We are delighted to announce our #bestofthenet nominees! radarpoetry.com/awards Poets: Christine Byrne Nicole Callihan Julie Esther Fisher Mónica Gomery Saba Keramati Jennifer Veech Artists: Chath pierSath Lise Latreille Marta Zubieta

Such an honor to be featured in Florida Gator, the UF Alumni magazine! Their editor picked up on a FB post I made about a horse treated at @ufvetmed & a poem I wrote about him, published in Radar Poetry -- on my 36th try. Over 10 years. Never give up!

Issue 40 is here! Join us in celebrating this year's Coniston Prize winner & finalists. - mailchi.mp/98cc132a6611/i…

Ewen Glass I’ve got 5 poems in Radar Poetry’s latest issue alongside some other wonderful poets: radarpoetry.com/issue-40-toc

There aren't many days when you can say you've scored a hattrick of art publications! Just wow! Blown away today on a lit mag high! What a great feeling it has been! Thank you for putting your faith in my art! Radar Poetry Chestnut Review Peatsmoke Journal

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Join us on October 21 for a virtual reading celebrating this year's Coniston Prize winner & finalists! More info: mailchi.mp/952f850ac429/c…

Join us for a reading to celebrate this year’s Coniston Prize winner & finalists! Monday, 10/21 @ 7pm via Zoom. Email us to RSVP 🌈

On the drive to the clinic, I count the season’s passings: owl fleeing woods at dawn, family dog, last of the apple’s meager crop rotting in the crisper. —Nina C. Peláez Artwork by Taryn FitzGerald radarpoetry.com/planned-parent…

Is it possible to measure the half-life of longing? Years later, the pregnancy long gone, I kept dreaming of a daughter—eyes locked, hands cupping her soft dimpled cheeks. —Nina C. Peláez Artwork by Taryn FitzGerald radarpoetry.com/navel

The young midwife speaks to me / the way I think a lover might— asks permission, consent / to touch, she warms her latex hands, my legs / forking like a path —Nina C. Peláez Artwork by Taryn FitzGerald radarpoetry.com/diptych

The bodies of all the women I love are filled with daughters —Nina C. Peláez Artwork by Taryn FitzGerald radarpoetry.com/parentheses

Little dark horse gene. Little blanched pollen cinder.   When I was born, my great-grandmother didn’t like my look, but she never pulled the trigger on me. She gagged, I guess. And so, I lived. —Destiny O. Birdsong Artwork by P. Dubroof radarpoetry.com/my-mother

"I have walked here and not walked here. How many times will I set the needle on the back of a floating locust leaf, divining for true North?" #TodaysPoem #poetry I Cannot Shed Entirely The Shapes I Have Assumed by Robert Campbell (2018 @RadarPoetry) tinyurl.com/ykdc8s54

I'm so honored to have four poems in Radar Poetry as part of the Coniston Prize issue. These were hard to put out in the world. So grateful to incredible editors Rachel & Dara-Lyn & judge January Gill O'Neil & all the amazing finalists. radarpoetry.com/issue-40-toc TW: Pregnancy loss

she buries her bone-dry face and wails             loud enough so your aunts can hear   over the clink of your beaded braids, “I didn’t             mean to do it!” This is your initiation to justice.  —Destiny O. Birdsong Artwork by P. Dubroof radarpoetry.com/the-line

In a state where lynchers were losing work, boys were learning to do the jobs themselves: drugs, drownings, diabetes, the dark bitters of being in love but never being shown how.   —✨🌸 Dr. Destiny O. Birdsong 🌸✨ Artwork by P. Dubroof radarpoetry.com/family

If God is for us, who can be against us? Mothers, I think: That iron glance of iron. That faithful wound. That first friend. —✨🌸 Dr. Destiny O. Birdsong 🌸✨ Artwork by P. Dubroof radarpoetry.com/my-mother-still

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