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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Also these 5 from @hanvanderhart.bsky.social & @amorak.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social ! Elaine Kim's Antibody @esylviapoet.bsky.social Scythe @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social The Visible Field @rachelsedelman.bsky.social Dear Memphis Martha Zweig Snails of the Apocalypse

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Zoë Ryder White 💙 “Clouds have come down to touch us.” from THE VISIBLE FIELD (River River Books) Happy #smallpoemsunday! @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Quarantine 9

How beautiful the spent annuals,
tied to their roots. The yard's dense mud.
The viral load, the unscrolled breath.
Clouds have come down to touch us.
They hang around; they will not leave.
We have enclosed the yard with strings of light.
In this way, we are kept company.
In this way, our company is kept.

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Zoë Ryder White 💙 from THE VISIBLE FIELD (River River Books) I cannot get over how incredibly perfect this book is! @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

Some sentences, some clauses, a word.

It took a long time to cross the room.
The room was so long.
The room had no ceiling because the house had no roof.
The floor was uneven.
Any round thing set on one side would roll to the other.
There was a collection of roundish objects to the left.
The windows were difficult to discern because there were no walls.
Some of us could hear the dead only as we started walking or just before we got there.
Others heard them all the time: singing, carrying on.
Below the floorboards, below the space below the floorboards: relics.
A cache of seeds and plastic.
Snow in a spilled globe.
The cast-off, spooned bones.
No longer necessary.
Necessary for such a short time.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Today! A couple River River titles will be in attendance including Jameela Dallis’s ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD! Come hear Jameela and editor Han read together with friends! 📚👻🖤

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

eff YEEES!!! One of our most metal titles, IMO 🐌 🎸 🔥

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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

envy me! for I have _Snails of the Apocalypse_. 💚🐌☄️ @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

Photo shows the cover (beautiful gamboge snail-tracks on a slate background) of _Snails of the Apocalypse_, a new poetry collection by Martha Zweig from River River Press.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

😍🙏🎉🎉 thank you, Perugia and Becky!!!

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We love to celebrate our poets’ successes, with our books or for other work they’ve gone on to publish. Three cheers for Corrie Williamson, Abby E. Murray & Jen Siraganian for these recent post-pub book honors! 🎉🎉🎉 @riverriverbooks.bsky.social @jsiraganian.bsky.social @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Find your copy of Corrie Williamson’s Your Mother’s Bear Gun here at our online bookstore, Itasca Books, or order it from your local bookshop! 📚💜🎉

riverriverbooks.org

Bookstore

Bookstore selling contemporary poetry collections published by River River Books.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We are so excited to hear that Corrie Williamson has won the High Plains International Book Award in poetry for YOUR MOTHER’S BEAR GUN! Congratulations, Corrie! 🎉🎉🎉

Cover of Your Mother’s Bear Gun against green art print with orange daisies and the text:

Congrats to Corrie Williamson for winning the High Plains International
Book Award in poetry!
HIGH PLAINS
INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pour a second cup of coffee and peruse this new review of Jameela Dallis’s Encounters for the Living and the Dead featured in North Carolina Poetry Society! 📚💜 #poetry #booksky Read here: www.ncpoetrysociety.org/review-of-en...

Sea creature background and the text:

"[Dallis] transforms witnessing from passive observation into an active form of
remembrance."

Mary Maceda reviews Encounters for the Living and the Dead for North Carolina Poetry Society

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Check out new September books, including Martha Zweig’s SNAILS OF THE APOCALYPSE! 🐌 ☄️ Thank you, @clmporg.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

Come prowl. Lest we forget how keenly we loved, Martha Zweig riverriverbooks.org/store/

FINALE
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 · 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 · 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

Book reviewers, especially new ones: this is for you! 📚💙

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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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the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

hey, it IS a good morning!

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the lakeshore undead @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

Congrats to our new authors, and many thanks to all who submit. ❤️📚 We read everything we receive, and the shape of the submitted work changes EVERY. YEAR. We love to publish someone who has submitted before, and has found the final shape for their collection. We could not do this work without you! 🙏

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Heidi Seaborn is the author of three award-winning books of poetry. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Financial Times, Image, Poetry Northwest, Terrain.org, The Slowdown and elsewhere. Heidi’s Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and holds degrees from Stanford and NYU.

Heidi in a black shirt and gray blazer by a window.

River River Books
Heidi Seaborn
Blue

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Catherine Rockwood (she/they) lives between the Mystic and Charles Rivers. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks published by The Ethel Zine Press: Endeavors to Obtain Perpetual Motion and And We Are Far From Shore. Their third chapbook, Dogwitch, is available from Bottlecap Press.

Catherine Rockwood in a blue top and a floral garden setting.

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Catherine Rockwood
Punctum

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lydia T. Liu is a diasporic poet and performance artist. Her interdisciplinary performance VOICES was presented at Microscope Gallery NYC in collaboration with composer Brandon Woo Snyder and translator Jennifer Shyue. She grew up in Singapore and now lives in Princeton, NJ.

Lydia T. Liu in a garden setting, smiling and wearing a floral top and white shawl

River River Books
Lydia T. Liu
A River is for Departures

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Chris Corlew is a writer and musician living in Chicago. His poems and stories have appeared in various magazines and journals. With Bob Sykora, Chris co-hosts The Line Break, a podcast about poetry and basketball. With Brendan Johnson, he is one-half of Lazy & Entitled, the band that writes novels.

Chris Corlew, everybody!!! Sitting on a concrete barrier with watery blue behind him.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We also can't wait for you to read these four collections (three of them full-length debuts!) and be as delighted as we are by the wonder and spirit alive in their language.

Author photos of Chris Corlew, Lydia T. Liu, Catherine Rockwood, and Heidi Seaborn.

Congratulations to our new River River Books authors!

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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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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We love you, Tara!! 🙏🥰📚💗💗

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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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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thank you for sharing it with us, James! 🙏💙💙

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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

Congrats to the writers of these great manuscripts! 🎉🎉🎉 We are confident they will find good homes soon!

River River Books
2026 Open Reading Period
Finalists
Ecophagy, Alyse Bensel
bomb, Lisa Bickmore Sun Blue, Megan Breiseth
Origin Stories, Tara Shea Burke
Long Line, Monika Cassel
What an Animal This Is, Samantha DeFlitch
The Long "i", H.E. Fisher
Mouthful, N Kuutqhuzuk
Dust Baptism, James O'Leary
fruitscape, Nat Raum
To Sing Morning Has Broken & Mean That
It Is Whole, Adrie Rose
Point of Incision, Leonora Simonovis
Supernova, Hali Sofala-Jones
Born Wanderer, Wendy Wisner
Small Craft, Jane Zwart

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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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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🥰🙏📚💜 Thank you, Dusti!!!!

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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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