Nathaniel Perry
@longrules.bsky.social
Author of two books of poems, Nine Acres (Copper Canyon, 2011) and Long Rules (Backwaters, 2021), and a book of essays, Joy (or Something Darker but Like It): Poetry and Parenting (University of Michigan, 2024). Also a runner, musician and cocktail maker.
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It’s our time down here. www.salon.com/2022/11/03/l...
Why we should set our clocks back in November and keep them there
Like one-third of my fellow Americans, I prefer Standard Time. Unfortunately for us, the clock is ticking toward permanent DST
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November 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It’s our time down here. www.salon.com/2022/11/03/l...
Anderson ( and Pynchon) would like a word with reality about stealing their ideas....
October 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Anderson ( and Pynchon) would like a word with reality about stealing their ideas....
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When Israeli forces captured Jaffa in 1948, the municipal archives vanished, erasing Palestinians' legal proof of land ownership.
@philipmetres.bsky.social's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE shows how Arab poets have sought to preserve this disappeared history.
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@philipmetres.bsky.social's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE shows how Arab poets have sought to preserve this disappeared history.
press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp...
October 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
When Israeli forces captured Jaffa in 1948, the municipal archives vanished, erasing Palestinians' legal proof of land ownership.
@philipmetres.bsky.social's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE shows how Arab poets have sought to preserve this disappeared history.
press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp...
@philipmetres.bsky.social's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE shows how Arab poets have sought to preserve this disappeared history.
press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp...
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Did you need David Thomas, David Sanborn, and Loudon Wainwright tonight? Yes, you did.
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youtube.com/watch?v=Ogl6...
Pere Ubu "What Happened To Me" Night Music (1989)
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October 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Did you need David Thomas, David Sanborn, and Loudon Wainwright tonight? Yes, you did.
youtube.com/watch?v=Ogl6...
youtube.com/watch?v=Ogl6...
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@longrules.bsky.social reads Scarbrough's line about loneliness arriving "like a bouquet out of the evening," then watches his kids reach toward fleeing guinea fowl, finding poetry and parenting in the same impossible gesture.
Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)
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Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)
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September 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
@longrules.bsky.social reads Scarbrough's line about loneliness arriving "like a bouquet out of the evening," then watches his kids reach toward fleeing guinea fowl, finding poetry and parenting in the same impossible gesture.
Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)
press.umich.edu/Books/J/Joy-...
Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)
press.umich.edu/Books/J/Joy-...
Hey poets! Anyone want to write a sonnet? In two hours? On a particular theme? See our special call for submissions here!
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The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review seeks submissions of original poetry and poetry in translation year round. Our chief criterion is quality. While we have published the work of many well-known and we...
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September 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Hey poets! Anyone want to write a sonnet? In two hours? On a particular theme? See our special call for submissions here!
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The guy who wrote Stoner
August 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The guy who wrote Stoner
Trump is a historically weak president. Let's see if we survive him
August 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Trump is a historically weak president. Let's see if we survive him
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Fact-Checking Trump On Crime theonion.com/fact-ch...
August 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Fact-Checking Trump On Crime theonion.com/fact-ch...
Just realized it's The Everly Brothers singing backup on "Graceland."
August 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Just realized it's The Everly Brothers singing backup on "Graceland."
In choosing between Taylor Swift and Sabrina or Olivia Rodrigo I still choose Pere Ubu.
August 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In choosing between Taylor Swift and Sabrina or Olivia Rodrigo I still choose Pere Ubu.
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guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever
June 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever
Here's a poem I wrote about the things we do.
"I know you think that evil always fades / like grass."
In this quietly intense poem, "37 (Song, with People on the Street)," Nathaniel Perry (@longrules.bsky.social) interrogates the self-righteous act of relinquishing responsibility.
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In this quietly intense poem, "37 (Song, with People on the Street)," Nathaniel Perry (@longrules.bsky.social) interrogates the self-righteous act of relinquishing responsibility.
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37 (Song, with People on the Street)
NATHANIEL PERRY <br> I know you think that evil always fades / like grass, that even when it spreads itself / like a bay tree, or cobwebs on a shelf, / time will turn it back, as sun with shade, / or…
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August 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Here's a poem I wrote about the things we do.
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"I know you think that evil always fades / like grass."
In this quietly intense poem, "37 (Song, with People on the Street)," Nathaniel Perry (@longrules.bsky.social) interrogates the self-righteous act of relinquishing responsibility.
buff.ly/0ryxkls
In this quietly intense poem, "37 (Song, with People on the Street)," Nathaniel Perry (@longrules.bsky.social) interrogates the self-righteous act of relinquishing responsibility.
buff.ly/0ryxkls
37 (Song, with People on the Street)
NATHANIEL PERRY <br> I know you think that evil always fades / like grass, that even when it spreads itself / like a bay tree, or cobwebs on a shelf, / time will turn it back, as sun with shade, / or…
buff.ly
August 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"I know you think that evil always fades / like grass."
In this quietly intense poem, "37 (Song, with People on the Street)," Nathaniel Perry (@longrules.bsky.social) interrogates the self-righteous act of relinquishing responsibility.
buff.ly/0ryxkls
In this quietly intense poem, "37 (Song, with People on the Street)," Nathaniel Perry (@longrules.bsky.social) interrogates the self-righteous act of relinquishing responsibility.
buff.ly/0ryxkls
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It is remarkable and astonishing that the entire apparatus of the Republican party -- the entire organization and every single person who is part of it -- has been converted into a cover-up operation to protect a single pedophile rapist.
Is that why these Republicans went into politics? Really?
Is that why these Republicans went into politics? Really?
August 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It is remarkable and astonishing that the entire apparatus of the Republican party -- the entire organization and every single person who is part of it -- has been converted into a cover-up operation to protect a single pedophile rapist.
Is that why these Republicans went into politics? Really?
Is that why these Republicans went into politics? Really?
One of the things I can say about this frankly bizarre editorial by Mark Edmundson is that Keats would have fucking hated Elon Musk
I Hate, Therefore I Am www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
I Hate, Therefore I Am www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | I Hate, Therefore I Am
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July 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
One of the things I can say about this frankly bizarre editorial by Mark Edmundson is that Keats would have fucking hated Elon Musk
I Hate, Therefore I Am www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
I Hate, Therefore I Am www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Fucking Amish dropped a tree across my meadow without asking. Again
July 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Fucking Amish dropped a tree across my meadow without asking. Again
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From “Fall :: Viburnum,” by Katharine Whitcomb in Ecotone 37 🌕
“Before leaves lose their green, the season sighs a beat / in September, a pause, & once ferocious weeds / die back. Ripe tomatoes torch in dry foliage, drop seeds. . .”
“Before leaves lose their green, the season sighs a beat / in September, a pause, & once ferocious weeds / die back. Ripe tomatoes torch in dry foliage, drop seeds. . .”
Fall :: Viburnum - Ecotone
Before leaves lose their green, the season sighs a beat in September, a pause, & once-ferocious weeds die back. Ripe tomatoes
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July 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
From “Fall :: Viburnum,” by Katharine Whitcomb in Ecotone 37 🌕
“Before leaves lose their green, the season sighs a beat / in September, a pause, & once ferocious weeds / die back. Ripe tomatoes torch in dry foliage, drop seeds. . .”
“Before leaves lose their green, the season sighs a beat / in September, a pause, & once ferocious weeds / die back. Ripe tomatoes torch in dry foliage, drop seeds. . .”
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Fall :: Viburnum - Ecotone
Before leaves lose their green, the season sighs a beat in September, a pause, & once-ferocious weeds die back. Ripe tomatoes
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July 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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innocent men.
innocent men.
we're just innocent men.
innocent men.
we're just innocent men.
July 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
innocent men.
innocent men.
we're just innocent men.
innocent men.
we're just innocent men.
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may every congressperson who voted for this bill never know peace
may they be disrupted every time they are in public
may they suffer the most extreme consequences that they have inflicted on their constituents
may they be disrupted every time they are in public
may they suffer the most extreme consequences that they have inflicted on their constituents
July 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
may every congressperson who voted for this bill never know peace
may they be disrupted every time they are in public
may they suffer the most extreme consequences that they have inflicted on their constituents
may they be disrupted every time they are in public
may they suffer the most extreme consequences that they have inflicted on their constituents
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From “73 (Song, with Wrens’ Wings),” by Nathaniel Perry in Ecotone 37 🌕:
“Whenever they sin // they feel alright about it. They do not start / everything over.”
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“Whenever they sin // they feel alright about it. They do not start / everything over.”
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73 (Song, with Wrens’ Wings) - Ecotone
I dreamed I was such as are of a clean heart, for they are not in trouble, as other men are. They don’t get plagued. Whenever
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June 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
From “73 (Song, with Wrens’ Wings),” by Nathaniel Perry in Ecotone 37 🌕:
“Whenever they sin // they feel alright about it. They do not start / everything over.”
Read the full poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/73-so...
@longrules.bsky.social
#Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove
“Whenever they sin // they feel alright about it. They do not start / everything over.”
Read the full poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/73-so...
@longrules.bsky.social
#Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove
Excited to have one of my strange Psalms in the new issue of Ecotone. Thanks especially for the push towards the French repeating forms! ( Roundeau here...)
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ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/73-so...
73 (Song, with Wrens’ Wings) - Ecotone
I dreamed I was such as are of a clean heart, for they are not in trouble, as other men are. They don’t get plagued. Whenever
ecotonemagazine.org
June 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Excited to have one of my strange Psalms in the new issue of Ecotone. Thanks especially for the push towards the French repeating forms! ( Roundeau here...)
ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/73-so...
ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/73-so...