Poetry South
@poetrysouth.bsky.social
An annual international poetry magazine published by the low-residency MFA at Mississippi University for Women.
Read free back issues, subscribe, or submit your poems at http://www.poetrysouth.com
Read free back issues, subscribe, or submit your poems at http://www.poetrysouth.com
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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
October 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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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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
October 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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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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
#poetry #northmississippi #pontotocms
September 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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
#poetry #northmississippi #pontotocms
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!
September 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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!
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
August 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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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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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July 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Congratulations to L. Lamar Wilson who is featured at Poem-a-Day today for his poem "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway."
poets.org/poem/lauren-...
poets.org/poem/lauren-...
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"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!
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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July 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"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!
Read more from @ctsalazar.bsky.social's interview with @kdunkelberg.bsky.social!
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.
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!
Congratulations on a successful pub day!
May 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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.
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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!
Congratulations on a successful pub day!
May 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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!
Congratulations on a successful pub day!
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!
Congratulations on a successful pub day!
May 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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!
Congratulations on a successful pub day!
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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May 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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...
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
March 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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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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.
March 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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.
Come see us at #AWP25
We're about to hit the road for LA!
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March 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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!
February 3, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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!
We're on this list of magazines that launched in December.
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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January 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
We're on this list of magazines that launched in December.
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A new poem out with @poetrysouth.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
A new poem out with @poetrysouth.bsky.social
Issue 16 is here!
We’ll be mailing to subscribers and contributors early next week. #litmags #cover #poetry #newrelease
We’ll be mailing to subscribers and contributors early next week. #litmags #cover #poetry #newrelease
December 13, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Issue 16 is here!
We’ll be mailing to subscribers and contributors early next week. #litmags #cover #poetry #newrelease
We’ll be mailing to subscribers and contributors early next week. #litmags #cover #poetry #newrelease
Huge congratulations to Christian J. Collier, Assistant Editor on Poetry South 15.
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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December 12, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Huge congratulations to Christian J. Collier, Assistant Editor on Poetry South 15.
Want to check out our next issue at a discount? Head over to our Substack for a preview of the TOC and a link to our Holiday Discount. open.substack.com/pub/poetryso...
Poetry South 16
Our next issue arrives from the printer this week.
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December 10, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Want to check out our next issue at a discount? Head over to our Substack for a preview of the TOC and a link to our Holiday Discount. open.substack.com/pub/poetryso...
In anticipation of our next issue, which is at the printer and should arrive this week, we've changed our profile banner to a preview of the new cover. A view of Smoky Mountain National Park at sunset from an overlook near Townsend TN. Photo credit, Kim Whitehead. #smokies #litmag #cover
December 10, 2024 at 2:50 PM
The world is diminished by this loss. Such an inspiring poet and a life well led. Rest in peace Nikki Giovanni. www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...
Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81
The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.
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December 10, 2024 at 1:32 PM
The world is diminished by this loss. Such an inspiring poet and a life well led. Rest in peace Nikki Giovanni. www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...