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Acre Books, the small press offshoot of The Cincinnati Review, brings you volumes of beautifully crafted, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. www.acre-books.com
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⭐ review for TERMINAL SURREAL! @marthasilano.bsky.social "incorporates science & nature imagery in a mischievous & moving verse account of her final years with ALS: the shock & sorrow of a terminal diagnosis eased by the quotidian pleasures of observing the Pacific Northwest." @shelf-awareness.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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M. Cynthia Cheung ♥️

from COMMON DISASTER (Acre Books)

I absolutely love this poem!

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Still Life The backyard foxes are lean this winter, and the birds bright. Most days I can't bring myself to do anything but watch the vixen root for something. A run of good days means I'll spend hours rearranging the pantry, as if preparing to paint a Dutch still life. All that's missing is a milkmaid. Or a dead bird. My dress, wrinkled and sleeveless, is nothing like the sky. The foxes grow thinner, and I wonder whether I should feed them, though I don't really know what they eat. Nights stretch and I sleep little, but it's the days, the sun at four o'clock, that are the most difficult-when the movement of clouds appears full of peril. People once drilled holes into other people's skulls, just to let that darkness out.
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Today's miCRo is a retelling of a classic fairy tale.

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Quote from Loehle: "So, tonight I'm going to tell you a different story, one about the wolf, and this is not a mean wolf or a sneaky wolf or even a hungry wolf..." Side profile of Zack Fox Loehle, who is wearing a black button-up shirt.
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Congrats to Acre author @moshezmarvit.bsky.social whose #novel, NOTHING VAST, has been recognized by the prestigious @thewingateprize.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky
thewingateprize.bsky.social The Wingate Prize @thewingateprize.bsky.social · 8d
We're delighted to announce the longlist for this year's prize. Congratulations to all of the authors and their publishers
The Einstein of Sex by Daniel Brook (WW Norton) Chopping Onions on my Heart by Samantha Ellis (Chatto and Windus) Chutzpah! A Memoir of Faith, Sexuality and Daring to Stay by Yehudis Fletcher (Transworld) City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter (Dialogue Books) Berlin Atomized by Julia Kornberg (Astra House) Fear No Pharaoh by Richard Kreitner (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Nothing Vast by Moshe Zvi Marvit (Acre Books) Ripeness by Sarah Moss (Picador) Letters by Oliver Sacks, edited by Kate Edgar (Picador) Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart (Atlantic) Family Romance by Jean Strouse (Farrar, Strous & Giroux) The Gates of Gaza by Amir Tibon (Little Brown)
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Congrats to Acre #poet M. Cynthia Cheung on the publication of COMMON DISASTER! 🎉🎉🎉 Order your copy at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo....
Common Disaster
A remarkable debut collection that chronicles the experience of anxiety and anguish in the face of COVID-19. As a front-line physician, M. Cynthia Cheung started writing poetry during the worst days o...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"I hope people with chronic conditions can see themselves and their family members in these characters and see the humor and the resilience in them as well." New interview with Acre author @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social! #bluesky #novel 📚🎉
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Growing Up Alongside a Sibling With Disabilities
A new novel explores what happens when one twin is born with significant challenges.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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M. Cynthia Cheung’s "COMMON DISASTER is a timely collection, offering reflection & guidance for the crises experienced in common, both large & small. With an ethos born of personal experience..." New review via @theshorepoetry.bsky.social www.theshorepoetry.org/shore-things 📚🎉 #poetry
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Congrats to Acre author @moshezmarvit.bsky.social whose #novel, NOTHING VAST, has been recognized by the prestigious @thewingateprize.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky
thewingateprize.bsky.social The Wingate Prize @thewingateprize.bsky.social · 8d
We're delighted to announce the longlist for this year's prize. Congratulations to all of the authors and their publishers
The Einstein of Sex by Daniel Brook (WW Norton) Chopping Onions on my Heart by Samantha Ellis (Chatto and Windus) Chutzpah! A Memoir of Faith, Sexuality and Daring to Stay by Yehudis Fletcher (Transworld) City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter (Dialogue Books) Berlin Atomized by Julia Kornberg (Astra House) Fear No Pharaoh by Richard Kreitner (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Nothing Vast by Moshe Zvi Marvit (Acre Books) Ripeness by Sarah Moss (Picador) Letters by Oliver Sacks, edited by Kate Edgar (Picador) Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart (Atlantic) Family Romance by Jean Strouse (Farrar, Strous & Giroux) The Gates of Gaza by Amir Tibon (Little Brown)
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Fantastic to see Acre's THIS FIERCE BLOOD (Malia Márquez) included on the list! 🎉🎉🎉 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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ICYMI! 🎉🎉🎉
acrebooks.bsky.social Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · Oct 6
Cover reveal! It's 1864 and Robert Riley has deserted his Army of the Potomac. Follow him from war-torn #Virginia to the shadowy streets of #Chicago. A tale of loyalty and survival, DESERTERS will leave you breathless. Preorder Jerry Gabriel's #novel at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 🎉📚 #booksky
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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"I am myself/a crime."

This week's miCRo by Stella Wong makes possible an array of transformations.

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An excerpt from Stella Wong's poem: "I am myself/a crime." An Asian American woman with her hair parted to the side, smiling.
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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"I hope people with chronic conditions can see themselves and their family members in these characters and see the humor and the resilience in them as well." New interview with Acre author @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social! #bluesky #novel 📚🎉
www.healthcentral.com/chronic-heal...
Growing Up Alongside a Sibling With Disabilities
A new novel explores what happens when one twin is born with significant challenges.
www.healthcentral.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Acre author @marthasilano.bsky.social (TERMINAL SURREAL) on @slowdownshow.org! #poetry 🎉🎉🎉
slowdownshow.org The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 16d
“Today’s poem unexpectedly merges the playfulness of anagrams with the gravitas of a terminal diagnosis — the weight of reckoning with the end of one’s life," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1388.

Read “When I learn Catastrophically " by the late Martha Silano: bit.ly/43SNIA9
A text graphic featuring a portion of the poem "When I learn Catastrophically," written by the late Martha Silano. It reads: The sky does all sorts of marvelously uncatastrophic things that winter I shimmy between science & song, between widgeons & windows, weather & its invitation to walk. Walking, which becomes my lose less, my less morsels, my lose smile while more sore looms. Sometimes I wander for hours, my mile pace over half an hour, everyone passing the lady at dusk talking to herself about looming rooms, soil lies, ire & else. Chuckling about my mileage gone down the toilet, I plant the rose of before, the oil of after. A photograph of the late poet Martha Silano. She is a middle-aged woman with long, wavy brown-grey hair and clear-rimmed glasses. She is photographed outside, with leaves/trees behind her.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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V. Hansmann, "Innkeeper" at Prospect Street Writers House, tells us what it takes to run a residency for writers.

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V. Hansmann sitting outside on a white rocking chair. His unbuttoned white shirt opens to reveal a grey T-shirt underneath.
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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We're just a few days out from the publication of COMMON DISASTER! Take a sneak peek below and preorder your copy of M. Cynthia Cheung's #poetry collection at acre-books.com/titles/commo...! 🎉🎉🎉
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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ICYMI! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky
acrebooks.bsky.social Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · Oct 2
Cover reveal! A collection of fourteen #stories interweaving the lives of three generations in the remote town of Neptune, #Vermont. A THOUSAND SOULS by #CatherineTudish. Preorder your copy at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 🍁📚🎉
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Poem from “BAD MEXICAN, BAD AMERICAN.”
October 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Thank you, @electricliterature.com for letting me shout out my favorite comic novels about disability, including work by Stanley Elkin, Saou Ichikawa, Cy Weise, Madeleine Ryan,
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October 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Malia Márquez’s THIS FIERCE BLOOD “combines magical realism with themes of maternal ancestral inheritance, and also explores the ways Hispano/Indigenous traditions both conflicted and wove together.”

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This Fierce Blood | Acre Books
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November 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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"My mother could swallow insults whole like a crocodile."

Georgi Bargamian's miCRo enchants with its incantatory, riddle-like charms, swirling from line to line. Link in thread.
"My mother could swallow insults whole like a crocodile." From "Escapology" by Georgi Bargamian
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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ICYMI! 🎉🎉🎉
acrebooks.bsky.social Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · Oct 6
Cover reveal! It's 1864 and Robert Riley has deserted his Army of the Potomac. Follow him from war-torn #Virginia to the shadowy streets of #Chicago. A tale of loyalty and survival, DESERTERS will leave you breathless. Preorder Jerry Gabriel's #novel at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 🎉📚 #booksky
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Acre author @marthasilano.bsky.social (TERMINAL SURREAL) on @slowdownshow.org! #poetry 🎉🎉🎉
slowdownshow.org The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 16d
“Today’s poem unexpectedly merges the playfulness of anagrams with the gravitas of a terminal diagnosis — the weight of reckoning with the end of one’s life," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1388.

Read “When I learn Catastrophically " by the late Martha Silano: bit.ly/43SNIA9
A text graphic featuring a portion of the poem "When I learn Catastrophically," written by the late Martha Silano. It reads: The sky does all sorts of marvelously uncatastrophic things that winter I shimmy between science & song, between widgeons & windows, weather & its invitation to walk. Walking, which becomes my lose less, my less morsels, my lose smile while more sore looms. Sometimes I wander for hours, my mile pace over half an hour, everyone passing the lady at dusk talking to herself about looming rooms, soil lies, ire & else. Chuckling about my mileage gone down the toilet, I plant the rose of before, the oil of after. A photograph of the late poet Martha Silano. She is a middle-aged woman with long, wavy brown-grey hair and clear-rimmed glasses. She is photographed outside, with leaves/trees behind her.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Fantastic to see Acre's THIS FIERCE BLOOD (Malia Márquez) included on the list! 🎉🎉🎉 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.
A miniature basset hound stands in front of a miniature bone in the middle of a palm of a hand. A thought bubble with a drawing of a dog reading a book hovers above its head.
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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ICYMI! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky
acrebooks.bsky.social Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · Oct 2
Cover reveal! A collection of fourteen #stories interweaving the lives of three generations in the remote town of Neptune, #Vermont. A THOUSAND SOULS by #CatherineTudish. Preorder your copy at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 🍁📚🎉
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM