SAGINAW has nominated pieces by @billymills.bsky.social, Stephen Ratcliffe, Katie Coy, @dangodston.bsky.social, and @thedaybooks.bsky.social for the Pushcart Prize.

Kyla Houbolt's book came in the mail today. I read it earlier this year to rightly praise it. Now, I am going to re-read it over a cup of beautiful longjing tea. You should get a copy if you haven't already.

mutable edge // handcut paper collage with graphite on recycled paperboard, november 2025 #collageart #abstract #collage #queerart #artist

The Literary Arts Fund’s 2026 general operating grant application window is now open. U.S.-based literary arts nonprofits whose primary mission is presenting, publishing, and/or otherwise directly supporting creative writers are invited to apply: literaryartsfund.org/grants/

Not sure why someone however long ago decided to carve two goats outside of their pen into a rock up in the Helan Mountains in north China, but I’m kinda glad they did. I do, however, feel there’s probably more to the story than we’re getting now.

Walking around the Western Xia Imperial Tombs thinking about how everything eventually slips into history (remembered or not). It was actually a very calming experience.

Stoat Poetry, a new magazine edited by Ingrid Leonard. www.stoatmagazine.co.uk/about

A movie you have seen more than seven times…

Your brain is not a computer. Your thoughts are not algorithmic. Don’t let Silicon Valley limit your understanding of your own mind with inaccurate metaphors.

Any day now Asterism is going to move Kyla’s book from the preorder column to the order column. Order today!!!

#Poetry I generally don't like to buy a book of poems without seeing a little example, so here is a breakfast-appropriate selection from Becoming Altar: The Devilry of Eggs.

For anyone who doesn't know - I didn't! - JSTOR now allows anyone 100 completely free articles a month. Excelsior!

"Poem" by Joe Brainard.

A couple of odes in Penumbra (out of CSU Stanislaus). Ode to Sam Langford was a staff pick and will also appear in the print edition. www.penumbraonline.com

I've got three odes up in the @theargylelitmag.bsky.social latest realease: www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-3/hor...

I have a new poetry pamphlet out, titled THE RAVLIN HOUSE – currently available here : www.lulu.com/shop/henry-g...

I pulled my light winter jacket out this morning. Sweater season in Beijing lasted two weeks this year.

As poetry editor, art critic Edward Lucie-Smith was bonkers: "Enright seldom rises to great heights," Bernard Spencer "was the type of the excellent minor poet," Heaney "is a brilliantly accomplished and facile writer, who works within an established convention." Even his praises are backhanded.

Sometimes, I think about how Villard de Honnecourt's (13th century) sketchbook shows the cows in the towers of the Cathedral of Laon. This is what I think about when I'm waiting for football to start.

I’m embarrassed by how many of the poets included in this are new to me. Definitely a good used find for me. Seamus Heaney is listed under “New Voices.”

I thought this John Berryman poem, exhumed from an archive by Shane Macrae and published in the TLS, was very fine.

#Poetry -- The preorder page for Becoming Altar has been expanded and updated to include more about me, and a swell poem. Check it out! And @unionherald.bsky.social many thanks for the blurb. asterismbooks.com/product/beco...

I'm glad to see there's a "closed-caption" option on the lower-right corner of this video. So you can read along with the text supplied (which is a close approximation of the actual text of the poem).

"money double stamped" My experience with @unionherald.bsky.social's book Necessary is that it is worth looking up everything. E.G. "money double stamped" leads us to learn that in Marco Polo's time, coins were becoming standardized, +... ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/r...

3 volumes and I’m starting at the beginning with Georgias of Leontini (ca 483-376 BCE). Hope my next project benefits from this.

Have you preordered this yet? Don’t you want to be able to say you have a copy of the first printing.

My October review roundup early in the month. With added @j-tkelly.bsky.social @henryghenrik.bsky.social @unionherald.bsky.social ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/r... #poetry #bookreviews

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : James Bradley: Necessary, by David Harrison Horton / @unionherald.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/jame...

newly posted: James Bradley: Necessary, by David Harrison Horton / @unionherald.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/jame...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Preorder now: the first full collection from Kyla Houbolt asterismbooks.com/product/beco...

I'm about to do another run. If you'd like a copy, DM me your postal address. Free to good readers. It's a pretty great issue.

Send me your students’ poems! 🌸💫📖 Nomination details at link below.

Sometimes you visit the Nat’l Art Museum of China and see a circular painting of a cow with a bird on its head, and everything is good.

above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available! , anticipating the press' thirty-third year of activity, / @neonpajamas.bsky.social @russellcarisse.bsky.social @kevinspenst.bsky.social @frankyfrancescannon.com ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...

I write prose poems to be read as prose. It is a genre built for purpose.

Why are many people wishing that poets read their poetry like prose? I get not wanting them to read like Yeats or Pound, but surely reading a line break as a break is fine if not preferable.

The (re)claimed: flotsam photographs & new retellings launch was a great success. Below is the poem I contributed to the exhibition and subsequent zine anthology. Congrats to @anapf89.bsky.social and Jessica Medhurst for putting it all together.

If you’re in Beijing tonight, come out to the Golden Weasel for the opening of (re)claimed, an exhibition of reclaimed photos along with a poetry reading and zine launch.

What I’m telling you is none of your business and business is good.

Oh good. Why’d I waste two decades on my last book?

Chinese poet Zuo Fei has translated a selection of poems from my new book Necessary into Chinese along with a good discussion about some of the key aspects to them. You can see it here if you are on WeChat: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/pBkjCgVpP3...

I am very grateful to @anapf89.bsky.social for interviewing me for the Beijinger just before my book launch today in Beijing. www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2025/09...

Not every day Sun Ra Arkestra lands the mothership on your town.

If you're in Beijing this Saturday, this is the thing to do. You can all the readers on a serious discount, and they all good. I've read all of them and vouch.

If you’re in Beijing on September 13th, swing by the Hutong to help me launch Necessary with Anthony Tao and Feniá G.

I have some copies of my latest chapbook to put in the mail soon. Are you interested? Reach out! I'll send you one. More of How to Read the Bible, from above/ground press, 2025. It's new!

#Poetry -- I know, the world news and department of warring and not-yet-melting ice -- all so much more gripping, but may I say, possibly, some of the antidote will be found in this book, come autumn. 💜

Thanks to Ryan Thorpe for helping me out at last night’s reading in Shanghai.

When you are reading a well respected poetics book from 30 or so years ago by a poet whose work you admire finding yourself disagreeing with nearly every key point . . . I honestly love these moments of engaged reading.