Host Publications
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Host Publications is an award-winning, women-led independent publisher. Devoted to our mission to elevate historically marginalized writers, Host publishes radical poetry & fiction by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, and immigrant voices.
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you can now pre-order THE HUNGERING YEARS, out from
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November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
you can now pre-order THE HUNGERING YEARS, out from
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🔥Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for the DEATH TO THE BULLSHIT ARTISTS OF SOUTH TEXAS 11th Anniversary Edition by Fernando A. Flores! Order now on our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social 🔥 hostpublications.com/collections/...
August 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🔥Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for the DEATH TO THE BULLSHIT ARTISTS OF SOUTH TEXAS 11th Anniversary Edition by Fernando A. Flores! Order now on our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social 🔥 hostpublications.com/collections/...
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“Today’s poem carries that same energy of self-discovery, inevitable change, and an extravagance of living,” shares Major in today’s encore episode.
Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social: bit.ly/3IUaqAj
Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social: bit.ly/3IUaqAj
August 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“Today’s poem carries that same energy of self-discovery, inevitable change, and an extravagance of living,” shares Major in today’s encore episode.
Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social: bit.ly/3IUaqAj
Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social: bit.ly/3IUaqAj
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This will be our thread for W4G's Sealey Challenge. To support us, fill out the sponsor pledge form or contribute directly now. Include W4G in the notes section so we can keep track. Our goal is $1k in pledges and contributions this month: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...
Sealey Challenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser
All funds collected through this page will be sent to The Sameer Project, a donations-based initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora working to supply aid to displaced families in Gaza. You can ...
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August 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This will be our thread for W4G's Sealey Challenge. To support us, fill out the sponsor pledge form or contribute directly now. Include W4G in the notes section so we can keep track. Our goal is $1k in pledges and contributions this month: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...
Still flying high from last week's I Scream Social at Alienated Majesty Books! We featured Julie Poole, Marzetta, Ari Kelly, & Austen Scheib!
August 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Still flying high from last week's I Scream Social at Alienated Majesty Books! We featured Julie Poole, Marzetta, Ari Kelly, & Austen Scheib!
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We're so excited and grateful to see @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social's and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva's poetry collections named as finalists for @lambdaliterary.org's 2025 Lammy Awards in Gay Poetry and LGBTQ+ Poetry! 🎉
Check out the full list of finalists across all categories: tinyurl.com/yc5uu4ea
Check out the full list of finalists across all categories: tinyurl.com/yc5uu4ea
July 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
We're so excited and grateful to see @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social's and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva's poetry collections named as finalists for @lambdaliterary.org's 2025 Lammy Awards in Gay Poetry and LGBTQ+ Poetry! 🎉
Check out the full list of finalists across all categories: tinyurl.com/yc5uu4ea
Check out the full list of finalists across all categories: tinyurl.com/yc5uu4ea
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Sign up for Stop Cop Cities Everywhere, August 26th on zoom. To benefit the Sameer Project’s North Gaza campaign!
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Stop Cop Cities Everywhere — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40) Step 2: Register for “Stop Cop Cities Everywhere” here Join organizers from struggles against cop cities and carceral infrastr...
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July 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Sign up for Stop Cop Cities Everywhere, August 26th on zoom. To benefit the Sameer Project’s North Gaza campaign!
www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/sto...
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Read WILDFLOWER from @luckyjefferson.com for #DisabilityPrideMonth! This digital issue celebrating eight autistic BIPOC writers features writing by J. D. Harlock, Shel Moring, Greta McGee, and more: luckyjefferson.com/wildflower/
Wildflower -
Wildflower celebrates 8 BIPOC writers from across the country, each of them opening a window into our lives and journeys on and across the spectrum.
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July 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Read WILDFLOWER from @luckyjefferson.com for #DisabilityPrideMonth! This digital issue celebrating eight autistic BIPOC writers features writing by J. D. Harlock, Shel Moring, Greta McGee, and more: luckyjefferson.com/wildflower/
🌻Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for WAYWARD CREATURES by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes! On our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social! hostpublications.com/products/way...
July 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
🌻Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for WAYWARD CREATURES by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes! On our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social! hostpublications.com/products/way...
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Today’s Featured Poem:
“the city that loves the bomb” by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social from Book of Provocations published by @hostpublications.bsky.social
Read here:
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“the city that loves the bomb” by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social from Book of Provocations published by @hostpublications.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/the-cit...
the city that loves the bomb
I was in high school when Oklahoma City was bombed
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July 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Today’s Featured Poem:
“the city that loves the bomb” by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social from Book of Provocations published by @hostpublications.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/the-cit...
“the city that loves the bomb” by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social from Book of Provocations published by @hostpublications.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/the-cit...
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🌿🚑 Another day, another chance to double your donation.
Poet Alina Stefanescu is offering to match up to $500 for Sameer Project's Medical campaign.
Yesterday's was met in a day. Can we do the same?
These funds are urgently needed! ❤️🩹 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
Poet Alina Stefanescu is offering to match up to $500 for Sameer Project's Medical campaign.
Yesterday's was met in a day. Can we do the same?
These funds are urgently needed! ❤️🩹 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
[W4G] $500 Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project
July 2: A new match! Poet Alina Stefanescu has stepped up to offer a $500 match to support the work The Sameer Project is doing with their new Medical Campaign! Help us raise $500 --> which will me...
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July 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🌿🚑 Another day, another chance to double your donation.
Poet Alina Stefanescu is offering to match up to $500 for Sameer Project's Medical campaign.
Yesterday's was met in a day. Can we do the same?
These funds are urgently needed! ❤️🩹 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
Poet Alina Stefanescu is offering to match up to $500 for Sameer Project's Medical campaign.
Yesterday's was met in a day. Can we do the same?
These funds are urgently needed! ❤️🩹 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
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mónica teresa ortiz’s BOOK OF PROVOCATIONS (@hostpublications.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #PrideMonth!
The poems in this collection “explore catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression.”
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The poems in this collection “explore catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression.”
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book of provocations by mónica teresa ortiz
Inaugural Winner of the Joe W. Bratcher Prize mónica teresa ortiz posits that the most important role of the poet is that of “provocateur, to prod the audience, to interpret a visible and invisible…
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June 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
mónica teresa ortiz’s BOOK OF PROVOCATIONS (@hostpublications.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #PrideMonth!
The poems in this collection “explore catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression.”
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The poems in this collection “explore catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression.”
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Read m. mick powell’s THREESOME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA for #PrideMonth!
This collection from @hostpublications.bsky.social “sings about Black queer femmehood in harmonies of multiple voices, asserting the self as ever-changing and voluminous.”
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This collection from @hostpublications.bsky.social “sings about Black queer femmehood in harmonies of multiple voices, asserting the self as ever-changing and voluminous.”
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threesome in the last Toyota Celica & other circus tricks by m. mick powell
Winner of the Fall 2023 Host Publications Chapbook Prize Featuring an introduction by poet, mother, and educator Brittany Rogers. Formally inventive, emotionally symphonic, glittering and…
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June 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Read m. mick powell’s THREESOME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA for #PrideMonth!
This collection from @hostpublications.bsky.social “sings about Black queer femmehood in harmonies of multiple voices, asserting the self as ever-changing and voluminous.”
hostpublications.com/collections/...
This collection from @hostpublications.bsky.social “sings about Black queer femmehood in harmonies of multiple voices, asserting the self as ever-changing and voluminous.”
hostpublications.com/collections/...
A look inside LOCAL REMEDIES by Chiagoziem Jideofor, forthcoming from Host Publications Spring 2026! @poetrydaily.bsky.social poems.com/poem/local-r...
local remedies
like prayers and hymns
like a fence of gmelina trees blocking the sun
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June 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A look inside LOCAL REMEDIES by Chiagoziem Jideofor, forthcoming from Host Publications Spring 2026! @poetrydaily.bsky.social poems.com/poem/local-r...
Submissions close this Sunday (06.15.25) at 11:59pm CDT! Host Publications is looking for full-length poetry manuscripts written by historically marginalized writers! hostpublications.submittable.com/submit
June 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Submissions close this Sunday (06.15.25) at 11:59pm CDT! Host Publications is looking for full-length poetry manuscripts written by historically marginalized writers! hostpublications.submittable.com/submit
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈Happy Pride, cuties! Loving the @clmporg.bsky.social Pride Month Reading List which includes BOOK OF PROVOCATIONS by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social & THREESOME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA by @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social in great, small press company! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
A Reading List for Pride Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
For Pride Month, observed annually during the month of June, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature by authors...
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June 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈Happy Pride, cuties! Loving the @clmporg.bsky.social Pride Month Reading List which includes BOOK OF PROVOCATIONS by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social & THREESOME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA by @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social in great, small press company! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
♥️ Host Publications is open for full-length poetry submissions through June 15th, 2025. Works we dream of publishing include: collections of intersectional, radical ecopoetics; collections that hybridize poetry w/ other forms; docupoetics + more. hostpublications.submittable.com/submit/32369...
June 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
♥️ Host Publications is open for full-length poetry submissions through June 15th, 2025. Works we dream of publishing include: collections of intersectional, radical ecopoetics; collections that hybridize poetry w/ other forms; docupoetics + more. hostpublications.submittable.com/submit/32369...
Meg Day, a dear poet, educator, and friend could use your support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-me...
Donate to Support Meg Day’s Cancer Recovery and Care, organized by abigail lawlor
We are raising funds for our beloved comrade, educator, and poet for the peo… abigail lawlor needs your support for Support Meg Day’s Cancer Recovery and Care
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April 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Meg Day, a dear poet, educator, and friend could use your support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-me...
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Thank you, Texas Observer, for this feature. I'm proud to be the Poet Laureate of Texas and beyond grateful for the incredible community of outstanding poets across the state. Poetry is for the people! Praise the people! 🙌🏽✨️💛
Read: www.texasobserver.org/texas-first-...
Read: www.texasobserver.org/texas-first-...
April 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Thank you, Texas Observer, for this feature. I'm proud to be the Poet Laureate of Texas and beyond grateful for the incredible community of outstanding poets across the state. Poetry is for the people! Praise the people! 🙌🏽✨️💛
Read: www.texasobserver.org/texas-first-...
Read: www.texasobserver.org/texas-first-...
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Please join us for this reading full of people I admire deeply. More importantly, RSVP as soon as you can so that the Gaza Poets receive support as soon as possible.
🌊 Patiently waiting for this stellar reading w/ @workshops4gaza.bsky.social hosted by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social & featuring @summ.bsky.social @miparhizkar.bsky.social Ignacio Carvajal, Ayling Zulema Dominguez, Destiny Hemphill, Mallika Singh & Jesús Valles | www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...
A Poetry Reading for Gaza IV — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Gaza Poets Society here (suggested donation $30). Step 2: Register for “A Poetry Reading for Gaza IV” here . Join Workshops4Gaza for our fourth online poetry readin...
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April 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Please join us for this reading full of people I admire deeply. More importantly, RSVP as soon as you can so that the Gaza Poets receive support as soon as possible.
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Will be reading only unpublished stuff :)
🌊 Patiently waiting for this stellar reading w/ @workshops4gaza.bsky.social hosted by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social & featuring @summ.bsky.social @miparhizkar.bsky.social Ignacio Carvajal, Ayling Zulema Dominguez, Destiny Hemphill, Mallika Singh & Jesús Valles | www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...
A Poetry Reading for Gaza IV — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Gaza Poets Society here (suggested donation $30). Step 2: Register for “A Poetry Reading for Gaza IV” here . Join Workshops4Gaza for our fourth online poetry readin...
www.workshops4gaza.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Will be reading only unpublished stuff :)
🌊 Patiently waiting for this stellar reading w/ @workshops4gaza.bsky.social hosted by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social & featuring @summ.bsky.social @miparhizkar.bsky.social Ignacio Carvajal, Ayling Zulema Dominguez, Destiny Hemphill, Mallika Singh & Jesús Valles | www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...
A Poetry Reading for Gaza IV — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Gaza Poets Society here (suggested donation $30). Step 2: Register for “A Poetry Reading for Gaza IV” here . Join Workshops4Gaza for our fourth online poetry readin...
www.workshops4gaza.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🌊 Patiently waiting for this stellar reading w/ @workshops4gaza.bsky.social hosted by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social & featuring @summ.bsky.social @miparhizkar.bsky.social Ignacio Carvajal, Ayling Zulema Dominguez, Destiny Hemphill, Mallika Singh & Jesús Valles | www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...
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Torch Literary Arts was awarded the first-ever Writing Organization Award by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) at the 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Los Angeles!
Read more: torchliteraryarts.org/news/torch-l...
#AWP25
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#AWP25
April 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Torch Literary Arts was awarded the first-ever Writing Organization Award by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) at the 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Los Angeles!
Read more: torchliteraryarts.org/news/torch-l...
#AWP25
Read more: torchliteraryarts.org/news/torch-l...
#AWP25
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I had absolutely too much fun at #AWP25! No one parties like the poets, my god. Thank you to everyone who showed me kindness, filled me with hope, pointed me in the direction of great literature, & listened to me endlessly champion our Host Publications writers! A dream moment in this hard world 💖
April 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I had absolutely too much fun at #AWP25! No one parties like the poets, my god. Thank you to everyone who showed me kindness, filled me with hope, pointed me in the direction of great literature, & listened to me endlessly champion our Host Publications writers! A dream moment in this hard world 💖
♥️ We're celebrating National Poetry Month reading & writing poetry, going on long hikes w/ our besties & reading poems by the creek, w/ cake, perhaps a snail mail exquisite corpse! Tell us how you're celebrating! We're offering 20% off at HostPublications.com if you need to grow your poetry stack!
April 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
♥️ We're celebrating National Poetry Month reading & writing poetry, going on long hikes w/ our besties & reading poems by the creek, w/ cake, perhaps a snail mail exquisite corpse! Tell us how you're celebrating! We're offering 20% off at HostPublications.com if you need to grow your poetry stack!