“It was a period of ‘laying low’ after the pedagogy awards ceremony fiasco. I was still mortified after penning a mini invective against the presumed winner, drinking two pitchers of beer (out of the pitcher)” —Mary Biddinger, “Curator of the Year” doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mary-b…

We are pleased to announce the 2024-2025 Breakthrough Writing Residency cohort! Congrats to Molly Gabriel, Dante DelBene, and Maia White for fiction; Isabella Moreno and Ted Samuel for nonfiction; and Story Rhinehart and Chelsea Daniel for poetry. bit.ly/breakthroughre…

I am very pleased to be included in this issue of Cider Press Review: ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-26-…

Thanks, Abby and JMWW!

2025 intensives center the poetry chapbook ms. Youngstown, Oh! in-person ms. critique sessions with incredible poets/editors Registration closes Nov. 30 or when seats are full #poetrycommunity #amwriting #WritingCommunity lityoungstown.org/post/poetry-in…

Join us for a livestreamed celebration of LGBTQIA+ voices Mon Nov 4 @ 7:00pmET. Maggie Anderson, Brent Armendinger, Rochelle Hurt Rochelle Hurt Nicole Robinson Nicole Robinson #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Indiana University Press Barrow Street Press White Pine Press lityoungstown.org/post/livestrea…

Excited to announce that the project I’ve spent the last two years show running will be coming to HBO in 2025! #celticscity

I'm so very happy to have these two poems appear in Does It Have Pockets!! Thank you! doesithavepockets.com/poetry/susan-g…

"Shouldn’t you be the same happy and the same strong." Two gorgeous, melodic gems from poet Susan Grimm doesithavepockets.com/poetry/susan-g… #poetrycommunity

Today's Featured Poem: "I Wake up in the Underworld of My Own Dirty Purse" by Karyna McGlynn, from 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse, published by Sarabande Books (Sarabande Books). Read here: poems.com/poem/i-wake-up…

“Perhaps the new mini strip mall, or illegal dumping, // which is how you described it when I dropped my big salad and ghosted / contrary to the terms of our agreement, which were written in gross cursive.” —Mary Biddinger, “Terms of Agreement” Sugar House Review versedaily.org/2020/termsofag…

🎉 Congrats to Dr. Mary Biddinger, chair of Dept. of English & Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts director, on receiving the BCAS Above & Beyond Award! From editing the nationally acclaimed Akron Poetry Prize U Akron Press to inspiring future writers, her impact is unmatched. 🏆👏

The Department of English Newsletter: December 2024: english.case.edu/department-of-…

Airplanes. As if they are spoon-scraped  across the sky—hard going sound. Soft drag of bird feathers. From Eli’s Abecedarian By Susan Grimm Susan Grimm #poetry for #GreatLakesReview greatlakesreview.org/elis-abecedari…

I'm very pleased to have this particular poem appear in Great Lakes Review: greatlakesreview.org/elis-abecedari…

I'm delighted to have my work appear in this issue of Sugar House Review amid so much other poetic splendor!! Sugar House Review file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/Sugar%20House%2029.pdf

I am very happy to be included in this issue of Hunger Mountain. hungermtn.netlify.app/issues/hunger-…

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Please veto the Higher Education Act SB1 so that universities in Ohio remain places of education and inquiry!!@GovMikeDeWine