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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social and @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for all of your support!

Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 2d

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

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

Unrivered here: sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri...

OF POETRY PODCAST
Donna Varreyer
Unrivered
DONNA VORREYER
(Of Unrivering, Writing the Liturgy of the Body, and Creating Giving Communities in the Arts)
EPISODE 78

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 2d

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

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

Unrivered here: sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri...

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 3d

Happy release day to @djvorreyer.bsky.social whose fourth full-length collection, Unrivered, is now available from Sundress Publications!
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awpwriter.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social · 10d

The 2026 AWP Intro Journals Project judge in poetry is @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, author of LARKS and others. Read their bio, along with the bios of the other judges, on our website. AWP member program directors can submit nominations October 1–November 30, 2025.

AWP Intro Journals Project Judges

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 10d

One week until the official release of Unrivered means one more week of the low sale price! If you are so inclined, pre-ordering also gets you a custom broadside.

Thanks to those of you who have supported the book in this early phase...it means a lot.
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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 11d

Read poem “Dysmorphia (Autumn)”: harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/donna-vorrey...

Listen to Episode 78: Donna Vorreyer (Of Unrivering, Writing the Liturgy of the Body, and Creating Giving Communities in the Arts): share.transistor.fm/s/efda5033 💫 🎙️

@djvorreyer.bsky.social
@sundresspub.bsky.social

from "Dysmorphia (Autumn)”

HERE IN THE WOODS FAR FROM MY
USUAL DISGUISES, THE LIGHT IS SUGARED WITH STARS, SHOWERED WITH METEORS

Donna Vorreyer

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 11d

😍🙏💜 Beautiful, Christa!

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 13d

I'm transplanting orchids today and enjoying the beautiful poems @djvorreyer.bsky.social shared from her new collection, Unrivered, on the latest episode of @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social 😀

#poetrypodcast #poetrycommunity #newpoetry #poetrybooks
(picture of orchids blooming in March)

Photo of a yellow Phalaenopsis with pink veins and a pink Phalaenopsis with a pale center.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 16d

Grateful to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for our conversation about Unrivered & writing community. I'm always afraid to do interviews and podcasts, but Han makes it feel easy.

Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 16d

Of sonnet crowns, of John Donne & the body, of taking formal risks, of writing with sacred texts, of dysmorphia & finding joy & sweater weather & so much more!

Episode 78 with @djvorreyer.bsky.social is here! Join us as Donna reads from her forthcoming UNRIVERED (@sundresspub.bsky.social) 🎙️💙🎉

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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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 16d

Don’t miss TONIGHT’S @wplseries.bsky.social reading with episode 78 guest @djvorreyer.bsky.social AND Taylor Byas and Ashley Jones!
🎉🎉🎉

Wild & Precious Life Series @wplseries.bsky.social · 17d

Tomorrow (9/24)!!

@taylorbyas.bsky.social, Ashley Jones, & @djvorreyer.bsky.social read for the WPLS.

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry

@sundresspub.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 16d

Of sonnet crowns, of John Donne & the body, of taking formal risks, of writing with sacred texts, of dysmorphia & finding joy & sweater weather & so much more!

Episode 78 with @djvorreyer.bsky.social is here! Join us as Donna reads from her forthcoming UNRIVERED (@sundresspub.bsky.social) 🎙️💙🎉

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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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 17d

I loved talking poems with @hanvanderhart.bsky.social. Grateful for the opportunity.

Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 17d

Sneak peek of…Episode 78! Coming to you tomorrow! @djvorreyer.bsky.social @sundresspub.bsky.social

"There's always a little thing that can shimmer-even in a poem that's full of doubt or self-criticism, or whatever other feeling is there and I reach for those moments not only in writing, but in the day-to-day."

DONNA VORREYER, EP 78

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 17d

Sneak peek of…Episode 78! Coming to you tomorrow! @djvorreyer.bsky.social @sundresspub.bsky.social

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 17d

Alexis Pauline Gumbs (@alexispauline.bsky.social) on Jameela F. Dallis’s ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD:

“Notice when these poems crack you open.”

Order your copy here: riverriverbooks.org/store

ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE
POEMS
DEAD
JAMEELA
F. DALLIS
"I have become siren, a hallowed hollow singing thing—"
now available at River River Books

Design by Alban Fischer

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 17d

Erina Harris on @egcunningham.bsky.social’s FIELD NOTES:

“This beautiful epistemology of longing reminds us that looking is witnessing.”

Order here: riverriverbooks.org/store

E.G.
CUNNINGHAM
POEMS
FIELD
NOTES

"This field transforms looking to wanting."
now available at River River Books

Cover design by Alban Fischer

field notes against a blue background

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 17d

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!

riverriverbooks.org/store

@egcunningham.bsky.social

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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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · Aug 20

See Matisse's Beasts of the Sea (1951) here: www.nga.gov/artworks/538...

Beasts of the Sea by Henri Matisse

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · Aug 20

Listen to Episode 77: Jameela F. Dallis (Of Oysters, Ekphrasis, and Filtering Emotion through The Beasts of the Sea) today! 🎙️💜

Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/fa2b54eb

Preorder Encounters for the Living and the Dead (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social): riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...

ON HENRI MATISSE'S
LES BÊTES DE LA MER (1951):
"With this piece, Matisse was near the end of his life, and he wasn't able to work in the same ways that he had been working. So he turned to cutouts.
I think this is a really beautiful and special piece. When I think about an artist's life, like when you've been working one way for a long time and then your body changes, maybe your eyesight changes or something about you changes and you adapt, and you create something like this piece."
JAMEELA F. DALLIS, EP 77

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · Aug 19

Of Poetry is on a recording hiatus until Han catches up with editing—they have ten gorgeous conversations in the hopper, recorded nine this summer, and have seven upcoming with @riverriverbooks.bsky.social authors, & are feeling a bit swamped & froggy 🙏🐸

kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .

ALT: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · Aug 19

And preorder Jameela’s debut Encounters for the Living and the Dead, here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...

ENCOUNTERS
FOR THE LIVING AND THE
POEMS
DEAD
JAMEELA
F. DALLIS

Featuring a Dutch still life with oysters, lemon, grapes

Design by Alban Fischer

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · Aug 19

Of scent in ekphrasis, of touching sculptures in your mind, of eating oysters from across the globe, of travel as a southerner, of cosmopolitanism versus belonging, of Easter socks & oyster frills, of Matisse & filtering emotion & so much more.

Listen to Episode 77 with Jameela F. Dallis! 🎙️💙📚

Episode 77: Jameela F. Dallis (Of Oysters, Ekphrasis, and Filtering Emotion through The Beasts of the Sea)

Jameela F. Dallis, author of Encounters for the Living and the Dead (River River Books, 2025) Photo by SASSS WORLD Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Purchase: Encounters for the Livi…

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · Aug 18

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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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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · Jul 31

Riiiight 💜💜💜

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · Jul 31

Listen to Episode 76 with @egcunningham.bsky.social here: share.transistor.fm/s/37d5460f

Preorder Field Notes from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...

from Field Notes

We grew older, rebellious, steely.
Outdoor day drinking like we wanted to, like landlocked whales of grief, sweet and lonely, blunting our histories.

E.G. Cunningham

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