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For Foglifter I reviewed Samuel Ace's I WANT TO START BY SAYING Cleveland State University Poetry Center, where almost every sentence starts with the title phrase, and so I continued this repetition as an homage in my review ⚡

first review of the "brilliant" BAD FORECAST is out at Foglifter 😊. Really grateful for this kind of engagement from Natasha Dennerstein. Hearing that the project is as "unpredictable and exciting as real life and the human brain" is all I could want 💗 foglifterjournal.com/2024/11/22/bad…

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"This is as unpredictable and exciting as real life and the human brain." — Natasha Dennerstein reviews BAD FORECAST (Essay Press) by Steffan Universe ⛅ for the Foglifter blog ✨ foglifterjournal.com/2024/11/22/bad…

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Dear beloved Foglifter community, please see the following statements from our editors regarding Foglifter joining the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and our renewed commitments post US election ❤️‍🔥

"[A] lush performance of memory, masculinity, race, and the looking back all poets do, but perhaps not this expertly." — Foglifter's Asst Poetry Editor effectively off ""X"" xoxo free palestine reviews COWBOY PARK (U of Wisconsin Press) by Eduardo Martinez-Leyva for the Foglifter blog ✨ foglifterjournal.com/2024/12/11/rev…

Here’s a list of poetry books by queer people of color dropping next year, 2025! ☺️ shadeliteraryarts.org/single-post/20…

"There is a way that I really do feel syntax — I mean I really do think it’s synesthetic. I feel syntax in this physical, kinetic, embodied way." — Garth Greenwell interviewed by Patrick Nathan on the Foglifter blog about his novel, SMALL RAIN ✨🌧️ foglifterjournal.com/2025/01/14/pat…

"What would it mean to live – instead of in a short story – to live in a lyric?" — Manuel Betancourt interviewed by Dez Deshaies about his new novel, HELLO STRANGER (Catapult, 2025) on the Foglifter blog ✨ foglifterjournal.com/2025/01/16/dez…

"Why aren't we able to listen to folks within their realities, without trying to think about it as something more imaginary?" — Freda Epum interviewed by Rachel León on the Foglifter blog about THE GLOOMY GIRL VARIETY SHOW (Feminist Press, 2025) foglifterjournal.com/2025/01/21/rac…

“... we often are addressing a gay reader in the sense that we didn’t feel like we had to explain where Fire Island was or what rimming was.” — Edmund White interviewed by Stephen Patrick Bell about his memoir, THE LOVES OF MY LIFE, on the Foglifter blog. ✨ foglifterjournal.com/2025/02/04/im-…

Join us for our off-site event at AWP: 10th Anniversary Party: DECADENT + DEFIANT—CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF FOGLIFTER at the Tabula Rasa Wine Bar| 3/27| 7PM. Proceeds go to the CCI LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund. 🌈⁠ ⁠ cciarts.org/relief.html paypal.com/donate/?hosted… ⁠ ⁠

We're hiring a PR/Events Coordinator (Bay Area)! Join Foglifter by applying at foglifter.submittable.com/submit by March 16th! The position includes a $3000 yearly honorarium. ✨ We look forward to reading your applications 💕 ⁠ ⁠

We are now ✨OPEN✨ for submissions for Issue 10.2 !!! 💐🌈🤍 Queer & trans writers, submit your most transgressive, tender, and imaginative work! Featuring wonderful guest editors Summer Farah (‏ س), Steven Archer(Steven Archer), & noam keim foglifter.submittable.com/submit

Poetry Editor, Luiza Flynn Goodlett, has her second book of poems ✨ MUD IN OUR MOUTHS: POEMS✨ coming out on March 15. 💐🌈🤍 Preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/mud-in…

We’re so excited to introduce our wonderful & talented guest editors for Foglifter Issue 10.2! 🌈 Please welcome Summer Farah (Poetry), @thestevenarcher (Fiction), & @noamkeim (Hybrid/Nonfiction)! Submissions are open until May 1st ! We can't wait to read your work ♡

“It’s not enough to write 'about'. It’s also about writing 'towards' a certain audience.” — Jinwoo Chong interviewed by Stephen Patrick Bell on the Foglifter Blog about I LEAVE IT UP TO YOU (Ballantine Books, 2025) 💖 <3 ⁠ ⁠ foglifterjournal.com/2025/03/18/jin…

Thank you for the s/o Chill Subs <3

✨ Our co-editor-in-chief Milo Todd 🏴‍☠️ is celebrating his debut novel THE LILAC PEOPLE with some extra razzle dazzle! ⁠✨⁠Join him on April 29 for⁠ 💃🏽 A NIGHT AT THE ELDORADO💃🏽 ⁠featuring an amazing line up of talent 💅 🎟️ Get your tickets here: crystalballroomboston.com/events/a-night…