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Today's poetry prompt is the subject line in the 4th newest email in your inbox.

What am I looking for in creative nonfiction? Show me what makes you human. What complex or simple experiences make up your sum? What conversation have you yearned to write? Which adventure does your mind keep circling? Send it to us. We want to read it.

Poetry Boost: From Title to Publication, a new River Heron workshop, runs for four weeks in June. Registration is open. Details on our site and linked in profile.

Very excited for Wednesday's National Poetry Month workshop event, Image -> Meaning: An Invention Workshop, with Sundress author Amorak Huey! Join us on April 13th from 6:00-7:30PM EST for this free virtual event! sundresspublications.com/safta/workshops

"For her, the world is an airheaded canvas Struggling with the dimensions of infinity. You draw haloes only to be trapped by the Colors; red and white." - "The Bleeding Mother" by Nidhi Agrawal, Poetry signalmountainreview.wordpress.com/2021/11/20/nid…

New issue live on our site today! Nonfiction by Monterica Sadé Neil, Kyle Mills, and Kathleen Minor. Fiction by Sandra Gail Lambert, Audrey T. Carroll, and Thomas J. Crowe. Poetry by Ace Boggess, Linda M. Crate, and John Abbott. signalmountainreview.wordpress.com

"White, neon light splatters over the windshield of the spacecraft. Although Jessica knows it can’t be called a windshield. There is no wind in space. Maybe there is. Earthbound, previously earthbound, Jessica is uncertain." signalmountainreview.wordpress.com/2022/05/18/san…

Good news and bad news... Bad news: We don't have a story to feature from Issue 1 today because we already featured all 17 of them. ☹️ Good news: We're gearing up for Issue 2! Subs open June 1st. 😎🐍

"We fought voter suppression, registered those who had been purged from the voter rolls, knocked on doors, made phone calls, and above all else, we spoke to those that disagreed with us. And in November our state, John Lewis’s state, turned blue..." signalmountainreview.wordpress.com/2022/05/18/kat…

In "Domestic Spirits" by Audrey T. Carroll, Leigha struggles with a family secret, maintaining a tight grip on reality, and fantastical beings that will not be ignored. signalmountainreview.wordpress.com/2022/05/18/aud…

One of the poets I keep returning to is Sandra Lim. This was the first thing I read today.

Three lovely poems by Ace Boggess today, including these lines from "What Do You Think About When You Swim?" "Words returned to me read but unwanted. Someone I love drove nails into the softest wood using only a tongue for a hammer." signalmountainreview.wordpress.com/2022/05/18/ace…

"For over one hundred years the ghostly mixolydian melody has oscillated through the West Virginia air. There is a long bow draw several measures in that makes the tune too crooked for dancing." - "Delineation of Bigwater" by Kyle Mills, Nonfiction signalmountainreview.wordpress.com/2022/05/18/kyl…

Stay safe, friends.

The timing of Biden killing Zawahiri days after Trump and Tucker yukked it up at a Saudi-funded golf tournament where Trump said he was still trying to get to the bottom of 9/11 was…well…oof. Gotta hand it to the guys in the Writers’ Room. Didn’t see this one coming.

Congratulations to SignalMountainReview's Best of the Net nominees: @sandralambert ✨ Monterica Sadé ✨ Kyle Mills John Abbott Audrey T. Carroll Thank you for sharing your work with us! --The Editors, Signal Mountain Review