Matthew Duffus
@duffusmatthew.bsky.social
Author of the novel SWAPPING PURPLES FOR YELLOWS and of the collection DUNBAR’S FOLLY AND OTHER STORIES. High school English teacher and Fiction Editor for Orison Books.
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“This collection is filled with love, caution, correction, and ferocity.”
@duffusmatthew.bsky.social reviews LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING by Ashley M. Jones. @hubcitypress.bsky.social
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@duffusmatthew.bsky.social reviews LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING by Ashley M. Jones. @hubcitypress.bsky.social
southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/09/12/l...
Fierce Love in “Lullaby for the Grieving”
A review of Ashley M. Jones’ new poetry collection, “Lullaby for the Grieving.”
southernreviewofbooks.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
“This collection is filled with love, caution, correction, and ferocity.”
@duffusmatthew.bsky.social reviews LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING by Ashley M. Jones. @hubcitypress.bsky.social
southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/09/12/l...
@duffusmatthew.bsky.social reviews LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING by Ashley M. Jones. @hubcitypress.bsky.social
southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/09/12/l...
So pleased to be able to highlight Ashley M. Jones's wonderful new collection for @southrevbooks.bsky.social: southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/09/12/l...
R – Lullaby for the Grieving
A review of Ashley M. Jones’ new poetry collection, “Lullaby for the Grieving.”
southernreviewofbooks.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
So pleased to be able to highlight Ashley M. Jones's wonderful new collection for @southrevbooks.bsky.social: southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/09/12/l...
Just saw that Cubs' great Ryne Sandberg has passed away. He's been my favorite player since 1984 and will be missed by many, I'm sure. RIP, Ryno.
July 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Just saw that Cubs' great Ryne Sandberg has passed away. He's been my favorite player since 1984 and will be missed by many, I'm sure. RIP, Ryno.
You won't regret adding ANY Bull City titles to your collection, not matter the occasion.
YES, poetry chaps are $10 for a limited time to help you stock up for this year's Sealey Challenge... AND we also brought back the 31-title deal: get 31 poetry titles for only $175. And new this year: 15 titles for only $100. #BackByPopularDemand #SealeyChallenge buff.ly/9GbHZii
July 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
You won't regret adding ANY Bull City titles to your collection, not matter the occasion.
Excited to share that I'm the new Fiction Editor for Orison Books (co-editor coming soon?). Already getting started on the wonderful submissions from the annual fiction book contest.
July 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Excited to share that I'm the new Fiction Editor for Orison Books (co-editor coming soon?). Already getting started on the wonderful submissions from the annual fiction book contest.
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Psst—BOTH of our fall poetry 2025 titles are available for preorder! And you can use our summer sale code, SUMMER2025 for an additional 20% discount! 💙📚
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July 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Psst—BOTH of our fall poetry 2025 titles are available for preorder! And you can use our summer sale code, SUMMER2025 for an additional 20% discount! 💙📚
riverriverbooks.org/store/
riverriverbooks.org/store/
What a beautiful, timely piece from Devin Kelly this morning: substack.com/home/post/p-...
W.S. Merwin's "Ash"
Thoughts on remembering.
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June 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
What a beautiful, timely piece from Devin Kelly this morning: substack.com/home/post/p-...
I admire this book so much. Anyone interested in reviewing nonfiction should jump on this offer.
If anyone thinks they might be interested in reviewing please DM, and I am happy to send along a copy of Ethan Hawke & Me. Good for your love of memoir or movies :)
June 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I admire this book so much. Anyone interested in reviewing nonfiction should jump on this offer.
Excited to share my enthusiasm for Rosa Castellano's new book of poems, ALL IS THE TELLING, in @southrevbooks.bsky.social:
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The Poems in “All Is The Telling” Ask: “What’s burned into my DNA?”
Rosa Castellano’s All in the Telling provides one of the most thought-provoking explorations of biracial life in recent memory.
southernreviewofbooks.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Excited to share my enthusiasm for Rosa Castellano's new book of poems, ALL IS THE TELLING, in @southrevbooks.bsky.social:
southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/06/05/a...
southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/06/05/a...
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perhaps you would like to read a long essay on the simile: carcanet.substack.com/p/pattern-bo...
(perhaps you would not? but perhaps,,,)
(perhaps you would not? but perhaps,,,)
Pattern-book: Éireann Lorsung
Éireann Lorsung on gesturing towards an ethics of the simile
carcanet.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
perhaps you would like to read a long essay on the simile: carcanet.substack.com/p/pattern-bo...
(perhaps you would not? but perhaps,,,)
(perhaps you would not? but perhaps,,,)
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For Miles Davis’ 99th birthday, here’s a searching attempt to harmonize his life with his art.
Memorializing Miles
An honest reckoning with a genius
open.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
For Miles Davis’ 99th birthday, here’s a searching attempt to harmonize his life with his art.
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Poetry Daily is trying to add 1000 subscribers to their poem-a-day newsletter this month—it’s free, it’s a diverse reading experience, it’s an email you’ll actually be happy to see. 💫 @poetrydaily.bsky.social
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May 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Poetry Daily is trying to add 1000 subscribers to their poem-a-day newsletter this month—it’s free, it’s a diverse reading experience, it’s an email you’ll actually be happy to see. 💫 @poetrydaily.bsky.social
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Man, have I been in a reading slump lately. Might be time to fall back on the Break Glass In Case of Emergency case filled with my remaining unread Henry James novels.
May 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Man, have I been in a reading slump lately. Might be time to fall back on the Break Glass In Case of Emergency case filled with my remaining unread Henry James novels.
Thanks to @mooncityreview.bsky.social for publishing my latest story in the 2025 issue. Hoping it will one day be part of the collection I'm trying to finish. Big shout out to @bettysueblue.bsky.social for her edits before submission!
May 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Thanks to @mooncityreview.bsky.social for publishing my latest story in the 2025 issue. Hoping it will one day be part of the collection I'm trying to finish. Big shout out to @bettysueblue.bsky.social for her edits before submission!
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To come up with a good AI policy for a university, one first has to have an idea of which skills and formative experiences they are prepared to lose for the sake of AI use, and which ones they will fight to retain. And it’s here that we have discovered that consensus is most importantly lacking.
A Matter of Words | The Point Magazine
Over the course of the past two years, university committees focused on the impact of artificial intelligence have assembled across the country.
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May 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
To come up with a good AI policy for a university, one first has to have an idea of which skills and formative experiences they are prepared to lose for the sake of AI use, and which ones they will fight to retain. And it’s here that we have discovered that consensus is most importantly lacking.
I’ve been getting so many fundraising emails (understandably, of course!) from orgs that have lost NEA grants. Idk how many I can donate to, but I’m trying!
May 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I’ve been getting so many fundraising emails (understandably, of course!) from orgs that have lost NEA grants. Idk how many I can donate to, but I’m trying!
So excited to see @rosswhite.com 's name in the ToC of the latest Poetry Magazine. I can't wait to read the poem!
April 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
So excited to see @rosswhite.com 's name in the ToC of the latest Poetry Magazine. I can't wait to read the poem!
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If you’ve never created anything yourself—only bought or stolen other people’s work and pretended you made it—then AI makes perfect sense to you. The rest of us, not so much.
April 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you’ve never created anything yourself—only bought or stolen other people’s work and pretended you made it—then AI makes perfect sense to you. The rest of us, not so much.
Today is one of those days when I wish I lived in a big city with a vinyl shop. #RecordStoreDay
April 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Today is one of those days when I wish I lived in a big city with a vinyl shop. #RecordStoreDay
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From Broadsides to Full-Lengths and most things in between--our National Poetry Month sale is running NOW! bullcitypress.com/product-cate...
April 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
From Broadsides to Full-Lengths and most things in between--our National Poetry Month sale is running NOW! bullcitypress.com/product-cate...
Been sitting with the Meta AI news. My novel is in the database. I spent 4 years writing it. The press is defunct, so the book is out-of-print and homeless. But thankfully a massive company was able to benefit from it, even if I only have memories of the optimism I had for it as I was writing it.
March 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Been sitting with the Meta AI news. My novel is in the database. I spent 4 years writing it. The press is defunct, so the book is out-of-print and homeless. But thankfully a massive company was able to benefit from it, even if I only have memories of the optimism I had for it as I was writing it.
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When we use "the future of work" to solely drive decisions in education, we prepare students solely for a future as "workers" rather than a future as citizens, community members, & unique individuals. We prepare them to be exploited by those with money & power rather than to shape their own future.
January 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
When we use "the future of work" to solely drive decisions in education, we prepare students solely for a future as "workers" rather than a future as citizens, community members, & unique individuals. We prepare them to be exploited by those with money & power rather than to shape their own future.
Happy to start out 2025 with a flash in @mrbullbull.bsky.social. I wrote this ages ago in a @kathyfish.bsky.social workshop (highly recommended!) and have tinkered with it ever since.
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In Joyful Obedience Your Tasks to Fulfill | MrBullBull
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January 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Happy to start out 2025 with a flash in @mrbullbull.bsky.social. I wrote this ages ago in a @kathyfish.bsky.social workshop (highly recommended!) and have tinkered with it ever since.
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
Any writers out there have experience with Nisus Writer Pro? I'm considering transitioning but am not sure how effective it is.
December 24, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Any writers out there have experience with Nisus Writer Pro? I'm considering transitioning but am not sure how effective it is.
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"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf."
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OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:05 PM
"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf."
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
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