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Christopher Nelson
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Author of, most recently, Windshear (Jacar 2024), Fugitive (Diagram 2024), and Blood Aria (Wisconsin 2021). PSA fellow and Amy Lowell Traveling Scholar. Editor and Publisher at Green Linden Press. www.christophernelson.info
Join us tonight, 8:00 p.m. (Central)!
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November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Spilt by Jordan Stempleman is now available! Winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize for poetic innovation. Join Green Linden Press for a reading tonight (Sept. 18 at 8 p.m., Central). Register here: tinyurl.com/2h83ehfb
And get your book here: www.greenlindenpress.com/books/spilt
September 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Poets, Green Linden Press is reading manuscripts!
greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit
August 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Less than one week remains to submit proposals for the $2500 Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship: greenlindenpress.com/submit
June 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
NO WAR. "Good Faith" by Hasan Alizadeh (translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould). www.greenlindenpress.com/books/poetry... #iran
June 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
End the war. "Pattern" by Garous Abdolmalekian (translated by Ahmad Nadalizadeh & Idra Novey)
www.greenlindenpress.com/books/poetry...
June 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Happy to share my interview with the inimitable Monica Ong on her new book Planetaria.
www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...
April 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'm excited to be reading poems with the amazing Lise Goett! Join us on April 15 (8 central / 7 mountain) on Zoom as we celebrate our recent publications! Register here: tinyurl.com/mvw4vjff
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April 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Stock Market Diptych: 1: I told you to never trust a man who rides a golden escalator! 2: We the got the grifteds' blues.
April 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I'm excited to be reading poems with the amazing Lise Goett! Join us on April 15 (8 central / 7 mountain) on Zoom as we celebrate our recent publications! Register here: tinyurl.com/mvw4vjff
April 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Green Linden Press is reading poetry chapbook manuscripts for one more week!
greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit
March 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Editors & aspiring editors!:

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship gives an editor the resources and assistance to bring an anthology into the world. Previous editorial experience is not required. There is no application fee.
greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit
February 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Join us for a reading and mini writing workshop!
February 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Get your laughs when you can! This is from my kids’ book.
February 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Another reason to support independent presses: keep the vibrant literary cultural alive. Co-opting and dictating artistic vision is a hallmark of non-democratic governments and institutions of power—all of them, all the way back in history. #NEA
February 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Poets, translators—take note!

greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit

We'd love to read your poetry, poetry in translation, lyrical prose, visual poetry, etc. Our tastes are eclectic. We intend to publish one or more manuscripts from this open-reading period. Guidelines at link above.
February 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I reviewed Here to Stay, which gives voice to 52 undocumented, or once undocumented, poets. Their rebuttal to the Trumpian zeitgeist are invaluable.
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January 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Join us! tinyurl.com/37cux8nv

JoAnne McFarland reads her award-winning poems from American Graphic!

Wed., Dec. 11, 12:00 p.m. (Eastern)

More info about the new book here: www.greenlindenpress.com/books/americ...
December 10, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Join us! tinyurl.com/fwvj2fkc

Rebecca Seiferle reads her award-winning translations of Lorca!

Wed., Dec. 11, 8 p.m. (central time)

More info about the new book here: greenlindenpress.com/books/the-dr...
December 10, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Many thanks to Jacar Press for bringing Windshear into the world! jacarpress.com/windshear/

"These poems see straight through to the actual, at once unflinching and tender. ‘I’ve been,’ he writes, ‘patient for the real words.’ How lucky we are to receive them now." —Leila Chatti
December 4, 2024 at 2:19 PM
LAST CHANCE, poets and translators! The Wishing Jewel Prize for poetic innovation, the Stephen Mitchell Prize for excellence in translation, and Green Linden Press's full-length ms open-reading period end at midnight Central time.
greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit
November 30, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Four days remain to send a manuscript for this year's Wishing Jewel Prize. Named for an essay in Anne Carson's seminal book Plainwater, the Prize honors poetic innovation. Winner receives $1000; all finalists considered for publication. greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit
November 26, 2024 at 3:20 PM
From Green Linden Press's Stephen Mitchell Translation Series. Translators with a ms—in any genre—submissions accepted thru Nov 30. $1000 to the winner. All finalists considered for publication.
greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit
#translation #literarytranslation #writingdeadlines
November 22, 2024 at 3:35 PM