Excerpt: DEATH DOES NOT END AT THE SEA by Gbenga Adesina DEATH DOES NOT END AT THE SEA, winner of the Raz/Shumaker @TheSchooner Book Prize in Poetry, explores the complexity of elusive citizenship.

Thanks to @TheSchooner for making space for my work.

In INVITATION (@TheSchooner), men and women try and fail to connect to the people they want to be with. Save 40% when you order now: https://t.co/fuDbFCqJXy

Happy first book birthday to JAGADAKEER: APOLOGY TO THE BODY by Lory Bedikian! Winner of @TheSchooner Book Prize in Poetry, JAGADAKEER presents the voice of a daughter of immigrant parents, now gone, from Lebanon and Syria and of Armenian descent.

🌊 Loss, memory & survival echo across generations. This Saturday, Sept 20th, #LiteraryLights2025 features Aram Mrjoian in convo with Chris McCormick on his searing debut Waterline. Don’t miss it. 📚✨ Register 👉 https://t.co/6hIQEjWJ79

Congratulations to Gbenga Adesina, his book DEATH DOES NOT END AT THE SEA (@TheSchooner) is on the 2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Poetry!

Don’t forget to browse our newest roundup for brand-new issues from @NCLitReview, @onestorymag, @TheSchooner, @RedOgreReview, @SoFloPoJo, @TahomaReview, @TraceFossils, and more lit mags:

Congratulations to 2024 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize winner Gbenga Adesina on making the Longlist for this year's National Book Award in Poetry! https://t.co/ppxxYGhDNC

One of my poems has been featured in the Winter 2024 issue of @TheSchooner: https://t.co/RyMdGJogyK

"Footnotes to the Mahabharata" is the kind of book one reaches for when weighted down by the weariness of the world and existence." Akila Kannadasan in @thehindu @WestlandBooks #poetry #BookReview https://t.co/cKWVb3vGG3

is like a church bell  in some remote village  tolling mutely in the evening through the musty provincial air —Damir Šodan, translated by James Meetze #PoemADay https://t.co/XSV9XM3O6L

Is it because I burned the potatoes?  The lady’s hat from last night had feathers,  usually that’s the best thing about a lady,  we’re only supposed to have five things. ––Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa @SafiyaKamaria #PoemADay https://t.co/Fe7ZZxYo0o

Here the days don’t dissolve in air  they fall into the water  shaping their own shell  a sheen of separation.  ––Katerina Iliopoulou, translated from the Greek by Jackson Watson #PoemADay https://t.co/bwSo4rBECl

Congratulations to the winners of the Raz-Shumaker @TheSchooner Book Prizes: Adam O. Davis and Micah Dean Hick

Intentions of Thunder by Patricia Smith is a collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of the most groundbreaking voices in contemporary poetry, a “masterful performer and poet of voices too little heard” (Poetry Foundation). https://t.co/7rf12XRMx3

Still cannot believe this happened. 🤯😍 So much thanks to @justbuffalolit, and Noah Falck and team. ❤️

Beyond delighted that my poetry collection, Pyrrhic Symphony, won the Raz/Schumaker Book Prize from @TheSchooner & will be published by next year by @UnivNebPress! Deepest, deepest thanks to the editors & readers!

Congratulations to Timothy Schaffert for earning an Outstanding Research and Creative Activity award, the most esteemed President’s Excellence Award for creative activity from @u_nebraska! Details: https://t.co/vxttvhRIzd

Guest judges, Eric Wat and DeMisty Bellinger, praises Micah Dean Hicks’s Vulture Gold, winner of the 2025 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in fiction, which @univnebpress will publish. Visit the Schooner Blog to read more on the winning manuscript: https://t.co/P752KQmZpQ

This year's winners were chosen by Glenna Lushei Editor-in-Chief Timothy Schaffert along with guest judges Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Hilda Raz (poetry) and DeMisty Bellinger and Eric Wat (fiction). Many thanks to all who sent in their work!