Free State Review / Galileo Press

The thing to always remember about poetry: it can take ten years to write a book that should only take an hour to read. Be at peace with that idea.

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fiction Collections feat. @BaobabPress @fly_press @slantbooks @freestatereview et al. duotrope.com/search/smart/f…

Insanely grateful for this review in @FreeStateReview. "At long last we have an author who creates the perfect argument against everyone’s need for an objective correlative. Anyone and any story can have a soul even if nothing defines it in the T. S. Eliot way."

@BeckyLTuch for us it would come down to the writer's intention. Is it self care or manipulative?

Editors--Would you find it weird/uncool if a writer submitted under a pen name, then revealed their real name upon acceptance?

The faces of the young girls in Mike’s “Baby Doll Clown Killers” series look very much like my mother’s portraits—or like the pictures of children in clothing catalogues from that era—with the exception that these girls are executing clowns. freestatereview.com/2025/05/02/my-…

birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alman… I love the hungry part of this poem

TODAY!

Truth. Descartes was a fucker.

@mukkuthani is in the bubbler freestatereview.com/2025/04/07/sup…

Two aging poetry editors who can't spell Colombia--one with a little faith, and one a little faithless, and both suffering autoimmune dysfunctions--go to the Somondoco jungle in search of a book maker who is only subjected to a ten percent tariff. Along the way, they stop at a psychedelic dispensary. Hilarity ensues. The movie is called Columbia.

Linda Gregg 🖤

All these years typing up the hand writing, settling and stitching pages, wrapping the books in tawny mailing paper, and all anyone seems to want is Kindle. Oh well. OK. Here you are then. amazon.com/dp/B0F25C8YH8?…

"Some Girls is a love letter to women and girls. It’s a connection to who we are now and who we used to be." This wow wow interview with Emily May up @coachellareview thecoachellareview.com/2025/03/25/tcr…

Carol Alexander's poem Esplanade: A mottled morning charges me / with carelessness, rusted fenders / of evening’s crash. freestatereview.com/2025/03/24/esp…

TBR: Michelle Herman & pound cake & essays abt <loss & reinvention, longing, loneliness, friendship, community, and family...also abt grief & the way it lives in the body—and joy & the way it lives in the body too.> @FreeStateReview workinprogressinprogress.com/2025/03/tbr-if…

Listening to a commercial for commercial-free music is so like going to @awpwriter

Douglas Cole is in the Bubbler freestatereview.com/2025/03/18/a-d…

Devon Balwit is in the Bubbler freestatereview.com/2025/03/12/the…

making envelopes by hand for our non standard sized books to go out.