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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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Christopher Nelson | lowercase gods lowercase gods by Christopher Nelson. Number 33 in our Robin Becker Chapbook Series, selected by series editor Steve Bellin-Oka. [ cover image from the film Sacré Collège! (Cadinot, …

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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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.?

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Now that’s a statement

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"Skyfall"—new audio poem up at Booth. Feels timely.
booth.butler.edu/2026/01/01/s...

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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!

#SmartishPace #pushcart #poetry #creativewriting #poet #poetrycommunity #poets #SmartishPacePoets #poetrylovers

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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.

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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.

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Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

Does the line of shameful acts "stretch out to th’ crack of doom?"

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from No One’s Woman - Asymptote TISSUE SAMPLE : PENELOPEpenelope waits waits for whatwaits penelope? does calypso wait circe wait scylla charybdis sirens wait all all for one only: the one the other—different fr...

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...

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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

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I reviewed Richard Siken's brilliant third book, which comes out this month from Copper Canyon Press. Not to be missed.

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Poets, Green Linden Press is reading manuscripts!
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The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

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Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza

Chip in.

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South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water **With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

Chip in if you're able.

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Pedestal Magazine » Christopher Nelson – Consequence

New poem at Pedestal.

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Less than one week remains to submit proposals for the $2500 Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship: greenlindenpress.com/submit

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NO WAR. "Good Faith" by Hasan Alizadeh (translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould). www.greenlindenpress.com/books/poetry... #iran

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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.

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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.

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Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

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Happy to share my interview with the inimitable Monica Ong on her new book Planetaria.
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