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The Hungering Years by Summer Farah Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid ...

💜 Last call to pre-order a signed copy of THE HUNGERING YEARS by SUMMER FARAH!!! @summ.bsky.social hostpublications.com/products/the...

Host Publications Receives the $10,000 Constellation Award - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses New York, NY (February 11, 2026)—The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) is thrilled to announce that Host Publications, based in Austin, Texas, is the winner of the 2026 Constellation…

Our warmest congratulations to @hostpublications.bsky.social, winner of the $10,000 Constellation Award!

Learn more about the Constellation Award, launched by CLMP in 2021 with the support of Penguin Random House:
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The Pinky Rings Take a Final Bow, De Nada Cantina Expands, Host Publications Awarded • The Austin Chronicle Host Publications won the $10,000 2026 Constellation Award from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. The award, underwritten by publisher Penguin Random House, honors independent literary ...

❤️ Awesome coverage in today's @austinchronicle.bsky.social Crosstalk on Host Publications receiving The Constellation Award! @clmporg.bsky.social Such a big honor to bring this award home! www.austinchronicle.com/music/crosst...

❤️ We are truly overjoyed and grateful to be celebrated for the work we're so proud to do!

We are overjoyed to announce that Host Publications has been awarded The Constellation Award by @clmporg.bsky.social !!! In a moment when we are discouraged to do the work we do, we are surprised, overwhelmed, and completely honored to be celebrated in this way. www.clmp.org/press-center...

Host Publications Receives the $10,000 Constellation Award - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses New York, NY (February 11, 2026)—The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) is thrilled to announce that Host Publications, based in Austin, Texas, is the winner of the 2026 Constellation…

We're thrilled to announce that @hostpublications.bsky.social, based in Austin, Texas, is the winner of the $10,000 Constellation Award!
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Such an incredible collection, @deziree-the-writer.bsky.social ❤️🌌!

they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming by dezireé a. brown Winner of the 2025 Joe W. Bratcher Prize they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming by dezireé a. brown is a momentous debut, tracking a self-proclaimed antihero’s quest for liberation via the…

dezireé a. brown’s THEY/SHE/HE: RITUAL TO FORGET YOUR UNBECOMING is on our reading list for #BlackHistoryMonth!

This collection “maps the odyssey of a life lived in transition and serves as an archive of Black transmasc experience.” @hostpublications.bsky.social hostpublications.com/products/the...

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The Hungering Years by Summer Farah Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid ...

Looking for the latest Palestinian poetry? I got you. Pre order The Hungering Years by Summer Farah: hostpublications.com/collections/...

💙 The Host Dispatch Returns for Season 6! S6E1 is in conversation with poet and author of WAYWARD CREATURES, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes | Listen on iHeart (or wherever) 💙 www.iheart.com/podcast/338-...

The Hungering Years Companion Reading List Hijra by Hala Alyan I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the function of food in contemporary poetry by Palestinian American women. What was being communicated through the act of eating? There’s a line ...

💜 On the blog: The Hungering Years Companion Reading List curated by @summ.bsky.social 💜https://hostpublications.com/blogs/news/the-hungering-years-companion-reading-list

Varo, The Celestial Lion Emerges Introducing Our New Mascot, Varo We greet you here at the beginning of 2026 with a long overdue announcement: after 36 years as a publishing house, Host Publications has converted to nonprofit!   You ...

🌞On the Blog: Host Publications has a new face, and it is luminous, view our new mascot, Varo and read about the behind the scenes process as we worked with linocut artist Eva Frederick! 🌞 hostpublications.com/blogs/news/v...

We're so moved by your testament of dezireé a. brown's they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming! We agree wholeheartedly!

This is the best contemporary poetry book I've read in the past couple of years. Wow.

It's rare that I feeI exactly what the poet intended, that their words can push my ego aside and I can glimpse their internal life.

Absolutely (beauti/power)ful

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PS - RSVP to the book launch / rock show we're throwing at Alienated Majesty Books on September 12th!: www.alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/33525...

🔥Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for the DEATH TO THE BULLSHIT ARTISTS OF SOUTH TEXAS 11th Anniversary Edition by Fernando A. Flores! Order now on our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social 🔥 hostpublications.com/collections/...

An excerpt from “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf

A headshot of Oliver Baez Bendorf

“Today’s poem carries that same energy of self-discovery, inevitable change, and an extravagance of living,” shares Major in today’s encore episode.

Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social‬: bit.ly/3IUaqAj

Sealey Challenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser All funds collected through this page will be sent to The Sameer Project, a donations-based initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora working to supply aid to displaced families in Gaza. You can ...

This will be our thread for W4G's Sealey Challenge. To support us, fill out the sponsor pledge form or contribute directly now. Include W4G in the notes section so we can keep track. Our goal is $1k in pledges and contributions this month: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...

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Still flying high from last week's I Scream Social at Alienated Majesty Books! We featured Julie Poole, Marzetta, Ari Kelly, & Austen Scheib!

A graphic created by Lambda Literary, showing the covers of the five books that are finalists for the 2025 Lammy Award in Gay Poetry. Behind the books, a magneta background with white stars and a golden Lambda Literary seal

A graphic created by Lambda Literary, showing the covers of the five books that are finalists for the 2025 Lammy Award in LGBTQ+ Poetry. Behind the books, a magneta background with white stars and a golden Lambda Literary seal

We're so excited and grateful to see @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social's and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva's poetry collections named as finalists for @lambdaliterary.org's 2025 Lammy Awards in Gay Poetry and LGBTQ+ Poetry! 🎉

Check out the full list of finalists across all categories: tinyurl.com/yc5uu4ea

Sign up for Stop Cop Cities Everywhere, August 26th on zoom. To benefit the Sameer Project’s North Gaza campaign!

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Wildflower - Wildflower celebrates 8 BIPOC writers from across the country, each of them opening a window into our lives and journeys on and across the spectrum.

Read WILDFLOWER from @luckyjefferson.com for #DisabilityPrideMonth! This digital issue celebrating eight autistic BIPOC writers features writing by J. D. Harlock, Shel Moring, Greta McGee, and more: luckyjefferson.com/wildflower/

🌻Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for WAYWARD CREATURES by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes! On our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social! hostpublications.com/products/way...

the city that loves the bomb I was in high school when Oklahoma City was bombed

Today’s Featured Poem:

“the city that loves the bomb” by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social from Book of Provocations published by @hostpublications.bsky.social

Read here:
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[W4G] $500 Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project July 2: A new match! Poet Alina Stefanescu has stepped up to offer a $500 match to support the work The Sameer Project is doing with their new Medical Campaign! Help us raise $500 --> which will me...

🌿🚑 Another day, another chance to double your donation.

Poet Alina Stefanescu is offering to match up to $500 for Sameer Project's Medical campaign.

Yesterday's was met in a day. Can we do the same?

These funds are urgently needed! ❤️‍🩹 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

book of provocations by mónica teresa ortiz Inaugural Winner of the Joe W. Bratcher Prize mónica teresa ortiz posits that the most important role of the poet is that of “provocateur, to prod the audience, to interpret a visible and invisible…

mónica teresa ortiz’s BOOK OF PROVOCATIONS (@hostpublications.bsky.social‬) is on our reading list for #PrideMonth!

The poems in this collection “explore catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression.”
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threesome in the last Toyota Celica & other circus tricks by m. mick powell Winner of the Fall 2023 Host Publications Chapbook Prize   Featuring an introduction by poet, mother, and educator Brittany Rogers.  Formally inventive, emotionally symphonic, glittering and…

Read m. mick powell’s THREESOME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA for #PrideMonth!

This collection from @hostpublications.bsky.social “sings about Black queer femmehood in harmonies of multiple voices, asserting the self as ever-changing and voluminous.”
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