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Summer Reading Period Submissions OPEN! Joe Wilkins and Corrie Williamson on Resound! Corrie on Poetry Daily Today! Carla Sofia Ferreira on Itasca's April 2025 Top 10 List!

So many good things happening! First: our 2025 Summer Reading Period for full-length poetry manuscripts is here! Send us your manuscripts between now and June 30; we’d love to read your words. Tip jar option (mandatory fees are predatory—Tram editions is right, y’all), submission guidelines and model contract on our website, and we use Duotrope for submissions (contact us if you have issues). Our first day was BUSY and we are loving to see the manuscripts come in. We are also THRILLED by the beautiful river essays we received for our RIVERS: essays on form and water call, and

This year, we’re including a $5 coupon for our bookstore in our submission response emails, so keep an eye out for yours.

And NEWS! Corrie Williamson and Joe Wilkins joined together on Resound and you can go give the show a listen here. The above photo gave editor Han such incredible vibes at work today, y’all. We are always so happy when our authors are friends and co-collaborators and conspirators and helping each other and making cool art together and reading and making good trouble and HELL YES!

Corrie Williamson also has a beautiful poem on Poetry Daily today, “A Brief History of Preservation,” so please so give this beautiful poem a read (an excerpt of which is featured on Corrie’s River River Books’ broadside)! Congratulations, Corrie!

We are also SO EXCITED to see Carla Sofia Ferreira’s A GEOGRAPHY THAT DOES NOT HURT US on Itasca’s April 2025 Top 10 Titles from CLMP.ORG Members list! Congratulations, Carla!

Thanks to all, keep reading good poetry. <3

Han & Amorak