Purchase a beautiful print copy of our 10th issue! Its 40+ pages of art and poetry. https://bicoastalreview.submittable.com/submit
Purchase a beautiful print copy of our 10th issue! It's 40+ pages of art and poetry ✨️
bicoastalreview.submittable.com/submit
New publisher listing for: Bicoastal Review Ekphrastic Poetry Contest @bicoastalreview.bsky.social (Poetry; pays; fee-based). #WritingCommunity
Check out IALA board member Shahé Mankerian's new poem, "The Hangman," published in Issue 10 of @bicoastalreview.bsky.social ! 📓
Read the full poem here: bit.ly/3Hzqd7i
P.S. You can also hear an audio recording of Shahé reading his poem at the above link! 🎙️
That's how it starts lol
Beautiful
so good 🧊
From Brenna Twohy's book, Swallowtail: bit.ly/swallowtailBK
#poem #books #writing
Our new issue is live, full of poetry and art. Check it out! 🌌🌊✨️
www.bicoastalreview.com/9
#poetry #poetryjournal #blueskypoets #literaryjournal #bicoastalreview #digitalart #readmorepoetry
A new review on our site - Scraping for Joy: The Automatic and the Carnal in Matthew Dickman’s "All American Poem" 📖 check it out!
www.bicoastalreview.com/matthewdickman
"to find in the midst of hell / what isn't hell"
From Katie Farris's book, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive.
Published by @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/farrisstanding
#poem #books #writing
"Man loves to idealize,
but when the dream
becomes reality
indifference is triggered. "
- Marcel Proust
This is just a reminder to NOT buy any books from Amazon during this sale (or ever). They are very intentionally trying to undercut local book stores a week before Independent Bookstore day on April 26th
Shop Local and Fuck Amazon.
Also, don't forget to cancel your Amazon Prime.
#booksky
#shoplocal
Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry
This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure.
Deadline: July 1st
More details: medium.com/anomalyblog/...
“They’ll never write poetry” is a hell of a thing to say on behalf of a regime striving to make poetry and all other human expression illegal
She lives the poetry she cannot write.
- Oscar Wilde
Absolutely livid to have my tax dollars paying for all of this instead of libraries, environmental protection, feeding children, due process, medical research, teachers, history, human rights, higher education accessibility, health care, poetry, clean water, safe food, art, and beauty.
Check us out 💙🌌
[20] Visual poetry!
From Mikko Harvey's book, Let the World Have You.
Published by @houseofanansi.bsky.social
#poem #books #writing
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #73 DREAM POEM ABOUT REAGAN & CO when we are dirt poor and no longer have our mountains for shelter when we are conquered and cannot go to our forests for comfort when we are hungry and our valleys will no longer sustain us then we will see these men in their true light
“Our valleys will no longer sustain us” A poem by Diane di Prima.
Encroaching city. Photographer Robert Linn. #photography, #RobertLinn, #LandscapePhotography, #wildlifephotography, #Deer, #buck, #cityscape
Richard Hugo: "All you ever had for sure."
Congratulations!
Three things every writer should cultivate:
1. Insatiable curiosity: the desire to never stop learning & experimenting.
2. Perseverance: with a sky-high tolerance for rejections.
3. Progress over perfection: embracing messy/ bad writing as part of the process.
What a generous and thoughtful reading of Rara Avis. Many thanks to @stevenleyva.bsky.social and Washington Independent Review of Books.
In Those Years Adrienne Rich In those years, people will say, we lost track of the meaning of we, of you we found ourselves reduced to I and the whole thing became silly, ironic, terrible: we were trying to live a personal life and yes, that was the only life we could bear witness to But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged into our personal weather They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove along the shore, through the rags of fog where we stood, saying I
The poem that's currently haunting me... (originally in yalereview.bsky.social)
Tonight, I’m going to be chatting about poetry & reading from my new book on the Rattlecast with @rattlepoetry.bsky.social! I’ll be on at 8:15 pm EST. Here’s the link to watch:
www.youtube.com/live/xWqgtrj...
yea
Graphic featuring the cover of HOLD YOUR OWN by Nikki Wallschlaeger, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from "Manifesto" that reads: I’m putting this to paper before I lose my nerve, my courage, before this poem breaks from lies & I have to part ways with you.
Graphic featuring the cover of THE BELOVED COMMUNITY by Patricia Spears Jones, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from "Morning Glory" that reads: blossom / your hearty display for all to see, hold your / vine’s haven on Macon Street. Only / Winter, harsh winter will take your vines / Back to the ground your wildness calmed.
Graphic featuring the cover of FIELDNOTES ON ORDINARY LOVE by Keith S. Wilson, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from "God Particle" that reads: Dust motes and a million paths of light. / I know. / Eventually, it all comes down to an / admission. / Whatever my failings—didn’t I come to it, / eventually?
Graphic featuring the cover of DIRECTED BY DESIRE by June Jordan, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from "About Long Distances on Saturday" that reads: and the answer is that the question is (isn’t it) where are you going baby without me?
We're grateful for the Black poets whose work enriches, shapes, and challenges our poetry landscape. This week, we feature stunning poets: NIKKI WALLSCHLAEGER (@nikkimwalls.bsky.social), PATRICIA SPEARS JONES (@pksj51.bsky.social), KEITH S. WILSON (@keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social), and JUNE JORDAN.
We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.
