I love a pretty cover. In awe of these beautiful spring releases from @BellePointPress 💙
"three new collections + two debuts by deeply talented poets from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky coming in May + June"
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"Each granddaughter is a doll reborn in a mall this big.”
💝 from Girl of the Year™ by Alyx Chandler in @BicoastalReview Issue 12
Submission readers loved this poem for its fresh tone and on-the-nose nostalgia.
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As a first reader in submissions, I fell in love with this unique eco-story for @MastersReview 💚A doctor meets a client who deals with insomnia and memories brought on by unusually blooming corpse flowers. 🌺 Together they reflect on familial connection, history, and climate. 🌿
Under normal conditions, the flower can take a decade to bloom as it stores up tens of thousands of kilowatts of sunlight in its corm.
—Thomas Heise, "The Corpse Flowers"
Summer Short Story Award 2nd Place
https://t.co/e6V5Miero8
"There were swaths of her life about which she remembered little. Yet she could describe books she read and paintings or photographs she saw in extraordinary detail. Language seemed to flow from a continuous river within her."
Thomas Heise @MastersReview
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“The possum, o-less in its lowly state, no vanity in its topaz eyes adorned now with flies, dead here in the hairpin turn….”
Crossing by Sarah Elkins @BicoastalReview
https://t.co/XaDsmZijOs
Submission readers called this poem “lovely, dark, & compassionate.”
"no matter how gorgeous this day started, I stroll the streets like a little boy who broke a vase and won’t go home until day throws in the towel and night pokes her head in."
Ridiculous by Charlie Peck in @PassagesNorth
https://t.co/TXrnH1DCfB
"Meanwhile the books will all
have been recycled and the paper pulp will be
used to insulate space-age homes on
open prairies where the wind gets up to
forty knots."
📖
by Jessy Randall @RattlePoetry
https://t.co/RSDMJvyZLc
"My father stops calling me honey because boys are not sweet...I watched how honeysuckle grew on backyard fences and the brick walls of public pool houses"
from Harvest by Allen Means @onlypoemsmag
https://t.co/IbkHlZCNk8
"I called you crying joyful, I called you crying desperate. Laughing. Swearing. Praying. Singing. Calling always to you."
💖 from Microchimeras by Kristin Grace
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Truly made my day to see a little heart piece of mine on the @wigleaf top 50 longlist. Thank you, Thank you @shome_dasgupta and the editors! And a grateful shout-out to @fivesouthlit and @jesswcreative for giving "The Tug of Love and War" a home! 💙🙏🏼 💙🙏🏼 💙