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Calling all poets! This is the LAST day to submit your manuscript for the Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry. This year's contest is judged by Diane Seuss. bit.ly/422FAfk
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"This is what happens
when no one has set the living room
ablaze in decades."
—John Sibley Williams, SKIN MEMORY
April is National Poetry Month. Celebrate with us and get 40% off poetry books: bit.ly/PoetryMonth26
ALT Cover of "Skin Memory," winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry.
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Excerpt: NINE PERSIMMONS by Kerry James Evans
The poems in NINE PERSIMMONS move with the gravity of pilgrimage, their compass set between wandering and witness, as they cross from ballfields and shipyards into the charged realms of myth and ritual. wp.me/p4J9AE-j8r
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AN OTHERWISE HEALTHY WOMAN presents the intimate experiences of a nurse, the vulnerable perspective of a patient, and the lessons of caring for family.
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ALT Cover of "An Otherwise Healthy Woman" by Amy Haddad. Winner of the Honorable Mention of the Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry.
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In THE LAUGH WE MAKE WHEN WE FALL, peonies, “with all their survivor ecstasies” and “Dali Lama-robed “ daylilies act as magnets to attract history, myths, language, and "all the colors of death and sex.”
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Deeply phenomenological and ecological, Laura Bylenok’s poems in LIVING ROOM imagine the lived reality of other organisms and kinds of life, including animals, plants, bacteria, buildings, and rocks.
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The 2026 Backwaters Prize in Poetry is open for submissions now through May 1. This year's contest is judged by Diane Seuss, the author of six books of poetry, including MODERN POETRY (2024) and FRANK: SONNETS (2021). wp.me/p4J9AE-j87
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Head to @debutiful for a cover reveal of HUM by Sanam Sheriff, designed by Lindsey M. Welch, along with a Q&A with Sheriff about its creation!
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💕 deals on books from @UnivNebPress & YesYes Books from THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD co-author @sophieklahr !
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Sale! From NOW 'til Valentine's Day! Get my two poetry collections for $20 ~ *very* limited number!
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NINE PERSIMMONS by Kerry James Evans was featured in @PublishersWkly's Spring 2026 Poetry Preview! publishersweekly.com/pw/by-t…
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UNP (@BisonBooksUNP @PotomacBooks @BackwatersPress) will be closed from Dec 23-Jan 2 for the Holidays.
If you experience problems placing an order during this time please reach out to @Longleafserv or call 1-800-848-6224 or 919-966-7449 weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST.
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22 Dec 2025
The poems of TWO OPEN DOORS IN A FIELD by @sophieklahr are constructed through limitations, restlessly exploring, desire, and spirituality.
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15 Dec 2025
Jennifer K. Sweeney’s FOXLOGIC, FIREWEED follows a lyrical sequence of five physical and emotional terrains—floodplain, coast, desert, suburbia, and mesa—braiding themes of nature, domesticity, isolation, and human relationships.
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ALT Cover of "Foxlogic, Fireweed" by Jennifer K. Sweeney
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Deeply phenomenological and ecological, Laura Bylenok’s poems in LIVING ROOM imagine the lived reality of other organisms and kinds of life, including animals, plants, bacteria, buildings, and rocks.
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1 Dec 2025
Excerpt: WOLVES IN SHELLS (@BackwatersPress) by Kimberly Ann Priest
WOLVES IN SHELLS is a modern monomyth telling the story of a woman navigating homelessness, trauma, and memories as she attempts to leave a violent partner. wp.me/p4J9AE-i1o
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1 Dec 2025
.@laurarhogan's BUTTERFLY NEBULA teems with creatures and cosmic phenomena that vivify and reveal our common struggle toward faith and identity.
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25 Nov 2025
In DEAR WALLACE, Julie Choffel addresses the poet and insurance executive Wallace Stevens as an unlikely peer in an attempt to reconsider art, power, and creativity amid the demands of everyday responsibility.
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18 Nov 2025
Happy Holidays from the University of Nebraska Press! Great books make great gifts, so until December 31, 2025, our entire catalog is available for 50% OFF. wp.me/p4J9AE-i9z
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18 Nov 2025
In LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL, Brandel France de Bravo builds a temple to the perpetual motion of transformation, the wondrous churn of change and exchange that defines companionship, marriage, and ceding our place on Earth.
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