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www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/4/21/prayer-for-what-stays-as-a-corset

Artist's image of a black hole in outer space with a quote in pale blue "a siren's clutching, a meter's coin of time drained into a black hole" by Katrina Roberts.

From “PRAYER for WHAT STAYS, as a CORSET” by Katrina Roberts

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Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/4/20/sailors-eyeball

Image of glass marbles in turquoise, dark blue, green, yellow, and orange on a dark wood table with a quote in bright blue, "ornamental grape sewn into a bodice gone unseen by men" by Chloe Cook.

From “Sailor's Eyeball” by Chloe Cook

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Another great poem from SWWIM

If so, you’re a SWWIMmer & eligible to win a beautiful digital broadside of your SWWIM poem by Blossom Creative. Drawings are held every week in April - you have one more chance to win! Every donation of $25 or more to SWWIM is a new entry into the contest—head to the link in our bio to give!

2nd Annual SWWIM LOVES YOU BACK Donor Roll Call Brooke Bovee Helene Fisher Majda Gama Valentina Gnup Hilary King Diane LeBlanc Arden Levine Anne Marie Macari Chloe Martinez Susan Milchman Erin Murphy Julie Murphy

2nd Annual SWWIM LOVES YOU BACK Donor Roll Call Nancy Murphy Haya Pomrenze Jenny Qi Cindy Veach

2nd Annual SWWIM LOVES YOU BACK And the winner is... LARA PAYNE

Seedheads, golden Lara Payne Such an abundance of green, I used to think, passing that corner lot, daily But the man was taken from his lawn two weeks ago, now, and the grass grows uncut and unruly. We are in gold time, now, gold season. Light abundant in its waning glory. A whole field of children running, kicking. Dive and fall. Voices meld with owl and hawk, the last peepers. I am the partially rusted crank of a bicycle that barely rattles. I am the skill you pretend will come back. Memory grows in me like that uncut grass will, one season later. If I take the high path above the river who will I see, fear? Will ticks unstick from tall grass, attach to my churning legs? Tick tick tick the bicycle is singing, now. Everything ends the grasshoppers sing and the sunset-bound birds, and the man in some cell, taken from my street while I walked in sun at the farmer’s market.

It’s Week 3 of our Second Annual SWWIM Loves You Back! Digital Broadside Sweepstakes! Many thanks to all of our Week 3 donors and congratulations to this week’s winner, Lara Payne! Have you been published in SWWIM Every Day?

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Weekly Spotlight LITERARY MAGAZINES Booth: Lizzy Ke Polishan, Sandra Yannone Cetera: Patricia Caspers The Cincinnati Review: Kelle Groom Electric Lit: Jia-Rui Cook Gyroscope Review: Ann Cefola, Laura Foley, Gloria Heffernan, Jennifer Mills Kerr, Connie Post, Sara Quinn Rivara, Annie Stenzel, Melody Wilson Michigan Quarterly Review: Sati Mookerjhee The Missouri Review: Leila Farjami Nerve to Write: Emma Bolden, Emily Rose Cole, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Dana Henry Martin, Rita Maria Martinez ONE ART: a journal of poetry: Merrill Oliver Douglas Only Poems: Anna Lena Phillips Bell Pictura Literary Journal: Jennifer Mills Kerr, Laura Grace Weldon

Weekly Spotlight LITERARY MAGAZINES Pine Hills Review: Annie Stenzel Plume: Elinor Ann Walker Prairie Schooner: Yosra Bouslama, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Terese Svoboda Rattle: Jane Zwart Rogue Agent: Liz Ahl, Clayre Benzadón, Trish Hopkinson, Melanie McCabe, Amy Miller Seneca Review: Jami Macarty, Maya Pindyck Sugar House Review: Lauren Camp Thimble Literary Magazine: Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Rebecca Brock**, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Mary Beth Hines, Jennifer Mills Kerr, Jane Medved, Jill Michelle, Sara Quinn Rivara, Annie Stenzel, Jessica L. Walsh The Westchester Review: Marion Brown, Connie Post, Sonya Schneider, Sara Moore Wagner, Kathryn Weld

Weekly Spotlight AWARDS 2026 Mississippi Review Poetry Contest: Finalists: Tammy Greenwood, Lisa Rosinsky BOOKS Cider Press Review: Melissa McEver Huckabay, Girl Filling the Sky Longleaf Press: Melanie McCabe, All The Signs Were There FEATURES & COLUMNS Brattleboro Reformer: Diana Whitney INTERVIEWS Plume: Sally Bliumis-Dunn *SWWIM Every Day Editor ** SWWIM Every Day Staff

Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts!

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Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/4/17/cardinal-signs

Image of a red cardinal in a gathering of bare branches with an orange-beak looking at the camera with one eye and a quote in pale yellow "I was born with a radiance of redbirds in my blood" by Therese Gleason

From “Cardinal Signs” by Therese Gleason

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Flyer advertising A Poetry Reading & Conversation, SWWIM, Joan Kwon Glass and Clayre Benzadón, TONIGHT! TONIGHT! TONIGHT!, April 16, 7:00 PM The B Bar, The Betsy SouthBeach, Livestream on IG/FB, crearte, with images of a dark haired woman with glasses looking at the camera with a black long sleeved top, and a woman with a black hat with buckles and chin-length brown hair over a spaghetti strapped dress also looking at the camera.

TONIGHT! Join us at 7pm (EST) for a reading and conversation with @joankwonglass.bsky.social and @clayrebenz.bsky.social at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar. This event will be live-streamed from The Betsy on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.

Join us in person or from wherever you are.

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SWWIM Team

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/4/15/room

Image of an ocean wave crashing against a rocky and pebbled seashore with a quote in bright yellow "she was frothing frustration at the sleek-backed dozing on her banks" by Carol Blaizy D'Souza

From “Room” by Carol Blaizy D’Souza

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We celebrated #nationalpoetrymonth in the medicine garden of Eleanor Galt Simmons, a pioneer doctor who sailed through the mangroves treating patients along the shores of Biscayne Bay. Be sure to check out The Kampong's exhibit on her extraordinary life in early Coconut Grove!

Such a pleasure partnering with our friends at The Kampong this weekend for "CreativiTEA in the Garden," our creative workshop & tea party! The weather was gorgeous & the setting was perfect!

Tea treats by Mademoiselle in the Kitchen.

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/4/14/egret

Image of a tall white egret with a black-tipped orange beak with long thin legs and white tail feathers reaching down against a background of green leaves with a quote in bright blue "the body an exclamation point between land and sky or a divining rod between land and water" by Carolyn H. Zukowski

From “Egret” by Carolyn H. Zukowski

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Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/4/13/at-the-market

Close-up image of a lit stove burner with rising blue flames beneath a black grate and a quote in pale blue "she didn't know how close she came to burning down the house" by Liz Grisaru

From “At the Market” by Liz Grisaru

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If so, you’re a SWWIMmer & are eligible to win a beautiful digital broadside of your SWWIM poem by Blossom Creative Drawings are held every week in April, which means there are 2 more chances to win! Every donation of $25 or more to SWWIM is a new entry into the contest—give at the link in our bio!

2nd Annual SWWIM LOVES YOU BACK Donor Roll Call Arden Levine Barbara Schwartz Bonnie Jill Emmanuel Brett Warren Carolina Hospital Christy Prahl Cynthia Atkins Ellen Austen-Li Elline Lipkin Heidi Seaborn Jessica de Koninck Katrina Roberts Lara Payne Leila Farjami Leona Sevick

2ND ANNUAL SWWIM LOVES YOU BACK DONOR ROLL CALL Lisa Zimmerman Marjorie Tesser Nicole Callihan Rebekah Wolman Ronda Piszk Broatch Ronna Magy Sarah Freligh Sonya Schneider Sunni Wilkinson Susan Rich Tammy Greenwood Tina Barry Veronica Kornberg

2nd Annual SWWIM LOVES YOU BACK And the winner is... Brett Warren

Bird Watching by Brett Warren He watches his wife push open the door of the campground bathroom, take a step in, check to make sure someone isn’t hiding in the single stall. The maneuver takes all of three seconds, but the hesitation is at odds with her vigor on the trail. When he asks, she says she hardly thinks of it—most women do some variation of the same thing, or at least it crosses their minds, to be ready. Decades married, he’s only just noticing this vigilance— unspoken, subterranean, intuitive. The door swings shut with a thud, startling a barn swallow who nests above it every spring. The bird swoops out from under the overhang, up again to perch on a branch until it’s safe to return. How many times a day does she do this? He remembers another bird he saw once, nesting on a restaurant’s outdoor fire alarm— the curve of her taupe feathers, dry thatch of twigs a surprise, so jarring atop the flame- red box. He wonders what it is with

It’s the 2nd week of our 2nd Annual SWWIM Loves You Back! Digital Broadside Sweepstakes! Many thanks to our Week 2 donors and congratulations to this week’s winner, Brett Warren!

Have you been published in SWWIM Every Day?

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM LITERARY MAGAZINES Bennington Review: Genevieve Kaplan, Julie Marie Wade Chicago Quarterly Review: Sonya Schneider The Christian Century: Sarah Carey North American Review: Jen Karetnick* ONE ART: a journal of poetry: Deborah Bacharach, Laura Foley, Hayley Mitchell Haugen, Robbi Nester Only Poems: Anna Lena Phillips Bell Pangyrus: Alexis Ivy, Sarah Dickenson Snyder Poetry: Kelli Russell Agodon, Felicia Zamora Psaltery & Lyre: Jen Karetnick*, Sunni Brown Wilkinson Southern Humanities Review: Diane K. Martin Split Rock Review: Kimberly Ann Priest

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM LITERARY MAGAZINES Wild Roof Journal: Cynthia Atkins, Diane LeBlanc, Michelle Geoga, Sandra Marchetti, Kathryn Weld, Sarah Wetzel, Karen J. Weyant AWARDS 42 Miles Press Poetry Contest: Finalists: Camille Carter, Alexis Ivy, Kelly R. Samuels Gearhart Poetry Contest: Longlist: Elizabeth Garcia, Julia Kolchinsky, Somya Schneider BOOKS The Academy of Intentional Magic: Maureen Alsop, Mercury Hour FEATURES & COLUMNS Autumn Sky Poetry Daily: Julie Weiss

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM FEATURES & COLUMNS Second Coming: Anastasia Vassos REVIEWS Los Angeles Review: Reviewer: Sarah Carey PODCASTS & RADIO SPOTS The Slowdown: Jane Zwart *SWWIM Every Day Editor ** SWWIM Every Day Staff

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CreativiTEA with SWWIM - National Tropical Botanical Garden Date: Saturday, April 11, 2026 Time: 1:00 – 3:00 pm Location: The Kampong (4013 S […]

the pioneer doctor who traveled through the mangroves by sailboat & treated early Grove residents on The Kampong property. Tea & refreshments will be served. Hats are strongly encouraged! Tickets at the link below:

ntbg.org/events/creat...

Flyer with pink center and flowers alongside in red, orange, yellow, and pink, with the text "The Kampong / SWWIM CreativiTEA in the Garden, a poetry workshop and tea party, Saturday, April 11th 1-3pm, $35 members, $45 non-members, Age: 21+, Attire: Tea Party (Hats encouraged!)

TOMORROW! Join us at The Kampong on Saturday, April 11–no poetry experience required! Guests at this tropical tea party & creative workshop will write their own poems inspired by the life of Eleanor Galt Simmons,

Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful work with us!

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/4/10/appointment

Image of a turquoise and rust-orange shadowed sea floor with a dark turquoise studded starfish and a quote in bright yellow, "Oh, my little starfish, I see you floating in the dark night sky" by Barbara Crooker

From “Appointment” by Barbara Crooker

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Flyer advertising A Poetry Reading & Conversation, SWWIM, Joan Kwon Glass and Clayre Benzadón, April 16, 7:00 PM The B Bar, The Betsy SouthBeach, Livestream on IG/FB, crearte, with images of a dark haired woman with glasses looking at the camera with a black long sleeved top, and a woman with a black hat with buckles and chin-length brown hair over a spaghetti strapped dress also looking at the camera.

NEXT WEEK!

Join us next Thursday, April 16 at 7pm (EST) for a reading & conversation with @joankwonglass.bsky.social & @clayrebenz.bsky.social at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar. This event will be live-streamed from The Betsy on our Instagram & Facebook pages.

Join us in person or from wherever you are.

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/4/9/litany

Silhouette of a dark-haired woman over a grill covered in tortillas, a hand reaching toward one, beneath a sign that shows T-O-R before the image cuts off, with a quote in pale blue "Dust of her kindness, as she heats corn tortillas on her blackened comal" by Maria Caponi

From “Litany” by Maria Caponi

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