I love Catherine Tudish's quiet, precise, regional writing. I loved the rural PA books and as a displaced Vermonter (adopted, but still) I really look forward to reading this new book!

7 Innovative Collections From Poets Without MFAs - Electric Literature With no institution advising these writers where to go, they go everywhere

Fresh praise for COMMON DISASTER! "Cheung is a musician: often brutal subjects cast in lucid lines, beauty rendered without consolation...If a person is a crossing of multiple histories, few #poets trace that crossing with such immediacy and tenderness." electricliterature.com/7-innovative... 📚💙🎉

published in The Sycamore Review, from "Bad Mexican, Bad American." @acrebooks.bsky.social

Corinth author set to release third novel this month - Community News Service Catherine Tudish discusses "A Thousand Souls" and the inner workings of her writing process.

Acre author Catherine Tudish (A THOUSAND SOULS) talks setting, storytelling, and character development in a new interview! #booksky 🖊️📚🎉 vtcommunitynews.org/2026/04/11/c....

A white quote shape over a red background. The Cincinnati Review logo is in white on the bottom left, and on the bottom right is a circular picture of Kathryn Cowles, a white woman with light-brown hair to her shoulders and a dark shirt. The text in the white quote shape says: Featured Interview. I think everyone should write poems and make art. Art can't be hurt by people doing it, so there's no risk, and so much benefit.

A white quote shape over a red background. The Cincinnati Review logo is in white on the bottom left, and on the bottom right is a circular picture of Donald Revell, a white man with gray hair parted down the middle and reaching to his ears and a gray mustache. He's wearing a light blue shirt and red tie and standing in front of greenery. The text in the white quote shape says: Featured Interview. For me, a poem begins as a state of mind, a change in the weathers of my thinking

Next week, @kathryncowles.bsky.social and Donald Revell read in University of Cincinnati's Elliston Room. Ahead of that, hear their advice for newer writers, craft suggestions, and more. Link in thread.

Pilgrims 2.0 A novel following four passengers on a luxury cruise line that promises complete reinvention through plastic surgery. PILGRIM, Canterbury Cruise Line’s flagship, promises its passengers not just a lux...

Flashback Friday! PILGRIMS 2.0 “As AI is proposed as a solution or improvement on the human mind & capability, Harding's #novel expertly interrogates impossible expectations set upon women & mothers...& our never-ending pursuit of something better.” Georgia Review press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

My twin brother was disabled, but I don't consider myself a 'glass child' "Sometimes I had to be my brother’s arms, legs, eyes and voice," writes Brian Trapp. "It often didn’t feel like a burden, more like an alternative way of moving through the world."

Thanks to @wbur.org for adapting my essay into an audio piece. You can hear me and Danny at age 5, 8, and 25, including us joking about who is the evil twin. But it also wonderful to hear my mom talking to Dan again. Please check it out and share.
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

Quote from Nikolis piece (in body of post).

A close-up photo of Anastasia Nikolis. She is wearing a black blouse with her long hair framing her face, and her head is resting on her closed fist.

"We call this pipe cleaning in my household, any time we ingest whole-grain-this or dark-leafy-green-that, to inject some levity into this public health crisis . . ."

In this week's miCRo, Anastasia Nikolis investigates a public health crisis.

Link in thread.

"Bones" published in Centaur Lit and from "Bad Mexican, Bad American." @acrebooks.bsky.social

7 Innovative Collections From Poets Without MFAs - Electric Literature With no institution advising these writers where to go, they go everywhere

Fresh praise for COMMON DISASTER! "Cheung is a musician: often brutal subjects cast in lucid lines, beauty rendered without consolation...If a person is a crossing of multiple histories, few #poets trace that crossing with such immediacy and tenderness." electricliterature.com/7-innovative... 📚💙🎉

Heartfelt congrats to Acre author @thejs3.bsky.social! His #novel, DEFIANT ACTS, has been named the 2025 Winner of the Friends of American Writers Award! 🎉🎉🎉 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

A graphic for the Emerging Writer series featuring Siobhan Jean-Charles, a poet and contributor to the upcoming spring issue.

Our latest in our Emerging Writers interview series features Siobhan Jean-Charles, whose poems "Ode to Freeze Spell" and "Springfield Ghazal" appear in our upcoming spring issue.

Link in thread.

Closing soon! Send us your cnf manuscripts! 📚🖊️

Looking forward to this!

Flashback Friday! NOTHING VAST: 2026 Wingate Prize Longlist; 2025 Balcones Prize Semifinalist. @moshezmarvit.bsky.social's multigenerational #novel follows two families—one Moroccan, one Polish—filled with Zionists, anti-Zionists, socialists, & reactionaries. 📚🎉
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Subject catalog: Poetry Month!''} Subject catalog for Poetry Month.

Our distributor, University of Chicago, is running a discount for #NationalPoetryMonth! Enjoy an exclusive 40% off on selected #poetry -- including several Acre titles -- throughout April. Use code POETRYMONTH at checkout. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/vi...

Flame - The Cincinnati Review Associate Editor Kate Jayroe: Marei's stunningly vivid poem captures the raw enormity of grief through a proliferation of ephemeral images, each

“Ballooning into a sky that now forgets
To be anything but gray. All the red that wants to be
the dark. Give me another
Screen. Give me another lens…”

—“Flame” by Anaya Marei in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth
www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/flame/

"Martha / organizes last death. / Better left untranslated."

This week in miCRo, Aaliyah Anderson explores strange communions with the dead in a poem after Martha the last passenger pigeon.

Link in thread.

from Bad Mexican, Bad American. @acrebooks.bsky.social

My twin brother was disabled, but I don't consider myself a 'glass child' "Sometimes I had to be my brother’s arms, legs, eyes and voice," writes Brian Trapp. "It often didn’t feel like a burden, more like an alternative way of moving through the world."

"If we extend the satellite metaphor...it shows how our lives bend to the increased gravity of our #disabled siblings in profound ways. The satellite makes no claims to a syndrome, as if trying to compete with a sibling’s diagnoses." Acre's @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social for NPR. tinyurl.com/3avkm68u

Heartfelt congrats to Acre author @thejs3.bsky.social! His #novel, DEFIANT ACTS, has been named the 2025 Winner of the Friends of American Writers Award! 🎉🎉🎉 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Acre Books is looking for creative nonfiction broadly, including #memoir, graphic nonfiction, #essay collections, and narrative #nonfiction. For this call, we’re reading full manuscripts (no query required). Submit through our website at acre-books.com/submissions/ by April 15. #booksky 📚🖊️

Subject catalog: Poetry Month!''} Subject catalog for Poetry Month.

Our distributor, University of Chicago, is running a discount for #NationalPoetryMonth! Enjoy an exclusive 40% off on selected #poetry -- including several Acre titles -- throughout April. Use code POETRYMONTH at checkout. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/vi...

CR interview graphic with photo of Maya Jewell Zeller and quote from interview (in the body of the post).

"I followed memoir the way that a poet would do it, which is to offer another lensing or another redefinition of what the genre is doing."

Today on the site, Erica Reid interviews contributor Maya Jewell Zeller about her new memoir, "Raised by Ferns." Link in thread.

Cover image for Jose Hernandez Diaz's THE LIGHTHOUSE TATTOO. Black and white illustration of shirtless man with lighthouse tattoo on his back

Cover reveal: THE LIGHTHOUSE TATTOO! In his fourth full-length collection, @josehernandezdz.bsky.social explores the first-generation Mexican American experience in nuanced linear verse, avant-garde offerings, and deadpan absurdist #prosepoems. Preorder press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 📚🎉

Big Familia Big Familia follows Juan Gutiérrez, a self-employed single father, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter, Stella, is on the verge of moving away to college; his lover, ...

Flashback Friday! 2020 PEN /Hemingway Finalist, 2020 Lambda Finalist, Foreword INDIES Finalist in LGBTQ+ #Fiction “Moniz tells a story that is simultaneously timeless & timely. Diverse characters & a deeply likeable protagonist make this a standout.” —Kirkus (⭐) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Acre Books is looking for creative nonfiction broadly, including #memoir, graphic nonfiction, #essay collections, and narrative #nonfiction. For this call, we’re reading full manuscripts (no query required). Submit through our website at acre-books.com/submissions/ by April 15. #booksky 📚🖊️

Acre Books cover reveal: Jaclyn Gilbert's BUTTER ROAD, a searing #novel about a community irrevocably transformed by gun violence. Coming Oct 2026! Preorder at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... #booksky 📚🎉📚🎉📚🎉

"We apprenticed together / until morning touched our slouched / shoulders. Continued even when ants / punctuated the table in summer."

In this week's miCRo, Hana Widerman offers a searing, colorful meditation on the past. Link in thread.

Poem by Dan O’Brien in the Times Literary Supplement

In print 🙏🏻 @thetls.bsky.social