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Zoë Ryder White 💙

“Clouds have come down to touch us.”

from THE VISIBLE FIELD (River River Books)

Happy #smallpoemsunday!

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Quarantine 9

How beautiful the spent annuals,
tied to their roots. The yard's dense mud.
The viral load, the unscrolled breath.
Clouds have come down to touch us.
They hang around; they will not leave.
We have enclosed the yard with strings of light.
In this way, we are kept company.
In this way, our company is kept.

@riverriverbooks.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:22 PM

Thank you, Susan! 🙏🥰📚

@susanlleary.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:40 PMReposted by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

Zoë Ryder White 💙

from THE VISIBLE FIELD (River River Books)

I cannot get over how incredibly perfect this book is!

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Some sentences, some clauses, a word.

It took a long time to cross the room.
The room was so long.
The room had no ceiling because the house had no roof.
The floor was uneven.
Any round thing set on one side would roll to the other.
There was a collection of roundish objects to the left.
The windows were difficult to discern because there were no walls.
Some of us could hear the dead only as we started walking or just before we got there.
Others heard them all the time: singing, carrying on.
Below the floorboards, below the space below the floorboards: relics.
A cache of seeds and plastic.
Snow in a spilled globe.
The cast-off, spooned bones.
No longer necessary.
Necessary for such a short time.

@riverriverbooks.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:28 PM

Today! A couple River River titles will be in attendance including Jameela Dallis’s ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD! Come hear Jameela and editor Han read together with friends! 📚👻🖤

@riverriverbooks.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:27 PM

eff YEEES!!! One of our most metal titles, IMO 🐌 🎸 🔥

@martin65.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 3:16 PMReposted by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

envy me! for I have _Snails of the Apocalypse_. 💚🐌☄️ @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

Photo shows the cover (beautiful gamboge snail-tracks on a slate background) of _Snails of the Apocalypse_, a new poetry collection by Martha Zweig from River River Press.

@riverriverbooks.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:26 PM

😍🙏🎉🎉 thank you, Perugia and Becky!!!

@perugiapress.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:55 PMReposted by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

We love to celebrate our poets’ successes, with our books or for other work they’ve gone on to publish. Three cheers for Corrie Williamson, Abby E. Murray & Jen Siraganian for these recent post-pub book honors! 🎉🎉🎉 @riverriverbooks.bsky.social @jsiraganian.bsky.social @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social

@riverriverbooks.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 10:20 PM

Poetry reading ALERT! Durham, NC

@riverriverbooks.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:47 PM

Find your copy of Corrie Williamson’s Your Mother’s Bear Gun here at our online bookstore, Itasca Books, or order it from your local bookshop! 📚💜🎉

@riverriverbooks.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:45 PM

We are so excited to hear that Corrie Williamson has won the High Plains International Book Award in poetry for YOUR MOTHER’S BEAR GUN! Congratulations, Corrie! 🎉🎉🎉

Cover of Your Mother’s Bear Gun against green art print with orange daisies and the text:

Congrats to Corrie Williamson for winning the High Plains International
Book Award in poetry!
HIGH PLAINS
INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

@riverriverbooks.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:34 PM

Pour a second cup of coffee and peruse this new review of Jameela Dallis’s Encounters for the Living and the Dead featured in North Carolina Poetry Society! 📚💜 #poetry #booksky

Read here: www.ncpoetrysociety.org/review-of-en...

Sea creature background and the text:

"[Dallis] transforms witnessing from passive observation into an active form of
remembrance."

Mary Maceda reviews Encounters for the Living and the Dead for North Carolina Poetry Society

@riverriverbooks.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:32 PM

Check out new September books, including Martha Zweig’s SNAILS OF THE APOCALYPSE! 🐌 ☄️

Thank you, @clmporg.bsky.social! 📚💙

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@pw.org Sep 17, 2026, 7:33 PMReposted by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

For our new issue, nonfiction writer Joe Wilkins highlights journals that have published his essays about mountain meadows, childhood, and his “coming into being through place,” including Orion Magazine, River Teeth, the Georgia Review, and others. Read on: at.pw.org/JoeWilkins