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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · 4d

The next Michael Waters Poetry Prize collection, Nicole Lachat's The Red We Silk, has been uploaded to the printer! The amazing cover artist is Benjamin Shine: www.benjaminshine.com

The release date is February 23, 2026. Reviewers wanted!

southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · 18d

Today's the day!

Poetry reading with Ruth Awad and Natalie Louise Tombasco

4:30 pm

USI Performance Center

southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · 25d

Two Michael Waters Poetry Prize winners, Ruth Awad and Natalie Louise Tombasco, will be on campus one week from today...come join us!

southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · 27d

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Aug 14

Southern Indiana Review poetry editor, Rosalie Moffett, in The Adroit Journal spotlight!

theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

A Conversation with Rosalie Moffett

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Aug 8

The final spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Visitation” by Michael Waters:

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Aug 7

The next spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Randall James Tyrone's “Styx”:

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Aug 6

Today's spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Needle” by Sappho Stanley:

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Aug 5

The next spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Diana Keren Lee's “Land of the Morning Calm”:

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today's spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Bakandamiya XVI” by Saddiq Dzukogi:

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Aug 1

The next spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Adam Clay's “A Photograph of a Grain of Salt”:

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Instagram: @tomakeroomforthesea

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Jul 31

Today's spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Verge” by Lauren Camp:

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Instagram: @laurencamp

southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Jul 30

The next spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Tommye Blount's “To wring out a trill—like the robed girls”:

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Instagram: @tommyeblount

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Jul 29

Today's spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “New Baroque Derangement” by Gabrielle Bates:

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Jul 28

The first spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Jada Renée Allen's “From The Homan Square Project”:

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Jul 11

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 33: Stella Wong

Stella Wong is the author of Stem; Spooks, winner of the Saturnalia Books Editors Prize; and American Zero, selected for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize.

www.stella-wong.com

Instagram: @stellayinwong

southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Jul 11

Douglas Kearney's “There’s no ‘sass’ in ‘dissociation.’” (fall 2024 issue) in the Poets.Poets.org spotlight!

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Jul 10

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 32: Michael Waters

Michael Waters has published fourteen books of poetry, most recently Sinnerman, Caw, and The Dean of Discipline. Pagan Sky: New & Selected Poems 2000-2025 is forthcoming in 2026.

www.michael-waters.com

southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Jul 9

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 31: Randall James Tyrone

Randall James Tyrone holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming. His forthcoming collection, City of Dis, will be released in fall 2025 by Texas Review Press.

Instagram: @randalljamestyrone

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Jul 9

Could there be a better visiting gig than to be in Memphis for a year with Emily Skaja and Marcus Wicker?

Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (Fiction)

All applications will be managed through the University’s online application system, WorkForUM, available at workforum.memphis.edu

southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Jul 8

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 30: Ajibola Tolase

Ajibola Tolase is a Nigerian poet and essayist. He is the author of 2000 Blacks, winner of the 2024 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Florida Book Award in poetry.

www.ajibolatolase.com

Instagram: @jibo_jhybo

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Jul 7

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 29: Alison Thumel

Alison Thumel’s debut poetry collection, Architect, won the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2025 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

www.alisonthumel.com
Instagram: @al.thum

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southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Jul 4

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 28: Sappho Stanley

Sappho Stanley (They/She) is a trans Appalachian poet. You can find their work in or forthcoming from AGNI, Waxwing, and Mississippi Review, among others.

Instagram: @sapphostanley

southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Jul 3

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 27: Karen Solie

Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan. Her sixth collection of poems, Wellwater, is forthcoming in the U.S. with Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

southerninreview.bsky.social @southerninreview.bsky.social · Jul 2

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 26: Kathryn Savage

Kathryn Savage is the author of Groundglass: An Essay. Her work has appeared in Ecotone, Guernica, Poets.org, and Virginia Quarterly Review.

www.kathrynsavage.com
Instagram: @kdsreads