A number of our authors have offered writing prompts for National Poetry Month over at @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social! 📚💙💦 Hope you enjoy writing alongside these wonderful poets & nonfiction writers.
Catching up on our socials today—here is Prompt 19 from the poet @egcunningham.bsky.social, author of FIELD NOTES from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social 🌾 📚💙
Try your hand at “collapsing the phenomenal”!
OF POETRY PODCAST Beth Gilstrap PLAINWATER THERE IS NEWS ALONG THE OHIO (Of Genre as a Place to Leave & a Place to Come Back to, Finding the River's Flow, and Grief & Healing in Writing) EPISODE 87
Catch up on the poetic nonfiction of @bettysueblue.bsky.social on Episode 87–Beth is truly a hybrid & lyrical writer, and you can hear her read from her newest collection THERE IS NEWS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER here: share.transistor.fm/s/629f008d
VI from There Is News Along The Ohio River from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social How are you using all this Aries energy?! As someone w both Venus and Mars in the sign, I am ready. ✨🔥✨
The book on a wooden surface. It features a nearly full-cover photo of a totally rusted, opened sardine tin with the title and author (Backyard Alchemy, on life with other creatures in a time of salvage) written into it. The background is dark brown to fit with the rust of the tin.
The tangents you can launch into while your body is at work taking in signals from its environment, transforming it and you—a two-way flow of connection. I love how
@nematode.bsky.social's lyric essays in their Backyard Alchemy @riverriverbooks.bsky.social, 2026) do that!
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😍🙏🎉 We can’t wait to hear how you like the new titles—thank you so much for being a reader!!!
the covers of three books: Backyard Alchemy (J.D. Ho) There is News Along the Ohio River (Beth Gilstrap) Scythe (Elizabeth Sylvia)
Saturday highlight: picking up a @riverriverbooks.bsky.social book haul that made it safely across the border. Can't wait!
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National Poetry Month: Prompt 16, from Zoë Ryder White, featuring May Swenson’s poem “Question” 📚💙
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NC/SC/PA/KY/OH Writers, Teachers, Festivals, Bookshops, Classrooms: Now that I’m officially moved back to Charlotte I’d like to plan some summer events for my latest, There Is News Along The Ohio River @riverriverbooks.bsky.social If interested in collaborating or having me visit, hmu. Blurbs below
Find Lauren’s amazing collection here: riverriverbooks.org/store/An-Eye... #ArabAmericanHistoryMonth
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Read Lauren Camp’s AN EYE IN EACH SQUARE this #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth!
This @riverriverbooks.bsky.social poetry collection features “an imaginative biography of enigmatic painter Agnes Martin and a treatise on the multiplicities of the natural world.”
riverriverbooks.org/store/An-Eye...
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!🌸
Pick up your own copy of this collection "told in Sylvia’s proven approach of humor, lyricism, and rich language" at the River River website: riverriverbooks.org/store/
(or order it from Bookshop or via your favorite local bookstore!)
"A good poem doesn't give up all of its secrets right away." Scythe author Elizabeth Sylvia, interviewed in The New Bedford Light
SCYTHE author Elizabeth Sylvia talks poetry, process, and pleasure in this interview with The New Bedford Light ...
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Our! Elane! Kim! 🥰🎉🎉🎉
Order your copy of ANTIBODY, Elane’s spring 2026 debut containing multiple sonnets, here: riverriverbooks.org/store/Antibo...
graphic featuring a portion of Elane Kim's poem, which can be found in full at the link in the post
photograph of poet Elane Kim
"The sonnet has survived multiple centuries by always adapting," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1489. "If a sonnet is about turning to the unexpected, then the poet takes it further by looking in unexpected places."
Read "Sonnet Overheard at Phone Booth” by Elane Kim: bit.ly/4c83Cdq
Screen shot of podcast player and the text: April 8, 2026 1489: Sonnet Overheard at Phone Booth by Elane Kim
So thrilled to see Elane Kim, author of ANTIBODY (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social, 2026), featured on The Slow Down today! 📚💙🎙️
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Last but very much not least, beloved former Horn Booker J.D. Ho asked me to blurb their new book Backyard Alchemy: On Life with Other BACKYARD ALCHEMY Creatures in a Time of Salvage, a collection of gorgeous, plainspoken, and raw personal essays — and what a gift it was. Sometimes books just find you at the exact right time. Who else has had this alchemical experience?
“…a collection of gorgeous, plainspoken, and raw personal essays…”
Beautiful shout-out to J.D. Ho’s Backyard Alchemy by Elissa Gershowitz, editor at The Horn Book!
Read the full post here: www.hbook.com/story/out-of...
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Day 7: “Duplex in San Francisco” by Elane Kim in Antibody @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. One of my favorite poetry debuts this year!
TOP 10 TITLES FROM CLMP.ORG MEMBERS, MARCH 2026 I. Strap - Iron Oak Editions - Dan Kraines 2. The Rose Metal Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction - Rose Metal Press - Ed. Dinty W. Moore 3. Fifty Mothers - River River Books - Preeti Vangani 4. Southwest Reconstruction - Noemi Press - Raquel Gutierrez 5. The Swallows Come Out - Unbound Edition Press - Angie Estes 6. The Dragonfly Gambit - Neon Hemlock Press - A. D. Sui 7. Curtains of Rain - Jaded Ibis Press - Anel I. Flores 8. There is News Along the Ohio River - River River Books - Beth Gilstrap 9. The Visible Field - River River Books - Zoë Ryder White I0. Lonesome Ballroom - Rescue Press - Madeline McDonnell
Three River River titles on this list!
Thank you, @bookmobile-itasca.bsky.social!
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." POEMS THE ZOE VISIBLE RYDER FIELD WHITE Eleanor Ball reviews THE VISIBLE FIELD in Cleaver Magazine
Read @eleanorball.bsky.social’s incredible review of @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social’s The Visible Field in Cleaver Magazine! 📚💙👇
www.cleavermagazine.com/the-visible-...
Episode 87: Beth Gilstrap (Of Genre as a Place to Leave & a Place to Come Back to, Finding the River's Flow, and Grief & Healing in Writing) Beth Gilstrap, author of There Is News Along the Ohio River (River River Books, 2026) Podcast Graphic featuring author photo and Book Cover
Of rivers & grief, of joy & delights, of healing & walking, of community of books & finding the right form & genre as a place. This & more on Episode 87 with Beth Gilstrap, who reads from her new collection THERE IS NEWS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER!
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Blue Of Poetry Podcast Graphic featuring author photo of Zoe Ryder White and book cover of The Visible Field and with the text: OF POETRY PODCAST Zoe Ryder White POEMS THE ZOË VISIBLE RYDER FIELD WHITE (Of Wonder, Emily Dickinson, and Titling Poems) EPISODE 86
Listen to Episode 86 with Zoë Ryder White here! 👉 share.transistor.fm/s/9b660f10
@zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
I recently reviewed Zoë Ryder White’s stunning debut, THE VISIBLE FIELD (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social 2026), for Cleaver!
“White’s poetry is something you feel in your body. Not like a heart attack, but like realizing you are breathing.”
www.cleavermagazine.com/the-visible-...
newly posted: Process Note #69 : Preeti Vangani : on Fifty Mothers / @mawsheinwin.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social @preetivangani.bsky.social ;
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ITASCA'S TOP 10, MARCH '26 1. Whereof One Cannot Speak - Lammastide - Peter Ralston 2. Free the People to Free the Money to Free the People - Organize the Rich - Eds. Michael Gast, Marian Moore & Alex T. Tom 3. Strap - Iron Oak Editions - Dan Kraines 4. From Wasteland to Wonder - Leaf & Limb - Basil Camu 5. The Connected College - Wise Ink - Elliott Felix 6. Pressed - Kory Kirby Books - Kory Kirby 7. The Rose Metal Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction - Rose Metal Press - Ed. Dinty W. Moore 8. Fifty Mothers - River River Books - Preeti Vangani 9. Southwest Reconstruction - Noemi Press - Raquel Gutierrez 10. The Swallows Come Out - Unbound Edition Press - Angie Estes Find More Great Books at www.ltascaBooks.com
What a thrill to see @preetivangani.bsky.social's brilliant FIFTY MOTHERS on this list! Thank you, @bookmobile-itasca.bsky.social! Thank you, readers and booksellers!
🥰🙏 Amish! It was so good to meet you at AWP!
Now that things are settling into the post-Spring Break/Conference part of the semester, a moment to read this beautiful book by our friends @riverriverbooks.bsky.social.
We're not publishing enough books about walking and nature, imo.
I know POD is fast & more affordable. But maybe we don’t need to hold “cheap” in such high regard. Please consider using a printer, and checking your stock quality, if you are a small press editor. Bookmobile has been wonderful for us to work with at @riverriverbooks.bsky.social.
