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On Poetry: October 2026 | Washington Independent Review of Books
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Steven Leyva: "Reveille has all the urgency of a rescue boat searching for souls lost at sea. It seeks — out of both duty and faith — while believing there is something to find, while believing truth can be known." www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-...
On Poetry: October 2026 | Washington Independent Review of Books
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Now available: My Destination by Daisy Fried. “This book embeds itself in human life, and intriguing new ground is broken, in poems of widowhood, motherhood and more. Fried’s conditions are epic, her voice is human, and her ability to describe the human comedy astonishing.” — Katie Peterson
Out of Merrill Gilfillan’s wonderfully-titled and expansive _Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue_ (Flood Editions, 2024), “Blue Ridge: Streams Are Roaring”:
Stephanie Burt reviews Liza Hudock's Reveille in The Georgia Review: "It’s a rare virtue for a first book, knowing its own path (like the moth) so completely . . . More poets—and fewer lives—should turn out so well-made and so rough, so wise so early, so clear and so good."
Now Available from Flood Editions: Close Second Person by Graham Foust. “The poems in Close Second Person bristle with an indefatigable intelligence, a sense of erudition and information so dense one can only marvel at everything they have to say. Phenomenal.”—Matthew Specktor
Graham Foust’s new book (out next month from Flood Editions) it is so good. 
Forthcoming in September from Flood Editions: Close Second Person by Graham Foust
A new and selected poems just published by one of our staff...
Now Available from Flood Editions: Párodos by Jay Wright
| Literary Feature | "I like to stare into space and hear nothing" // An Interview with Poet Liza Hudock www.neonpajamas.com/blog/liza-hu... @floodeditions.bsky.social
"I like to stare into space and hear nothing" // An Interview with Poet Liza Hudock — [neonpajamas]
Speaking with the author of the debut poetry collection Reveille (Flood Editions, 2025).
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Christopher Spaide on Colarusso's Pettygod, forthcoming this month! "Again and again, what gives structure to Colarusso’s many-tongued collection . . . is prayer, the postures and registers of a poet speaking up or down to that titular 'pettyg-d.'" lithub.com/the-thing-we...
“The Thing We Know How to Do for One Another.” Seven Poetry Books to Read This February
“What are we doing? . . . No, I mean—what does poetry do?” That’s D__ speaking. He’s a poet, though you might not know it from the title of the novel he’s narrating: The Copywriter, out this month,…
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On Thursday, December 11, the Poetry Society will welcome Jennifer Moxley and Prageeta Sharma for the final installment in the fall ’25 PSA Reading Series. Thursday, December 11 7:00 p.m. $10 in-person / $5 streaming Free for members https://ow.ly/biww50XAOXQ
Ron Charles writes in the Washington-Post Book World on Jennifer Moxley's The Midnight Work, that it "offers clear-eyed reflections that skirt but never succumb to despair."
Now Available! Signal Flow by William Fuller. "Signal Flow is a clear statement of what's possible in the twenty-first century—non-totalizing, democratic in its equivalence of anticipation, expectation and unpredictability, and optimistic in its assessment of the power for renewal." Larry Price
Read Chris Waddington's lovely review of Liza Hudock's Reveille: "The authority of these remarkable poems is wrapped up in their matter-of-fact tone — neither dismissive, nor casual about grief, but made taut by Hudock’s effort to find meaning . . ." www.ronslate.com/on-reveille-...
on Reveille, poems by Liza Hudock – On the Seawall
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Now available! Jennifer Moxley's The Midnight Work: "In a time where many of us seem hypnotized by apocalyptic visions, Moxley celebrates everyday life, even in extraordinary circumstances. This is now unusual enough, I think, to be called brave."―Rae Armantrout
Today’s Featured Poem: What Sparks Poetry: Liza Hudock on "Hope" from Reveille published by Flood Editions Read here: poems.com/poem/hope-2/
Hope
I feel a foot at 3 a.m., nudging me to get out of the way. She says, I’m going out to the crab apple tree to stand among the apples and see what I can see.
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Today's Featured Poem: "Crayola Da Gamba" by Merril Gilfillan from Three Roans In the Shallows, One of Them Blue published by @floodeditions.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/crayola...
Crayola Da Gamba
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Forthcoming next month: The Midnight Work by Jennifer Moxley. "In a time where many of us seem hypnotized by apocalyptic visions, Moxley celebrates everyday life, even in extraordinary circumstances. This is now unusual enough, I think, to be called brave."—Rae Armantrout
John Wilkinson discusses an elegy by Jennifer Moxley that's forthcoming in her book The Midnight Work... fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/elegies-on...
Elegies on Brambles: On Jennifer Moxley, Stephen Rodefer, and Poetic Grief
John Wilkinson explores the elegiac form.
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