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Anthony Cody
@anthonycody.bsky.social
Poet: The Rendering & Borderland Apocrypha w/ Omnidawn | American Book Award, Whiting, Nat'l Book Award Finalist & other things | Co-publisher at Noemi | Faculty at Randolph Low Res MFA https://linktr.ee/anthonycody
From MURMURATION ARCHIVES by @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social, out August 18th! Available for preorder now on the Noemi website: www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...
for the late night crowd (yes, I am aware it is only 10 pm on the east coast. Have you considered though: I am old, and you, my friend, are not getting any younger)
We are thrilled to announce the release of our third and final Craft Chap of 2026, Sense: On Madness and Translation by Mordecai Martin! Download your copy for free today on our website http://www.sundresspublications.com/craft-chaps/#2026
From Murmuration Archives by @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social, out August 18th! Preorder on the Noemi website: www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...
We're grateful to @electricliterature.com for the exclusive cover reveal for Beauty Talk by @asaldrake.bsky.social, now available for preorder on the Noemi website! See the full feature with commentary from Asa and cover designer Alban Fischer here: electricliterature.com/exclusive-co...
Happy pub day to No Silence in the Afterlife by Abou Farman! In celebration of the release, Abou spoke with @thedriftmag.com about MRIs, protons, and ontological undertakings: newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/both-poetr...
To celebrate the publication of his new book “No Silence in the Afterlife,” out today from @noemipress.bsky.social, Drift contributor Abou Farman spoke with Poetry Assistant Hua Xi about MRIs, protons, and ontological undertakings. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/both-poetr...
"Both poetry and science name things to bring them into being"
A Q&A with Abou Farman
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Thanks to @thedriftmag.com for this Q&A with Abou Farman for the release of No Silence in the Afterlife!
To celebrate the publication of his new book “No Silence in the Afterlife,” out today from @noemipress.bsky.social, Drift contributor Abou Farman spoke with Poetry Assistant Hua Xi about MRIs, protons, and ontological undertakings. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/both-poetr...
No Silence in the Afterlife from Abou Farman hits shelves in FOUR DAYS. Perfect for adding to your Sealey Challenge reading list! Preorder now on the Noemi website: www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...
Thanks to @theoffingmag.bsky.social for featuring "Gentleness is Something New I Can Afford" from Beauty Talk by @asaldrake.bsky.social, out October 13th Read the full poem here: theoffingmag.com/poetry/gentl...
Gentleness is Something New I Can Afford - The Offing
Poetry - The Offing Magazine
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Read “Gentleness is Something New I Can Afford,” a poem by Asa Drake Visit our bio to read the full piece. #BeechTree #Nature #Ecology
Thanks to Serena Chopra for including Defacing the Monument by @utopiaminus.bsky.social in her annotated reading list for The Annotated Nightstand, curated by Noemi editor @dianaarterian.bsky.social for @literaryhub.bsky.social Read here: lithub.com/the-annotate...
From No Silence in the Afterlife by Abou Farman, out July 21st Preorder now: www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...
What's the overlap like on poets/Deltarune fans? Anybody? This batch of memes brought to you by the power of way too much free time
Two poetry collections that interrogate what we inherit from complicated legacies. Interview between authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social (13 Questions for the Next Economy) and @raquefella.bsky.social (Southwest Reconstruction) for BOMB Magazine: bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
Today we’re featuring Anthony Cody’s “brd,” a poem about language, silence, and communication. Free to read online for the next two weeks. ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/brd/ @anthonycody.bsky.social #Ecotone #Ecotone38 #AnniversaryIssue #literarymagazine #twentiethanniversary
"For me, poetry is entirely an embodied experience … I surrender myself completely to this out-of-body experience that is poetry. My job is to transmit a sense of the vibrations of a language that is beyond my own understanding." -Sophia Terazawa, interviewed by C-VILLE Weekly
Grateful to @woodlandpattern.bsky.social for including Are You Borg Now? by Said Shaiye in their July small press subscription bundle 💜
I love other writers and how they make it easier to love everything else in my life. Thank you to @therumpus.net for publishing this ode to other poets. It's part of "Beauty Talk" which comes out with @noemipress.bsky.social this October!
"I, too, wanted to submerge / without being pulled under the bridge." From @asaldrake.bsky.social's poem "Invocation of the Black River." buff.ly/vxCfBjO
Excited that I can now share we are a Literary Arts Fund awardee. I believe in us, I am grateful for the many hands & minds (editors, authors, designers, funders, board, & friends) that go into nurturing @noemipress.bsky.social, and am honored that we are seen for the labor and vision of our books.
We're proud to be a 2026 general operating grant awardee of the Literary Arts Fund! As a very small independent press, we're incredibly grateful for this support, which will help strengthen our operations and allow us to continue our mission to publish writing that challenges the status quo.
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Q&A with Noemi authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social and @raquefella.bsky.social TODAY Saturday May 30th from 6-8PM at Desierto Books as part of the Revolution Gardens festival sponsored by LOOKOUT
Thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for featuring CAREEN by Grace Shuyi Liew in their #APAHeritageMonth reading list!
Read Grace Shuyi Liew’s CAREEN this #APAHeritageMonth! These poems are “moving through a cavernous politics, breaking off, turning in, and restructuring memory as scaffolding, pain as terrifying recurrence.” —Roque Raquel Salas Rivera @noemipress.bsky.social www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...
No Silence in the Afterlife comes out of live performances/lectures and experiments in dying and mourning, as author Abou Farman’s partner of 15 years, Leo, was leaving her flesh due to a metastatic cancer. Can’t wait for yall to read this!
No Silence in the Afterlife by Abou Farman is now available on the Noemi website: www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet... No Silence in the Afterlife has no beginning or ending, as it may be opened from both ends. Please do so: open life from both ends. Out July 21st, 2026 Cover by Steve Halle
Congratulations to 13 QUESTIONS FOR THE NEXT ECONOMY: NEW & SELECTED WORKS by Susan Briante, published by @noemipress.bsky.social, a finalist for the 2026 Firecracker Award in Poetry! www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...
No Silence in the Afterlife by Abou Farman is now available on the Noemi website: www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet... No Silence in the Afterlife has no beginning or ending, as it may be opened from both ends. Please do so: open life from both ends. Out July 21st, 2026 Cover by Steve Halle
Murmuration Archives by @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social is now available for preorder on the Noemi website! Out August 18th Cover by Roda Avelar
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