Eric T. Racher
@ericracher.bsky.social
Words in Nimrod, Exacting Clam, ballast, Apocalypse Confidential, minor literature[s], Socrates on the Beach, Your Impossible Voice, and elsewhere.
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Eric T. Racher
@ericracher.bsky.social
· Dec 17
I am terribly pleased to announce that my book of sonnets, Glosses and Ligatures, will be published by Sagging Meniscus Press in the autumn of 2027.
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My essay 'Envying Artists' is available now in Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social.
Print edition out this Spring 🌱
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
Print edition out this Spring 🌱
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
February 18, 2026 at 11:25 AM
My essay 'Envying Artists' is available now in Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social.
Print edition out this Spring 🌱
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
Print edition out this Spring 🌱
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
I absolutely despise that.
February 18, 2026 at 8:06 AM
I absolutely despise that.
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Can’t tell you what this means to me, Jeff. A fellow writer who has decided to read only small press books this year wrote to me and asked me to recommend what I thought were the best in the last ten years. I recommended three. Hashtag was one of them.
This book is, and I don't say this lightly, one of the most rewarding reading experiences of my life.
February 16, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Can’t tell you what this means to me, Jeff. A fellow writer who has decided to read only small press books this year wrote to me and asked me to recommend what I thought were the best in the last ten years. I recommended three. Hashtag was one of them.
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New Substack. On plagiarism and plain theft.
“Overhead, a blossoming black had given way to something bluer, like the hide of a slug, or a crowberry . . .”
The line in full (and long enough, probably, to count as an excerpt):
guillermostitch.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:08 PM
New Substack. On plagiarism and plain theft.
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lesson and commentary
February 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM
lesson and commentary
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Ciao, mi chiamo Mario, ho 53 anni e non mangio cacao in polvere dal almeno 3 minuti.
February 16, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Ciao, mi chiamo Mario, ho 53 anni e non mangio cacao in polvere dal almeno 3 minuti.
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WINTER
I am entrenched
against the snow,
visor lowered
to blunt its blow
I am where I go
Samuel Menashe
Image courtesy @ericracher.bsky.social
briefpoems.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/p...
I am entrenched
against the snow,
visor lowered
to blunt its blow
I am where I go
Samuel Menashe
Image courtesy @ericracher.bsky.social
briefpoems.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/p...
February 16, 2026 at 11:44 AM
WINTER
I am entrenched
against the snow,
visor lowered
to blunt its blow
I am where I go
Samuel Menashe
Image courtesy @ericracher.bsky.social
briefpoems.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/p...
I am entrenched
against the snow,
visor lowered
to blunt its blow
I am where I go
Samuel Menashe
Image courtesy @ericracher.bsky.social
briefpoems.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/p...
Jay Wright.
from Postage Stamps (2023, @floodeditions.bsky.social )
from Postage Stamps (2023, @floodeditions.bsky.social )
February 14, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Jay Wright.
from Postage Stamps (2023, @floodeditions.bsky.social )
from Postage Stamps (2023, @floodeditions.bsky.social )
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A late poem of the maestro Cesar Vallejo.
Intensity and Height
(Tr. Jull Costa) #latinopoetryfriday
I want to write but only foam comes out
...
Let's go! Let's go! I am wounded
let's go and drink what we've drunk already.
Intensity and Height
(Tr. Jull Costa) #latinopoetryfriday
I want to write but only foam comes out
...
Let's go! Let's go! I am wounded
let's go and drink what we've drunk already.
February 13, 2026 at 7:36 PM
A late poem of the maestro Cesar Vallejo.
Intensity and Height
(Tr. Jull Costa) #latinopoetryfriday
I want to write but only foam comes out
...
Let's go! Let's go! I am wounded
let's go and drink what we've drunk already.
Intensity and Height
(Tr. Jull Costa) #latinopoetryfriday
I want to write but only foam comes out
...
Let's go! Let's go! I am wounded
let's go and drink what we've drunk already.
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything.
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything.
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"Fish is a question
Lake is an answer
Fish is an equation
If F(ish)=0, then . . . "
Poetry by Paolo Pergola. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/da-da-fish-in-da-da-lake/
Lake is an answer
Fish is an equation
If F(ish)=0, then . . . "
Poetry by Paolo Pergola. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/da-da-fish-in-da-da-lake/
December 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Fish is a question
Lake is an answer
Fish is an equation
If F(ish)=0, then . . . "
Poetry by Paolo Pergola. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/da-da-fish-in-da-da-lake/
Lake is an answer
Fish is an equation
If F(ish)=0, then . . . "
Poetry by Paolo Pergola. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/da-da-fish-in-da-da-lake/
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Juliet Cook is live at @thearsonista.bsky.social today with 3 beautiful poems.
Go have a look!
burninghousepress.com/2026/02/12/3...
Go have a look!
burninghousepress.com/2026/02/12/3...
3 poems by Juliet Cook
Sawing Through Lap dance underwater with sharks. Limbs tossed into bleeding mosh pits. Those still alive are uniform, guns, glass, hate.Won’t stop shooting,biting, spitting out splintere…
burninghousepress.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Juliet Cook is live at @thearsonista.bsky.social today with 3 beautiful poems.
Go have a look!
burninghousepress.com/2026/02/12/3...
Go have a look!
burninghousepress.com/2026/02/12/3...
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Frost on the car window reminds me of certain etchings by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange.
February 11, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Frost on the car window reminds me of certain etchings by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange.
Frost on the car window reminds me of certain etchings by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange.
February 11, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Frost on the car window reminds me of certain etchings by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange.
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Now available: @ianseedauthor.bsky.social’s
Forgetfulness, from Shearsman Books.
In its tragicomic navigation of different forms of loss, Forgetfulness moves from the allegorical to the abstract lyric, through to the surreal-absurd, & finally to a series of splintered memories….
Forgetfulness, from Shearsman Books.
In its tragicomic navigation of different forms of loss, Forgetfulness moves from the allegorical to the abstract lyric, through to the surreal-absurd, & finally to a series of splintered memories….
February 11, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Now available: @ianseedauthor.bsky.social’s
Forgetfulness, from Shearsman Books.
In its tragicomic navigation of different forms of loss, Forgetfulness moves from the allegorical to the abstract lyric, through to the surreal-absurd, & finally to a series of splintered memories….
Forgetfulness, from Shearsman Books.
In its tragicomic navigation of different forms of loss, Forgetfulness moves from the allegorical to the abstract lyric, through to the surreal-absurd, & finally to a series of splintered memories….
"J’ai toujours pratiqué la littérature non comme un exercice intelligent mais comme une cure d’idiotie."
Valère Novarina (1942-2026)
novarina.com/index.php
Valère Novarina (1942-2026)
novarina.com/index.php
Valère Novarina - Écrivain, peintre, metteur en scène
Site officiel de Valère Novarina, écrivain, peintre et metteur en scène. Présentation de ses œuvres et de son actualité.
novarina.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:40 AM
"J’ai toujours pratiqué la littérature non comme un exercice intelligent mais comme une cure d’idiotie."
Valère Novarina (1942-2026)
novarina.com/index.php
Valère Novarina (1942-2026)
novarina.com/index.php
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Thanks to @alinaetc.bsky.social for this reading from @guillermostitch.bsky.social 's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, coming this Bloomsday.
Alina Stefanescu Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Thanks to Alina Stefanescu, author of MY HERESIES, for this dramatic reading from Guillermo Stitch's forthcoming THE COAST OF EVERYTHING. https://thecoastofe...
youtu.be
February 9, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Thanks to @alinaetc.bsky.social for this reading from @guillermostitch.bsky.social 's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, coming this Bloomsday.
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@rfredekenter.bsky.social and his magical poem are LIVE over at @thearsonista.bsky.social
go have a read!
burninghousepress.com/2026/02/10/m...
go have a read!
burninghousepress.com/2026/02/10/m...
Music #4: To Wander by Robert Frede Kenter
What was our poison touch, of palm lines centred on hands, opening chords into the body, incisions rent inside like wreathless layers of skin? A glorious kinetic estrangement feed-back loops …
burninghousepress.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:41 PM
@rfredekenter.bsky.social and his magical poem are LIVE over at @thearsonista.bsky.social
go have a read!
burninghousepress.com/2026/02/10/m...
go have a read!
burninghousepress.com/2026/02/10/m...
Matteo Marchesini
da Marcia nuziale: poesie (1999-2007)
da Marcia nuziale: poesie (1999-2007)
February 10, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Matteo Marchesini
da Marcia nuziale: poesie (1999-2007)
da Marcia nuziale: poesie (1999-2007)
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Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends!
Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳
“. . . like Rio Janeiro fountain, fed from the Cocovarde mountains, which is ever overflowing with strange waters . . .”
from The Confidence Man
Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳
“. . . like Rio Janeiro fountain, fed from the Cocovarde mountains, which is ever overflowing with strange waters . . .”
from The Confidence Man
February 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends!
Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳
“. . . like Rio Janeiro fountain, fed from the Cocovarde mountains, which is ever overflowing with strange waters . . .”
from The Confidence Man
Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳
“. . . like Rio Janeiro fountain, fed from the Cocovarde mountains, which is ever overflowing with strange waters . . .”
from The Confidence Man
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#MelvilleMonday
"Browse, they did not—the enchanted never eat. At least, so says Don Quixote, that sagest sage that ever lived."
- The Piazza (1856)
"Browse, they did not—the enchanted never eat. At least, so says Don Quixote, that sagest sage that ever lived."
- The Piazza (1856)
February 9, 2026 at 2:36 PM
#MelvilleMonday
"Browse, they did not—the enchanted never eat. At least, so says Don Quixote, that sagest sage that ever lived."
- The Piazza (1856)
"Browse, they did not—the enchanted never eat. At least, so says Don Quixote, that sagest sage that ever lived."
- The Piazza (1856)
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February 9, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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#MelvilleMonday
"I took the fairy-mountain's bearings […] and away I sailed, free voyager as an autumn leaf. Early dawn; and, sallying westward, I sowed the morning before me."
- Herman Melville, The Piazza (1856)
Mount Greylock, Berkshire County, Massachusetts (📷 National Park Service).
"I took the fairy-mountain's bearings […] and away I sailed, free voyager as an autumn leaf. Early dawn; and, sallying westward, I sowed the morning before me."
- Herman Melville, The Piazza (1856)
Mount Greylock, Berkshire County, Massachusetts (📷 National Park Service).
February 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
#MelvilleMonday
"I took the fairy-mountain's bearings […] and away I sailed, free voyager as an autumn leaf. Early dawn; and, sallying westward, I sowed the morning before me."
- Herman Melville, The Piazza (1856)
Mount Greylock, Berkshire County, Massachusetts (📷 National Park Service).
"I took the fairy-mountain's bearings […] and away I sailed, free voyager as an autumn leaf. Early dawn; and, sallying westward, I sowed the morning before me."
- Herman Melville, The Piazza (1856)
Mount Greylock, Berkshire County, Massachusetts (📷 National Park Service).