River River Books
@riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Where Poetry Moves. Two editors, publishing (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year & the Plainwater Nonfiction Series. Poetry submissions open in May. Posts by Editor @hanvanderhart.bsky.social www.riverriverbooks.org
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Happiest of joint publication days to FIELD NOTES by E.G. Cunningham and ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD by Jameela F. Dallis! 🎉🎉🎉
We could not be prouder of our fall titles and their authors. Congratulations, Liz and Jameela!
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@egcunningham.bsky.social
We could not be prouder of our fall titles and their authors. Congratulations, Liz and Jameela!
riverriverbooks.org/store
@egcunningham.bsky.social
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Read this book again this week on a final proofing pass & holy moly it’s a stunner.
So excited to reveal the cover of House of Myth and Necessity, designed by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, and to welcome back our author @jasutherland.bsky.social, also the author of Bullet Points (River River, 2023)! 🎉🎉🎉
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
January 3, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Read this book again this week on a final proofing pass & holy moly it’s a stunner.
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Trying to bracket off the Horrors, I have a number of books to finish, plus Field Notes by EV Cunningham (from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social) to read and review
January 3, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Trying to bracket off the Horrors, I have a number of books to finish, plus Field Notes by EV Cunningham (from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social) to read and review
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This book. Y’all will be blown away.
Good morning and happy new year and NEW COVER REVEAL! 🎉🎉🎉
Elane Kim’s debut book of poems Antibody is out in February 2026, and we could not be more elated. Preorder here, and use the code 2025GIFT for 10% off your order and free shipping:
riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Elane Kim’s debut book of poems Antibody is out in February 2026, and we could not be more elated. Preorder here, and use the code 2025GIFT for 10% off your order and free shipping:
riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
January 2, 2026 at 8:55 PM
This book. Y’all will be blown away.
Will you eat tomorrow? What lies north
of the pillowcase? Can you stomach the uncertainty of rain,
microwaved porridge, the open door? Do you have something left
to say? What are you watching, if not the birds?
Are you already gone?
Elane Kim, “Axiom”
of the pillowcase? Can you stomach the uncertainty of rain,
microwaved porridge, the open door? Do you have something left
to say? What are you watching, if not the birds?
Are you already gone?
Elane Kim, “Axiom”
Good morning and happy new year and NEW COVER REVEAL! 🎉🎉🎉
Elane Kim’s debut book of poems Antibody is out in February 2026, and we could not be more elated. Preorder here, and use the code 2025GIFT for 10% off your order and free shipping:
riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Elane Kim’s debut book of poems Antibody is out in February 2026, and we could not be more elated. Preorder here, and use the code 2025GIFT for 10% off your order and free shipping:
riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
January 2, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Will you eat tomorrow? What lies north
of the pillowcase? Can you stomach the uncertainty of rain,
microwaved porridge, the open door? Do you have something left
to say? What are you watching, if not the birds?
Are you already gone?
Elane Kim, “Axiom”
of the pillowcase? Can you stomach the uncertainty of rain,
microwaved porridge, the open door? Do you have something left
to say? What are you watching, if not the birds?
Are you already gone?
Elane Kim, “Axiom”
Good morning and happy new year and NEW COVER REVEAL! 🎉🎉🎉
Elane Kim’s debut book of poems Antibody is out in February 2026, and we could not be more elated. Preorder here, and use the code 2025GIFT for 10% off your order and free shipping:
riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Elane Kim’s debut book of poems Antibody is out in February 2026, and we could not be more elated. Preorder here, and use the code 2025GIFT for 10% off your order and free shipping:
riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
January 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Good morning and happy new year and NEW COVER REVEAL! 🎉🎉🎉
Elane Kim’s debut book of poems Antibody is out in February 2026, and we could not be more elated. Preorder here, and use the code 2025GIFT for 10% off your order and free shipping:
riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Elane Kim’s debut book of poems Antibody is out in February 2026, and we could not be more elated. Preorder here, and use the code 2025GIFT for 10% off your order and free shipping:
riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
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Stunning writing. Beth is one of my favorites.
January 1, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Stunning writing. Beth is one of my favorites.
Three new micros from Beth Gilstrap’s forthcoming There Is News Along the Ohio River (February, 2026!), in Cleaver Magazine! 📚💙🎉
@bettysueblue.bsky.social
@bettysueblue.bsky.social
Beth Gilstrap: THREE MICROS • Cleaver Magazine
Beth Gilstrap is a writer from Charlotte, North Carolina who plays with genres. Her CNF collection is forthcoming from River River Books.
www.cleavermagazine.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Three new micros from Beth Gilstrap’s forthcoming There Is News Along the Ohio River (February, 2026!), in Cleaver Magazine! 📚💙🎉
@bettysueblue.bsky.social
@bettysueblue.bsky.social
Calling all the bird-loving poets ❤️📚🗣️
Published in BIRDBRAINS: A Lyrical Guide to Washington State Birds
December 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Calling all the bird-loving poets ❤️📚🗣️
Absolutely in love with this new poem by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social author @rachelsedelman.bsky.social! ❤️📚🎉🎉
My only new publication this year is for my beloved bushtits. Today I saw seven in a bare maple; I know there must've been more.
December 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Absolutely in love with this new poem by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social author @rachelsedelman.bsky.social! ❤️📚🎉🎉
Preeti Vangani, author of Mother Tongue Apologize (2019), and the forthcoming Fifty Mothers (2026) from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social is a guest on The Hive Poetry Collective, and what a gift for your Christmas Eve…especially opening with a Ross Gay poem reading 🙏🥰🎉 #poetry #podcast
Listen here:
Listen here:
S7:E45 Preeti Vangani Chats with Julie Murphy
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December 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Preeti Vangani, author of Mother Tongue Apologize (2019), and the forthcoming Fifty Mothers (2026) from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social is a guest on The Hive Poetry Collective, and what a gift for your Christmas Eve…especially opening with a Ross Gay poem reading 🙏🥰🎉 #poetry #podcast
Listen here:
Listen here:
A new poem from Lauren Camp in the new double, Sweet Sixteen issue of @sugarhousereview.bsky.social! 📚🩷
Read the full poem “As Long as I See” here: www.sugarhousereview.com/current-issu...
Read the full poem “As Long as I See” here: www.sugarhousereview.com/current-issu...
Lauren Camp's “As Long as I See”
In an effort to avoid verbosity, we'll put it succinctly: we love poetry.
Our name is based on both our location and desire to publish sticky, heart-racing, sweet, sweet addictive poetry. Sugar Hous
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December 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A new poem from Lauren Camp in the new double, Sweet Sixteen issue of @sugarhousereview.bsky.social! 📚🩷
Read the full poem “As Long as I See” here: www.sugarhousereview.com/current-issu...
Read the full poem “As Long as I See” here: www.sugarhousereview.com/current-issu...
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@riverriverbooks.bsky.social is a very very good press! I haven't read all their books yet but I have read FOUR and I loved them all.
I could not be more proud of our press, our authors, our designer Alban Fischer, our printer Bookmobile and distributor Itasca—truly among the very best to work with, all of them. Jennifer is our first author to return for a second title with us, and what a gift. ❤️🙏🎉🎉🎉
So excited to reveal the cover of House of Myth and Necessity, designed by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, and to welcome back our author @jasutherland.bsky.social, also the author of Bullet Points (River River, 2023)! 🎉🎉🎉
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
December 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
@riverriverbooks.bsky.social is a very very good press! I haven't read all their books yet but I have read FOUR and I loved them all.
We have three new preorders in our bookshop, Elane Kim’s ANTIBODY dropping next week, and free shipping and 10% discount with the coupon code 2025GIFT entered at checkout 📚❤️🎉
Need a gift idea this season? We’ve got you covered, and will ship to you free with the code 2025GIFT 🌊 🌊📚💙 #poetry #Booksky
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riverriverbooks.org/store/
December 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We have three new preorders in our bookshop, Elane Kim’s ANTIBODY dropping next week, and free shipping and 10% discount with the coupon code 2025GIFT entered at checkout 📚❤️🎉
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I could not be more proud of our press, our authors, our designer Alban Fischer, our printer Bookmobile and distributor Itasca—truly among the very best to work with, all of them. Jennifer is our first author to return for a second title with us, and what a gift. ❤️🙏🎉🎉🎉
So excited to reveal the cover of House of Myth and Necessity, designed by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, and to welcome back our author @jasutherland.bsky.social, also the author of Bullet Points (River River, 2023)! 🎉🎉🎉
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I could not be more proud of our press, our authors, our designer Alban Fischer, our printer Bookmobile and distributor Itasca—truly among the very best to work with, all of them. Jennifer is our first author to return for a second title with us, and what a gift. ❤️🙏🎉🎉🎉
So excited to reveal the cover of House of Myth and Necessity, designed by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, and to welcome back our author @jasutherland.bsky.social, also the author of Bullet Points (River River, 2023)! 🎉🎉🎉
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
December 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
So excited to reveal the cover of House of Myth and Necessity, designed by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, and to welcome back our author @jasutherland.bsky.social, also the author of Bullet Points (River River, 2023)! 🎉🎉🎉
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Patting myself on the back this morning.
Ahem, I mean proofreading our beautiful interiors for the spring, designed by @alban-fischer.bsky.social.
Ahem, I mean proofreading our beautiful interiors for the spring, designed by @alban-fischer.bsky.social.
December 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Patting myself on the back this morning.
Ahem, I mean proofreading our beautiful interiors for the spring, designed by @alban-fischer.bsky.social.
Ahem, I mean proofreading our beautiful interiors for the spring, designed by @alban-fischer.bsky.social.
Do you hear those geese in the dark?
Down here the men are trying to build robots who think
like men think.
—Zoë Ryder White, “Lunar Retreat”
Down here the men are trying to build robots who think
like men think.
—Zoë Ryder White, “Lunar Retreat”
Good morning to our newest cover:
The Visible Field by Zoë Ryder White, design by Alban Fischer! 📚🎉 ✨
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
@zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @alban-fischer.bsky.social
The Visible Field by Zoë Ryder White, design by Alban Fischer! 📚🎉 ✨
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
@zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @alban-fischer.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Do you hear those geese in the dark?
Down here the men are trying to build robots who think
like men think.
—Zoë Ryder White, “Lunar Retreat”
Down here the men are trying to build robots who think
like men think.
—Zoë Ryder White, “Lunar Retreat”
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I haven’t read every book in their catalogues but so far @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and @riverriverbooks.bsky.social are absolutely batting 1.000
if you want a book, like to read, look there
if you want a book, like to read, look there
December 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I haven’t read every book in their catalogues but so far @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and @riverriverbooks.bsky.social are absolutely batting 1.000
if you want a book, like to read, look there
if you want a book, like to read, look there
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Today's Featured Poem:
"Geomorphology of the Upper Great Plains" by Joe Wilkins from Pastoral, 1994 published by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/geomorp...
"Geomorphology of the Upper Great Plains" by Joe Wilkins from Pastoral, 1994 published by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/geomorp...
Geomorphology of the Upper Great Plains
From the subduction of the Farallon plate, from an ancient
ocean draining away, away,
from a merle of red-winged
blackbirds ringing the last reedy mudhole for miles,
beneath a wind lean...
poems.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Today's Featured Poem:
"Geomorphology of the Upper Great Plains" by Joe Wilkins from Pastoral, 1994 published by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/geomorp...
"Geomorphology of the Upper Great Plains" by Joe Wilkins from Pastoral, 1994 published by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/geomorp...
Come evening it wasn't about
eschatology, not exactly,
more the cold kiss of hosewater
on our foreheads, the soft places beneath the jaw.
Joe Wilkins in @poetrydaily.bsky.social today!
eschatology, not exactly,
more the cold kiss of hosewater
on our foreheads, the soft places beneath the jaw.
Joe Wilkins in @poetrydaily.bsky.social today!
Geomorphology of the Upper Great Plains
From the subduction of the Farallon plate, from an ancient
ocean draining away, away,
from a merle of red-winged
blackbirds ringing the last reedy mudhole for miles,
beneath a wind lean...
poems.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Come evening it wasn't about
eschatology, not exactly,
more the cold kiss of hosewater
on our foreheads, the soft places beneath the jaw.
Joe Wilkins in @poetrydaily.bsky.social today!
eschatology, not exactly,
more the cold kiss of hosewater
on our foreheads, the soft places beneath the jaw.
Joe Wilkins in @poetrydaily.bsky.social today!
We have two books available for preorder right now: Preeti Vangani's Fifty Mothers & Zoë Ryder White's The Visible Field. We love watching those orders coming in!
(By the way, we have a whole bunch more preorders opening soon!) riverriverbooks.org/store/
(By the way, we have a whole bunch more preorders opening soon!) riverriverbooks.org/store/
December 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We have two books available for preorder right now: Preeti Vangani's Fifty Mothers & Zoë Ryder White's The Visible Field. We love watching those orders coming in!
(By the way, we have a whole bunch more preorders opening soon!) riverriverbooks.org/store/
(By the way, we have a whole bunch more preorders opening soon!) riverriverbooks.org/store/
"This poet does speak to the precarity of it all: writing, and loving, and living," our host Maggie Smith shares in today's episode of The Slowdown, number 1412.
Read "Ledge (ars poetica) (love poem) (true story)" by @amorak.bsky.social: bit.ly/4aQfUrK
Read "Ledge (ars poetica) (love poem) (true story)" by @amorak.bsky.social: bit.ly/4aQfUrK
December 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Many thanks to @bookmobile-itasca.bsky.social for including FIELD NOTES in their favorite books of 2025! It’s a honor.
Ahh super excited to see @egcunningham.bsky.social’s FIELD NOTES on this list of favorite books of 2025 at Bookmobile! 🥰🙏📚❤️🎉🎉🎉
Our Favorite Books of 2025! - Bookmobile
From the staff at Bookmobile, our favorite books from 2025--that we've designed and/or printed and/or sold.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Many thanks to @bookmobile-itasca.bsky.social for including FIELD NOTES in their favorite books of 2025! It’s a honor.
River River poet Preeti Vangani talks grief, humor, loss, and joy, sharing poems from her amazing forthcoming collection Fifty Mothers on this episode of The Hive Poetry Collective. open.spotify.com/episode/66Zi...
S7:E45 Preeti Vangani Chats with Julie Murphy
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December 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
River River poet Preeti Vangani talks grief, humor, loss, and joy, sharing poems from her amazing forthcoming collection Fifty Mothers on this episode of The Hive Poetry Collective. open.spotify.com/episode/66Zi...
Editor @hanvanderhart.bsky.social has a poem in the new issue of Poetry —
December 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Editor @hanvanderhart.bsky.social has a poem in the new issue of Poetry —