Andrew Walker
@druwalker.bsky.social
writes poems & things * ME @ Passages North * mfa @ nmu * he/they
Hello Void! I have a Substack! In which I write about books and poetry! Subscribe to me!
This week I wrote about the best way to spend your Saturday afternoons: browsing bookstores. Check it:
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This week I wrote about the best way to spend your Saturday afternoons: browsing bookstores. Check it:
open.substack.com/pub/druwalke...
Curating Your Personal Library
in praise of browsing bookstores
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October 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Hello Void! I have a Substack! In which I write about books and poetry! Subscribe to me!
This week I wrote about the best way to spend your Saturday afternoons: browsing bookstores. Check it:
open.substack.com/pub/druwalke...
This week I wrote about the best way to spend your Saturday afternoons: browsing bookstores. Check it:
open.substack.com/pub/druwalke...
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Happy #PubDay to Alina Stefanescu’s MY HERESIES!! In these poems, @alinaetc.bsky.social probes the boundaries the sacred and the profane—a hauntological mapping of life, love, family, and womanhood.
Get your copy at the link in our bio!
Get your copy at the link in our bio!
April 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Happy #PubDay to Alina Stefanescu’s MY HERESIES!! In these poems, @alinaetc.bsky.social probes the boundaries the sacred and the profane—a hauntological mapping of life, love, family, and womanhood.
Get your copy at the link in our bio!
Get your copy at the link in our bio!
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Submit now or forever hold your peace. Only 1 day left to submit to the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize and the Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize!
Find submission guidelines and more at passagesnorth.com/contests
Find submission guidelines and more at passagesnorth.com/contests
April 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Submit now or forever hold your peace. Only 1 day left to submit to the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize and the Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize!
Find submission guidelines and more at passagesnorth.com/contests
Find submission guidelines and more at passagesnorth.com/contests
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Poetry Jenn McMahon on today’s bonus poem: "Exploring emotional entanglement further, in the final moments of the poem, Flett details the dance of attraction through the lens of complex bio mutualistic give and take."
Read "Fig Cartography" by Jane Flett
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Read "Fig Cartography" by Jane Flett
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Fig Cartography by Jane Flett — Passages North
Associate Poetry Editor Jenn McMahon on today’s bonus poem: Toeing an often unseen line between violence and romance, Jane Flett’s “Fig Cartography” is wonderfully bittersweet. Try as we might “not t...
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April 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Poetry Jenn McMahon on today’s bonus poem: "Exploring emotional entanglement further, in the final moments of the poem, Flett details the dance of attraction through the lens of complex bio mutualistic give and take."
Read "Fig Cartography" by Jane Flett
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Read "Fig Cartography" by Jane Flett
www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...
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Back by popular demand! Show off your exquisite taste in literary magazines this summer! Snag a Passages North t-shirt or baseball cap today!
We only have another week left for our fundraiser, so act fast!
Check out the link in our bio to find the store!
We only have another week left for our fundraiser, so act fast!
Check out the link in our bio to find the store!
April 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Back by popular demand! Show off your exquisite taste in literary magazines this summer! Snag a Passages North t-shirt or baseball cap today!
We only have another week left for our fundraiser, so act fast!
Check out the link in our bio to find the store!
We only have another week left for our fundraiser, so act fast!
Check out the link in our bio to find the store!
Form Rejection! On Your Birthday
April 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Form Rejection! On Your Birthday
I am BEGGING y’all to stop calling el*n’s fascist, propagandist rhetoric “whining.” Be serious for once in your life please
March 31, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I am BEGGING y’all to stop calling el*n’s fascist, propagandist rhetoric “whining.” Be serious for once in your life please
Green is one of my favorite colors and every year I fail to remember to wear green on Wear Green Day
March 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Green is one of my favorite colors and every year I fail to remember to wear green on Wear Green Day
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Check out our interview with Sarah Minor, judge of this year's Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize, conudcted by CNF/Hybrids associate editor, Barbra Lounsbury.
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www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...
An Interview with Sarah Minor, Judge of the 2025 Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize — Passages North
Sarah Minor is a writer and interdisciplinary artist. She's the author of Carousel , forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2026, Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press ...
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March 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Check out our interview with Sarah Minor, judge of this year's Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize, conudcted by CNF/Hybrids associate editor, Barbra Lounsbury.
www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...
www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...
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We are still open for submission for our Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize judged by Diane Seuss! Enter your best poems for a chance to win some $$$ and publication in Passages North!
More info at passagesnorth.com/contests
More info at passagesnorth.com/contests
March 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We are still open for submission for our Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize judged by Diane Seuss! Enter your best poems for a chance to win some $$$ and publication in Passages North!
More info at passagesnorth.com/contests
More info at passagesnorth.com/contests
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Reposted by Andrew Walker
Democrats like Jeffries spent the entire election calling Trump a fascist threat to democracy and now they can’t figure out why people expect aggressive opposition
March 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Democrats like Jeffries spent the entire election calling Trump a fascist threat to democracy and now they can’t figure out why people expect aggressive opposition
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You have to improve your portrait of God
John Ashbery
John Ashbery
March 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
You have to improve your portrait of God
John Ashbery
John Ashbery
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Do you have a visually-striking essay? Or a formally-inventive memoir? Or even just a darn-good piece on velociraptors? You should submit it to our CNF contest! Subs open now until April 15
February 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Do you have a visually-striking essay? Or a formally-inventive memoir? Or even just a darn-good piece on velociraptors? You should submit it to our CNF contest! Subs open now until April 15
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Check out our interview with Diane Seuss, judge of the 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize, conducted by Alex Watanen.
Check out the interview, contest info, and more at passagesnorth.com
Check out the interview, contest info, and more at passagesnorth.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Check out our interview with Diane Seuss, judge of the 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize, conducted by Alex Watanen.
Check out the interview, contest info, and more at passagesnorth.com
Check out the interview, contest info, and more at passagesnorth.com
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JFK was 43 when he became president! We don't have to keep electing people in their 70s!
February 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
JFK was 43 when he became president! We don't have to keep electing people in their 70s!
Thems fightin words
Poetry prompt of the day:
blame the moon. 🌖
blame the moon. 🌖
February 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Thems fightin words
Gonna invent a word processing software with Poem Mode™️ which turns off grammar suggestions but only when you’re poeming.
February 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Gonna invent a word processing software with Poem Mode™️ which turns off grammar suggestions but only when you’re poeming.
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Issue 46 of Passages North is now available!
Featuring work from Nancy Nguyen, May-lee Chai (翟梅莉), Steve Gergley, Will Musgrove, Allison Field Bell, Areej Quraishi, Kenton K. Yee, Matthew Tuckner, Mike Nagel, Acie Clark, Sara Mae, and many, many more!
Get your copy today!
Featuring work from Nancy Nguyen, May-lee Chai (翟梅莉), Steve Gergley, Will Musgrove, Allison Field Bell, Areej Quraishi, Kenton K. Yee, Matthew Tuckner, Mike Nagel, Acie Clark, Sara Mae, and many, many more!
Get your copy today!
February 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Issue 46 of Passages North is now available!
Featuring work from Nancy Nguyen, May-lee Chai (翟梅莉), Steve Gergley, Will Musgrove, Allison Field Bell, Areej Quraishi, Kenton K. Yee, Matthew Tuckner, Mike Nagel, Acie Clark, Sara Mae, and many, many more!
Get your copy today!
Featuring work from Nancy Nguyen, May-lee Chai (翟梅莉), Steve Gergley, Will Musgrove, Allison Field Bell, Areej Quraishi, Kenton K. Yee, Matthew Tuckner, Mike Nagel, Acie Clark, Sara Mae, and many, many more!
Get your copy today!
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That’s right! Our poetry and nonfiction contests are NOW OPEN until April 15th!
February 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
That’s right! Our poetry and nonfiction contests are NOW OPEN until April 15th!
Do I have any cigarettes? Oh, you mean NA weed?
February 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Do I have any cigarettes? Oh, you mean NA weed?
In b4 dems start celebrating how many more people Biden’s migrant detainment centers held than Trump’s 🙃🙃🙃🙃
February 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
In b4 dems start celebrating how many more people Biden’s migrant detainment centers held than Trump’s 🙃🙃🙃🙃
Sending acceptances for a lit mag is wild. What do you mean I get to make someone’s day with a simple lil email?? Magical.
January 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Sending acceptances for a lit mag is wild. What do you mean I get to make someone’s day with a simple lil email?? Magical.
Just wrote a poem I’m really happy with. Can’t wait to see how much of it I hate tomorrow.
January 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Just wrote a poem I’m really happy with. Can’t wait to see how much of it I hate tomorrow.
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A literary rejection? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within my Submittable?
December 13, 2024 at 2:50 PM
A literary rejection? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within my Submittable?