Emily Corwin

"I reach for the page like I reach for prayer: to plead, to confess, to commune, to remember all is not chaos, all is not lost." - Suleika Jaouad

"And yet, at the same time that it offers transcendence, there's nothing more humble than a journal." - Suleika Jaouad, The Book of Alchemy

From The White Book by Han Kang

I wonder what would fix me-- a bowl of pasta?

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)!

Liminal Spaces of the Sacred and Profane: Alina Stefanescu’s “My Heresies” Alina Stefanescu’s new collection of poetry, “My Heresies,” is an entirely new feminist text in its own right. Observant, angry, and questioning, Stefanescu’s poems guide readers throug…

From the Southern Review of Books:

southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/06/11/m...

"I read beyond my years, deep into the years ahead. I am unreachable in my book. I am alone and in company." -Sonya Walger, Lion #readsky #booksky

Parnia Abbasi (2002-2025) Translated by Ghazal MosadeqA poem by a young Iranian poet Parnia Abbasi who, along with her family, all civilians, was killed today in a brutal and unlawful Israeli attack in the Sattarkhan neighbour...

While ICE kidnaps families, Israel wipes them out.

“A poem by a young Iranian poet Parnia Abbasi who, along with her family, all civilians, was killed today in a brutal and unlawful Israeli attack in the Sattarkhan neighbourhood of Tehran.”

www.pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...

In just under one hour, this link will be live.
(How soon thereafter will it be dead? We'll see!)

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#ClipOfTheDay: In this 2016 video, Alice Notley reads from her feminist epic The Descent of Alette for a two-day event at the Lab in San Francisco cosponsored by the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Notley died at the age of seventy-nine on May 20. at.pw.org/NotleyReading

A good day to shop for books #booksky #writesky

Books I read in May 🌹#booksky

"I will die of such things."

#smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

A necessary reminder for myself today #writesky

@parisreview.bsky.social

My submission for today's #Caturday

"oh stop this describing ever haunted
I'll never forget this nothing that happens." -Alice Notley

"pretty pretty princess vs. the underworld" would not exist with The Descent of Alette

Alice Notley 🥀 She honored me with a short conversation and a selfie 8 years ago at AWP. I was such a young poet but I knew her work was monumental and absolutely essential for writers who take risks, disrupt form, & create poems like dreams, encounters, like treks to the underworld. #AliceNotley

collage of last weekend #collage #artsky

"There are times when the world so exasperates me that I feel I cannot go on living in it for another moment and I want to disappear for good. But then, if I happen to obtain some nice white paper...I decide that I can put up with things as they are a little longer." - Makura no Sōshi, Sei Shōnagon

"I loved to paint so much, I painted all day until I fell asleep. And then one day, for some reason, I just couldn’t paint anymore. I tried and tried, but nothing I did seemed any good... It just seemed like I had lost my ability." #KikisDeliveryService #StudioGhibli

You have 30 days left to submit your #poetry manuscript to the annual Akron Poetry Prize!

The winner receives $1500 and publication of their manuscript.
This year's judge is the brilliant Eduardo C. Corral!
Submissions close June 15, 2025.

theuniversityofakronpress.submittable.com/submit

While listening to Bluets on audiobook, as Maggie Nelson reads: "If we want to know what a phosphene is, we don't mash our fists into our eyes. We Google the word.", my Google Assistant actually responded and asked, "Hello, how can I help?" #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WriterSky

"I write to destroy the blank page, unravel the ink, use up what I’ve been given, make something new of it, and give it away." -Dorianne Laux, "Why I Write" from Finger Exercises for Poets #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky, #WriterSky

From Emily Corwin's book, Sensorium: bookshop.org/a/862/978162...

#poem #poetry #emilycorwin #books #writing

1 week from today: Ariana Reines discusses THE ROSE with Edgar Garcia at Swedish American Museum, presented by Women & Children First 🌹 Don't miss this, Chicago!

Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/off-site-p...

“You, too, you wrote, longed for works that were notebooks, sketchbooks…notes for an unwritten manuscript, or, even better, some juvenilia, a marbled composition book…smaller and smaller fragments, tiny writing.” -Sofia Samatar, Opacities #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky, #WriterSky

3 Poems by Mary Biddinger — Grimoire Mary Biddinger is the author of five full-length poetry collections, most recently Small Enterprise  and The Czar  (both from Black Lawrence Press). Her poems have recently appeared or are...

“People talk about how high school was the highlight of their existence. For me, it was like being held captive in an enormous sock drawer, with only a pack of matches for entertainment.” — @marybid.bsky.social, “The Craft” @blacklawrence.bsky.social www.wearegrimoire.com/poetryarchiv...

Today's poem is "Oracle"
by Jessica Lynn Suchon
from Scavenger
(if you subscribe to our substack you can hear the poet read the poem without leaving your inbox!)
www.versedaily.org/2024/oracle....