J. Estanislao Lopez
@estanislaopoet.bsky.social
Author of WE BORROWED GENTLENESS (Alice James Books), winner of the Zacharis first book award. Link: https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/we-borrowed-gentleness Poems in New Yorker, Poetry, Rumpus, and elsewhere
Blues jam on a Tuesday night when I start teaching at 7am? I thought you'd never ask 🤠
Places open for subs today: AGNI River Teeth The Kenyon Review The Cincinnati Review New England Review The Southern Review The Yale Review Bellevue Literary Review
Entirely happy to announce my second collection- PRAYER HOLDING NIGHT: NEW & SELECTED WORKS (Forthcoming, TCU Press) Spring, 2025! This is part of the Texas Poet Laureate Series-
SUBS ARE OPEN!! SEND US YOUR CHAPBOOKS!!
Abode Press@abodepress.bsky.social · 3y ago‼️SUBMISSIONS OPEN‼️ Abode Press is open for poetry, fiction, or hybrid chapbook manuscripts about identity, origin, and culture. The chapbook reading period will run from 8/15 to 11/30. Submission guidelines here: https://www.abodepress.com/submissions
Hey, Big 🍎! Coming atcha on August 22nd with some poems and other badass poets: https://bryantpark.org/calendar/event/poetry/2023-08-22
7yo: I feel bad for cats in cartoons . . . Me: Why is that, honey? 7yo: Anytime someone throws something behind them without looking---it hits a cat.
“The point of departure for the politician and the poet is completely different. The poet always says sorry, I've done wrong, and the politician says look at me, I'm always right.” —Kim Min Jeong https://aaww.org/ill-do-what-i-want-a-conversation-with-kim-min-jeong/
If you have GGTG in your #sealeychallenge stack, I’d love to see! And not too late to ask your library for a copy. Here are a couple poems from the book. https://bookshop.org/a/92150/9781950774845
Inaugural poem post (from my copy of Linda Gregg's All of It Singing):
