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Some more good news today—I was delighted to learn I was shortlisted for the Disquiet ILP prize. The best part was getting this email that included the readers reflections about the work. Such a gift! Huge congrats to the winners.

My intro students are marauding around today working on this poetry scavenger hunt, so I thought I’d share it again :) one thing I added recently is “something that reminds you of your cultural heritage, teachings, history, and/or memory.”

❛ Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time. Pulitzer prize-winning poet W. S. Merwin, who died #OTD in 2019.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Pink Moon over Water, 1924 #WomensArt

Sometimes, when I can’t write the line I want to write, I just describe the line I want to write instead, a formal substitute, which often makes a better, more mysterious line

Louise Glück • Poems 1962-2012

Delighted to have my poem "Derelict" recently published in Narrative Magazine Narrative Magazine So grateful to the editors for giving this poem a home. narrativemagazine.com/issues/narrati…

- Anaïs Nin, The early diary of Anaïs Nin

Submissions for Shō No. 7 are open for 10 more days. We're looking for more strong work to round out this issue. Send us your bangers!

Shivani Mehta

Jenny George

—Victoria Chang

Wrote a poem from the perspective of an ice swan melting & McNeese Review was kind to publish it. I thought this might be one of those odd personal experiments no one would want, with a pulse only I could feel—glad to be wrong 🤍

― Sappho, tr. by Anne Carson

Our annual submission period is closing soon! Send us your stories, poems, essays, and reviews by May 1 to be considered for an upcoming issue of the Schooner. We never charge a submission fee for general submissions. For more info and to submit, visit prairieschooner.unl.edu/submit/

Beautiful poem by Luther Hughes

Delighted to learn my poem "Last Words Written on a Northwest Passage" was nominated by WILDNESS. a literary journal for Best New Poets This was my first year sending work out for publication in earnest and I am so very thankful for this recognition. I look forward to seeing the finalists!

Me, too, Daniel. Me, too...

A beautiful poem by Emma De Lisle in The Missouri Review

Stop the genocide. Stop killing children. Stop erasing families. Stop erasing our cities.