Terminal Moraine pale moon   and sun,two shy wallflowers   across an eggshell-blue dance floor,   seasonal rotationslike one great blink   of god’s eye,orbiting bodies   never to meetuntil we take …

29 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY Woodstock might seem like it’s a quiet rural community, but in the summer and fall months it becomes a touristy hot-spot, especially in the Hudson Valley’s beautiful ...

Terminal Moraine pale moon   and sun,two shy wallflowers   across an eggshell-blue dance floor,   seasonal rotationslike one great blink   of god’s eye,orbiting bodies   never to meetuntil we take …

81 Alden Street, Cherry Valley, NY I first heard about the Cherry Valley Bookstore from some other bookshop hunting friends, and we found the tiny yellow house in the middle of the village with fr...

Join us Saturday, October 3, at Mocha Lissa's in Clifton Park for EIGHT POETS, featuring poets and writers from Trailer Park Quarterly , Hobo Camp Review, the 2026 DiBiase Poetry Contest, and the HVWG...

Book of Matches is an incredible online literary journal (great words, stellar art) and they recently published my poem “Thompson Hill Blues” in their Eighth Issue. available to read online as a fli...

Kalverstraat 8, 1012 NX Amsterdam, Netherlands If we can be honest with one another, the truth is that this isn’t really a bookshop. It’s a media shop. Do they sell books? Yes. A lot of books? Some....

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ARCH is the poetry journal of SUNY Albany, the state university in my hometown in New York. They accepted two of my poems, and by chance one of them is titled “Clouds Over New York,” while the other i...

107 Charing Cross Road, London, UK Is Foyles on Charing Cross the best bookstore I’ve visited? It may be. It’s at least sitting at the table for the “best ever” conversation, especially if we’re not...

The end of a season is, at first, a constriction. We feel tightening days wherein warmthpresses spine and chest in unison to help us remember how we can be held. Then, there is the moment of encounter...

I’ve had some luck with poems lately, and you’ll find new ones in the following three publications…

Today I, and every other HWA member, received the HWA newsletter in our inboxes. In that newsletter was an essay (“essay”) of pro-AI propaganda that made a number of specious points in …

Understand that even before I landed an agent this last spring, I’d heard how stressful it is to be “on submission” with a novel. Especially a debut. Sometimes it takes months, sometimes years, s...

Author Joyce Carol Oates defended 'The Odyseey' and slammed translator Emily Wilson for her viral review.

by James H Duncan   great dead whales full of bones lie praying with the sun breaking in through briny teeth the holy fisherman cannot hook us all some seek to rot in the belly rather than fry…

Novelist Willy Vlautin built his career writing about people on the edges of the American dream: working-class families, lonely alcoholics, and those struggling to make ends meet in the fast-changing ...

772 NY-50, Burnt Hills, NY When I started reviewing bookshops, I started local here in the Albany area and branched out, but years later I am seeing little spots I missed and places that opened afte...

James H Duncan is the editor of Hobo Camp Review and the author of Talavera Sunsets (Bottlecap Press), Cistern Latitudes (Roadside Press), and We Are All Terminal But This Exit Is Mine (Unknown Press)...

I’m pretty pumped that I‘ll have four poems included in a new anthology called This Is Poetry Volume 5: Poets of the Northeast later this year alongside some incredible writers (and friends!) incl...

5 East Market Street, Red Hook, NY Just a few doors down from the main intersection in Red Hook, a village near Bard College, you’ll find a small yet jam-packed bookshop that has much more depth and...

<div dir="auto" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Rachel Nix writes from the steep inclines of inheritance and memory, where past is a lived terrain. <em>I Don’t Go Down That Road Anymore</em> is a p...

Sky Blue Eggshells everything I hear out the window will outlive me,the birds giving birth to birds giving birth to birds dead tendrils of houseplant lie in piles on the floorcoiling snakes of yesterd...