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
Book trailer for my fourth book of poetry: #Brillo
Available from Lavender Ink Press on 11.15.2025
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@p-cunning.bsky.social Paul Cunningham @pcunning1 in The Indianapolis Review Summer 2025 Issue theindianapolisreview.com/something-to...
#poetry #poem #fashion #schiaparelli
"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."
— #PaulThek
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#Brillo
Available November 15, 2025 from Lavender Ink
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Coming soon.
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
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#books #recommendations #poems
'The Beach' (2000) Directed by Danny Boyle
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 Andkjær Olsen’s poetry!
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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!
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RIP Graham Greene
'Clearcut' (1991) Directed by Ryszard Bugajski
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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.)
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@burgerking.com.br CEO Joshua Kobza is worth $76 million. Let that sink in.
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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"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! 🖤 ❤️🔥
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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"
— Jonathan Crary
"It's VHS culture, the irrational exuberance of Ryan Trecartin"
— Joyelle McSweeney
"Every new Paul Cunningham book is different than the one that came before it and all of them rule"
— 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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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.”
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Learn more about Sam's artwork here. Very excited for his "mushroom boat" to take voyage next month:
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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
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:
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Thank you @neonpajamas.bsky.social! 🙏🤪
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