Geoffrey Babbitt

The Long Now Conditions Permit The Long Now Conditions Permit confronts the persistent brutalities of our world through poetry that both names and resists the injustices shaping it. From ...

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A Grain of Sand in Lambeth In A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, poetry becomes a lens through which to explore the complex, visionary world of William Blake. Drawing on Blake’s own reject...

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A Grain of Sand in Lambeth has a cover! Many thanks to Caroline Dickens and the folks at UN Press for the design. Official release is December 2nd, which I am happy to share with the wonderful Jami Macarty’s The Long Now Conditions Permit, whose cover I also love. Preorder links below in comments.

William Blake Naropa lectures continue - 20 - The Allen Ginsberg Project Allen Ginsberg Naropa Lectures on William Blake continue from here. He begins in earnest today with exegesis on The Book of Los AG: …this is not very hard at the beginning. ” Eno aged Mother,/Who the ...

@geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social - Ginsberg on Blake continues
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I couldn’t be happier to read with @kathryncowles.bsky.social and @cathylinhche.bsky.social in the Highland Park Bowl on Thursday night! 6:30–9:30

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Many thanks for the kind words! @newsthatstays.bsky.social

Schumer’s New York Times interview is a disaster after a dumpster fire.

He needs to go. Now.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

Yes, indeed, forever ago and yesterday…. Great to hear that! So you’re back in the city, eh?

Thank you, @doc-pollard.bsky.social! I picked up a copy of *On the Verge…* at AWP last year, thoroughly loved it, and was so happy to be reunited with “The Archer and the Queen of Disks,” which is one of the poems from my Utah days that made the strongest impression on me.

Republicans will soon bring forward a “reconciliation” bill, that encapsulates the value system of greed and their obedience to oligarchy.

It is the economic essence of Trumpism. It will make the rich richer & the poor poorer.

It must be defeated. And we can defeat it.

Fall 2024 Amsterdam Review Fall 2024 issue. Featuring works by Victoia Chang, Keetje Kuipers, Dian Parker, Carl-Christian Elze, Astrid Lampe, and more.

Full spring ‘24 issue here: www.amsterdamreview.org/spring-2024....

Full fall ‘24 issue here: www.amsterdamreview.org/fall-2024.html

Thank you to @amsterdamreview.bsky.social for the shoutout… and for featuring two poem from my forthcoming book on Blake in their spring ‘24 issue!

(The Payne Whitney was a psychiatric hospital on the Upper East Side.)

From “The Payne Whitney Poems” section of *The Morning of the Poem*….

February 13, 1975 Tomorrow is St. Valentine's: tomorrow I'll think about that. Always nervous, even after a good sleep I'd like to climb back into. The sun shines on yesterday's new-fallen snow and yestereven it turned the world to pink and rose and steel-blue buildings. Helene is restless: leaving soon. And what then will I do with myself? Someone is watching morning TV. I'm not reduced to that yet. I wish one could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

Happy 50th anniversary of this Schuyler poem, whose ending gets me every damn time!

Will do! And I’ll happily support these titles in the meantime. Thanks!

Ah, my release is 12/2/25—two days too late to make the cutoff here, looks like 😩

Yes! I have a book slated for release in December with University of Nevada Press: A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, which won the Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry.

Schoenberg's archives in Los Angeles are gone. 💔

The task of the community school is to confer more dignity on work by infusing it with thinking, and not to make the worker a compartmentalized thing that sometimes works and sometimes thinks.

- Simone Weil, The Need for Roots

Bringing my poems over to to Bsky. Here's what I consider my magnum opus (for now).

Beckett and Derrida Cambridge Core - English Literature 1900-1945 - Beckett and Derrida

Finally, Beckett and Derrida is out and free to download for a month!
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Let me know what you think!

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.

(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

The cover of Kazim Ali’s SWEET NOTHING is subtitled PROSE & POEMS & PLAYS. The chapbook is tiny and pale pink, almost lavender, with grey penciled drawings and patterns. It’s adorable.

Scene: Neely is sitting at a bar. His back is to the audience. The bartender is serving people at the bar. There are people sitting on either side of him, talking to each other. He is talking to whoever will listen, sometimes the bartender, sometimes to the people on either side of him, but no one is really listening (Image cuts off mid-sentence)

This tiny tiny play in a tiny tiny perfect chapbook from Kazim Ali takes place entirely with Neel’s back facing the audience as he sits at a bar. @kazimali.bsky.social swoon swoon swoon.

P.S. the first line is “Idaho weather doesn’t give a shit about you.”

If you are a copyeditor, I hope something excessively kind or wonderful happens to you today ✨

cover of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency. art by Vincent Chong, design by Sandy Knight. artwork is a painting of two embracing nude figures atop a dryer + a green cat atop a washer. in the background, a mountain & crescent moon

cover of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. art by Anne Havens, design by Sandy Knight. artwork is a painting of the outline of a face, rippling outward or repeated several times + a band of red egg-like shapes across the bottom

hello the sky that is blue! i am a writer! who has written these two poetry collections with super long titles, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities + Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency. book covers are superb imo.

Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.

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