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Doing this soon:
31.10.2025 12:07 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Grateful to @kathryngray.bsky.social and @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social for including my narrative poem "Dissent at the Temple of Gemini" in the new issue of Bad Lilies. Enjoy, and please do yourself the favor of reading the full issue!
www.badlilies.uk/austin-allen-2
If you're eagerly seeking a copy of The Travels of Blad J. Garamond: In Search of Geneviève Sans-Serif (and I know you are), why not try Powell's Books? Special thanks to the good folks at @powells.bsky.social for helping ensure the "è" rendered correctly!
www.powells.com/book/the-tra...
The Hecht Prize contest is open through Dec. 1. Poets, send your manuscripts!
www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...
Thank you, Boris!
26.10.2025 01:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sonnet in The London Magazine!
12.10.2025 21:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"Is our wine the fire, or our fire the wine?" —Abu Nuwas
17.10.2025 15:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game. That's why universities and law firms and nonprofits can't let themselves be picked off one by one. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
08.10.2025 13:01 — 👍 92 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 1
News!
30.09.2025 15:54 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Book cover of THE TRAVELS OF BLAD J. GARAMOND, now available for order...
Today marks the official launch of my new poetry confection, THE TRAVELS OF BLAD J. GARAMOND:
www.measurepress.com/measure/cata...
It's nice to be reminded that the iambic pentameter line is one of the most beautiful things to have ever existed.
15.08.2025 16:25 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I have a new book coming out next month. It's called THE TRAVELS OF BLAD J. GARAMOND, it's a comic romance (a com-rom?), and it's available for preorder:
www.measurepress.com/measure/cata...
I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
09.09.2025 12:25 — 👍 61 🔁 23 💬 5 📌 5
Waywiser Books, the 501(3)(c) US-based successor to the UK's venerable Waywiser Press, is now running the 21st Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, to be judged by A.E. Stallings. Deadline December 1, 2025. We want to read your poems!
www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...
More details about the prize at the brand-new Waywiser Books website:
www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...
Writerfolk: the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize contest opens tomorrow. Poets with no more than one published full-length collection are eligible. A. E. Stallings will be this year's judge. Send your work!
31.08.2025 21:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Back for a spell.
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