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This year’s contest will be judged by Rick Barot.

Rick Barot's most recent book of poems is Moving the Bones, published by Milkweed Editions in 2024. His previous collection, The Galleons, was longlisted for the National Book Award.

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November 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM

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BURNSIDE REVIEW PRESS
BOOK CONTEST
JUDGE: RICK BAROT
SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOVEMBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 2025.

November 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM

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📣 review of samodh Porawagamage’s becoming sam
Thanks @sundresspub.bsky.social

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October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM

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June 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM

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June 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM

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June 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM

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Happy Pride Month!!!❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Celebrate with us in supporting LGBTQ+ writers, artists and community - - check out our catalog (🔗 in bio)

Kyle Marbut
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June 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM

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📣 BURNSIDE REVIEW CHAPBOOK CONTEST - - Submissions will be open until June 30th!!!

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June 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM

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We are pleased to announce that @anandalima.bsky.social has selected Jake Bauer’s manuscript The Universe Thinks about Anger Management as the winner of the 2024 Burnside Review Press Book Award. Look for it in 2026!

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May 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM

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becoming sam by Samodh Porawagamage (Burnside Review Press, 2024)

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May 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM

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🎉🎉 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY Kyle Marbut and Black Swan Theory 🦢!! 🎉🎉

📣📖Winner of the 2023 Burnside Review Press Book Award, selected by Arda Collins.

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May 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM

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🎉🎉 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY Ali Black and We Look Better Alive!!🎉🎉

Ali Black is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of We Look Better Alive (Burnside Review Press, 2025) and If It Heals at All (Jacar Press, 2020).

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April 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM

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Black Swan Theory by Kyle Marbut (Burnside Review Press, May 8 2025)

Preorder your copy today!
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April 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM

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“Kyle Marbut's Black Swan Theory houses endless light and a gigantic material world but ‘Doom, too, is a hunger.’ And crazy things happen. A statue of a river is beheaded. Bees hive in the poet’s head. The poet doesn’t know which they want more …”
—Lesle Lewis

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April 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM

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CHECK IT OUT!!
We Look Better Alive by Ali Black
APRIL 28, 2025

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“What really fascinates me about Ali Black’s We Look Better Alive is how it complicates our understanding of dying. There are literal deaths scattered throughout the book: funerals for a mother, for a father-in-law, reports of a grandmother’s passing, a friend’s. And yet this collection seems most concerned about the metaphorical deaths Black women experience in their quest for beauty and acceptance. From doctor’s offices, to school classrooms, and even to the social media pages of female celebrities, Black leads us through a museum of death, demonstrates how society robs Black women of life at every turn.”
—Taylor Byas

April 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM

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PREORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!! ➡️📖🔗 in bio

Black Swan Theory by Kyle Marbut
May 8, 2025
Winner of the 2023 Burnside Review Press Book Award, selected by Arda Collins.

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“Black Swan Theory is a book of feral originality. In scenarios as vivid
and odd as Ovid’s, Kyle Marbut’s prose poems offer tales of eros,
abjection, and transformation through love. No scene is too strange
a sensorium for this kinky and queer and visionary poet, who continually
treads the line between apophatic vision and surrealist dream. If ecstasy
offers a way out of oneself, and paradox offers an escape from logic,
Marbut writes with abandon ‘Till the bright pours in, overflows, and I am
nothing left to see.’ I’m in awe of this singular new talent.”
—Brian Teare

April 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM

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We Look Better Alive by Ali Black
APRIL 28, 2025

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April 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM

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Black Swan Theory by Kyle Marbut

Kyle Marbut is the author of Black Swan Theory, selected by Arda Collins as the winner of the 2023 Burnside Review Press Book Award. A writer and bookmaker from Ohio, they live in Richmond, Virginia.

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April 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for our #AWP2025 offsite poetry event at Bar Henry in Echo Park. Our authors samodH Porawagamage, Ali Black and @kaileepedersen.bsky.social crushed it reading from their books 📚 And thanks to @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social and Saturnalia Books for co-hosting!!

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