Edward Sambrano III

In a new Behind the Byline interview, staff reader Carolyn Orosz talks with NER 46.2 poet Bridget Lowe about the reflexive nature of meaning-making, brokering the relationship between form and content, and radical wonder.

Read their conversation here: nereview.com/bridget-lowe/

Our fall issue is now live: sixthfinch.com

Featuring @elliekblack.bsky.social @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social @dlassell.bsky.social @jeffreymorganpoet.bsky.social @ship-on-the-line.bsky.social @hanawiderman.bsky.social @scottferry.bsky.social @leewelch.bsky.social and more

Our Fall 2025 Issue is OUT NOW! Featuring new fiction, poetry, translation, creative nonfiction, and visual art. Read now on our website, linked in our bio!

We are thrilled to announce our nominees for 2026 The Best of the Net Anthology! Including poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, you can find their work on our website, linked in our bio!

For a more accessible version, see https://cymbals-corn-mx5t.squarespace.com/janezwart1.

I'll stand by "I am tired of tidings," for the most part. But getting a message that @thedodgemag.bsky.social nominated "East of Eden" for the Best of the Net anthology, those were tidings that put some wind back in my sails. Thank you to the editors, especially @sambranopoet.bsky.social.

I'm teaching a poetry class on perspective and the speaker! Please spread the word and consider signing up if interested :)

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I started writing my PhD dissertation today. Rather than a traditional dedication, my dedication page will contain a poem that @sambranopoet.bsky.social showed me. It's the most accurate depiction of being a patient-scientist that I've found since starting my work. verse.press/poem/poem-to...

Excited to share my chapbook manuscript, "Some Notes on Farewell," was named an honorable mention in the 2025 Chad Walsh Chapbook Series! Huge congrats to Sara and all others who placed in the competition!

The Dodge is re-opening to general submissions Sept. 1. Send us your best eco fiction, poetry, nonfiction, translations, or visual art. Submissions are free! See Submittable link in our bio.

I have a new author website✨

edwardsambranoiii.com

We're excited to feature Caroline Barnes and her poem "The Rodent Bait Box Behind the Restaurant" from our Summer 2025 Issue out now! Continue reading her poem and check out the rest of our issue at the link in our bio!

One of my poems from the latest issue of @sixthfinch.bsky.social !!

Check out the rest of the amazing issue here: sixthfinch.com/mainsummer25...

Sixth Finch Sixth Finch: a quarterly online journal of poetry and art. The current issue features poems by Katie Berta, Conor Bracken, Ava Chen, Andrew Collard, Sofia Fall, Kelle Groom, Katie Kemple, W. M. Lobko,...

New summer issue

Featuring @1andrewcollard.bsky.social, @katiekemple.bsky.social, @alisonpelegrin.bsky.social, @sambranopoet.bsky.social, @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social, @mhwack.bsky.social, @ellenwelcker.bsky.social, @tracylchandler.bsky.social, @gregory-euclide.bsky.social, @todaysaaron.bsky.social

I have a poem in @thedodgemag.bsky.social ! Thanks to the editors for including “Guilt” in the Summer 2025 issue.

www.thedodgemag.com/sarahseybold1

Our Summer 2025 Issue is OUT NOW! Featuring some fantastic works of eco-writing in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry as well as some marvelous visual art. Read now on our website (link in bio)!

Florida Poems EDWARD SAMBRANO III <br> I will die in Portland on an overcast day, / The Willamette River mirroring clouds’ / Bleak forecast and strangers not forgetting—

"I will die in Portland on an overcast day, / The Willamette River mirroring clouds’ / Bleak forecast and strangers not forgetting—"

Edward Sambrano III muses on triviality, displacement, and estrangement in the everyday in a series of Florida poems. Check out their dispatch below!

Florida Poems EDWARD SAMBRANO III <br> I will die in Portland on an overcast day, / The Willamette River mirroring clouds’ / Bleak forecast and strangers not forgetting—

Check out some of my Florida poems out w/@commonmag.bsky.social!🎉 Huge thanks to the Dispatches team for their work on these::
www.thecommononline.org/florida-poems/

Against Taste: On the Craft of Criticism How does one go about defining bad art? As an instructor of creative writing, in the classroom, in office hours, via email, I diplomatically affirmed one student or another in their appreciation of…

After years debating with friends and learning from professors and writers with views that couldn't be more different, I'm happy to have my thoughts on the role of the modern poet and critic out with @michiganquarterly.bsky.social✨:

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In commemoration of Nakba Day, we would like to announce our forthcoming special issue "Return to Roots: Writing Toward Land--A special teaching issue on Palestine and the Global Indigenous Struggle" (January 2026), guest edited by Palestinian poet Sara Abou Rashed.

Hello all! Today we're featuring a wonderful work of poetry from our Spring 2025 Issue (OUT NOW) called "The Patuxent Slips Through My Fingers," written by Will Carpenter!

The Dodge is looking for a new Managing Editor! Apply using the form below.

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Surpassing the Moment: On Elisa Gonzalez’s “Grand Tour” — Cleveland Review of Books The poems in Grand Tour are marked by restlessness: their speakers seem uncomfortable, even trapped, within their lyric moments.

"The poems in Grand Tour are marked by restlessness: their speakers seem uncomfortable, even trapped, within their lyric moments."

Edward Sambrano III on Elisa Gonzalez's "Grand Tour"

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Surpassing the Moment: On Elisa Gonzalez’s “Grand Tour” — Cleveland Review of Books The poems in Grand Tour are marked by restlessness: their speakers seem uncomfortable, even trapped, within their lyric moments.

Really excited about a new review of mine on Elisa Gonzalez's poetry collection "Grand Tour," now up at @clereviewbooks.bsky.social!!:: www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/elis...

Huge thanks to Brianna Di Monda, the EIC, for awesome work on it✨

Quite lovely to have this feature from @thedodgemag.bsky.social align with my birthday. Thank you, dear ones. 🤍

We are so excited to introduce our new Art Editor, Karie Luidens, and announce that ART SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN!! To submit your art, please visit the link in our bio!

Today we're spotlighting the wonderful poem "Language Decay," written by Charlotte Newbury and featured in our Winter 2025 Issue (OUT NOW)!!

Read the rest of "Language Decay" here:
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Hi all! Today we're featuring "Calling," an incredible piece of poetry written by Brooke Harries and featured in our Winter 2025 Issue, out now!

Read the rest of "Calling" here:
www.thedodgemag.com/brookeharries1

Today we're featuring an excerpt from one of two poems written by Robert Fanning and featured in our Winter 2025 Issue, out now for your perusing pleasure!

Read the rest of "snæugla // snowy owl," and it's partner poem "gluggi // window," here:

www.thedodgemag.com/robertfanning1

Ange Mlinko · Dear So-and-So: Caroline Blackwood’s Doubles The Stepdaughter (1976), Caroline Blackwood’s first novel, was published when she was 44 and married to Robert...

‘The claustrophobia of houses and families threatens to dissolve identity. Yet which is worse – to be too close or too distant?’

Ange Mlinko on the novels of Lady Caroline Blackwood: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...