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PS - RSVP to the book launch / rock show we're throwing at Alienated Majesty Books on September 12th!: www.alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/33525...

🔥Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for the DEATH TO THE BULLSHIT ARTISTS OF SOUTH TEXAS 11th Anniversary Edition by Fernando A. Flores! Order now on our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social 🔥 hostpublications.com/collections/...

An excerpt from “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf

A headshot of Oliver Baez Bendorf

“Today’s poem carries that same energy of self-discovery, inevitable change, and an extravagance of living,” shares Major in today’s encore episode.

Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social‬: bit.ly/3IUaqAj

Sealey Challenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser All funds collected through this page will be sent to The Sameer Project, a donations-based initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora working to supply aid to displaced families in Gaza. You can ...

This will be our thread for W4G's Sealey Challenge. To support us, fill out the sponsor pledge form or contribute directly now. Include W4G in the notes section so we can keep track. Our goal is $1k in pledges and contributions this month: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...

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Still flying high from last week's I Scream Social at Alienated Majesty Books! We featured Julie Poole, Marzetta, Ari Kelly, & Austen Scheib!

A graphic created by Lambda Literary, showing the covers of the five books that are finalists for the 2025 Lammy Award in Gay Poetry. Behind the books, a magneta background with white stars and a golden Lambda Literary seal

A graphic created by Lambda Literary, showing the covers of the five books that are finalists for the 2025 Lammy Award in LGBTQ+ Poetry. Behind the books, a magneta background with white stars and a golden Lambda Literary seal

We're so excited and grateful to see @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social's and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva's poetry collections named as finalists for @lambdaliterary.org's 2025 Lammy Awards in Gay Poetry and LGBTQ+ Poetry! 🎉

Check out the full list of finalists across all categories: tinyurl.com/yc5uu4ea

Sign up for Stop Cop Cities Everywhere, August 26th on zoom. To benefit the Sameer Project’s North Gaza campaign!

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Wildflower - Wildflower celebrates 8 BIPOC writers from across the country, each of them opening a window into our lives and journeys on and across the spectrum.

Read WILDFLOWER from @luckyjefferson.com for #DisabilityPrideMonth! This digital issue celebrating eight autistic BIPOC writers features writing by J. D. Harlock, Shel Moring, Greta McGee, and more: luckyjefferson.com/wildflower/

🌻Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for WAYWARD CREATURES by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes! On our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social! hostpublications.com/products/way...

the city that loves the bomb I was in high school when Oklahoma City was bombed

Today’s Featured Poem:

“the city that loves the bomb” by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social from Book of Provocations published by @hostpublications.bsky.social

Read here:
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[W4G] $500 Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project July 2: A new match! Poet Alina Stefanescu has stepped up to offer a $500 match to support the work The Sameer Project is doing with their new Medical Campaign! Help us raise $500 --> which will me...

🌿🚑 Another day, another chance to double your donation.

Poet Alina Stefanescu is offering to match up to $500 for Sameer Project's Medical campaign.

Yesterday's was met in a day. Can we do the same?

These funds are urgently needed! ❤️‍🩹 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

book of provocations by mónica teresa ortiz Inaugural Winner of the Joe W. Bratcher Prize mónica teresa ortiz posits that the most important role of the poet is that of “provocateur, to prod the audience, to interpret a visible and invisible…

mónica teresa ortiz’s BOOK OF PROVOCATIONS (@hostpublications.bsky.social‬) is on our reading list for #PrideMonth!

The poems in this collection “explore catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression.”
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threesome in the last Toyota Celica & other circus tricks by m. mick powell Winner of the Fall 2023 Host Publications Chapbook Prize   Featuring an introduction by poet, mother, and educator Brittany Rogers.  Formally inventive, emotionally symphonic, glittering and…

Read m. mick powell’s THREESOME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA for #PrideMonth!

This collection from @hostpublications.bsky.social “sings about Black queer femmehood in harmonies of multiple voices, asserting the self as ever-changing and voluminous.”
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local remedies like prayers and hymns like a fence of gmelina trees blocking the sun

A look inside LOCAL REMEDIES by Chiagoziem Jideofor, forthcoming from Host Publications Spring 2026! @poetrydaily.bsky.social poems.com/poem/local-r...

Submissions close this Sunday (06.15.25) at 11:59pm CDT! Host Publications is looking for full-length poetry manuscripts written by historically marginalized writers! hostpublications.submittable.com/submit

A Reading List for Pride Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses For Pride Month, observed annually during the month of June, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature by authors...

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Happy Pride, cuties! Loving the @clmporg.bsky.social Pride Month Reading List which includes BOOK OF PROVOCATIONS by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social & THREESOME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA by @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social in great, small press company! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

♥️ Host Publications is open for full-length poetry submissions through June 15th, 2025. Works we dream of publishing include: collections of intersectional, radical ecopoetics; collections that hybridize poetry w/ other forms; docupoetics + more. hostpublications.submittable.com/submit/32369...

Donate to Support Meg Day’s Cancer Recovery and Care, organized by abigail lawlor We are raising funds for our beloved comrade, educator, and poet for the peo… abigail lawlor needs your support for Support Meg Day’s Cancer Recovery and Care

Meg Day, a dear poet, educator, and friend could use your support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-me...

Thank you, Texas Observer, for this feature. I'm proud to be the Poet Laureate of Texas and beyond grateful for the incredible community of outstanding poets across the state. Poetry is for the people! Praise the people! 🙌🏽✨️💛

Read: www.texasobserver.org/texas-first-...

Please join us for this reading full of people I admire deeply. More importantly, RSVP as soon as you can so that the Gaza Poets receive support as soon as possible.

Will be reading only unpublished stuff :)

A Poetry Reading for Gaza IV — Workshops 4 Gaza Step 1: Donate to Gaza Poets Society here (suggested donation $30). Step 2: Register for “A Poetry Reading for Gaza IV” here . Join Workshops4Gaza for our fourth online poetry readin...

🌊 Patiently waiting for this stellar reading w/ @workshops4gaza.bsky.social hosted by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social & featuring @summ.bsky.social @miparhizkar.bsky.social Ignacio Carvajal, Ayling Zulema Dominguez, Destiny Hemphill, Mallika Singh & Jesús Valles | www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...

Torch Literary Arts was awarded the first-ever Writing Organization Award by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) at the 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Los Angeles!

Read more: torchliteraryarts.org/news/torch-l...

#AWP25

I had absolutely too much fun at #AWP25! No one parties like the poets, my god. Thank you to everyone who showed me kindness, filled me with hope, pointed me in the direction of great literature, & listened to me endlessly champion our Host Publications writers! A dream moment in this hard world 💖

♥️ We're celebrating National Poetry Month reading & writing poetry, going on long hikes w/ our besties & reading poems by the creek, w/ cake, perhaps a snail mail exquisite corpse! Tell us how you're celebrating! We're offering 20% off at HostPublications.com if you need to grow your poetry stack!

See you at AWP!

First day as the inaugural Prizer Arts & Letters Smithville Artist-in-Residence. Gonna make art, write poems, play with my puppy son, and breathe. Public events coming in May. ✨️

Chiagoziem Jideofor: a name, a condition (read by Ucheoma Onwutuebe) Ucheoma Onwutuebe reads

☀️Listen: Forthcoming Host Publications poet CHIAGOZIEM JIDEOFOR read "a name, a condition" read by Ucheoma Onwutuebe, published by the good folks at Shō Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social soundcloud.com/shopoetryjou...

#AWP2025 Los Angeles :: March 28th, 7pm :: Join us for POETICS OF LIBERATION at The Count's Den featuring @amandajohnston.bsky.social @arizona-tea.bsky.social @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social @cloudelfina.bsky.social @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social @croptopassassin.bsky.social @anelflores.bsky.social & more!