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Where Poetry Moves. Two editors, publishing (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year & the Plainwater Nonfiction Series. Poetry submissions open in May. Posts by Editor @hanvanderhart.bsky.social www.riverriverbooks.org
If you weren't able to snag a signed copy of There Is News Along The Ohio River at AWP & want one, hmu! Two readings & a signing last week & sweet messages from folx whoβve read it so far have been super positive. Thanks to those of you who've read, purchased, or said something nice about it or me.
An elegy, D. A. Powell writes in an essay titled "Structures of the Elegy," is a "paradise of remembering." Twelve years after my mother passed, as I began work on my book, Fifty Mothers, I kept asking myself, hore could I converse with her through poems? How could I remember her, not just to mourn, but to show her the everything of our world: how we still go to the movies, get on airplanes, share a plate of vada sambar, with her voice urging us on, teasing us, keeping us rooted in the living.
Read β7 Books that can expand what an elegy looks likeβ by Preeti Vangani, author of Fifty Mothers, here:
electricliterature.com/7-poetry-boo...
@preetivangani.bsky.social @electricliterature.com
REMEMBRANCE We must answer each question with another question. We must erase our first sorrow. How shall we hope? We must hope. Do you remember the prayer we said bent over, the giving of body to ground? We must shape ourselves first to shadow and then to infinite, the wait of such hunger in every cell. No matter the hours. I'll tell you everything. I'll tell you the silence. Poem by Lauren Camp from her book, 100 Hungers, Tupelo press, 2016
from Remembrance
by Lauren Camp
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A copy of There is News Along the Ohio River by Beth Go strap next to a pink axolotl puppet
There's an axolotl to love about @bettysueblue.bsky.social incredible book!
"See how it compensates?
It gets sloppy. It spills
down its bra. Itβs sticky. It howls.
Milkweed. Remember?
Youβll be enmeshed soon."
River River poet @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social with a poem at Only Poems today -- www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-dream-...
ELECTRIC LIT screenshot featuring cover of Preeti Vanganiβs FIFTY MOTHERS and the text: airplanes, share a plate of vada sambar, with her voice urging us on, teasing us, keeping us rooted in the living: FIFTY MOTHERS POEMS PREETI ANGANIC My first book, Mother Tongue Apologize, contained poems that were tightly tied to the moment of my mother's passing: Those poems felt raw, hot, and urgent to write.
βAn elegy, D. A. Powell writes in an essay titled βStructures of the Elegy,β is a βparadise of remembering.ββ
βPreeti Vangani, for @electricliterature.com
@preetivangani.bsky.social ππ
Read β7 Poetry Books That Expand What an Elegy Can Look Likeβ here: electricliterature.com/7-poetry-boo...
Amazing to see so many ShΕ contributors and the journalβs incredible editors! π₯°ππππ
Humungous stack of books (spine view)
Entrance to awp bookfair: banner above it, people milling, rushing, entering, coming out
Stickers, notebooks, bookmarks on colorful nylon bag
River River Books' table at the bookfair: greenish blue covering saying River River Books in big lettering and their double zigzag logo below. The table is covered in stacks of books. To its left stands a vertical banner announcing River River Books and there logo on blue wavy ground
Got a few (π«£) books & had a wonderful time at #AWP26. Still drunk from it all. π΅βπ«π€©ππ₯°
Thank you again @riverriverbooks.bsky.social for hosting my book & for being the kindest homebase. π«Ά
Room full of beautiful folks. Jen Rouse reading. Adrian Dallas Frandle, Michael Todd Cohen and Anthony Garret in foreground. Johnny Cordova center of room. Slight fish-eye lends.
Anti-Fascist Love Poem reading was so good, yβallβsometimes readings are about caring for each other with our words πβ€οΈπ Thankful for every poet and guestβ¦the room was so full of love & support & yes: QUEERS & lovers!
We sold out of SEVEN BOOKS! Whew! πβ€οΈπ₯π
Han and Amorak leaving the bookfair, book roller bags in tow. Happy & tired. Taken by Jameela F. Dallis.
We sold 175 books! Our bags were light! THANK YOU to our amazing authors, friends of the press, and folks who stopped by to chat ππ We couldnβt do this without our community. What a joy yβall are! Seriously, every kind word means the world to us. Yβall made our AWP!
βHan & Amorak
Anti-Fascist Love Poem Reading JENNIFER A SUTHERLAND CATHERINE ROCKWOOD Reading ADRIAN DALLAS FRANDLE MICHAEL TODD COHEN CARLA SOFIA FERREIRA DOMINIQUE AHKONG HAN VANDERHART JOHNNY CORDOVA ELIZABETH SYLVIA AMORAK HUEY ERIN VACHON JEN ROUSE K. IVER Off Site Baltimore Saturday, March 7|79pm Fells Point | 1640 Thames Street use entrance to: 1636)
TONIGHT, BALTIMORE! #AWP2026
7-9pm πππ
Millie Tullis book signing
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Millie Tullis holding their book at River River table
Millie Tullis is signing THESE SAINTS ARE STONES at table 756! Come through! πππ
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@esylviapoet.bsky.social @preetivangani.bsky.social @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @bettysueblue.bsky.social πππ
Elizabeth Sylvia, Preeti Vangani, J.D. Ho, Zoe Ryder White, Beth Gilstrap, Jameela F. Dallis, standing in a row and laughing/smiling together
River River Books authors at the co-reading with Blair last night! Many thanks to @stevenleyva.bsky.social and University of Baltimore for hosting us!
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What???ππ thank you to everyone who bought a copy!
Jennifer Sutherland signing at the River River table
Jennifer A Sutherland is signing at our table! 756! Get your copy of HOUSE OF MYTH AND NECESSITY πππ
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J.D. Ho and Han VanderHart at AWP
Yeah weβre cute and gay and SELLING BOOKS πβ€οΈπ @nematode.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Noon-1pm! Come meet J.D. Ho! ππππππ
J.D. Ho at the River River table
J.D. Ho is signing BACKYARD ALCHEMY: on life with other creatures in a time of salvage. at our tableβ756! πππ
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Beth Gilstrap signing her book
Beth! Is! Signing! ππππ
Beth at the River River table
Beth Gilstrap is signing THERE IS NEWS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER at table 756 11-12pm! Happening now! πππ
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Scythe by Elizabeth Sylvia
Our best seller yesterday! πππ
Five (5!) copies remaining today of @esylviapoet.bsky.socialβs Scythe!
The Visible Field by Zoe Ryder White
Our first sale of AWP yesterday! πππ
@zoeryderwhite.bsky.social
Zoe Ryder White in a teal top and bright red beanie
Burgi holding a copy of White Door
Zoe Ryder White is signing THE VISIBLE FIELD, and Burgi Zenhaeusern is signing WHITE DOOR at table 756 ππ Until 4pm!
This is a very good book.
Carla Sofia Ferreira in a blue floral dress standing with her book A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us
Carla Sofia Ferreira is now signing at our table (756)! πβ€οΈππ
Table 756! πβ€οΈ π π