Rachel Morgan
@rachelmoreagain.bsky.social
Poet | Editor | Prof | 2024 Iowa Artist Fellow
work in 2024 Best New Poets, Shenandoah, JAMA, Beloit Poetry Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review
work in 2024 Best New Poets, Shenandoah, JAMA, Beloit Poetry Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review
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"Can you recall/ what you did after your biggest/ heartbreak? I ground my teeth" - "To the Bereaved and the Betrayed" by Rachel Morgan
Read the rest of this beautiful poem in our Deception Issue! Order your copy via ironhorse.submittable.com
#LitMag #PoetrySpotlight
Read the rest of this beautiful poem in our Deception Issue! Order your copy via ironhorse.submittable.com
#LitMag #PoetrySpotlight
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"Can you recall/ what you did after your biggest/ heartbreak? I ground my teeth" - "To the Bereaved and the Betrayed" by Rachel Morgan
Read the rest of this beautiful poem in our Deception Issue! Order your copy via ironhorse.submittable.com
#LitMag #PoetrySpotlight
Read the rest of this beautiful poem in our Deception Issue! Order your copy via ironhorse.submittable.com
#LitMag #PoetrySpotlight
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Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
Had a blast writing this talk for the Author Seedbed Series (link ⬇️) Come found out what guess jeans and panda rings have to do with poetry
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#poetry #lecture #creativewriting #poetrycommunity #90s
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#poetry #lecture #creativewriting #poetrycommunity #90s
August 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Had a blast writing this talk for the Author Seedbed Series (link ⬇️) Come found out what guess jeans and panda rings have to do with poetry
www.waterloopubliclibrary.org/event/fall-a...
#poetry #lecture #creativewriting #poetrycommunity #90s
www.waterloopubliclibrary.org/event/fall-a...
#poetry #lecture #creativewriting #poetrycommunity #90s
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The summer issue is arriving to mailboxes, and the boxes from the printer have arrived to our offices, so all pre-orders will ship out this week. Preview the table of contents, read the letter from the editors, and follow a link to our store here: northamericanreview.org/magazine
June 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The summer issue is arriving to mailboxes, and the boxes from the printer have arrived to our offices, so all pre-orders will ship out this week. Preview the table of contents, read the letter from the editors, and follow a link to our store here: northamericanreview.org/magazine
I was new to editing when @marthasilano.bsky.social's poem "Ode to Frida Kahlo’s Eyebrows" appeared in @northamerreview.bsky.social James Hearst Prize. The contest is anonymous, but as soon as I read it, I couldn't stop thinking about it. Listen to Martha read it
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saturnaliabooks.com/martha-silan...
Martha Silano on art, corporations, religion and the American Dream in Reckless Lovely
Some poems in your collection Reckless Lovely use scientific language with great lyrical power. Could you explain the relationship between poetry and science and perhaps, more generally, art and sc…
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May 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I was new to editing when @marthasilano.bsky.social's poem "Ode to Frida Kahlo’s Eyebrows" appeared in @northamerreview.bsky.social James Hearst Prize. The contest is anonymous, but as soon as I read it, I couldn't stop thinking about it. Listen to Martha read it
saturnaliabooks.com/martha-silan...
saturnaliabooks.com/martha-silan...
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This is a gift. Please listen. Thank you, @marthasilano.bsky.social and all the people who made this. This is what poetry is meant to do.
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on.soundcloud.com/XTmZu7ri42aS...
Martha Silano | Once
Strangers on the streets of Seattle and New York read Martha Silano's poem
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May 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This is a gift. Please listen. Thank you, @marthasilano.bsky.social and all the people who made this. This is what poetry is meant to do.
on.soundcloud.com/XTmZu7ri42aS...
on.soundcloud.com/XTmZu7ri42aS...
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The algorithm is not your audience.
Make something a person would cry over.
Make something a person would cry over.
April 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The algorithm is not your audience.
Make something a person would cry over.
Make something a person would cry over.
April 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It was a bright cold day in April when the stock markets plunged and TikTok was spared. #tarrifs #stockmarket #tiktok @apnews.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It was a bright cold day in April when the stock markets plunged and TikTok was spared. #tarrifs #stockmarket #tiktok @apnews.com
Back home after #awp25 and finishing this stellar read by #jennyoffill @vintagebooks.bsky.social #booksky
March 31, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Back home after #awp25 and finishing this stellar read by #jennyoffill @vintagebooks.bsky.social #booksky
Excited to discuss the amazing #brendahillman at #awp25 with stellar ✨✨✨✨panelists
March 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Excited to discuss the amazing #brendahillman at #awp25 with stellar ✨✨✨✨panelists
I ❤️ documentaries. After watching Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story, I'm gonna move to the Shetlands #documentary @hgl7.bsky.social www.imdb.com/title/tt3118...
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story (2024) ⭐ 8.0 | Documentary
1h 17m
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February 25, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I ❤️ documentaries. After watching Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story, I'm gonna move to the Shetlands #documentary @hgl7.bsky.social www.imdb.com/title/tt3118...
Holy poetry debut collection! Diana Khoi Nguyen’s GHOST OF @omnidawn.bsky.social I want this book to haunt me #poetry #debut #grief
February 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Holy poetry debut collection! Diana Khoi Nguyen’s GHOST OF @omnidawn.bsky.social I want this book to haunt me #poetry #debut #grief
my new mantra for difficult times #chappellroan
February 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
my new mantra for difficult times #chappellroan
As an editor, my favorite news & mail to receive is “my poem [ ] that first appeared in the @northamerreview.bsky.social is now in [ ]” #editordream #chapbook #cirquepress #morepoems
January 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
As an editor, my favorite news & mail to receive is “my poem [ ] that first appeared in the @northamerreview.bsky.social is now in [ ]” #editordream #chapbook #cirquepress #morepoems
First read of 2025–necessary for anyone curious about the immune system #type1diabetes #autoimmune @riverheadbooks.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
First read of 2025–necessary for anyone curious about the immune system #type1diabetes #autoimmune @riverheadbooks.bsky.social
Getting my glitter out for this superstar reading ✨✨✨
Register and join us for this free reading
Register and join us for this free reading
Attention, Swifties! NAR presents: Invisible Strings poetry reading and discussion, a free Zoom event. Register here:
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January 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Getting my glitter out for this superstar reading ✨✨✨
Register and join us for this free reading
Register and join us for this free reading
I'm in good company ❤️❤️❤️ @divyasriik.bsky.social @michaelgrow.bsky.social @oliviamcc.bsky.social @hannahnahar.bsky.social #bestnewpoets #anthology #poetry
January 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I'm in good company ❤️❤️❤️ @divyasriik.bsky.social @michaelgrow.bsky.social @oliviamcc.bsky.social @hannahnahar.bsky.social #bestnewpoets #anthology #poetry
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It’s NYE & raining here. I wrote this poem in 2013, so the five-year-old is now sixteen.
Even when it’s hard to love the world unconditionally, and it’s never not hard, here’s to imagining what might be possible and what we can make so.
Love from here on a rainy Tuesday.
Even when it’s hard to love the world unconditionally, and it’s never not hard, here’s to imagining what might be possible and what we can make so.
Love from here on a rainy Tuesday.
December 31, 2024 at 2:25 PM
It’s NYE & raining here. I wrote this poem in 2013, so the five-year-old is now sixteen.
Even when it’s hard to love the world unconditionally, and it’s never not hard, here’s to imagining what might be possible and what we can make so.
Love from here on a rainy Tuesday.
Even when it’s hard to love the world unconditionally, and it’s never not hard, here’s to imagining what might be possible and what we can make so.
Love from here on a rainy Tuesday.
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Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and whose lifetime of creative work helped shape our world.
Remembering the actors, musicians, writers and artists we lost in 2024
Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and whose lifetime of creative work helped shape our world.
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December 26, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and whose lifetime of creative work helped shape our world.
As an editor, I LOVE seeing poems that first appeared in the NAR get the attention they deserve. Check out lithub.com/49-contempor... @literaryhub.bsky.social & "The Mannequin Leaves the Hospital for the Last Time Happy" by Angela Voras-Hills #poetry #listicle #bestof2024
50 Contemporary Poets on the Best Poems they Read in 2024
In the sea of endless year-end lists, poetry often seems to get sidelined, or forgotten—or maybe the critics and listmakers just aren’t reading enough poetry in the first place. Which made me…
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December 22, 2024 at 1:21 AM
As an editor, I LOVE seeing poems that first appeared in the NAR get the attention they deserve. Check out lithub.com/49-contempor... @literaryhub.bsky.social & "The Mannequin Leaves the Hospital for the Last Time Happy" by Angela Voras-Hills #poetry #listicle #bestof2024
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It’s launch day! 🎉 Invisible Strings, the anthology of poems inspired by Taylor Swift’s songs, is officially out. Congrats to editor @kristie.daugherty.1 ✨
🎶 I’m happy to be a part of this collection alongside so many talented poets. 🥳
#InvisibleStrings #Poetry #TaylorSwift #PoetryCommunity
🎶 I’m happy to be a part of this collection alongside so many talented poets. 🥳
#InvisibleStrings #Poetry #TaylorSwift #PoetryCommunity
December 3, 2024 at 5:20 PM
It’s launch day! 🎉 Invisible Strings, the anthology of poems inspired by Taylor Swift’s songs, is officially out. Congrats to editor @kristie.daugherty.1 ✨
🎶 I’m happy to be a part of this collection alongside so many talented poets. 🥳
#InvisibleStrings #Poetry #TaylorSwift #PoetryCommunity
🎶 I’m happy to be a part of this collection alongside so many talented poets. 🥳
#InvisibleStrings #Poetry #TaylorSwift #PoetryCommunity
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Congratulations to the NAR's six nominees for 2024 Pushcart Prizes! Xiaoqiu Qiu, Ruben Quesada, Paul Crenshaw, Rachel Foley, E.R. Ramzipoor, and Jason Fernandes, thank you for allowing us to publish your fine work!
November 21, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Congratulations to the NAR's six nominees for 2024 Pushcart Prizes! Xiaoqiu Qiu, Ruben Quesada, Paul Crenshaw, Rachel Foley, E.R. Ramzipoor, and Jason Fernandes, thank you for allowing us to publish your fine work!
My head and heart are exploding reading @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social memoir in poems EXPLODING HEAD #poems #memoir #reading
December 10, 2024 at 9:37 PM
My head and heart are exploding reading @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social memoir in poems EXPLODING HEAD #poems #memoir #reading