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Sugar House Review is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit poetry publisher based out of Utah. Our mission is to promote an eclectic range of poets through publishing and live events. linktr.ee/sugarhousereview

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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 9h
Sugar House Review contributor Jan Minich has a new book available to order! The poetry of Jan Minich in The Color of a Cougar takes us from Ohio to the Utah canyonlands.
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To help explore our diverse and rapidly changing media landscape, we present Sugar Suites—poems that extend beyond the printed word, beyond the page, to include sounds, images, and interactive elements. Check out the link in bio to see the latest Sugar Suites!
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Starting in 2026, Sugar House Review moved to a slightly different subscription model. We will still publish two issues a year with one issue being more traditional lit mag content, while the other will be a chapbook from our expanding Microdose series. The first is Rob Carney’s Writing Games!
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sugar House Review contributor Adam Scheffler has a new book out! So This Is What It Feels Like: Empathy in the Poetry of James Wright makes a renewed case for Wright’s importance by examining how his empathy for suffering others shapes his individual poems and guides his larger career.
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tomorrow marks the start of Libra season ♎⚖️ Our resident astrology expert, Shari Zollinger, has a poem for each of the Zodiac Arcana ✨ Check the link in bio to see all 12!
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Our most recent full issue, Sweet 16, features some incredible poetry by some wonderful writers – Rebecca Baggett being one of them. Visit the Sugar House website (link in bio) to purchase your edition of the Sweet 16!
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Audio on for this Sound of Sugar by Han VanderHart, who just won the 2026 Raz-Scumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize!
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
After receiving his copy of Sugar House Review: Sweet 16, poet Gaylord Brewer sent us this message. We love to hear how excited our readers & contributors get when unwrapping the latest edition! Swipe to read two poems by Brewer, included in the Sweet 16 edition of Sugar House Review 💖
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We have a pared down AWP presence, but find us and our Sweet 16 issue at booth 1278 (sharing with the amazing @lightscatterpress.bsky.social).
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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Please help Nano Tagg & Natalie Young (of Sugar House Review) through this incredibly difficult time if you can gofund.me/e134b5acb @sugarhousereview.bsky.social
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Donate to Support for Nano Taggart’s Recovery, organized by Shari Zollinger
On February 2, 2026, Nano experienced a brain bleed and a major stroke, leading to… Shari Zollinger needs your support for Support for Nano Taggart’s Recovery
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Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Find me at AWP! Reading @riverteeth.bsky.social Signing @sugarhousereview.bsky.social Reading @chestnutreview.bsky.social Signing @finishinglinepress.bsky.social 💕💕💕
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
We have a fun feature where the author answers questions in the voice of their book. Check out our newest: Rob Carney's A Book of Drought, X.J. Kennedy Prize winner and selected as one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Indie Books of 2025. www.sugarhousereview.com/interviews-d...
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Published in Nov by Bordighera Press, Carla Panciera's One Trail of Longing, Another of String looks wonderful. And if you purchase from @asterismbooks.bsky.social, it's 25% off right now. Congrats @carlapanciera.bsky.social! asterismbooks.com/product/one-...
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
First poem in our Sweet 16 issue. Thank you, Kate Kearns.
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Arah Ko's Brine Orchard is out and it looks like you can save 20% if you order now from @yesyesbooks.bsky.social. Congrats @arahko.bsky.social! www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page...
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Brine Orchid | yesyesbooks
Distributed by YesYes Books and IngramCover & Interior Design: Olivia Hammerman Author Photo: Marcus Jackson$20 | ISBN: 978-1-946303-10-3Poetry l Perfectbound | December 16, 2025 With depth...
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
We are so excited about our Sweet 16 issue. Our contributors have been posting about it and we couldn't be happier. Soon we too will post some actual photos. 🍭🎉 www.sugarhousereview.com/purchase
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Congrats to @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social on All That Blue, available for preorder now from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social www.finishinglinepress.com/product/all-...
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Brenna Womer @brennawomer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
So impressed by the beautiful job @sugarhousereview.bsky.social did with their full-color Sweet 16 issue, and excited to receive contributor copies in the mail today, featuring my poetry comic “i do everything twice” 🌹🥀❤️
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Happy to have two poems in this big, beautiful, double anniversary issue of Sugar House Review—AND is has eight book reviews MY HEART! 🩷🥰📚🎉🎉🎉 @sugarhousereview.bsky.social
Sugar House Review Sweet Sixteen Anniversary  issue. Pink balloons and frogs on cover, adorbs
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
A new poem from Lauren Camp in the new double, Sweet Sixteen issue of @sugarhousereview.bsky.social! 📚🩷 Read the full poem “As Long as I See” here: www.sugarhousereview.com/current-issu...
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Lauren Camp's “As Long as I See”
In an effort to avoid verbosity, we'll put it succinctly: we love poetry. Our name is based on both our location and desire to publish sticky, heart-racing, sweet, sweet addictive poetry. Sugar Hous
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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
L. I. Henley has a beautiful visual review of Sue William Silverman’s essay collection Selected Misdemeanors in the latest @sugarhousereview.bsky.social. This incredible issue is, as Henley conveys, “a true feast for the eyes and spirit.” Please consider subscribing to this great publication.
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Congrats to @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social on his new book Nine Persimmons, available for preorder from the University of Nebraska Press. So happy a couple of these poems lived in our pages first. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/.../nine-per...
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Subscribe now to receive our Sweet 16 double anniversary issue. It’s loaded: 110 poems from 70 poets, 4 visual poems, astrology, 8 book reviews, Rob Carney interview and chapbook excerpt, and gatefold with 2 May Swenson collage poems and a visual review. 🤯 🍭 www.sugarhousereview.com/purchase
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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
It's closing time! Last call to submit your s*xy and divine poems for the Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize. One Winner will be awarded $1000 + publication & nomination for Pushcart, Best Spiritual Literature, Best of the Net, or Best New Poets + lifetime ONLY POEMS membership 💙 All good wishes! ☺️
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Be a part of Horizon Review's first issue—open for submissions now! HorizonReview.org
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Sandra Marchetti @sandrapoetry.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Thank you to Natalie Young and her wonderful staff for publishing this great review of DIORAMA @sugarhousereview.bsky.social just in time for the #SealeyChallenge! sugarhousereviews.blogspot.com/2025/08/dior...
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Diorama by Sandy Marchetti (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2025)  Reviewed by  Joe Roberts   In Sandra Marchetti’s third poetry...
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Today's poem is "relapse dream" by Anthony Thomas Lombardi from murmurations Subscribe to our substack and find out what you're missing. www.versedaily.org/2025/relapse...
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Congrats to Sugar contributor Ryan Tracy on his new book, Lines in the Shed! Check it out at RyanTracy.com and if you're interested in writing a review, let us know.
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
New book reviews up now: www.sugarhousereview.com/book-reviews
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 20/06/2025
Today's listing of the day is: Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social (some fees) #WritingCommunity
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Listing of the Day
Today's listing of the day is: Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social (some fees) #WritingCommunity
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Preorder available this very minute for Sugar contributor Mia Kang's All Empires Must. @asterismbooks.bsky.social asterismbooks.com/product/all-...
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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
My poem “Whiteness” published in @sugarhousereview.bsky.social. It was written about this time of year many years ago now. Originally it was less self-implicating and more finger-waggy. But that didn’t feel right. The town has since replaced the sign, which also had a big slice in it (?!).
Whiteness

There’s a bullet hole in the only sign
for miles, just over the brook from our house
across a narrow bridge. We live close
enough that in the winter we can see its red
reflected through the desaturated woods
and maybe a car or two per hour inching
up to it. Now in the season’s dregs
from the same window I witness
a pair of grouse huddled in a tree,
I track the brook’s rush in relation
to rain falling high on the mountain towns,
I’m impatient for the ferns
and the bloodroot that seem impossible
when everything once soft has been brittle
for so long, and yes, I think about the hole
someone blasted through the stop sign,
the shell tumbling into a snow drift
and the bullet itself catching the old bones
of a pollarded willow. Then I admit
to my shame there must be some pleasure
in firing a gun into the night, even just once,
and at what better target
than something telling me to stop.
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Sugar contributor @taylorfthiel.bsky.social's book is now available for presale! elj-editions.com/bone-valley-... Let us know if you're interested in writing a review.
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Bone Valley Hymnal
Bone Valley Hymnal arrives from the molten core of Utah’s arid landscapes. Here, with the fossils mothers pass down to their daughters Franson-Thiel weaves hymns of heritage and gender performativi…
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Looking for a retreat full of nature, poetry and writing? Join Sugar contributor Laura Walker & Shannon Vesely for 5 days in Laceyville, PA. May 13-17. www.lauraswalker.com/seeking-soli...
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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A very important poem from Reading Water (forthcoming May 1st) is published in the latest issue of @sugarhousereview.bsky.social. My thanks to the editors. I've enjoyed reading through the issue these last few days. #poetry #literature #poem #readingwater #poetrysky
Sugar House Review #29 - Cover "An Experience That Includes Death"Sugar House Review #29 - "An Experience That Includes Death" by Derek JG Williams (page 1)Sugar House Review #29 - "An Experience That Includes Death" by Derek JG Williams (page 2)Sugar House Review #29 - "An Experience That Includes Death" by Derek JG Williams (page 3)
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Annie Przypyszny @apryps.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I have a poem up in Issue 29 of one of my favorite literary journals, @sugarhousereview.bsky.social :-)
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Always, then, it was August, the end of a road that ran straight for miles. —Kasey Jueds #poetry @kaseyryoen.bsky.social @sugarhousereview.bsky.social www.sugarhousereview.com/current-issu...
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Current Issue Sneak Peek | Sugar House Review
Sample poetry content from the newest issue of Sugar House Review.
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Friend and contributor Rob Carney has an award-winning, new book out. Read this hot-off-the-press review (okay, maybe just warm-off-the-press) from SLUG Mag and then snag yourself a copy. www.slugmag.com/arts/art/int...
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Book Review: The Book of Drought - SLUG Magazine
The Book of Drought, by local poet and educator Rob Carney, manages to take a clear-eyed look at the environment, instill faith in community action and a more hopeful tomorrow.
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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
I've got TWO visual poems in Sugar Suites! THANK YOU, @sugarhousereview.bsky.social! I'm sooo excited! These are my first two collage poems out in the world. 💃✨💃 Direct link: www.sugarhousereview.com/ss2/two-visu... Link to all Suites: www.sugarhousereview.com/sugarsuites2
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Two Visual Poems
by Burgi Zenhaeusern
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Dominique Ahkong reads "Ghazal for Familiar Women" from the winter issue. Listen & read at TheSoundOfSugar.blogspot.com
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Sean Hill reads "Postcard from Compass Rose," a 2023 Pushcart Prize nomination. Listen and read at thesoundofsugar.blogspot.com
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
From our Pushcart nominations & upcoming issue, listen & read Troy Osaki's "REVERSE LIGHTNING RALLY AT THE U.S. EMBASSY": thesoundofsugar.blogspot.com/2023/12/troy... "The president’s face on fire becomes a face again, unburnt. Smoke rolling skyward now caves in."
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Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
We wish we could nominate all of our contributors, but since we only get six, here are our 2023 Pushcart Prize nominations:
• “Crystalline” by Francesca Bell
• “Theism” by Emma Bolden
• “The Idea of Community” by John Gallaher
• “Postcard from Compass Rose” by Sean Hill
• “Reverse Lighting Rally at the US Embassy” by Troy Osaki
• “You’ll Love it, I Swear” by Sonja Vitow
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