For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"

My family and I are sitting down to our traditional Christmas Eve film. Merry Christmas to all. Egg nog, mistletoe, and Salò. What could be more beautiful?

I am terribly pleased to announce that my book of sonnets, Glosses and Ligatures, will be published by Sagging Meniscus Press in the autumn of 2027. @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

Sitting on one returned copy (mint condition) of @ossuary.bsky.social’s novel Backmask. Get it for the sinfully low price of $13 right here: malarkeybooks.com/store/returns

Today's post.

"[M]eter is the most fundamental technique of order available to the poet. The other poetic techniques of order—rhyme, line division, stanzaic form, and over-all structure—are all projections and magnifications of the kind of formalizing repetition which meter embodies. They are meter writ large."

chbernstein.substack.com Written from an LLM’s POV, this essay argues that “LLM style” reflects institutional language norms, not machine intent. Drawing on Adorno & Wittgenstein, it shows how AI exposes the social production of coherence, authenticity, and the “human.”

A rolling stone gathers no moss? Well, good thing I’ve let this project have a few years of growth to accumulate ALL THE MOSS. My second full-length, *Ugly Ground Swell Moss*, is heading out into the world sometime soon with Carbonation Press.

Yesterday's post.

"I have met the nice nice bourgeois" L.J. Pemberton in the Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/turn-re/

[Erasure] Poetry I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine. —Pamela Bondi #EpsteinFiles

[Erasure] Poetry I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine. —Pamela Bondi #EpsteinFiles

this year i spent the majority of my time working on my next book, but i also wrote this, and i’m proud of it www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...

tonight

A thread of my prose publications from 2025. To begin, an essay on Friuli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, desire, and translation in minor literature[s]. @minorlits.bsky.social with special thanks to @roughghosts.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/03/25/q...

As the year is winding down, here is a thread of my poetry publications from 2025. To begin, a sonnet from Volume 27, Issue 1 of Literary Imagination.

**THIS FRIDAY** don't miss it! GLANTZ reading from our darling @tobiasvryan.bsky.social Paris 👉 10pm London 👉 9pm New York 👉 4pm Los Angeles 👉 1pm

I am terribly pleased to announce that my book of sonnets, Glosses and Ligatures, will be published by Sagging Meniscus Press in the autumn of 2027. @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

Grateful to Fieldnotes for publishing three sonnets from my upcoming book, "Stumbles & Surges (100 sonnets)". At times, I'm inclined to write sonnets in order to zoom out on U.S. national political predicaments, hopefully capturing a slice of the zeitgeist in one shot.

📊 I'm grateful to Guillermo for including my piece "Scheduling Yeats' Waterfall" in the latest Exacting Clam (Winter 2025) 🩻 @guillermostitch.bsky.social @exactingclam.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

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Duncan Stuart in the Winter issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...

Many thanks to Citywide Lunch for publishing this very short piece. ...as I stooped to prepare her burial vault, brushing into a dustpan the dirt fallen from the walls of her freshly dug grave, I watched stubborn, dusty bootprints, mine... citywidelunch.wordpress.com/angel-forms-...

«L'Essere è càmolato.»

Ghe dirò 'na paroleta, che ghe resti dopo el vin, fioi di troie, i vostri fioi, gavarà 'l vostro destin.

Ghe dirò 'na paroleta, che ghe resti dopo el vin, fioi di troie, i vostri fioi, gavarà 'l vostro destin.

Giacomo Noventa Soldi, soldi... (Inno patriottico) Soldi, soldi, vegna i soldi, mi voi venderme e comprar, comprar tanto vin che basti 'na nazion a imbriagar.

Today's post.

Eveningsong. By Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social from Triptych (2021)

This link will take you to the @minorliteratures.bsky.social portal for our winter 2025 nonfiction submission window. There's room in there for you to submit your strange, wonderful, original essays. Open for the month of December. oleada.io/publication/...

«L'Essere è càmolato.»

Allora cominciamo con il gran Lombardo.

Hey experimental writers, are you experimenting enough these days? Are you [thoughtfully] circumventing the rules and/or pushing past established thresholds when it comes to language and form? Are you [un]doing the work? If so 👉 SUBMIT @minorliteratures.bsky.social oleada.io/publication/...

Winter submission windows for @MinorLits are now open for fiction, nonfiction, and experimental. Nonfiction details can be found here: oleada.io/publication/...

"American Exeptionalism", the worldview, the ideology, spills all the way down into American Poetry Inc. So much of what goes by "personal", "intimate" and "transcendant", is mainly the national subject doubling down on individualism, when what's needed is 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮.

Many thanks to Citywide Lunch for publishing this very short piece. ...as I stooped to prepare her burial vault, brushing into a dustpan the dirt fallen from the walls of her freshly dug grave, I watched stubborn, dusty bootprints, mine... citywidelunch.wordpress.com/angel-forms-...

I have three sonnets in the latest wave of @iambapoet.com. Many thanks to the extraordinary @markantonyowen.com www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-eric...

No-one read poems like Olson: youtu.be/gAYxpSjkyAg?...

Robert Bridges.

Charles Olson.

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Today's post ...

Una lettera che Pier Paolo Pasolini scrisse a Livio Garzanti nel novembre del 1954, in cui delinea la problematica e lo schema di «Ragazzi di vita», all'epoca intitolato «Il Ferrobedò».

Una lettera che Pier Paolo Pasolini scrisse a Livio Garzanti nel novembre del 1954, in cui delinea la problematica e lo schema di «Ragazzi di vita», all'epoca intitolato «Il Ferrobedò».

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