queer + neurospicy missouri-boy | 2024 national poetry series @BeaconPressBks | chap @QuarterlyWest | phd-ing @UUtah | mfa @MFA_WUSTL
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✨ CO(HH)VER REVEAL ✨
OHHV, out 10/14! You can pre-order with Bookshop.org + receive a 15% discount during Pride Month! (Promo code: PRIDE15) bookshop.org/lists/visionary…
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I am honored that my story, “Eating is the Language of Love,” was highly commended for the 2025 @BridportPrize 🎉 congrats to all winners!
We're delighted to announce our Flash Fiction, Short Story, Poetry and Novel results. Head to bridportprize.org.uk/results… to meet all of our 2025 winners. Congratulations to everyone. Bask in the moment and be proud.
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“Jason” by David Ehmcke is our Poem of the Week.
Read the poem and the artist's statement here:
missourireview.com/jason-by-…
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The Etel Adnan Poetry Prize is now open again for submissions after a year hiatus due to pro-Zionist anti-Arab laws in Arkansas; now the prize moved to @Noemi_Press; please submit and participate, ecnourage, and share
noemipress.submittable.com/s…
a homecoming 🦩🏳️🌈 my heart goes out to @LeftBankBooks @TowerGrovePride @BeaconPressBks for holding OHHV along with me! great to be in st. louis + in the sunlight of others ☀️✨
This phenomenal sale ends today (ahh!) but you can still preorder OHHV (ayy!) + other amazing books 📖
25% Off the List Price on All Pre-Order Books, eBooks & NOOK | Barnes & Noble®
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We are delighted to announce award–winning writer, editor, publisher, professor, and cultural critic Roxane Gay as the recipient of the 2025 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.
Read the announcement at @latimes.
latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
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Here are the dozen debut books that you should read this month!
debutiful.net/2025/09/01/12-…
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2 poems by moi. Tried my hands on formal poems: Villanelle and Pantoum
Thanks @cactifur
cactifur.com/2025/08/20/2-fo…
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EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS, guest-edited by @xAdakia, is officially live! You can find it on our "Features" page, or right here:
quarterlywest.com/extreme-en…
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Have you been looking forward to our "Extreme Environments" special issue?
If so, great news: it drops TOMORROW. (!!!!!!)
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Israel is killing them all. They’re starving Gaza. I just saw a little four year old boy eating sand. There’s nothing else we should be talking about. There’s nothing else to talk about.
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I need you
the way astonishment,
which is really just
the disruption of routine,
requires routine.
—Carl Phillips, former Chancellor, born #OTD in 1959
poets.org/poem/western-edge
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We are so excited to announce that Asha Futterman's SONG OF GRAY, winner of the 2025 Colorado Prize for Poetry, is available for preorder now at the link in our bio! This title is forthcoming in Fall 2025.
Use code FUTT25 for 40% off your preordered copy now!
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Report: Poet Mary Jo Bang reaches the end of her 20-year journey through Dante's 'Divine Comedy'
"And that was a lesson, I think, in the fact that there is no single way to carry over one language into another language."
Read here:
npr.org/2025/07/10/nx-s1-529…
#pdnews
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I was able to hold my first book today!
Pre-orders are arriving now: fourwaybooks.com/site/the-de…
