Great River Review

💙🌊 Announcing our guest judge for this year's $1,000 2022 Pink Poetry Prize (closed 01/31/22) is triple talent (poet, essayist, & novelist) @JulianThePoet, author of REFUSE (@cavecanempoets winner/@UPittPress). We're so excited for Julian Randall to read your poems! 🌊💙

He's not heavy, he's my #NationalPoetryMonth Day 16 favorite bookmarked poet. Bruce Bond's "Dante's Children" via @GreatRiverRev (greatriverreview.com/issue-67-toc/b…)

Really thrilled to share my poem “Diagnosis Post” in Issue 68 of @GreatRiverRev

For those in U.S./Canada/U.K.: Would it be of interest if us, a U.S. nonprofit, compiled an anthology of 2021 work and donated proceeds to @GlobalGiving's aid/direct relief organizations in Palestine, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen?

(4/4) He was also a contributor to the #1 New York Times-bestseller Black Boy Joy. His Middle-Grade novel is PILAR RAMIREZ AND THE ESCAPE FROM ZAFA (Holt, 2022). He talks a lot about poems and other things on Twitter at @JulianThePoet.

(3/4) and Furious Flower. He has essays in The Atlantic, Vibe, Black Nerd Problems, and other venues. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Ole Miss. His first book, Refuse, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award.

💙🌊 Announcing our guest judge for this year's $1,000 2022 Pink Poetry Prize (closed 01/31/22) is triple talent (poet, essayist, & novelist) @JulianThePoet, author of REFUSE (@cavecanempoets winner/@UPittPress). We're so excited for Julian Randall to read your poems! 🌊💙

(We've extended again to the end of January 2022, just in case anyone was wondering)

Submissions to our $1,000 single-poem prize are EXTENDED to Jan 24, 2022! Send your poems now at grr.submittable.com

POETS & NOT POETS: Our third annual 2022 Pink Poetry Prize for $1,000 [for 1 poem] closes submissions on January 16th. JUST TWO [2] DAYS LEFT! And $2 to submit. Tell your friends & send your unpublished poems now at: grr.submittable.com/submit/207044/…

Poets apply!!! I’m looking for inventive powerful work that pushes aesthetic conventions! Queercrip poetics! Genderweird poetics! Visual experimentation! Poets who’ll show their cohort (and me) new ways of thinking about poems!

The future of Sycamore Review is in peril, and we need you to make a little noise. The Purdue MFA and, with it, the 30-plus year tenure of Sycamore Review are under threat by the University administration. Post about us & share our statement using #Purdue and #SaveSycamore /🧵

I'm really happy to share this poem, which is both online and in print from @GreatRiverRev -- Patrick #poetry #poets #writers greatriverreview.com/issue-68-toc/p…

Virgil Abloh, the barrier-breaking Black designer whose ascent to the heights of the traditional luxury industry changed what was possible in fashion, died on Sunday. He was 41. nyti.ms/3xzk0Pt

Don’t miss this! $2 to submit to $1000 poetry prize, written AND visual poetry submissions welcomed. We are also reading general submissions in F, CNF, and welcome reviews!

"Trust/ mother to take care/ of every aspect/ that needs/ correction...as we/ went up /down the hill, 'Elbows out. Don’t/ swing like a bell,'" Read Stephen Scott Whitaker's "CORRECTING/ MY WALK" in the latest issue of @GreatRiverRev! Here with Audio: greatriverreview.com/issue-68-toc/s…

Read the incredible "ABOUT SOLACE AND MY NEED TO SHUCK OYSTERS" from @literari_ana in the new issue of Great River Review, selected as a finalist for the Pink Poetry Prize! Audio + alt-text here: greatriverreview.com/issue-68-toc/a…

I have a new poem in the latest .@GreatRiverRev alongside a fantastic poem by dear .@rachelsedelman Go check them out! greatriverreview.com/issue-68-toc/p…

Issue 68 of Great River Review is now live online! Read the full issue now for free, with 30+ fantastic contributors of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and reviews. Find a physical copy in the mail at the end of December 2021.