The crowning achievement of my 2023 publications was getting this piece selected by American Literary Review as a finalist for their annual awards. Big thanks to Brian Czyzyk for including me in the Fall issue, and a loving shoutout to the magical city I call my home.

Reading @LFCoutley’s Tether while waiting for the eclipse ☀️ 🌙

Say hi to Brian Czyzyk our incoming Managing Editor! Outgoing ME @achotlos lauds the "mesmerizing sense of place" in Brian's "Fieldnotes" and other poems. Read "FN" Passages North and please join us in welcoming Brian to his new role.

Our contest submissions are open, officially! Today through Oct. 1, you may submit as many entries in three categories as you wish for a $15 per submission. Full guidelines available on our website and our Submittable. We can't wait to read your champions!

New persona sonnet in the latest RHINO Poetry! Many thanks to the editors for indulging this weird little piece of urban legend.🐺💚🦏

Issue 67 of Tampa Review is now available! Order your copy today to read “Equinox” by 2023 AWP Intro Journals Project poetry winner Brian Czyzyk. tampareview.org/print-issues/

Humbled and grateful that my poem, "Equinox," was awarded an AWP Intro Prize, and to have it appear in the pages of the new Tampa Review. And many thanks to @SaraReneeRyan for the "Little Griefs" that inspired this. 💚

Flash flood submissions are now open - send us your best prose, poetry, and hybrids under 1000 words! The submissions for this month will end 9/20. For more information about our Flash Flood Contest, head over to americanliteraryreview.com/alr-flash-floo…

Less than a month until our ALR contests close. Get those submissions in!

Love this essay by @achotlos! It's funny, searching, and works magic with form. "For most of your life, you felt as if everyone else effortlessly (or maybe instinctually) understood the intricacies of romance, but you had somehow missed the instructions."

COVER REVEAL! Late to the Search Party is out 5/6/25 Scribner. not to be dramatic but writing this book almost killed me, then saved my life. if you’ve ever read, shared, taught these poems, you’ve echoed the proof of my surviving. thank you so much🫀❤️‍🔥🔦

Send us your work!

It’s the last day to submit to the ALR awards. Get those poems, essays, and short stories in before we close! americanliteraryreview.com/contest/

We're so excited to announce our Best of the Net nominees in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction! What extraordinary talent! 🚀

Join us Saturday, October 26, 4-5 pm @patchoulijoes for the ALR Reading Series! Our fantastic readers are Will Brooks, Sera Harris, Erik Moyer, and guest writer @Nomi_Stone. See you there!

Our Fall Issue is now live! Including works by Dr. Matthew Moniz, @WattersonCass, Marie Goyette, and more! americanliteraryreview.com/2024/11/09/fal…

Congratulations to our 2024 ALR Award winners! Thank you to everyone who submitted, to our judges, and our staff. The contests will open again in June.

Today's Feature: In honor of National Poetry Month, we present our fourth feature of Reader's Write Back, in which our readers share their favorite poems with us. Read here: poems.com/features/what-…