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@swwim.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 4:03 PM

Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts!

#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM

Literary Magazines

Allium: Elizabeth Garcia, Merna Dyer Skinner

MER Folio: Pichchenda Bao

Pinch Literary Journal: Leona Sevick, Lesley Wheeler, Shannon K. Winston

Plume: Susan Aizenberg, Patricia Clark, Diane K. Martin

Rat's Ass Review: Sarah Carleton, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Meg Freer

Rattle Poets Respond: Janna Schledorn

RockPaperPoem: Dagne Forrest, Jane Ann Fuller, Mary Beth Hines, Sonya Schneider, Melody Wilson

Villain Era: Paula R. Hilton

Whale Road Review: Dagne Forrest, Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, Katie Kemple, Anya Kirshbaum, Danielle Lemay, Annette Sisson, Lesley Wheeler
Awards

Mass Book Awards: Longlist: Carla Panciera, Catherine Strisik 

2026 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize: Finalists: Pam Crow, Kathryn Weld

Narrative Magazine's 18th Annual Poetry Contest: Finalists: Julia Kolchinsky

2026 ProForma Competition: Winner: Ellen Koombiyil; Shortlisted: Jen Karetnick*, Julia Kolchinsky

2026 RPP Poetry Contest: First Runner-Up: Dagne Forrest; Honorable Mention: Jane Ann Fuller, Melody Wilson

Books

Center for Humans & Nature, Sensoria anthology: Contributors: Elizabeth Bradfield, Lauren Camp, Brenda Cárdenas, Kai Coggin, Elizabeth Jacobson, Heather Swan

The Ohio State University Press: Amy Thatcher, Weird Girl

Seven Kitchens Press: VA Smith, Urbanity
Features & Columns

LitHub: Chelsea Rathburn

Poetry Daily: Arah Ko

Reviews

LA Review of Books: Reviewer: Heather Treseler

Publisher's Weekly: Reviewed: Erika Meitner

Whale Road Review: Reviewer: Emma Bolden, Reviewer: Crystal Stone

Interviews

Be Less Careful: Jenny Browne

Whale Road Review: Mary Ardery
@swwim.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:30 PM

This event will be live-streamed on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.

Join us in person or from wherever you are.

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SWWIM Team

#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #WomenPoets #Inclusive #SWWIMResidency #SWWIMReadingSeries #BleahPatterson #ZYasminWaheed

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@swwim.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 5:30 PM

This event will be live-streamed on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.

Join us in person or from wherever you are.

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SWWIM Team

#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #WomenPoets #Inclusive #SWWIMResidency #SWWIMReadingSeries #BleahPatterson #ZYasminWaheed

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@swwim.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 4:03 PM

Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts!

#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #ItsLit #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM

Literary Magazines

The American Poetry Review: Tiana Nobile

Birdcoat Quarterly: Romana Iorga, Jill Kitchen**

Calul Journal: Donna Spruijt-Metz

Colorado Review: Laura Villareal

Hole in the Head Review: M.L. Hedison, Judy Kaber, Abigail Michelini

The Lake: Valy Steverlynck

The Maine Review: Samantha Strong Murphey, Ellen June Wright

Mezzo Cammin: Barbara Crooker, Stevie Edwards, Anne Graue

Poetose: Tina Barry

Quartet Journal: Christa Fairbrother, Luci Huhn, Jennifer Mills Kerr, ​​​​​Jill Michelle, Yiskah Rosenfeld, Cynthia Ventresca

Sky Island Journal: Megan Stillwell

Still Point Arts Quarterly: Karla Van Vliet

Waxwing: Kelly Russell Agodon, Jenny Molberg
Awards

2026 Boggs Contest Winners: Finalist: Rosa Godshall

Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize: Runner-Up: Leah Falk

The 2026 New England Poetry Club Contests: Samuel Washington Allen Prize: Finalist, Carolyn Oliver; Amy Lowell Prize: Winner, Anastasia Vassos

Books

Sheila-Na-Gig Editions: Jen Karetnick*, Domiciliary

Features & Columns

Associated Press: Jennifer Franklin

Poetry Daily: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné

Second Coming: Sarah Dickenson Snyder

Reviews

Brooklyn Rail: Reviewed: Arden Levine
RHINO Reviews: Reviewer: Susanna Lang; Reviewed: Kelli Russell Agodon, Jenny Browne, Arden Levine, Elline Lipkin

tweetspeak: Reviewed: Trish Hopkinson, Jen Karetnick*

Interviews

COMP: an interdisciplinary journal: Arden Levine

Green Linden Press: Arden Levine

Audio/Visual Spots & Podcasts

The Slowdown: Erika Meitner


*SWWIM Every Day Editors
**SWWIM Every Day Readers & Staff
***SWWIM Every Day Contributing Editors-at-Large
@swwim.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:02 PM

From “Blue Manatee” by Catherine Bowman

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/10/2/blue-manatee

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Image of ripples of deep blue fabric and a quote in pale blue "Tonight, the sky the color of a velvet blue boot, thrifted, long lost" by Catherine Bowman
@swwim.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 4:07 PM

Read our friends and collaborators at MER (Mom Egg Review) @merliterary.bsky.social !

(narrated by Mary Block, senior editor of SWWIM Every Day and SWWIM director of development)

@clmporg.bsky.social

#LitMagWeek #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #MER #MomEggReview

@swwim.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 4:04 PM

Throwback Thursday:

Do you remember Green Mountains Review? We do.

(narrated by Jen Karetnick @kavetchnik.bsky.social , SWWIM cofounder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day)

@clmporg.bsky.social

#LitMagWeek #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #GreenMountainsReview

@swwim.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 1:02 PM

From “Preoperative Love Poem” by Deborah Ager

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/10/1/preoperative-love-poem

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Image of seams of river bed and earth with reflections of sky and a quote in bright yellow "just your skin and my skin with their rivers of scars trickling, teaching our fingertips where to go every night" by Deborah Ager
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 1:02 PM

From “A ball python keeps showing up in my dreams” by Maegan Gonzales

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/9/30/a-ball-python-keeps-showing-up-in-my-dreams

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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #Inclusive #MaeganGonzales

Image of a coiled snake in dark and pale green with a quote in pale blue "The father lets Iono coil three times around the little girl's unsuspicious neck. Her body tightens." by Maegan Gonzales
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 3:02 PM

Meet SWWIM!

(narrated by Catherine Esposito Prescott, SWWIM cofounder and editor-in-chief of SWWIM Every Day)

Photos by Chantal Lawrie.

#LitMagWeek #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #WomenPoets #WomenSupportingWomen

@swwim.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 1:02 PM

From “All the Ways to Want Things” by Stacie Kiner

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryday/2026/9/29/all-the-ways-to-want-things

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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #WomenPoets #Inclusive #StacieKiner #TuesdayPoem #TBT

Image of the earth blue and glowing with the bottom in the shadow of night with a quote in bright yellow "Our world slowly spinning unbuttons itself-- this is a difficult home" by Stacie Kiner
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 1:01 PM

From “Ancient Balm” by Regina Caggiano

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...

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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #Inclusive #AncientBalm #ReginaCaggiano #MondayPoem

Black and white image of a woman's open mouth with teeth showing and fingers touching chin with a quote in bright blue "and I know one day we'll argue for the last time about my mouth this nuisance, elemental, obstructive" by Regina Caggiano
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 4:02 PM

Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts!

#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM

Literary Magazines

Anacapa Review: Sarah Carey

Cleaver Magazine: Lauren Camp

Fish Barrel Review: Annie Diamond, Jen Jabaily-Blackburn

Forget Cool: Mary Lou Buschi, Majda Gama, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Jill Kitchen**, Erin Murphy, Laura Passin, Leah Umansky, Donna Vorreyer

fws: what we kept: a geography: Susan Michele Coronel, Jen Karetnick*

Four Way Review: Emma Bolden, Jackie K. White

ONE ART: a journal of poetry: Betsy Mars, Kathryn Petruccelli

Painted Pebble Lit Mag: Sarah Seybold

Plume: Nicole Cooley

Silver Birch Press: Laurinda Lind, Leah Mueller

Summerset Review: Jane Medved, Sarah Seybold

Superpresent: Bernadette Geyer
Weekly Spotlight SWWIM

Literary Magazines

The Threepenny Review: Leona Sevick

West Trestle Review: Susan Cohen**, Jeni De La O, Christa Fairbrother, H. E. Fisher, Hilary King, Amy Miller, Joannie Stangeland, Melody Wilson

Awards

4th Annual Codhill Press Guest Editor Series: Winner: Karen Earle

National Poetry Series: Winners: Margaret Ray, Christell Victoria Roach***; Finalists: Ronda Piszk Broatch, Tin Fogdall

2026 Prime Number Award for Poetry: Runner-Up: Yiskah Rosenfeld

Books

Rockwood Press: Buffy Shutt, Annunciations

Features & Columns

Only Poems Poet of the Week: Cydni Thompson
Weekly Spotlight SWWIM

Features & Columns

Poetry Town: Barbara Crooker

Second Coming: Susana H. Case, Leslie Morris

Reviews

Anacapa Review: Reviewer: Heather Sellers

Plume: Reviewer: Jane Zwart

Summerset Review: Reviewer: Erin Murphy; Reviewed: Jane Zwart

West Trestle Review: Reviewed: Rebecca Hart Olander

Interviews

Four Way Review: Arden Levine

Audio/Visual Spots & Podcasts

The Slowdown: Cynthia Marie Hoffman


*SWWIM Every Day Editors
**SWWIM Every Day Readers & Staff
***SWWIM Every Day Contributing Editors-at-Large
**** SWWIM Emeritus Personnel
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 4:02 PM

Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts!

#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #ItsLit #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts

Weekly Spotlight SWWIM

Literary Magazines

DIALOGIST: Susan L. Leary

Diode: Cynthia Arkins, Allisa Cherry, Stevie Edwards, Taylor Franson-Thiel, Carolyn Guinzio, Ellen Kombiyil, Kathleen McGookey, Jessica Q. Stark

Lily Poetry Review: Patricia Clark, Amy Dryansky, Brandel France de Bravo, Jennifer L. Freed, Mary Ann Honaker, Jules Jacob, Jen Jabaily-Blackburn, Veronica Kornberg, Jessica L. Walsh, Elisabeth Weiss, Jackie K. White, Shannon K. Winston

NYQ Magazine: Emily Banks, Laurie Kuntz, Mary Morris, Ellen McGrath Smith

ONE ART: a journal of poetry: Victoria Nordlund, Janette Schafer, Elisabeth Weiss

Only Poems Daily: Kelly Grace Thomas

Pangyrus: Olga Livshin

Permafrost: Alexis Ivy

POETRY: Dorsey Craft
Weekly Spotlight SWWIM

Literary Magazines The Southern Review: Denise Duhamel, Julia B. Levine, Leona Sevick

Awards

2026 Tom & Stan Wick Poetry Prize: Finalist: Rose Jenny

Books

Diode: Susan L. Leary, Brink Was the Word I Was Looking for

Querencia Press: Jessica Covil-Manset, To Sing to You, and to Shout

University Press of Kentucky: Kari Gunter-Seymour

Features & Columns

Academy of American Poets: Jenny Browne

Autumn Sky Poetry Daily: Laura Foley

Poetry Town: Catherine Abbey Hodges**
Weekly Spotlight SWWIM

Reviews

Tupelo Press Quarterly: Reviewer: Tara Ballard

tweetspeak: Reviewed: Tina Kelley

Interviews

The Rumpus: Jenny Browne

Tupelo Press Quarterly: L.J. Sysko, Jessica L. Walsh, Preeti Vangani


*SWWIM Every Day Editors
**SWWIM Every Day Readers & Staff
***SWWIM Every Day Contributing Editors-at-Large
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 1:02 PM

From “White Savior” by Ansley Moon

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...

This week’s poems were curated by Writer-in-Residence Sarah Audsley.

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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #WomenPoets #Inclusive #AnsleyMoon

Image of a woman applying bright red lipstick with a quote in pale blue "By my hand, my brown girl will be worthy, will be different. Will learn to wash away the day's stink & always wear lipstick." by Ansley Moon
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 4:00 PM

Happy National Translation Month! SWWIM Every Day is seeking translations! Please see our Submittable for guidelines.

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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #Inclusive #Translations #WorldPoetry #TranslationMonth

Flyer featuring a SWWIM logo and the text "Accepting Translations! See our Submittable for guidelines." on a blue inksplot.
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 1:03 PM

From “Sad Girls Wearing Paper Hats” by Mary-Kim Arnold

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...

This week’s poems were curated by Writer-in-Residence Sarah Audsley.

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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #WomenPoets #Inclusive #MaryKimArnold

Image of a young woman looking out over a cityscape of lights at dawn with a quote in pale blue "You have seen before how the days can astonish" by Mary-Kim Arnold
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 1:02 PM

From “Dog Days” by Rosanna Young Oh

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...

This week’s poems were curated by Writer-in-Residence Sarah Audsley.

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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #WomenPoets Inclusive #DogDays #RosannaYoungOh #TBT

Image of a red-brown labradoodle puppy and a quote in yellow that reads "I am the beast she thinks I am" by Rosanna Young Oh
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 1:02 PM

From “Quickening” by Ashley Sojin Kim

Tap the link below to read the full poem in SWWIM Every Day.

www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...

This week’s poems were curated by Writer-in-Residence Sarah Audsley.

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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #Poem #WomenPoets #Inclusive #AshleySojinKim

Image of a person's hands holding a string of bright white lights with a quote in blue that reads "I know well how to carry grief, but what to do with hope?" by Ashley Sojin Kim
@swwim.bsky.socialSep 11, 2026, 4:02 PM

Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts!

#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #ItsLit #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts

Literary Magazines
AGNI
Denise Duhamel
Bending Genres
Erin Murphy
Cider Press Review
Liz Ahl, Linda Hillman Chayes, Kimberly Ann Priest, Valy Steverlynck, Melody Wilson
Cincinnati Review
Asa Drake
Cultural Daily
Hilary King
Indianapolis Review
Dorian Kotsiopoulos, Erin Murphy, Julie Weiss, Marceline White
New Verse News
Erin Murphy
Offcourse
Judy Kronenfeld
Only Poems Poet of the Week
Taylor Byas
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Tahoma Literary Review
Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Mary Morris, Ruby Hansen Murray, Amy Thatcher, Donna Vorreyer
Awards
2026 Idaho Prize for Poetry
Short List: Kathleen Winter
2026 James Applewhite Poetry Prize
Finalist: Malaika Albrecht
Books
Sarabande Books
Traci Brimhall, The Grief Artist
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions
Mary Ann Honaker, Night Is Another Realm Altogether
Features & Columns
Academy of American Poets
Ada Limón
Autumn Sky Poetry Daily
Mary Ann Honaker
MER
Amy Dryansky, Jen Karetnick*

Queer Poem-a-Day
Nicole Tallman
Weeky Spotlight SWWIM

Audio/Visual Spots and Podcasts 

The Slowdown
K.T. Landon, Amy Lemmon, Jenny Molberg
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