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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 8d

Great poems both.

Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 8d

Read two poems from our Winter 2025 issue that “find support in Shakespeare’s lines, trying on his blank verse and tailoring it to their specifications”—Jana Prikryl’s “Small Hours” and Meg Kim’s (@megpieinflight.bsky.social) “The Second Line.”

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“Rehearsals of Intimacy”

Poems by Jana Prikryl and Meg Kim

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 8d

Read two poems from our Winter 2025 issue that “find support in Shakespeare’s lines, trying on his blank verse and tailoring it to their specifications”—Jana Prikryl’s “Small Hours” and Meg Kim’s (@megpieinflight.bsky.social) “The Second Line.”

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“Rehearsals of Intimacy”

Poems by Jana Prikryl and Meg Kim

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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're delighted to announce a new issue of A.E Stallings' Echolocations newsletter.

In this issue she explores two poems from the Summer 2025 issue of @nimrodjournal.bsky.social: Curse the Mediterranean, my Enemy by @jonnyteklit.bsky.social and Eulogy for Dada (Who Loved to Waltz) by M. I. Devine.

Echolocations: Reflections on Poems by A.E Stallings (Issue 4)

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · Sep 3

“Two poems from the Summer 2025 issue I recently saw online knocked my socks off. That’s a pretty good ratio for any magazine … Also, and here is another good sign I think, they are both by poets new to me.”

You said it, @aestallings.bsky.social!

Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you, @aestallings.bsky.social, for reading these poems from our latest issue with such sensitivity and enthusiasm! www.english.ox.ac.uk/echolocation...

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you, @aestallings.bsky.social, for reading these poems from our latest issue with such sensitivity and enthusiasm! www.english.ox.ac.uk/echolocation...

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · Aug 22

A classic riddle from @nimrodjournal.bsky.social’s Summer 2025 issue and Leslie Monsour’s new collection.

Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Aug 22

Who doesn’t like a good riddle? Here is a classic, newly translated by Leslie Monsour: nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/the-ultima...

The Ultimate Riddle

A poem by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Leslie Monsour

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Aug 22

Who doesn’t like a good riddle? Here is a classic, newly translated by Leslie Monsour: nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/the-ultima...

The Ultimate Riddle

A poem by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Leslie Monsour

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Aug 17

Day 17: “Bullets” by Ye Chun in @nimrodjournal.bsky.social. Love the repetition and structure of this piece. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/bullets

Bullets

A poem by Ye Chun

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · Aug 8

These two poems are extraordinary. Go you-know-where to read Khadijah Queen’s “Amphitheater of the Three Gauls”; here is its partner, Edward Carter’s “Blvd de Sébastopol.”

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Aug 8

This morning our free newsletter readers received a pair of poems from the Summer 2025 issue that capture the experience of sensing history rumble beneath one’s feet. Read them here: nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/history-li...

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Jul 25

Today our free newsletter readers received a poem by Jane Greer, who passed away on July 22 of this year. We are honored to have published one of her final poems, and to know that the issue reached her and brought her joy.

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Packed Carefully Away

A poem by Jane Greer (1953–2025)

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · Jul 18

I love it when famous fathers get together.

Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today our free newsletter readers received the daddy of all papa poems by M. I. Devine, from our Summer 2025 issue.

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today our free newsletter readers received the daddy of all papa poems by M. I. Devine, from our Summer 2025 issue.

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Jul 11

Today our free newsletter subscribers received the first in an occasional series of essays, available exclusively online, that explore important cultural issues from unusual angles. Go over to read Brock Allen on friendship, on and off the screen. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/casual-per...

Casual Performances

Brock Henry Allen on “Rio Bravo” and Friendship

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Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thank you, Maryann! And thank you @nimrodjournal.bsky.social‬ & ‪@bdralyuk.bsky.social‬ & Randall Mann. <3 <3 <3

Maryann Corbett @maryanncorbett.bsky.social · Jul 4

Woohoo, @aproflection.bsky.social! Good for you! Read on, folks: The Winners of Our 2025 Literary Awards open.substack.com/pub/nimrodjo...

The Winners of Our 2025 Literary Awards

The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction

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Ian @rambleroam.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · Jul 4

What a lineup! We are very proud.

Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Jul 4

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025 literary competitions! Randall Mann has awarded the top Neruda Poetry Prize to Michael Lavers, and Nancy Jooyoun Kim has awarded the top Porter Fiction Prize to Talia Neffson. 1/5

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Jul 4

Our great thanks to our brilliant and generous judges, and to all those who sent us their poems and stories for consideration. Subscribe to NIMROD and keep your eyes peeled for announcements about the next submission windows and our awards reading! nimrod.utulsa.edu 5/5

Nimrod – International Journal

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Jul 4

The issue will also feature poems by Ernest Hilbert, Amit Majmudar, and Shane McCrae, a story by Jaia Hamid Bashir, an essay by Esther Allen, and much more. 4/5

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Jul 4

The second-place winner in the fiction competition is Mays Kuhail. The finalists were Madison Jozefiak and Ian VanDuzer. Read work by all these terrific authors in the Winter 2026 issue of NIMROD. 3/5

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Jul 4

The second-place winner in the poetry competition is Anna Lena Phillips Bell. The finalists were A.M. Juster and Alejandro Aguirre, and the semifinalists were Maya Venters and Eliza Gilbert. 2/5

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Jul 4

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025 literary competitions! Randall Mann has awarded the top Neruda Poetry Prize to Michael Lavers, and Nancy Jooyoun Kim has awarded the top Porter Fiction Prize to Talia Neffson. 1/5

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Shane McCrae @akasomeguy.bsky.social · Jun 27

A few months ago, I thought I was done writing these. But maybe not quite yet? I’m so grateful to @bdralyuk.bsky.social and everybody at @nimrodjournal.bsky.social for publishing this sonnet. I hope you like it. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/elizabetha...

Elizabethan Sonnet on He Recalls His Time as a Student Musician as He Talks About Bombing Iran

A poem by Shane McCrae

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Jun 27

Today our free newsletter readers received a special preview—a poem by Shane McCrae, which will appear in our Winter 2026 issue.

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Elizabethan Sonnet on He Recalls His Time as a Student Musician as He Talks About Bombing Iran

A poem by Shane McCrae

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