Check out our recent interviews and reviews before our relaunch issue goes live on Monday! nwreview.org

Our relaunch issue is OUT NOW! Please go check out all the excellent writing within! Special thanks to everyone who contributed their work, our editors for making this all happen, and to you, reader, for supporting our community of writers. nwreview.org

If you are in a senior leadership position at institution of higher learning and you regularly use generative AI to compose ridiculous, ineffective communications while at the same time trying to put out of work the people who teach others how to communicate better...you need to face yourself.

LOL. Guys. We don’t register to protest. We just show up.

Conrad Lange Zbikowski@czbi.org · 11mo ago

Nearly three million Americans donated to Kamala Harris on ActBlue last year. That statement of public support is the perfect antidote to autocratic oppression. You should definitely sign up for a No Kings protest on October 18, and invite your family and friends to carpool with you. nokings.org

This era and its malevolent higher ed consultancies… #backtoschool

Flashback Friday! Why not finish the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social with @jessejohnson.bsky.social's METABOLICS, a 2024 Oregon Book Award Finalist and California Review of Books Outstanding #Poetry Book? For more on this innovative debut, visit press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 🎉🎉🎉

Metabolics

In this debut poetry collection, a single speaker tries to control her body and negotiate her time with digital devices, all the while navigating identities, impulses, and relationships that are often...

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There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 11mo ago

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

The best author photos are when the author is holding or sitting beside an animal they love.

"Just as I long for poems that carry the wisdom and surprise of my friends’ verbal play, I hope for novels that are absorbing, like a long conversation with a friend. . ." In our Family Secrets Folio, @jessejohnson.bsky.social reviews Morgan Talty's FIRE EXIT.

Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California? truthout.org/articles/ice...

ICE Arrests David Huerta, Beloved Labor Leader and SEIU California President

“We all collectively have to object to this madness,” said Huerta after his violent arrest for witnessing an ICE raid.

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I have few regrets, but one is that I didn’t read Alice Notley sooner. I think my life would have been different, and better.

"...the depth and extent of the exclusion of women poets from previous literature was an unfathomable void that no man was ever going to be capable of understanding. The suppression of women from poetry was an incomparable loss, a tragedy for me and everyone else." Alice Notley

I’m reading tomorrow night for Pendleton’s First Draft series (virtual). 5/15 7:00 Pacific Zoom link at the link. pendletonarts.org/first-draft/

Shout out to all of the faculty and students who made it through this semester in particular. What a time to be teaching and learning in spaces that are directly under attack from people who benefited from having access to the same resources themselves.

I was happy to review a great novel in this folio. Thanks @lisaampleman.bsky.social for the opportunity. I am loving @jscheng.bsky.social ‘s craft essay here and looking forward to reading the others.

The Cincinnati Review@cincinnatireview.bsky.social · last yr.

Every family has them. Issue 22.1's accompanying folio is all about FAMILY SECRETS, featuring work by @jscheng.bsky.social , Sadia Hassan, @jessejohnson.bsky.social , @sharalessley.bsky.social and @thejs3.bsky.social .

Grateful to be usually one good nap away from feeling pretty good

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Bessent says that little girls who are sad about having fewer dolls should just have it explained to them that they will have a better life for it

Overhead of the May Day march in Chicago. Thousands and thousands. I've heard (but can't confirm) anywhere between 10-50k. In any case it's huge.

Hear me out. No more interviews of the weird pronatalist couple. Interview the neighborhood dads. The guy who mows the lawn of an elderly neighbor. The people who live self-sacrificial lives that make other people’s lives better. Normalize that. A crisis in masculinity? Highlight this man.

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · last yr.

This is the only content i wanna see

It's Chapbook Day! Our Open Prose Chapbook Period is open for submissions now through 6/1! We're looking for your fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and other surprising prose chapbooks (btwn 60-100pg, with a little flex in both directions) from April 1 through June 1. splitlippress.submittable.com

This Friday! Celebrate National #Poetry Month in #Portland with a terrific lineup of readers, including Acre author @jessejohnson.bsky.social (METABOLICS). Details below! 📚🎉

Genevieve DeGuzman@gendeguzman.bsky.social · last yr.

Portland, come hear poetry at Bishop & Wilde this Friday, 4/4 @7pm. Celebrate Sarah's @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social debut COSMIC TANTRUM with me, Ellee Achten, @jessejohnson.bsky.social and @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social #pdxpoetry, #livepoetry #NationalPoetryMonth

I’m looking forward to supporting Sarah’s launch and reading some new work!!!

Genevieve DeGuzman@gendeguzman.bsky.social · last yr.

Portland, come hear poetry at Bishop & Wilde this Friday, 4/4 @7pm. Celebrate Sarah's @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social debut COSMIC TANTRUM with me, Ellee Achten, @jessejohnson.bsky.social and @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social #pdxpoetry, #livepoetry #NationalPoetryMonth

Portland, come hear poetry at Bishop & Wilde this Friday, 4/4 @7pm. Celebrate Sarah's @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social debut COSMIC TANTRUM with me, Ellee Achten, @jessejohnson.bsky.social and @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social #pdxpoetry, #livepoetry #NationalPoetryMonth

If I post my AWP haul you’re going to know the severity of my book buying ways and it’s embarrassing AF

Poets' Debut Nonfiction: Poetics, Process & Things We Wish We'd Known panel 📚💙 #AWP25

Acre authors in action! @jessejohnson.bsky.social (METABOLICS, METTLEWORK) talking all things cnf! Order her #memoir at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo..., or stop by Booth 307! 🎉🎉🎉

Mettlework

A memoir of Johnson’s unusual upbringing during the 1970s and ’80s, interwoven with the story of her transition to parenthood in post-recession Portland, Oregon. In the weeks after her first child is ...

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Dr. Han VanderHart@hanvanderhart.bsky.social · last yr.

Poets' Debut Nonfiction: Poetics, Process & Things We Wish We'd Known panel 📚💙 #AWP25

Reality Winner wept

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · last yr.

Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed. That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF. I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.

“Your sister does not have a thesis”

Thurs. 6:30 to 8 pm! #AWP25 off-site hosted by Village Well Books (Culver City), featuring a showcase of titles by seven Acre #authors: @cdeskilson.bsky.social, @josehernandezdz.bsky.social, Malia Márquez, @bydanobrien.bsky.social, @thejs3.bsky.social, @jessejohnson.bsky.social, and Jenn Scott. 🎉📚