Joseph Grantham

At the Blue Fox Inn Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I’d never done anything like this before. Berg cheated on his wife all the time. Now I was going to be just as bad as Berg.”

It’s Dale Herd (1940-2026) week on R&R. We’ll have two new Herd stories on the site, beginning today with “At the Blue Fox Inn”:

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The Dog Wants to Fuck My Leg Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I am a man. I am an average man. I am the most average-looking man on planet Earth. When I walk outside, no one pays any attention to me.”

Read new fiction by Guillaume Morissette (@anxietyissue.bsky.social) on R&R:

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Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“ther ar pot holes on
th road 2 heven

or at leest

sum lips in th
concrete that ar mor
thn eliptikul”

Read three new poems by bill bissett on R&R:

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Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“The older man is bald, wears a grey suit and tie, is a bit shorter than the others. They have identical noses. Not one of them wears underwear. And their hairy scrotums brush the insides of their hairy legs.”

Read three new poems by Michael Earl Craig:

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Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“two legs converged in a hazel wood and I
I let myself be swallowed by
coniference.”

Read three new poems Sophia Dahlin on R&R:

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I have three poems in the new issue of the Southwest Review (@southwestreview.bsky.social). Here is one of them.

Traffic School Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“It was funny when you heard a random siren. Didn’t bother you at all. But when you knew the siren was calling your name, it cut through your chest, and swirled around inside you like a bullet.”

Read new fiction by Robert Ward on R&R:

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Three Stories Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“And then it all made sense on the afternoon of Pearl Harbor Day, as I watched her sitting in the bay window eating a cluster of green grapes.”

Read three new stories by Stephen Mortland (@stephenmortland.bsky.social) on R&R:

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Trickle Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“No one knows how it happened. But it happened.”

Read new fiction by Jessica Westhead on R&R:

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Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

““Do you grow up as I walk away,
Or fade out into another world?
I don’t recall you saying much about it.”

Read three new poems by Michael Wolfe on R&R:

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Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I want to cry and sneeze at the same time I'm weird but without motives.”

Read four new poems by John Coletti on R&R:

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Seven Stories Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“The first thing she hears in the morning (the sound that always wakes her up) is the typewriter in her husband’s study. But when she opens her eyes she sees him sleeping next to her.”

Read new stories by Ariel Magnus, trans. from the Spanish by Kit Maude:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/seve...

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Seven Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“That food bank was once a petrol station, which was once a field where my sister looked after a horse. Mostly she just brushed it and blew softly into its nose. Some horses like that.”

Read seven new poems by James Brown:

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Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

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Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Do you like the way I have divided
this poem into six-line stanzas,
to give it more gravitas? Serious
poets divide their poems into
stanzas.”

Read four new poems by Stuart Ross (@razovsky.bsky.social) on R&R:

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Mr. Mayor Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I liked the sound the school copier made. Sometimes when I needed to clear my head, I made blank copies or copies with a single word—‘apple’ maybe, or ‘petroleum.’”

Read new fiction by Dalton Monk on R&R:

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Three Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“You love poetry and baseball--are they like one another?

They both get you used to something--and then comes a surprise. You love it.”

Read three new poems by Canada’s first Poet Laureate, George Bowering:

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A Robbery Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Someone cleared their throat. I looked southwest toward the promise of a never-ending day, then we all grimaced up at the sky that now seemed to be pressing down on us like the stubborn lid of some overfilled thing.”

Read new fiction by Corey Lof on R&R:

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Five Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

ICYMI— five new poems of mine are up over at @rnrmagazine.bsky.social!
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Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“sitting among the old men
each singular at his own table
separated by empty chairs
unwrapping Burger King Whoppers
my Burger is Impossible”

Read four new poems by Bob Rosenthal:

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Five poems up today via R&R.
Many thanks to the brilliant editor, @josephgrantham.bsky.social!

Five Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“Tree tips are silvery pricking
clouds with flat bottoms.
I'm all cut up by the blinds
and by the sconce light.
There is a dog on the baseball field.”

Read five new poems by Ty Holter:

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Two Stories Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“And you would laugh. And I would die laughing with you. And I would call you a dufus for laughing at me. But only in my head. And only if dead people have thoughts.”

Read two new stories by Ellie Goins:

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Paper Tigers Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“I wear an earring. My hair is long. I don’t smoke, drink, or watch TV. I got a dog and a growth starting up on the side of my head but that’s about it.“

Read new fiction by Sam Anderson on R&R:

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Summer Vacation Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“A very fortunate thing happened to me this summer. What it is, I can’t say yet—I’m writing as if it has already occurred, but the truth is it hasn’t.”

Read new fiction by Daisuke Shen (@daijoubu.bsky.social) on R&R:

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Four Poems Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“People need to think twice before they

Start throwing good money at bonehead

Schemes aimed at bringing American

Professional sports to foreign countries

I know I speak from experience”

Read four new poems by Paul Fericano:

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Five Cypresses, Times Two Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“He dreamed that a bird alighted at his window and told him:

‘There’s a treasure awaiting you in the city of the five cypresses.’”

Read new fiction by Marina Colasanti, translated from the Portuguese by Adria Frizzi:

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Leg Spoke Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

“She took him on a walk early every morning. Leg protested at first, but he was able to forget himself for long stretches of the trail. Knee made a fuss. He was stiff. He didn’t seem willing to hold the rest of Leg up.”

Read new fiction by Sherril Jaffe:

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