I have a poem in the new @new-sinews.bsky.social, thanks to @illepitaph.bsky.social. The poem — Grains of Rice — is long, complicated; traces inheritances, internalizations, and overlapping violences in my family's history (in Guangzhou, Hiroshima); and takes place at a Wendy's in New Jersey.

new_sinews issue9 is now live ... FEATURING: @zebulonhourse.bsky.social <> Hannah Brooks-Motl + @israelbonilla.bsky.social >< Lisa Hsiao Chen + @brandonshimoda.bsky.social <> Zachary Gary + Gabriel Palacios >< Amelia Moriarty + Zack Darsee <> @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social newnewsinews.com/issue9

@new-sinews.bsky.social issue 9 starts with my short ”Shortbread”, and in great company www.newnewsinews.com/issue9

Many thanks to Steve Barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social l at new_sinews for giving such a perfect home to “fragmen - lamen / tations,” an essay from my forthcoming collection, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl (17 Feb 2026 from @graywolfpress.bsky.social). www.newnewsinews.com/tations

There's a new excerpt from my first novel, Our Saturnalias, over at @new-sinews.bsky.social. A warm thank you to @illepitaph.bsky.social. You can read it here: newnewsinews.com/issue9/actaeon

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coolly compulsive neo-epistolary novel ... chockfull of comically curlicuing texture ... with the amazingly assured artificiality of the "letter-ness" branching into all manner of reverberant riffs regarding the present day's ridiculousness

He could not remember where he had heard it before, the idea of one side of the Pacific as dream, the other reality. But which was reality and which dream? @alvinlu.bsky.social ~ THE WHITE ALBUM ~ new_sinews_issue8 newnewsinews.com/album

"Squall Path" ... a horizontally-printed poem by new_sinews contributor Yongyu Chen in Volume 59 Number 1 of Denver Quarterly 🧐

The rain which had just topped o’er… The rain which continued to unveil in the hopes of solar switch… The rain which was a bead… The rain which saw a death… Elise Houcek ~ 8 POEMS ~ new_sinews_issue8 newnewsinews.com/houcek

Today's Featured Poem: An excerpt from A Seam of Electricity by Ian U Lockaby (@ursalockaby.bsky.social), published by Ghost Proposal (@ghostproposal.bsky.social). Read here: poems.com/poem/a-seam-...

someone came to the AWP table Thursday & i was showing 'em new_sinews on my laptop.. then they came back Friday saying they'd rlly enjoyed reading the site ... esp. "Father Figure" by Andrea Harper.. total new_sinews staple! a kind of technofable.. newnewsinews.com/father

Video of a reading I gave during the @new-sinews.bsky.social offsite reading at AWP! This is an excerpt from my book 'The Veldt Institute', forthcoming with Double Negative Press in September 2025. Thanks to Jesse Chappelle (video) and Steve Barbaro (organizer) youtu.be/o01D7MI6Vs4

new_sinews stalwart Gabriel Palacios mesmerizing the rather raucous crowd @ the @fonografeditions.bsky.social ++ Futurepoem ++ Wonder reading last Saturday evening ... @ the charismatic Now Instant Image Hall in Chinatown LA🧐🔊

First time to read from my upcoming novel Daydreamers last week. Thank you @nameofauthor.bsky.social @illepitaph.bsky.social @fictioncollective2.bsky.social @taiwaneseamerican.bsky.social for inviting me. And thank you @alinaetc.bsky.social and @neonpajamas.bsky.social for the pics!

Me and @addisonzeller.bsky.social at the @new-sinews.bsky.social event, reading in sync from a parallel simultaneous-text section of my forthcoming novel, Daydreamers. Thanks Addison and @illepitaph.bsky.social for hosting!

1st piece for new_sinews issue9 hath been secured! exciting.. tons of work 2 go 2 follow issue8.. meantime submissions are rather ajar.. open to anything ofc.. but especially: longer form fiction & essays ... details: newnewsinews.com/about

We'll be at #AWP25, hanging at T925 with @new-sinews.bsky.social! And if you're just around for readings, well, we have an easy and excellent option for your Thursday night, too, featuring contributors Timmy Straw, @aditimachado.bsky.social, Monroe Lawrence, Talin Tahajian, and Tasia Trevino!

A passage from Sleep Decades: asterismbooks.com/product/slee...

another gem from the archives—& to my mind somehow maybe *the* essential anchor-text orienting everything new_sinews has published ... a poem sprawling amazingly assuredly into its own vast uncategorizability ... RETRIEVE THE DUSK by Vi Khi Nao newnewsinews.com/dusk

Keep an eye out for @alvinlu.bsky.social's novel DAYDREAMERS, coming in July! You can pre-order now! www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366212...

you are like a painting I could’ve grown up with if I were plantagenet and wouldn’t replace the problems I had with the problems you would bring me Valerie Hsiung ~ 9 poems ~ new_sinews_issue8 www.newnewsinews.com/issue8/drug

March 27, Los Angeles, in the Neuromantic-sounding neighborhood of Skid-Tokyo, a bit of the Old Hollywood glamour and menace …

new_sinews Skid Tokyo awp offsite reading!! 3/27 @ The Escondite in downtown LA .. 410 Boyd Street ... doors 5 reading 6 (5-8 also === Happy Hour @ The Escondite) .. featuring: Gabriel Palacios ... @alvinlu.bsky.social ... Allison Hummel @illepitaph.bsky.social ... @perfidiousscript.bsky.social

For several moments, they drily rub their mouths against each other. The audience oooohs and aaaaahs. They pull away from each other, completely placid. Abigail Denton ~ POST-CREDITS SCENE ~ new_sinews_issue8 newnewsinews.com/credits

There's one more day of our micro-reading period for submissions to our upcoming folio, "American Poetry & Poetics, 2008–2025"—send your essays (or if not an essay, a very thought through query) by March 1st! annuletpoeticsjournal.com/CFP-American...

from the archive: issue5: fires, deities, labyrinths, biodata, villages, notebooks, foxes, borders, fate, torture, solitude, pics, fires, wine, privacy, blurs, ancestors, titanomachy, icecream, hell, sun, fires, owls, souls +++++ newnewsinews.com/issue5

"At the base of the interface I witness a cinematic series of dreams. The shift from sitemap to labyrinthine floor plans. The excavation of the digital badlands..." mike_corrao ~ THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF VIRTUAL SPACES ~ from the archives newnewsinews.com/corrao

The discourse: a treaty that a trick of light undoes. When I peer off toward what seems to be its edge’s lip, I meet in me a whirl of faces looking aside & smirking intermittently Logan Fry ~ 6 poems ~ new_sinews_issue8 newnewsinews.com/fry

you should read new_sinews issue8 if you've not already ... so many modes of substantial writing—poems; fiction; an essay; even 2 plays ... & all types of temporality too—the present; the future; even antiquity newnewsinews.com/issue8

Are we in the disaster? We are. A reality we don’t need to read about. We can’t even imagine how it could be worse than it is. We can’t even imagine how bad it truly is half the time. @carystough.bsky.social ~ NAILS ~ new_sinews_issue8 www.newnewsinews.com/nails

Maitonaut @kuuhulluutta.bsky.social From Perfect Blue remix to Kunming nighttrain moodboard, these poems/stories seem out of a young woman's cyborg-eroguro vision of literature, "unmeasured by cartographers". Sign you've encountered something great tho: you realize you're doing it all wrong.

this has been a year of obsessing over various milky substances maitonaut, my dairy girl elegy from august (new_sinews), remains widely available online: newnewsinews.com/books/maitonaut a more botanical afterimage is under cultivation xx

Billy Mills reviews a slew of new poem-books including my debut, PLANE OF CONSUMMATE FINITUDE ... Mills finds PLANE "a reviewer’s nightmare of a book" (fair enough!).. yet Mills still claims the book's "definitely 1 of the most interesting visual/poetry (or visual poetry) ones I’ve read in a while"

Around language, what is it that giant mass, darkly calcifying, now obdurate, but not unalterable. Yongyu Chen ~ 5 poems ~ new_sinews_issue8 newnewsinews.com/issue8/memory

An excerpt from Our Saturnalias: www.newnewsinews.com/issue8/bonilla. I recommend following @new-sinews.bsky.social: it's a first-rate magazine with a great writer as its editor.

check it out: "Father Figure" by Andrea Harper—the first piece i took for issue8 ... & what pushed me into really getting going on the issue ... a kind of ominous techno-fairy-tale.. robustly cynical on several fronts newnewsinews.com/issue8/father

don't think i ever even posted this here but—my 1st book is out.. PLANE OF CONSUMMATE FINITUDE.. poems on top of photomontage backgrounds.. glossy pages ++ rambunctious assemblings.. all written & designed by me.. ~15 years in the making! www.newnewsinews.com/plane

MAITONAUT by Kaisa Saarinen out now!! order link below ... fiction+++poetry🥳—& an ideally sui generis extension of the new_sinews reality ... file under: Herbs; Sacrifice; Knives; Milk; Horizons; Metamorphoses; Masks; Ghosts +++++++ newnewsinews.com/books/maitonaut

new_sinews ... ... issue8 ... ... is now live ... ... FEATURING: Andrea Harper + Yongyu Chen + Cary Stough + Logan Fry + Abigail Denton + Valerie Hsiung + Alvin Lu + Elise Houcek + Gabriel Palacios + Israel Bonilla newnewsinews.com/issue8

arriving 8/23 via new_sinews ... MAITONAUT by Kaisa Saarinen ... cover art by @illepitaph.bsky.social

Words increase, they cannot be increased, they incarnate now to warrant due Matthew Moore ~ 7_POEMS ~ new_sinews_issue7 www.newnewsinews.com/moore

"No longer restrained by the weight of being, no longer bound by the fear of noncoporeality, she lets herself expand outwards, engulfing the bamboo & the glade" @juliashiota.bsky.social ~ DRAMATIS PERSONAE ~ new_sinews_issue7 www.newnewsinews.com/personae

"Light penetrates the occipital, but without effect. There is no audience. The theater is empty." Mike Corrao ~ PSALMIST KAPUT [ENTRANCE] ~ new_sinews_issue7 newnewsinews.com/kaput

"YOU HAVE TO RUN FOR YOUR LIFE AS IF IT WASN’T ALREADY OVER, DON’T YOU THINK IT ABSURD WHEN YOU’RE ON MILES AND MILES OF CLOUD AND HE’S BEHIND YOU, THE TOWERING ANGEL WITH COTTON IN HIS EARS" @ahdaradara.bsky.social ~ NEEDLE STALKED ~ new_sinews_issue7 newnewsinews.com/needle

"Watching myself uninhibited with a vacant, open-casket face. Seated calmly before the computer, then moving to the strung, speared machine." Nora Wall ~ AUTOMATION ~ new_sinews_issue7 www.newnewsinews.com/automation

"The sound turns air into low cloud, up then sunk, wrung out." @syntacticon.bsky.social ~ PROOF ~ new_sinews_issue7 newnewsinews.com/proof

so ... FYI ... submissions for full length manuscripts are now OPEN ... fiction + poems + nonfiction ... looking for immodest imaginative books & not in a hurry—just wanna find the right projects ... greatly appreciate any sharing of this news ... guidelines: newnewsinews.com/about

"I told my son a disappointing story, a story, he said, that was no good." gabriel_blackwell ~ SCENERY +++ BEDTIME ~ from the archives newnewsinews.com/blackwell