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Nora Hikari / Sizhen System @systemwires.bsky.social · 1h

I love all of my children equally, but where STILL MY FATHER'S SON is concerned with blades, scalpels, knives, the paring away of identity to reveal what is left behind, TMHDOTTC concerns itself with explosive force: fusion weapons, fists colliding, bursting blood vessels, curses, vengeance.

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The cover for Nora Hikari's THE MOST HOLY DAY OF THE TRANSSEXUAL CALENDAR

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 5h

In Albert Abonado’s JAW, “America pulls a splinter out of a child’s hand, a man hides beneath a body to avoid Japanese soldiers, and God eats spam, white rice, and a fried egg.”

Read poetry from @sundresspub.bsky.social this #FAHM:
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In JAW, America pulls a splinter out of a child’s hand, a man hides beneath a body to avoid Japanese soldiers, and God eats spam, white rice, and a fried egg. Giving us an inside look into…

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 6h

thank you @anmlymag.bsky.social / @sarahclark.bsky.social for making space for autistic protest poetry & inviting me to introduce the issue. as i read through these works, i feel i can see the future of our craft.

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The small something could be a creature, perhaps a technology. Maybe, in more abstract terms, a political orientation or set of social norms. Looking back, I now understand “A small something” as part of a larger body of autistic poetic work, which, in my view, are always and already “protesting” neuronormative creative and political frameworks. Thinking back to the misleading figure of the savant and this demand for autistic exceptionality, it seems to me that to impute autistic life into our creative practices, to document it as it exists and not as our neurotypical counterparts with it were, then we must turn to a form prepared to resist normative grammars and restrictive relationships to language, activity, and achievement. After all, these very restrictions—this sociocultural “common sense”—are what got us into this mess in the first place: demands for tact over honesty, ambiguity over courage.

Instead, I want live in a poetics which refuses common sense, a poetics of autism.

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 7h

Sundress Publications is pleased to announce the acquisition of Hannah V Warren’s Hurricane Pastoral. Warren’s collection is slated for publication in January 2027. www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/10...

New Aquisition Hannah V Warren's Hurricane Pastorl

Originally from Mississippi, Hannah V Warren is a poet, translator, and scholar living between Birmingham, AL, and Gambier, OH, as the Kenyon Review Fellow. Along with authoring the poetry collection Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales (2024) and two chapbooks, she has received support from Fulbright-Germany, the PEN/Heim Translation Grant, Bread Loaf, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her writing has appeared in Gulf Coast, Passages North, and Denver Quarterly, among others. Warren’s writing and research often explore the intersections of gender and perceived monstrosity. She has a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Georgia.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

For Teachers & Writers Magazine, I wrote about my challenges as a disabled, neurodivergent student in the writing classroom, my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE, and ways teachers can reimagine the classroom for greater access.

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Embodied Spaces - Teachers & Writers Magazine

Reimagining the creative writing classroom for disabled access.

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 1d

Learn about the cultural influences that led to Tassneem Abdulwahab becoming a writer and Sundress intern in her introductory post on our blog! sundressblog.com/2025/10/07/m...

Meet Our New Intern: Tassneem Abdulwahab - The Sundress Blog

The urge to write was not an ever-present companion in the early years of my life. It was more like a slow-rolling epiphany, sweeter, more instinctive, like a hard-earned deduction I had arrived at th...

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to announce the guests for our LGBTQ+ History Month reading event, writers [sarah] Cavar, Jasmine Flowers, and Ran Brady. Join us October 22nd at Pretentious Beer Co. from 7:00-9:00 PM for a reading followed by an open mic for queer writers! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/10...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 2d

Curious about the workshop community of SmokeLong Fitness? You can give it a test drive in Nov/Dec. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...

Try SmokeLong Fitness - SmokeLong Quarterly

Are you curious about the community workshop of SmokeLong Fitness but don’t know if you can commit to a year without a peek behind the curtain? You can try SmokeLong Fitness in November and December 2...

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 2d

Several works from Sundress Publications were honored on CLMP's reading list for Filipino American History Month 2025! Check out the full list at the link below. www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

A Reading List for Filipino American History Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For Filipino American History Month, observed annually during the month of October, we asked our member presses and literary magazines to share some of the literature by Filipino American writers they...

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 3d

Do you shop at Kroger? If so, consider taking a moment to make Sundress Publications your community partner with organization code VQ983. www.kroger.com/signin?redir...

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 4d

We are open for submissions for our annual poetry broadside contest! Submit up to three poems for a chance to win $200 and 20 copies of your letterpress-printed broadside! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/09...

Sundress Publications Broadside Contest open for submissions. Deadline November 30, 2025

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 5d

“Go with the poet to language and ‘taste the iron and salt in the origin of words.’ Then read it again and again; let the objects and the poet’s eye reveal more than you knew was there.” -Farnaz Fatemi www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps/glos...

GlossogenesisCynthia White - Sundress Publications

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 5d

A prism, a dreamscape, and a river… Rogue Agent 127 is here! Featuring poetry by Barbara Daniels, Valarie Hastings, Elizabeth Sochko Hussain, Margaret Anne Kean, Susan Milchman, Emily Patterson, Sabyasachi Roy, Miriam Sagan, Julie Wong, and Joshua Zeitler. www.rogueagentjournal.com/issue127

The background is black and crimson. A white shape like a pen nib or a needle tip arises in the center. This white shape is covered with three red and diagonal stripes, as if the nib is wrapped in a red streamer, by abstract design in black, and by three triangular patches of color. The words “SHARP” and “EDGES” appear (in black font on a yellow background) on either side of the nib’s tip. A brown spiral hovers near the middle of the nib on its right side. The word “books” appears upside-down and reversed (and in white) at its center.

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 6d

Donna Vorreyer, author of Unrivered and other Sundress titles, recently appeared on the @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social podcast to discuss writing the Liturgy of the Body and creating giving communities in the arts. ofpoetrypodcast.com/2025/09/24/e...

Episode 78: Donna Vorreyer (Of Unrivering, Writing the Liturgy of the Body, and Creating Giving Communities in the Arts)

Donna Vorreyer, author of Unrivered (Sundress Publications, 2025) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Read: “Dysmorphia (Autumn)” at Harpur Palate Purchase: Unrivered (Sund…

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much to Grist and Dr. Kelsey L. Smoot for this beautiful review of Bess Cooley's Florence! gristjournal.com/2025/10/flor...

Florence by Bess Cooley - Grist

What Remains: Memory and Erasure in Bess Cooley’s Florence Reviewed by Dr. Kelsey L. SmootSundress Publications, October 15th, 2024Paperback, 78 pages, $16 Everything in Bess Cooley’s Florence is borr...

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 7d

In this installment of #SundressReads, Catie Macauley reads and reviews Emilia Phillips’ collection Nonbinary Bird of Paradise, available now from the University of Akron Press! sundressblog.com/2025/09/30/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of Nonbinary Bird of Paradise - The Sundress Blog

In Emilia Phillips’ Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (The University of Akron Press, 2024), God is many things: they are “a knot / that knows how to untie itself,” “the first/war,” a “voyeur, who gave / [t...

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 7d

Happy publication week to @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Unrivered (@sundresspub.bsky.social)! 🎉🎉🎉

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/efda5033

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 7d

The Best of the Net is looking for volunteer readers for its 2026 issue! Find out more here: bestofthenetanthology.com/work-with-us...

Best of the Net is seeking volunteer readers - 10 to 20 submissions per week - Apply by 11/1/25

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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 8d

🎉Congratulations to our 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestOfTheNet Nominations! 🎉

Poetry: "Punctuation, Accent, Marks" by Laura Cesarco Eglin; "Taking Up the Cause of Hallelujah" by Jeff Hardin; "a person in my grief group shares about hummingbirds" by Mikey Jones; "Over and Over" by Hiram Larew; "Monarchs" by Gregory Lobas; "Earth Will Curve You to Its Orbit" by Annette Sisson

Fiction: "No Ponyboy" by Faithna Geffrard; "Artificial Intelligence" by Kathleen Reeves

Nonfiction: "Going Back to Miami" by Gustavo Pérez Firmat; "Love in the Time of Dementia" by Cynthia Stock

Photography: Sean Sexton, Kiko Salazar, and Gordon Johnston

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Postcard @postcardlit.bsky.social · 8d

You definitely want to pick up this new collection from issue 1 contributor and all-around-amazing poet Donna Vorreyer!

Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 8d

Happy release day to @djvorreyer.bsky.social whose fourth full-length collection, Unrivered, is now available from Sundress Publications!
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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 9d

look! it is a Dogwitch!

many thanks to nat raum and @sundresspub.bsky.social

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The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: Dogwitch by Catherine Rockwood - The Sundress Blog

This selection, chosen by guest editor nat raum, is from Dogwitch by Catherine Rockwood (Bottlecap Press, 2025). Trouble You big messy houndyou bad bitch. I delightin your mid-air lollopyour ear-flapp...

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 8d

Happy release day to @djvorreyer.bsky.social whose fourth full-length collection, Unrivered, is now available from Sundress Publications!
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 8d

Erin W. Elkins (she/her) is the author of two chapbooks, Bottomland from Sundress Publications and Station of Rain from dancing girl press. A seventh-generation Hoosier, Erin was raised in southern Indiana and now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 10d

Anyone ready for a new book on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor @djvorreyer.bsky.social has a new poetry collection coming out next week from @sundresspub.bsky.social 😍 You can still pre-order: buff.ly/2SEJlXW

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