"No / scrying, no crying—there are / no exquisite exits. / You can fail this relentless every day of your life." Cate Lycurgus, from "Deliverance" SEACLIFF on-sale 10/14 buff.ly/NFCxkNi

🌪️"But if you walk through the baby / twisters, your eyes are the only parts / of your body that feel the dirt." from GOD-DAMNED EDEN by James Daniels on-sale now! buff.ly/fgmanXj

🎙️CATE LYCURGUS will take the stage on October 11 at BCP Presents along with Adam O’Fallon Price and Golden Age Comedy! Come out for our free monthly reading at METTLESOME THEATER | doors 6.45p | details buff.ly/KBM0TGj

🎉#HappyPubDay James Daniels with GOD-DAMNED EDEN on-sale TODAY! Get your copy of this amazing issue of INCH now --> buff.ly/fgmanXj

🎉#HappyPubDay James Daniels with GOD-DAMNED EDEN on-sale TODAY! Get your copy of this amazing issue of INCH now --> buff.ly/fgmanXj

Celebrating NC authors! Your favorite writers from close to home now collected in a specially-priced bundle! EIGHT titles for only $60! buff.ly/HaWlYe5

🎙️DURHAM! October 11: Cate Lycurgus & Adam O’Fallon Price with Golden Age Comedy | Mettlesome Theater | free | doors 6.45 | details: buff.ly/KBM0TGj

🎙️DURHAM! October 11: Cate Lycurgus & Adam O’Fallon Price with Golden Age Comedy | Mettlesome Theater | free | doors 6.45 | details: buff.ly/KBM0TGj

www.instagram.com/p/DPA-Ovcjsx... Arrived home today after volunteering at The Bookmark (used bookshop of Friends of @oaklibrary.bsky.social ) to the best kind of mail from @bullcitypress.com 📚📦 Thanks to @emilydickinson.bsky.social for hosting Matt Donovan & Jenny George during ✨TIS last week🤍

SEACLIFF by Cate Lycurgus | coming Oct 14 | #PreOrder buff.ly/NFCxkNi This testament of perseverance invites us to submit to—and to celebrate—the vast vigor of our planet. Here, alongside the Northern California coast, Seacliff offers a path, one lyric runner of shine, out to a fresh horizon.

Our Massachusetts authors are REPRESENTING: Maggie Cooper, Matt Donovan, Jennifer Funk, Jenny George, & Anna VQ Ross | normally 69.95 get ALL FIVE for only $40! Check out bundles: buff.ly/7iyNmav

🎙️DURHAM! the line-up is confirmed and the date is set! Get on the invite list for this fall's House Party coming October 25 featuring readers: Xhenet Aliu, Vishwas Gaitonde, Timothy O’Keefe, & Matt Poindexter | free event at Durham-area private home | invites: buff.ly/8J3KTD9

🎉We're thrilled to announce the next four INCH authors: James Daniels, Adam Berlin, Judy Allison Caldwell, and Alison Lubar! Subscribe now to get all four issues: buff.ly/lMlmaBY

#PreOrderNow GOD-DAMNED EDEN speaks to the tension within a place that is both deeply flawed and deeply loved. Like the fallen earth in scripture, Selma is marked by human shortcomings and struggles, yet it remains beloved, resilient, and layered with beauty. on-sale 9/30 | buff.ly/fgmanXj

"On a shelf between photos of his family sits a row of dusty candles / a father never lights." ...begins this new poem "Bedtime Story for a Father" from BCP poet Alejandro Lucero—author of SAPELLO SON—up at ECOTONE now! check it out: buff.ly/7pZUcIh

#PreOrderNow GOD-DAMNED EDEN speaks to the tension within a place that is both deeply flawed and deeply loved. Like the fallen earth in scripture, Selma is marked by human shortcomings and struggles, yet it remains beloved, resilient, and layered with beauty. on-sale 9/30 | buff.ly/9bHYEFu

SEACLIFF by Cate Lycurgus | coming Oct 14 | #PreOrder buff.ly/JwSfTd0 This testament of perseverance invites us to submit to—and to celebrate—the vast vigor of our planet. Here, alongside the Northern California coast, Seacliff offers a path, one lyric runner of shine, out to a fresh horizon.

TONIGHT! Durham NC BCP Presents James Daniels & Stephanie Elizondo Griest with Golden Age Comedy | doors 6.45p | free

TONIGHT! Durham NC BCP Presents James Daniels & Stephanie Elizondo Griest with Golden Age Comedy | doors 6.45p | free

TONIGHT! Durham NC BCP Presents James Daniels & Stephanie Elizondo Griest with Golden Age Comedy | doors 6.45p | free

TONIGHT! Durham NC BCP Presents James Daniels & Stephanie Elizondo Griest with Golden Age Comedy | doors 6.45p | free

"It’s not fun to see writers reading work live. Because our writers can’t perform. All that our writers know is how to do is string together some metaphors, avoid using adverbs. Our writers can’t captivate an audience like storytellers once could. How Lady Gaga can." available now: buff.ly/or2qi1Q

DURHAM we'll see you tomorrow night at Mettlesome Theater with James Daniels, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, & Golden Age Comedy! free| doors 6.45p buff.ly/7jm1CDp

DURHAM we'll see you tomorrow night at Mettlesome Theater with James Daniels, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, & Golden Age Comedy! free| doors 6.45p buff.ly/7jm1CDp

LaPine explores the provocative dangers & tantalizing pleasures of corporeality across five deeply personal essays. Resonating with a distinct, lyrical Midwestern sensibility, LaPine’s work examines with tenderness the intersections of language, society, & the body. | Available now: buff.ly/RBacAYt

"Black-blotted sun is beamin’ / in the morning sky. Teachers prolly sweatin’ / cuz it’s hot, we skippin’ again, and they / ain’t neva seen a sun black as us." James Daniels, from "Paint the Town Black: Sunday School " GOD-DAMNED EDEN #ComingSoon buff.ly/cFTwrnb

DURHAM! the line-up is confirmed and the date is set! Get on the invite list for this fall's House Party coming October 25 featuring readers: Xhenet Aliu, Vishwas Gaitonde, Timothy O’Keefe, & Matt Poindexter | free event at Durham-area private home | invites: buff.ly/QNAyrvb

🎉We're thrilled to announce the next four INCH authors: James Daniels, Adam Berlin, Judy Allison Caldwell, and Alison Lubar! Subscribe now to get all four issues: buff.ly/p0GLNXo CORRECTION: in our haste, we misspelled Alison Lubar's name in our earlier posts, our apologies to Alison. xo

Our Massachusetts authors are REPRESENTING: Maggie Cooper, Matt Donovan, Jennifer Funk, Jenny George, & Anna VQ Ross | normally 69.95 get ALL FIVE for only $40! Check out bundles: buff.ly/LxZQz8j

🎙️DURHAM This Saturday! September 13: BCP Presents at Mettlesome Theater: James Daniels & Stephanie Elizondo Griest w Golden Age Comedy | free | 6.45p | details buff.ly/7jm1CDp

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SEACLIFF by Cate Lycurgus | coming Oct 14 | #PreOrder buff.ly/7h95L4S This testament of perseverance invites us to submit to—and to celebrate—the vast vigor of our planet. Here, alongside the Northern California coast, Seacliff offers a path, one lyric runner of shine, out to a fresh horizon.

"My project of staying alive is one passed down. Before me, my aunt and grandmother, and more women beyond. " Don't miss this remarkable interrogation on writing & creativity by BCP poet Leila Chatti up at LIT HUB now: buff.ly/K9IPiNC

🎙️DURHAM we'll see you this Saturday (9/13) for BCP Presents featuring NC poet and literary organizer (Spartan City Hip-Hop Cypher, Griot & Grey Owl Black Southern Writers Conference) JAMES DANIELS, author of GOD-DAMNED EDEN | Mettlesome Theater | 6:45p doors | free buff.ly/04LNO8n

🎙️DURHAM we'll see you this Saturday (9/13) for BCP Presents featuring the globe-trotting, Moth story-telling, NYT & Washington Post writer STEPHANIE ELIZONDO GRIEST! Mettlesome Theater | 6:45p doors | free buff.ly/04LNO8n

Just WHO is Michael Martone?!? Compare for yourself in this bundle of Matt Baker's INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MARTONE and MEMORANDA by the enigma himself! buff.ly/zEVlwlE

Add your name to our Reading Series email list to receive details about this fall's House Party: coming in October and held at a Durham-area home; this evening of food, friends, and great performances is one not to miss! buff.ly/04LNO8n

"Sweat bubbling down / to their dark shins / and wrapping ‘round their staccato toes / tip-tapping on momma’s broke tile" James Daniels, from "Blues and Bicycles " GOD-DAMNED EDEN #ComingSoon *Durham-area: see Daniels at BCP Presents on 9/13 Mettlesome Theater buff.ly/cFTwrnb

"Little dust / tornadoes followed the kids home; / small things fake importance / here. But if you walk through the baby / twisters, your eyes are the only parts / of your body that feel the dirt." James Daniels, from "We Are All Starved for Touch" GOD-DAMNED EDEN #ComingSoon buff.ly/bzXQVoe

Add your name to our Reading Series email list to receive details about this fall's House Party: coming in October and held at a Durham-area home, this evening of food, friends, and great performances is one not to miss! buff.ly/04LNO8n

Big shout-out to BCP poet LEILA CHATTI on the release of WILDNESS BEFORE SOMETHING SUBLIME (Copper Canyon Press)!! check it out buff.ly/ylBdNxl

"We are in the trophy room, facing a wall of glass-eyed, / lacquered things, when he says, 'I will never understand / this country’s obsession with hunting.'" catch this latest poem from BCP poet Jim Whiteside in the new issue of POETRY MAGAZINE: buff.ly/iTftuw5

"Black-blotted sun is beamin’ / in the morning sky. Teachers prolly sweatin’ / cuz it’s hot, we skippin’ again, and they / ain’t neva seen a sun black as us." James Daniels, from "Paint the Town Black: Sunday School " GOD-DAMNED EDEN #ComingSoon buff.ly/bzXQVoe

🎙️ DURHAM Saturday, September 13: BCP Presents at Mettlesome Theater: James Daniels & Stephanie Elizondo Griest w Golden Age Comedy | free | 6.45p | details buff.ly/04LNO8n

Get a full helping of flash fiction in this INCH Fiction Bundle featuring 8 issues of "latter-day" INCH along with the 3-eBook set of INCH: "the early years"—includes work by Khadijah Queen, Stace Budzko, Michael McFee, Glenn Shaheen, & many more! buff.ly/CnEmeR4

"Unsure what builds at their backs none can look for what will carry forth since where you want to go always ends" Cate Lycurgus, from "Surfers" SEACLIFF 🌊 #ComingSoon buff.ly/pRv36jq

"All I know is: it will happen. W.S. Merwin wrote that, once a year, we live through the anniversary of our deaths without realizing, and that thought makes my heart beat slower. Somehow, it gives all this more meaning." John LaPine, AN UNSTABLE CONTAINER | get your copy buff.ly/53QqX8q

"Direct your eye right inward and you’ll find / only Walden ice / and stick after stick" WE ARE NOT WHERE WE ARE An Erasing of Thoreau’s Walden, Matt Donovan & Jenny George | get your copy: buff.ly/ol5izww

“If I have to submit to being interviewed,” Martone wrote to me, “I’d prefer to do so in the company of a mystic society with a penchant for séance.” #Natch | get the book/eBook: buff.ly/9ITYv0l AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MARTONE, Matt Baker

"5. / In my seventh job interview, / I strung my locs back— / everyone is hiding / something. These black ropes / hide the way I choke myself." James Daniels, from "Hiding" GOD-DAMNED EDEN #ComingSoon buff.ly/bzXQVoe *Durham-area: see Daniels at BCP Presents on 9/13 Mettlesome Theater