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Thinking about breaking out my Jack Spicer collections. . .

05.03.2026 03:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

03.03.2026 04:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Clarification on Tough's Future Hi y'all. Just a note. I needed some time--perspective--away from short stories to get a handle on Tough for the future. During 2026 and ea...

redneck-press.blogspot.com/2026/03/clar...

03.03.2026 03:29 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

They should be available in stores and at the usual suspects. :-)

03.03.2026 01:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

New!

01.03.2026 01:57 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Shits and giggles on a Friday: whatchoo got going on?

28.02.2026 03:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hope you're all ok out there in the snow. We're fine here.

24.02.2026 03:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Find poems here!

@livenudepoems.bsky.social

21.02.2026 03:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Saturday night, I'll be in Weymouth listening to these folks. Come join?

20.02.2026 21:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just saw this! Congrats!

20.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hope all of you have a great weekend!

20.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

PennSound: Authors

Which poet of these should I listen to tonight?

writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/...

14.02.2026 01:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's a good night to revisit FAST ONE, by Paul Cain, the best crime novel you probably haven't read. What novels do you wish more people had read?

07.02.2026 04:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Today's delivery:

03.02.2026 01:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Got some cool editorial news TBA soon!

02.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What's happening in poetry tonight?

I'm reading this:

01.02.2026 02:19 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reading John Steinbeck's letters. He had every confidence in himself even though he struggled mightily with the public business of writing. It's a comforting read, I guess.

28.01.2026 02:15 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trying not to think about MN. Failing.

Skimming these.

25.01.2026 01:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Spurs tonight!

23.01.2026 01:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I finished the Jim Harrison bio. 4.5 stars. Really good. Now I'm taking on Peter Matthiessen's new bio. I probably should reread him too. I remember the nonfic impressed me--especially the Snow Leopard and Nine Hearted Dragon River. Loved At Play in the Fields of the Lord.

22.01.2026 23:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fucking snow. I don't want it.

22.01.2026 23:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rusty Barnes — Scapegoat Review Abandonment I watched Uncle Walt pull a fake tittie out of his inner flannel shirt, present it to my father like a gift he ought to bow and scrape for. Dad laughed and pulled at his beer, I went o...

I self-Googled today and found these: 17 years ago!

www.scapegoatreview.org/winter-2009/...

22.01.2026 16:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks John!

22.01.2026 14:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I recognize the name, but have never read. Could you suggest some titles? Thanks!

22.01.2026 14:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'll try this here.

Anyone reading the new Jim Harrison bio? It's a good read for me so far. I don't think anyone else successfully hits the trifecta of poetry, fiction, nonfiction over the last 75 years or so.

22.01.2026 13:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I want to believe better things are coming.

22.01.2026 05:43 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Rust Belt Review #11 Issue #11 of the American poetry series from Rust Belt Press

New at Rust Belt Review!

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03.01.2026 21:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tackling this again. I can't recall why I stopped reading it.

02.01.2026 02:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Altered States of John Wieners In his letters we can glimpse a radiant, jazz-struck testament to the vocation of poetry.

Today's quote:

“The world is so futile, we have such little time."

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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