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Paul Cunningham

@p-cunning.bsky.social

Co-Managing Editor @actionbooks.bsky.social | Author of SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 (@eldiagram.bsky.social, 2025); FALL GARMENT (Schism, 2022); THE HOUSE OF THE TREE OF SORES (Schism, 2020)

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One week from today: I'll be returning to #SlipperyRock to give a reading and celebrate 20 years of SLAB (Sound and Literary Arts Book)! Free food and costume party!

Doors @ 6:30pm
Event @ 7:00pm
(Admission is free!)

#SRU #CreativeWriting #Pittsburgh #Pennsylvania

20.10.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
BRILLO (2025) Official Book Trailer - Paul Cunningham
YouTube video by Paul Cunningham BRILLO (2025) Official Book Trailer - Paul Cunningham

Book trailer for my fourth book of poetry: #Brillo

Available from Lavender Ink Press on 11.15.2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Ob...

04.10.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Something to be Proudly Worn Into Heaven β€œThe true experimenters, it seems to me, are the bugs that fail, that die 6 times a summer, 450 times in a normal human life, that are mutant and nondurable, that are the repositories of anthropoge…

@p-cunning.bsky.social Paul Cunningham @pcunning1 in The Indianapolis Review Summer 2025 Issue theindianapolisreview.com/something-to...
#poetry #poem #fashion #schiaparelli

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"The religious parallel is clear: both plerosis (filling) and kenosis (purging) must be achieved before reaching God. Paul Cunningham decrypts the cubes, only to uncover a 'flesh of code' and a 'cryptography of open pores' that cannot be wormed through"

#Brillo
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"The painter paints."
β€” #PaulThek

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#Brillo
Available November 15, 2025 from Lavender Ink

www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/br...

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Coming soon.

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My next book, #Brillo, is forthcoming from #NOLA press Lavender Ink. (Cover reveal coming soon!) 'Brillo' is a book-length meditation on #PaulThek's "Meat Piece with #Warhol Brillo Box" (1965)

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new poetry & more new poetry

πŸ“šπŸ“šπŸ“š

#books #recommendations #poems

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'The Beach' (2000) Directed by Danny Boyle

06.09.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Equal parts exercise and exorcism, #AncientAlgorithms recasts translation as an endlessly generative art form unto itself. Katrine Øgaard Jensen mistranslates, rewrites, and remixes her award-winning translations of Ursula AndkjΓ¦r Olsen’s poetry!

www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

04.09.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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***NOW AVAILABLE TO PREORDER***

Grateful to Katrine for having invited me to be part of #AncientAlgorithms w/ so many #translators and friends whom I greatly admire: CAConrad, Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, Baba Badji, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen herself!

www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

04.09.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RIP Graham Greene

'Clearcut' (1991) Directed by Ryszard Bugajski

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02.09.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On September 18, I'll be introducing IDENTIKIT (starring #ElizabethTaylor and #AndyWarhol) at Notre Dame's Browning Cinema at 9:30pm. (Adult tickets: $7 / Senior Tickets: $5 / Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB students.)

More info available at: performingarts.nd.edu/event/18620/...

30.08.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@burgerking.com.br CEO Joshua Kobza is worth $76 million. Let that sink in.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Burger King employee shown running restaurant alone in viral TikTok speaks out
YouTube video by WACH FOX FULL INTERVIEW: Burger King employee shown running restaurant alone in viral TikTok speaks out

We are driving good people to the limits of their very being. For what? For "whoppers"? A sandwich that contains 911 mg of sodium. The American Heart Association recommends no more than 1,500 mg of sodium per day. America is a death cult.

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To date, five favorite runway shows:

5. Rick Owens ('14)
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4. Westwood ('93)
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3. Thom Browne ('24)
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2. Versace ('91)
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1. McQueen ('01)
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05.08.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œNight Shift” by Paul Cunningham Paul Cunningham co-manages Action Books. He is the author ofΒ BrilloΒ (forthcoming from Lavender Ink),Β Sociocide at the 24/7Β (DIAGRAM, 2025), and two titles from Schism Press:Β Fall GarmentΒ (2022) and…

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β€œTo Lift” by Paul Cunningham β€œto dye a cloak in swan-black is to always lift bells from the towering floor” β€”excerpt from Paul Cunningham’s poem β€œTo Lift”

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"and there you are, ceiling / with all the flies, future"

Thanks M. Forajter for publishing two of my poems ("To Lift" and "Night Shift") in this sublime new "Art & Annihilation" issue of @thearsonista.bsky.social. So many kindred spirits are here, too! πŸ–€ ❀️‍πŸ”₯

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Thanks @nataliesolmer.bsky.social for featuring some ekphrasis I fashioned for The Indianapolis Review! A poem inspired by @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social and the insect-flecked Schiaparelli piece below. And "Cipher": inspired by the late Alber Elbaz's own glittering swarm:

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"Ferocious and unsparing"
β€” Jonathan Crary

"It's VHS culture, the irrational exuberance of Ryan Trecartin"
β€” Joyelle McSweeney

"Every new Paul Cunningham book is different than the one that came before it and all of them rule"
β€” Benjamin Niespodziany

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"shout them at full volume because imagineering because fantazmorgrophobing inside the portal because with machine for real"

Thanks David Brennan for this experimental microreview of SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 (@eldiagram.bsky.social)

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#poetry #reviews #books

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Congratulations Gabriel Gudding! FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE has won the 2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award!

Judge Roger Sedarat writes: "Gudding has effectively translated through a prism of punk, allowing himself, like his source poet, to remain an agent of fire.”

poets.org/academy-amer...

28.07.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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SAM SHOEMAKER

Learn more about Sam's artwork here. Very excited for his "mushroom boat" to take voyage next month:

www.samkshoemaker.com

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Before I forget, this month marks the 5-year anniversary of my debut book: THE HOUSE OF THE TREE OF SORES! Many thanks to everyone who's read and/or reviewed it over the years. Still very fond of this review by James Pate:

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#IKEA #Sweden #Poetry #Books

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Learn more about the new issue and its contributors here:

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I'll be reading online tonight alongside other contributors at 5:30pm EST / 4:30pm CDT in celebration of issue 49.2 of Spoon River Poetry Review! Register at the link below:

illinoisstate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

18.07.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Paul Cunningham, Sociocide at the 24/7 (print + pdf) – DIAGRAM

Now available from @eldiagram.bsky.social:

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Thank you @neonpajamas.bsky.social! πŸ™πŸ€ͺ

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