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The Word Works sponsors the Washington Prize, $1500 award & publication for a poetry manuscript by a North American poet. Tweets by Karren, Joshua & Rebecca. wordworksbooks.org United States Joined November 2010-
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Did you miss this superb interview with Leah Umansky about her new book OF TYRANT? Never too late! youtu.be/hQiXZ-FR8m8?si…
Beautiful review of Leah Umansky's OF TYRANT up now at North American Review! Check it out-- northamericanreview.org/open-space/202…
A+ review of Leah Umansky's OF TYRANT up at North American Review: "Of Tyrant is the kind of book that I need now more than ever... a chronicle of feminine rage and empowerment in the era of the first Trump administration and #MeToo." northamericanreview.org/open-space/202…
This just in! The first review of Maria Terrone's NO KNOWN COORDINATES! Says Jennifer Martelli, "Terrone’s balancing of hues and emotions creates poems that are vibratory, and perhaps dangerous." Take the risk and check out her book! ovunquesiamoweb.com/spring-2025/41…
Grace Cavalieri's marvelous "Poet & the Poem" from the Library of Congress shares new work by Maria Terrone from her collection NO KNOWN COORDINATES (The Word Works 2025). Have a listen! youtu.be/teLTtsuwrHQ?si… #newpoetry #poetry #hotoffthepresses
Interview with our Maria Terrone! And hear some poems from her wonderful new collection, NO KNOWN COORDINATES. youtu.be/teLTtsuwrHQ?si…
Way to go, Ethel Rackin! Her poem "Forge" is featured in today's THE SLOWDOWN with Major Jackson. Find more such gems in her hot-off-the-press collection, IN TIME, from (you guessed it) The Word Works! slowdownshow.org/episode/2025/0…
New titles on the way this spring! Congratulations to Luisa Caycedo-Kimura, Ethel Rackin, Brad Richard, Maria Terrone, Alyse Knorr, and Mary Block! This flock is epic, and you aren't going to believe your eyes.
NEW PAGES shares a sparky review today of PINE SOOT TENDON BONE by Radha Marcum. Take a breath as the year ends and be uplifted: newpages.com/blog/books/boo…
TONIGHT! Dueling Nicoles will blow you away: Nicole Callihan and Nicole Cooley read together in virtual perfection at 7 PM. Register to attend from anyplace with internet: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Congratulations to Jennifer Bartell (Boykin) whose work was fetaured in the "New & Forthcoming" section of this week's newsletter from the Academy of American Poets. mailchi.mp/poets/august-7…
Our open reading period is welcoming submissions through August 15 this year! There's still time, and only a $20 reading fee. Up to 5 books accepted per year. Can't wait to see what you've got! wordworksbooks.org/submissions/op…
Superb new review of Leah Umanksy's new poetry collection, OF TYRANT! "Stamina, gratitude, and catharsis serve as pivotal motifs alongside themes of balance (healthy anger vs. inner peace; self-preservation vs. risk taking; doubt vs. certainty)." publishersweekly.com/9781944585747
We love these poet-to-poet conversations with Radha Marcum: ow.ly/KOf650SO4Ca Have you read Pine Soot Tendon Bone?
How'd we miss this?? Nathalie Anderson on The Slowdown: slowdownshow.org/episode/2024/0… Have you ordered Rough?
Cheryl Clarke keeping it real in Poetry magazine: ow.ly/Hobe50SLyS9 Did you read By My Precise Haircut? ow.ly/1ugL50SLySe
"Lyrical, vulnerable and astute, Women on the Moon is a wide-ranging contemporary ode to womanhood," writes Julia Klahr in her Rain Taxi review of Deborah Kuan's book. Check it out! raintaxi.com/women-on-the-m…
"The poems in Mothers & Other Fairytales are quietly gutsy and absolutely rousing in the brilliance of their music" says Lynn Melnick of Rachel J. Bennett's new collection. wordworksbooks.org/product/mother…
“The dead come back so seldom, we / forget how to please them,” Nathalie Anderson writes in her marvelous collection, Rough, whose poems intimate that to be gifted with life is to feel the curse of its final absence.-- Gregory Djanikian wordworksbooks.org/product/rough/

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