Rusty Barnes

If I can't concentrate well enough to write or edit or review, I can still make a big pile of "research."

Witness my pile'o'pound.

Ooops. I see some WCW snuck in there too.

If you want to know more, go to the Encyclopedia! :-) I may actually buy the SF one as well, even though I read much less SF these days. I like to know stuff.

I hope you all have a good weekend. I'm going to update Fried Chicken & Coffee--I haven't in a loooongg time--and try to take stock of my creative life. Like, what next?

Trying to read: Robin Blaser. Anyone read?

Which Bowles should I reread tonight? Let it Come Down or the Spider's House? Maybe Sheltering Sky?

A Knife in the Night after Frank Stanford

New poem on Substack.

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Respite.

Got this today--completes my Pete Fromm collection. He started out writing sporting stories which bordered on litfic and then went to novels. He's one of the best we have, I think.

I have a new poem coming out in Nixes Mate Review soon. Where's your poetry appearing recently?

Pome, po-em or poy-em?

Flannery O'Connor's Prayer Journal, long before she was FLANNERY.

Where I feel best and safest.

Thanks!

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YIKES!

I don't know that author--thanks for posting the name.

Thank you!

Oh I'm going to do that too, never fear!

Hi friends. I hope you all have a great weekend. I am going to try to get outside in sunlight, maybe go for a walk, read Flannery O'Connor, maybe some chapbooks, contemplate universal mysteries.

What are you up to?

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New at Tough, Craig Rodgers, Reviewed by @hughblanton!

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Universe, make with the woo-woos, help me out! I want to make this look productive.

Hardly working.

Pine by Rusty Barnes Pine I scraped the sap from a pine over and over again until it turned to resin in my hand, impossible to wash away. I used it to get a better grip on my baseball bat, something to allay the pain i…

New poem at ONE ART!

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How so? Should I pick it to start first?

New-to-me books!

Easing into the weekend. . . got a lot of poetry/review stuff coming up quickly.

What are you reading? Anything cool going on?

72 pages to go entering changes, then some connective tissue work and reordering, then. . . off to an editor. Uh. Also need a new title. Pic by Sierra.

out of the cradle gently revising

I once was obsessed with poet Paul Blackburn. Now I think John Berryman is better. And I am much looking forward to this book.

Back on my shit. . . again.