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Eric T. Racher

@ericracher.bsky.social

Words in Exacting Clam, ballast, Apocalypse Confidential, minor literature[s], Socrates on the Beach, Your Impossible Voice, and elsewhere.

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Two Stories by Eric T. Racher A MAN OF PIECES It seems that there was something once, or it would seem to be so, or something was or I was somethingβ€”but it’s not confusion really, just things are not as clear as they once were....

Thank you very much to @garielle.bsky.social for publishing these two very short stories in Hobart Pulp.

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The more times I read it, the more extraordinary it seems. Really good work.

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Very nice, J-T. And with parashat Noah recently passed.

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Out of a somewhat fugitive magazine called Luigi Ten Co, edited by Whit Griffin and Michael Klausman, two early poems by Ronald Johnson, β€œsent [by the twenty-four year old] to Louis Zukofsky in early 1959 to which he generously responded with commentary and encouragement.” Uncollected in the works?

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Two Stories by Eric T. Racher A MAN OF PIECES It seems that there was something once, or it would seem to be so, or something was or I was somethingβ€”but it’s not confusion really, just things are not as clear as they once were....

Thank you very much to @garielle.bsky.social for publishing these two very short stories in Hobart Pulp.

www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

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Edition 1 Volume 8 Autumn 2025 E-Book Autumn 2025 Vol. 8 Autumn 2025Download

"That nothingness, peripheral, erring,
Hath, final jest, turned into everything."

Discover the wonderful sonneteering by Mark Wartenberg in this our latest.
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This sentence is not in the Bible, by KG Miles.

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Among these poems the curious reader will also find a tenzone between ChatGPT and DeepSeek, which includes a critical and philological commentary by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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From Autobiography by Louis and Celia Zukofsky.

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Eric T Racher | wave 23 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard Hear poet Eric T Racher read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.

I have three sonnets in the latest wave of @iambapoet.com.
Many thanks to the extraordinary @markantonyowen.com

www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-eric...

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Penn Sound has a recording of the entire thing here: media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/au...

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From Autobiography by Louis and Celia Zukofsky.

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Charles Holdefer Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Thanks to Charles Holdefer, author of IVAN THE TERRIBLE GOES ON A FAMILY PICNIC, for reading this passage from THE COAST OF EVERYTHING by Guillermo Stitch.Pr... Charles Holdefer Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING

Charles Holdefer reads from Guillermo Stitch's forthcoming THE COAST OF EVERYTHING:

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I did not realize the book was that big! Looking forward to this one.

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Among these poems the curious reader will also find a tenzone between ChatGPT and DeepSeek, which includes a critical and philological commentary by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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β€˜As a tangible object gets made, the person who is making it also gets made in the process’
Conversation between draught editor Shehnaz Suterwalla and curator Glenn Adamson on making, material intelligence and culture

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Edition 1 Volume 8 Autumn 2025 E-Book Autumn 2025 Vol. 8 Autumn 2025Download

β€œThe sonnet is a script, a timeworn frame”

Poetic forms, AI and timely re-assessments all involve in the profound work of @ericracher.bsky.social
showcased in this our latest.
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Dear editors minor beef[s] is a new feature where you can express your literary gripes, complaints and pet hates … Is there a writer you despise who is getting too much praise? a lauded critic whose opini…

"All this choreography of care is designed to ensure that no one ever says aloud that a book is bad, derivative, or dullβ€”this is a snobbery of sameness. And the only winners of this scam are book marketers ..."

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Missed this one when it was fresh. Happy Birthday, J-T.

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Many thanks to Andrew from @version9magazine.bsky.social for publishing these poems.

Here's a sonnet on the intentional fallacy and the nature of the sonnet...

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Many thanks to Andrew from @version9magazine.bsky.social for publishing these poems.

Here's a sonnet on the intentional fallacy and the nature of the sonnet...

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From @j-tkelly.bsky.social's More of How to Read the Bible

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Rita Dove's parents with a copy of Thomas and Beulah (1987).

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Rita Dove's parents with a copy of Thomas and Beulah (1987).

eu.beaconjournal.com/picture-gall...

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Really interested in this one...

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Yesterday's post...
A few from Calamari Archive and Bennett's book on Spinoza's Ethics.

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Book: The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch

Book: The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch

Without postal service I know I have books currently suspended in transit somewhere, but I did welcome a new review copy this weekendβ€”a hefty tome due next June, on Bloomsday even. @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

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Version(9)Magazine Visit the post for more.

Issue 8 of Version (9) Magazine is now live. Heartfelt thanks to all contributors, without whom its manifold display of poetry contemporary, avant-garde, and experimental could not occur.
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