CIRCLING RIVERS AUGUST 2023

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Reviews are so very important (and hard to get) for small presses! Whether you’re a blogger or a journalist (or both) – we have a limited number of print review copies available for TRAVELERS: POEMS, by David Michael Belczyk and LOVE’S FINGERPRINTS: POEMS, by Bernard Horn. We have digital (PDF) copies available for all our titles. Contact us to claim your ARC. (If you want a print review copy of Travelers or Love’s Fingerprints, please include your mailing address as well.)

NEWS

Nina Murray | Nina will be judging this year’s Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize. Submissions accepted August 15, 2023 to December 1, 2023. Info 

Bryan R. Monte’s collection ON THE LEVEL: POEMS ON LIVING WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS garnered positive reviews at South Florida Poetry Journal (Nov 2022) and The Friend

CR WRITERS

Bryan R. Monte |  “Why I Didn’t Use the Backdoor” and “The Way You Left” with audio files in thirtieth, online issue of South Florida Poetry Journal

Kenneth Pobo | “Ambulances,” “Bobolinko Lost, Found, And In Between,” Illuminations, Summer, No. 38 (print) | “Stopping By,” One Art (June) | “Jim’s House Of Shoes After Closing Time,” “Motel,“ South Florida Poetry Journal (August, No. 30)

Jean Huets |  Review of Before All the World, by Moriel Rothman-Zecher, at Historical Novel Society

Erin Wilson | Two poems in the anthology Stained: An Anthology of Writing about Menstruation. Querencia Press | “Sword,” The Antigonish Review (no. 212) link | “Still Life with Six Persimmons,” Riddle Fence #49, link