Go see Vi Khi Nao and Laura Paul and Steve Barbaro tonight!

address change !!! please see the new address reflecting on the flier below ... 1019 E. Washington St Iowa City.. & yet the event remains ... 6 days from today 👀 ✏️ 🎤

One week in Iowa City!

“'We’ll get through this together,' says the voice over the Hyundai commercial, over the Busch’s Baked Beans commercial, over the Victoria’s Secret commercial."

rat hotel, vic-20 (1983) archive.org/details/elec...

check it out: flyer i made for an Iowa City reading in which i am partaking.. 2 weeks from today—book launch for @vikhinao.bsky.social's MY ARDENT LOVE FOR THE PENCIL ... out today from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social.. w/bluesky escapee @laura-n-paul.bsky.social!! be there or be all-too-geometrical ✏️👀🎤

My Ardent Love for the Pencil by @vikhinao.bsky.social is out today. A gorgeous collection of poems and photos, it’s available from Asterism, Bookshop, B&N, Amazon, and more. Order direct from us and you get a free sticker and zines and 20% off w/ LOVEFORTHEPENCIL malarkeybooks.com/my-ardent-lo...

ruminating on the uncanny efficiency of how just about all of the uniquely annoying & even sketchy things about the united states "indie lit" world are uniquely embodied in 1 single individual ... who i happen to know! if only from a distance.. a refreshingly necessary distance :)

bro you've guessed in the space of a single instant that everything is @ end between us; & in the space of yet 1 more instant, the precise reason why ... the person who stands in front of me is simply not the person i've seen hitherto but a rather different personage indeed......

Very excited to share the official announcement of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'! Official Double--Negative announcement here: www.instagram.com/p/DOIx9MGkWxg Add it on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... Order it on Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

dunno who needs to hear this but ... "glitch-garlicky anchovy-parsley pappardelle"

A dialogue on Luigi Pirandello's The Late Mattia Pascal: israelabonilla.wixsite.com/website/post...

for all of Ferrante's exposure i still believe this is quite an "underrated" "craft" book.. plenty of insight into the "writing process" but more urgently: there's an overarching critique of the median mediasphere.. oddly sustaining mix of the thorny & the formal

It’s difficult to express how much work and money universities and colleges are putting into normalizing AI adoption. The University of Minnesota has licensing agreements with Copilot and Gemini for approved student use, and may form another with ChatGPT.

Hasn't anyone ever told you that you must never, never give your name to a stranger in the forest?

4113 West North Avenue

Someone once called me a "perpetual liar" & i found that fascinating even whilst the would-be insult was flung @ me—not only can one not feasibly (for better or worse) lie for the rest of their waking life; one also (obviously) can't rlly be stuck in the 1 same single lie-telling act for eternity :(

The hits keep coming. “The departments that won’t be accepting Ph.D. students now include art history, cinema and media studies, classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, English language and literature, Germanic studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern studies…”

heard you were talking shit 👀 🗣️

Currently quite popular in China are tiny collector's editions of classic works adapted as lianhuanhua (early form of Chinese comics). #books

the onomatopoeia "vroom vroom" appears in my novel quite a lot ... but im not quite sure if it should read "vroom vroom" or "vroomvroom" or even (alas!) both "vroomvroom" & "vroom vroom" in tyrannically inscrutably idiosyncratic alternations

Very excited to have three poems up on @alwayscrashing.bsky.social today under the title 'Some Column Poems' www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025... There is a lot 'behind' these poems, but my hope is that they stand on their own without context or explanation.

{ 4 / 4 / 2025 ~ 9:21 pm }

Daydreamers is out in the world now. "A story of immigration, brilliantly inflected with undercurrents both noir and comic.” —Susan Daitch "Daydreamers kind of sinks in slowly. Then it becomes absorbing in a way that doesn't let up." —Stacey Levine Cover concept by @illepitaph.bsky.social

"Inscrutable bloodwoods, daubs of dry spinifex, stumpy-tailed geckos & skittish netted dragons, indents of bird feet & snake slither inscribing the earth. A gesture of breeze, just enough to make the desert oaks moan, a mournful unison."

Here’s some prairie smoke I saw

Almonds ~ July, August Pistacchio ~ August, September Pomegranate ~ December Bananas ~ N/A Lemons/ Tangerine ~ December - March Olives ~ October - November Prickly Pears ~ August, maybe July "Wild" Apple ~ March, April (usually rots on tree)

The staff at Iran's National Museum in Tehran have sandbagged the exhibitions they cannot move. I just...

canopies sun deities dancing sarcophagi island-port-city seagulls beaks balconies sun property boogieing statuary deities belfries sin dancing reliquaries mortality self-escape sin shutters sun deities

-The artist must remember that art traverses the body. Inspiration is the tremor that entangles with a sudden image.- Absolutely glorious stuff from @israelbonilla.bsky.social [exceptional morning bath reading for sick girls]

this book is incredible.. wields archaic language somehow v v dexterously.. & it's def in the Francis Ponge & Paris Spleen etc tradition—im not usually big on prose poems.. but this "prose" is so rhythmic & assured that the writing has more form than most lineated poems

‘Since 2001, the Pentagon has spent $14 trillion, between a third and a half of which was spent on contractors. In 2023 alone, 55 per cent of defence appropriations were outsourced.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the Pentagon’s relationship with Silicon Valley: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Undiscovered Genius, 1983 #artbots #basquiat https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5274

oaktrunk hollowed out by fire ... then used as a beehive casing in what-is-now-france 3,000++ years ago

Double--Negative Press has released their 2025 catalog, including some initial details about my forthcoming, debut full-length 'The Veldt Institute'! double--negative.com/catalog.html

posting pics of poems (or stories etc) is quite natural for a booklover.. but what's Faulty is: 1) the relentless seriality with which some accts post poem-pics etc & especially: 2) the fallacy that some sort of special connoisseurship or expertise is evinced simply by virtue of such serial posting

If Homer were alive today, he'd be three thousand years old and I like to think would have written something like "The Temperance of Heretics". I also recommend taking in this mind-bender—actually by Steve Barbaro of @new-sinews.bsky.social fame—in one sitting if at all possible for maximum effect.

"The silken compassion toward Palestinians in mainstream English thinks the language of the oppressed is brilliant mostly when it teaches us about surviving massacres and enduring the degradation of checkpoints." lareviewofbooks.org/article/my-p...

‘There’s a stretch of mid-1960s Blue Note LPs – albums like Blue Spirits, Grass Roots, Mode for Joe – where the players are feeling their way towards free jazz but don’t stray too far from the pocket. These are the records I think of when I hear Saafir.’ From the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

this is a ramp focaccia acct now.. it's all about focaccia baked to perfection & sizzling w/globs of fresh ravine-plucked ramps.. & if it's not about focaccia baked to perfection & sizzling w/ ravine-plucked ramps, very sorry but.. i can show you where the proverbial e-door is located :)

Motorway bridge restaurants of Italy. The Pavesi Autogrill. journals.openedition.org/insitu/37430... The majority were designed by J J Bianchetti.

worth learning italian just to read this lengthy story in the original, really.. intricate nexuses of the pathetic & the neurotic.. the voidfully vague ambitions of a kind of crypto-retiree

A few copies left of this limited run (@paradiseeditions.bsky.social): asterismbooks.com/product/phor...

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mighty susqie

a set of sounds is purporting to be a form of nutriment ... & you won't Believe the reverberations! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLEx...

Marsh denizens

wrote a lengthy disturbing fiction called THE TEMPERANCE OF HERETICS—it appears uncompromised in @yourimpossiblevoice.com today.. Thanks to @alvinlu.bsky.social & the whole team! the story's full of blasphemy & vessels & pollution & islands & betrayal & waves yourimpossiblevoice.com/the-temperan...