Can’t think of a better place than a public festival of philosophy in a local public park to present my new book on loneliness for the first time, talking about the history of loneliness and the need to risk being human with one another

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The recording of last night’s Night Light reading is now available for viewing! It was such a joy to host Nicole Tallman, One Shtick Ari, D.W. Baker, & Zach Spruce—run it back at the 🔗 below! 💡

Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that engages the reader intellectually and emotionally. $704 and publication in the Spring 2026 print edition of West Trade Review will be awarded to the winning story. Submissions open. See details below: buff.ly/uBOmrKz

If we did not hold so much, I would not write. —Linda Gregg

I am so grateful to Blue Mountain Review // Southern Collective for picking up this story that was inspired by a sick, late night Instacart order. If you have 5 mins! issuu.com/collectivemedi…

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Want to design with purpose? 🌿 Our Landscape Architecture & Horticulture program provides hands on experience for students. 🌱 Start your path to licensure with UCLA Extension: ow.ly/UIhH50WuZkC

If you’d like to celebrate The Golden Girls’ 40th Anniversary this year with a little poetry, may I suggest reading Stay Golden? 💛

Dante's New South Radio Show host Charles Clifford Brooks III brings you 3 full collections of poetry. THE DRAW OF BROKEN EYES & WHIRLING METAPHYSICS: amazon.com/Draw-Broken-Ey… ATHENA DEPARTS:: amazon.com/Athena-Departs… OLD GODS : mupress.org/mobile/Old-God…

ADULTING WITH AUTISM is a lecture and coaching series I lead on Teachable: brooks-sessions.teachable.com Take a listen to the trailer here and then sign up and invest in your new, safe space. It would be an honor to help you. #autisticvoices

SIGN UP TODAY! Adulting with Autism, created and hosted by the Dante’s New South personality Clifford Brooks, goes deep in the paint on the struggles and sacrifices that once faced create warriors. My coaching program can be bundled with my lectures to save.

The editors of West Trade Review seek creative nonfiction that engages with the ideas of mental health and mental wellness. Submissions open August 15th. Details at the link below: buff.ly/6JhHtPF #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetry #writing #writingcontest

Congratulations to Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Poet Laureate Fellow of Miami and author of *Tortillera* and forthcoming *Through the Lens* on being awarded a fellowship by The Academy of American Poets! Read more about it here: bit.ly/3UCu0Uj #UniversityPress #Fellowship

"My throat / like a hummingbird's, mistaken for a jewel." I loved this poem the first time I read it in EcoTheo Collective. Now immersing again as part of the exquisite LOVE PRODIGAL by Traci Brimhall Traci Brimhall (Copper Canyon Press) 💙 'The End of Girlhood' #poetry #poetrybooks

Released Today! River Heron Poetry Prize Issue. We are thrilled to publish the poems of the winners of the Poetry Prize. Our new issue, Issue 8.2, also available today. Plenty of fantastic reading! Stay posted for a Zoom reading of the poets in September. Link to issue in profile

"Malignant, mastectomy, metastatic. She insists they wait for the dirt." Excerpt from this week’s #flashbackfriday from T. R. Poulson’s, “A Calf With Bent Forelegs Can't Be Born.” It appeared in our Spring 2025 Print Edition. Read the full poem below: buff.ly/C6WnmbT