Annar Veröld-Miranda

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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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...

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💜 Order THE HUNGERING YEARS by @summ.bsky.social now for a SIGNED copy & limited-edition goods! hostpublications.com/products/the...

Letter From Minnesota: We Are Going to Win Each morning, I get a Signal message counting up how many days our city has been occupied. It bears information, reminders for new members. There are estimated to be 80,000 of us in the city. The h…

@katpburke.bsky.social on the power of many (and believing that we’ll win).

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

🔥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/...

💙 Thrilled this incredible collection is one day closer to pub day & now available for pre-orders! 💙

Submissions close this Sunday (06.15.25) at 11:59pm CDT! Host Publications is looking for full-length poetry manuscripts written by historically marginalized writers! hostpublications.submittable.com/submit

Twilit, Oh by Annar Veröld​-Miranda

💙 I wrote a poem in praise of my late friend & mentor Joe W. Bratcher III for Texas Poet Laureate Amanda Johnston's project Praisesong for the People! Endless gratitude & love to @amandajohnston.bsky.social for the opportunity 💙https://www.praisesongforthepeople.com/post/twilit-oh

Austin! Looking forward to reading in Austin with Dara & Cloud

Thank you to Annar, Claire, Host Publications, & Amy’s Ice Cream 🙏

If you’re in Austin, come out May 23rd to enjoy ice cream, poetry, & the company other people who also like ice cream & poetry 🍦 🍨

Oooooh, celebrating the dreamiest poets at I Scream Social on Friday May 23rd. Big love to @cloudelfina.bsky.social , @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social & Dara Barrois/Dixon! + Alienated Majesty Books for having us! RSVP: givebutter.com/IScreamMay2025

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile There is no other way to say this: I write you now from exile, having (if you are reading this) fled political persecution in my home country, the United (for now) States of America. I say this pla…

“There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.” A dispatch from @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social, poet in exile.

Donate to Support Meg Day’s Cancer Recovery and Care, organized by abigail lawlor We are raising funds for our beloved comrade, educator, and poet for the peo… abigail lawlor needs your support for Support Meg Day’s Cancer Recovery and Care

Meg Day, a dear poet, educator, and friend could use your support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-me...

A Poetry Reading for Gaza IV — Workshops 4 Gaza Step 1: Donate to Gaza Poets Society here (suggested donation $30). Step 2: Register for “A Poetry Reading for Gaza IV” here . Join Workshops4Gaza for our fourth online poetry readin...

🌊 Patiently waiting for this stellar reading w/ @workshops4gaza.bsky.social hosted by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social & featuring @summ.bsky.social @miparhizkar.bsky.social Ignacio Carvajal, Ayling Zulema Dominguez, Destiny Hemphill, Mallika Singh & Jesús Valles | www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...

Feminisms Against the Carceral State - Emily L. Thuma - Inquest Seventies-era anti-carceral feminism opposed “tough on crime” policymaking and played an important role in the making of today’s prison abolition movement.

Seventies-era anti-carceral feminism opposed “tough on crime” policymaking and played an important role in the making of today’s prison abolition movement.

Torch Literary Arts was awarded the first-ever Writing Organization Award by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) at the 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Los Angeles!

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#AWP25

I had absolutely too much fun at #AWP25! No one parties like the poets, my god. Thank you to everyone who showed me kindness, filled me with hope, pointed me in the direction of great literature, & listened to me endlessly champion our Host Publications writers! A dream moment in this hard world 💖

♥️ We're celebrating National Poetry Month reading & writing poetry, going on long hikes w/ our besties & reading poems by the creek, w/ cake, perhaps a snail mail exquisite corpse! Tell us how you're celebrating! We're offering 20% off at HostPublications.com if you need to grow your poetry stack!

Chiagoziem Jideofor: a name, a condition (read by Ucheoma Onwutuebe) Ucheoma Onwutuebe reads

☀️Listen: Forthcoming Host Publications poet CHIAGOZIEM JIDEOFOR read "a name, a condition" read by Ucheoma Onwutuebe, published by the good folks at Shō Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social soundcloud.com/shopoetryjou...

So excited to co-host this wonderful #AWP25 event at a deliciously vampiresque theater, featuring radical and queer writers whose work inspires social transformation! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetics-of...

Check out how pretty the new (i.e., forthcoming) Dorothy books look on our gallery page. Excited to share these two with you!

This morning's quick reminder: generative AI is a natural resource-guzzling plagiarism machine that exploits creatives to enrich tech bros.

Do not use it to create art or writing.

Do not conduct "fun" experiments with it to show us how awful it is.

There is no ethical use for AI.

Let it die.

Austin: did you know that every month we throw a feminist reading & ice cream party? This Friday, we're featuring writer-activists who inspire us, fill us w/ hope, & getting us writing! Join us at Alienated Majesty to celebrate Gaby Benitez, Sara Bawany, and Texas Poet Laureate Amanda Johnston! 7pm!

The most listened to BTC episodes/conversations in 2024 (in no particular order).
You can check them all out at: tinhouse.com/podcasts

"Returning to the Village" by Stephanie Niu from "Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance" published by Host Publications

🌊 Today's featured poem on @poetrydaily.bsky.social is "Returning to the VIllage" by Host Publications poet Stephanie Niu! poems.com/poem/returni...