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Where Poetry Moves. Two editors, two poetry titles a year. Submissions open May and June. Posts by @amorak.bsky.social and @hanvanderhart.bsky.social www.riverriverbooks.org

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Can’t wait for your revieeeew 😍👏🌊📚

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In small press news, we replaced the mailbox which had soared past dilapidated and into unusable. 📬💙 Now shipping: fresh poetry 📚

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We looked up when our four published titles and two forthcoming were submitted during our June/July periods the last two years, in case y’all were curious: 10 June 2022 13 June 2022 22 July 2022 28 July 2022 02 June 2023 28 July 2023

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Dear writers: This is the final week of our Summer 2024 open reading period. We have received 246 full-length manuscripts to date. Please note that we are only open to submissions from U.S. residents. Thank you! 📚💙

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Matthew this means so much to us—thank you!!! 🙏🎉🎉🎉

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Matthew Terrill's avatar Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social
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Carla Sofia Ferreira’s poetry collection “A Geography that Does Not Hurt Us” is my favorite poetry book of the year thus far. Get it directly from the good folks at River River to support them! ⬇️

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Happy first birthdays to our first two titles, Bullet Points: a lyric by Jennifer A Sutherland and An Eye in Each Square by Lauren Camp! Purchase a copy, or share with a friend? 📚💙

20% off on our website:

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😍😍😍😍😍😍

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Reminder that River River Books is a queer-owned press, and we are here for your queer poems! Accepting full-length manuscripts through the end of June.

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Amorak Huey's avatar Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social
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Today would be a good day to send us your poetry manuscript.

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Merri Andrew's avatar Merri Andrew @merriandrew.bsky.social
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I’ve been following River River books from afar, and I’m impressed by their ethos and care towards poets’ work (in general, not just the poets they publish) If I had a manuscript ready I’d be submitting it!

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Both editors have read about half of our received submissions (166 received), and y’all are sending us such incredible work. 📚💙

We are open to poetry manuscript until 30 June, 2024! Fee optional, always.

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maeve, i already know's avatar maeve, i already know @maeveynot.bsky.social
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gay and beautiful and ordinary

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Adding the full text here, as some lines are missing from the Poetry Daily link, and we don’t want you to miss them:

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What Carla Sofia Ferreira has to say about the poem:

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Today we want to thank Friends of River River Books, who have supported us through distribution change this spring—thank you all, so much. You helped us survive, materially and spiritually. 🙏📚💙

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Should the press buy a shipping scale or should I just keep stealing my beloved’s kitchen scale?—the question. 📚

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“The poems in the now-complete collection, Dear Memphis, ‘engage with a vision of commitment to diaspora,’ she says”…“it’s an ethos that requires risk. It requires rejection of Zionism.’”

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Sooo glad to hear you enjoyed Carla’s book, Kit 🥰 Aahhh the Eurydice poem!!! And so many others but how I love that poem. -Han

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😍I know I loved opening my order from RRB! Plus, A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us by Carla Sofia Ferreira was absolutely breathtaking.

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Working on fulfilling our kickstarter rewards 🙏📚💙 Be on the lookout for your books, stickers, bookmarks…! Thank you, thank you to everyone who has supported and back us, in so many ways.

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Have been thinking about how smart this description is—the immediate verb, the action and work of the manuscript. (C.D. Wright said you should pay the verb the most, because it works the hardest. 💙)

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“This book explores the nature of the self, something Martin herself explored expansively through painting, and Victoria adds to a growing list of books in conversation with Martin’s work, including the poets Brian Teare and Lauren Camp.”

Yess Lauren!!! 💙💙💙

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I believe we have 48-70 as a ballpark range, but I need to look at the submission guidelines again!

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Rachel Edelman's avatar Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social
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my wonderful press is open for submissions. their books are gorgeous, their model contract is on their website, and they *do not* charge a flat submission fee (it’s a tip jar). what are you waiting for?

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Han VanderHart's avatar Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social
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I don’t gloat, usually? unless it’s a @riverriverbooks.bsky.social author receiving a review or a feature and then oh lord my heart deeply gloats, wallows around in the gloating, drenches itself in gloat like sunshine.

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