Want to celebrate Latinx culture, artistic collaboration, & community in support of the artists, writers, & performers of the Lit+Luz Festival as well as MAKE Lit's work building creative bridges between Chicago & Mexico? Come to the Empty Bottle on August 8th! www.litluz.org/luzattheedge

ICE just moved through Rogers Park, headed north into Evanston. The RP community response has not gotten slower in the winter. A lot of folks were out in the streets the moment they got off Lake Shore Drive. Everyone on the North Side is on high alert today. Stay ready.

The Pegasus Poetry Book Prize will recognize poets 40 and older with a $10,000 prize and publication for their first or second book. The inaugural winner will be named next fall.

Graywolf, Poetry Foundation Team on New Book Award

The Pegasus Poetry Book Prize will recognize poets 40 and older with a $10,000 prize and publication for their first or second book. The inaugural winner will be named next fall.

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Ice staging at hood and broadway #ice #chicago

In the 1970s, landlords burned their buildings for profit, displacing thousands of tenants in poor neighborhoods. For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about @benchansfield.bsky.social's excellent “Born in Flames” and the consequences of the arson wave. thebaffler.com/latest/ring-...

Ring of Fire | Michael Friedrich

A new book explores the incentives that sparked an arson wave in the Bronx during the 1970s.

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Hi poetry reviewers, writers, readers: here’s a document I made of paying reviews markets. Holler at me if you see something that needs to be updated/deleted/added! 🙏 I would appreciate it. Would love this to be a community resource for freelance writers to be paid for their criticism.

Poetry Review Submissions: Paying Markets

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We Walk Together Installed in O’Hare airport Terminal 5 international arrival corridor. Finally Max got to see my piece at O’Hare.

Issue 3 is here! 10 postcards with 10 poems by 10 amazing poets (Emma Bolden, Adam Clay, Jessica Cuello, Erin Dorney, Susan Leary, Erin Malone, Nora Nadjarian, Michael Robins, Diane Wald, and Jane Zwart). Order your copy at www.postcardlit.com/store today! Preorders and orders ship soon!

'your daughters take spoons to devour the cakes we brought propped on round white plates they remind me of the palm-sized paving stones we pocketed last night on our walk home' iambapoet.com/wave/21-fred...

Fred Schmalz | wave 21 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

Hear poet Fred Schmalz read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.

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These books have four-digit numbers in the titles and are very, very good.

CHICAGO! March 5! March 5! @anandalima.bsky.social / @coffeehousepress.bsky.social / @meeklingpress.bsky.social / @martinezfjulian.bsky.social / @ezhang77.bsky.social

some mornings the lake is just right... Saturday was one of those mornings:

Chicago! Start your New Year with Poetry & Biscuits! Carrie and I are excited to bring you readings by Natalie Eilbert, Donato Loia, Ruben Quesada, and Deborah Shapiro along with biscuits and cozy company. Fri, Jan. 17 @ 7pm 2145 W Walton RSVP to the biscuit maker: mailto:carrieolivia@gmail.com

The new DIAGRAM is here and Susy and I have a visual poem in it. Check out the whole scene. @eldiagram.bsky.social www.thediagram.com/24_4/

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IT'S DIAGRAM 24.4 thediagram.com/24_4/

The 2024 Poetry Award goes to Daniel Borzutzky for his collection “The Murmuring Grief of the Americas” (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social)

Cooking on a new art project in Pittsburgh. So many amazing humans and artists and writers here. Thankful.

Here's Shishito, who lives with her sister, Poblano, (and sometimes an opossum) under the porch of our building. I feed her every day, but can't invite her in because my partner's allergic. She's perfect.

Issue 7 is live!!!! Featuring work by @amorak.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social Wayne Koestenbaum, Sophie Klahr, Kent Shaw, Chris Santiago, SJ Pearce and many more! coupletpoetry.com/issue-7/

Happy pub day to these three (three!) new Dorothy books: Renee Gladman's MY LESBIAN NOVEL and TO AFTER THAT (TOAF) and Ariane Koch's OVERSTAYING translated by Damion Searls! 🎉 🎉 🎉

Seven-digit number (and one year on Thursday… what is time?)