We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025 literary competitions! Randall Mann (Randall Mann) has awarded the top Neruda Poetry Prize to Michael Lavers, and Nancy Jooyoun Kim (Nancy Jooyoun Kim) has awarded the top Porter Fiction Prize to Talia Neffson (Talia Neffson). 1/5

Congratulations to Michael Lavers & Talia Neffson! x.com/NimrodJournal/…

Nimrod may well be the best it has ever been under the editorial guidance of Boris Dralyuk

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when I am in your presence I feel life is strong and will defeat all its enemies and all of mine and all of yours in you and mine in me

Sarah Gear is the best interviewer in the business.

Years Have Passed Seeing you again. Your glide, your gaze. Your very quiet voice. Your terror. Your quiet eyes. Frederick Seidel Image courtesy Tom Snarsky

He had green eyes, / so I wanted to sleep with him– / green eyes flecked with yellow, dried leaves on the surface of a pool– We're getting close to the release of I Do Know Some Things. Four weeks. I've been thinking about the first line I ever kept. That's it, above.

I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed

Dana Levin

the day could do without me. The ice outside glitters around my car’s tires like a pageant dress. Only digital utterances between myself and the world for at least a week. ––Taylor Byas Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. #PoemADay poets.org/poem/i-begin-d…

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An honor to open the month of August over at Academy of American Poets!!!! Thank you Randall Mann!!!

I’m thrilled to be curating Poem-a-Day for August Academy of American Poets. We are kicking the month off with Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.. I love the melancholic enjambment and hard-won hope of this piece. 🥹❤️

Todays’s Poem-a-Day Academy of American Poets is by the great Andrea Cohen, an American original. Four Way Books 🥰🐷

Have you listened to “Pastime” by Andrea Cohen on our daily #PoemADay podcast? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/poe…

Today’s Poem-a-Day is Academy of American Poets is by the inimitable Saeed Jones, incantatory, allusive, & moving. Washington Square Press Coffee House Press 💎 Bennington MFA 🔥❤️

Fog, like reason, settles on the peeling district. This is the new money. The new economy. - Randall Mann, “Sunset”

I like poems that don’t behave and are also well-made