Splendid tribute to Fanny Howe at Arrowsmith Journal via @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social -- beginning with a reading by Fanny -- www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/fann...

grrrrrr ....

There’s no other choice / when you get that close // to a vagina

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 ...

Funambulism: "Attraction to perilous landscapes in times of upheaval ... promise us something eternal, something removed from the world’s vanities, immaterial and din-free": essay by @ykomska.bsky.social @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social bit.ly/4svdaqh

"This doubleness — lament braided with exuberance, suffering braided with awe — 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

Here's "Commerce" by @simeonberry.bsky.social, his poem in the new edition of On The Seawall / www.ronslate.com/commerce/

Thanks for publishing my review of Maria Stepanova's new novel, The Disappearing Act, translated by Sasha Dugdale! www.ronslate.com/on-the-disap...

"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

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...

NEW: The January edition of ON THE SEAWALL, our first expanded quarterly. We invite you to stop by the "gallery" & have a look / ronslate.com

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.

Tomorrow (Tues) night 7:30ET -- Hank Lazer reads from ABUNDANT LIFE, his new & selected poems. Zoom link available tomorrow afternoon at pathwaysmv.org

"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors,/I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd./My century— my poison, my century—my harm,/my century—my enemy, my century— hell": from 4 poems by Marina Tsvetaeva via On The Seawall bit.ly/48gdMaZ tr by Margaree Little

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!

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:

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.

"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

"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. It’s sneaky like that": @tobiascarroll.bsky.social on @delaneynolan.bsky.social 's novel HAPPY BAD via Astra House & On The Seawall bit.ly/43fQHT7

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

"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors, / I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century — my poison, my century — my harm, / my century — my enemy, my century — hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall / bit.ly/4opoNN2

"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors, / I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century — my poison, my century — my harm, / my century — my enemy, my century — hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall / bit.ly/4opoNN2

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/

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

Joe Brainard's COMICS is coming via @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social on December 2.

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.

"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

"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

"To know how to approach. / How we see the riddle of distance / from here to where the places we’ve lived thicken.": from 4 poems in Maria Borio's TRANSPARENCIES @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall bit.ly/3KaqZbT

Life folds over, or turns another way. No wonder we are so estranged from each other. -- Fanny Howe

"To know how to approach. / How we see the riddle of distance / from here to where the places we’ve lived thicken.": from 4 poems in Maria Borio's TRANSPARENCIES @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall bit.ly/3KaqZbT

"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

"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

"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

My take on Jonathan Aaron’s wonderful “Just About Anything” @cmupress.bsky.social in @ronslate.bsky.social’s “On the Seawall”: “Aaron’s poetry, for the length of a few lines, a handful of pages, persuades us that things or people that are gone aren’t, in fact, lost.” www.ronslate.com/on-just-abou...

"When you don’t make decisions for yourself, the world makes decisions for you—large and small, which Chambers’ novel expertly traces": @mathitak.bsky.social on GREAT DISASTERS by Grady Chambers @tinhouse.bsky.social via On The Seawall bit.ly/48kQPns

"I thought I was finished with beauty, / having shed — given away, or sold — 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

"Vidyan Ravinthiran reflects on what ignorance gives rise to and how it persists, through the Sri Lankan civil war that began in 1983 and ended 2009": Calista McRae on Avidyā @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/3IiDEZM

"A rural horror story - what happens when a couple trades a ceramic cooktop in Prague for a gas stove that must be lit in a one-pub village": @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on PLAYING WOLF by Zuzana Říhová, tr from the Czech by @alexzucker.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/4plMxCs

"In all her guises — mother, biologist, poet, Japanologist — Larson looks for commonality, itself a form of repair. 'We are the world’s body. There is no separation'": Melissa Pierson on Katherine Larson's WEDDING OF THE FOXES @milkweededitions.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/48fYKT3

The Sept/Oct edition of ON THE SEAWALL has just been published. Come on by the gallery & take a look at what we have to show. www.ronslate.com

An accomplished novelist & friend sent me this dismissal from the NEA re his grant application. This isn't the language of an arts organization. No matter, stay fierce, everyone.

"If any state fails to take the necessary measures to restore public safety and order, the Reich government may temporarily take over the powers of the highest state authority": Article 48, "Decree of the Reich President for the protection of People and State," 3/1/1933

At the LAT, I reviewed Ella Berman's "L.A. Women," about the love-hate relationship between two writers---one Didion-ish, the other and Babitz-esque---in the 60s and 70s. Beach-read-y, but it's smart about literary rivalries, sexism, and class FOMO. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Today's mail brought enticing new titles from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social -- I'm starting with EXERCISES 1950-1960 by Yannis Ritsos whose work I've always loved and who had been arrested in '48 & tortured during the Greek Civil War. He spent 4 years in jail. Translated by Spring Ulmer.

Katherine Larson's WEDDING OF THE FOXES is due 7/15 via @milkweededitions.bsky.social. Splendid essays. Here's "Soap: Art of Failure" via ON THE SEAWALL / (our review is coming in Sept) bit.ly/40ETyUK

Fanny Howe's work is a gift to us. My pieces on MANIMAL WOE ('21) bit.ly/3GyD4WZ & THE WINTER SUN ('09) bit.ly/4leal8Z via ON THE SEAWALL

RIP Rosalind Fox Solomon. A few words on her A WOMAN I ONCE KNEW bit.ly/4nqhKmY from ON THE SEAWALL

Today is Fernando Pessoa's bday (1888). When I visited his house in Lisbon, the docent allowed me to place a fingertip on the letter P of his typewriter.