New Essay for Substack — Rose Period, a sequel of sorts to Blue Period — in early summer, New York, Knicks, Saltimbanques, and strange happiness-- plus a new translation of an Apollinaire poem. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/rose-period

Because I would normally say something tonight, instead; wait for my thoughts on the late David Hockney later this summer in the @clereviewbooks.bsky.social. I promise it will be worth it!

New Essay for Substack — Rose Period, a sequel of sorts to Blue Period — in early summer, New York, Knicks, Saltimbanques, and strange happiness-- plus a new translation of an Apollinaire poem. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/rose-period

I’m going to be posting some short experimental pieces soon and it’s hit and miss with promo, so do subscribe if you’d like to see them: avmarraccini.substack.com

Sudden Jock Pointe Shoe Ekphrasis— a sonnet for Exekias and Balanchine in my late thirties now on my Substack— avmarraccini.substack.com/p/sudden-joc...

Manuscript of These New Fragilities delivered @sevenstories.bsky.social + @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social ! Excited for you all to see it in 2028! With thanks to beloved agent @craigliterary.bsky.social Celebrating after with a basil strawberry iced lemonade, which will turn out to be book-themed… 🍓

Sudden Jock Pointe Shoe Ekphrasis— a sonnet for Exekias and Balanchine in my late thirties now on my Substack— avmarraccini.substack.com/p/sudden-joc...

Manuscript of These New Fragilities delivered @sevenstories.bsky.social + @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social ! Excited for you all to see it in 2028! With thanks to beloved agent @craigliterary.bsky.social Celebrating after with a basil strawberry iced lemonade, which will turn out to be book-themed… 🍓

A new Substack piece, this one twenty five epigrams on Dürer, meditation, artifice and nature, and the problems of writing the Internet as Republic of Letters. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/twenty-fiv...

A new Substack piece, this one twenty five epigrams on Dürer, meditation, artifice and nature, and the problems of writing the Internet as Republic of Letters. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/twenty-fiv...

Buy @clereviewbooks.bsky.social CRB Issue 4.1 and get one of the most beautifully designed magazine-anthologies in contemporary literature, with some linked epigrams on difficulty, brass noses, volcanoes, obsidian, macarons and the Cumaean Sibyl. asterismbooks.com/product/clev...

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be one of the lecturers at the Runokuu Poetics Conference, part of the Runokuu Festival this year in Helsinki. The theme of this year’s conference is breath, and I’m thinking about the poetics of embodied objecthood.

“there’s a thing we do to each other when you can tell another woman wants to crawl inside your skin and take your life, or part of it. And because she can’t, she hurts you. Deep down she knows and you know she knows, but it doesn’t matter; the public hurt is the aim.”

‘Illness as metaphor as identity doesn’t appeal to me at all now; it’s too close, too real, too uninteresting in its badness.’ Excellent essay. Many have asked why I don’t write about living with chronic illness. The thought bores me to death. I’m trying to survive, be alive, thrive where I can.

model of a shortform essay - a really good one

Fantastic essay ‘our refusal to sit as merely subjects’ - yes!

@saintsoftness.bsky.social “my nightly pseudoephedrine devotion; two more salvific red no. 40 tablets” just electrocuted my entire soul, thank you

New Substack Essay: Blue Period-- on being the target of cruelty between women, and on making a life in art as a woman outside of the clinic and the asylum as aspirational gazes: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/blue-period

today in burial: i can’t quite believe it, but @saintsoftness.bsky.social is here to dazzle us with ‘no second burial,’ an exegesis of annotations on thomas browne’s ‘hydriotaphia, urn burial’—but really so much more, you’ll see—don’t you dare miss it! burialmagazine.neocities.org/nosecondburial

For Burial Magazine, a new set of linked epigrams — on Thomas Browne, transi tombs, Sudafed, citationality and more: burialmagazine.neocities.org/nosecondburial

The draft is finished. @sevenstories.bsky.social. These New Fragilities. A.V. Marraccini. 2028.

DM / [email protected] / avmarraccini.com — let me know if you want examples of past work, including print only pieces that aren’t online. I’m finishing the draft by mid June, and These New Fragilities is coming out from @sevenstories.bsky.social 2028.

Another Substack dessert poem, this one blank verse and mentholated: open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

Another Substack dessert poem, this one blank verse and mentholated: open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

@booksandbooks.bsky.social thank you for this beautiful moment today— my parents dropped by and this happened:

I’m on an incidental spree of dessert poems on Substack— this one’s a sonnet: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/popsicle-a...

I’m on an incidental spree of dessert poems on Substack— this one’s a sonnet: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/popsicle-a...

New on Substack, some poetry for a season of doubt and Ostrogoths: open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

New on Substack, some poetry for a season of doubt and Ostrogoths: open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

Most of you know I was trained as a medievalist, and my friend and colleague Sara McDougall, the coordinator of the CUNY Advanced Certificate in Medieval Studies, doesn't really do social media, so Plin and I want to remind you that this is a great option! www.gc.cuny.edu/medieval-stu...

I’m in the current issue of the CRB with “Difficult Epigrams”— on an obsidian mirror, Technics turntables, Glenn Gould, the Cumaen Sybil, Tycho Brahe’s nose, espaliered gardens, and the love of intractable things. Get it here: clereviewofbooks.com/product/vol-...

Tonight on Substack: some thoughts on always returning ad fontes in my life, and three fun translations of epigrams by Martial. open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

Tonight on Substack: some thoughts on always returning ad fontes in my life, and three fun translations of epigrams by Martial. open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

New on my Substack: Hölderlin Redux-- another translation and a rejoinder to the right wing capture of the German Romantics and their neoclasscisms open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

In which you get a fresh little Hölderlin translation, a personal challenge to up your classical language skills, *and* delicious bacon-wrapped chestnuts fired at the RETVRN-o-philes. What more does one need for a good-time Saturday night?

New on my Substack: Hölderlin Redux-- another translation and a rejoinder to the right wing capture of the German Romantics and their neoclasscisms open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

Plin update— officially 3.4 lbs at the vet!

A review-essay about a new production of Peter Weiss’ Hölderlin and my new translation in English of Brod und Wein VII in my latest Substack post here: open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

A review-essay about a new production of Peter Weiss’ Hölderlin and my new translation in English of Brod und Wein VII in my latest Substack post here: open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

Since it’s print only and Plin was feeling extra participatory, here’s what my piece looks like in The Toe Rage Decadence issue (order here thetoerag.com) Other great contributors to this issue include @kukukadoo and Phillipa Snow.

New on my Substack (Cloud Studies)— a review-essay on a new set of contemporary classical ballet collaborations at Counterpointe 13, and the value of difficulty and classical lineages made new in an inattentive world. open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

The Perch:

Big Stretch!

I have always been an Iliad person, but reading Pavese’s Leucothea Dialogues has made me softer toward Odysseus again, made the many turnings shift a corner. It’s funny how Homeric commentary still works that way for readers after millennia…

Home from the vet where she was dubbed an angel by the techs at 2.35 pounds. Just in case, Plin will now be getting extra nutritional supplementation since she is so tiny— but she may just be a small kitty!

A new Substack, on various recent loves, including Manet roses, Wyatt sonnets, Golden Peaches of Samarkand, and Japanese High Femme Makeup, with shouts to Hannah Smart and @drewdaniel.bsky.social Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

Tonight’s diversion from Archipelago, @archipelagobooks.bsky.social , a Pavese that’s not a novel about fascism but something strange, deeply antiquarian, whimsical. Exactly what I needed. I just order their back catalogue blind because they have such good taste and make beautiful books.

Entering her long-legged phase as she grows. Now taking bets for her weight at the vet on Friday. She was 1.9 pounds on February 14.

A new Substack, on various recent loves, including Manet roses, Wyatt sonnets, Golden Peaches of Samarkand, and Japanese High Femme Makeup, with shouts to Hannah Smart and @drewdaniel.bsky.social Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/avmarrac...

Snippets of MoMA with the undergrads today: