many Shō contributors and the journal’s incredible editors! 🥰🙏🎉💙📚

Humungous stack of books (spine view)

Entrance to awp bookfair: banner above it, people milling, rushing, entering, coming out

Stickers, notebooks, bookmarks on colorful nylon bag

River River Books' table at the bookfair: greenish blue covering saying River River Books in big lettering and their double zigzag logo below. The table is covered in stacks of books. To its left stands a vertical banner announcing River River Books and there logo on blue wavy ground

Got a few (🫣) books & had a wonderful time at #AWP26. Still drunk from it all. 😵‍💫🤩🙃🥰
Thank you again @riverriverbooks.bsky.social for hosting my book & for being the kindest homebase. 🫶

Room full of beautiful folks. Jen Rouse reading. Adrian Dallas Frandle, Michael Todd Cohen and Anthony Garret in foreground. Johnny Cordova center of room. Slight fish-eye lends.

Anti-Fascist Love Poem reading was so good, y’all—sometimes readings are about caring for each other with our words 📚❤️🙏 Thankful for every poet and guest…the room was so full of love & support & yes: QUEERS & lovers!

We sold out of SEVEN BOOKS! Whew! 📚❤️🔥🎉

Han and Amorak leaving the bookfair, book roller bags in tow. Happy & tired. Taken by Jameela F. Dallis.

We sold 175 books! Our bags were light! THANK YOU to our amazing authors, friends of the press, and folks who stopped by to chat 📚💙 We couldn’t do this without our community. What a joy y’all are! Seriously, every kind word means the world to us. Y’all made our AWP!

—Han & Amorak

Anti-Fascist Love Poem Reading JENNIFER A SUTHERLAND CATHERINE ROCKWOOD Reading ADRIAN DALLAS FRANDLE MICHAEL TODD COHEN CARLA SOFIA FERREIRA DOMINIQUE AHKONG HAN VANDERHART JOHNNY CORDOVA ELIZABETH SYLVIA AMORAK HUEY ERIN VACHON JEN ROUSE K. IVER Off Site Baltimore Saturday, March 7|79pm Fells Point | 1640 Thames Street use entrance to: 1636)

TONIGHT, BALTIMORE! #AWP2026

7-9pm 🎉🎉🎉

Millie Tullis book signing

😍🙏🎉🎉🎉 @millietullis.bsky.social

Millie Tullis holding their book at River River table

Millie Tullis is signing THESE SAINTS ARE STONES at table 756! Come through! 📚💙🎉

@millietullis.bsky.social

@esylviapoet.bsky.social @preetivangani.bsky.social @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @bettysueblue.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

Elizabeth Sylvia, Preeti Vangani, J.D. Ho, Zoe Ryder White, Beth Gilstrap, Jameela F. Dallis, standing in a row and laughing/smiling together

River River Books authors at the co-reading with Blair last night! Many thanks to @stevenleyva.bsky.social and University of Baltimore for hosting us!

🥰🙏🎉🎉

What???😍😍 thank you to everyone who bought a copy!

Jennifer Sutherland signing at the River River table

Jennifer A Sutherland is signing at our table! 756! Get your copy of HOUSE OF MYTH AND NECESSITY 📚💙🎉

@jasutherland.bsky.social

J.D. Ho and Han VanderHart at AWP

Yeah we’re cute and gay and SELLING BOOKS 📚❤️🎉 @nematode.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

Noon-1pm! Come meet J.D. Ho! 😊🙏📚🎉🎉🎉

J.D. Ho at the River River table

J.D. Ho is signing BACKYARD ALCHEMY: on life with other creatures in a time of salvage. at our table—756! 📚💙🎉

@nematode.bsky.social

Beth Gilstrap signing her book

Beth! Is! Signing! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Beth at the River River table

Beth Gilstrap is signing THERE IS NEWS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER at table 756 11-12pm! Happening now! 📚💙📚

@bettysueblue.bsky.social

Scythe by Elizabeth Sylvia

Our best seller yesterday! 📚💙🎉

Five (5!) copies remaining today of @esylviapoet.bsky.social’s Scythe!

The Visible Field by Zoe Ryder White

Our first sale of AWP yesterday! 📚💙🎉

@zoeryderwhite.bsky.social

Zoe Ryder White in a teal top and bright red beanie

Burgi holding a copy of White Door

Zoe Ryder White is signing THE VISIBLE FIELD, and Burgi Zenhaeusern is signing WHITE DOOR at table 756 📚💙 Until 4pm!

This is a very good book.

Carla Sofia Ferreira in a blue floral dress standing with her book A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us

Carla Sofia Ferreira is now signing at our table (756)! 📚❤️🎉🎉

Table 756! 📚❤️ 🌊 🌊

Elizabeth Sylvia holding a copy of Scythe

Elizabeth Sylvia is signing copies of Scythe at our table now! 11-12

River River Books T756 at the AWP bookfair: vertical banner with their logo on blue cloudy sky standing to the left. Table draped in greenish blue cloth with logo in front and coveref in lots of bookstacks. Two people walking in background

Just dropped off some copies of White Door (Carbonation Press, 2025) at the fabulous @riverriverbooks.bsky.social's table T756. Will be signing copies this pm, 3-4. And yes, I'm hugely excited. 😍
#AWP26

River River Books table: blue tablecloth, RRB logo, rows of beautiful books and banner behind

COME SAY HI, BALTIMORE! #AWP2026