S K Grout reviews
Elaine Sexton’s Drive
Michael Collins reviews
Lisa Dordal’s Water Lessons
Jon Riccio reviews
Robert Fillman’s House Bird


A review of
Cynthia Dewi Oka’s
Fire Is Not a Country
by Rogan Kelly
Lynn McGee reviews
Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s
West : Fire : Archive
Jennifer Poteet reviews
Theresa Burns’ Design
spotlights Kathy Kremins poemsfrom our fall issue in their
community/fundraiser series.
Visit Digging Press here.

‘Best New Poets’ Nominations


Poet Cynthia Dewi Oka and NHB EIC Rogan Kelly in conversation on the Painted Bride Quarterly Podcast






The Night Heron Barks
will attend SMOL Fair 2022
Diablo Writers’ Workshop
highlights Amy Beth Sisson and NHB
‘Best New Poets’ Nominations
The Night Heron Barks attended SMOL Fair, an alternative virtual book fair, March 3rd thru the 7th 2021.

Book Editor Laurie Saurborn reviews Valyntina Grenier’s double chapbook FEVER DREAM / TAKE HEART
Founding Editor Rogan Kelly: His interview with Josh Medsker on the Jersey Poets Plus Podcast

Patrice Boyer Claeys reviews
Gail Goepfert’s Get Up Said the World
Submissions are closed till our next call

Richard Blanco and Lynne Thompson in our fall 2020 issue

Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Airea D. Matthews in our summer ’20 issue

Poetry Reading: Dorianne Laux and Diane Seuss
This Sunday at 3 pm Eastern on Zoom, we are hosting a poetry reading featuring the Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Dorianne Laux, and current Pulitzer Prize Winner, Diane Seuss. Register to attend the reading here.
Convergence of Song
I once found myself in a little town, outside Salerno, Italy, called Castelnuovo. It was a mountain village that had been altered by the earthquake. Farmland changed, rivers diverted. What remains persists. This is our second spring for those marking the time. There’s a connectivity to the work here that feels special. I don’t know…
Two Rivers
There is something that happens when the words of a poet find their best reader–Confluence–that meshing of two ‘rivers’; in which one art meets another, and illumination is the result. As poets, we all want to find our best readers, those who will come to our personal experience, and find in it all that makes…

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