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.

RIP Brian Wilson. A while back, I reviewed his memoir I AM BRIAN WILSON and Mike Love's GOOD VIBRATIONS at On The Seawall / bit.ly/3TitFp5

NEW: The May/June edition of ON THE SEAWALL. Please stop by the gallery / ronslate.com

Amelia Rosselli's pivotal DOCUMENT now available via @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social, poems written 1966-73. Here's an earlier piece I wrote on Rosselli for ON THE SEAWALL / bit.ly/3ZCIshZ

ON THE SEAWALL is consistently full of smart, diverse voices. Every issue is a fascinating dinner party with @ronslate.bsky.social as the consummate host. Also, guess what? These poems are going to be in SCYTHE, coming next year from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social 🎉

"Vida Nova, Los Angeles," "Heat Index" & "Teaching Marie Antoinette to Drive" -- 3 poems by @esylviapoet.bsky.social in the new May/June edition of ON THE SEAWALL ... bit.ly/43A6E77

NEW: The May/June edition of ON THE SEAWALL. Please stop by the gallery / ronslate.com

“He never tried to seek simple causal relations between the social forces of a period and a given work. He did not want to explain the appearance of the work; he wanted to discover the place that its existence needed to occupy in our knowledge": John Berger on Walter Benjamin

"We find ourselves gathered not just to discuss poems & ideas but to reckon with what feels like the narrowing of possibility around us ... not only the state’s crackdowns, but the constriction of space for the work we do": @meghanor.bsky.social @yalereview.bsky.social bit.ly/3GkW0bf

Paul Celan DOTD 1970 at age 48 "more than any other poet poised the word against its affiliations,” said Heather McHugh. On BREATHTURN INTO TIMESTEAD bit.ly/4jlXIb3 via On The Seawall

NBCC member Lisa Russ Spaar's debut novel, "Paradise Close," was reviewed by Christy Gualtieri at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

On Tuesday night 4/8 7:30pm ET, Elaine Sexton will read for us at PathwaysArts -- & you can join via Zoom. Her new collection is Site Specific: New & Selected Poems. The link will be available on Tues afternoon at pathwaysmv.org -- scroll to the "poster" for the reading.