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✨“We keep looking, find a small hummingbird in mid-flight, hinged wings extended. There’s no color other than granite, but we know it is a ruby-throated, that it will thrum above her in perpetual flight.”
-from “Ruby-Throated,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Beth Richards
December 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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✨🗣️New Book Review! This month, Patricia Martin reviews Melissa Fraterrigo’s, “The Perils of Girlhood”

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December 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Naloxone, Syringes, and Pipes.” An essay by Melody Glenn from River Teeth 25.2

✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse (found easily through the link tree in our bio).

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December 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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✨“The kitchen table sits like an altar. I’m on a stool while my grandmother stands with a rolling pin in her hand.”
-from “Legerdemain,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Vicky Mayk

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December 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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✨This week, revisit Beautiful Things, "Reason Enough," by Sherrie Weller, aired 11/14 (Beautiful Things segment starts at 24:00) on IPR’s Pop of Culture episode 41: “We’re Visionaries”

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December 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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✨🗣️Upcoming book release from RT Editor, Jill Christman.

Jill has a new memoir coming out March 1 & the University of Nebraska Press is offering 50% off ALL books (even pre-orders!) until December 31st: use code 6HLW25 & give your future self a gift.

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December 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “The Undertaking.” An essay by Ellen Rogers from River Teeth issue 24.1

✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse (found easily through the link tree in our bio).

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December 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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✨“The part of recovery no one tells you about is the somatic score your body keeps.”
-from “You Have Such Nice Veins,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Colin Katchmar

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December 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Editor @jillchristman.bsky.social has a new memoir on the way & @univnebpress.bsky.social is offering 50% off ALL books (even pre-orders!) until December 31st: use code 6HLW25 & give a mailbox surprise to your spring self.
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Got an extremely kind and generous review of IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE in @riverteeth.bsky.social

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The phrase a “writer’s writer” is overused. But McAllister fits the bill. It All Felt Impossible does in 160 pages what takes most writers reams to produce: a rigorous examination of the intersections of memory, vulnerability, and revelation. By depicting the cycle of failure, recovery, and transformation, it interrogates how identity is continually renegotiated in relation to both external forces and interior experience. McAllister shares with us his life and by doing so, leaves no choice but for—at least this reader—to peek into his own.
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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✨A new River Teeth Revisited is online today!

This week, Makayla Edwards brings to us:
The Geometry of Storytelling: Understanding Parallels in Steven Church’s “On Kids and Bombs (or How To Be a Hummingbird)” from RT 15.2

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December 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Don’t Turn Away.” An essay by Emily Brisse from River Teeth 18.1

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December 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “Old Teammates.” An essay by Greg Bottoms from River Teeth issue 22.2

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December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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✨“He was the child who drank tea with me each evening, sipping darjeeling while spilling stories of his latest crushes.”
-from “Loving the Child Who Is,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Maryam Mohit

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December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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✨🗣️River Teeth’s 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations are official!

Your words have inspired, challenged, and left a lasting mark on everyone here at River Teeth and our readers! Help us celebrate these outstanding authors! 🎉

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December 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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✨🗣️New Book Review! This month, Seth Kaplan reviews Tom McAllister’s, “It All Felt Impossible”

✨Visit our website to read more. You can find book reviews under the “Other Features” drop down menu on our website.

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December 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “My Father’s Letters.” An essay by Asena McKeown from River Teeth issue 27.1

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December 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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✨“I’d been puttering around—making coffee, feeding the dogs—before I noticed it: a barred owl perched on a branch right outside my kitchen window.”
-from “The Owl Mother,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Anne Giordano

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December 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “Almost Thirty” An essay by Rachel Weaver from River Teeth issue 20.2

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November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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✨“I watch the log inch closer to the pointed wedge, and wait in anticipation as it’s squeezed. It fights the pressure, but eventually splinters open with a loud pop and cracks down the middle.”
-from “A Splinter in Time,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Alex Kincaid

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November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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✨ A new River Teeth Revisited is online today!

This week, Roman Hughes brings to us: The Power of Extended Metaphor in Sophie Ezzell’s “While You Are Walking With a Boy You Find a Duck” from RT 23.2

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November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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✨Take some time this Tuesday to read, “The Tree.” An essay by Nicholas Dighiera from River Teeth issue 24.1.

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November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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✨ 🗣️ Exciting News! River Teeth has teamed up with IPR to bring to listeners a new series called “Beautiful Things” as part of their Pop of Culture programming.

✨ This week, Beautiful Things is revisiting, "Jumping in Leaves," by Joseph Gross, aired 10/17 on Pop of Culture.
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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✨🗣️Seasons are changing and River Teeth 27.1 is now available!

✨Subscribe via our Submittable page, or enjoy it via ProjectMUSE. Happy reading!

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November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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✨A glimpse into the pages of, “Koi.” An essay by Helen Wallace from River Teeth 15.1

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November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM