✨✨Exciting news from one of our How to Read Your Poetry Aloud workshop participants! 🎤🌰

Laura Esther Sciortino had her new chapbook, Remote Control, released by The Poetry Box. Her debut collection is available at all major booksellers.
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Happy New Month!

It’s June and we are still reading for our Autumn, 2024 issue!

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Submit to us today 🌰

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Calling all poetry enthusiasts! 🌰

Chestnut Review is seeking volunteer readers for submissions. Spend 4-5 hours/week online via Submittable. No staff submissions. Published artists can apply!
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'Daydreams is an ideal that represents serene isolation, that which conveys elements not normally found together but are spiritual norms for myself that I find to be complete and embrace places and seasons.' Donald Guadagni' Daydreams in Winter 2023 Issue
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'Daydreams is an ideal that represents serene isolation, that which conveys elements not normally found together but are spiritual norms for myself that I find to be complete and embrace places and seasons.' Donald Guadagni' Daydreams in Winter 2023 Issue
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It's official! Our awesome CR community has raised enough funds to send Shedrack to Brown! You've raised $4,090--the amount Shedrack needs in order travel from his home in Nigeria to Brown's campus! Shedrack thanks you!

Hey! It will be nice working with you as a reader, apply.

Calling all poetry enthusiasts! 🌰

Chestnut Review is seeking volunteer readers for submissions. Spend 4-5 hours/week online via Submittable. No staff submissions. Published artists can apply!
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Hey guys!

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Because it is children’s day,

Because “it is Monday morning and she is dressing me up for school”

I have a new poem Full House Literary, thanks to the editor Leia for being so kind and treating this poem with care.

Link: fullhouseliterary.com/spring-issue-2…

Kelly Houk brings nature to life with semi-abstract acrylic paintings, rich in texture and vibrant, capturing the essence of her inspiration. Her work 'Quiet Spring' in Chestnut Review Spring, 2024 issue.
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You can also listen to this story BEAUTIFULLY read by Shedrack Akanbi! I am so grateful for the attention and care CR has given this insomnia of mine. It is a real honor! Read or listen below!

In their story “Leslie Birch Was Not Real,” Choctaw writer coby-dillon english asks, “What did a son know of his father’s… choices and consequences?” Read our spring ‘24 issue to find out.
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Philosopher and guitarist Matthew Church’s “Adagio for Bisexual Erasure” proves that art is “an opportunity for more life.” Find the full poem in our spring ‘24 issue.

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Speculative poet Gospel Chinedu acknowledges “how hard it was to sing the songs alone” in his poem “The Recipe—Joy As An Ingredient For Cooking Grief” in our spring issue.

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It’s #ThrowbackThursday ! If you’re craving more Chestnut Review, check out our spring 2023 issue to find pieces like Alba Delia Hernández’ bilingual ballad “20 Bars for Vitiligo” and read more about “the only cure” for our visible insecurities.
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In Jona Whipple’s story “Why Are You Still Here,” dementia begins like “a bloom of black mold behind the walls.” Read the full piece in our spring ‘24 issue.
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Time is running out! Only one month left to support a Chestnut Review reader and former contributor in his graduate studies! Visit the link in below to send esteemed poet and scholar Shedrack Opeyemi Akanbi to Brown University!
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Nobody is meant to go through the creative process alone. Visit our Submittable and select the Feedback Option to receive comments from our readers and/or editors!
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'The chromatic background that comes from the combination of stains of watercolor recalls the weaving of oriental fabrics and the wear of time.' - The Way to Hammamet by Vincenzo Cohen in Spring'24.

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Don’t forget to register for our 5/18 workshop at chestnut-review.com for a safe space to practice reading your work aloud with CR editor-in-chief James Rawlings!