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I’ll be at the Southern Festival of Books on Sunday, talking with @paulburchwpab.bsky.social and Ann Powers about mine and Paul’s Jimmy/ie-centric books ✨ See you there!

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Twin Lead Lines, my first full length poetry collection, is out today via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social !! 🐣

Link in bio to order and RSVP to book events, etc.

If you make time for art (especially other people’s) in your life, this one’s for you. 🪢❤️

Our Summer 2025 issue is here, kicking off our second year as a magazine! It's full of poetry and personal essays from this wonderful list of folks.

Always free, always with a musical ear: quarternotesmag.com

The World's A Mess, It's in My Kiss, by Styrofoam Winos from the album Aquarium Drunkard's Lagniappe Session

I always thought someone should do a pretty, low-key version of "The World's A Mess, It's In My Kiss" and, of course, Styrofoam Winos went ahead and did it.

If you know the songs of @lou-turner.bsky.social, you know she's a poet's songwriter. But she's also a songwriter's poet, a truth on beautiful display in her connective & inventive book of country music poems, Twin Lead Lines, coming in Sept. & up for pre-order now via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social

Not Your Father's Roadhouse: Ryan Davis On His Brilliant 'New Threats From The Soul' The Roadhouse Band is a relatively new entity, but Ryan Davis has been at this forever. The Louisville-area singer-songwriter spent over a decade making “punked-up country gunk” with State Champion, a...

Talked to Ryan Davis about his many labors of love, including the wonderful new album his Roadhouse Band is releasing tomorrow

Twin Lead Lines — Third Man Books Twin Lead Lines , the remarkably original debut from poet and musician Lou Turner , is born of overlaps: those of ancestry and chosen family, of show business and DIY paths of artmaking, and of liste...

My book has a cover and is comin atcha this fall via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social! Twin Lead Lines is out 9/16 🧡✨♾️

www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/twin...

Only a few more days left to submit to the summer issue! Visit quarternotesmag.com for more details ✨🌞

God Is Change World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After is a deeply felt and carefully investigated collection about faith and science by writer, illustrator, and jo…

Absolutely loved reading and writing about Martha Park’s WORLD WITHOUT END (@hubcitypress.bsky.social) for Chapter16 ✨🧡

We're excited to announce the 6/13 release of our 1st archival album, Ella Hanshaw's Black Book, a stunning document of an Appalachian woman songwriter who, through her sacred & secular songs, battled darkness by turning it into light. Pre-order: ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...

Issue 1.4 is here—the final quarterly of our first cycle! Always free, always independent: quarternotesmag.com/1-4winter

The new issue of @quarternotesmag.bsky.social, a "lit mag with a musical ear" edited by our own @lou-turner.bsky.social, features work by both SPINSTER co-owners—3 poems by Michelle Dove and a response to @silver-press.bsky.social' Bodies of Sound by @emhilly.bsky.social

.@quarternotesmag.bsky.social is @louturner.bsky.social's great new "lit mag with a musical ear." Honored to contribute to the latest issue alongside some pals. quarternotesmag.com/1-4winter/

Submit to @quarternotesmag.bsky.social — now reading for the winter issue! ✨

absolutely gutted to learn of the passing of Susan Alcorn, an incredibly gifted improviser, arranger, and musician who bridged so many musical worlds. We just hung out last week at her show in Baltimore with David Grubbs. I am in shock at this loss but grateful to her for her work and her example.

Bunch of weird ancestral swamp poems coming via Third Man Books in September 2025 🐣✨

We'll Get Through This: Songs For a More Perfect Union, by In Loving Recollection 9 track album

Hello to this corner!

I have a song on this benefit compilation for the @aclu.org — thx to Brent/In Loving Recollection for organizing. It’s called The Leading Man and is a lost gem from the Microcosmos era:
inlovingrecollection.bandcamp.com/album/well-g...