An essay on Ezra Pound, John Milton, music and poetry in Socrates on the Beach. @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social socratesonthebeach.com/eric-racher

Since I find myself missing the sea today— A thread of writing published in 2025, beginning with the latest: excerpts in Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social from An Absence of Sea, forthcoming in April 2026 with @erratumpress.bsky.social socratesonthebeach.com/christina-an...

In September, a being-and-breathing-with essay review of Medha Singh’s @medhawrites.bsky.social phenomenal poetry collection, Afterbody, for Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social socratesonthebeach.com/christina-tu...

Reviewed the new Bergen for @reviewcanada.bsky.social reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...

Extremely happy to share this short story, with special thanks to Garielle Lutz for her commentary and for putting it up on Hobart. Written just as I tackled a Poussin essay, it bears those traces... www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/x

Excited to share new work.

The twelfth issue of Socrates on the Beach is live. Thank you to the authors and the translator and those who helped with the issue. socratesonthebeach.com

In the candlelight of a Bachelardian dream, I offer these fragments to you as one might offer a confession: a letter to the Other—lover, double, sea, or time itself. For the newest issue of Socrates on the Beach and forthcoming with Erratum Press. socratesonthebeach.com/christina-an...

My gratitude to @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social and @ansgarallen.bsky.social @erratumpress.bsky.social for their enduring belief in my writing.

Feeling honoured, after working and reworking this stuff for years, trying to lean fully into the way my brain works and create a style that works with that, to have @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social accept this piece for his wonderful Socrates on the Beach. socratesonthebeach.com

The first full review of In the Suavity of the Rock is out (a couple on goodreads). Thanks to Paul and Metropolitan Review. It's an honor to be read and criticized and celebrated this closely. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/undelivere...

Always awed by @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social's prose, and looking forward to this book by @medhawrites.bsky.social. Thoroughly enjoyed her previous work, Ecdysis. socratesonthebeach.com/christina-tu...

Long essay on Poussin from the Art and Time book. Other pieces coming in Cluny Journal and Liberties. greg-gerke.medium.com/poussin-in-m...

For Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social a review of Medha Singh's @medhawrites.bsky.social's new poetry collection, Afterbody, published by Blue Diode Press. socratesonthebeach.com/christina-tu...

Great new review of Jen Craig's Wall up over @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social's Socrates: "Her novels are at once obsessive attempts to give a full account of grief-laden lives, & a demonstration of the impossibility, the ridiculousness, even, of such a pursuit" socratesonthebeach.com/gus-oconnor-...

I reviewed Dominic Amerena's I Want Everything for Kill Your Darlings. www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/aust...

Very grateful to have this piece in one of the best journals: Liberties. Thank you to @celestemarcus.bsky.social @readliberties.bsky.social libertiesjournal.com/articles/nig...

New short at Hobart--thanks to Garielle Lutz. www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

Excellent piece from @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social

The next excerpt from the Life and Time in Art book. The Hard Rain of Henry James. greg-gerke.medium.com/the-hard-rai...

This short piece on Stevens, sensibility, faculty, and Merleau-Ponty follows the Cezanne essay (greg-gerke.medium.com/c%C3%A9zanne...) as a corollary. It will probably be in the book. greg-gerke.medium.com/creative-dis...

Long piece on Cezanne for the Life and Time in Art book. medium.com/@greg-gerke/...

Vermeer and Proust, and the foundation experience of being human

Looking forward to this one. We published an excerpt in Socrates: socratesonthebeach.com/pamela-ryder

Here is Anastasia Kobekina playing Vladimir Kobekin's Sappho, which is based on the metrical structure of the Sapphic stanza. This piece is mentioned in my essay in @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social's Socrates on the Beach. socratesonthebeach.com/eric-racher youtu.be/0C4Cagn6zGQ?...

Interview with Books of Some Substance www.booksofsomesubstance.com/blog/13-ques...

In this essay in @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social 's Socrates on the Beach, I wrote about music and poetry by way of Ezra Pound and John Milton. There is also a short passage on the work of Harry Partch's "speech music".

Excerpt from Pussyboy tr. @tobiasvryan.bsky.social @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social socratesonthebeach.com/patrick-autr...

From Issue 11 of Socrates. The first line is the lifeblood of most pieces...anywhere. These lines all grabbed me from the first and I knew I had to follow their strangeness and difference. socratesonthebeach.com

Issue 11 is live. Thank you to all who helped and the great writers and the translator featured. socratesonthebeach.com

This essay by Steven Moore (himself a fascinating story) is a fascinating story about an out-of-print second-wave feminist novel by Cynthia Buchanan, Maiden. In @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social's indispensable Socrates on the Beach socratesonthebeach.com/steven-moore...

Many thanks to @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social for publishing this essay on Ezra Pound, John Milton, music and poetry in Socrates on the Beach. socratesonthebeach.com/eric-racher

This essay in @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social Socrates on the Beach is part of a larger project that includes this piece recently published in @minorliteratures.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/eric...

I am so honored to share this essay, "A Throw of the Dice through Space," published in 'Socrates on the Beach' by @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social. It may be my favorite text I've written. socratesonthebeach.com/katherine-ev... (Scroll to the bottom to see the paintings.)

This one is special. Early chapters of this Art and Time book are coming soon in a literary journal. greg-gerke.medium.com/spain-madrid...

A wonderful piece by one Socrates contributor on another. Sean Hooks on the great Anna DeForest--the first major critical work on her that really grapples with what she is doing. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/04/02/a...

Just arrived the first issue of fallow magazine: poetry, essays and fiction; Chris Beausang, Helen Charman, Ellen Dillon, Oisín Fagan, Greg Gerke, Eva Griffin, Patrick Nathan, Wayne Koestenbaum & Rhian Sasseen. Interviews with Pascale Sardin and Gabriel Josipovici. fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-01

Sam Lipsyte: "It’s a vivid, beautiful, image-rich book...a moving demonstration of consciousness in its endless dance with constructs of feeling and constructs of time. I love what the book embraces and also how it resists easier paths." thisissplice.co.uk/fiction/in-t...

Announcing issue 1 of fallow, a new literary journal, featuring new work by @evagriff.bsky.social @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social Oisin Fagan, Ellen Dillon, Gabriel Josipivici, Helen Charman, Chris Beausang, Pascale Sardin @rhiansasseen.bsky.social & Patrick Nathan

Greg Gerke - In the Suavity of the Rock @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social

New part of art book : paintings on the wall, Heidegger, Stevens, screens, rocks, faux-stoicism and the red hair that lights the sad room. greg-gerke.medium.com/life-and-tim...

The first small press book review is up at Socrates. It's on Rod Moody-Corbett's great novel, Hides, by James Butler-Gruett. @rodmoo.bsky.social socratesonthebeach.com/review-of-ro...

On Alt lit greg-gerke.medium.com/thoughts-on-...