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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Imagine being a woman in heaven and having to hang out with John Milton

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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A likeness of the sun god rises in the gardens' central pool, barely harnessing his frenzied horses of the dawn. -- @esylviapoet.bsky.social, "On Learning That Kim Kardashian Exceeded Her Water Allowance By 232,000 Gallons in June."

Photo shows the cover of Scythe, by Elizabeth Sylvia: published by River River Books.

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

What???😍😍 thank you to everyone who bought a copy!

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I am killing it at the open mic guys

Two empty chairs in the art museum basement

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

When my first book came out, I—as one does—emailed every poetry person I knew an invitation to the online launch. 30 minutes before it started, I got a mean-spirited email saying “I don’t know who you are, don’t ever email me again.”

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Let’s send all our dem senators home and draft our mayors instead

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Lolly Willowes is one of my heart books

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Fanny Howe

Into the forest I went walking—to get lost.

I saw faces in the knots
of trees, it was insane, and hands
in branches, and everywhere names.

Throughout the elms
small birds shivered and sang
in rhyme.

I wanted to be air, or wind—to be at ease
in outer space but in the world
this was the case:

Human was God’s secret name.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Repost with the last book you enjoyed, and we’ll enter you in a drawing for one of our new fall poetry titles! 🍂📚💙 We are thankful for our readers ❤️ riverriverbooks.org/store/

Cover of FIELD NOTES, design by Alban Fischer
Cover photograph of field landscape and lake in distance and mountains by author

E.G. CUNNINGHAM
POEMS

"This field transforms looking to wanting.”

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Cover of encounters for the living in the dead, designed by Alban Fischer

Cover beaches at Dutch still life with lemons and grapes and oysters

ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD
POEMS

JAMEELA F. DALLIS

"I have become siren, a hallowed hollow singing thing-"

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I'm starting an Old English course this winter and it sucks to wonder if everyone else in the class is a secret white supremacist.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

It’s a poetry taster on a winter’s evening 📚💙❄️ Hope to see you there! @amorak.bsky.social @pittella.bsky.social @esylviapoet.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social #poetry

All our chapbook beauties and then:

Join Ast
December 7 at 7pm ET on Zoom

RSVP FOR MEETING LINK TO

RIVERRIVERBOOKSEVENTS@GMAIL.COM

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Pleased to announce the release of Fallen Leaves, my new poetry collection (Ballerini Book Press). Preorders available. Thanks for the kind words, Suzanne Frischkorn & James Owens. Excited that future works will have a home at BBP. @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social ballerinibookpress.ch/fallen-leave...

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Ballerini Book PressSlender. Never Spineless.FALLEN LEAVES by Sam Rasnake

We are thrilled to announce the release of Sam’s new poetry collection FALLEN LEAVES, as well as his signing a long term, author contract with Ballerini Book Press. Our long literary collabor…

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

And if you’d like to hear Catherine Rockwood READ from DOGWITCH…mark your calendars A Winter’s Night Chapbook reading on 12/7 @ 7pm ET! ❄️ RSVP details in alt text. @amorak.bsky.social @pittella.bsky.social @esylviapoet.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social

AMORAK HUEY
CARLOS A. PITTELLA
CATHERINE ROCKWOOD
ELIZABETH SYLVIA
HAN VANDERHART

A Winter’s Night Chapbook Reading
12/7,7pm ET

PROPERSITIONS
CARLOS A. PITTELLA
CACTUS PRESS CHAPBOOK SERIES

Hawk & Moon
Han VanderHart

my little book of domestic anxieties
Elizabeth Sylvia
ballerinas book press

DOGWITCH
CATHERINE ROCK WOOD

EXTINCTION LEVEL
Amorak Huey

Join Us
December 7 at 7pm ET on Zoom

RSVP FOR MEETING LINK TO
RIVERRIVERBOOKSEVENTS@GMAIL.COM

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

For our Sunday morning readers: a new review of Catherine Rockwood’s DOGWITCH, by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza! ☕️☀️📚 #booksky #poetry #review @martin65.bsky.social @violetagm.bsky.social

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

heyyyyy i've got four poems in the latest issue of @loverseyepress.bsky.social about being a woman in this apocalyptic hellscape, including this one. you can visit the poems holding my rage here: www.loverseyepress.com/post/4-poems...

DISCOUNT SHOPPING THROUGH THE APOCALYPSE

All of us women in T.J. Maxx are sweating. We talk

ice packs, plant estrogens, black cohosh, the shots

that will lead us to love our bodies by losing most

of our bodies, the internet says. The hangers slip off

their clothes. It is not summer. The radio proclaims

a high of 90°. I’m looking more than ever at the mirror,

which looks back at me more like my mother than ever.

Eat your vegetables, the mirror says. Hold your shoulders up.

Why do you never mop. I glow a rage so incandescent

it’s indistinguishable from the sun, which the internet

wishes would just go ahead and explode. A friend sends

an article about an asteroid that may or may not be

aimed to end the earth. Destroy me, daddy, my friend

writes. Three emojis eject their tongues from pink

half-moon mouths. I refuse to walk down the pinkest aisles.

This isn’t the time for pale, I say. This isn’t the time

for longing or low-slung pants, for pretending

the eyes are windows for anything other than reflected

light. All of us women in T.J. Maxx dwell in bodies

that have fewer rights than the day they were born.

I wish my teeth would grow into knives, my nails

into actual nails. At a frequency too high for human

ears, each woman’s body emits a constant wave

of sound. Like a siren. Like a howl.

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Nothing better than hearing that the AP Lit group chat has been blowing up over their story homework 😄

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

IMO, this accounts for about 80% of the behavioral problems in schools. Students act out bc they know they don't have the academic skills to succeed. Remediating those skills costs too much, so we pretend that we can social-emotional them out of it.

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I continue researching How To Be A Female Artist even though the answer remains Be Rich Or Marry Well

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Is it ethical to be a frog when the snow is on the ground?

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I've started doing pleasure reading for 10-15 minutes a class with my sophomores. When I say it's reading time, their books are out in >1 minute and the classroom is dead silent.

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Every time I see the VSC residencies open I look at the applications and then I remember that they're $2700 and I could go to Paris for two weeks for that.

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Jackass: The Movie goes to Washington

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maniacally abstrack black @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 27/09/2025

author copies have arrived; hardback on the left and paperback on the right... and im not any good for the rest of the day.

photo of 2 stacks of dark blue poetry books of the same title, the shoes of the Fisherman's Wife. the left stack is two hardcover and the right stack is 5 paperbacks.

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of Jenn Martelli. She was a wonderful poet, colleague, collaborator, and friend to all. Her light will be dearly missed.

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Jenn was a gifted writer and she was so generous to other writers—to me, in specific and special ways. I'll miss her voice.

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

@notatawp.bsky.social should have a little sister called NOMFA, who wants to play with the big kids but gets brushed off all the time 😜

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Nate @nfako.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Just finished this book and. Wow. @riverriverbooks.bsky.social The way the poems shift their language in a parallel gesture to the ever changing photographs. So good!

A photo of the cover of Field Notes by E.G. Cunningham. The cover shows a vast hazel field with gray sky above.

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Supposedly material goods don’t bring happiness but the little electric teapot I bought for my classroom says otherwise.

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Can billionaires just not write books.

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Tonight's the night! 🌟 Please join us in cheering on our very own NATALIE SHAPERO as she competes on Jeopardy! Visit jeopardy.com/watch to find your local channel or stream the full episode starting tomorrow on Hulu.

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Poets! From A TRUCE THAT IS NOT PEACE by Miriam Toews

Another parable: I he first time 1 was invited to visit another city as a writer, I was housed in the backyard shed of an associate professor at the university where I'd be reading. A different professor, a poet, who'd arranged this trip, was supposed to have picked me up at the train station and housed me. But she had fallen in love. Now she couldn't put me up at her place after all, because of falling in love, and she couldn't pick me up at the station either. Love is love. Poets! The other woman, the associate professor, showed me the shed and said she was sorry, but it was the best she could do. She had moved the garden tools and lawn mower and oily rags into one corner of the shed. "Please don't smoke." A blow-up mattress lay in the other corner, with an air pump beside it in case it deflated during the night, as it was prone to, and the professor had brought in a lamp for me to use but only after dark. If you need the washroom, she said, please come to the house but knock first. Her five-year-old daughter was having a birthday party, and the professor was concerned that I would frighten the children if I, a perfect stranger, a perfect smoking stranger, suddenly appeared in the house needing to urinate.

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

My therapist says I should talk to my friends about how I'm feeling and I'm like, my friends all have parents with dementia or terminally ill husbands or kids who are suicidal or are about to lose their careers to meat grinder of the Trump administration I am not about to make this about my feels.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

“All the ways we have been and are wrong follow me this morning like a cloud of insects, like dust kicked up on the moon and suspended.” // New poem from my new chap Hawk & Moon, featuring a real tweet 🌕 bottlecap.press/products/hawk

Tweet Response to Artemis II Mission

"STOP LYING FALSE NEWS !!! NOBODY HAS BEEN TO THE MOON OR EVER WILL GO TO THE MOON !! NOBODY HAS EVEN LEFT LOW EARTHS ATMOSPHERE STOP LYING TO THESES KIDS ONE OF THEM IS MINE !!! YOUR MAKING YOURSELF LOOK AND SOUND LIKE A FOOL!!!!

All the ways we have been and are wrong
follow me this morning like a cloud

of insects, like dust kicked up on the moon
and suspended. Like a moon-boot foot

in the air. Examples: Anger at the dog
this morning, barking at a sound we

could not heat but that rang like a bell
in his ear. Misinformation. Not touching

our maskless faces to avoid an airborne virus.
The further back in time I go, the larger

the wrongs: seven-year-old me convinced
my friends would go to hell

if I didn't save them. Spinning my sister's
gerbil by its tail, which broke. Gently

pushing my sister's wallet off the school
table into the open trash, below.

The deepest hurts are those we've done
to those we love. Those who might be

far as the moon to us, now. As though
nobody has been to the moon, or ever

will go to the moon. As though nobody
has even left the low earth's atmosphere—

stop lying to these kids, one of them
is mine. How beautiful it is to be angry

on behalf of a child and the planet of wrongs
they will inherit. A Gospel of conspiracy.

A moonless imagination. Piles of gerbil tails
and my little friends dancing in ashes.

Arguments about the moon, above us.
About history we must learn by testimony.

Someone went there, went farther than us.
Kiss my mouth with that mouth you argue with.

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Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I love a good pantoum, and "Pantoum for the Free Climber's Girlfriend" by @esylviapoet.bsky.social knocked my socks off (and also echoed my own feelings after watching that documentary): www.swwim.org

swwim.org

SWWIM

SWWIM publishes, promotes, & celebrates women writers.

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J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Oh, hesitate, my long-haired dude, To strum around the fire. Better let them think you're good Than know that you're a liar.

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Emily Dickinson getting a bit snippy

Touch lightly Nature's sweet Guitar
Unless thou know'st the Tune
Or every Bird will point at thee
Because a Bard too soon -

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Thank you @swwim.bsky.social for reposting this poem from my new chapbook MY LITTLE BOOK OF DOMESTIC ANXIETIES I recently learned that they married after the documentary came out, but I stand by my advice.

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I adore a little mail surprise like this thank you note from @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Honestly so delightful. The tea even matches the stationery! Issue 40 out now www.whaleroadreview.com

Orange thank you note, tea bag, and wrr sticker

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