"The religious parallel is clear: both plerosis (filling) and kenosis (purging) must be achieved before reaching God. Paul Cunningham decrypts the cubes, only to uncover a 'flesh of code' and a 'cryptography of open pores' that cannot be wormed through" #Brillo www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/br...

"The painter paints." — #PaulThek www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/br...

#Brillo Available November 15, 2025 from Lavender Ink www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/br...

Coming soon.

My next book, #Brillo, is forthcoming from #NOLA press Lavender Ink. (Cover reveal coming soon!) 'Brillo' is a book-length meditation on #PaulThek's "Meat Piece with #Warhol Brillo Box" (1965) philamuseum.org/collection/o...

new poetry & more new poetry 📚📚📚 #books #recommendations #poems

'The Beach' (2000) Directed by Danny Boyle

Equal parts exercise and exorcism, #AncientAlgorithms recasts translation as an endlessly generative art form unto itself. Katrine Øgaard Jensen mistranslates, rewrites, and remixes her award-winning translations of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s poetry! www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

***NOW AVAILABLE TO PREORDER*** Grateful to Katrine for having invited me to be part of #AncientAlgorithms w/ so many #translators and friends whom I greatly admire: CAConrad, Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, Baba Badji, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen herself! www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

RIP Graham Greene 'Clearcut' (1991) Directed by Ryszard Bugajski youtu.be/154H6Le43xE?...

On September 18, I'll be introducing IDENTIKIT (starring #ElizabethTaylor and #AndyWarhol) at Notre Dame's Browning Cinema at 9:30pm. (Adult tickets: $7 / Senior Tickets: $5 / Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB students.) More info available at: performingarts.nd.edu/event/18620/...

We are driving good people to the limits of their very being. For what? For "whoppers"? A sandwich that contains 911 mg of sodium. The American Heart Association recommends no more than 1,500 mg of sodium per day. America is a death cult. youtu.be/Xz2HDtROMvs?...

To date, five favorite runway shows: 5. Rick Owens ('14) youtube.com/watch?v=TirA... 4. Westwood ('93) youtube.com/watch?v=2qKI... 3. Thom Browne ('24) youtube.com/live/LA4cKrH... 2. Versace ('91) youtu.be/V8LLeYdOfSw?... 1. McQueen ('01) youtube.com/watch?v=XFrn... pic.x.com/z63hcU0Adz

"and there you are, ceiling / with all the flies, future" Thanks M. Forajter for publishing two of my poems ("To Lift" and "Night Shift") in this sublime new "Art & Annihilation" issue of @thearsonista.bsky.social. So many kindred spirits are here, too! 🖤 ❤️‍🔥 burninghousepress.com/2025/08/01/a...

Thanks @nataliesolmer.bsky.social for featuring some ekphrasis I fashioned for The Indianapolis Review! A poem inspired by @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social and the insect-flecked Schiaparelli piece below. And "Cipher": inspired by the late Alber Elbaz's own glittering swarm: theindianapolisreview.com

"Ferocious and unsparing" — Jonathan Crary "It's VHS culture, the irrational exuberance of Ryan Trecartin" — Joyelle McSweeney "Every new Paul Cunningham book is different than the one that came before it and all of them rule" — Benjamin Niespodziany thediagram.com/merch/produc...

"shout them at full volume because imagineering because fantazmorgrophobing inside the portal because with machine for real" Thanks David Brennan for this experimental microreview of SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 (@eldiagram.bsky.social) fckyrbookclub.substack.com/p/sociocide-... #poetry #reviews #books

Congratulations Gabriel Gudding! FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE has won the 2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award! Judge Roger Sedarat writes: "Gudding has effectively translated through a prism of punk, allowing himself, like his source poet, to remain an agent of fire.” poets.org/academy-amer...

Before I forget, this month marks the 5-year anniversary of my debut book: THE HOUSE OF THE TREE OF SORES! Many thanks to everyone who's read and/or reviewed it over the years. Still very fond of this review by James Pate: tskymag.com/2022/09/paul... #IKEA #Sweden #Poetry #Books

I'll be reading online tonight alongside other contributors at 5:30pm EST / 4:30pm CDT in celebration of issue 49.2 of Spoon River Poetry Review! Register at the link below: illinoisstate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thank you @neonpajamas.bsky.social! 🙏🤪 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Maison Margiela “Artisanal” by Glenn Martens | Haute Couture Fall Winter 2025/2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsW...

Nathan is a dear friend. I was so happy to see this review of his debut in Publishers Weekly: "Dixon’s scathing debut collection skewers the hypocrisy and bad faith of American conservative politics from Nixon to Trump" www.publishersweekly.com/9781960145499

This Friday @ 7pm! I'll be reading in Durham, NC with Ellen Boyette, Nathan Dixon, and Laura Jaramillo! See you at The Fuzzy Needle Records & Books! thefuzzyneedle.com

Ordered @p-cunning.bsky.social’s Sociocide at the 24/7. Cannot wait!

"Merry Christmas" 'Tangerine' (2015) Directed by Sean Baker

Cole Escola has T-Bone from Grindr, and*I* have Aaron from Goodreads. Thank you Aaron! 🙏🫶 goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Keep 'em coming www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p4B...

Mind-blowing new show ("Temple") from @rickowensonline.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3o5...

Excited to read in Durham, NC next month with Ellen Boyette, Nathan Dixon, and Laura Jaramillo! See you at The Fuzzy Needle Records & Books on Friday, July 11! www.thefuzzyneedle.com

'Love & Mercy' (2014) Directed by Bill Pohlad RIP Brian Wilson www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k_f...

Another new episode of Writing The Rapids is out! I got to talk to @neonpajamas.bsky.social about his writing and new press! It was really fascinating to talk to someone who does the whole being a writer thing so much different than I do. Illuminated and inspiring. open.spotify.com/episode/6jzx...

Here- first teaser. Much more to come…

Thanks to @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social for inviting me back to his Writing the Rapids #podcast to chat about my latest book SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 (now available from @eldiagram.bsky.social) open.spotify.com/episode/368u... #poetry #books #interviews

New Writing The Rapids day! Remember flarf? @p-cunning.bsky.social does! I love Paul's new book, and chatting with him about it, perhaps you will too.

"#AndrewFelsher’s NOTES FROM A PRISON CELL (Bottlecap Press, 2023) follows the thoughts and observations of an art installation located on a mountaintop. The art installation is known as “the prison cell” and it exists as its own self-aware entity" paulcunninghamwrites.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/n...

I'm going to start sharing mini-reviews of #poetry chapbooks more regularly on my blog. I thought I'd kick things off with @isabelboutiette.bsky.social's PARADISE HD (available from Spiral Editions): paulcunninghamwrites.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/r... #IsabelBoutiette #Chapbooks

| Literary Feature | Sniffing Candles & Building a Bench // An Interview with Writer & Translator Hedgie Choi www.neonpajamas.com/blog/hedgie-... @uwiscpress.bsky.social / @actionbooks.bsky.social / @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social

Had an excellent time talking about art, pop culture, and poetry on my panel with @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, Jeff Alessandrelli, and @saint-remus.bsky.social at this year's New Orleans Poetry Festival!

BOYLAND (2015) Directed by Gabe Rubin and Felix Bernstein RIP #KevinKillian

Notre Dame invites applications for a full-time one-year visiting assistant professorship in #CreativeWriting - #Poetry to begin August 25, 2025. Secondary expertise in translation; multilingual or international writing; and/or hybrid forms is optimal. Learn more: apply.interfolio.com/165208

"The Art Life": Joyelle has an article up at Poetry Foundation about Tove Ditlevsen (and David Lynch). www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/166...

thanks to Cody for spending some time w/ midnight minutes! @actionbooks.bsky.social @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social

action will be at AWP! booth 549 come check out new titles! offsite reading happening on friday, march 28, 6-10 pm.

"In the month of October I witnessed the inimitable vibration of the wings of a hummingbird."

'Naked Lunch' (1991) Directed by #DavidCronenberg

"she's so beautiful i'm crying into my echo mic under a lilac bush in some reese's pieces backyard in some forgotten 90s" SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 is now available from @eldiagram.bsky.social! $15 shipping + digital copy thediagram.com/merch/produc... #pop #poetry #beyonce #kanye #taylorswift #adele

Ever-grateful for Dennis Cooper! denniscooperblog.com/5-books-i-re...

Some friends and followers are recently realizing that the first poem of my new book #Sociocide at the 24/7 (@eldiagram.bsky.social) is also actually the last poem of my second book #FallGarment: Available here: www.amazon.com/Fall-Garment... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqan...