New arrival...

New arrival.

did i mention i used to be a boxer? check out my new essay about it therumpus.net/2026/06/26/s...

Poems about Hollywood as a place of emigres and exiles, a place always eating up and reinventing its past, in a range of poetic forms: done with a light, deft touch, and with a selection of translations from other Russians who ended up in LA at its core.

"But it’s a toddler’s freedom they speak of—the freedom everybody but it knows it cannot have. The freedom to shove whatever it comes across into its mouth. The political philosophy of the pig at its trough." Thanks to @booksireland.bsky.social for publishing this excerpt. A favourite. #booksky

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Jay Wright

"Philosophy is the dynamism of abstract thought, and the source is always a tension between acting and thinking ..." Copal Diharce (1947-2015) — Israel A. Bonilla minorliteratures.com/2026/06/16/c...

Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places.

A short but very, very sweet by Johnny White Really-Really

Biagio Marin La solitàe

Immense gratitude to @bdralyuk.bsky.social for his kindness and generosity. One is almost embarrassed to share such words about one's own work. www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/glos... @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

Non solo Taormina: viaggio nell’Appennino siciliano di Ornella Tajani Non si tratta di un racconto di viaggio, perché in quelle zone l’autore ci vive: il piacere della lettura sta proprio nel ripercorrere insieme a chi scrive sentieri ch'egli conosce... www.nazioneindiana.com/2026/06/14/n...

Really so grateful to Brady for this!

Immense gratitude to @bdralyuk.bsky.social for his kindness and generosity. One is almost embarrassed to share such words about one's own work. www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/glos... @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

"Where there is a curve, a story will pour into it. There is a pike arched, in a gesture of offering, in your net. Hold him loosely, let the slow laminar flow of the future pool in him ..." — Ellen Dillon @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/06/11/h...

"Oh void, oh void the muddled parts that make the compound ‘I’ rush in to fill and fuse with before nature has a chance to start abhorring." @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net — Ellen Dillon minorliteratures.com/2026/06/11/h...

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"It was a good day for birds on Springfield Lane. I saw a song thrush, a dunnock, a Robin and a jackdaw." @kevinboniface.bsky.social  is out and about. Issue 21 of @exactingclam.bsky.social  https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21-summer-2026/a-big-day-thursday-5-march-2026/

Today's post. Earth Hannah Brooks-Motl

"salvos of delicious sentences, voice, and prescient irony": that's David Brizer on Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING in Compulsive Reader.

Congrats to the 15 poets of wave twenty-six: Alex Smith, Anna Maughan, Caroline Stancer, Clare Best, Deborah Gaudin, Elizabeth Osmond, Frances Klein, Francesca Leader, Jonathon Medeiros, Kate Vanhinsbergh, Lauren Parker, Rachel Burrows, Robin Ince, Victoria Moul and Zain Rishi.

I love it when a review is a thing of beauty in its own right, revealing (betraying) the reviewer's delight, surprise, exasperation. Deepest thanks to Reggie Chamberlain-King and @popmatters.com www.popmatters.com/coast-of-eve...

Today's post from @exactingclam.bsky.social

Today's post from @exactingclam.bsky.social

Gershom Scholem. With a Copy of Kafka's Trial. Trans. Richard Sieburth.

New poem in the world! euphonyjournal.org/2026/05/25/p...

Jack Spicer

Gershom Scholem. With a Copy of Kafka's Trial. Trans. Richard Sieburth.

Jack Spicer

Me not, but open instead for open, rooms to be thought and thought on then and the subsequent thoughts made rhyme of beads as seldom poem, seldom being Thought for alone, illumined in bare stone a brain painted in multiplication of cells Clark Coolidge

In PopMatters, Reggie Chamberlain-King on Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING: "Stitch’s vision of culture is simultaneously comic and desperate: humanity as a species talking against the dark."  

The book is up on @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social's website. Book description coming soon. Link below.

Good shortish poems about needles/thread/sewing/cloth/textiles/sewing machines?

I'm pleased to share this new piece of -- well, I'm not sure what to call it, but perhaps 'fiction' comes closest. Then again, perhaps not. Many thanks to @davidcporter.net

What a pleasure this is from @ericracher.bsky.social From Section 5, article B: "WRITER hereby grants READER permission by means of BOOK to put READER’s lips upon WRITER’s" And, oh yes, we get the word peccadilloes, and oh yes, Akron. Homesick.

I'm pleased to share this new piece of -- well, I'm not sure what to call it, but perhaps 'fiction' comes closest. Then again, perhaps not. Many thanks to @davidcporter.net

Mónica Belevan de Díptico gnóstico

Bookmail.

"Try-hard longies. You know who you are, listing every last publication ... The way insecurity is measured in long lists of minor (and sometimes even major) accomplishment[s] ..." Your Very Special No Good So Bad Literary Bio minorliteratures.com/2026/05/22/y...

The book is up on @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social's website. Book description coming soon. Link below.

First blurb is in. It's an odd feeling.

Mónica Belevan de Díptico gnóstico

First blurb is in. It's an odd feeling.

RIP

A new story in Hobart today. Much gratitude to Garielle Lutz. www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

Nephoscope - 26-9-25 — Richard A. Carter minorliteratures.com/2026/04/02/n...

On this Maundy Thursday read a sonnet of that title by Mykola Zerov (1890-1937), a poet executed by the NKVD, along with hundreds of Ukraine’s leading intellectuals, in the years of Stalin’s purges. thesonneteer.substack.com/p/maundy-thu...