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“Baby Darling, Dearest, My Dear, croon the fiber- optic hearts of half- price love- sick bears.” —from “false spring” by ⁦@alocketghost⁩ in Issue 4. We loved how nature meets commercialism in this poem. Summer J. Hart – Couplet Poetry coupletpoetry.com/summer-j-hart/

What does it mean to make art under capitalism or just in time/space? In her "Vanitas with Weather Eye" & "Vanitas with Whether I," Carolyn Oliver (is on IG w/ same name) plays w/ language even more, offering us "cloud syzygy," "shelled acorns floral / roasted keyboards," & a "crushed cabbage moth" 2/2

“but here’s a table laid by artful hands fossil coral honey comb paper weight budget skull” —from “Vanitas with Weather Eye” by ⁦Carolyn Oliver (is on IG w/ same name)⁩ in Issue 4 Carolyn Oliver – Couplet Poetry coupletpoetry.com/carolyn-oliver/

So grateful to share space with these brilliant poets in Issue 4 of Couplet Poetry! Many thanks to the editors, including Rebecca Lehmann Reuben Gelley Newman Caely McHale, Jimin Seo, and Benjamin Voigt.

amidst the chaos of our call this morning, don't let yourself miss this gem of a new Matthew Olzmann poem!! "Those of us who’ve known sorrow know the world is populated by those who will respond to our outstretched arms by eating our outstretched arms." havehashad.com/hadposts/epith…

Stefanie Kirby @jmartinpoetry matthew mcdonald Sheleen McElhinney Carolyn Oliver (is on IG w/ same name) Jake Romm Matthew Schmidt Smitha Sehgal @SJSloat And featuring Joshua St. Claire and Amber Winter, Emma Sullivan, and Lavinia Xu. We’re so excited it’s here to share in abundance. ballastjournal.com/issue13

Delighted to have a poem in this issue of ballast! Many thanks to editors Sara and Jacob for their care.

James Webb Space Telescope spies giant cosmic question mark in deep space (photo) trib.al/chjvbGP

Feature! Carolyn Oliver (Carolyn Oliver (is on IG w/ same name)) is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, forthcoming 2024) & Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022), selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. Her website is carolynoliver.net

Do you love Shakespeare? Are you teaching Shakespeare? Then get ready for October 19 and three dynamic readings by @vcmpoetry, Dayna Patterson, and @e_sylviapoet as they reimagine the lives of Shakespeare's women. Register for the Zoom link! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Today (10/31) is the last day for Volume 45 fiction submissions! Guidelines here: theworcesterreview.org/submit Poets, we'll be open through 11/30, or until we reach our cap.

Our nominees for the The Pushcart Prize! “Perowe” Tobenna Nwosu, "Scenery of Death" Atom Yarjanian trans. by @sarkissianraffi, "The War is Past (Continuous)" H.B. Asari, "Triangulation" Carolyn Oliver (is on IG w/ same name), “Spit and Spin” Tad Tuleja, and “We Insist on All of Our Selves” @natalievestin

A few weeks into 2024 and we're already looking forward to our fall titles! Stay tuned for cover reveals and details, re: Moshe Zvi Marvit's NOTHING VAST (novel), Carolyn Oliver (is on IG w/ same name)'s THE ALCESTIS MACHINE (poetry), and Amit Majmudar's THE GREAT GAME (essays)! 🎉📚🎉📚🎉📚🎉

It's our 10th anniversary issue! With @dartheddie_ed, Durell Carter, Carolyn Oliver (is on IG w/ same name), Jerome Sala, Pablo Saborío, Howard Good, Brian Henry, John Howard, Jill Jones, Burt Kimmelman, Anna Meister, Stephen Ratcliffe, William Lessard, Nancy Chunn, Robert Feintuch, & John Walker!

"In the empty street a boy half-falls, his light-up roller skates scattering glitz through road salt prisms." Carolyn Oliver (is on IG w/ same name) in Posit Journal positjournal.com/2024/01/23/car…

We talked with Artist-in-Residence Carolyn Oliver about using three notebooks for ideas, visiting the Cemetery with her son, and how friendship emerged as a surprising theme in her Mount Auburn writing. Read the interview with poet Carolyn Oliver (is on IG w/ same name) >> buff.ly/3w20cre

“it reminded me / that for a long time all I could manage // was to get high and fake orgasms and try / not to die, which I am still learning how to do.” —Carolyn Oliver (is on IG w/ same name), “Foreign Affairs” Electric Literature electricliterature.com/two-poems-by-c…

It's #NationalPoetryMonth ! Time to submit to our Agha Shahid Ali prize in poetry! Get those poetry manuscripts in! Talk to @OhOldOcean Carolyn Oliver (is on IG w/ same name) Benjamin Gucciardi and they'll tell you to enter! Details here: uofupress.com/agha-shahid-al…