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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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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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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

75 percent funded!!! 💙🙏💙🙏

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

Cover design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT features 29 essays by contemporary writers on their place among rivers and writing. Back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/riv...

A River Runs Through It: Essays on Form & Water, cover featuring a blue and green waterscape with ripples

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The old plan was to sit a spell, then walk in flammable quiet. The new plan is to trick the whale into opening her mouth and then we get in. Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social

I was missing my antlers,

so you folded me a pair,
along with some other doubles—
doves; cuffs.

I have affixed
what you built
to my skull.

If what you want
to do with paper now
is crush it into balls,
lob two in my direction.

The old plan was
to sit a spell,
then walk
in flammable quiet.

The new plan
is to trick the whale
into opening her mouth
and then we get in.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Good morning to this beautiful review of THE VISIBLE FIELD in Radar Poetry! 📚 💙 Read it here: www.radarpoetry.com/review-the-v... @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social

"Tenderness, yes. Wit, yes.
Resolution, not often.
Because these poems mirror life at the same time that they exist as art."

Dara-Lyn Shrager reviews
THE VISIBLE FIELD in Radar Poetry

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Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New poem plus a thoughtful review of The Visible Field in the new issue of Radar Poetry! www.radarpoetry.com/issue-45-toc

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Table of Contents — Radar

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Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Today is the birthday of the poet @hanvanderhart.bsky.social . Please read every single one of their poems. They are gorgeously-wrought, clear-eyed poems of breathtaking longing, and they make a kind of magic that reminds me what poems are for. Happy birthday, Taurus! 🌱🪻🫛🌻💙

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Okay, so May has managed to sneak up on us ... but guess what? We're open for manuscript submissions TOMORROW. Send us your full-length poetry collection. No required sub fee (tip jar optional, always). Model contract on our website. duotrope.com/publisher/ri...

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River River Books

River River Books was founded by Amorak Huey and Han VanderHart in March 2022. Inspired by the idea that you cannot step in the same river twice, at River River Books, two poetry editors join together...

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Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I’m excited for this panel with my amazing @riverriverbooks.bsky.social pressmates and the brilliant Gracie Leavitt at The Nussrat Yassini poetry festival next weekend at UNH. Mainer and Seacoast New Hampshire buddies, hope to catch a glimpse of you!🌸

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Read @eleanorball.bsky.social’s incredible review of @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social’s The Visible Field in Cleaver Magazine! 📚💙👇 www.cleavermagazine.com/the-visible-...

Blue graphic with book cover of The Visible Field and the text: "With a fresh lens that broadens the scope of the possible and the poetic, White challenges how we routinely estrange ourselves from the natural world and our own hearts."
POEMS
THE
ZOE
VISIBLE
RYDER
FIELD
WHITE
Eleanor Ball reviews THE VISIBLE FIELD in Cleaver Magazine

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David J Bauman @davidjbauman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Another wonderful poetry conversation went live this morning, this time with @hanvanderhart.bsky.social. Hear the full poem, plus two more, one of which was written by Catherine Rockwood. Listen and follow via inthreepoems.com

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Listen to Episode 86 with Zoë Ryder White here! 👉 share.transistor.fm/s/9b660f10 @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

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OF POETRY PODCAST
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POEMS
THE
ZOË
VISIBLE
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FIELD
WHITE
(Of Wonder, Emily Dickinson, and Titling Poems)
EPISODE 86

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I have two new poems in Issue #2 of slips slips—this one features midlife dating and both members of my writing group, @nematode.bsky.social and @jgriffingraham.bsky.social 💜 “it's a play in a wooden O; a cypher; we are but the players, filling it an hour, short as spring, lush and too beautiful”

Ara Poetica with Midlife Dating and Wyatt and a Murder Ballad

Has your longest love ever walked into the woods with someone else, slipped off the grid for hours, kissed her on a rock by the river?
It's Elizabethan as the king's favorite hound in her embroidered collar, as a hind and a hart at daybreak, as naked foot stalking your chamber floor; it's a play in a wooden O; a cypher; we are but the players, filling it an hour, short as spring, lush and too beautiful in saturated greens in recounting my sadness taking place unchristianly during holy week, a friend responds:
I'd read your "midlife marriage novel," and I say I'd title it Murder Ballad—who is getting murdered? asks our third friend, anxious. My feelings, I say, which are Southern and dramatic. Ah, she says. I'd read the hell out of that.

-HAN VANDERHART

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Listen to Episode 86 (Of Wonder, Emily Dickinson, and Titling Poems) with @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social here: share.transistor.fm/s/9b660f10

Graphic with a white horse in a stall and the text:

This is not a metaphor for an unhappy life.
This is how my body felt.
This is how my neurology followed its groove,
showed me a picture of a mare in a stall too small for turning.
from "Listen to Yourself"
Zoë Ryder White

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Of revision, of titling poems, of neurology and phenomenology, of Bachelard and Dickinson and compression and more! Episode 86 with Zoë Ryder White is here! 📚💙🎙️ Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/9b660f10 @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

Graphic featuring author photo of Zoe Ryder White and the book cover of The Visible Field and the text:

Episode 86: Zoe Ryder White (Of Wonder, Emily Dickinson, and Titling Poems)
Zoe Ryder White, author of The Visible Field

Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere
Read: "Listen to Yourself" (Sixth Finch)
Purchase: The Visible Field (River River Books, 2026)

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Love this conversation with @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social, airing tomorrow! 📚💙🎙️ @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

I am not a very tortured poet-the process for me is joyful, even when it's messed up.

ZOE RYDER WHITE, EP 86

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Get ready for a new episode tomorrow with @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social, author of THE VISIBLE FIELD from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social! 📚💙🎉

I am amazed.
I am ready to be amazed.
How could I not be
amazed?

ZOE RYDER WHITE, EP 86

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Happy WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH from River River Books! 🎉🎉🎉 Check out these beautiful poetry and nonfiction titles today! 📚💙 riverriverbooks.org/store/

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Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Emily D, always at eye level as I work. You cannot solder an Abyss/ With Air

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Looking forward to participating in Virginia Festival of the Book next weekend! 📚❤️🎉 Register for free here: vahumanities.cventevents.com/event/bookfe...

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Rural Existential: Memoirs in Verse
10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Poetry
New Dominion Bookshop
Two authors turn to poetry to tell personal stories of being and becoming.
Son of a Bird by Nin Andrews, written in prose poems, explores an unconventional rural Virginia childhood, focusing on family secrets and the profound, often strange, relationships with the author's Black nanny and farmhands, all while grappling with instability, loss, and her own burgeoning self-discovery.
Larks, a book of poetry by Han VanderHart, also turns to a rural landscape, one resonant and yet quiet with unspoken truths and traumas.
Genealogies, farm creatures, mythology, and sisterhood inhabit their haunting lines.
Han VanderHart
Author

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

"See how it compensates? It gets sloppy. It spills down its bra. It’s sticky. It howls. Milkweed. Remember? You’ll be enmeshed soon." River River poet @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social with a poem at Only Poems today -- www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-dream-...

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[The dream says it’s more stripper] by Zoë Ryder White

"You bring the tea cake, the sweet demeanor."

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Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Im more excited about this project than any writing I’ve done for a long time, and so grateful to @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for sharing seven from the series, along with an interview. They sure know how to ask a compelling and thoughtful question.♥️ onlypoems.com/poets/zoe-ry...

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Zoë Ryder White | Poet of the Week | ONLY POEMS

Explore poems and an in-depth interview with Zoë Ryder White, our featured poet. Discover their work, creative process, and poetic journey.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Our first sale of AWP yesterday! 📚💙🎉 @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Our Friday night reading at University of Baltimore with @blairpub.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉📚 #AWP2026 This will be LIT! Come hear incredible writers from two North Carolina presses.

BLAIR & RIVER RIVER BOOKS
FRIDAY NIGHT READING (3/6)
7-9PM
21 W MT ROYAL AVE
BALTIMORE, MD 21201
UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE
BLAIR

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Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Thanks to The Missouri Review for sharing this poem, first in a series of “dream says” poems, as poem of the week this week ♥️ missourireview.com/zoe-ryder-wh...

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The Missouri Review“The dream says I am here to tell you” by Zoë Ryder White

Discovering the best in fiction, essays, and poetry

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The preorders of The Visible Field by @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social have blown us away—not sure who needs to hear it, but community > publicist. 📚💙🎉🎉

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Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It’s here! In one of its fields of origin. So grateful to @riverriverbooks.bsky.social for giving The Visible Field a home.

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Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Book 25 of 2026 - The Visible Field: Poems by @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social - thank you for the #ARC! A beautiful book of lyrically gorgeous poems. My biggest takeaway is the use of language #100SmallPress #BookSky #Poetry www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

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The Visible Field: Poems

Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

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Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I’m utterly smitten with this press and this cover. Lucky me, and thank you, @riverriverbooks.bsky.social and @albanfischer.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Thanks to the wonderful @willowspringsmag.bsky.social for this profile in which I speak randomly about how poems get made and my (as of yet) lack of tattoos… inside.ewu.edu/willowspring...

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Issue 95: Zoë Ryder White – Willow Springs Magazine

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Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I love the new @willowspringsmag.bsky.social cover so much, I’ve been carrying it from room to room. Excited to have three poems in here, in wonderful company-