Hope and Wild Panic by Sean Ennis. A cloudy sky with a blue and red beta fish flying through it, a human with long haor in their face riding on top. Cover designed by Angelo Maneage.
Finally starting Hope and Wild Panic by @seanennis.bsky.social and I can already tell that @malarkeybooks.bsky.social published another banger (they all are, no matter when you get to them).
Magnificent
A shirtless man with a skull for a face holding in his outstretched arm a human head with a flower in its mouth. The person is standing in a collage of torn papers that look like waves. Text reads: after you're sick of the sea there's this: more sea
My brother turned the opening poem from HAIR SHIRT into a poster that was one of 50 selected to be displayed in a poster exhibition in Greece.
Drift, a novel by @abasketofcraig.bsky.social published under our Death of Print imprint, has won the Dactyl Award!
dactylreview.com/2026/04/14/d...
Having a beer with the author @joshuatrentbrown.com
Drift, a novel by @abasketofcraig.bsky.social published under our Death of Print imprint, has won the Dactyl Award!
dactylreview.com/2026/04/14/d...
Two bad newses this week, followed by a really good news. We’ll take it.
ANNOUNCEMENT: new cover for the upcoming second printing of my book @malarkeybooks.bsky.social
Photo of a slim book on a table, book cover has text Terrestrial A Novella by Suzy Eynon on it. Ceramic blue cactus next to book on table.
Back cover of book Terrestrial by Suzy Eynon with blurbs, on table next to small cactus
Screen shot from The Lost Boys movie of scene between two characters in a comic book store with dialogue text "Phoenix, actually."
Terrestrial will be out next month from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social! Grateful to Joey Hedger, Emily Costa, and Drew Buxton for the generous blurbs, and to early reviewers and readers 🛸🌵
malarkeybooks.com/store/terres...
Strange thing happens, when we don’t post about books for a while we don’t sell many books, so this is a post about books and fingers crossed it will help us sell some!
malarkeybooks.com/store
12 or 20 (second series) questions with LJ Pemberton / @ljabouttown.bsky.social @malarkeybooks.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/04/12-o...
“George might be dying, but he’ll live with me for a long time.”
Very kind review from one of my favorite fellow @malarkeybooks.bsky.social authors.
(Not that I’m picking favorites. Unless that’s okay)
poem stanza reading "this loop, there's a dive waiting there, pure and lore-less, a gas ball at the beginning of time, or memory, and inside, the first girl will be sitting there, drinking a whiskey, waiting for you to show up."
#NationalPoetryMonth reads: THUMBSUCKER from Kat Giordano & @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. boy I loved this uncomfortable, gutsy, often-gorgeous collection. an excerpt from "To the Rust Belt, With Love" (esp. for @lookuplookup.bsky.social ):
Maybe this is the moment you buy a copy of The Life of the Party is Harder to Find Until You're the Last One Around
Let it be known… the first book sold was White People (On Vacation) @alexmiller77.bsky.social
Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
I seesaw back and forth between something highly metrical and something free; there isn't any one way to write. But it seems to me we've gotten into a sort of Alexandrian age. Poets of my generation and particularly younger ones have gotten terribly proficient at these forms. They write a very musical, difficult poem with tremendous skill, perhaps there's never been such skill. Yet the writing seems divorced from the culture. It's become too much something specialized that can't handle much experience. It's become a craft, purely a craft, and there must be some breakthrough back into life.
One of the many memorable passages in Robert Lowell's "The Art of Poetry" interview with Frederick Seidel in the spring 1961 issue of The Paris Review.
Just finished Deliver Thy Pigs. Hot damn @joeyhedger.bsky.social ! More formal review to come but here’s a little piece from it that I liked a lot:
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
"I know her voice…from somewhere. This is bad. Put on the normie mask. Be friendly."
What happens when you run into someone you should know but your brain doesn't recognize faces?
In volume 2 of The Grift, at @malarkeybooks.bsky.social
jayparr.neocities.org/acting-normal
I finished this today! What a treat. Need to find a way to finagle this into some kind of blurb, but feel like fans of Sam Lipsyte, and Mike Nagel, and Richard Linklater('s hangout movies, especially) will especially love this!
'Hacks' Star Hannah Einbinder Blasts Al Creators as 'Losers': 'You Guys Suck... I Want to Put Your Head in the Toilet and Flush'
Bully boosters!
Baby book, all the way over in the Philippines 🥲 (from Instagram)
Update
hot
🙂 HJR forever!
Hero shit!
Sold more than 20 books today! Hell yeah!
Arrived today! The book everyone's talking about. Love the shout out to the HJR! Looking forward to reading this. HJR Forever! @joshuatrentbrown.com @malarkeybooks.bsky.social
You could buy these three from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social or @asterismbooks.bsky.social anytime btw.
Not just during AWP!