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Our Spring 2026 issue is OUT NOW!

Featuring #interviews with Eleni Sikelianos and Jane Zwart, as well as works by Raúl Zurita, Jane Clarke, Khadijah Queen, Tom Laichas, Dian Parker, Susan Irvine, and many more.

Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

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The poems in Kelly R. Samuels’ “The Sailing Place” are pensive, impressionistic, sparse and compact, mirroring the frequently quiet malaise of necessary, domestic life. The voice is tightly measured and contained. The words seem to echo in these small spaces. But cracks in this guarded facade start to appear when routine is broken and the speaker considers the larger, natural world. An appetite for life returns: “The soaking up of.” The speaker’s world expands and brightens; colors reappear. There is a change in tone, however slight, that signals toward a life bubbling just below the surface, a moving past the mundane. I very much enjoyed reading Samuels’ collection and marveled at her masterful voice-control and restraint. These vignettes of a restless soul resonate in their quiet way, and her poetic craft is very apparent. I highly recommend it! Well done!

I had the opportunity to exchange book reviews with @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social Her chap The Sailing Place is a must read!

Goodreads link: www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

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I had the pleasure of reading and writing a review for irl by @dehm000.bsky.social

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New poem in Midwest Review!

I will, Danielle!

Really enjoyed the third poem: 'As Lethe, Daughter of Eris, Speaking of the River
Early Morning'

"I cannot quite orient myself. I think
what is another state is, in fact, not another
state but only more of the same, and the hill
she spoke of is lost to me[...]"

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Poetry by Kelly R. Samuels Gerry Dincher   CC As Lethe, Daughter of Eris, Speaking of the River  Come Evening I drove the river road north. It was not leisurely.  Everywhere: yellow leaves kicking  up. The wind was fierce...

"The light isn’t what it will be, every-
thing bleached out, like those photographs
of the other lake—the one we lived by
in a trailer, poor, thinking on marigolds.
But, it will come and I will settle
in."

Abstract art with smeared paint in pink, orange, lavender, and red. Black scribbles. WTR logo: West Trestle Review. Train on a trestle.

It’s ugly out there, but I made something beautiful with the help of some beautiful people.

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Just for fun, here's some of Issue 8's (Collage) most popular authors: @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Kelly White Arnold, @kathrynreese.bsky.social, @jackbedell.bsky.social, Francis de Lima, @hubbsd.bsky.social, Jacqueline Rosado, @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social, Colin James, Annika Bey, BEE LB, ...

Heather Christle, from Paper Crown

Jill Osier, from should our undoing come down upon us white

The Sailing Place, by Kelly R. Samuels Poetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Burdened by the interior space, requisite tasks, and a stubborn despair, the woman in The Sailing Place craves release. In short, lyrical poems, Sa...

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Here’s Kelly R. Samuels and “Re: Talking of Wallpaper” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features w/ @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social

Read the full poem here

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Issue Four Storm Windows by Bill Schulz THE GLACIER Indiana University South Bend WINTER 2025 read now POETRY April Bernard Four Poems Michelle Bitting Self Portrait with Spit-Up Hades Zoe Boyer Eclipse Mary …

Three poems in the newest issue of The Glacier. Thank you, David, John, and The Glacier Team.

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SUBS ARE OPEN FOR ISSUE 8: COLLAGE!

But what're the rules? Here's a Reader's Digest version.

Mind the Off Limits List! buff.ly/xboarlD

Rules: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP

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Victoria Chang: “The Swan” A poem by Victoria Chang: “The thin shirtless / man fishing by / the river. The woman // by his side, smoking.“

Stuninng Victoria Chang poem: yalereview.org/article/vict...

Adagio We never said aloud: into the earth or fire. And if earth, then where. And if fire, then where to cast the ashes. Each thought the other would choose: choosing for two, not one— the body lying flat, the body left upright. And if a stone.

Ellen Bryant Voigt. 💔

Cover image for ballast issue 3.4. Chalk drawing of three circles with white and red text saying “ballast 3.4 fall 2025”

ballast issue 3.4 (our last of 2025) is officially unleashed 🛸

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With Daniel Barbiero, Jerome Berglund, Joel Chace, Michael Daley, @geoffreydetrani.bsky.social, Connor Fisher, J. Freeborn, G Timothy Gordon, Vivian Ia, Jenna Jaco, Ted Jean, David Koehn…1/2

2/2 and Jason Labbe, Andrew Maxwell, Jory Mickelson (@poetryphone.bsky.social), Pete Miller, Matthew Murrey (@mytwords.bsky.social), Tom Phillips translating Tzatcho Boyajiev, Caroline Picker, @megpokrass.bsky.social, RL Powell, @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social, @hannahazar.bsky.social, Misha Tentser 2/…

Rose McLarney, from Colorfast.

New poem in the Phantom Issue of Azarao. Thank you to Sandrine. www.azarao-litjournal.com/kelly

Aracelis Girmay, from Green of All Heads

New poem up at Action, Spectacle. Gratitude to Adam.

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Cleaning Other People’s Houses — The Argyle Literary Magazine by Kelly R. Samuels “I could try and find those houses, now, but I think I would fail. It’s not their exteriors that I remember. Just their rooms, before, and then after—the stillness and shine.”

New prose at @theargylelitmag.bsky.social Thank you to David for selecting “Cleaning Other People’s Houses,” a piece about my mother.

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1351: The Happy Middle by Hedgie Choi Today’s poem is The Happy Middle by Hedgie Choi.

Thanks so much to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social @slowdownshow.org for featuring the poem The Happy Middle by Hedgie Choi, author of the poetry collection Salvage! Listen here: tinyurl.com/3hz7k7wy

Saturday Shout-Out ~ September 6, 2025 Share your recently published work with the WRJ community

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Hedgie Choi, from Salvage. #booksky