"Her poetry often reflects on getting things wrong while imagining what getting things right might look or sound like. This amounts both to an attitude and a technique": my review of TRUE MISTAKES by @lenamschmitt.bsky.social @uarkpress.bsky.social
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The April quarterly edition of ON THE SEAWALL awaits your arrival. www.ronslste.com
Really thankful for the chance to dig into Eduardo Halfon’s work for @ronslate.bsky.social at On the Sewall, specifically TARANTULA, translated by Daniel Hahn, which makes for a fascinating complement to Halfon’s prior English-language novel, CANCIÓN:
The Zoom link will be available on Tuesday afternoon -- see poster for how to access it ...
The Zoom link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Please join us!
I've been sharing this Adrienne Rich poem with a lot of folks as we move closer to the collapse of first amendment freedoms. Please read, understand, share. It is not an answer. It is, instead, the very question we must ask and keep asking.
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Please join us on Tuesday night 7:30ET when Robin Becker comes to PathwaysArts via Zoom. The link will be available on Tuesday afternoon at www.pathwaysmv.org -- scroll down to this poster & click on the Zoom prompt.
Coming Tuesday night 7:30pm ET -- Catherine Barnett will read for us at PathwaysArts & you can watch/listen via Zoom. The link will be available on Tuesday afternoon at www.pathwaysmv.org ...
Splendid tribute to Fanny Howe at Arrowsmith Journal via @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social -- beginning with a reading by Fanny -- www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/fann...
grrrrrr ....
There’s no other choice / when you get that close // to a vagina
Please join us when Thea Matthews reads via zoom for PathwaysArts -- Tuesday nite 1/20 7:30 ET -- link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Her latest collection is GRIME via @citylightsbooks.bsky.social ...
Funambulism: "Attraction to perilous landscapes in times of upheaval ... promise us something eternal, something removed from the world’s vanities, immaterial and din-free": essay by @ykomska.bsky.social @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social bit.ly/4svdaqh
"This doubleness — lament braided with exuberance, suffering braided with awe — structures the emotional, formal & ethical terrain of the collection": Kimberly Grey on Gabrielle Calvocoressi's THE NEW ECONOMY @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4jxIbpq via On The Seawall
Here's "Commerce" by @simeonberry.bsky.social, his poem in the new edition of On The Seawall / www.ronslate.com/commerce/
Thanks for publishing my review of Maria Stepanova's new novel, The Disappearing Act, translated by Sasha Dugdale!
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"His poems dug down into memory to find their source. More precisely, the excavation of memory -- both personal and cultural, and the continuity he sought in it -- IS his subject": Christian Detisch on THE POEMS OF SEAMUS HEANEY @fsgbooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/4aIxLB1
Do y'allselves a favor and preorder @namwalien.bsky.social's "On Morrison," a magisterial close reading of an American master in an age of lit-lite substacks. Out 2/24 from Hogarth. Here's my review for @ronslate.bsky.social's "On the Seawall": www.ronslate.com/on-on-morris...
NEW: The January edition of ON THE SEAWALL, our first expanded quarterly. We invite you to stop by the "gallery" & have a look / ronslate.com
Tune in tomorrow night 7:30PM ET when Philip Metres reads from FUGITIVE/REFUGE. The zoom link will be available on Tues afternoon at pathwaysmv.org. If you're on Martha's Vineyard, we'll see you at the Chilmark Tavern where poetry & revelry often mean the same thing.
Tomorrow (Tues) night 7:30ET -- Hank Lazer reads from ABUNDANT LIFE, his new & selected poems. Zoom link available tomorrow afternoon at pathwaysmv.org
"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors,/I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd./My century— my poison, my century—my harm,/my century—my enemy, my century— hell": from 4 poems by Marina Tsvetaeva via On The Seawall bit.ly/48gdMaZ tr by Margaree Little
Thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social and Jonathan Farmer for this interview about When the Earth Flies into the Sun! The book celebrated its first birthday last month!
NBCC member Tiffany Troy reviewed "When We Only Have the Earth," written by Abdourahman A. Waberi and translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson, for World Literature Today:
Friends, I'm happy and honored to have another poem in #OntheSeawall --thanks to editor @ronslate.bsky.social, www.ronslate.com/tacoma-narro...
"Tacoma Narrows" is from the new edition of my #chapbook, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems, to be released soon by #BlueLightPress.
"I encounter a lot of overly long and under-edited books, many weighed down by prose poems. Some feel strident. These books sound like they began with a thesis, not a question": @derekmong.bsky.social in convo w/Jonathan Farmer via On The Seawall bit.ly/47vs87k
"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. It’s sneaky like that": @tobiascarroll.bsky.social on @delaneynolan.bsky.social 's novel HAPPY BAD via Astra House & On The Seawall
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