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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · 10h

Abbie Kiefer’s CERTAIN SHELTER is one of three New Hampshire Literary Award finalists in poetry! 🤩 Winners will be announced at a ceremony on October 18. Check out the full list here: nhwritersproject.org/finalists-an...

Finalists Announced for the 2025 New Hampshire Literary Awards - New Hampshire Writers’ Project

The New Hampshire Writers’ Project (NHWP) is proud to announce the finalists for the 16th Biennial New Hampshire Literary Awards, recognizing outstanding works written by or about New Hampshire. These...

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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!

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Southern Review of Books @southrevbooks.bsky.social · 6d

"Ardery’s debut is both a memoir of survival and a meditation on what it means to carry weight — literal and metaphorical — and to keep walking anyway."

@sara-eastler.bsky.social reviews LEVEL WATCH by Mary Ardery. @juneroadpress.bsky.social

Debut Collection Captures the Struggle of Carrying Physical and Emotional Weight

Mary Ardery’s debut poetry collection draws from her experience as a wilderness guide for women recovering from addiction.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 16d

Perugia out here doing such good and beautiful work 🙏🎉🎉🎉 We are big fans. (We are POETRY BARN-SIZED FANS, haha 😉)

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 16d

How long since you ordered/bought a book directly from a small press?

This morning, for me 🙈💙📚✨

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Apostasies - Perugia Press

Holli Carrell’s debut collection Apostasies explores Mormon girlhood, the American West, matriarchal lineage, indoctrination, estrangement, and the lingering ramifications of being raised within a rep...

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Philly Poetry Chapbook Review @phillychapbook.bsky.social · 16d

New #poetry #books from Carcanet Press, Grid Books, Nightboat Books, Brick Books, @juneroadpress.bsky.social, Copper Canyon Press, @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social, W. W. Norton, Red Hen Press, University of Nevada Press & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

New Poetry Titles (9/23/25)

Check out new poetry books for the week of 9/23 from Carnegie Mellon University Press, Carcanet Press, Grid Books, Nightboat Books, Green Linden Press, Brick Books, June Road Press, Green Writers Pres...

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 16d

Happiest of joint publication days to FIELD NOTES by E.G. Cunningham and ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD by Jameela F. Dallis! 🎉🎉🎉

We could not be prouder of our fall titles and their authors. Congratulations, Liz and Jameela!

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Liz Cunningham holding a copy of Field Notes in a soft pastel light

Jameela Dallis sitting at a desk, shelves behind her, in a pink and silver dress, Encounters propped in the foreground

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 16d

We are also SO happy to share a publication day today with @juneroadpress.bsky.social, another incredible small press with a tremendous editor in Sara Arnold.

Mary Ardery’s Level Watch is out today! 🎉🎉🎉

www.juneroadpress.com/level-watch

Level Watch — June Road Press

A poetry collection by Mary Ardery

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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · 16d

@mardery.bsky.social 🥳

June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · 16d

It’s pub day for Level Watch! If you appreciate narrative poetry with a strong sense of place that deeply engages with the wilderness, this book will move you, whether you’re familiar with the Blue Ridge backdrop or want to let these pages transport you there. More at juneroadpress.com/level-watch!✨

Level Watch — June Road Press

A poetry collection by Mary Ardery

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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · 20d

🥰 Back at you!

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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · Sep 9

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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · Sep 9

Join us for a cozy Sunday-night virtual craft chat on 9/28 to celebrate the launch of Level Watch in two weeks, featuring Abbie Kiefer! Register at bit.ly/level-watch-launch ✨

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Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social · Aug 15

Summer reading: CERTAIN SHELTER by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2024). Here are poems for a mother, “All These Things I Can’t Remember” & a father, “I Don’t Like Baseball, Just the Red Sox.” I recommend the @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social about this incredible debut. ♥️

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thanks to @sundresspub.bsky.social and guest editor Alexis Ivy for featuring poems from CERTAIN SHELTER as part of The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed this week. @juneroadpress.bsky.social sundressblog.com/2025/07/28/t...

The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: Certain Shelter by Abbie Kiefer - The Sundress Blog

This selection, chosen by guest editor Alexis Ivy, is from Certain Shelter by Abbie Kiefer (June Road Press 2024). A Brief History of Yankee Thrift, Yankee Ingenuity, and Yankee Work Ethic To make. To...

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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · Jul 16

✨Cover reveal!✨ Our second fall title, Mother, Daughter, Augur, comes out the week of Halloween. It’s a lush, dark, dreamlike book about women and love and bodies and stories and time. Ways to preorder, blurbs, audio clips, pictures, a playlist, and more at juneroadpress.com/mother-daughter-augur!

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NewPages @newpages.bsky.social · Jul 12

Jami Macarty reviews 'Songs for the Land-Bound' by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, poems that navigate motherhood, marriage, and aging through contrasting forms.

https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/booksongs-for-the-land-bound-by-violeta-garcia-mendoza/
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Books Received - January 26, 2012 :: The NewPages Guide to Indie & University Presses

Discover Books Received - January 26, 2012 at the NewPages.com Guide to Independent and University Presses.

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · Jun 26

"The boomerang released / for its returning"
I so love the images, the sounds, the line-breaks &&& in this & so many other poems from @violetagm.bsky.social's SONGS FOR THE LAND-BOUND (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2024)!
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#poetry #bookSky 📚💙

Cover of Songs for the Landbound shows a detail of J. B. Kidd's copy of J.J. Audubon's Rose-Breasted Grosbeak: partial view of two mostly black and white birds, one with open wings, the other just the head, both about to pick a red berry from a conifer (probably American Yew), against a grayish-white background

Naming Absence

The ache at the incision, ghost stitch sewn
illuminant over the scar; loss hemmed
and let down and re-hemmed.
The hollow its won throat.
Rot's petal curl, collapse, pressed scent;
the fog's uneven dissipation; fall's
specific dusk. Shades of eggshell; an unbroken
breath. The boomerang released
for its returning; the mateless mourning dove.
A still life: pavement with evaporating rain.

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · Jun 15

So proud of my @juneroadpress.bsky.social pressmate @mardery.bsky.social. LEVEL WATCH is gorgeous. Do future-you a favor and pre-order! www.juneroadpress.com/level-watch

Level Watch — June Road Press

A poetry collection by Mary Ardery

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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · May 30

That’s the highest praise, coming from you! ❤️

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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · May 30

It’s high time for a cover reveal! Level Watch is Mary Ardery’s debut collection, out September 23. This one’s as outdoorsy and as place-based as they come. Find out more about it at juneroadpress.com/level-watch, where there are also audio clips, preorder links, a playlist, and more. 🌲🥾✨

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · May 16

In WHEN I WAS THE WIND, “four cardinal directions point the way through this inner wilderness, through trials and initiations, suffering and discovery.”

Hannah Lee Jones’s debut collection (@juneroadpress.bsky.social) is featured in our #APAHeritageMonth list: www.juneroadpress.com/when-i-was-t...

When I Was the Wind — June Road Press

A poetry collection by Hannah Lee Jones

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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · May 15

We love the Hoffer Award, which has now recognized three of our books—the latest an honorable mention for Violeta-Garcia-Mendoza’s Songs for the Land-Bound! 🤩 Full list of this year’s poetry winners here: www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-...

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · Apr 29

Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of Mariella Saavedra Carquin and her book Maps You Can’t Make (June Road Press, 2023).🌟 @juneroadpress.bsky.social

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · Apr 29

This month we’re celebrating the work of Mariella Saavedra Carquin in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book Maps You Can’t Make (June Road Press, 2023), and you can learn more about this poet on our website (linktree in bio). @juneroadpress.bsky.social

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