Phil Spotswood

"this chain to the throat
which tightens not
unlike lichen.

encroaching
encircle. collared

from heaven."

—Temperance Aghamohammadi

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Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora ! ! !
Fiction Collective 2 (FC2) !
SRPR (Spoon River Poetry Review) ! !
Downstate Legacies !
& PRESS 254 !

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<shouts into the deep blue>

1. Joined @stevehalle.bsky.social this week as assistant director of the Publications Unit at ISU (!)

2. Today is a fundraising day at ISU, and it'd be rad if you were able to throw some $$ at the Pub Unit so we can continue to support the excellent:

Scream / Queen A debut poetry collection drawing on horror-movie tropes to examine the body—both its traumas and its possibilities.Scream / Queen, CD Eskilson’s debut poetry collection, examines queerness, mental il...

Proofs! Excitement is in the air at the Acre offices with @cdeskilson.bsky.social's SCREAM / QUEEN soon set to debut! Preorder your copy of this examination queerness, mental illness, and transgender identity -- all through the lens of thrillers and B movies -- at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

thank you! 🙏🙏

Stoked to be part of this split chapbook project with the brilliant Candice Wuehle! Pre-order info coming soon 📡

And some more open circuits recently published in the very cool Broken Lens Journal 📹

www.brokenlensjournal.com/issue-9-9

These poems make up a majority of a manuscript, "It Bears Repeating," that was a series of strange encounters in making

Late to sharing with the sky but I have three poems up in the newest issue of the brilliant mercury firs 📡🌱

www.mercuryfirs.org/5-phil-spots...

Desktop viewing recommended!

Have been calling these poems "open circuits" and thinking about Renee Gladman's incredible writing-drawings 🙏

Dreamt last night that Wayne Koestenbaum was teaching me how to paint blue circles with my feet. Seems like a good omen for the year to me.

Absolutely tickled pink to have my chapbook included in this smart, generous review essay by @biometrash.bsky.social in the latest issue of SRPR. And alongside two other poets whose work I admire so much!

Very grateful for space in SRPR to think about some poetry I care deeply about 💕

And to share in Steve Halle’s inaugural issue as editor!

I hope you consider reading these poets’ crucially disruptive work 🔥

"Presented as a series of three lyric essays “violently stirred together,” D.M. Closet’s Offal Opacities is invested in the serious play of virtual character creation as a means of interrogating  and complicating social norms surrounding gender and sexuality."

Have a new review up in Fecund of DM Closet's "Offal Opacities" — I was excited to engage this strange work published through the very rad CLOAK, a press of digital experimentations into issues of surveillance.

fecundmag.com/dust-gathers...

cloak.wtf

Looking for theories of writing (poetry) that understand the writer as a simultaneous reader, or that try to hold these two positions together in one subject. Any suggestions?

Very adorable that the URL for this app reads like a pet name for biscuit

Places open for subs today:

AGNI
River Teeth
The Kenyon Review
The Cincinnati Review
New England Review
The Southern Review
The Yale Review
Bellevue Literary Review

Seeping into bluesky with a new website for poems, reviews, maybe some audio recordings down the line: www.philspotswood.com