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Jessica Poli
@jessicapoli.bsky.social
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Poet, Author of Red Ocher (University of Arkansas Press), and Managing Editor at Prairie Schooner
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Our newest issue is now available for purchase! Featuring work by @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social, @nadeemzaman.bsky.social, @mlynxqualey.bsky.social, @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social, @abbiekiefer.bsky.social, @riggstah.bsky.social, and more.

Order the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/winter...
New Issue: the Schooner, Winter 2024 Volume 98 Number 4 Contributors Marilyn Hacker Catherine DeNardo Deema K. Shehabi Emily Black Chase Twichell Danielle Weeks Orlando Ricardo Menes Tom Laichas Felicia Zamora Alonso Llerena Cyril Dabydeen Matthew Lippman Nadeem Zaman Christine Marshall Mary Morris Wes Matthews Marcia Lynx Qualey Genevieve Payne Sabina Urraca Rachel Ephraim J.P. White Esi W. Nkeyekyer Matthew Gellman Abbie Kiefer Karan Kapoor Joanne Clarkson Keisha-Gaye Anderson Avia Tadmor Brian Francis Chris Watkins Andrea L. Hackbarth Adam J. Gellings Jay Kophy Mariah Rigg Nicholas Samaras Brittany Perham Enzo Silon Surin Gracie Newman Robert Thomas
September 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.

The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Oct 20
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
October 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Our latest issue is now available for purchase! Featuring work by @bcar.bsky.social, @lenakt.bsky.social, @ninacpelaez.bsky.social, @pagestar.bsky.social, @preetivangani.bsky.social, @michaelimossan.bsky.social, and more.

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Cover image of the Fall 2024 issue of the Schooner, featuring a photograph of a hallway lined with autumn leaves. Text above and below the cover reads "New Issue." Volume 98 Number 3 Contributors Brenda Cárdenas Nina C. Peláez Bruce Parker Clare Rossini Natalie Scenters-Zapico Amy Nolan John Kinsella Dana Fang Hajjar Baban Page Hill Starzinger iheoma uzomba Preeti Vangani Amber Flora Thomas Urvi Kumbhat Kyoko Uchida James Scruton Glen Vecchione ire'ne lara silva Sonja Livingston Matthew Daddona Tsahai Makeda Laura Wetherington Michael Loyd Gray Michael Imossan Emily M. Green Rachel Neve-Midbar Lena Khalaf Tuffaha Daniel Millar Kat Finch Swati Rana Divya Mehrish Gabriel Houck Katie Hartsock Marcia Lynx Qualey Catalina Ocampo Londoño
August 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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this is dope
A Sunburst Restrained by María Berrío a painting with two women in patchwork dresses lounging before a tiled background with the branch of a lemon tree laid out in front of them
July 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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We're very excited to announce that the new Glenna Luschei Endowed Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner is Timothy Schaffert, Adele Hall Professor of English and director of creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Read more about Schaffert here: news.unl.edu/article/scha...
Photo of Timothy Schaffert
June 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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"If there could be love without violence,
there would be no breakers or boat. There would be
no tower to dive from. Maybe
there would be a field..."

Run over & read @jessicapoli.bsky.social's poems about diving horses at Blackbird. I took the image from her post on the poems elsewhere! rb.gy/wi6md7
dramatic sepia photo of diving horse & rider
May 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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A NEW round of shout-outs is up on our Substack: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...

@jessicapoli.bsky.social @kaicoggin.bsky.social @clmporg.bsky.social @dintywmoore.bsky.social @kashawntaylor.bsky.social @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social @mrmandell8.bsky.social @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social
Saturday Shout-Out ~ May 3, 2025
Share your recently published work with the WRJ community
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May 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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We are excited to announce that this year's judge for our Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest (opening May 15) is @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social, author of Bite By Bite and World of Wonders, a New York Times Bestseller and Barnes and Noble Book of the Year.

For contest guidelines, visit bit.ly/cnf25
Judge Announced for the 2025 Summer Creative Nonfiction Contest AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL author of Bite By Bite and World of Wonders Submissions open May 15
April 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Michael—my favorite poet of night, of envelopes, of trains, of kisses, of mistakes, of sleep, of houses & their porches, of dreams, of the small huge (the parenthetically cosmic), of night, of night, of porches & their light, of let me try again to tell you, of the moon
If in the Stellar Coast of Evening I Could Only Know My Name by Michael Burkard I think I would hear the passengers, I think I would hear the porch kiss the rain (I know the rain kisses the porch, that I can hear)… I think I would stop hating thinking which is the only feeling I know which survives thinking even more lastly than thinking… and if the car did go by with a messenger within I could eat the somber message of my friend’s painting and thereby turn it into a light by eating it, by feeling the ghost is with me at last, again, as it must have been years and nights ago when the rain and the porch were the same passenger and I the train they chose to travel in.
March 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Our team will be busy next week! Here are just a few events where you can find our editors and friends.

We'll have a full list of Schooner-related events and panels in our upcoming newsletter. Sign up now: bit.ly/4irYItF
The Schooner @ AWP Editor On-Site Events Thursday, March 27 Women Writers Talk Shame in the Classroom, Academia & Their Writing Lives 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM Room 511AB, Level Two Uche Okonkwo, Tara Ballard, Alina Nguyễn, Silvia Park, and Ava Winter Tara Ballard / Associate Editor Friday, March 28 Somehow | Manage: Managing Editors Who Manage Editors 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One Emily Stowe, duncan barlow Stephanie G'Schwind, and Jessica Poli Jessica Poli / Managing Editor The Schooner @ AWP Editor Off-Site Events Wednesday, March 26 A Reading by Terrain.org & Writing the Wild 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Audio Graph Beer Co. 1203 Olive St. Los Angeles, CA 90016 Chaun Ballard, Assistant Poetry Editor Friday., March 28 CantoMundo Fellows Reading Doors at 6 PM Show Starts at 7 PM La Plaza de Cultura y Artes 501 Main Street, Los Angeles, 90012 Kimberly Reyes, Assistant Poetry Editor
March 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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We're getting excited for AWP! Join managing editors from the Schooner, @northamerreview.bsky.social, South Dakota Review, and @coloradoreview.bsky.social for a conversation about managing a literary journal on Friday, March 28.
Somehow I Manage: Managing Editors Who Manage Editors Moderator: Emily Stowe, North American Review in conversation with duncan barlow, South Dakota Review Stephanie G'Schwind, Colorado Review Jessica Poli, Prairie Schooner FRIDAY, MARCH 28 10:35-11:50 AM PDT Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One Los Angeles Convention Center #AWP25
March 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Our annual book prize in poetry and fiction is closing soon! Send us your manuscripts by March 15 for a chance to win $3000 and publication by @univnebpress.bsky.social.

For full guidelines, visit prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize-g...
Last Call for Manuscripts 2025 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize $3000 + Publication Deadline: March 15
March 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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i keep thinking my work will liberate me

Wanda Coleman
i’m not good at explaining how i feel. i have run out of synonyms for rage there are preconceived notions in which i feel trapped i keep thinking my work will liberate me from them it hasn’t as though life’s language is its own snare so by not sending these letters i escape entrapment you dig? ever so sincerely—
March 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize is closing soon! Send us your manuscript by March 15: prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize-g...
Submissions Closing March 15 The Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction and Poetry Winners receive $3000 and publication through the University of Nebraska Press
March 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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"Perhaps ultimately, Poli’s collection illustrates how a collapse can lead to an expansion, leading not to an expansion of knowing, but of the true beauty of not knowing."
–Grace Johnson, Colorado Review

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March 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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“ I don't know how much we want to fight to keep it. We can use it to benefit farmers and agriculture in the state, but don't want to run counter to Trump's Administration.”
flatwaterfreep.bsky.social Flatwater Free Press @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social · Mar 3
Records obtained by Flatwater Free Press reveal Nebraska officials worried about far-reaching fallout from the Trump administration’s funding freeze directive, from disaster recovery to aid for mothers and infants.

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March 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Farmers depend on climate data. They’re suing the USDA for deleting it.

Growing food is a precarious business, and losing access to key information makes it worse.

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#Food #Farms #Agriculture #Farmers #USDA
Farmers depend on climate data. They're suing the USDA for deleting it.
Growing food is a precarious business, and losing access to key information makes it worse.
grist.org
March 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Funding freeze leaves Kansas farmers unpaid for work they already completed www.hppr.org/hppr-news/20...
Funding freeze leaves Kansas farmers unpaid for work they already completed
Many Kansas farmers are in limbo and waiting for promised payments under contracts they signed with the federal government. It comes after a federal directive from the Trump administration paused paym...
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March 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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All morning the /
Morning has been blackening, /
—Sylvia Plath
Sheep in Fog poem by Sylvia Plath
March 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Send us something good!
prairie-schooner.bsky.social Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social · Feb 26
A quick reminder that we are open for general submissions (no fee!) until May 1.

For full guidelines and to submit, visit prairieschooner.unl.edu/submit/
General Submissions No Reading Fee Open now through May 1 for stories, poems, essays, and reviews. Prairie Schooner
February 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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A not-so-small Monday miracle: I sent the first full draft of my dissertation to my advisor.
February 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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it’s this poem
Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi Do not care if  you just arrive in your skeleton. Would love to take a walk with you. Miss you. Would love to make you shrimp saganaki. Like you used to make me when you were alive. Love to feed you. Sit over steaming bowls of pilaf. Little roasted tomatoes covered in pepper and nutmeg. Miss you. Would love to walk to the post office with you. Bring the ghost dog. We’ll walk past the waterfall and you can tell me about the after. Wish you. Wish you would come back for a while. Don’t even need to bring your skin sack. I’ll know you. I know you will know me even though. I’m bigger now. Grayer. I’ll show you my garden. I’d like to hop in the leaf pile you raked but if you want to jump in? I’ll rake it for you. Miss you standing looking out at the river with your rake in your hand. Miss you in your puffy blue jacket. [ran out of space. poem also here: https://tinyurl.com/missyoupoem]
February 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Just shared my books to this lovely thread - go support some trans authors!
pairofclaws.bsky.social Abra, Sexy Hellmouth 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22
This thread is one year old today, and, unfortunately, it is even more important to be reading and preserving trans stories than when it started. I truly thank everyone who has contributed to it, everyone who has kept sharing it, and everyone who has made a point to buy books from these authors. 🧵
pairofclaws.bsky.social Abra, Sexy Hellmouth 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22
On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
February 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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"Perhaps ultimately, Poli’s collection illustrates how a collapse can lead to an expansion, leading not to an expansion of knowing, but of the true beauty of not knowing."

Grateful for this beautiful and smart review of Red Ocher by Grace Johnson.

coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/red-...
Red Ocher - Center for Literary Publishing
$19.95 Buy Book About the Book Author: Jessica PoliReviewed By: Grace JohnsonGenre: PoetryPublisher: The University of Arkansas PressPublished: 2023Pages: 96 Book ReviewJessica Poli’s debut collection...
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February 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I have a new poem in the latest issue of @tahomareview.bsky.social today. Many thanks to @jessicacuello.bsky.social and the editors for including it!

Read the whole issue here: tahomaliteraryreview.com/issues/issue...
Late Summer Eclogue Poetry by Jessica Poli | From Issue 28 (Spring 2025) Explore: ABOUT THE AUTHOR Let the tomatoes go to rot. Let crickets and satin moths reign. Nights, now, I draw the field shut behind my eyes. When I return, weary, to the blaring sun, I am a candle fly thrashing under drought. Let the rain never come. Let me walk away from every sorrow, every turnip lost to wireworm and white rust until I am forested, mouthing the cobwebs of winter.
February 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM