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The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. From @saggingmeniscus. Quarterly, in print and online, since 2021.
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In memory of Louis Zukofsky, born on 23 January, 1904, here are my Five Love Sonnets with Rhymes Stolen from Louis Zukofsky's "A"–9.
From the Autumn 2024 issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social
Note: line 4 of poem 1 should read: by the eye perceives an ordering resemblance.
From the Autumn 2024 issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social
Note: line 4 of poem 1 should read: by the eye perceives an ordering resemblance.
January 23, 2026 at 3:38 PM
In memory of Louis Zukofsky, born on 23 January, 1904, here are my Five Love Sonnets with Rhymes Stolen from Louis Zukofsky's "A"–9.
From the Autumn 2024 issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social
Note: line 4 of poem 1 should read: by the eye perceives an ordering resemblance.
From the Autumn 2024 issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social
Note: line 4 of poem 1 should read: by the eye perceives an ordering resemblance.
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A wonderful interview with @leeupton.bsky.social in North Meridian, regarding her forthcoming novel The Withers.
"We might want to escape our time, but inevitably our culture imprints itself on us even if we try to resist."
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"We might want to escape our time, but inevitably our culture imprints itself on us even if we try to resist."
thenorthmeridianreview.org/blog/lee-upt...
Lee Upton Discusses Her New Book, “The Withers”: Interview — North Meridian Press
In winter 2026, author Lee Upton answered questions about her new book “The Withers” with managing editor Wesley R. Bishop via email. Below is that conversation that explores Upton’s new novel, her wr...
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January 19, 2026 at 10:16 PM
A wonderful interview with @leeupton.bsky.social in North Meridian, regarding her forthcoming novel The Withers.
"We might want to escape our time, but inevitably our culture imprints itself on us even if we try to resist."
thenorthmeridianreview.org/blog/lee-upt...
"We might want to escape our time, but inevitably our culture imprints itself on us even if we try to resist."
thenorthmeridianreview.org/blog/lee-upt...
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New Substack
“The first ray of light,” he said, as if in a reverie, “which illumines the gloom.”
The line completes a long goodbye in a long book of goodbyes.
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January 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
New Substack
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Thanks to Tom Shakespeare for this reading from Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, which comes out this Bloomsday. (But you can preorder at thecoastofeverything.com.)
Tom Shakespeare Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Thanks for Tom Shakespeare, author of THE ENDS, for this dramatic reading from Guillermo Stitch's forthcoming THE COAST OF EVERYTHING. We won't seek to dissu...
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January 21, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Thanks to Tom Shakespeare for this reading from Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, which comes out this Bloomsday. (But you can preorder at thecoastofeverything.com.)
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Hey hey, Michiganders: Don't miss Kurt Luchs this Fri at Ann Arbor-bookstore @literatibookstore.bsky.social. He'll be reading from TRIBUTARIES, the latest poetry collection fresh off the @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social press: literatibookstore.com/event/2026-0...
Poetry at Literati: Kurt Luchs
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January 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Hey hey, Michiganders: Don't miss Kurt Luchs this Fri at Ann Arbor-bookstore @literatibookstore.bsky.social. He'll be reading from TRIBUTARIES, the latest poetry collection fresh off the @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social press: literatibookstore.com/event/2026-0...
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Thanks to Youssef Rakha, author of THE DISSENTERS (Graywolf, 2025), for this reading from Guillermo Stitch's, THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, coming in June. Preorder at thecoastofeverything.com.
Youssef Ralha Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Thanks to Youssef Rakha, author of THE DISSENTERS (Graywolf, 2025), for this reading from Guillermo Stitch's, THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, coming in June. Preord...
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January 5, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Thanks to Youssef Rakha, author of THE DISSENTERS (Graywolf, 2025), for this reading from Guillermo Stitch's, THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, coming in June. Preorder at thecoastofeverything.com.
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Book mail from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social via @asterismbooks.bsky.social
Mike Silverton and Kevin Johnson. This is a FEAST!
Mike Silverton and Kevin Johnson. This is a FEAST!
January 3, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Book mail from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social via @asterismbooks.bsky.social
Mike Silverton and Kevin Johnson. This is a FEAST!
Mike Silverton and Kevin Johnson. This is a FEAST!
"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.
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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.
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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/
"Is it the zombie that ate my credit card? Do I need to be stoned? "
A (short) play in three acts by Fred Ferraris. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
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A (short) play in three acts by Fred Ferraris. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/the-misinterpretation-of-schemes/
December 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Is it the zombie that ate my credit card? Do I need to be stoned? "
A (short) play in three acts by Fred Ferraris. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
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A (short) play in three acts by Fred Ferraris. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
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" . . . Melody found herself second in line behind a man whose large carry-on suitcase fell open and out tumbled a flood of penises."
Airport security, Charles Holdefer style. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe for full access.
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Airport security, Charles Holdefer style. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe for full access.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
" . . . Melody found herself second in line behind a man whose large carry-on suitcase fell open and out tumbled a flood of penises."
Airport security, Charles Holdefer style. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe for full access.
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Airport security, Charles Holdefer style. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe for full access.
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"IFYOU
DIDNT
EXIST
ENNUI
AVOID
ALONG
COMMA . . . "
Poetry by Rufo Quintavalle. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe for full access.
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DIDNT
EXIST
ENNUI
AVOID
ALONG
COMMA . . . "
Poetry by Rufo Quintavalle. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe for full access.
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December 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"IFYOU
DIDNT
EXIST
ENNUI
AVOID
ALONG
COMMA . . . "
Poetry by Rufo Quintavalle. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe for full access.
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DIDNT
EXIST
ENNUI
AVOID
ALONG
COMMA . . . "
Poetry by Rufo Quintavalle. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe for full access.
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"I have met the nice nice bourgeois"
L.J. Pemberton in the Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/turn-re/
L.J. Pemberton in the Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
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December 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"I have met the nice nice bourgeois"
L.J. Pemberton in the Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/turn-re/
L.J. Pemberton in the Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
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this year i spent the majority of my time working on my next book, but i also wrote this, and i’m proud of it
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December 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
this year i spent the majority of my time working on my next book, but i also wrote this, and i’m proud of it
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"From now on was the decline, the deterioration towards age, to come. He said, “Fill the book with nonsense.” Somebody else’s face."
A shelfie with a difference by Sarah Manvel. DADA issue, out now. Subscribe for full access.
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A shelfie with a difference by Sarah Manvel. DADA issue, out now. Subscribe for full access.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"From now on was the decline, the deterioration towards age, to come. He said, “Fill the book with nonsense.” Somebody else’s face."
A shelfie with a difference by Sarah Manvel. DADA issue, out now. Subscribe for full access.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/the-red-shelf/
A shelfie with a difference by Sarah Manvel. DADA issue, out now. Subscribe for full access.
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"Except those conversations, while normal in speed and rhythm, were anything but normal in terms of content."
Rufo Quintavalle's tribute to the late Ian Monk. Winter '25 DADA issue.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/ian-monk-19602025/
Rufo Quintavalle's tribute to the late Ian Monk. Winter '25 DADA issue.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/ian-monk-19602025/
December 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Except those conversations, while normal in speed and rhythm, were anything but normal in terms of content."
Rufo Quintavalle's tribute to the late Ian Monk. Winter '25 DADA issue.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/ian-monk-19602025/
Rufo Quintavalle's tribute to the late Ian Monk. Winter '25 DADA issue.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/ian-monk-19602025/
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One of two sonnets in the Autumn 2025 issue of Exacting Clam. @exactingclam.bsky.social
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December 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
One of two sonnets in the Autumn 2025 issue of Exacting Clam. @exactingclam.bsky.social
Purchase the issue here: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18...
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"The sun didn’t set. Tomorrow hovered on the cusp of Midnight."
Poetry by Richard Gessner. Winter '25 DADA issue.
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Poetry by Richard Gessner. Winter '25 DADA issue.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"The sun didn’t set. Tomorrow hovered on the cusp of Midnight."
Poetry by Richard Gessner. Winter '25 DADA issue.
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Poetry by Richard Gessner. Winter '25 DADA issue.
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My first story! Next one in @exactingclam.bsky.social next year where my Murnane essay will also appear. Flippin’ cool.
A one-way system on the outskirts of Madrid is the road to hostility and blame in I Will Go by @cclarklewes.bsky.social But is there another way?
Find out at www.fictionable.world/stories/i-wi...
#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
Find out at www.fictionable.world/stories/i-wi...
#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
December 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
My first story! Next one in @exactingclam.bsky.social next year where my Murnane essay will also appear. Flippin’ cool.
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New Substack. Horses, Stanbridge, mud in your eye.
“To find the centre, begin at the edge”, he had scribbled in a margin.
Two months ago you were God.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
New Substack. Horses, Stanbridge, mud in your eye.
"But for the few who survive by resorting to
cannibalism, it’s a winter wonderland."
Seasonal poetry by Kurt Luchs. Winter '25 DADA issue.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/seasonal/
cannibalism, it’s a winter wonderland."
Seasonal poetry by Kurt Luchs. Winter '25 DADA issue.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/seasonal/
December 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"But for the few who survive by resorting to
cannibalism, it’s a winter wonderland."
Seasonal poetry by Kurt Luchs. Winter '25 DADA issue.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/seasonal/
cannibalism, it’s a winter wonderland."
Seasonal poetry by Kurt Luchs. Winter '25 DADA issue.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/seasonal/
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Duncan Stuart
in the Winter issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
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in the Winter issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
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December 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Duncan Stuart
in the Winter issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
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in the Winter issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
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" . . . but it still feels odd to turn to a bibliography and find crossword clues."
James Brophy on 'Critical Lives: John Ashbery' by Jess Cotton. Reaction Books.
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James Brophy on 'Critical Lives: John Ashbery' by Jess Cotton. Reaction Books.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
" . . . but it still feels odd to turn to a bibliography and find crossword clues."
James Brophy on 'Critical Lives: John Ashbery' by Jess Cotton. Reaction Books.
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James Brophy on 'Critical Lives: John Ashbery' by Jess Cotton. Reaction Books.
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"I dreamt my ears exploded and I had to start listening through my kneecaps."
The disturbed nights of Ian Boulton. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe for full access.
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The disturbed nights of Ian Boulton. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe for full access.
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December 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"I dreamt my ears exploded and I had to start listening through my kneecaps."
The disturbed nights of Ian Boulton. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe for full access.
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The disturbed nights of Ian Boulton. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe for full access.
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"Artists steal the world’s energy."
'Derek Jarman and D.H. Lawrence Meet the Beatles' by R.J. Dent. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
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'Derek Jarman and D.H. Lawrence Meet the Beatles' by R.J. Dent. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Artists steal the world’s energy."
'Derek Jarman and D.H. Lawrence Meet the Beatles' by R.J. Dent. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
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'Derek Jarman and D.H. Lawrence Meet the Beatles' by R.J. Dent. Winter '25 DADA issue. Subscribe today for full access.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/derek-jarman-and-dh-lawrence-meet-the-beatles/