C.T. Salazar

The Black Panthers were accurately describing the US as fascist in the 60s. That's how far behind you are if a dictator moving troops in to occupy cities & arresting his opposition & disappearing people is just clicking as fascism for you.

TONIGHT!

Join us for the virtual book launch of @writesloud.bsky.social collection: FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT (@stanchion.bsky.social)

Readers include: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, @toddedillard.bsky.social, @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social, and me!

Register here:

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deep enough into this cave / when our oxygen runs thin we'll confuse the glowworms for teeming yellow moons

C.T. Salazar

@ctsalazar.bsky.social
@acrebooks.bsky.social

It seems like “release the list” has become a fantasy for people who feel helpless for different reasons. Even if it were right in front of everyone, it wouldn’t enlighten us about what we already know is horrendous. Furthermore, who’s supposed to enforce the imagined consequences of being on it?

The Surreal-Absurd Sampler: a print anthology

Zachary Schomburg Jennifer L. Knox Tom Jenks Michael Chang Barton Smock Rachel B. Glaser John Maradik Aase Berg Réka Nyitrai Liam Bates Evan Nicholls Shivani Mehta Satoshi Iwai Sawako Nakayasu Joyelle McSweeney Lesle Lewis Evan Williams Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi Kristin Bock Howie Good Jeff Alessandrelli

An anthology of contemporary surrealism? Say less!

Compiling four years of our Surreal-Absurd Sampler series, we have 80+ poets across 370 pages, full of weird poems & micro essays on the surreal

Thrilled to have helped with this tome 📚

More here: www.mercurius.one/books/the-su...

I'm beyond thrilled to finally share some amazing news. My second full-length collection, Alchemy of Nests, will be published by
@acrebooks.bsky.social in 2027. Thank you to Lisa Ampleman and Nicola Mason for selecting this manuscript and for already being wonderful editors / collaborators.

Absolutely delighted to share this news! Please welcome @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social to Acre Books! 🎉🎉🎉

Fiston Mwanza Mujila, from his poetry collection The River in the Belly (2021)

translated by J. Bret Maney

@deepvellum.bsky.social

America is my myth.

—Natalie Diaz

Everyone thrives (dies) in the necro-economy

Oh this is so great thank you!

Opening, red fabric, legs wanting to be that. There is want and then there are stones. I was a stone once myself. A smooth blind projection. I create you in the image of my desire. Which makes you nothing. I forget my own desire, which has a blame factor. A record of convolution. Remember, L----, I become consumed in waiting and then there's nothing else. All time is nothing. The days just pass and I'm in anguish. Anguish is a red hurt, basalt. The time of expanded presence. What if we're all lovers. What if we're all little books. Little consequences.

What if we're all lovers. What if we're all little books. Little consequences.

Dawn Lundy Martin

Poets! What are your favorite poems about stars? ✨

This is incredible—and one of the few Beachy-Quick collections I haven’t read! I loved his Circle’s Apprentice and Gentlelessness

Poets! What are your favorite poems about stars? ✨

Poets, what’re your favorite contrapuntal poems? 👀

Thanks for sharing this one!

I need to revisit it! You’re absolutely right! 🙏🏼

Oooo I’ll look it up! Thanks for this tip!

Poets, what’re your favorite contrapuntal poems? 👀

The pleasure was mine!

The Way Sound and Meaning Interact: A Conversation with Kendall Dunkelberg “I knew that mortality was goig to be a big part of the collection.” An interview with Kendall Dunkelberg about Tree Fall with Birdsong, his fourth poetry collection.

"If 'Tree Fall' is loss — that things change, life ends, meaning is lost — what could represent the opposite qualities of birth, of creation, of fullness. An early poem gave me my answer with 'Birdsong.'"

Read more from @ctsalazar.bsky.social's interview with @kdunkelberg.bsky.social!

The Way Sound and Meaning Interact: A Conversation with Kendall Dunkelberg “I knew that mortality was goig to be a big part of the collection.” An interview with Kendall Dunkelberg about Tree Fall with Birdsong, his fourth poetry collection.

Many thanks to Southern Review of Books and C. T. Salazar for the fabulous interview that was published today! Thanks for the great questions @ctsalazar.bsky.social #poetrycommunity southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/07/14/t...

NIGHT LIGHT THURSDAY 7/17 9PM EASTERN ZOOM ANIMAL HEART PRESS / LAUNCH FOR TOM SNARSKY’S A LETTER FROM THE MOUNTAIN & OTHER POEMS LAUREN PARKER JUDE MARR ZOE MITCHELL AMANDA MCLEOD C. T. SALAZAR BETH GORDON TOM SNARSKY

I am so excited to announce that the launch reading for A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems officially has a lineup!! register at the 🔗 in 🧵 to hear Lauren Parker, Jude Marr, Zoe Mitchell, Amanda McLeod, C. T. Salazar, Beth Gordon, & Tom Snarsky on Thursday, 7/17! 🎤💌⛰️💡

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Night Light, July 2025—ALFTM&OP Launch! 💌⛰️. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Night Light, July 2025—ALFTM&OP Launch! 💌⛰️. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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cc: @laurenparker.bsky.social @judemarr.bsky.social @amandamwrites.bsky.social @ctsalazar.bsky.social @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social

I think I’m mistakenly tagged! This was written by the formidable homie mónica teresa ortiz 😌🔥

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.

This is a major win for public health.

Today in the retirement community I write poems with weekly we looked at poets who wrote through the AIDS epidemic of the 80s through early 90s. We had a conversation about the politics of care & remembering, resilience, and loss 🙏🏼

Thanks y’all 💞🥰