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Where Poetry Moves. Two editors, publishing (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year & the Plainwater Nonfiction Series. Poetry submissions open in May. Posts by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social www.riverriverbooks.org
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · Sep 23
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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Cover of Makeshift Altar by Amy M. Alvarez. It is pink with black writing & the image of an altar.
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Emma Windsor Wood- Preferred Internal Landscape from @ornithopterpress.bsky.social
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Repost with the last book you enjoyed, and we’ll enter you in a drawing for one of our new fall poetry titles! 🍂📚💙

We are thankful for our readers ❤️

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Cover of FIELD NOTES, design by Alban Fischer Cover photograph of field landscape and lake in distance and mountains by author E.G. CUNNINGHAM POEMS "This field transforms looking to wanting.” RIVERRIVERBOOKS.ORG Cover of encounters for the living in the dead, designed by Alban Fischer Cover beaches at Dutch still life with lemons and grapes and oysters ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD POEMS JAMEELA F. DALLIS "I have become siren, a hallowed hollow singing thing-" RIVERRIVERBOOKS.ORG
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Cover of The Hounding by Zenobe Purvis. The background is a field. In the foreground are three thin sizeable dogs.
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Recently read Allison Benis White’s _The Wendys_ and really really liked it!
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Repost with the last book you enjoyed, and we’ll enter you in a drawing for one of our new fall poetry titles! 🍂📚💙

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Cover of FIELD NOTES, design by Alban Fischer Cover photograph of field landscape and lake in distance and mountains by author E.G. CUNNINGHAM POEMS "This field transforms looking to wanting.” RIVERRIVERBOOKS.ORG Cover of encounters for the living in the dead, designed by Alban Fischer Cover beaches at Dutch still life with lemons and grapes and oysters ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD POEMS JAMEELA F. DALLIS "I have become siren, a hallowed hollow singing thing-" RIVERRIVERBOOKS.ORG
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Just finished Octobers by Sahar Muradi and 😍🥰😍
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Repost with the last book you enjoyed, and we’ll enter you in a drawing for one of our new fall poetry titles! 🍂📚💙

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Cover of FIELD NOTES, design by Alban Fischer Cover photograph of field landscape and lake in distance and mountains by author E.G. CUNNINGHAM POEMS "This field transforms looking to wanting.” RIVERRIVERBOOKS.ORG Cover of encounters for the living in the dead, designed by Alban Fischer Cover beaches at Dutch still life with lemons and grapes and oysters ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD POEMS JAMEELA F. DALLIS "I have become siren, a hallowed hollow singing thing-" RIVERRIVERBOOKS.ORG
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Repost with the last book you enjoyed, and we’ll enter you in a drawing for one of our new fall poetry titles! 🍂📚💙

We are thankful for our readers ❤️

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Cover of FIELD NOTES, design by Alban Fischer Cover photograph of field landscape and lake in distance and mountains by author E.G. CUNNINGHAM POEMS "This field transforms looking to wanting.” RIVERRIVERBOOKS.ORG Cover of encounters for the living in the dead, designed by Alban Fischer Cover beaches at Dutch still life with lemons and grapes and oysters ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD POEMS JAMEELA F. DALLIS "I have become siren, a hallowed hollow singing thing-" RIVERRIVERBOOKS.ORG
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Jameela F. Dallis, reading at Weave & Spin last night 🌙 🌊 🦪

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November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Need a gift idea this season? We’ve got you covered, and will ship to you free with the code 2025GIFT 🌊 🌊📚💙 #poetry #Booksky

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Give the gift of small press poetry this year! Free shipping & 10% with code 2025GIFT RiverRiverBooks.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Hey Durham and Hillsborough friends—I’ll be reading this week with Jameela F. Dallis at Weave & Spin! Weds, 7-9, at Eno House. Hope to see you there! 📚💙🎉 #poetry

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Weave & Spin OPEN MIC Photo by SASSS WORLD FEATURING Jameela F. Dallis and Han VanderHart WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH FROM 7-9 PM FREE ENTRY ENO HOUSE 903 ENO ST HILLSBOROUGH, NC 18+ WWW.ARTSORANGE.ORG/WEAVEANDSPIN
November 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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It’s a poetry taster on a winter’s evening 📚💙❄️ Hope to see you there!

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All our chapbook beauties and then: Join Ast December 7 at 7pm ET on Zoom RSVP FOR MEETING LINK TO RIVERRIVERBOOKSEVENTS@GMAIL.COM
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Our editors reading together with friends on 12/7! Stay in, have a cup of tea or hot chocolate, and hear some poems! 💙📚🎉🎉🎉
hanvanderhart.bsky.social Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 9d
Very excited for this reading in a couple weeks—make a wonder with your friends. ❄️ Celebrate poetry. Have a party for your chapbooks! 📚💙 #booksky #poetry RSVP details in next post.
AMORAK HUEY CARLOS A. PITTELLA CATHERINE ROCKWOOD ELIZABETH SYLVIA HAN VANDERHART A Ainter's Night Chapbook Reading 12/7, 7pm ET (Zoom)
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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We love to see our authors send such beautifully intelligent and good work into the world on behalf of others—fills our cup up 💙💙💙

Read @jasutherland.bsky.social’s new review of Erin C. Murphy’s Human Resources (Grayson Books, 2025) in Plume: plumepoetry.com/jennifer-a-s... #poetry #booksky
Documentary art of every kind, including poetry, is necessary. Someone needs to record what's happening. Jennifer A Sutherland reviews Erin Murphey's Human Resources in Plume Jennifer A Sutherland in the most beautiful embroidered sweater and scarf and wintry air, hair down, lifted gaze to side
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Read the new review of Jameela F. Dallis’s Encounters for the Living and the Dead by @christinalinsin.bsky.social in @soflopojo.bsky.social’s November issue here! 👉 www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/reviews-2024... #poetry #booksky
"Rich and sensuous, Dallis's debut weaves together ekphrasis, clear poetic imagery, and the eternal sounding of the sea to create a portal through which reader becomes witness, and prosaic contains holy.." Christina Linsin reviews Encounters for the Living and the Dead in South Florida Poetry Journal
November 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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“Rich and sensuous, Dallis’s debut, Encounters For the Living and the Dead: poems, weaves together ekphrasis, clear poetic imagery, and the eternal sounding of the sea to create a portal through which reader becomes witness, and prosaic contains holy.”

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November 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Congratulations to #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp, who was among the featured speakers at the 2025 @lityoungstown.bsky.social fall Literary Festival. Her book of #Poetry 'An Eye in Each Square,' was published by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social riverriverbooks.org/store/An-Eye...
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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New reviews live today in SoFloPoJo's 39th issue:
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Resting Bitch Face

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The Parachutist

Jameela F. Dallis's
Encounters For the Living and the Dead
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and

Judith H. Montgomery's
The Ferry Keeper
November 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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These are incredible collections. Ask you library to order them!
riverriverbooks.bsky.social River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · Sep 23
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
October 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Hear Jameela F. Dallis read and discuss with @hanvanderhart.bsky.social on @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
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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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October 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Want more poetry? Contributor @bettysueblue.bsky.social published a prose poem from her new book THERE IS NEWS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER (launching Feb 2026 from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social) in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social: buff.ly/DbCZShE
A photo of a brick house and tree surrounded by fog.
October 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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In better news, the blurbs coming in for There Is News Along the Ohio River, (forthcoming from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social February ‘26) are making me cry in a good way. Unlike sobbing in my car after pastry school yesterday when a teenager corrected how I was holding my knife to cut brownies FFS.
October 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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"Last night I was oyster / whelmed and moored"
The poem Dream in Jameela F. Dallis' Encounters for the Living and the Dead, multi-layered and lusciously speaking to all senses. Another gem by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social 😍

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cover features a still life of a feast in oil on upper half: Cornelis de Heem, "Still-Life with Oysters, Lemons and Grapes" (1660s). The other half is covered by title in all caps with its first word covering the lower edge of the oil painting, on sienna-colored ground. Dream "Oysters are the answer."—M.F.K. Fisher, *Consider the Oyster* Last night I was oyster whelmed and moored in sound fed by cool Atlantic expanse gorged green, deep cupped, plump, and happy. I remember the time before when I was spat and sounds of banqueting shrimp lured me. Crackling like digital fire or hand-cut bacon a lover fries in cast iron the morning after, fearless and shirtless, humming some jaunty hymn. I knew I'd be safe—those pistoled shrimp speckled as magpie's eggs didn't burrow in waiting for me. And I didn't laugh at their cartoonish claw, something only a god or child would fashion. But did you know those asymmetric shrimp, those tiny beacons of delicious possibility, can shoot a bubble louder than thunder and hot as the surface of the sun? Well, almost as hot, but— for a night, I was oyster my ocean-worn shoulders whelmed and moored in sound fed by cool Atlantic expanse and now I am woman who dances in an emerald and schorl silk dress akin to Carolina green-gill oysters waiting for full moon.
October 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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With Lauren Camp at @lityoungstown.bsky.social, where we sold out of An Eye in Each Square! 💙📚
Han, Amorak, and Lauren camp selfie everyone smiling. Han in jacket and Lit! blue lanyard, Amorak in pink tshirt and lanyard, Lauren in red sweater and lanyard
October 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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And while I'm at it, here's the wonderful convo with E.G. Cunningham on @hanvanderhart.bsky.social's @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
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Episode 76: E.G. Cunningham (Of Field, the Suburban Exclusion of the Wild, and the Potential of Abstracts)
E.G. Cunningham, author of Field Notes (River River Books, 2025) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Purchase: Field Notes (River River Books, 2025) E. G. Cunningham was born in South …
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October 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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"We took notes on love, made gods of want."

From the play on the epigraph—"The text is a limited field of possible constructions" (Ricoer)—to the photos & the brilliant poems I love everything about E.G. Cunningham's FIELD NOTES 💖
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the cover of Field Notes: a little over half features a color photograph of a wide and barren and undulating landscape in browns and brownish greens opening into an overcast and equally wide sky. Title fills lower half of the cover (gray on white) and bleeds slightly into the photo. The escape from suburbia was via history's fields. A childhood house went latent and invisible. Its green yard: a minor field framed by fences. Bells rang in wet season. To return meant doing battle with years. We took notes on love, made gods of want.
October 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM