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goodriverreview.bsky.social @goodriverreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Send all your congrats to our nominees! 🎉
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goodriverreview.bsky.social @goodriverreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Imagine being handed a set of photographs from before you were born, Polaroids documenting your parents facing a trauma that would come to shape your own life." This is exactly where Nick Martino's poems begin in SCRAP BOOK, reviewed by James Long. Read it: www.goodriverreview.com/post/imagina...
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Imagination as Reconstructive Lens: Nick Martino’s SCRAP BOOK
Nick MartinoScrap BookAlice James Books / 2026 / 92 pp / $21.95 PaperbackReviewed by James Long, July 2026 Imagine being handed a set of photographs from before you were born, Polaroids documenting yo...
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goodriverreview.bsky.social @goodriverreview.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Read our latest book review: Beth Macy's PAPER GIRL, "a deeply personal reckoning with political polarization, economic decline, and the slow erosion of community." Reviewed by Kristie Helms Nettles: www.goodriverreview.com/post/macy-ge...
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Macy Gets It: A Review of Beth Macy's Memoir PAPER GIRL
Beth MacyPaper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured AmericaPenguin Press / 2025 / 368 pages / $32 USD/ $42CDReviewed by Kristie Helms Nettles / June 2026 Beth Macy has built a career repor...
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goodriverreview.bsky.social @goodriverreview.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"Within the confines of their tidy boxes, the book’s 55 sonnets range through existential ideas & loop together w/out section breaks in an ongoing interrogation of knowledge & perception." Read Melissa Shepherd's full review of Aaron Fagan's ATOM & VOID: www.goodriverreview.com/post/circle-...
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goodriverreview.bsky.social @goodriverreview.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Issue Eleven is here! Click to read our Spring issue: www.goodriverreview.com/issue-eleven
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goodriverreview.bsky.social @goodriverreview.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Six years ago today, Breonna Taylor was murdered. The poet Evie Shockley had something to say about it, and we're grateful she allowed us to publish her poem in our very first issue: www.goodriverreview.com/post/breonna...
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breonna taylor’s final rest (or, the furies are still activists)
by Evie Shockley maybe it’s your worst nightmare :: a thundering knockon the door—or no knock, just the lightning-crackof wood giving way against its nature. maybe you’venever dreamed of such force be...
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goodriverreview.bsky.social @goodriverreview.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
HUGE congrats to all of our Pushcart nominees this year!
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 07/11/2025
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Flash Fiction feat. @strangehorizons.bsky.social @literarymama.bsky.social @offbeatlit.bsky.social‬ @goodriverreview.bsky.social et al. duotrope.com...
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Smart Search List of the Day
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Flash Fiction feat. @strangehorizons.bsky.social @literarymama.bsky.social @offbeatlit.bsky.social‬ @goodriverreview.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/fee-free-flash-fiction-DYHLyx4s
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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
NBCC member Laura Johnsrude reviewed "No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity" by A. Kendra Greene for Good River Review:
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Book Review: NO LESS STRANGE OR WONDERFUL: ESSAYS IN CURIOSITY by A. Kendra Greene
A. Kendra GreeneNo Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity Tin House / March 2025 / 228 pp / $28.95Reviewed by Laura Johnsrude / October 2025In No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in…
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goodriverreview.bsky.social @goodriverreview.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Our fall issue is live! Our tenth! Check it out here: www.goodriverreview.com/issue-ten
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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Aaaahhh!! Honored to have my first ever Best of the Net nomination from @goodriverreview.bsky.social for my #poem “Lessons From A Baptism”!! Incredibly honored - they published so much incredible work, I’m shocked to be named! #booksky 💙📚 #poetry #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
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goodriverreview.bsky.social @goodriverreview.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Announcing our Best of the Net nominees!
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goodriverreview.bsky.social @goodriverreview.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"...a beautifully vulnerable memoir about an often-undiscussed topic, seasoned with a little literary analysis and social criticism." Read Hope Elizabeth Kidd's review of Arianna Rebolini's (@ariannarebolini.bsky.social‬) BETTER: A MEMOIR ABOUT WANTING TO DIE. www.goodriverreview.com/post/book-re...
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Book Review: BETTER: A MEMOIR ABOUT WANTING TO DIE by Arianna Rebolini
Arianna Rebolini Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die HarperCollins / April 2025 / 352 pp / $30 Hardcover Reviewed by Hope Elizabeth Kidd / August 2025 When I first saw the subtitle of Better: A Memo...
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goodriverreview.bsky.social @goodriverreview.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"...in the midst of immigration hysteria and mass deportations, he brings us his signature witness and compassion..." Our newest book review takes a look at @martinespadapoet.bsky.social's latest, JAILBREAK OF SPARROWS: www.goodriverreview.com/post/jailbre...
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JAILBREAK OF SPARROWS: Martín Espada’s Book for All Marginalized Beings
Martín EspadaJailbreak of SparrowsAlfred A. Knopf / 2025 / 114 pp / $29 HardbackReviewed by James Long / June 2025 About a third of the way through his new collection, in a poem titled “The Critic’s T...
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goodriverreview.bsky.social @goodriverreview.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Our SPRING 2025 issue is now live! Check it out here: www.goodriverreview.com/issue-nine
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Spring 2025 | Good River Review
The Spring 2025 issue of Good River Review, the online literary journal of the Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University.
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