Report: Poet Mary Jo Bang reaches the end of her 20-year journey through Dante's 'Divine Comedy' "And that was a lesson, I think, in the fact that there is no single way to carry over one language into another language." Read here: npr.org/2025/07/10/nx-… #pdnews

We are so excited to announce that Asha Futterman's SONG OF GRAY, winner of the 2025 Colorado Prize for Poetry, is available for preorder now at the link in our bio! This title is forthcoming in Fall 2025. Use code FUTT25 for 40% off your preordered copy now!

I need you  the way astonishment,  which is really just the disruption of routine, requires routine. —Carl Phillips, former Chancellor, born #OTD in 1959 poets.org/poem/western-e…

Israel is killing them all. They’re starving Gaza. I just saw a little four year old boy eating sand. There’s nothing else we should be talking about. There’s nothing else to talk about.

Have you been looking forward to our "Extreme Environments" special issue? If so, great news: it drops TOMORROW. (!!!!!!)

EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS, guest-edited by Jess, is officially live! You can find it on our "Features" page, or right here: quarterlywest.com/extreme-enviro…

2 poems by moi. Tried my hands on formal poems: Villanelle and Pantoum Thanks Cacti Fur cactifur.com/2025/08/20/2-f…

Orlando returned…with paint.

Here are the dozen debut books that you should read this month! debutiful.net/2025/09/01/12-…

We are delighted to announce award–winning writer, editor, publisher, professor, and cultural critic Roxane Gay as the recipient of the 2025 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. Read the announcement at Los Angeles Times. latimes.com/entertainment-…

This phenomenal sale ends today (ahh!) but you can still preorder OHHV (ayy!) + other amazing books 📖 25% Off the List Price on All Pre-Order Books, eBooks & NOOK | Barnes & Noble®

Hope to see you on Sunday! bit.ly/Barot25

The Etel Adnan Poetry Prize is now open again for submissions after a year hiatus due to pro-Zionist anti-Arab laws in Arkansas; now the prize moved to Noemi Press; please submit and participate, ecnourage, and share noemipress.submittable.com/submit

a homecoming 🦩🏳️‍🌈 my heart goes out to Left Bank Books Pride Tower Grove Beacon Press for holding OHHV along with me! great to be in st. louis + in the sunlight of others ☀️✨

New Dabbler! mailchi.mp/newterritoryma…

“Jason” by David Ehmcke is our Poem of the Week. Read the poem and the artist's statement here: missourireview.com/jason-by-david…

I am honored that my story, “Eating is the Language of Love,” was highly commended for the 2025 The Bridport Prize 🎉 congrats to all winners!

It was a treat to curate the beautiful poems in this latest issue of Quarterly West with my friend, Kieron Walquist. Check it out: quarterlywest.com