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I've launched a Substack to write on titles that I can't cover for ON THE SEAWALL, starting with a piece on Martin Walker's Bruno novel AN ENEMY IN THE VILLAGE (FSG, '25) that starts with a memory of a conversation with Louise GlĂŒck about the mystery genre.
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Ron Slate (@ronslate)
In an early conversation, Louise GlĂŒck asked me about my reading as a child. I told her about my maternal grandfather who lived nearby and brought scores of books to me over the years. By my teens, th...
https://substack.com/profile/181036827-ron-slate/note/c-252710503
about 1 month ago
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"Perhaps the 'secret' of Dylanâs late stage creativity resides in his ability to store & process an enormous database about himself & the history of American folk music": Barry Faulk reviews
@fantomas2go.bsky.social
's AFTER THE FLOOD
@wwnorton.com
via On Thje Seawall
bit.ly/4sTCRj2
about 1 month ago
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"KertĂ©sz was wincingly aware of what he saw as his artistic misfortune & neglect, but by posthumously landing Albers as his biographer, heâs gotten lucky": @bquinnterest on Patricia Albers' EVERYTHING IS PHOTOGRAPH via Other Press
bit.ly/4u3rW7y
On The Seawall
about 1 month ago
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"Her poetry often reflects on getting things wrong while imagining what getting things right might look or sound like. This amounts both to an attitude and a technique": my review of TRUE MISTAKES by
@lenamschmitt.bsky.social
@uarkpress.bsky.social
bit.ly/4t6xDSf
via On The Seawall
about 2 months ago
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The April quarterly edition of ON THE SEAWALL awaits your arrival.
www.ronslste.com
about 2 months ago
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Cory Oldweiler
about 2 months ago
Really thankful for the chance to dig into Eduardo Halfonâs work for
@ronslate.bsky.social
at On the Sewall, specifically TARANTULA, translated by Daniel Hahn, which makes for a fascinating complement to Halfonâs prior English-language novel, CANCIĂN:
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on Tarantula, an autofiction by Eduardo Halfon â On the Seawall
âThe book couldnât be timelier: the wars in the Middle East signal the folly of American Empire, seeking to entrap other countries, an historical inflection point â an âunraveling of political cultures built up over many decades.'â
https://www.ronslate.com/on-tarantula-an-autofiction-by-eduardo-halfon/
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The Zoom link will be available on Tuesday afternoon -- see poster for how to access it ...
2 months ago
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The Zoom link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Please join us!
3 months ago
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D. A. Powell
3 months ago
I've been sharing this Adrienne Rich poem with a lot of folks as we move closer to the collapse of first amendment freedoms. Please read, understand, share. It is not an answer. It is, instead, the very question we must ask and keep asking.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51092/...
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51092/what-kind-of-times-are-theseWhat
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Please join us on Tuesday night 7:30ET when Robin Becker comes to PathwaysArts via Zoom. The link will be available on Tuesday afternoon at
www.pathwaysmv.org
-- scroll down to this poster & click on the Zoom prompt.
4 months ago
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Coming Tuesday night 7:30pm ET -- Catherine Barnett will read for us at PathwaysArts & you can watch/listen via Zoom. The link will be available on Tuesday afternoon at
www.pathwaysmv.org
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4 months ago
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Splendid tribute to Fanny Howe at Arrowsmith Journal via
@arrowsmithpress.bsky.social
-- beginning with a reading by Fanny --
www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/fann...
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Fanny Quincy Howe: A Tribute â ARROWSMITH
Featuring Andrea Cohen, Christina Davis, Carolyn Forché, Ezra Fox, James Fraser, Sheila Gallagher, Robert Hass, Kythe Heller, Brenda Hillman, Richard Kearney, Askold Melnyczuk, John Mulrooney, Eileen ...
https://www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/fanny-howe-tribute
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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Samuel Day Wharton
5 months ago
Thereâs no other choice / when you get that close // to a vagina
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Please join us when Thea Matthews reads via zoom for PathwaysArts -- Tuesday nite 1/20 7:30 ET -- link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Her latest collection is GRIME via
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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Funambulism: "Attraction to perilous landscapes in times of upheaval ... promise us something eternal, something removed from the worldâs vanities, immaterial and din-free": essay by
@ykomska.bsky.social
@cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
bit.ly/4svdaqh
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On the Wire above the Ruins | Yuliya Komska
Funambulism in postwar Germany
https://bit.ly/4svdaqh
5 months ago
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"This doubleness â lament braided with exuberance, suffering braided with awe â structures the emotional, formal & ethical terrain of the collection": Kimberly Grey on Gabrielle Calvocoressi's THE NEW ECONOMY
@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
bit.ly/4jxIbpq
via On The Seawall
5 months ago
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Here's "Commerce" by
@simeonberry.bsky.social
, his poem in the new edition of On The Seawall /
www.ronslate.com/commerce/
5 months ago
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Olga Zilberbourg
5 months ago
Thanks for publishing my review of Maria Stepanova's new novel, The Disappearing Act, translated by Sasha Dugdale!
www.ronslate.com/on-the-disap...
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"His poems dug down into memory to find their source. More precisely, the excavation of memory -- both personal and cultural, and the continuity he sought in it -- IS his subject": Christian Detisch on THE POEMS OF SEAMUS HEANEY
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/4aIxLB1
5 months ago
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Hamilton Cain
5 months ago
Do y'allselves a favor and preorder
@namwalien.bsky.social
's "On Morrison," a magisterial close reading of an American master in an age of lit-lite substacks. Out 2/24 from Hogarth. Here's my review for
@ronslate.bsky.social
's "On the Seawall":
www.ronslate.com/on-on-morris...
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on On Morrison by Namwali Serpell â On the Seawall
https://www.ronslate.com/on-on-morrison-by-namwali-serpell/
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NEW: The January edition of ON THE SEAWALL, our first expanded quarterly. We invite you to stop by the "gallery" & have a look /
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5 months ago
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Tune in tomorrow night 7:30PM ET when Philip Metres reads from FUGITIVE/REFUGE. The zoom link will be available on Tues afternoon at
pathwaysmv.org
. If you're on Martha's Vineyard, we'll see you at the Chilmark Tavern where poetry & revelry often mean the same thing.
5 months ago
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Tomorrow (Tues) night 7:30ET -- Hank Lazer reads from ABUNDANT LIFE, his new & selected poems. Zoom link available tomorrow afternoon at
pathwaysmv.org
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Pathways ARTS
Pathways. . .Creating and catalyzing creative projects in the visual arts, writings, dance & collaborative forms. Keeping a Light On in Chilmark...
http://pathwaysmv.org
6 months ago
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"If the century doesnât care for the ancestors,/I donât care for its great-grandchildren: the herd./My centuryâ my poison, my centuryâmy harm,/my centuryâmy enemy, my centuryâ hell": from 4 poems by Marina Tsvetaeva via On The Seawall
bit.ly/48gdMaZ
tr by Margaree Little
7 months ago
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Derek Mong
7 months ago
Thanks to
@ronslate.bsky.social
and Jonathan Farmer for this interview about When the Earth Flies into the Sun! The book celebrated its first birthday last month!
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National Book Critics Circle
7 months ago
NBCC member Tiffany Troy reviewed "When We Only Have the Earth," written by Abdourahman A. Waberi and translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson, for World Literature Today:
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When We Only Have the Earth by Abdourahman A. Waberi
Trans. Nancy Naomi Carlson. University of Nebraska Press. 2025. 80 pages.
https://buff.ly/F9j55GU
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Rebecca Foust
7 months ago
Friends, I'm happy and honored to have another poem in
#OntheSeawall
--thanks to editor
@ronslate.bsky.social
,
www.ronslate.com/tacoma-narro...
"Tacoma Narrows" is from the new edition of my
#chapbook
, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems, to be released soon by
#BlueLightPress
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"I encounter a lot of overly long and under-edited books, many weighed down by prose poems. Some feel strident. These books sound like they began with a thesis, not a question":
@derekmong.bsky.social
in convo w/Jonathan Farmer via On The Seawall
bit.ly/47vs87k
7 months ago
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"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. Itâs sneaky like that":
@tobiascarroll.bsky.social
on
@delaneynolan.bsky.social
's novel HAPPY BAD via Astra House & On The Seawall
bit.ly/43fQHT7
7 months ago
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Here's an invitation to take a trip through the new Nov/Dec edition of On The Seawall ... beginning with our feature on poems from STUDY OF SORROWS: TRANSLATIONS by Shangyang Fang
@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/
ronslate.com
7 months ago
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"If the century doesnât care for the ancestors, / I donât care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century â my poison, my century â my harm, / my century â my enemy, my century â hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall /
bit.ly/4opoNN2
7 months ago
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"If the century doesnât care for the ancestors, / I donât care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century â my poison, my century â my harm, / my century â my enemy, my century â hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall /
bit.ly/4opoNN2
7 months ago
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Michael Bazzett
7 months ago
I wrote a novel. Or rather, I imagined a novel. And then I imagined reading it.... ...many thanks to
@ronslate.bsky.social
for publishing the resulting poem at On the Seawall:
www.ronslate.com/the-novel/
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Here's an invitation to take a trip through the new Nov/Dec edition of On The Seawall ... beginning with our feature on poems from STUDY OF SORROWS: TRANSLATIONS by Shangyang Fang
@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
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ronslate.com
7 months ago
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Joe Brainard's COMICS is coming via
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
on December 2.
7 months ago
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To be an unloved Kennedy in MA, you have to be particularly vile. So we gave RFK a Vineyard welcome yesterday here in our tiny town of Aquinnah.
8 months ago
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"A scrupulous reviser, whose poems went through multiple drafts before they were deemed ready to be gathered in his samizdat pamphlets": David Wojahn on the new Cavafy biography by GJusdanis and PJeffreys @fsgbooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/47V2sSd
9 months ago
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"Part novel, essay, autofiction & poetry, the book explores the burdens of inherited trauma, gender & identity, seeking empowering forms of knowledge":
@brittastromeyer.bsky.social
on Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues by Kim de L'Horizon
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/4m8fj6J
9 months ago
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"To know how to approach. / How we see the riddle of distance / from here to where the places weâve lived thicken.": from 4 poems in Maria Borio's TRANSPARENCIES
@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social
book via On The Seawall
bit.ly/3KaqZbT
9 months ago
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Life folds over, or turns another way. No wonder we are so estranged from each other. -- Fanny Howe
9 months ago
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"To know how to approach. / How we see the riddle of distance / from here to where the places weâve lived thicken.": from 4 poems in Maria Borio's TRANSPARENCIES
@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social
book via On The Seawall
bit.ly/3KaqZbT
9 months ago
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"For all its eccentricities, the novel makes a surprisingly sturdy sense of its own, and its gestures and form are more shapely than they may seem at first": my piece on Caren Beilin's SEA, POISON
@ndbooks.bsky.social
via On The Seawall
bit.ly/4gv9UFU
9 months ago
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"Part novel, essay, autofiction & poetry, the book explores the burdens of inherited trauma, gender & identity, seeking empowering forms of knowledge":
@brittastromeyer.bsky.social
on Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues by Kim de L'Horizon
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/4m8fj6J
9 months ago
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"In her wish for phoenix-like resurrection, she always admits a profound uncertainty, yet the underlying song is her compass": Valerie Duff-Strautmann on THE FIRE PASSAGE, poems by Lisa Wells
@fourwaybooks.bsky.social
via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/4gmEXUd
9 months ago
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Christoph Irmscher
9 months ago
My take on Jonathan Aaronâs wonderful âJust About Anythingâ
@cmupress.bsky.social
in
@ronslate.bsky.social
âs âOn the Seawallâ: âAaronâs poetry, for the length of a few lines, a handful of pages, persuades us that things or people that are gone arenât, in fact, lost.â
www.ronslate.com/on-just-abou...
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"When you donât make decisions for yourself, the world makes decisions for youâlarge and small, which Chambersâ novel expertly traces":
@mathitak.bsky.social
on GREAT DISASTERS by Grady Chambers
@tinhouse.bsky.social
via On The Seawall
bit.ly/48kQPns
9 months ago
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"I thought I was finished with beauty, / having shed â given away, or sold â so much / and committed myself // to necessary objects only": from "Thirst," 1 of 3 poems by Robin Becker via On The Seawall
bit.ly/4mdquv6
9 months ago
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