The Home in the Bay ebook is here! Download the free ebook that brings together pieces shared and inspired by Aunt Lute Books’ Home in the Bay project, honoring voices impacted by gentrification, colonization, migration, and homelessness. Download now: auntlute.com/home-in-the-bay

"it’s just a return journey this little swallow has to make it’s just a flight back to spring a soar to the green bosom from which she first bloomed" - Francisco Castro Vedela writing for Laila Saeed Atta Abu Safra in Poets Reading the News poetsreadingthenews.com/2023/11/laila/

"That I should witness such beauty, and that you should not be here to share it." - Aurore Sibley writes for Shani Louk for Poets Reading the News poetsreadingthenews.com/2023/11/and-th…

"Afternoon wanes like hope clutched too long, in too-tight fingers, held ‘til it’s husk. The ghost of love in the fist." - Mary McColley reports from the West Bank for Poets Reading the News poetsreadingthenews.com/2023/12/decomp…

"I look out at a stampede of pines over the rubble of uprooted olive trees. We never learned the Yiddish word for “forest”. Beneath it all, the seed of the one I planted — my envelope baring its teeth." - Noa Silver for Poets Reading the News poetsreadingthenews.com/2023/11/planti…

The amazing Elle Newton writes to about the latest issue of Poets Reading the News. "My hope for this poetry is that it will widen the bridges of compassion in those who read it, especially toward whosoever is beyond your heart's present reach." poetsreadingthenews.substack.com/p/poetry-for-1…

Cool news: my poems about Mac Miller and Kanye West will be featured in ‘50 Years of Hip-Hop Anthology’ from Purple Ink Press. The poems were first published by Poets Reading the News & Ghost City Press

Today we're thinking about that one time Úchèńnà Ogbújí recorded his poem "Totality" in front of a live solar eclipse in Nebraska for Poets Reading the News poetsreadingthenews.com/2017/08/totali…

✨ Breaking news, writing community! ✨ We're open to poetry submissions & thrilled to be forming our next cohort of Associate Poetry Editors. Find us on JUAN DORAME & poetsreadingthenews.com

Sharing some very exciting news! Looking forward to reading some amazing writing with Nikki Ikani & Kashiana Singh & Michel Krug, and welcoming a new cohort to our editorial team 🤠

Calling emergent editors! Here's your chance to sharpen your editorial skills and collaborate with a dynamic poetic newsroom. Check out our open call for associate poetry editors - and submit by Thursday: poetsreadingthenews.submittable.com JUAN DORAME #poetsreadingthenews

✨It's Friday - and the last day to apply for our editorial cohort! 📷 It closes at 11:59pm PST. Writers, our poetry submissions are open through 5/20. Learn more + submit: poetsreadingthenews.submittable.com

We here at Poets Reading the News are honored to publish this brave new #poem, "Miscarriage," by Christine Rhein: a letter to the #SupremeCourt justices who overturned #RoeVWade , on how deadly it is to #miscarry a pregnancy under today's #abortion bans. poetsreadingthenews.com/2024/07/miscar…

Poet Christine Rhein took my breath away with her words; read it NOW 'my doctor—rushing in, out—shouting for                               an operating room. If it happened now, a hospital could                     turn me away—doctors afraid of arrest—bans insisting on delay'

New poetry by Megan Merchant on the question driving a viral TikTok query: would you rather be in the woods with a man or bear? There's nothing abstract about it. poetsreadingthenews.com/2024/07/bear/

"My Body Resigns" by Catherine Esposito Prescott, a breaking poem on the 6,000 American women lost to gun violence each year: I am in the center;  no, my body is centered, though erring,  lilting in its thoughts from left to right, from earth to cosmos poetsreadingthenews.com/2024/06/my-bod…

New poetry by Dick Westheimer for #Gaza. Find the full poem on our front page.

We're SO excited to share our open call on the Poetics of Artificial Intelligence! Send us your poetry on the rise of AI, its impact on labor and economies, and how it's poised to change our lives as poets and people. Submit by Aug 30 on JUAN DORAME poetsreadingthenews.com/open-calls/

Our open call on the Poetics of Artificial Intelligence is OPEN through August 30! Poets are invited to respond to the rise of AI, its impact on labor and economies, and how it is poised to change our lives as poets, creatives and human beings. Submit: tinyurl.com/poeticsofai