Zoë Ryder White 💙 “Clouds have come down to touch us.” from THE VISIBLE FIELD (River River Books) Happy #smallpoemsunday! @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Where Poetry Moves. Two editors, publishing (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year & the Plainwater Nonfiction Series. Poetry submissions open in May. Posts by editors @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and @amorak.bsky.social www.riverriverbooks.org
Zoë Ryder White 💙 from THE VISIBLE FIELD (River River Books) I cannot get over how incredibly perfect this book is! @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Today! A couple River River titles will be in attendance including Jameela Dallis’s ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD! Come hear Jameela and editor Han read together with friends! 📚👻🖤
Dr. Han VanderHart@hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 2d agoMy darlings I’m bringing the wine & sparkling water & books & poets—you bring your beautiful self. 💫💫💫 4pm. Easement Gallery, Durham NC
We love to celebrate our poets’ successes, with our books or for other work they’ve gone on to publish. Three cheers for Corrie Williamson, Abby E. Murray & Jen Siraganian for these recent post-pub book honors! 🎉🎉🎉 @riverriverbooks.bsky.social @jsiraganian.bsky.social @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social
We are so excited to hear that Corrie Williamson has won the High Plains International Book Award in poetry for YOUR MOTHER’S BEAR GUN! Congratulations, Corrie! 🎉🎉🎉
Pour a second cup of coffee and peruse this new review of Jameela Dallis’s Encounters for the Living and the Dead featured in North Carolina Poetry Society! 📚💜 #poetry #booksky Read here: www.ncpoetrysociety.org/review-of-en...
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Check out new September books, including Martha Zweig’s SNAILS OF THE APOCALYPSE! 🐌 ☄️ Thank you, @clmporg.bsky.social! 📚💙
Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP)@clmporg.bsky.social · last wk.Also featuring @hubcitypress.bsky.social, @shirakipress.com, @modernartistpress.bsky.social, @spiegelandgrau.bsky.social, @riverriverbooks.bsky.social, and @artepublico.bsky.social! www.clmp.org/news/books-l...
For our new issue, nonfiction writer Joe Wilkins highlights journals that have published his essays about mountain meadows, childhood, and his “coming into being through place,” including Orion Magazine, River Teeth, the Georgia Review, and others. Read on: at.pw.org/JoeWilkins
Happy publication day to Martha Zweig’s SNAILS OF THE APOCALYPSE! 🎉🎉🎉 Shipping now from riverriverbooks.org and Itasca! 📚 💙 riverriverbooks.org/store/Snails...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w agoPlease try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
It is not the author’s job to help you place your review. It is not the press’s job. It is your job 🙏💙📚
Book reviewers, especially new ones: this is for you! 📚💙
Dr. Han VanderHart@hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 3w agoI’ve been fielding a lot of questions about writing book reviews in my inbox, so I updated this handout from a review writing workshop I offered a few years back:
My review of Fifty Mothers, Preeti Vagani’s gorgeous debut collection from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social, is in the latest issue of @literarymama.bsky.social.
"Sometimes We Love by Closing a Door": Grief, Mothering, and the Body in Preeti Vangani’s Fifty Mothers
Fifty Mothers, Preeti Vangani’s debut collection, opens with a photograph of the first page of the diary her mother kept while in college in Mumbai. Her mother’s maiden name is scratched out, replaced...
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A BOOK. From a press I trust and admire 💙 and in a terrific cohort 🎉 @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
River River Books@riverriverbooks.bsky.social · last mo.Catherine Rockwood (she/they) lives between the Mystic and Charles Rivers. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks published by The Ethel Zine Press: Endeavors to Obtain Perpetual Motion and And We Are Far From Shore. Their third chapbook, Dogwitch, is available from Bottlecap Press.
A truly ridiculous amount of talent & lyric warmth & creativity & depth—watch for their forthcoming collections!
River River Books@riverriverbooks.bsky.social · last mo.We also can't wait for you to read these four collections (three of them full-length debuts!) and be as delighted as we are by the wonder and spirit alive in their language.
yeah dudes. yr man HAS A BOOK COMING OUT. I'd act like I've been here before, but I literally haven't. Many thank yous to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social & @amorak.bsky.social & @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Good morning, good morning! Absolutely chuffed to announce our Summer 2026 selections! 🌊 🌊 📚 @thecorlew.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social Lydia T. Liu @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social
Get you a press that runs on equitable best practice, reads with love, and has this level of transparency 💙💙💙
River River Books@riverriverbooks.bsky.social · last mo.Read our full newsletter report on our summer reading period! 📚📚📚
Thank you to River River for reading my manuscript and giving it such kind recognition 💙
River River Books@riverriverbooks.bsky.social · last mo.Congrats to the writers of these great manuscripts! 🎉🎉🎉 We are confident they will find good homes soon!
Read our full newsletter report on our summer reading period! 📚📚📚
2026 Reading Period Report & Finalists
River River wraps up its fifth open reading period
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