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Find us at NAWP: Open Mic Reading on March 5th at 7pm. The rest of this poster is silly things we always do: "Parenting as Poet: How to Write through a Sh*tstorm" and "Virtual Salon: Fighting FOMO with puns!"

Hey, if you are not going to AWP (NAWP), you can find me @mitchnobis.bsky.social and the rest of the NAWP gang here. If you are going to AWP but find in person stuff daunting and want to zoom in, feel free!

You have the best anxiety dreams 😆

The Scarred Peach Is the Sweetest | Books | Match Factory Editions Offering a careful balance of hope and rage, The Scarred Peach Is the Sweetest explores and illuminates the beauty in every relationship and interaction with the natural world around us. With Denise L...

"Travel from ancient Greece to modern tarot via / the ruinously young Bob Marley, and / you may find truth." matchfactoryeditions.com/books/The-Sc...

The Scarred Peach Is the Sweetest | Books | Match Factory Editions Offering a careful balance of hope and rage, The Scarred Peach Is the Sweetest explores and illuminates the beauty in every relationship and interaction with the natural world around us. With Denise L...

"Can we shatter this cynical yoke, / be dismantled, let shards poke and pierce, / be the parts of a sum?" matchfactoryeditions.com/books/The-Sc...

The Scarred Peach Is the Sweetest | Books | Match Factory Editions Offering a careful balance of hope and rage, The Scarred Peach Is the Sweetest explores and illuminates the beauty in every relationship and interaction with the natural world around us. With Denise L...

Happy pub day to Kathie-Louise Clarke's debut poetry collection The Scarred Peach Is the Sweetest! Expansive love poetry for the non-sentimental.
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The Scarred Peach Is the Sweetest | Books | Match Factory Editions Offering a careful balance of hope and rage, The Scarred Peach Is the Sweetest explores and illuminates the beauty in every relationship and interaction with the natural world around us. With Denise L...

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The Scarred Peach Is the Sweetest | Books | Match Factory Editions Offering a careful balance of hope and rage, The Scarred Peach Is the Sweetest explores and illuminates the beauty in every relationship and interaction with the natural world around us. With Denise L...

Happy pub month to The Scarred Peach Is the Sweetest by Kathie-Louise Clarke! Out later this month, you can pre-order it today. matchfactoryeditions.com/books/The-Sc...

“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

I, Sneža, am thrilled to be reading this Sunday at The Hungry Brain with Mary Ardery and Donna Vorreyer as hosts Simone Muench and Kenyatta Rogers guides us through the night. Doors at 6:30pm, readings start at 7pm. The address is 2319 W Belmont Ave, and there's no cover.

The poem: "It’s Easy to Lose Your Breath" -after The National- It’s easy to mishear. How often it’s happened as blue light echoes solitude at 2 a.m. Ants crawl all over me left over from the last time an apocalypse ate cities bone clean. I’ve deftly avoided the world for years now and now I’m ready to fling everything against the wall. Each time I walk into a crowded place the warring slide projectors hum and it’s 1997 again. Jump through Time like a makeshift Dr. Who like I’ve borrowed a DeLorean for the evening. I’m leaping through hoops, headed back, I’ll be surrounded by the sea where it should never be. I shouldn’t be here. I’ll hold my breath and save it for when I’m snorkeling through the corals before they bleach before the rainbow fish dart all around me, set off and never come back. Note: The title is a Mondegreen of a lyric from “Wake Up Your Saints” by The National. The actual lyric is: “It’s easy to lose your grip.”

I have some new poems for the New Year! Three have been published by antonym journal, and they're all in my upcoming full-length by @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social! Here's the titular poem.

"I’ve deftly avoided the world /
for years now /
and now I’m ready to fling everything /
against the wall."

Screenshot of a post by Road Less Traveled bookstore. It says: Mark your calendars! Road Less Traveled books will host a local Poets-palooza on Saturday 24 at 4:30 PM! Hear readings from four different poets with recently published collections, who will sign copies we'll have for sale, too. Why wait for national poetry month when you can have a cozy celebration of poetry in January?!

Hey! I'll be in the lineup a week from Saturday in my town's awesome new indie bookstore. Come by Farmington for me and 3 great poets, including friend of @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social, Cal Freeman!

We'll be hibernating for the next three weeks. Happy solstice, writers and readers, see you on the other side!

Quimby's After Hours: Match Factory Editions The final Quimby's After Hours of 2025 features Match Factory Editions! Quimby's is one of the great Chicago indie bookstores, self-described as

See you at Quimby's tomorrow, Chicago! events.timely.fun/2emj717s/eve...

Happy anniversary (plus a week because I only vaguely remembered it happened in December) to my thread that led to me connecting with the amazing Sneza & RD at @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social. What an astounding, wonderful turn of events that turned out to be!

Happy anniversary to a happy coincidence!

There's a whole world of mostly Italian comics that were huge in Yugo and Italy and that's it. But Corto Maltese is known in the Anglo world. Enjoy!

Corto Maltese would be a good poet who works as a good bartende, lives down the street minding his own business

Our elder-sibling lit mag just dropped a brand new issue. Read it at www.packingtownreview.com

YouTube video by Match Factory Editions Halloween with Match Factory Editions 2025

Behold the inaugural annual Match Factory Editions Halloween! youtu.be/DdbsRYxh3U0?...

Domestic Corpse | Books | Match Factory Editions Domestic Corpse is an ode to darkness and to the longing that rivers through it. Under the penetrating eye of capitalism, Martinez Pompa's poems sift through the wreckage of mental illness, failed mar...

Happy pub day, @paulmartinezpompa.bsky.social ! Domestic Corpse is one of the reasons we started this press. Inquiring minds, get in touch if you want to hear the whole story. matchfactoryeditions.com/books/Domest...

Let's celebrate Paul Martínez Pompa's new book Domestic Corpse (matchfactoryeditions.com/.../Domestic...)! See you this Saturday (10/25) at 7PM at the Pilsen Arts & Community House at 1640 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: A Very RD Morgan and Sneža Žabić Halloween. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Publishing poetry is sCaRy. Let's chat about it! Join RD Morgan and Sneža Žabić as they read from their new poetry collections and talk about their new press, Match Factory Editions.

What’s better than a #poetry reading near Halloween? Not much! Join Sneza and me as we read from our @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social collections on October 28th! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

picture of Adrian holding up a green book “The Size of the Horizon or I Explained Everything to the Trees” poems by Mitchell Nobis. Its in front of a screen where a video game character has a coat and hat matching the book’s green pattern

Book Talk - Save the Date! 📣

Monday, 10/20 at 6 pm ET - Online

Reading & book chat with author @mitchnobis.bsky.social about his out of this world collection “The Size of the Horizon, Or, I Explained Everything to the Trees”
@matchfactoryeds.bsky.social

Link to come, but DM me if interested.

This is tomorrow, so RSVP now! I think this is my first live online reading since the book came out believe it or not, so I'd be honored if you joined the crowd. Plus, @clbpoetry.bsky.social & @djvorreyer.bsky.social are the BEST!

More media this week...it's my first review! I don't even know how to summarize and explain this, but my wife grew up in what is essentially America's first subdivision. They have a weekly sub newsletter. A neighborhood resident reviewed my book. This is very cool and a huge honor, for real.

Airport Beers with Mitch Nobis and his poetry in ‘The Size of the Horizon, Or, I Explained… Airport Beers is an interview series. The following is an interview between Bryan Harvey and writer Mitch Nobis. Mitch’s book The Size of…

Spoke with @mitchnobis.bsky.social about his book, trees, Tree Rollins, more trees, and his book.
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Collect them all!

Fellow proud nerds, geeks and dorks, rejoice with us!

Recordings of Dead Languages | Books | Match Factory Editions What does it mean to lose something? To lose someone? To lose a civilization? Through visceral imagery and powerful narrative, Chad Heltzel’s Recordings of Dead Languages captures this essence of disa...

Happy pub day to Chad Heltzel's Recordings of Dead Languages! Preorders were mailed in the middle of the previous week, so check your mail, lucky and smart poetry fans! matchfactoryeditions.com/books/Record...