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Zoë Ryder White

@zoeryderwhite.bsky.social

Poems, kids, beasts, ditches, etc.

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

The old plan was to sit a spell, then walk in flammable quiet. The new plan is to trick the whale into opening her mouth and then we get in. Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social

I was missing my antlers,

so you folded me a pair,
along with some other doubles—
doves; cuffs.

I have affixed
what you built
to my skull.

If what you want
to do with paper now
is crush it into balls,
lob two in my direction.

The old plan was
to sit a spell,
then walk
in flammable quiet.

The new plan
is to trick the whale
into opening her mouth
and then we get in.

River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Good morning to this beautiful review of THE VISIBLE FIELD in Radar Poetry! 📚 💙 Read it here: www.radarpoetry.com/review-the-v... @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social

"Tenderness, yes. Wit, yes.
Resolution, not often.
Because these poems mirror life at the same time that they exist as art."

Dara-Lyn Shrager reviews
THE VISIBLE FIELD in Radar Poetry

Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New poem plus a thoughtful review of The Visible Field in the new issue of Radar Poetry! www.radarpoetry.com/issue-45-toc

Table of Contents — Radar

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Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today is the birthday of the poet @hanvanderhart.bsky.social . Please read every single one of their poems. They are gorgeously-wrought, clear-eyed poems of breathtaking longing, and they make a kind of magic that reminds me what poems are for. Happy birthday, Taurus! 🌱🪻🫛🌻💙

Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thank you, Burgi! 💙

Burgi Zenhaeusern@burgi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"I aim my walking home / for where the house is and for where the house was and for where the house / could be." @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social in her f a n t a s t i c THE VISIBLE FIELD (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social, 2026). 💖💫💖 Poems to read & read 😍 #poetry 📚💙

The book on a tan wooden surface: the title is in white, boldfaced capitalized lettering and covers the entire cover, up to down, one word at a time. Flowers or grasses make the dual toned (like the negative of a photograph) blue background.

River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Okay, so May has managed to sneak up on us ... but guess what? We're open for manuscript submissions TOMORROW. Send us your full-length poetry collection. No required sub fee (tip jar optional, always). Model contract on our website. duotrope.com/publisher/ri...

River River Books

River River Books was founded by Amorak Huey and Han VanderHart in March 2022. Inspired by the idea that you cannot step in the same river twice, at River River Books, two poetry editors join together...

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Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

National Poetry Month: Prompt 16, from Zoë Ryder White, featuring May Swenson’s poem “Question” 📚💙 @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social #poetry #NaPoMo

National Poetry Month: Prompt 16 from Zoë Ryder White

May Swenson’s “Question” is one of those poems perpetually knocking around in my mind. Her questions focus on the self unhoused from the body. While you are still embodied, what questions do you h…

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Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’m excited for this panel with my amazing @riverriverbooks.bsky.social pressmates and the brilliant Gracie Leavitt at The Nussrat Yassini poetry festival next weekend at UNH. Mainer and Seacoast New Hampshire buddies, hope to catch a glimpse of you!🌸

River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Read @eleanorball.bsky.social’s incredible review of @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social’s The Visible Field in Cleaver Magazine! 📚💙👇 www.cleavermagazine.com/the-visible-...

Blue graphic with book cover of The Visible Field and the text: "With a fresh lens that broadens the scope of the possible and the poetic, White challenges how we routinely estrange ourselves from the natural world and our own hearts."
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Eleanor Ball reviews THE VISIBLE FIELD in Cleaver Magazine

David J Bauman @davidjbauman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Another wonderful poetry conversation went live this morning, this time with @hanvanderhart.bsky.social. Hear the full poem, plus two more, one of which was written by Catherine Rockwood. Listen and follow via inthreepoems.com

Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Listen to Episode 86 with Zoë Ryder White here! 👉 share.transistor.fm/s/9b660f10 @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

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OF POETRY PODCAST
Zoe Ryder White
POEMS
THE
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VISIBLE
RYDER
FIELD
WHITE
(Of Wonder, Emily Dickinson, and Titling Poems)
EPISODE 86

Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I have two new poems in Issue #2 of slips slips—this one features midlife dating and both members of my writing group, @nematode.bsky.social and @jgriffingraham.bsky.social 💜 “it's a play in a wooden O; a cypher; we are but the players, filling it an hour, short as spring, lush and too beautiful”

Ara Poetica with Midlife Dating and Wyatt and a Murder Ballad

Has your longest love ever walked into the woods with someone else, slipped off the grid for hours, kissed her on a rock by the river?
It's Elizabethan as the king's favorite hound in her embroidered collar, as a hind and a hart at daybreak, as naked foot stalking your chamber floor; it's a play in a wooden O; a cypher; we are but the players, filling it an hour, short as spring, lush and too beautiful in saturated greens in recounting my sadness taking place unchristianly during holy week, a friend responds:
I'd read your "midlife marriage novel," and I say I'd title it Murder Ballad—who is getting murdered? asks our third friend, anxious. My feelings, I say, which are Southern and dramatic. Ah, she says. I'd read the hell out of that.

-HAN VANDERHART

Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Listen to Episode 86 (Of Wonder, Emily Dickinson, and Titling Poems) with @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social here: share.transistor.fm/s/9b660f10

Graphic with a white horse in a stall and the text:

This is not a metaphor for an unhappy life.
This is how my body felt.
This is how my neurology followed its groove,
showed me a picture of a mare in a stall too small for turning.
from "Listen to Yourself"
Zoë Ryder White

Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Of revision, of titling poems, of neurology and phenomenology, of Bachelard and Dickinson and compression and more! Episode 86 with Zoë Ryder White is here! 📚💙🎙️ Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/9b660f10 @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

Graphic featuring author photo of Zoe Ryder White and the book cover of The Visible Field and the text:

Episode 86: Zoe Ryder White (Of Wonder, Emily Dickinson, and Titling Poems)
Zoe Ryder White, author of The Visible Field

Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere
Read: "Listen to Yourself" (Sixth Finch)
Purchase: The Visible Field (River River Books, 2026)

Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Love this conversation with @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social, airing tomorrow! 📚💙🎙️ @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

I am not a very tortured poet-the process for me is joyful, even when it's messed up.

ZOE RYDER WHITE, EP 86

Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Get ready for a new episode tomorrow with @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social, author of THE VISIBLE FIELD from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social! 📚💙🎉

I am amazed.
I am ready to be amazed.
How could I not be
amazed?

ZOE RYDER WHITE, EP 86

River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happy WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH from River River Books! 🎉🎉🎉 Check out these beautiful poetry and nonfiction titles today! 📚💙 riverriverbooks.org/store/

Book graphic featuring 12 titles by women-identifying authors at RRB

Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Emily D, always at eye level as I work. You cannot solder an Abyss/ With Air

Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Looking forward to participating in Virginia Festival of the Book next weekend! 📚❤️🎉 Register for free here: vahumanities.cventevents.com/event/bookfe...

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Rural Existential: Memoirs in Verse
10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Poetry
New Dominion Bookshop
Two authors turn to poetry to tell personal stories of being and becoming.
Son of a Bird by Nin Andrews, written in prose poems, explores an unconventional rural Virginia childhood, focusing on family secrets and the profound, often strange, relationships with the author's Black nanny and farmhands, all while grappling with instability, loss, and her own burgeoning self-discovery.
Larks, a book of poetry by Han VanderHart, also turns to a rural landscape, one resonant and yet quiet with unspoken truths and traumas.
Genealogies, farm creatures, mythology, and sisterhood inhabit their haunting lines.
Han VanderHart
Author

River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"See how it compensates? It gets sloppy. It spills down its bra. It’s sticky. It howls. Milkweed. Remember? You’ll be enmeshed soon." River River poet @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social with a poem at Only Poems today -- www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-dream-...

[The dream says it’s more stripper] by Zoë Ryder White

"You bring the tea cake, the sweet demeanor."

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Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Im more excited about this project than any writing I’ve done for a long time, and so grateful to @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for sharing seven from the series, along with an interview. They sure know how to ask a compelling and thoughtful question.♥️ onlypoems.com/poets/zoe-ry...

Zoë Ryder White | Poet of the Week | ONLY POEMS

Explore poems and an in-depth interview with Zoë Ryder White, our featured poet. Discover their work, creative process, and poetic journey.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our first sale of AWP yesterday! 📚💙🎉 @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social

River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our Friday night reading at University of Baltimore with @blairpub.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉📚 #AWP2026 This will be LIT! Come hear incredible writers from two North Carolina presses.

BLAIR & RIVER RIVER BOOKS
FRIDAY NIGHT READING (3/6)
7-9PM
21 W MT ROYAL AVE
BALTIMORE, MD 21201
UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE
BLAIR

Amanda Hartman @amandalah.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My friend @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social has a new #book #poetry #booksky

Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thanks to The Missouri Review for sharing this poem, first in a series of “dream says” poems, as poem of the week this week ♥️ missourireview.com/zoe-ryder-wh...

The Missouri Review“The dream says I am here to tell you” by Zoë Ryder White

Discovering the best in fiction, essays, and poetry

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Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I’m the luckiest duckie.

Dr. Han VanderHart@hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I kept this poem in my desktop for months, after our summer submissions period decisions. We reached out to @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social after accepting @esylviapoet.bsky.social’s Scythe. Write the poem editors can’t stopped thinking about! 📚💙