GOP, do your damn job

I’m so happy to have my new book in hand! Bill Ripley over Another New Calligraphy has done a fantastic job with this lovely little design. I couldn’t ask for a nicer home for my book. You can buy copies directly from their website (available April 3):

 www.anothernewcalligraphy.com/catalog

Kid Rock makes music for __________________

Don't let one Republican crime distract you from another Republican crime

POEM 297: "Brilliant Corners" by Jeff Newberry (@jeffnewberry.bsky.social)

"Maybe Monk was right.
Nothing is straight-on, all
angles and obliques,
all grace notes. Implied roots."

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I’m so happy to report that Another New Calligraphy Press Will be publishing my memoir, Frames, in Spring 2026.

Statement by President Connolly on the death of Des Kenny, Galway | President of Ireland Welcome to the website of the President of Ireland.

Statement by President Connolly on the death of Des Kenny, Galway
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I'm happy to announce that Another New Calligraphy will be publishing my memoir of hybrid experimental essays, Frames, sometime next year.

I had a great year for publications. I started the year flying high on the success of How to Talk about the Dead and am ending with some pretty big news that I can't announce quite yet. Whatever the case, I've continued doing what I've been doing for years now: cobbling together a life of words.

I’m more concerned than ever that he will come for those of us who oppose him.

My words to Trump and his cult: I sing of Olaf, glad and big.

Many thanks to Susurrus for publishing this poem. I struggled with this draft. As I worked through it, I realized that the poem was less about the act of trading one art for another and more about memory.

After a Poetry Reading at Tift County Library — Susurrus

I have poem in the new issue of @susurrusmag.bsky.social

Please read and let me know what you think. Then read the whole issue. It’s outstanding.

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My best girl

Happy 51 to me!

Jeremy Spoke in Class Today - The American Scholar On guns, MTV, Stephen King, and the nightmare from which we cannot awake

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This is one of the most powerful things that I’ve ever read. I mean, I’m not lying when I tell you that this stopped me cold. I’m still sitting here thinking about it.

Thank you, Paul Crenshaw. 

One of the great casualties of the last decade for me is that I no longer know what it’s like to feel hope about anything. 

“A language separated from human awareness and aspiration leaves me cold.“ —Stanley Kunitz

Fascinating read! Thanks for posting.

“Nothing is coming. Nothing is already here.” —Thomas Pynchon, V

Newberry named president of Southeastern Writers Association - Tifton Gazette Dr. Jeff Newberry, a professor of English and Poet in Residence at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, has been named the president of the Southeastern Writers Association (SWA).

I’m happy the Tifton Gazette ran this. Many thanks for the support!

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I’m happy to announce that I’ve been named president of the Southeastern Writers Association

“The world is ugly,/And the people are sad.” —Wallace Stevens

“Damn it, Neil. The name is Nuwanda.”

I will not forget or forgive all the blood of children this administration has on its hands by defunding USAID. I will not forget or forgive their destruction of freedom enabled by the Supreme Court or the lives of federal workers and academics they sought to destroy for fun

“I have always preferred poetry where the fingerprints show.” —Pablo Neruda

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional.

We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.