In here you will be able to enjoy the first short story I have had published since 1996

Da Da!

Coming soon: the DADA issue!

At Sagging Central we've got a copy of Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS—and it's unbelievable. www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/new_... Preorder it for a special discount at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/new-...

Here's your periodic reminder that Sagging Meniscus relies on your support to publish literature that, quietly or loudly, defies convention, in book form and in the quarterly journal @exactingclam.bsky.social. Make a tax-deductible contribution: fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/sagging-meni...

Come hear Sagging Meniscus in London at The Poetry Society: @davidcollard.bsky.social , Melissa McCarthy, Rufo Quintavalle, @julianstannardpoet.bsky.social , and Philip Terry. 20 November! RSVP at http://bit.ly/3Jl0JLN

@davidcollard.bsky.social and Kurt Luchs talking up a storm on the @exactingclam.bsky.social podcast - Listen one, listen all for poetry & small press book release goodness: exactingclamcephalopodcast.com/episode/davi... #booksky #poetrysky

The Clam is a happy Clam, because Kurt Luchs' TRIBUTARIES is a collection of poems and essays created for and published in the magazine. (18 have been published in it so far; two are still forthcoming.)

Kurt Luchs chats poetry, comedy, & his new release on the @wgvupublicmedia.bsky.social "Shelley Irwin Show": www.wgvunews.org/the-shelley-... @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

In the latest Exacting Clam Encephalopodcast, a wide-ranging conversation between two authors of unconventional books on poetry: @davidcollard.bsky.social  (A CRUMPLED SWAN) and Kurt Luchs (TRIBUTARIES).

Coming January 20th: Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS, including 70+ color photographs of this poet's fabulously imaginative art.  https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/new_and_used_poems_and_objects/

New Substack. Subscription is free. guillermostitch.substack.com/p/i-sat-on-a...

The semi-finalists for the 2026 Thurber Prize for American #Humor! 📖🎉 thurberhouse.org/2026-thurber-prize-in-writing-semifinalists @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @henryholtbooks.bsky.social @crownpublishing.bsky.social @putnambooks.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social @amistadbooks.bsky.social

We're tickled to annonuce that Lee Upton's TABITHA, GET UP has been selected as a semi-finalist for the 2026 Thurber Prize for American Humor in Writing! https://www.thurberhouse.org/2026-thurber-prize-in-writing-semifinalists

Thanks to Michael Hughes, currently appearing in #houseofguinness and author of COUNTRY, for reading this passage from THE COAST OF EVERYTHING by Guillermo Stitch. Preorder the novel at https://thecoastofeverything.com.

Thanks so much @exactingclam.bsky.social. Finally, the true story about the creator of Bitcoin is out in the world!

My micro-garble on friendship for @exactingclam.bsky.social upcoming Dada issue contains 18 hyphens. Here’s a sneak peek: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Great day at @bkbookfest.bsky.social yesterday. 21 attendees recorded readings from our books at our booth. Here's Laura reading Melissa McCarthy. youtube.com/shorts/-jTUd...

Ian Monk, poète, traducteur en anglais de Perec et de Pennac, est mort

New Yorkers: please come say hello tomorrow (Sunday, Sep. 20) at the Brooklyn Book Festival. We'll be at Booth 333 with books old, new and forthcoming, and we'll have a video giveaway: read an excerpt on camera, get a book. @bkbookfest.bsky.social

Ian Monk talking about translation and formal constraints: youtu.be/eQC5pp5wT9g?...

Sad news today —

'What does the lover demand from the body of the beloved in order to secure certainty. Little things. Eternity.' the divine Alina @alinaetc.bsky.social This is a fabulous interview by @monalisavitti.bsky.social, I need more

"The best poems inspire envy." As do the best poets. Mike Silverton, Exacting Clam 18. Subscribe for full access. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/more-enduring-than-a-diamond/

Cover reveal: Joseph D. Reich's monumental SCENES FROM THE PLANET EARTH, a book-length poem, coming in October. Preorders at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/scen...

"every word Ophelia speaks, whether in the Second Quarto text or the First Folio, has to make its appearance in 'let me tell you'." WJ Davies and Paul Griffiths on the latter's Ophelian (and somewhat Oulipian) novels. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/constraint-and-release/

"I have previously stated that it is impossible to go to Brezakia. But it is possible to come from there." Ron Ginzler on the little-known musical legacy of an even-less-known country. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/the-brezakian-symphony/

Our editor spills out on Substack.

The Coast of Everything

Got a piece in @exactingclam.bsky.social Here’s proof

“My identity is not fully understood,” Issue 18 added. And may never be. More Christopher Boucher metamagic. Exacting Clam 18. Subscribe why don't you. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/the-book-and-the-sea/

"It was in the castle of Tiffauges, the lair of Gilles de Rais, that I first encountered the sinister truth regarding that terror-stricken head . . . " A new translation of Jean Lorrain, by RJ Dent. Exacting Clam 18. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/the-man-who-made-wax-heads/

"Neither Shirley with her black coffee nor Mrs. Castle with her two eclairs stand on ceremony." Kat Meads on Mavis Gallant's 'A Fairly Good Time', from NYRB Classics. Subscribe today. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/anatomy-of-a-scene/

"No, here we have controlled scripting, deracinated sentences minus jouissance that audit a world gone wrong, gone bad . . . " Michael Hampton on Sean Ashton's 'Massive Massive Oil Slick'. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/sean-ashtons-emmassive-massive-oil-slickem/

"He embodied, more inescapably than anyone else, the absurdities, the affectations, the paradoxes and the perversities of the Decadent lifestyle and the Decadent world-view." RJ Dent on Jean Lorrain. Exacting Clam 18. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/jean-lorrain/

"I don’t think Homer has it quite right: with Circe’s first ointment (yes ok oinkment) the sailors don’t actually forget, they’ve just changed a bit." Another Melissa McCarthy odyssey. Exacting Clam 18. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/category-errors/

(Many of these essays appeared first in Exacting Clam)

" . . . a distillation of historical consciousness into poetry." Charles Holdefer on 'A Black Doe in the Anthropocene' by Artress Bethany White. Exacting Clam 18. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/artress-bethany-whites-ema-black-doe-in-the-anthropoceneem/

"We were like two nations at war: he some mysterious Greek, I his Turkey." Where is PJ Blumenthal going with this? Exacting Clam 18. Subscribe for full access.  https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/why-i-killed-pasolini/

Here's @ljabouttown.bsky.social (author of STILL ALIVE) reading from @guillermostitch.bsky.social's forthcoming THE COAST OF EVERYTHING (preorders at www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_...). Thanks LJ! ljpemberton.com youtube.com/shorts/g31Na...

"The boulder was not magnetic and yet it drew us to the creek bed where it sat beside the dark waters while we sat on it and looked and listened" Nothing like Kurt Luchs. Exacting Clam 18. Subscribe. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/the-boulder/

'But “anti-novel” is an over-used and imprecise term. Let’s use the term “novel-in-negative”—less snap but more precision.' David Rose on Edmund Caldwell. Exacting Clam 18. Subscribe for full access. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/for-the-fallen/

"The hotel’s rich with guests, the ones who came And never left, who never wanted to be Alone again." Ernest Hilbert on sub-par accommodation. Exacting Clam 18. Subscribe today for full access. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/hotel-antihistamine/

"But in truth there are no rules except the tacit rules of intelligence and taste and instinct for what is right in the moment . . . " Kurt Luchs on Robert Bly. Exacting Clam 18. https://exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/hunting-everything-but-pheasants-with-robert-bly/

The new novel from our Executive Editor...

"It’s one of many ways in which the voluntary constraint upon the writer becomes palpable and shared, a pleasure for the reader too." Kevin Davey on Paul Griffiths. Exacting Clam 18. https://exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/paul-griffiths-emlet-me-tell-youem-and-emlet-me-go-onem/

"This is no place for such as you are now." Fiction by Gregory Feeley, online and in print. Exacting Clam 18. Subscribe for full access. https://exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/petraglyphe/

"Ideally, I should aim to find myself less annoying . . . " Jake Goldsmith on being miffed. Online and in print. Exacting Clam Issue 18 Subscribe today. https://exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/on-annoyance/

Many of these tribute poems and essays appeared first in Exacting Clam!