“Is it strange to envy the dead?” —Joan Kwon Glass, “Spared” in DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS, winner of the 2024 Perugia Press Poetry Prize 💜 🇰🇷 Joan Kwon Glass Perugia Press

nobody gets it like she gets it

I wrote about why publishing a book always feels a little humiliating, even when things go well. Link to full essay in profile.

“…thoughts of kids and husbands and bright, slippery leaves.” Powerful and wrenching: this piece by Diane Gottlieb in Dinty W. Moore.❤️💔

Come and get some Trio House Press poetry titles by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha لينا خلف تفاحة Christian Gullette Leona Sevick and David Groff, along with those from other small presses, at the CLMP table during the Brooklyn Book Festival BrooklynBookFestival later this month! #BKBF24 #poetry

Mark your calendars! Trio House Press will be at the Rain Taxi Twin Cities Book Festival on October 19! name cannot be blank and Dorinda Wegener will be signing books, and it’s the only place you’ll be able to buy pre-sale signed copies of Deb Kossmann’s memoir Lost Found Kept 🤩

Natasha Trethewey ⸻ from Native Guard: Poems (2007) "I'm too late, / again, another space emptied by loss."

I truly always wanted a broadside, thank you so much TW for treating your authors with respect and excitement ❤️

Charles Simic

Any recs for contemporary poems written for a general/adult audience but which would also be suitable for 9-12 year olds?

From On Grief and Reason by Brodsky.

Next week, I'll be at Reading Den!! See you there?

Chicago! Please save the date for a fab, joint book launch party and readings celebrating new/recent books by Melissa Flores Anderson François Bereaud Mx. Faylita Hicks and me—Sat Oct 5, 2:00+, free sweets from Tropicake! We’re importing Francois and Melissa from California for the party! 🎈

Noelle Kocot

Buying a grave, choosing a mother. - Allen Grossman, “A Day’s Work” 💔

Check out our new Fall selections! Every purchase made at DVB will go into expanding our inventory of small presses and authors. 🧡 Help us grow in this quiet season! dogwoodvalleybooks.myshopify.com/collections/co…

A book we haven’t had in the warehouse* in a hot minute—The Muu-Antiques by shome dasgupta! *living room malarkeybooks.com/store/muu-anti…

I'm scheduling for new author website designs for December and January if you need one. I also do graphics, book trailers, and logo work. koss-works.com/web-design-web…

All day I tried to distinguish need from desire. —Linda Gregg

“She will say, *But I did / love you once …” Congrats, dear Jen! ❤️ jrouse in Fragments of V, published by Small Harbor Publishing