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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 10h

We are thrilled to share rob mclennan’s second series of questions with Maria Nazos, author of PULSE. #booksky Read rob mclennan’s blog review here: robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/09/12-o... And order your copy of Nazos’ PULSE: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo265676906.html

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Huge congratulations to Gwendolyn Soper, winner of the 2026 Omnidawn Broadside Single Poem Contest, selected by Rodrigo Toscano! #booksky And congratulations to our wonderful finalists: Robin Davidson, Gail Wronsky, Jed Myers, Peter Yeager, and Elisa Salasin!

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Brody Parrish Craig (they/them) @brodyparrish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

hi. i exist. if you'd like to follow my ramblings, i finally made good on my promise of a newsletter five years later. substack is the new xanga. follow me? queership.substack.com

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🪔🌱 Join our personalized workshop / class Breaking the Bowl with an exhilarating set of guest speakers: Ian Lockaby, José Felipe Alvergue, Aracelis Girmay & Desirée Alvarez. Submit 5 poems here: omnidawn.submittable.com/submit/36374... For more info look here: www.omnidawn.com/breaking-the...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We live in a strange and unsettling era, where we long for the powers of fabulist fiction. Please send us your best and strangest fiction! omnidawn.submittable.com/submit Judge: Selah Saterstrom Prize: $1,000 prize, publication & 25 copies Fee: $25 Deadline: October 16, 2026

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Congratulations to Mandy Gutmann-González! Winner of the 2026 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest, selected by Brody Parrish Craig And to finalists Rodrick Minor Benjamin Stallings Swati Rana Julia Wohlstetter JinJin Xu

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

John Yau will be reading at the Poetry Society of America at 7:00 pm ET on September 24. Yau will read alongside Dara Barrois/Dixon. Tickets available at poetrysociety.org. Copies of Yau’s Diary of Small Discontents and Tell It Slant available for sale. #booksky

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We are so happy to share rob mclennan’s wonderful review of PULSE by Maria Nazos! #booksky Read rob mclennan’s review here: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/09/rob-mclennan-pulse-by-maria-nazos.html Order your copy of PULSE: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo265676906.html

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

John Yau, author of Diary of Small Discontents: New & Selected Poems, 1974–2024, will deliver the Academy of American Poets 2026 Blaney Lecture! Register to attend here: event.newschool.edu/2026blaneyle... And order your copy of Yau’s most recent collection: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Only a few days left for the 2026 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest... Julie Carr is our judge, and she looks forward to reading your best work! omnidawn.submittable.com/submit Extended deadline: August 31st at midnight

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Congratulations to Rodrigo Toscano for “Poets of Shenzhen” from his collection WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. being featured in Poetry Daily! #booksky Read Toscano’s featured poem: poems.com/poem/poets-o... And order your copy of WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA.: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Maria Nazos @marianazos.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What a kickass surprise: earlier this year, @libraryjournal.bsky.social included PULSE in its PrePub Alert, w/extraordinary #poets I've long admired & dreamed of sharing ANY page with, let alone this one. 📚 Now, w/the book out from @omnidawn.bsky.social, it’s lovely to look back. #poetry

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Help with the Berkeley Poetry Festival fundraiser! August 22 2-4:30 pm Pacific Donkey & Goat Winery www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-tak...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Join our 2026 Breaking the Bowl class led by David Koehn with Rusty Morrison! omnidawn.submittable.com/submit “The arts allow us to dance at the edge of uncertainty.” Barbara Groth

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Read Process Note #76 from John Cross: “Endangered Animals of Ohio” Mathias Sets Out, on periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics. #booksky Read Cross’s note here: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/08/proc... And order What Bleak Angels Carried Your Bed: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We are so happy to share that a new review of Las Palmas by Keith Jones has been published in rob mclennan’s blog! #booksky Read rob mclennan’s review here: robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/07/keit... And order your copy of Jones’ Las Palmas: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Kimberly Reyes' poem, “The Storm Surge, 1981-1992,” is featured today in Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets! @poetsorg.bsky.social @umiamienglish.bsky.social Read Reyes’ featured poem here: poets.org/poem-a-day Order your copy of Bloodletting here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We hope you'll join us for our virtual Spring 2026 book launch on Sunday, July 26th @ 1 pm Pacific. We're grateful to Evan Karp for being such a terrific host for this reading. The event is free but you must RSVP before the event begins. app.gopassage.com/events/omnid...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Announcing our 2026 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest! Judge: Julie Carr Prize: $3000, publication and 20 author copies Dates: July 1 to August 16 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Fee: $30 per entry omnidawn.submittable.com/submit We look forward to reading your best work!

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We are so happy to share that John Yau’s Diary of Small Discontents: New & Selected Poems 1974–2024 will be reviewed in the summer issue of the print edition of Rain Taxi by Amelia Sage Van Donsel. #booksky Order your copy of Diary of Small Discontents: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Congratulations to Kimberly Reyes for BLOODLETTING becoming a finalist for The National Indie Excellence Awards! We are so happy to celebrate! Read the full list of finalists here: www.indieexcellence.com/20th-annual-... Order your copy of BLOODLETTING here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Congratulations to Norma Cole for her collection, Alibi Lullaby, becoming a finalist for The National Indie Excellence Awards! #booksky Read the full list of finalists here: www.indieexcellence.com/20th-annual-... And order your copy of Alibi Lullaby here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

We are extending the deadline to the 2026 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest to June 30th! The prize is $1000, publication and 20 copies. Judged by Maw Shein Win, author of Percussing the Thinking Jar. We are so excited to read your submissions! omnidawn.submittable.com/submit

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Congratulations to jason b crawford and YEET!, the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Poetry! We are so happy to celebrate such wonderful news! #booksky Order your copy of crawford’s YEET! here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

In his review, Evan McHenry writes: “Console seeks to examine that damaged world itself” #booksky Read McHenry's review: clereviewofbooks.com/reenactor-of-the-present-on-cyrus-consoles-the-wayfarer/ And order The Wayfarer here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo237307912.html

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Congratulations to Audrey T. Williams, winner of the 2025 Fabulist Fiction Contest selected by Arria Deepwater! #booksky And Congratulations to our finalists Amelia Burton, MK Chavez, Peter Hankins, Juhee Singh, and A.J. Vellum!

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

In his review published in Honey Literary, DeeSoul Carson writes: “YEET! imagines Black people somewhere alive and safe, imagining a new language for the way we breathe." #booksky Read Carson’s full review: www.honeyliterary.com/stickyfinger... Find YEET! here press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Join us in celebrating Molly Bendall for Turncoat becoming a finalist for the 2025 Big Other Book Award for Poetry! Read the full list of finalists here: bigother.com/2026/05/05/a... And order your copy of Bendall’s Turncoat: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We are happy to celebrate Walter Ancarrow and his collection, Etymologies, being selected by Poetry Daily for their 2025: Poetry Daily Staff Picks! Read Poetry Daily’s 2025 Staff Picks here: poems.com/2025-poetry-... Order your copy of Ancarrow’s Etymologies: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Bedient confronts disasters of politics, love, and faithless time, never turning away from the glinting axe. #booksky Pre-order your copy of Bedient’s collection, Clouds Upside Down Among the Flowers: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"It’s not an event but a feeling that forces me to write or make something. And that feeling is almost always unendurable pain and confusion." —Miranda July

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Miranda July on Emotional Honestly, Art-Making, and Perimenopause

The writer, filmmaker, and artist discusses motherhood, art-making, and her new novel All Fours .

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Congratulations to Daniel DeVaughn, winner of the 2025 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest selected by Jose-Luis Moctezuma! And Congratulations to finalists Michelle Alexander, Roda Avelar, Bruce Beasley, Tim Carrier, and Charles Wuest!

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Read the online exclusive piece, “Who Crouches in Stone Foliage,” by Karla Kelsey featured in Conjunctions here: conjunctions.com/articles/kar... And order your copy of Kelsey’s collection, Blood Feather: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #booksky

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

We are so excited to congratulate Kimberly Reyes for BLOODLETTING being featured in Ms. Magazine’s article: “Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026.” Read Ms. Magazine's article here: msmagazine.com/2026/04/24/b... And order BLOODLETTING: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

We're excited to share the 2026 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, judged by Maw Shein Win. We hope you will consider sending her your best work! How to submit: omnidawn.submittable.com/submit May 1 through June 16, 2026 Prize: $1000 and publication with 20 author copies

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Maria Nazos and her forthcoming collection, PULSE, are featured in Ms. Magazine’s “Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026.” #booksky Read the article from Ms. Magazine here: msmagazine.com/2026/04/24/b... Pre-order your copy of PULSE: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

José Felipe Alvergue’s en el norte/soy del sur, which translates to “in the north I am of the south,” is an exploration into the limits of the American sonnet, one that seeks to establish a stable sense of place Pre-order Alvergue’s collection here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Throughout this collection, Keith Jones finds truth and community amid despair and the cruelest of circumstances, working through traumatic intimacies and mapping new imaginaries. Pre-order your copy of Keith Jones’s collection, Las Palmas, here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Congrats to Liza Flum, author of Hover, named the winner of 2026 Nassar Poetry Prize, an award that honors Upstate New York poets! Learn more about Flum’s Hover and The Nassar Poetry Prize here: online2.utica.edu/news-events/... Order your copy of Hover: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We are extending the deadline to the 2026 Broadside Poetry Contest to April 30th! Please send us your best work! The prize is $1000 and 20 printed Broadsides. Judged by Rodrigo Toscano, author of WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. We are excited to read your submissions! omnidawn.submittable.com/submit

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

John Cross’s WHAT BLEAK ANGELS CARRIED YOUR BED opens in exile and st(r)ays there. The character Mathias, a trickster who opens this collection, finds a foothold in cosmic disorder. Pre-order your copy of Cross’s WHAT BLEAK ANGELS CARRIED YOUR BED: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We are delighted to celebrate Sam Creely for their collection, INVENTORYS, being chosen for the list of Best new Poetry Books by The New York Public Library! Read the full list from NYPL here: www.nypl.org/books-more/r... Order your copy of INVENTORYS here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Congrats to Rodrigo Toscano for his collection, WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA., being chosen as one of The New York Public Library’s Best New Poetry Books! Order your copy of Toscano’s WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUBELA. here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/au...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Maria Nazos examines the life force that continues to pulse relentlessly through a fragmented world, that enables us to flow, breathe, and regenerate, even through grief and loss. Pre-order your copy of maria nazos’s PULSE here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

LM Rivera’s THE BOOK OF THE RED ABSURD is a poetic autobiography seen through the lens of literature, cinema, theory, history, mythology, and demonology. Pre-order your copy of THE BOOK OF THE RED ABSURD here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Join us in applauding Liza Flum for Hover becoming a finalist for the 2026 Lammy Awards! Hover explores sexuality, love, reproductive choice, and infertility in sonnets and expansive prose meditations. Order your copy of Hover here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We are delighted to celebrate jason b crawford’s YEET! becoming a finalist for the 2026 Lammy Awards for LGBTQ+ poetry! YEET! envisions the Black community lifted off the earth and set free towards the stars. Order your copy of YEET! Here press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Join our Omnidawn authors at the AWP Conference! Find jason b. crawford on March 6th from 6-8pm at SAY PLEASE, Kinky Queer Poetry Reading @AWP, The Club Car. Pick up a copy of crawford's YEET! here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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