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River River Books

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Where Poetry Moves. Two editors, publishing (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year & the Plainwater Nonfiction Series. Poetry submissions open in May. Posts by editors @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and @amorak.bsky.social www.riverriverbooks.org

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@hanvanderhart.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥
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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 17/09/2026
For our new issue, nonfiction writer Joe Wilkins highlights journals that have published his essays about mountain meadows, childhood, and his “coming into being through place,” including Orion Magazine, River Teeth, the Georgia Review, and others. Read on: at.pw.org/JoeWilkins
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazing reading—not to be missed! Tonight! 📚💙🎉
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy publication day to Martha Zweig’s SNAILS OF THE APOCALYPSE! 🎉🎉🎉 Shipping now from riverriverbooks.org and Itasca! 📚 💙 riverriverbooks.org/store/Snails...
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Try poetry, today! riverriverbooks.org/store/
riverriverbooks.org
Bookstore
Bookstore selling contemporary poetry collections published by River River Books.
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It is not the author’s job to help you place your review. It is not the press’s job. It is your job 🙏💙📚
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Paying markets! Get that bread! 👇
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Book reviewers, especially new ones: this is for you! 📚💙
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My review of Fifty Mothers, Preeti Vagani’s gorgeous debut collection from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social, is in the latest issue of @literarymama.bsky.social.
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"Sometimes We Love by Closing a Door": Grief, Mothering, and the Body in Preeti Vangani’s Fifty Mothers
Fifty Mothers, Preeti Vangani’s debut collection, opens with a photograph of the first page of the diary her mother kept while in college in Mumbai. Her mother’s maiden name is scratched out, replaced...
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hey babe. We’ve got you covered: www.riverriverbooks.org/store
Comic by Kyle Bravo with a woman looking and her bookshelf at home and the dialogue: 

"Hi honey, could you run by the bookstore on the way home? We're almost out of poetry."
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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
let's goooooooooooooo
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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A BOOK. From a press I trust and admire 💙 and in a terrific cohort 🎉 @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A truly ridiculous amount of talent & lyric warmth & creativity & depth—watch for their forthcoming collections!
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if you know the color of their eyes it’s already too late @bridgetgordon.gay · 08/09/2026
YOOOOOOOOO
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the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
hey, it IS a good morning!
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the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
yeah dudes. yr man HAS A BOOK COMING OUT. I'd act like I've been here before, but I literally haven't. Many thank yous to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social & @amorak.bsky.social & @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
me in a Chicago flag shirt sitting by Lake Michigan announcing my debut collection of poems, LAKESHORE MONK, forthcoming from River River Books
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Good morning, good morning! Absolutely chuffed to announce our Summer 2026 selections! 🌊 🌊 📚 @thecorlew.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social Lydia T. Liu @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social
Summer 2026 Selections
Chris Corlew
Lakeshore Monk
Lydia T. Liu
A River is for Departures
Catherine Rockwood
Punctum
Heidi Seaborn
Blue
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Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love River River 🩵
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Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Get you a press that runs on equitable best practice, reads with love, and has this level of transparency 💙💙💙
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james o @jamesolearypoet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thank you to River River for reading my manuscript and giving it such kind recognition 💙
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Read our full newsletter report on our summer reading period! 📚📚📚
riverriverbooks.beehiiv.com
2026 Reading Period Report & Finalists
River River wraps up its fifth open reading period
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We sent submission responses today for @riverriverbooks.bsky.social—many writers we deeply admire submitted, and there is always an element of impossibility when it comes to making decisions! So grateful for the trust. Selection announcement soon 📚💙🎉
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Let us know if you’d like a review copy of Martha Zweig’s Snails of the Apocalypse, forthcoming later this month! Email: media at riverriverbooks.org 📚❤️
Snails of the Apocalypse cover, grey with yellow snail trails, designed by Alban Fischer
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your friend dusti @dusti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I am very-reasonably excited a normal amount that this collection is fully funded.
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Book reviewers, take note!
Book reviewers!
Email
media@riverriverbooks.org
to be added to our
reviewers list and receive
digital or print ARCs

Poster with book banner and water image behind
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When fall / skitters with bad ghosts, sugar's a sweet antidote / for how the turning world keeps shortening her days. Elizabeth Sylvia 🍂
PSL

Marie adores candied apples, jack-o-lanterns, torches of Indian corn, fleshy pumpkins

cut with smiling faces. From the front seat of my car, head full of pumpkin dreams,

she asks for Starbucks,
so I stop, picturing pumpkin seeds

spilling from her sectioned neck.
Her drink dispels such darkness

with a golden pump. Marie's delighted everyone loves pumpkin spice.

She's sympathetic to a basic bitch, soft to the marketplace's buyable delights. When fall

skitters with bad ghosts, sugar's a sweet antidote for how the turning world keeps shortening her days.
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scare-ah 👻 @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
look what arrived! @esylviapoet.bsky.social’s collection SCYTHE from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. Looking forward to these poems as we usher in autumn. Holding this reminds me of the joy of physical books - the beautiful cover, the font, even the weight of the paper. 😍
The front cover of Elizabeth Sylvia’s SCYTHE, featuring an illustration of Marie Antoinette and  an abstract overlay.
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Come prowl. Lest we forget how keenly we loved…” Good morning to preorders for Martha Zweig’s forthcoming collection! 📚💙 riverriverbooks.org/store/Snails...
Grey/blue book cover with yellow snail trails and the text: SNAILS
POEMS
OF
MARTHA
ZWEIG
THE
APOCALYPSEFINALE

When in doubt, do mischief.
When it hurts, it will let you know. Follow the gleam in the eye of the needle into the haystack, into mouse & its mite, slow hottening heart of combustion.
Come prowl.
Lest we forget how keenly we loved, how long, help me inveigle our best & worst angels into new knots of invention, ours alone
who recall such havoc we wrought & so proud back in the day—that the sun rolled up gales of laughter into furious clouds, low ocean preening itself a cleanly silence over the drowned out loud.
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We’re funded! Thank you, friends! 🙏💙🎉 Still time to preorder your copy of this amazing anthology via the Kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/riv...
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A River Runs Through It: Essays on Form & Water
An anthology exploring rivers and writing, forthcoming from River River Books in Fall 2026.
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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
back to school and hard at work spreading the @riverriverbooks.bsky.social agenda throughout the library
A pink and blue poster that says “Read, Write, Edit, Cite”A small poetry broadside hung on the wall above my desk
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Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
great idea. bought some @glasspoetry.bsky.social chaps today!
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Support the presses & projects you love 💙💙💙 Tony does amazing work at @glasspoetry.bsky.social —order yourself some gorgeous chapbooks, today!! 📚📚
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Majda Gama @majda.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just backed this excellent press 😎
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Love essays on place and writing? We’ve got you covered! 💙📚✍️ Preorder by backing our kickstafter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/riv...
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A River Runs Through It: Essays on Form & Water
An anthology exploring rivers and writing, forthcoming from River River Books in Fall 2026.
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We could not be more proud of Carla! 💙💙💙 Essex County TEACHER OF THE YEAR! 🎉🎉🎉 Author of A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us, from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social 📚💙 riverriverbooks.org/store/A-Geog...
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Essex County’s Latest ‘Teacher Of Year’ Is A Poet From Newark
"Each day is an opportunity to learn from my students and help them develop the skills to create a more just and inclusive future."
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
75 percent funded!!! 💙🙏💙🙏
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Lisa M. Bradley @cafenowhere.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Some exciting names in this ToC. The editors are running a very modest Kickstarter campaign. Let’s get them funded!
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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A delight to get to write about why reading a poem is like standing up (braced) in a shallow-draft boat. So excited to read the whole collection together!! 💚💙
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
AH! We forgot to note that these will be SIGNED broadsides! 📚💙 #poetry #art Read more about our anthology kickstarter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/riv...
Unsigned version of broadside:

What can be said of rivers and poetry

That language seems to remember itself best in the river of poetry: breaks free of, spills over these glinting flashes: the artificial, superficial, imposed, official, political, commodified, transactional, and fascist constraints of its use.
That to rush a poem is to rush a living thing: to rush a poem is to rush a river. As if a river could be rushed instead of rushing.

Molly Spencer

From "My Rivers," published in A River Runs Through It: Essays on Form & Water
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We are 52% funded! Thanks so much to everyone chipping in 🙏📚💙
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A River Runs Through It: Essays on Form & Water
An anthology exploring rivers and writing, forthcoming from River River Books in Fall 2026.
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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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A River Runs Through It: Essays on Form & Water
An anthology exploring rivers and writing, forthcoming from River River Books in Fall 2026.
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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Delighted to be part of this forthcoming anthology, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, featuring "essays on form & water," from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. I have a piece on contrapuntal poems & consciousness. The publishers are currently fundraising to help cover costs: see below comment for more details.
A River Runs Through It

Essays on Form & Water

Amorak Huey & Han Vanderhart, Editors

cover by Alban Fischer
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Lisbeth White (she/her) @earthmaven.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Pretty excited to be in the company of these exquisite writers who love water like I love water 💦 💙
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Good morning to our A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: essays on form & water Kickstarter launch! 📚❤️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/riv...
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A River Runs Through It: Essays on Form & Water
An anthology exploring rivers and writing, forthcoming from River River Books in Fall 2026.
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Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
this is going to be so good! And how the hell did I get so lucky to be in it? I cannot stop telling people about @riverriverbooks.bsky.social and all the good they are out here publishing with BIG HEART and even better ethics (sometimes I hate using that word but it works)
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the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
real real excited for this
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Can’t even say how much I dig this vintage typography from @alban-fischer.bsky.social—truly Alban is our MVP, and we lucked out in an amazing way to have him as our designer 💫 🌟
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Good morning to our A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: essays on form & water Kickstarter launch! 📚❤️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/riv...
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A River Runs Through It: Essays on Form & Water
An anthology exploring rivers and writing, forthcoming from River River Books in Fall 2026.
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Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
that poem is all sound and wow
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