Holy Gossip

About the Substack

Poets Colin Cheney and Cate Marvin offer a newsletter of prompts, craft essays, recommendations, and new poems. Holy Gossip is a community to sustain, nourish, surprise, and re-engage our poet-selves contending with a world hostile to poetry.

Free Subscription Benefits

  • Post Tuesdays and Fridays

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  • Subscriber-only posts and full archive
  • Post comments and join the community

Paid Subscription Plans

  • $7 a month
  • $80 a year

About Colin Cheney

Colin Cheney is the author of Here Be Monsters, a National Poetry Series selection. He also composes electroacoustic music.

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