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Today's Featured Poem:

"Crayola Da Gamba" by Merril Gilfillan from Three Roans In the Shallows, One of Them Blue published by @floodeditions.bsky.social

Read here:
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Forthcoming next month: The Midnight Work by Jennifer Moxley. "In a time where many of us seem hypnotized by apocalyptic visions, Moxley celebrates everyday life, even in extraordinary circumstances. This is now unusual enough, I think, to be called brave."—Rae Armantrout

Elegies on Brambles: On Jennifer Moxley, Stephen Rodefer, and Poetic Grief John Wilkinson explores the elegiac form.

John Wilkinson discusses an elegy by Jennifer Moxley that's forthcoming in her book The Midnight Work...

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Reveille – Wesleyan University Press The poems in Liza Hudock's Reveille offer an unvarnished look at the tenacious ties that bind us to family, home, and to ways of talking."Here is a world i...

Publication day for REVEILLE by Liza Hudock! Order from Flood Editions, Wesleyan University Press, HFS Books, or your independent bookseller.
www.weslpress.org/979898578748...

"Liza Hudock’s debut collection, Reveille, reflects on ordinary life with such humility that her artfulness sneaks up on you like a coyote at twilight."—Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Graham Foust

@floodeditions.bsky.social

When a flood recedes,

the ground looks unfamiliar.
Everything is out of place

and all the witnesses can say is
this is where the water was.
—Liza Hudock

Read the title poem from Liza Hudock's Reveille, forthcoming from Flood Editions in August!
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Poets on the Plains: On Dialectible Image Hi, I’m Wayne Miller. I’m a poet who lives in Denver, Colorado, and I’m here for Poets on the Plains.Today I’m going to read a poem by the poet Graham Foust.

Graham Foust feature on "Poets on the Plains"...

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A stack of poetry books and cookbooks by Ronald Johnson.

Just reread Ronald Johnson’s amazing The Book of the Green Man (a lovely British reprint from @uniformbooks.bsky.social ), reaffirming that he is one of my favorite poets and rekindling my interest in doing a deep dive into the connections between his poetry and his cookbooks. 1/2

CURRENT PRINT EDITION - Rain Taxi Review of Books Volume 30, Number 2, Summer 2025 (#118) To purchase issue #118 using Paypal, click here.To become a member and get quarterly issues of Rain

Patrick James Dunagan reviews She Is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann, in the new issue of Rain Taxi: "There’s a sense of an outside force working on Eckermann’s consciousness, taking her toward a higher understanding of her relationship with the physical environment."
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ARK – Wesleyan University Press A new edition of Ronald Johnson's masterpiece"ARK is a metaphysical poem that could only have been written in our time, of which it displays a new vision. It...

also my copy of this arrived today. Be more ARK www.weslpress.org/979898578747...

Spotlight: Peter Halley — The FLAG Art Foundation

Elaine Equi @elaineequi.bsky.social quotes Ronald Johnson's ARK in this characteristically alert poem responding to Peter Halley's artwork. We recommend Equi's new book, OUT OF THE BLANK, just published by @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
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With the warbler migration approaching full bore here in North America, I think of Merrill Gilfillan’s 2006 “Warbler Haibun,” out of Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue (Flood Editions, 2024). A little string excerpted out of its bounty and fervor:

wonderful cover

(Flood Editions, design: Quemadura,
drawing by Charles Burchfield, 1915)

Forthcoming October: Jennifer Moxley’s The Midnight Work is a meditation on the fragility of memory and love in the increasingly mediated post-Covid world of polarized politics and climate change. It addresses old friends, living and dead, in a series of epistles among more condensed lyric poems.

What We’re Reading: April 2025 DAVID LEHMAN <br> His sentences are labyrinthine, and you soon realize how little happens in a story ... Yet we keep reading, not only for the syntactical journey but for the author’s subtle understan...

At The Common, Nathaniel Perry has a perceptive recommendation of Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems by Merrill Gilfillan: "like a weird novel, or like an atlas, or like a guidebook, or like an aviary, or like a bestiary . . ."

www.thecommononline.org/what-were-re...

Our latest books, postcards, and catalog will be available next week at the AWP in Los Angeles, booth #605. Please say hello!

ARS POETICA Turn your face away and break a first-floor window. Turn back and throw its pieces through your open one above.

Graham Foust @floodeditions.bsky.social

FORTHCOMING IN AUGUST: Liza Hudock's Reveille, an unvarnished look at the tenacious ties that bind us to family, home, and to ways of talking. "The world, in poem after poem, somehow transfigures into the personal with startling effect. A magnificent, memorable debut" (August Kleinzahler).

We plan to do so, as soon as we can afford it! Thanks for your interest.

NOW AVAILABLE! Ronald Johnson's ARK: "Of all the ambitious, syncretic, idiosyncratic, American modernist long poems (and we have had more than a few), ARK is the most spiritual, the most celebratory, and maybe the most fun."—Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker
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Flood Editions t-shirt, a collaboration with the artist Brian Calvin, using an image from his book DAYS. Beautifully silkscreened by Love Shack Press. Available domestically, while supplies last, for $27 with free shipping:
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"Rigel leaves a ripple— / otter / through black water."

Merrill Gilfillan, "Night Sky, Pawnee Creek" from Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems

Be sure to catch Sophocles' Ajax, in John Tipton's translation, brought to the stage of the Scena Theatre in Washington, DC!

Listen to the Firespitters: Seven Poetry Books to Read This February It’s a new year, which means it’s yet another occasion to be the same old unbudgeable person as last year while grumbling to oneself, new year, new me. (I can’t read that phrase without thinking of…

Christopher Spaide Recommends Ali Cobby Eckermann
at LitHub: "Stand back, and the book’s narrative contours might suggest a visionary quest, a chronicle of mothers and daughters, or a do-over at a creation myth..."

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Merril Gillfillans new book of poetry

This is the best book of poems I've read in a while. @floodeditions.bsky.social never disappoints, I know, but this is special

📚 7. THE LONG FORM by Kate Briggs. About: intimate forms of nurturance (holding, feeding, sleeping-beside). Also about: our raw experience of objects and phenomena, and our use of narrative to structure and convey this experience. Flawlessly balanced—easily my favorite novel of the 2020s to date.

Readers in Asheville, NC can find Merrill Gilfillan's new Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems, at Malaprop's Bookstore!
www.malaprops.com/book/9798985...