Tomorrow night I'll be introducing Dennis Hinrichsen as he reads (via Zoom) from his new book, dementia lyrics. Join us. Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 p.m. (Central). Register here: tinyurl.com/bdfy622v
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Tick-tock tick-tock! Green Linden Press is reading poetry chapbook manuscripts for a couple more days.
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I'm tickled pink to say that my new chap is available from Seven Kitchens. Many thanks to Ron Mohring and Steve Bellin-Oka.
"What sumptuous landscapes of attraction and hurt lowercase gods makes visceral and real." —Richie Hofmann
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My review of Shane McCrae's recent chapbook, Song and Sonnets (Broken Sleep Books), which is somehow horrifying and beautiful, and meets the present moment with mimetic brilliance. www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...
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One month remains in Green Linden Press's chapbook open-reading period! We'd love to read your work!
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& do some good to help Trans Maryland!! Tip donations at the door.
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It's a pretty chart, but it doesn't hold water when you compare the statements; for instance, how does the Buttigieg message score -4 when it is an example of the kind of corruption talked about in the top four, which scored +22, +17, etc.?
Now that’s a statement
"Skyfall"—new audio poem up at Booth. Feels timely.
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Thank you @mariannelchan.bsky.social, Leslie Harrison, @michaelmontlack.bsky.social, @christophernelson.bsky.social, Gregory Orr, and Amy Raasch for sending great poems to Smartish Pace!
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Poets, it's twilight time!
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Join us tonight, 8:00 p.m. (Central)!
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Does the line of shameful acts "stretch out to th’ crack of doom?"
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
Delighted to share translations from a project I'm working on with the amazing @monikacassel.bsky.social: four poems from Barbara Köhler's Niemands Frau, a brilliant, hallucinatory re-telling of the Odyssey. Thanks to Asymptote for believing in the work.
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/no-on...
Spilt by Jordan Stempleman is now available! Winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize for poetic innovation. Join Green Linden Press for a reading tonight (Sept. 18 at 8 p.m., Central). Register here: tinyurl.com/2h83ehfb
And get your book here: www.greenlindenpress.com/books/spilt
I reviewed Richard Siken's brilliant third book, which comes out this month from Copper Canyon Press. Not to be missed.
www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...
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Poets, Green Linden Press is reading manuscripts!
greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit
The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too
Less than one week remains to submit proposals for the $2500 Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship: greenlindenpress.com/submit
NO WAR. "Good Faith" by Hasan Alizadeh (translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould). www.greenlindenpress.com/books/poetry... #iran
Donald Trump’s fascism couldn’t exist today if we weren’t a country where George W. Bush could just disappear into cozy, pleasant retirement, make a few public appearances a year, & enjoy 52% approval, as if eight years of lies, crimes, constitutional violations, & policy negligence never happened.
End the war. "Pattern" by Garous Abdolmalekian (translated by Ahmad Nadalizadeh & Idra Novey)
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The "I'll lower costs and get us out of endless wars" candidate is now presiding over surging costs and brand new wars.
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
Happy to share my interview with the inimitable Monica Ong on her new book Planetaria.
www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...