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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Taking it Into the Light by Andrena Zawinski We marched past the theatre marquis on Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh. The stalker horror film, “He Knows You’re Alone,” was playing at one where we stopped and chanted: “We are together. We are not alone!” Read it all: riseupreview.org/andrena-zawinski-1

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Common Milkweed by Brett Warren —Genus Asclepias, named for the Greek god of medicine, healing, and rejuvenation It was that other Election Day, the year it seemed like hope might be restored. I was on the porch, following the advice ... Read the complete poem at riseupreview.org/brett-warren-1

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

No Kings by Timothy Tarkelly He torched the trees And hoped to singe the sky Anything to starve the soil Make it groan his name --- Read the rest of the poem at riseupreview.org/timothy-tarkelly

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Warlocks of War by Rodrigo Toscano No night for warlocks of war And so no dreams no insight Just glare... Read the entire poem at riseupreview.org/rodrigo-toscano

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Don't forget! We're open for submissions till June 1. Send us your poems and essays now: riseupreview.org/how-to-submit

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

desire& by MK Zariel —after "GREED" by Nora Hikari i want to be reminded why i came out & i want to be negated by the undulating synaesthetic waves that pass as a coherent theory & i want to be perceived only by other voids & i want to watch... Read this knockout poem: riseupreview.org/mk-zariel

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

American Forest by Ann Weil The night class will not remember the lesson. The girl in red lends a pencil to a boy. He thanks her, takes notes, lets his mind wander to weekend plans. The night class barely notices the door open... Read the full poem at riseupreview.org/ann-weil

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

QuestION AuTHORITY by JeFF Stumpo A teenage girl prints the words You are the reason I lay awake on one hundred sheets of paper... Read the whole poem at riseupreview.org/jeff-stumpo

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Letter from Ohio by Jim Krosschell I brought my father’s letter to the bedroom and read it to the woman with whom I lived— in sin, as he will write. ... Read the whole poem at riseupreview.org/jim-krosschell

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Self-Portrait as a Gray Rock by Amy Jensen No barren wasteland, I am the gray rock that is blue in the rain, purple in the dawn, silver as dusk’s long shadows strike its shiny surface. I am the jewel ... Read the whole poem at riseupreview.org/amy-jensen

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Thoughts from from the Discount Grocery Store by Jessie McLean Henry's friendly with the Save-More butcher, Without understanding a word he says. Bow wow, says the butcher's deep southern drawl, Bow wow dog food, says the butcher's willingness to help... Read it all: riseupreview.org/jessie-mclean

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Red-Eye by Robbie Gamble your country crawls along beneath you six miles down through dark thin air into thicker air then cloud cover then the ground unseen your country lit tonight by just half a moon so remote it is not yours only this ... Read the whole poem: riseupreview.org/robbie-gamble-2

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Our Love, at the End of the World by Shannon Frost Greenstein Read it all at riseupreview.org/shannon-fros...

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Our Submittable portal is now open! We will be reading for our summer issue until June 1st. riseupreview.com/how-to-submit

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Petition by Hila Ratzabi May 1, 2024 The birds sing like they’ve never heard of war. I sit among the sounds, soil loosens the iris bulb, makes way for sharp leaves to accuse the sky of its bombs. ... Read the rest at riseupreview.org/hila-ratzabi

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Public School Fable by Barbara Boches Jack stomped up the stolen rungs with a spliff, cutting English or Chemistry or whatever. No beanstalk, no hen, no harp. ... Read it all at: riseupreview.org/barbara-boches

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The Present Interior by Yuan Changming For now let’s forget all troubles & miseries In this world of red dust, forsake our family & Friends alike, forgive each & every other’s debts ... Read the rest of this gorgeous poem at riseupreview.org/yuan-changmi...

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Read "Madness in D Minor" by Linda Cooper here: riseupreview.org/linda-cooper

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

What are you writing? What's percolating for you right now?

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The Morning After Election Day by Joanne Durham. Read this and more in our current issue: riseupreview.com/current-issue

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

riseupreview.org/laurel-benjamin A Woman Observes by Laurel Benjamin (excerpt) Today I'm making fennel golden-raisin scones, eggs with shitakes and swiss, a good stiff black tea. Yet I can't help picture the homeless woman who strips from the waist down on the pavement outside the autobody shop..

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Writers: your work is necessary. Writing is resistance. Keep going. 🧨

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Read our latest issue online now: riseupreview.org

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Hila Ratzabi @hilaratzabi.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Thank you to @riseupreview.bsky.social for publishing my new poem, “Petition,” one that is very close to my heart, my personal prayer for peace. www.riseupreview.org/hila-ratzabi

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

In our latest issue, "Mural Poem" by Dom Bianco. Read it and more online: riseupreview.org.

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Makayla Wamboldt's "Namesake." Read this and more powerful work at riseupreview.org/current-issue

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

From the most recent issue of The Rise Up Review, "An Overdue Lament," by Juan Pablo Mobili. Read this and more on our website at riseupreview.org

Poem by Juan Pablo Mobili
An Overdue Lament

a whisper loves a canal
—Alan Fesenthal

You deserved
the wild blessing of
a wave a howl

even a thorn
rather than the hand
that first covered your mouth.

I think now
of that secret
homeless in your throat,

wishing for a canal,

wishing
someone
listened.

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

From the current issue of The Rise Up Review, "Rafah" by Tanner Howard. Read more here: riseupreview.org/current-issue

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

From our current issue, News of the World by Deborah Bacharach. Read it and more here: riseupreview.org/current-issue

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

"Corruption of My Mexican Identity" by Dan Acosta. Dan is a first-generation Mexican American, whose mother and grandparents emigrated from Mexico. He is a former professor, research scientist, and administrator, who retired in 2019 at age 74. riseupreview.org/dan-acosta

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Rise Up Review @riseupreview.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Rise Up Review is a landing site for the language of opposition. The poems on Rise Up are meant to be disseminated like little manifestos. The personal essays on this site bear witness to the effects of policy.

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