Book Review | Reduction in Force: Poems by Hugo dos Santos - Portuguese American Journal portuguese-american-journal.com/book-reducti...

"However we may recall the peak of quarantine, this collection of poems reminds us of how fiction and friendships helped us through uncertain times." ---The Lancet (medical journal) Quarantine Highway is on sale for only $7.20. www.amazon.com/Quarantine-H...

Spring is springing up

António Lobo Antunes, One of Europe’s Most revered Writers dies at 83. I met him in Lisbon when he gave a brilliant reading in Lisbon awhile back .

The Narcissist Told Me This Story About His Favorite Vacation www.pergolalit.com/poetry/milli...

Congrats to the AWP org. finalists.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Gail Wronsky and the Art of Listening Deeply On Mockingbird’s Proverbs, tonal precision, and a poetry of moral attention and luminous restraint richardmodiano241931.substack.com/p/gail-wrons...

Congrats to PEN Voelcker Award Poetry finalists! Death Does Not End at the Sea, Gbenga Adesina; Green of All Heads, Aracelis Girmay; Penitential Cries, Susan Howe ; New and Collected Hell, Shane McCrae; The Seeds, Cecily Parks pen.org/2026-pen-ame...

Now THIS is a protest song! www.facebook.com/reel/2363328...

Sending thanks to Diniz Borges for his close reading of “Good Tank Farms” as an Immigrant Landscape. "The poet’s tank farms are more than industrial containers—they are the secular saints of a working-class America rarely rendered with such intimacy. " filamentosarteseletras.art/2026/01/02/a...

"The Art of the Possible," my interview with poet Dana Gioia and his Portuguese translator Rosangela Batista is now out in the Jan/Feb 2026 issue of American Poetry Review. aprweb.org/issue-index/...

"A joy that wears down the rock of no" Cornelius Eady Delivers Chilling Poem "Proof" at Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration |AC14 Cornelius Eady Delivers Chilling Poem "Proof" at Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration |AC14

X - Goodbye Year, Goodbye (Official Music Video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I4H...

“I wish we had more blue-collar writers these days. Where are the Jack Londons? And the Steinbecks? Where are the writers who work on the dock? Where are stevedores, the longshoremen? The pipe fitters?” Making of a Poem: Millicent Borges Accardi on “Good Tank Farms”

Happy to announce my poem, "Good Tank Farms" is in the latest issue of The Paris Review. I am grateful to poetry editor Srikanth Reddy www.theparisreview.org/poetry/8441/...

Happy to have two poems in riverSedge Issue 38: "Calling it Even" and "From that Unbroken Sky" www.riversedgejournal.com/issue-38

Coming soon, January 11th

Charles Coe, RIP What a writer and what a solid decent person. Such a shock to hear the news. www.charlescoe.org/about

My heart goes out to Sharon Olds www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48565/...

Poetry Foundation announces the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second collection. The awardee will receive a prize of $10,000 l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...

Daijoubu (大丈夫) Dodger Blue!

Happy Halloween from Topanga

NEW Literary FUND Open call for general operating grant applications for Literary Arts opens Nov 1st. literaryartsfund.org/grants/

A new fund will route millions to the literary arts www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...

i was looking for a link and came across this Atticus interview I did with the wonderful Irish novelist Evelyn Conlon in 2023, What is Your Dream Residency? atticusreview.org/what-is-your...

Bluesky! I like the idea of you, and I found many writer friends I had misplaced when Twitter collapsed. . .but I never find myself lingering, scrolling, reading, finding interesting things here. I WANT to make this my home-- what am I missing?

Me feeling the autumn in the air

Thanks to the editors of Slipstream for including my poem "Still and Just" in Slipstream 45 www.slipstreampress.org/index.html

"For Peixoto, poetry is the medium that allows us to slow down, reflect, and gather the threads that constitute our being." from Irene Marques' review of José Luís Peixoto's poetry book Homecoming, translated by Hugo dos Santos (Arquipélago Press, 2024) worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

In my latest interview, Stephen Rebello kindly agreed to answer questions about his new book, Criss-Cross: The Making of Hitchcock’s Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train (2025). Join him on Sept 27th in Pasadena for a book signing portuguese-american-journal.com/stephen-rebe...

Congrats to all of the latest Barbara Deming Poetry grant winners. I was honored to have been a past Money for Women recipient. Special congratulations to my AWP Mentee Nina Peláez www.demingfund.org/awards?fbcli...

Interview with João Pedro Porto A. In Latin countries, necessity compels us to be rebellious and call for revolution from time to time. Anything else would be complacency and a gateway to rigid, devoid, and absolutist affairs. portuguese-american-journal.com/joao-pedro-p...

"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes 1930s allpoetry.com/Let-America-...

Thank you to editor Anthony Frame for featuring my poem, "Nothing Sentimental" in Glass: A Journal of Poetry today There is an audio of my reading of the poem as well. www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

No one is united and all things are untied. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ey5...

It's awful. People are being taken by force from the streets, from courts, from churches, from schools, from workplaces and sent "somewhere" with no access to an attorney, family, friends, or a phone. Anyone can be disappeared into the ocean or to a prison in Uganda, never to be heard from again.

More bad news on the arts front, Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program. Due to circumstances beyond our control and beyond the control of our 2025-2026 admitted fellows, we are unable to consider the following disciplines: Film and Video, Music, Playwriting, Poetry, and Visual Arts.

So much for the NEA. . . That is awful news. The NEA is cancelled. . . That grant changed my life. Everything good in America is being destroyed.

Thanks Cordite editors for featuring my poem! cordite.org.au/poetry/nothe... A Shoe, a Scarf, a Thimble Full of Faith – “ Border Tryptich,” Norma Cantú Outside, the hate copied and cropped in reverse as if people were trying to put together a construct by sorting out. . .

Come join in Casa da Saudade: Tertúlia da Casa A tertúlia is a social gathering where people come together to build community through discussion and intellectual exchange. Tertúlia da Casa on GoogleMeet Saturdays 12 - 1:00 PM (Boston time): newbedford-casadasaudade-ma.whofi.com/calendar/eve...

Just rec'd my contributor copy of the new Pessoa anthology where I am honored (and in shock) to have a poem alongside the likes of Ginsberg, Billy Collins, and Kay Ryan. madhat-press.com/products/in-...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS critical librarianship and AI-- Critical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Librarianship, an edited volume to be published by Litwin Books/Library Juice Press. sites.google.com/view/critlib...

Poet and CantoMundo founder CARMEN TAFOLLA is featured on "LEGUIZAMO DOES AMERICA in San Antonio " airing this Sunday! CARMEN TAFOLLA in the literary world, and SHELLY LARES in the Tejano music industry are featured. www.ksat.com/news/local/2...

@duolingo This is the 3rd time Duolingo awarded me 30 minutes of double points but no double points were given when I did a lesson. It is very disheartening. Why SAY you are awarding me double when you are not? #Duolingo

Birds, water, travel, and Pueblo The Laurel Review interviews poet Juan J. Morales @LaurelReview #cantomundo laurelreview.org/juan-j-moral...

Grateful thanks to Luke Rolfes for interviewing me in the Laurel Review, about how my poetry collection Quarantine Highway (FlowerSong Press) was conceived during a #CantoMundo 30 by 30 laurelreview.org/millicent-bo...

Thank you to everyone who signed the petition Great news! Casa da Saudade is SAVED!!! NEW BEDFORD – Mayor Jon Mitchell announced Tuesday that the Casa da Saudade Branch of the New Bedford Public Library will remain open to the public. www.newbedford-ma.gov/blog/news/ne...

Help save the Casa da Saudade library in New Bedford. Please take a moment to sign the petition-- 876 Verified signatures. Let’s get to 1000 signatures www.change.org/p/save-casa-...