See you next week El Paso!

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Terrific chance to interact with Acre Poetry Editor, Lisa Ampleman, in fine company Monday, April 15! Details below. 🎉🖊️📚

'What did the hyphen do to deserve this isolation? Does it harbor a contagious illness, like some typographic Typhoid Mary?'

In her new column's first post, assistant editor Lily Davenport surveys the Chicago Manual of Style's guidelines for compounds: buff.ly/4at8Y0P

when you came // And substituted at my high school. All the kids giggling: is that your sister?

#Poem of the Week: 'Ode to My Older Sister, Letty, for Being the First in the Family to Go to College' by Jose Hernandez Diaz. Audio & text: bit.ly/3xFeMWg
Jose Hernandez Diaz

A very kind and considerate review of DUAL, out now from Acre Books, up at Birch Bark Editing by Carlene Gadapee:

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'PILGRIMS 2.0 is a stunning portrayal of desperation that holds buoyancy in its empathy & finds brutality in asking where the line of violence is drawn...Lindsey Harding's #novel is a knockout,..' Southern Review of Books 🎉🎉🎉
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If you're in Cincy and want more astronomy this week: I'll be reading this Sun, Apr. 15, at 1 pm at The Cincinnati Observatory as part of their celebration for one of their telescopes! Selling books there from 12-3.

Thankful to UChicagoPress for this recommendation of ‘Survivor’s Notebook’ (@acre_books) for National Poetry Month pressblog.uchicago.edu/2024/04/03/wha…

'The studio feels like a living, breathing entity which excites me—we’re always evolving and trying new things.'

The latest in our Writers' Day Job series is rebecca griswold, a poet and co-owner of White Whale Tattoo. buff.ly/3PCwYGb

Congrats, again, to Acre author Jessica Johnson, whose METABOLICS was a finalist in #poetry at the Oregon Book Awards! 🎉🎉🎉

Spotted on the shelves! Matthew Minicucci's DUAL! #NationalPoetryMonth 🎉🎉🎉

'...a riff can’t happen without a solid melodic line, and Matthew Minicucci's poems depend on exacting word choice, syntax, and sometimes, even the punctuation used or not used...As a collection, DUAL leaves us in awe and wonder.' 🎉🎉🎉

Poet Kevin Prufer is set to begin his novel writing career with his first entry, “Sleepaway,” published by Acre Books, a haunting, frightening, and complex story set in a small town with similarities to Warrensburg.

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'If I’m not allowed to drive a car, then driving the riding lawnmower is the next best thing. But you don’t even want me to have this, I said.'

In this week's miCRo, Michelle Ross explores a fraught relationship between mother and teenage daughter. buff.ly/3Jdraj1

'PILGRIMS 2.0 is a stunning portrayal of desperation that holds buoyancy in its empathy & finds brutality in asking where the line of violence is drawn...Lindsey Harding's #novel is a knockout,..' Southern Review of Books 🎉🎉🎉
southernreviewofbooks.com/2024/04/03/pil…

Congrats, again, to Acre author Jessica Johnson, whose METABOLICS was a finalist in #poetry at the Oregon Book Awards! 🎉🎉🎉

First day teaching at UC Riverside as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing! Also as a first-gen Mexican American Chicano. First seminar: “From the Personal to the Political to the Surreal/Fable: A Prose Poetry Generative Workshop.” But first I have a reading/Q&A…

Sometimes the universe just really comes together to help you with book promotion, as it did our Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman yesterday.

Welcome the warm weather with eight hot new titles by New England Review contributors, including Michael Krüger, Diane Seuss, Kevin Prufer, Marianne Boruch, and more.

Browse and shop the roundup: sites.middlebury.edu/newenglandrevi…

New Peak Post everyone! In this Q&A with Lisa Ampleman, she discusses her new book Mom in Space which was released in January 2024. Mom in Space is a complicated love letter to both the intergalactic and the terrestrial. Check out the link in our bio!😊