Happy The Red We Silk Pub Day!
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To celebrate, checkout Tryphena Yeboah's interview with Nicole!
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Happy The Red We Silk Pub Day!
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To celebrate, checkout Tryphena Yeboah's interview with Nicole!
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Nicole Lachat's The Red We Silk, winner of the 2024 Michael Waters Poetry Prize, in the LitHub spotlight!
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One week to go!
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“Reader, this is no ordinary debut. Nicole Lachat knows that all borders are lies. Citizen and immigrant. Land and body. Parent and child....Whatever lines you believe in, whatever lines you draw, prepare to have them dissolved.”
–Rebecca Gayle Howell
Today's the (Deadline) Day!
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The final SIR fall 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Emily Skaja's "Personal Weather":
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Today's Southern Indiana Review fall 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Joy Priest's "Reading Frederick Douglass":
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The next SIR fall 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Jenny Molberg's "In the Waves at Ponquogue, I Talk to My Pain":
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Today's SIR fall 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Nate Marshall's "why write a love poem":
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The next SIR fall 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Jasmine Khaliq's "in my head this afternoon it rained":
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Today's SIR fall 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is "Like a Handful of Pebbles" by Luther Hughes:
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The next SIR fall 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Amanda Gunn's "Dream VII":
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Today's SIR fall 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Rebecca Foust's "The Link":
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The first SIR fall 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Hadara Bar-Nadav's "God of Decay":
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SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 34: Hadara Bar-Nadav
Hadara Bar-Nadav is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Animal Is Chemical, selected by Jericho Brown for the Levis Prize in Poetry.
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Instagram: @hadarabar
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 33: Michael Bazzett
Michael Bazzett is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Echo Chamber and the forthcoming The Morphologist (Milkweed, 2026).
michaelbazzett.com
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Instagram:@mikhailbazharov
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 32: Caleb Braun
Caleb Braun is an assistant professor of English at Bethany College. His poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Blackbird, The Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, and 32 Poems.
calebbraun.com
Instagram: @cbraun44
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 31: Traci Brimhall
Traci Brimhall is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Love Prodigal. Her nonfiction debut, The Grief Artist, will be published by Sarabande Books in 2026.
tracibrimhallpoet.com
Instagram: @our_lady_of_nod
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 30: Michael Cannistraci
Michael Cannistraci's essays have been published in The Triquarterly Review, Entropy Magazine, Briar Cliff Review, The Bangalore Review, Bryant Literary Review, and Glacial Hills Review.
Instagram: @michaelcannistraci
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 29: James Ciano
James Ciano’s debut collection, The Committee of Men, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in May 2026. He holds an MFA from NYU and a PhD in Creative Writing & Literature from USC.
jamesciano.com
Instagram: @jmciano
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 28: Jo Ann Clark
Translator, essayist, and poet Jo Ann Clark is author of the collection 1001 Facts of Prehistoric Life. Her writing has appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, Boston Review, and Prairie Schooner.
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 27: Sean G. Clark
Sean G. Clark has completed residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and Stove Works. He teaches painting, drawing, and printmaking at Dillard University.
www.sgclarkart.com
Instagram: @sgclarkart
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 26: Neil Connelly
Neil Connelly's ninth book, Slubber Doffers (forthcoming from Fomite Press), is a series of interrelated monologues inspired by the citizen comments he heard while serving on the local school board during Covid.
neilconnelly.com
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 25: Colby Cotton
Colby Cotton is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. His work appears in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, The Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, and Copper Nickel.
www.colbycottonpoetry.com
Instagram: @colbycott
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 24: Melissa Crowe
Melissa Crowe is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor and Lo, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. She is chair of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
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SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 23: Leila Farjami
Leila Farjami is an Iranian-American poet and psychotherapist. Her debut poetry collection, Daughter of Salt, an Editor’s Selection at Trio House Press, is forthcoming in July 2026.
www.leilafarjami.com
Instagram: @leila_poetry
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 22: Rebecca Foust
Rebecca Foust’s new chapbook, You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems, was just released by Backbone Press. New poems are in POETRY, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review.
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Instagram: @rebecca.foust.52
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SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 21: Ariela Gittlen
Ariela Gittlen is the founder of Poetry Table, a community workshop for readers and writers. Her work has recently appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Angel Food.
Instagram: @arielagittlen