Sign up now for the annual Gathering of Poets! 8/31 – 9/2 on Zoom. Feat. Michelle Bitting, Danusha Laméris, Mary O’Donnell, Ed Pavlić, & Claire Wahmanholm. Seating is limited. Email [email protected] to inquire if there is a spot open. jacarpress.com/the-gathering/

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Winner of Jacar Press's New Voices Award, Nigerian poet Chisom Okafor 's collection ALL I KNOW ABOUT A HEAVY HEART IS HOW TO CARRY IT will be published in 2025. Jaki Shelton Green calls it “a celebrated revival" of "raw fierce and unflinching energy." brittlepaper.com/2024/08/chisom…

I have a list essay on the recent Cambodian American literary boom on Literary Hub, in conjunction with the publication of my debut novel Koan Khmer. The essay explains why I set the novel in the U.S. and how it is part of the recent boom (2/2) lithub.com/a-new-asian-am…

Here's a #poem of mine just out from Rust and Moth. Hope you'll read it. #poetry

Thank you Richard Krawiec, Natalie Eleanor Patterson & all at Jacar Press One for nominating my poem, “Hypnagogia” for Best of the Net.

#DingleLit 2024 Workshop - Shake It Up! Writing New and Surprising Poetry with Molly Twomey Molly Twomey 📚 This workshop is for beginners or emerging adult poets looking for a generative workshop to inspire new work. Book here: bit.ly/3SW6j9f #PoetryWorkshop

Congratulations to our Best of the Net nominees for One: Michelle Bitting, Heidi Seaborn, Traci Brimhall, Luke Johnson, Saddiq Dzugozi, & Tina Barr! Read their poems in Issues 28, 29, & 30 of One magazine. one.jacarpress.com

One is also always open for submissions! Send us your single best poem. one.jacarpress.com/submissions/

“How difficult and treacherous our paths are, always, within this country and its institutions.” Huda Fakhreddine هدى فخر الدين on being an Arabic literature professor in a time of genocide. lithub.com/intifada-on-be…

The water is depthless with fog, it hovers / like the unspoken: / spiders begging to be women again, / Hades placing a basket of grain in his bed / when Persephone has gone. Molly Kirschner, “Mysteries” one.jacarpress.com/issue-30/

In The Irish Times today, Poem of the Week: An Exhibition irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

“Let’s try to put our own vanities aside when we write poems, and let’s read the poems by other people that make us feel most alive.” Mary Jo Salter on finding beauty and community in poetry. lithub.com/we-are-all-nob…

I am grateful to Jaki Shelton Green for selecting The Gathering of Bastards as the winner of the 2023 Julie Suk Award, and support all the books that were shortlisted. Support small and indie presses.