Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“still you make your own life
though it begins before you are ready
and there is never enough time
there are rabbits

even the dead one
whose skin I keep
change inside”

Read four new poems by Serena Solin on R&R:

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An Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer Magazine For more than fifty years Sherril Jaffe has been mining her life for material. Each moment or detail is a brick that might be used to build a story or novel. A father’s heart attack, a marriage…

"I’ve been in search of truth, the truth of experience, not an artifact, but something that’s true, and that somehow, because it’s true, is liberating. So I can’t tie things up with a bow."

—novelist Sherril Jaffe, interviewed by @josephgrantham.bsky.social

Six Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“That I'm not to be a poet because I'm not one now is not all that sound a reason, I sometimes think. It (writing) is what compels me.”

Read six new poems by Cliff Fyman:

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An Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer Magazine For more than fifty years Sherril Jaffe has been mining her life for material. Each moment or detail is a brick that might be used to build a story or novel. A father’s heart attack, a marriage fallin...

"It isn’t that you read the whole novel and then you get the payoff. I wanted it to be a payoff all the way along... I wasn’t into plot. The books don’t have plots."

—novelist Sherril Jaffe, interviewed by @josephgrantham.bsky.social

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An Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer Magazine For more than fifty years Sherril Jaffe has been mining her life for material. Each moment or detail is a brick that might be used to build a story or novel. A father’s heart attack, a marriage…

"Now that I’m old, that’s my material... I want to write about the reality of pain and age, and in a matter-of-fact way."

—novelist Sherril Jaffe, interviewed by @josephgrantham.bsky.social

“Anders and Laura walked through the door. He found it depleting. Time and energy were like disposable income for these people. They spent it just to spend it.”

Read new fiction by Benjamin Jasnow on R&R:

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The Night-Sucker Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I ask him what he does, I hope he is a football player on the Lions or something, but if he was he’d never tell me anyway he says he is a diesel mechanic”

Read “The Night-Sucker” by Scott Watson on R&R:

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An Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer Magazine For more than fifty years Sherril Jaffe has been mining her life for material. Each moment or detail is a brick that might be used to build a story or novel. A father’s heart attack, a marriage…

“It’s autofiction—maybe that’s what we would call it now? We never called it that before. The life is the material, but it isn’t about the person.”

—Sherril Jaffe, interviewed by @josephgrantham.bsky.social

middle daughter has an appointment, so my usual stack of reading: this interview with American writer Sherril Jaffe in The Believer might be a new favourite, // @thebeliever.net

Indolent Traveler Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I'm stuck in dread Hollywood in a two-banger on Fuller Street outside simulated introvision of purgatory. Feel like shit.

Feel like wallowing in it. Hate everybody. Can't wake up. And I'm doing a scene about love.”

Read new writing by Will Patton:

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An Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer Magazine For more than fifty years Sherril Jaffe has been mining her life for material. Each moment or detail is a brick that might be used to build a story or novel. A father’s heart attack, a marriage…

“How can I make the fiction as strong as poetry? That was my ambition. I didn’t want to challenge poets. They’re very sensitive.”

—Sherril Jaffe, interviewed by @josephgrantham.bsky.social

Two Stories and Three Variations Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“And the whole pageant of the world—all of life—falls in behind her and everybody gets a nice little lunch with a soup. There are daffodils and a guy with a snare drum, plus a careening truck full of bozos.”

Read new writing by Stephen Emerson on R&R:

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An Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer Magazine For more than fifty years Sherril Jaffe has been mining her life for material. Each moment or detail is a brick that might be used to build a story or novel. A father’s heart attack, a marriage fallin...

now you can read this online:

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Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Watch this video of a river.

Or don’t.

I’m not comfortable telling anyone what to do.

You will learn what’s done
and you will do it.”

Read new poems by Jacqueline Waters in R&R:

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Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs? Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“There would be no releasing of the geese. There would be no plucking of the ducks. There would be no brushing out the bangs of his highland cattle.”

Read new fiction by Will Mountain Cox on R&R:

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Had a great time interviewing Sherril Jaffe for @thebeliever.net. We talked about Black Sparrow Press, a bad marriage, a good marriage, growing older, writing happiness, and lots lots more. Go get a copy of the new Believer! And go read Sherril’s books! Go go go!

Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I’d believe you on a panel, behind a row of water bottles. You know, the Middle Ages had no need for architects. People used to all share the same sun.”

Read three new poems by Sam Lohmann on R&R:

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Five Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Marsh grass bows in the breeze.
A slow boat drones on the river.
The moon rises to a first star.
How could writing
Ever lead to anything?”

Read five new poems by Joseph Torra on R&R:

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Sex Positive Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Lauren called me a “femcel” today. I’m just from a conservative household. They didn’t let me eat M&Ms until I was ten.”

Read new fiction by Iris Lee on R&R:

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Don't Worry About Donald Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“You never heard anything like it. She was screaming screams like off this earth and Russell gave her his shirt and she just kept screaming and screaming.”

Today on R&R, read another new story by Dale Herd (1940-2026):

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At the Blue Fox Inn Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I’d never done anything like this before. Berg cheated on his wife all the time. Now I was going to be just as bad as Berg.”

It’s Dale Herd (1940-2026) week on R&R. We’ll have two new Herd stories on the site, beginning today with “At the Blue Fox Inn”:

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The Dog Wants to Fuck My Leg Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I am a man. I am an average man. I am the most average-looking man on planet Earth. When I walk outside, no one pays any attention to me.”

Read new fiction by Guillaume Morissette (@anxietyissue.bsky.social) on R&R:

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Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“ther ar pot holes on
th road 2 heven

or at leest

sum lips in th
concrete that ar mor
thn eliptikul”

Read three new poems by bill bissett on R&R:

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Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“The older man is bald, wears a grey suit and tie, is a bit shorter than the others. They have identical noses. Not one of them wears underwear. And their hairy scrotums brush the insides of their hairy legs.”

Read three new poems by Michael Earl Craig:

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Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“two legs converged in a hazel wood and I
I let myself be swallowed by
coniference.”

Read three new poems Sophia Dahlin on R&R:

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I have three poems in the new issue of the Southwest Review (@southwestreview.bsky.social). Here is one of them.

Traffic School Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“It was funny when you heard a random siren. Didn’t bother you at all. But when you knew the siren was calling your name, it cut through your chest, and swirled around inside you like a bullet.”

Read new fiction by Robert Ward on R&R:

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Three Stories Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“And then it all made sense on the afternoon of Pearl Harbor Day, as I watched her sitting in the bay window eating a cluster of green grapes.”

Read three new stories by Stephen Mortland (@stephenmortland.bsky.social) on R&R:

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Trickle Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“No one knows how it happened. But it happened.”

Read new fiction by Jessica Westhead on R&R:

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Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

““Do you grow up as I walk away,
Or fade out into another world?
I don’t recall you saying much about it.”

Read three new poems by Michael Wolfe on R&R:

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