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 Glück about the mystery genre. substack.com/profile/1810...

"Perhaps the 'secret' of Dylan’s 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

"Kertész was wincingly aware of what he saw as his artistic misfortune & neglect, but by posthumously landing Albers as his biographer, he’s gotten lucky": @bquinnterest on Patricia Albers' EVERYTHING IS PHOTOGRAPH via Other Press bit.ly/4u3rW7y On The Seawall

"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

The April quarterly edition of ON THE SEAWALL awaits your arrival. www.ronslste.com

Really thankful for the chance to dig into Eduardo Halfon’s work for @ronslate.bsky.social at On the Sewall, specifically TARANTULA, translated by Daniel Hahn, which makes for a fascinating complement to Halfon’s prior English-language novel, CANCIÓN:

The Zoom link will be available on Tuesday afternoon -- see poster for how to access it ...

The Zoom link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Please join us!

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/...

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.

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 ...

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