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The W's MFA in Creative Writing @thewmfacw.bsky.social · 3d

For a closer look, here is each panel of the 37th Annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium with 12 Southern writers and 5 Ephemera Prize Winners. Each session is free to attend and will be live-streamed on our WeltySymposium Youtube channel. #readings #writerscommunity #mississippi #southernwriters

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The W's MFA in Creative Writing @thewmfacw.bsky.social · 3d

Two weeks from today, we begin the 37th annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium at Mississippi University for Women. Here's our complete schedule! #writers #southernauthors #readings #bookfestival #TheW

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Kendall Dunkelberg @kdunkelberg.bsky.social · 18d

North Mississippi friends! I'll be doing a reading and book signing at Bookends in Pontotoc this weekend. Come hear #poems from Tree Fall with Birdsong! Everyone is welcome!
#poetry #northmississippi #pontotocms

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · 24d

We've finished responding to submissions for Issue 17. We read over 1000 submissions, so more than 4000 poems to select 100 pages. That means our acceptance rate for 2025 was about 2.5%. We mean what we said: there really wasn't room for all the good poems!

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · Aug 30

Just kidding, of course! The law is real and the fact that #Bluesky is blocking #Mississippi IP addresses is real, but we have heard of #VPN.

Too bad for the mule, though; she's feeling neglected.

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · Aug 30

Wondering why we're quiet? One reason is we've been busy! The other reason is we're based in Mississippi and Bluesky is blocking users in our state thanks to a restrictive new law. So we have to hitch up the mule and drive to Alabama to post. #mississippi #bluesky

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The W's MFA in Creative Writing @thewmfacw.bsky.social · Jul 28

Congratulations to L. Lamar Wilson who is featured at Poem-a-Day today for his poem "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway."
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Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway

Searching for metaphor, you named yourself Papa

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Southern Review of Books @southrevbooks.bsky.social · Jul 14

"If 'Tree Fall' is loss — that things change, life ends, meaning is lost — what could represent the opposite qualities of birth, of creation, of fullness. An early poem gave me my answer with 'Birdsong.'"

Read more from @ctsalazar.bsky.social's interview with @kdunkelberg.bsky.social!

The Way Sound and Meaning Interact: A Conversation with Kendall Dunkelberg

“I knew that mortality was goig to be a big part of the collection.” An interview with Kendall Dunkelberg about Tree Fall with Birdsong, his fourth poetry collection.

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · May 22

We love that we can embed our @librarything.com books shelf on our website. It's a great way to promote poetry by our contributors, as well as other books we discover.

Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · May 22

We've added Tree Fall with Birdsong to our @librarything.com bookshelf and therefore to our poetry page at www.muw.edu/poetrysouth/poetry/ where you can see more recent and notable #poetrybooks by Southern poets and Poetry South contributors.

Congratulations on a successful pub day!

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · May 22

We've added Tree Fall with Birdsong to our @librarything.com bookshelf and therefore to our poetry page at www.muw.edu/poetrysouth/poetry/ where you can see more recent and notable #poetrybooks by Southern poets and Poetry South contributors.

Congratulations on a successful pub day!

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · May 22

We've added Tree Fall with Birdsong to our @librarything.com bookshelf and therefore to our poetry page at www.muw.edu/poetrysouth/poetry/ where you can see more recent and notable #poetrybooks by Southern poets and Poetry South contributors.

Congratulations on a successful pub day!

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · May 19

ChillSubs' analysis of social media at Lit Mag News made us feel better: they call a 10:1 follower/following ratio healthy. Ours is about 2:1. We're still looking for cool people to follow, but glad to feel less pressure to follow back. @chillsubs.bsky.social litmagnews.substack.com/p/social-med...

Social Media Truths Every Writer Needs to Understand

Fake audiences, bloated accounts, and bots

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The W's MFA in Creative Writing @thewmfacw.bsky.social · Mar 30

Exiting the #awp25 Book Fair after another exhausting yet exhilarating three days! See you in Baltimore for #AWP26!

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · Mar 28

Stasha Cole stopped by our booth. She has two poems forthcoming in Issue 17 (December 2022). So nice to meet a new contributor at #AWP25

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · Mar 28

Great to talk with contributor Carol Davis who stopped by the table at #AWP25 today. She’s in our forthcoming 2025 issue and 2022.

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · Mar 28

Looking forward to many more conversations! Stop by T1133!

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The W's MFA in Creative Writing @thewmfacw.bsky.social · Mar 28

Happy Friday #AWP25! We’re already having a great day after our conversation with Mario, a poet from Iowa who stopped by the table in the first minutes of the Book Fair.

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The W's MFA in Creative Writing @thewmfacw.bsky.social · Mar 27

Before and after Day 1 of #AWP25

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · Mar 24

We're about to hop a plane to LA. See you at #AWP25.
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Come see us at #AWP25

We're about to hit the road for LA!

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · Mar 14

We've added you. Thanks.

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · Feb 3

We've begun actively reading #submissions for Issue 17. Out sincere apologies for the delay (due to a death in the family). We will be working through our backlog as quickly as we can, while still giving each submission due attention!

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · Jan 12

We're on this list of magazines that launched in December.

Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · Jan 8

Start 2025 by browsing these stellar magazine issues, newly out from @afterdinnerconversation.com, @cincinnatireview.bsky.social, @coolbeanslit.bsky.social, @doorisajarmag.bsky.social, @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social, and more: www.clmp.org/news/december-2024-roundup-of-member-magazines

December 2024 Roundup of Member Magazines - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

We’re proud to share this list of literary journals—all members of CLMP—publishing new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and more in December 2024. Adi Magazine | Issue 20 Featuring nonfiction b...

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Jan 6

A new poem out with @poetrysouth.bsky.social

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · Dec 13

Issue 16 is here!
We’ll be mailing to subscribers and contributors early next week. #litmags #cover #poetry #newrelease

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Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social · Dec 12

Huge congratulations to Christian J. Collier, Assistant Editor on Poetry South 15.

The W's MFA in Creative Writing @thewmfacw.bsky.social · Dec 12

We can't brag enough about Christian J. Collier, who is finishing his MFA with us, published his debut full-length collection this year, and was just featured in @pw.org's roundup of debut poets. www.pw.org/content/the_...

The Luminous Life: Our Twentieth Annual Look at Debut Poets

Ten debut poets who published in 2024 generously share the inspiration, advice, and writers block remedies that have sustained them through their literary journeys.

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