"When transformed by consciousness, anger becomes vital energy which is available not only for healing but also for furthering the desires of the soul."
-James Hollis, Swamplands of the Soul
A paperback copy of MURALS, a special issue of The Hooghly Review, curated by Francois Bereaud, now available in print from Press Pause Press
A new Ekphrastic anthology, MURALS, is now available from Press Pause Press. First published by @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social & curated by @fbereaud.bsky.social, it features an international collection of public art & writing in response, including my "Microsonnet for the municipality sweepers"
Many copies of (e)laments, a chapbook with a collage cover featuring classical art with pink and blue hues, spread out on a wooden tabletop
“(e)laments is an experiment in the potential of the haibun, a Japanese form originated by 17th-century haiku master Bashō that utilizes the dynamism between two conversant parts––one verse, one prose. Baker and raum demonstrate what the haibun makes possible beyond its inherent juxtaposition: these poems’ halves illuminate another, in both form and content. As they interrogate the fluidity of body and identity (“i am a force which inundates & washes away”), often partaking in the kind of “self-erasure” T.A. Greathouse offers in their form, the “burning haibun” these poems are both whole and partial. (e)laments is a feat of simultaneity.” Jane Huffman, author of Public Abstract
(e)laments is now available from @stonecorpse.com! This collaboration with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is available from the publisher in PDF (free!) and print ($7 + shipping).
I will send you a signed copy with a bespoke, hand-written short-form poem for $15 (shipping included), DM me
This got a far larger reaction than I expected. Relatable content, it would seem. Apropos of that, here is Bertolt Brecht's "Motto"
The worries and misfortunes of real life have recently shocked my literary life into a sort of hibernation. I have not been reading, writing, engaging online, or even thinking as usual. My apologies. Today I felt a glimmer of deep movement. I hope it is a sign of return.
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We've got some news for you!
You're all invited to sign up for our new internal Book Review Exchange!
Networking is hard, right? & After getting a micro/chap/book published we all just kinda want someone to read & enjoy our work.
Here @ e(i we wanna help w that! ...
April 1, 2026 Google’s new machine can reach between universes to perform quantum computations by David Ward Well yes, we say, after a few minutes to think about it. Not to gag you with sweetness, but hasn’t any lover already accomplished this? When my love runs dry don’t I reach my wooden dipper into a parallel well where we have no children, or have several, or where we are children ourselves and have known each other since Mrs. Allen’s second grade class, and take for myself a cup of that David’s cold water? And don’t we here, now, in our only world, so often seek down to groundwater just so our other selves can drink?
a real piece of time traveling beauty and wonder today from David Ward
https://www.havehashad.com/judsv
Like many of the poems in Autocartographies (2025: Eulogy Press), Alter’s debut chapbook, “Balancing Rock” features prescribed syllable counts, limited punctuation, and use of blank space, choices that prompt readers to experience the poet’s concept of “rhythmed” awareness. By employing such experimental forms of rhythmic language to encounter, map, and re-integrate the dissociated aspects of an embodied self, the five sections of Autocartographies offer not only a vulnerable window into the world of the writer, but also a fascinating pairing of concept and procedure that readers might use to re-examine their own interior disunities.
from the opening paragraph of my latest review, "Rhythm and Somatic Consciousness: on AUTOCARTOGRAPHIES by @evaalterpoet.bsky.social" (2025: Eulogy Press), published in Dodo Eraser. It was delightful to write about my favorite kind of verse: rare form delivering rare insight on the body.
and yes, i will spell traumatized with a Z, as i have all my life. Prescriptivists who can't handle regionalism may look away
Drop a movie that traumatized you as a kid...
it was the mirror eyes that got me.
Just finished composing the first of these signature verses, a new poem titled "Light Pilot," for Alex Rettie. I retain the right to collect it into a manuscript, in which case I will note the dedication, but I consider this its first publication. He may post it if he chooses (he's on X, not here)
A new verse from new contributor D. W. Baker:
𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱
electri
city of angels
on the pin
eal gland
— D.W. Baker
Graphic with a blue background and soft flowers, and the text: "Recchia's work demonstrates related ideas that transcend poetics and theology: that erasure can be a creative act, and that human creation can be a fulfillment of God's love." D.W. Baker reviews Aphorism Paroxysm (fifth wheel press, 2025) by Remi Recchia
Read the full review here: moistpoetryjournal.com/2026/03/22/e...
@lowermelody.bsky.social @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social
New review of Aphorism | Paroxysm by Remi Recchia, reviewed by D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social)! Pour yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy this review exploring erasure and trans poetics, scripture, hybrid form, and more! 💜📚🎉
✨ Hi, Bulb Friends! ✨
Quick update. We've just sent all the outstanding acceptance and rejection emails, so if you've been waiting, go check your inbox.
We are still VERY OPEN for submissions of previously published writing! If you've been wanting to send something our way, go for it!
The Micro side of @identitytheory.bsky.social has transitioned from Micro Mondays to quarterly issues. Our first Micro issue in this new format will be released on the March Equinox. It features 11 unsettling, contemplative, speculative, sad, and sometimes funny micros. Out this Friday! 🩶
Many copies of (e)laments, a chapbook with a collage cover featuring classical art with pink and blue hues, spread out on a wooden tabletop
“(e)laments is an experiment in the potential of the haibun, a Japanese form originated by 17th-century haiku master Bashō that utilizes the dynamism between two conversant parts––one verse, one prose. Baker and raum demonstrate what the haibun makes possible beyond its inherent juxtaposition: these poems’ halves illuminate another, in both form and content. As they interrogate the fluidity of body and identity (“i am a force which inundates & washes away”), often partaking in the kind of “self-erasure” T.A. Greathouse offers in their form, the “burning haibun” these poems are both whole and partial. (e)laments is a feat of simultaneity.” Jane Huffman, author of Public Abstract
(e)laments is now available from @stonecorpse.com! This collaboration with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is available from the publisher in PDF (free!) and print ($7 + shipping).
I will send you a signed copy with a bespoke, hand-written short-form poem for $15 (shipping included), DM me
Delighted to share that my review of Remi Recchia's APHORISM | PAROXYSM (2025: @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social), a hybrid chapbook that addresses the contested intersection of transgender bodies & Christian beliefs, is forthcoming with @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social
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We're excited to share that poet and wrenster Jennifer Browne will serve as the guest editor for our 4th print anthology on liminality!
Submissions open on March 25th! www.tinywrenlit.com/submit
Check out new #poetry #books for the week of 3/17 from @subpresspoetry.bsky.social, @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social, @caitlinpress.bsky.social, @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social & @regalhouse.bsky.social. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...
“Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.”
--Roland Barthes
The book’s detailed soundscapes of repetition and rhyme transcend the distinction between formal verse (featuring wide varieties of pantoums and sonnets) and free verse (featuring sparse lyrics and narratives with bespoke sonic architectures, in the American tradition of Dickinson). In concert with lush natural imagery, and ornamented by flights into symbol, linguistic sound is a central pillar in Firefall’s project: not merely recording specific landscapes, nor simply evoking their effects on the body, but using the established dialectic between body and environment to interrogate the limits of the individual subject.
Excerpted from my review, "Soundscape, Landscape, Ghost: on FIREFALL by Heather Lang-Cassera" (2025: @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social), published in @panoramajournal.bsky.social last year
three poems forthcoming in Apocalypse Confidential two poems forthcoming in Union Spring Literary Review one poem forthcoming in Electric Pink one poem forthcoming in Sabr Tooth Tiger one poem forthcoming in Eulogy Press one poem forthcoming in Cosmic Daffodil Journal
Catching up on emails and website maintenance tonight. Currently have nine poems forthcoming later this season. More available here:
dwbakerpoetry.com/poetry-publi...
One of my color studies, titled "Chlorosis," appears in this themed issue about GREED. My thanks to Lucy & the @underbellypress.bsky.social team 🖤💚
My son turns six today. I love him so much! This year, he is super into Pokémon, which is fun for me, too. This weekend we travel to visit my parents. I will continue to be scarce on social media. Life is more than screens
My good friend Jesse Balmer has put together a book of his work. Go pick up a preorder. It’s gorgeous. He’s worked as an artist on adventure time and many other shows but his Personal work is singular. Grab it here www.harpyharpy.com
