🪔🌱 Join our personalized workshop / class Breaking the Bowl with an exhilarating set of guest speakers: Ian Lockaby, José Felipe Alvergue, Aracelis Girmay & Desirée Alvarez. Submit 5 poems here: omnidawn.submittable.com/submit/36374... For more info look here: www.omnidawn.com/breaking-the...

We live in a strange and unsettling era, where we long for the powers of fabulist fiction. Please send us your best and strangest fiction! omnidawn.submittable.com/submit Judge: Selah Saterstrom Prize: $1,000 prize, publication & 25 copies Fee: $25 Deadline: October 16, 2026

Congratulations to Mandy Gutmann-González! Winner of the 2026 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest, selected by Brody Parrish Craig And to finalists Rodrick Minor Benjamin Stallings Swati Rana Julia Wohlstetter JinJin Xu

John Yau will be reading at the Poetry Society of America at 7:00 pm ET on September 24. Yau will read alongside Dara Barrois/Dixon. Tickets available at poetrysociety.org. Copies of Yau’s Diary of Small Discontents and Tell It Slant available for sale. #booksky

We are so happy to share rob mclennan’s wonderful review of PULSE by Maria Nazos! #booksky Read rob mclennan’s review here: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/09/rob-mclennan-pulse-by-maria-nazos.html Order your copy of PULSE: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo265676906.html

John Yau, author of Diary of Small Discontents: New & Selected Poems, 1974–2024, will deliver the Academy of American Poets 2026 Blaney Lecture! Register to attend here: event.newschool.edu/2026blaneyle... And order your copy of Yau’s most recent collection: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Only a few days left for the 2026 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest... Julie Carr is our judge, and she looks forward to reading your best work! omnidawn.submittable.com/submit Extended deadline: August 31st at midnight

Congratulations to Rodrigo Toscano for “Poets of Shenzhen” from his collection WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. being featured in Poetry Daily! #booksky Read Toscano’s featured poem: poems.com/poem/poets-o... And order your copy of WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA.: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

What a kickass surprise: earlier this year, @libraryjournal.bsky.social included PULSE in its PrePub Alert, w/extraordinary #poets I've long admired & dreamed of sharing ANY page with, let alone this one. 📚 Now, w/the book out from @omnidawn.bsky.social, it’s lovely to look back. #poetry

"As resilient humans, we pick kindness, but for kindness to survive, we can’t cancel out cruelty. Canceling out cruelty is denial." @rsdeeren.bsky.social's interview with @marianazos.bsky.social on "Year of Valentines" (@omnidawn.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/08/12/o...

"Obsessing about running toward and away from madness": An Interview with Maria Nazos - Chicago Review of Books

In her latest poetry collection, PULSE, Maria Nazos ushers her readers across the lines of passion and suffering, of love and cruelty, and of the obsessions that drive us. In poems that are as equally...

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Help with the Berkeley Poetry Festival fundraiser! August 22 2-4:30 pm Pacific Donkey & Goat Winery www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-tak...

Join our 2026 Breaking the Bowl class led by David Koehn with Rusty Morrison! omnidawn.submittable.com/submit “The arts allow us to dance at the edge of uncertainty.” Barbara Groth

Read Process Note #76 from John Cross: “Endangered Animals of Ohio” Mathias Sets Out, on periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics. #booksky Read Cross’s note here: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/08/proc... And order What Bleak Angels Carried Your Bed: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

We are so happy to share that a new review of Las Palmas by Keith Jones has been published in rob mclennan’s blog! #booksky Read rob mclennan’s review here: robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/07/keit... And order your copy of Jones’ Las Palmas: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Kimberly Reyes' poem, “The Storm Surge, 1981-1992,” is featured today in Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets! @poetsorg.bsky.social @umiamienglish.bsky.social Read Reyes’ featured poem here: poets.org/poem-a-day Order your copy of Bloodletting here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

José Felipe Alvergue, en el norte / soy del sur / @omnidawn.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/07/jose...

José Felipe Alvergue, en el norte / soy del sur

We came in dancing. Landed moving. Our bodies pressed against borders, north and south, to the limits of cold and heat. Seeped through and f...

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We hope you'll join us for our virtual Spring 2026 book launch on Sunday, July 26th @ 1 pm Pacific. We're grateful to Evan Karp for being such a terrific host for this reading. The event is free but you must RSVP before the event begins. app.gopassage.com/events/omnid...

Announcing our 2026 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest! Judge: Julie Carr Prize: $3000, publication and 20 author copies Dates: July 1 to August 16 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Fee: $30 per entry omnidawn.submittable.com/submit We look forward to reading your best work!

We are so happy to share that John Yau’s Diary of Small Discontents: New & Selected Poems 1974–2024 will be reviewed in the summer issue of the print edition of Rain Taxi by Amelia Sage Van Donsel. #booksky Order your copy of Diary of Small Discontents: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Congratulations to Kimberly Reyes for BLOODLETTING becoming a finalist for The National Indie Excellence Awards! We are so happy to celebrate! Read the full list of finalists here: www.indieexcellence.com/20th-annual-... Order your copy of BLOODLETTING here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Congratulations to Norma Cole for her collection, Alibi Lullaby, becoming a finalist for The National Indie Excellence Awards! #booksky Read the full list of finalists here: www.indieexcellence.com/20th-annual-... And order your copy of Alibi Lullaby here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

We are extending the deadline to the 2026 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest to June 30th! The prize is $1000, publication and 20 copies. Judged by Maw Shein Win, author of Percussing the Thinking Jar. We are so excited to read your submissions! omnidawn.submittable.com/submit

Congratulations to jason b crawford and YEET!, the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Poetry! We are so happy to celebrate such wonderful news! #booksky Order your copy of crawford’s YEET! here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

In his review, Evan McHenry writes: “Console seeks to examine that damaged world itself” #booksky Read McHenry's review: clereviewofbooks.com/reenactor-of-the-present-on-cyrus-consoles-the-wayfarer/ And order The Wayfarer here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo237307912.html

Congratulations to Audrey T. Williams, winner of the 2025 Fabulist Fiction Contest selected by Arria Deepwater! #booksky And Congratulations to our finalists Amelia Burton, MK Chavez, Peter Hankins, Juhee Singh, and A.J. Vellum!

In his review published in Honey Literary, DeeSoul Carson writes: “YEET! imagines Black people somewhere alive and safe, imagining a new language for the way we breathe." #booksky Read Carson’s full review: www.honeyliterary.com/stickyfinger... Find YEET! here press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Join us in celebrating Molly Bendall for Turncoat becoming a finalist for the 2025 Big Other Book Award for Poetry! Read the full list of finalists here: bigother.com/2026/05/05/a... And order your copy of Bendall’s Turncoat: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

We are happy to celebrate Walter Ancarrow and his collection, Etymologies, being selected by Poetry Daily for their 2025: Poetry Daily Staff Picks! Read Poetry Daily’s 2025 Staff Picks here: poems.com/2025-poetry-... Order your copy of Ancarrow’s Etymologies: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Bedient confronts disasters of politics, love, and faithless time, never turning away from the glinting axe. #booksky Pre-order your copy of Bedient’s collection, Clouds Upside Down Among the Flowers: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

"It’s not an event but a feeling that forces me to write or make something. And that feeling is almost always unendurable pain and confusion." —Miranda July

Miranda July on Emotional Honestly, Art-Making, and Perimenopause

The writer, filmmaker, and artist discusses motherhood, art-making, and her new novel All Fours .

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