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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Our call for full-length poetry manuscripts closes tonight at 11:59pm central time! Submit your best: hostpublications.submittable.com/submit

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Just four days left to submit your full-length poetry manuscripts to @hostpublications.bsky.social! Learn more about what kinds of collections the press (winner of CLMP’s 2026 Constellation Award!) seeks: www.clmp.org/members/open...

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Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"I think that a poem can energize, it can motivate. It can be fuel, it can be articulation for a feeling, a feeling that leads to action and work." On the blog: Summer Farah interviewed by Marlin M. Jenkins. @summ.bsky.social @hostpublications.bsky.social prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...

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An Interview with Summer Farah

The following interview with Summer Farah, conducted by Marlin M. Jenkins on September 15, 2025 over Zoom, has been edited for length, sequence, and

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Bachelor by @gustavohernandez.bsky.social, FlowerSong Press & Wayward Creatures by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, @hostpublications.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Book cover for Bachelor by Gustavo Hernandez (FlowerSong Press): Shortlisted for Gay Poetry in the Lambda Literary Awards (winners announced June 12th): https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/. In Bachelor’s opening poem, Gustavo Hernandez writes “I often stand right here and wonder about my voice. What it is now.” The “here” in Hernandez’s poems is opalescent: the physical and spiritual footprint of the family home; the wide wake of loss; the stillness of guarded detachment; and the threshold of new love, of the future. In these liminal waystations, the voice of Bachelor’s speaker reaches out to love, passion, heartbreak, inheritance, familial responsibility, and legacy. https://www.flowersongpress.com/books/p/bachelor-by-gustavo-hernandez

Book cover for Wayward Creatures by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes (Host Publications): Shortlisted for LGBTQ+ Poetry in the Lambda Literary Awards (winners announced June 12th): https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/. With monstrous joy and tenderness untamed, Wayward Creatures is a collection that spills with the verdant language of excess, inviting us to step into its wild grasses. Here, the colonizer’s language has been overgrown by an ecology of strangeness and possibility—poetry disrupts, rituals, and revolts, rendering queer abolition irresistible. https://hostpublications.com/products/wayward-creatures-by-heidi-andrea-restrepo-rhodes

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Wayward Creatures by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes has been named a finalist for The Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award! Congratulations to heidi andrea restrepo rhodes and Winner Diana Arterian, Agrippina the Younger @nupress.bsky.social

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Summer in the House of the Departed (by @joshrountree.bsky.social, @psychopomp.com) & they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming (by dezireé a. brown, @hostpublications.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta #bookstagram

Book cover for they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming by dezireé a. brown (Host Publications): Winner of the 2025 Joe W. Bratcher Prize. A momentous debut, tracking a self-proclaimed antihero’s quest for liberation via the transformative ritual of writing through the past, present, and future. Influenced by video game worlds, choose-your-own adventures, and a multifaceted collective of Mesopotamian goddesses, this collection is a conjuring of selves encountered through gender who arise to meet one another in all their Black queer joy and rage. https://hostpublications.com/products/they-she-he-ritual-to-forget-your-unbecoming-by-deziree-a-brown

Book cover for Summer in the House of the Departed by Josh Rountree (Psychopomp): Summer 1981: Brady’s grandmother vanishes—along with an entire West Texas town. There’s no explanation, except those that don’t hold any logic. Summer 2025: Brady returns to his grandmother’s house, hoping to understand what happened, and to find out exactly where his grandmother went. https://psychopomp.com/summer-in-the-house-of-the-departed/

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

What is a “poetics of liberation”? @hostpublications.bsky.social defines it as an intersection of radical, experimental, and queer writing “breaking the rules put in place for the writer, the reader, and the art form.” Read more about the press’s work here: www.clmp.org/news/member-...

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Member Spotlight: Host Publications - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

We spoke with Annar Veröld-Miranda, publisher and co-executive director of Host Publications—winner of the 2026 Constellation Award—in our latest member spotlight. What is the history behind Host…

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 15/04/2026

We're thrilled to announce our Writing Contests Issue! Inside you’ll find forty inspiring contests that celebrate environmental writing, short forms, the work of older writers, and long-term projects; stories of writers’ most meaningful wins; and much, much more. Enjoy: at.pw.org/MayJune2026

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🧡 Happy Pub Day to Chiagoziem Jideofor and her debut poetry collection LOCAL REMEDIES!!!! We had so much fun celebrating this book and can't wait for you all to read it! Buy it through @asterismbooks.bsky.social or follow the link to our shop: hostpublications.com/products/loc...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Summer Farah’s THE HUNGERING YEARS, which features conversations with Etel Adnan, “finds the courage to ask: What is art? An escape? A reflection? Another unhealthy attachment?” Read poetry from @hostpublications.bsky.social for #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth! hostpublications.com/products/the...

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The Hungering Years by Summer Farah

Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid…

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🧡 Last call for signed copies of Chiagoziem Jideofor's debut poetry collection LOCAL REMEDIES! 🧡 Available through @asterismbooks.bsky.social or our website: hostpublications.com

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Teri V @terivela.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I love getting these treasures in the mail @hostpublications.bsky.social #poetry #books #hostpublications

A brown paper mail package sits on top of a light colored wooden table. On top of the package is a postcard with Host publications symbol of a winged creature with four limbs and a long tail, ending in a triangular point. The winged creature has a sun for a head, and two eyes but no other facial features. The brown paper package is tied with a maroon colored string. Peeking out from behind the postcard is an ink print of the two back legs of the winged creature.

A book sits on top of a light colored wooden table. The book is colored in different hues of brown with the title in white across the top— local remedies: poems. Two black lizards are depicted on the left side of the book cover, and a brown breast rises from the bottom. In white the author’s name is Chiagoziem Jideofor, and underneath the words read “introduction by Kwoya Fagin Maples”

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🌊 The Wilder Constellation of Aliveness: Rob Colgate interview heidi Andrea restrepo rhodes for @foglifterpress.bsky.social | 🌊https://www.foglifterjournal.com/rob-interviews-heidi

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Rob interviews heidi — Foglifter Journal & Press

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Foglifter Press & Journal @foglifterpress.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“I have never felt quite Human, and this has taken me down very rich and meaningful paths of reading and kinning with the strange, the creaturely, and the more-than-human..." Read more on our blog: www.foglifterjournal.com/rob-intervie...

2. Text reads, “I have never felt quite Human, and this has taken me down very rich and meaningful paths of reading and kinning with the strange, the creaturely, and the more-than-human, from the monstrous, to the ghostly, to the worlds of plants, animals, minerals, affects, intensities, and other various alivenesses.” – heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, in conversation with Rob Macaisa Colgate

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

❤️ We're open for full-length poetry submissions through June 1st! Send us your strangest, queerest, most tender, riotous writing! hostpublications.submittable.com/submit

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🌊 "Crossing" by C. Rees is featured this week in Maggie Smith's The Slowdown: www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2026...

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1484: Crossing by C. Rees

Today’s poem is Crossing by C. Rees.

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

We were so excited to connect with Annar Veröld-Miranda, publisher at @hostpublications.bsky.social—which recently won the 2026 Constellation Award! Read more about the press’s history, recent and forthcoming titles, and submission window (open through June 1!) here: www.clmp.org/news/member-...

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 18/03/2026

LGBTQ+ Poetry Finalists Cont’d: Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming by Eli Clare. @dukepress.bsky.social Wayward Creatures by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes. YEET! by @jasonbcrawford @omnidawn.bsky.social #Lammys2026

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Host Publications is open for submissions through June 1st! Click through to learn what we’re looking for & our guidelines! ❤️ hostpublications.submittable.com/submit

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

We are overjoyed to announce that Host Publications has been awarded The Constellation Award by @clmporg.bsky.social !!! In a moment when we are discouraged to do the work we do, we are surprised, overwhelmed, and completely honored to be celebrated in this way. www.clmp.org/press-center...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

dezireé a. brown’s THEY/SHE/HE: RITUAL TO FORGET YOUR UNBECOMING is on our reading list for #BlackHistoryMonth! This collection “maps the odyssey of a life lived in transition and serves as an archive of Black transmasc experience.” @hostpublications.bsky.social hostpublications.com/products/the...

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they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming by dezireé a. brown

Winner of the 2025 Joe W. Bratcher Prize they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming by dezireé a. brown is a momentous debut, tracking a self-proclaimed antihero’s quest for liberation via the…

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

💜 Order THE HUNGERING YEARS by @summ.bsky.social now for a SIGNED copy & limited-edition goods! hostpublications.com/products/the...

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

💙 The Host Dispatch Returns for Season 6! S6E1 is in conversation with poet and author of WAYWARD CREATURES, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes | Listen on iHeart (or wherever) 💙 www.iheart.com/podcast/338-...

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

🌞On the Blog: Host Publications has a new face, and it is luminous, view our new mascot, Varo and read about the behind the scenes process as we worked with linocut artist Eva Frederick! 🌞 hostpublications.com/blogs/news/v...

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Varo, The Celestial Lion Emerges

Introducing Our New Mascot, Varo We greet you here at the beginning of 2026 with a long overdue announcement: after 36 years as a publishing house, Host Publications has converted to nonprofit! You ...

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LN @lususnaturae0.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

This is the best contemporary poetry book I've read in the past couple of years. Wow. It's rare that I feeI exactly what the poet intended, that their words can push my ego aside and I can glimpse their internal life. Absolutely (beauti/power)ful hostpublications.com/products/the...

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they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming by dezireé a. brown

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

you can now pre-order THE HUNGERING YEARS, out from @hostpublications.bsky.social 2.24.26 💜🌻 hostpublications.com/collections/...

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

🔥Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for the DEATH TO THE BULLSHIT ARTISTS OF SOUTH TEXAS 11th Anniversary Edition by Fernando A. Flores! Order now on our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social 🔥 hostpublications.com/collections/...

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 01/08/2025

“Today’s poem carries that same energy of self-discovery, inevitable change, and an extravagance of living,” shares Major in today’s encore episode. Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social‬: bit.ly/3IUaqAj

An excerpt from “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This will be our thread for W4G's Sealey Challenge. To support us, fill out the sponsor pledge form or contribute directly now. Include W4G in the notes section so we can keep track. Our goal is $1k in pledges and contributions this month: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...

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Sealey Challenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser

All funds collected through this page will be sent to The Sameer Project, a donations-based initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora working to supply aid to displaced families in Gaza. You can ...

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Still flying high from last week's I Scream Social at Alienated Majesty Books! We featured Julie Poole, Marzetta, Ari Kelly, & Austen Scheib!

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University of Wisconsin Press @uwiscpress.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We're so excited and grateful to see @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social's and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva's poetry collections named as finalists for @lambdaliterary.org's 2025 Lammy Awards in Gay Poetry and LGBTQ+ Poetry! 🎉 Check out the full list of finalists across all categories: tinyurl.com/yc5uu4ea

A graphic created by Lambda Literary, showing the covers of the five books that are finalists for the 2025 Lammy Award in Gay Poetry. Behind the books, a magneta background with white stars and a golden Lambda Literary seal

A graphic created by Lambda Literary, showing the covers of the five books that are finalists for the 2025 Lammy Award in LGBTQ+ Poetry. Behind the books, a magneta background with white stars and a golden Lambda Literary seal

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Read WILDFLOWER from @luckyjefferson.com for #DisabilityPrideMonth! This digital issue celebrating eight autistic BIPOC writers features writing by J. D. Harlock, Shel Moring, Greta McGee, and more: luckyjefferson.com/wildflower/

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Wildflower -

Wildflower celebrates 8 BIPOC writers from across the country, each of them opening a window into our lives and journeys on and across the spectrum.

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🌻Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for WAYWARD CREATURES by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes! On our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social! hostpublications.com/products/way...

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Today’s Featured Poem: “the city that loves the bomb” by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social from Book of Provocations published by @hostpublications.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/the-cit...

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the city that loves the bomb

I was in high school when Oklahoma City was bombed

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🌿🚑 Another day, another chance to double your donation. Poet Alina Stefanescu is offering to match up to $500 for Sameer Project's Medical campaign. Yesterday's was met in a day. Can we do the same? These funds are urgently needed! ❤️‍🩹 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

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[W4G] $500 Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project

July 2: A new match! Poet Alina Stefanescu has stepped up to offer a $500 match to support the work The Sameer Project is doing with their new Medical Campaign! Help us raise $500 --> which will me...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

mónica teresa ortiz’s BOOK OF PROVOCATIONS (@hostpublications.bsky.social‬) is on our reading list for #PrideMonth! The poems in this collection “explore catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression.” hostpublications.com/products/boo...

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book of provocations by mónica teresa ortiz

Inaugural Winner of the Joe W. Bratcher Prize mónica teresa ortiz posits that the most important role of the poet is that of “provocateur, to prod the audience, to interpret a visible and invisible…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Read m. mick powell’s THREESOME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA for #PrideMonth! This collection from @hostpublications.bsky.social “sings about Black queer femmehood in harmonies of multiple voices, asserting the self as ever-changing and voluminous.” hostpublications.com/collections/...

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threesome in the last Toyota Celica & other circus tricks by m. mick powell

Winner of the Fall 2023 Host Publications Chapbook Prize Featuring an introduction by poet, mother, and educator Brittany Rogers. Formally inventive, emotionally symphonic, glittering and…

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Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

A look inside LOCAL REMEDIES by Chiagoziem Jideofor, forthcoming from Host Publications Spring 2026! @poetrydaily.bsky.social poems.com/poem/local-r...

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local remedies

like prayers and hymns like a fence of gmelina trees blocking the sun

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