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Now available from Jacar Press: Creature, by Kathryn Kirkpatrick, is “rife with observations of the natural and manmade worlds” and “a garden of awareness and grief, insistence and wonder.” Order your copy on our website: jacarpress.com/creature/

Met my book (We Look Better Alive) at AWP today! 🥺 It’s such a beauty. Feels good in my hands. Feels even better in my heart. These poems are finally out in the world! Wow. ☺️

At midnight, he flips it open and for a long while, stares at the vignette of the Last Supper on the first page, as if to crawl into it and save Jesus from imminent death. Order your copy of Chisom Okafor’s chapbook: jacarpress.com/all-i-know-abo…

Cleveland poet Ali Black releases her first full-length poetry collection, "We Look Better Alive," on Monday. clevelandmagazine.com/entertainment/…

“I held my breath and when it was over I mistook the drywall dust from our walls for gun powder—it covered my friend’s shoulder.”

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Tonight, I will be waiting for my grandfather in my dream, to tell him the bicycle he gave me is blind. Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé, “Stranded By the Roadside” one.jacarpress.com/issue-31/

“Academic freedom is spoken of with a solemnity in the United States that belies both its relatively short history and its present precarity.” nytimes.com/2025/06/06/mag…

Revisit a Jacar Press favorite this June with Dream of the River, an anthology of LGBTQ+ poetry edited by Jacar Press Managing Editor natalie e. patterson. Place an order via the “Donate” button on our Contact page before the end of June to receive free shipping. jacarpress.com/contact/

Hello guys! Coming out to share that my article, “Memory, idealism and the reimagination of history: Yusef Komunyakaa and Cheswayo Mphanza” has been published by Taylor & Francis Online. Please read and share if you can. Okay, bye. url6649.tandfonline.com/ls/click?upn=u…

Announcing the 2024 finalists for the Julie Suk Award, given by Jacar Press for our favorite book of poetry from a small, literary, or university press. Please read & support these incredible poets & presses. jacarpress.com/suk-award/

"...and at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth — and that is not speaking." — Audre Lorde

I'm happy to say I have a poem in the loaden Under a Warm Green Linden including work by Richard Foerster, Dennis Henrichson, Frannie Lindsay, Sarah Kortemeier, and Meg Kearney's two mythic new poems from her forthcoming book, and so much more. Link in the comments.

Last day for free shipping on this Jacar Press favorite <3

there is a little white flower in the soil, just one of them, growing in thumbnail size, glowing like a christening gown, its petals tied in a bow. Erin Wilson, “If There Is a Field” one.jacarpress.com/issue-31/

funny how sometimes people get so bothered when i say things like “as a writer you need to read a lot” or “you should read more than you write.” aren’t these just obvious? & with the 2nd statement how would you even do the opposite? you’ve written more books than you’ve read??

Literary Magazine Editors & Publishers: Q.1 What’s been your biggest challenge when it comes to compiling an issue or feature? Or publishing a book? Q. 2 What do you wish writers understood about the process?