Maria Meindl
@mmeindl.bsky.social
Writer, historian, Feldenkrais practitioner.
Booster of works-in-progress at Draft Reading Series.
http://mariameindl.com
http://draftreadings.com
Checking this account once a week or so.
Booster of works-in-progress at Draft Reading Series.
http://mariameindl.com
http://draftreadings.com
Checking this account once a week or so.
What an honour to join with a distinguished group of scholars and artists to celebrate the launch of Stories from Tehran, a new collection of short stories by Fereshteh Molavi, published by Asemana Books.
asemanabooks.ca/stories-from...
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Stories from Tehran
Published by Asemana Books (August 19, 2025) Stories from Tehran Expanded edition Fereshteh Molavi ISBN: 978-1-997503-08-8 Thirteen stories originally written in Persian in Tehran between 1980 and …
asemanabooks.ca
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What an honour to join with a distinguished group of scholars and artists to celebrate the launch of Stories from Tehran, a new collection of short stories by Fereshteh Molavi, published by Asemana Books.
asemanabooks.ca/stories-from...
asemanabooks.ca/stories-from...
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Two Bluemoose Books adapted for BBC Drama Series in the last 2 years.
Not bad for an Indy publisher!
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@independentpublishersguild.com
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
@thebookerprizes.com
Not bad for an Indy publisher!
@thebookseller.com
@independentpublishersguild.com
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
@thebookerprizes.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Two Bluemoose Books adapted for BBC Drama Series in the last 2 years.
Not bad for an Indy publisher!
@thebookseller.com
@independentpublishersguild.com
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
@thebookerprizes.com
Not bad for an Indy publisher!
@thebookseller.com
@independentpublishersguild.com
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
@thebookerprizes.com
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We have some wonderful authors signing books in our booth at The Word On The Street Toronto this year! We hope to see you there! 📚 @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @aaronkreuter.bsky.social @joellekidd.bsky.social @tonialaird.bsky.social @kjaiello.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We have some wonderful authors signing books in our booth at The Word On The Street Toronto this year! We hope to see you there! 📚 @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @aaronkreuter.bsky.social @joellekidd.bsky.social @tonialaird.bsky.social @kjaiello.bsky.social
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'Will Rees's Hypochondria interweaves a historical, literary, psychoanalytic and philosophical survey of hypochondria with a personal story. Lively and compelling, it’s an extended philosophical essay that I couldn’t put down.'
Read Maria Meindl's review here: www.thetemzreview.com/meindl-rees....
Read Maria Meindl's review here: www.thetemzreview.com/meindl-rees....
September 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
'Will Rees's Hypochondria interweaves a historical, literary, psychoanalytic and philosophical survey of hypochondria with a personal story. Lively and compelling, it’s an extended philosophical essay that I couldn’t put down.'
Read Maria Meindl's review here: www.thetemzreview.com/meindl-rees....
Read Maria Meindl's review here: www.thetemzreview.com/meindl-rees....
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Read @mmeindl.bsky.social's review of Will Rees' Hypochondria (pub. @coachhousebooks.bsky.social)!
The glimpses of Rees’s life serve as a backbone for his philosophical and historical explorations, and make Hypochondria a propulsive and deeply satisfying read.
www.thetemzreview.com/meindl-rees....
The glimpses of Rees’s life serve as a backbone for his philosophical and historical explorations, and make Hypochondria a propulsive and deeply satisfying read.
www.thetemzreview.com/meindl-rees....
September 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Read @mmeindl.bsky.social's review of Will Rees' Hypochondria (pub. @coachhousebooks.bsky.social)!
The glimpses of Rees’s life serve as a backbone for his philosophical and historical explorations, and make Hypochondria a propulsive and deeply satisfying read.
www.thetemzreview.com/meindl-rees....
The glimpses of Rees’s life serve as a backbone for his philosophical and historical explorations, and make Hypochondria a propulsive and deeply satisfying read.
www.thetemzreview.com/meindl-rees....
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We are currently OPEN for Issue 33 journal submissions! We close on Oct. 31, 2025.
www.thetemzreview.com/submissions....
www.thetemzreview.com/submissions....
September 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
We are currently OPEN for Issue 33 journal submissions! We close on Oct. 31, 2025.
www.thetemzreview.com/submissions....
www.thetemzreview.com/submissions....
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Don't miss this great review! 👇
Book review #published —thank you
@thetemzreview.bsky.social and @houseofanansi.bsky.social
! In Su Chang's #debutnovel, political and cultural conflict shape a family from oppression in China to freedom in North America.
creativerunnings.com/publications/su-chang-the-immortal-woman
@thetemzreview.bsky.social and @houseofanansi.bsky.social
! In Su Chang's #debutnovel, political and cultural conflict shape a family from oppression in China to freedom in North America.
creativerunnings.com/publications/su-chang-the-immortal-woman
Su Chang - The Immortal Woman — creative.runnings.
I thoroughly enjoyed Su Chang’s debut novel, The Immortal Woman —a generational saga set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. It is a beautiful exploration of persona...
creativerunnings.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Don't miss this great review! 👇
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Don't miss Louise Carson's wonderful poems in Issue 32! From "And a bird...":
I have tried to slip these words
into a poem over many summers,
but always drowned in the details.
...
www.thetemzreview.com/carson-32.html
I have tried to slip these words
into a poem over many summers,
but always drowned in the details.
...
www.thetemzreview.com/carson-32.html
September 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Don't miss Louise Carson's wonderful poems in Issue 32! From "And a bird...":
I have tried to slip these words
into a poem over many summers,
but always drowned in the details.
...
www.thetemzreview.com/carson-32.html
I have tried to slip these words
into a poem over many summers,
but always drowned in the details.
...
www.thetemzreview.com/carson-32.html
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Read Kelly Norah Drukker's lovely poems in Issue 32! "origins":
to dwell
on the rocks
like a rough moss
among the scrub
of dead things,
beginning
www.thetemzreview.com/drukker.html
to dwell
on the rocks
like a rough moss
among the scrub
of dead things,
beginning
www.thetemzreview.com/drukker.html
September 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Read Kelly Norah Drukker's lovely poems in Issue 32! "origins":
to dwell
on the rocks
like a rough moss
among the scrub
of dead things,
beginning
www.thetemzreview.com/drukker.html
to dwell
on the rocks
like a rough moss
among the scrub
of dead things,
beginning
www.thetemzreview.com/drukker.html
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Read Leah Duarte's haunting poems in Issue 32! From "calcium":
angel hair scalded in boiling milk
sugar steam licking thin-skinned lids
wait for the custard to thicken
sugar crystals dissolving at the roots
hang dripping hair upside down
...
www.thetemzreview.com/duarte-32.html
angel hair scalded in boiling milk
sugar steam licking thin-skinned lids
wait for the custard to thicken
sugar crystals dissolving at the roots
hang dripping hair upside down
...
www.thetemzreview.com/duarte-32.html
September 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Read Leah Duarte's haunting poems in Issue 32! From "calcium":
angel hair scalded in boiling milk
sugar steam licking thin-skinned lids
wait for the custard to thicken
sugar crystals dissolving at the roots
hang dripping hair upside down
...
www.thetemzreview.com/duarte-32.html
angel hair scalded in boiling milk
sugar steam licking thin-skinned lids
wait for the custard to thicken
sugar crystals dissolving at the roots
hang dripping hair upside down
...
www.thetemzreview.com/duarte-32.html
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Read Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe's lyrical poems in Issue 32! From "Angels":
..
This is what he does, what I do, what we have
all done.
Hold the things we say we love the most in
the worlds collapsing
in our palms. And watch them crumble,
watch them unravel
..
www.thetemzreview.com/igwe-32.html
..
This is what he does, what I do, what we have
all done.
Hold the things we say we love the most in
the worlds collapsing
in our palms. And watch them crumble,
watch them unravel
..
www.thetemzreview.com/igwe-32.html
September 16, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Read Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe's lyrical poems in Issue 32! From "Angels":
..
This is what he does, what I do, what we have
all done.
Hold the things we say we love the most in
the worlds collapsing
in our palms. And watch them crumble,
watch them unravel
..
www.thetemzreview.com/igwe-32.html
..
This is what he does, what I do, what we have
all done.
Hold the things we say we love the most in
the worlds collapsing
in our palms. And watch them crumble,
watch them unravel
..
www.thetemzreview.com/igwe-32.html
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Read PW Jarungpiterah's fantastic poems in Issue 32! From "The Reader":
... Your body is planographic—
black ink corridors of copies
of copies. Under a hot shining
firmament, the gilt that covers everything
comes off on your hands.
www.thetemzreview.com/jarungpitera...
... Your body is planographic—
black ink corridors of copies
of copies. Under a hot shining
firmament, the gilt that covers everything
comes off on your hands.
www.thetemzreview.com/jarungpitera...
September 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Read PW Jarungpiterah's fantastic poems in Issue 32! From "The Reader":
... Your body is planographic—
black ink corridors of copies
of copies. Under a hot shining
firmament, the gilt that covers everything
comes off on your hands.
www.thetemzreview.com/jarungpitera...
... Your body is planographic—
black ink corridors of copies
of copies. Under a hot shining
firmament, the gilt that covers everything
comes off on your hands.
www.thetemzreview.com/jarungpitera...
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Don't miss Hannan Khan's inventive poems in Issue 32! From "Amore & Accelerants":
i charred the haven to hone how torch behaves
my jaws were always stuffed with someone else’s fire
the fucking mirror lamented ...
www.thetemzreview.com/khan-32.html
i charred the haven to hone how torch behaves
my jaws were always stuffed with someone else’s fire
the fucking mirror lamented ...
www.thetemzreview.com/khan-32.html
September 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Don't miss Hannan Khan's inventive poems in Issue 32! From "Amore & Accelerants":
i charred the haven to hone how torch behaves
my jaws were always stuffed with someone else’s fire
the fucking mirror lamented ...
www.thetemzreview.com/khan-32.html
i charred the haven to hone how torch behaves
my jaws were always stuffed with someone else’s fire
the fucking mirror lamented ...
www.thetemzreview.com/khan-32.html
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Read @ziyanakotadia.bsky.social's lovely poem "Sacred" in Issue 32!
I know my religion like a habit,
carefully crafted performance art,
sloping verses of Du’a
tattooed over my tongue
in muscle memory swirls and loops,
rust-worn stories upon well-rehearsed lips
...
www.thetemzreview.com/kotadia.html
I know my religion like a habit,
carefully crafted performance art,
sloping verses of Du’a
tattooed over my tongue
in muscle memory swirls and loops,
rust-worn stories upon well-rehearsed lips
...
www.thetemzreview.com/kotadia.html
September 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Read @ziyanakotadia.bsky.social's lovely poem "Sacred" in Issue 32!
I know my religion like a habit,
carefully crafted performance art,
sloping verses of Du’a
tattooed over my tongue
in muscle memory swirls and loops,
rust-worn stories upon well-rehearsed lips
...
www.thetemzreview.com/kotadia.html
I know my religion like a habit,
carefully crafted performance art,
sloping verses of Du’a
tattooed over my tongue
in muscle memory swirls and loops,
rust-worn stories upon well-rehearsed lips
...
www.thetemzreview.com/kotadia.html
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Read Sreeja Naskar's moving poems in Issue 32! From "concourse A, body unclaimed":
...
forgive me, mother. i ate news again
for breakfast. choked on the names.
the bodies.
the borders.
...
www.thetemzreview.com/naskar.html
...
forgive me, mother. i ate news again
for breakfast. choked on the names.
the bodies.
the borders.
...
www.thetemzreview.com/naskar.html
September 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Read Sreeja Naskar's moving poems in Issue 32! From "concourse A, body unclaimed":
...
forgive me, mother. i ate news again
for breakfast. choked on the names.
the bodies.
the borders.
...
www.thetemzreview.com/naskar.html
...
forgive me, mother. i ate news again
for breakfast. choked on the names.
the bodies.
the borders.
...
www.thetemzreview.com/naskar.html
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Don't miss Jon Riccio's fantastic poems in Issue 32! From "Aptitude":
Like powdered milk discerning its best friend
was the mailbox, some iambs should never—
Play-Doh romcom—
frangible the new tangible
per beauty magazines of the bi-valvous.
...
www.thetemzreview.com/riccio.html
Like powdered milk discerning its best friend
was the mailbox, some iambs should never—
Play-Doh romcom—
frangible the new tangible
per beauty magazines of the bi-valvous.
...
www.thetemzreview.com/riccio.html
September 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Don't miss Jon Riccio's fantastic poems in Issue 32! From "Aptitude":
Like powdered milk discerning its best friend
was the mailbox, some iambs should never—
Play-Doh romcom—
frangible the new tangible
per beauty magazines of the bi-valvous.
...
www.thetemzreview.com/riccio.html
Like powdered milk discerning its best friend
was the mailbox, some iambs should never—
Play-Doh romcom—
frangible the new tangible
per beauty magazines of the bi-valvous.
...
www.thetemzreview.com/riccio.html
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Read Stan Rogal's wry and effective poems in Iss 32! From "Love, inc.":
so say we inhabit a drowsy movie
theatre-type darkness full of American
bullet holes : a monkey on its back
— this is the state of the empire, yes? —
...
www.thetemzreview.com/rogal-32.html
so say we inhabit a drowsy movie
theatre-type darkness full of American
bullet holes : a monkey on its back
— this is the state of the empire, yes? —
...
www.thetemzreview.com/rogal-32.html
September 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Read Stan Rogal's wry and effective poems in Iss 32! From "Love, inc.":
so say we inhabit a drowsy movie
theatre-type darkness full of American
bullet holes : a monkey on its back
— this is the state of the empire, yes? —
...
www.thetemzreview.com/rogal-32.html
so say we inhabit a drowsy movie
theatre-type darkness full of American
bullet holes : a monkey on its back
— this is the state of the empire, yes? —
...
www.thetemzreview.com/rogal-32.html
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Read Bryan Sentes' moving poems in Issue 32! "Ars Poetica ... 'The top global stories that matter'":
Russian destruction of Borodyanka
even “more horrific” than in Bucha,
oxytocin turns lions into lovecats,
one big step for the space economy.
www.thetemzreview.com/sentes-32.html
Russian destruction of Borodyanka
even “more horrific” than in Bucha,
oxytocin turns lions into lovecats,
one big step for the space economy.
www.thetemzreview.com/sentes-32.html
September 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Read Bryan Sentes' moving poems in Issue 32! "Ars Poetica ... 'The top global stories that matter'":
Russian destruction of Borodyanka
even “more horrific” than in Bucha,
oxytocin turns lions into lovecats,
one big step for the space economy.
www.thetemzreview.com/sentes-32.html
Russian destruction of Borodyanka
even “more horrific” than in Bucha,
oxytocin turns lions into lovecats,
one big step for the space economy.
www.thetemzreview.com/sentes-32.html
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Don't miss @paulsheppard.bsky.social's visually innovative poem "a n y w a y (s)" in Issue 32! Excerpting doesn't do it justice; just click through to the poem:
www.thetemzreview.com/sheppard-32....
www.thetemzreview.com/sheppard-32....
September 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Don't miss @paulsheppard.bsky.social's visually innovative poem "a n y w a y (s)" in Issue 32! Excerpting doesn't do it justice; just click through to the poem:
www.thetemzreview.com/sheppard-32....
www.thetemzreview.com/sheppard-32....
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Don't miss Sarah Clowes' whimsical-yet-acid story "Seahorse Daddy" in Issue 32!
...A year ago, I was living with a friend in a one-and-a-half-bedroom apartment, and now it’s me, my infant son, and forty-seven rats...
www.thetemzreview.com/clowes.html
...A year ago, I was living with a friend in a one-and-a-half-bedroom apartment, and now it’s me, my infant son, and forty-seven rats...
www.thetemzreview.com/clowes.html
September 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Don't miss Sarah Clowes' whimsical-yet-acid story "Seahorse Daddy" in Issue 32!
...A year ago, I was living with a friend in a one-and-a-half-bedroom apartment, and now it’s me, my infant son, and forty-seven rats...
www.thetemzreview.com/clowes.html
...A year ago, I was living with a friend in a one-and-a-half-bedroom apartment, and now it’s me, my infant son, and forty-seven rats...
www.thetemzreview.com/clowes.html
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Read Nelson Chukwu John's haunting story "Click Here to Get Started" in Issue 32!
You are a 37-year-old man whose index finger reacts badly to honey. You are a 37-year-old man who just signed up for an escort service, of course as a patron...
www.thetemzreview.com/john-32.html
You are a 37-year-old man whose index finger reacts badly to honey. You are a 37-year-old man who just signed up for an escort service, of course as a patron...
www.thetemzreview.com/john-32.html
September 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Read Nelson Chukwu John's haunting story "Click Here to Get Started" in Issue 32!
You are a 37-year-old man whose index finger reacts badly to honey. You are a 37-year-old man who just signed up for an escort service, of course as a patron...
www.thetemzreview.com/john-32.html
You are a 37-year-old man whose index finger reacts badly to honey. You are a 37-year-old man who just signed up for an escort service, of course as a patron...
www.thetemzreview.com/john-32.html
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Read Sumaiya Matin's devastating story "A Sweet Life" in Issue 32!
... The poison floating in my bloodstream cures me, if not permanently, just for the time being. It holds me from the inside as I melt into the tears of all my disappointments ...
www.thetemzreview.com/matin-32.html
... The poison floating in my bloodstream cures me, if not permanently, just for the time being. It holds me from the inside as I melt into the tears of all my disappointments ...
www.thetemzreview.com/matin-32.html
September 16, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Read Sumaiya Matin's devastating story "A Sweet Life" in Issue 32!
... The poison floating in my bloodstream cures me, if not permanently, just for the time being. It holds me from the inside as I melt into the tears of all my disappointments ...
www.thetemzreview.com/matin-32.html
... The poison floating in my bloodstream cures me, if not permanently, just for the time being. It holds me from the inside as I melt into the tears of all my disappointments ...
www.thetemzreview.com/matin-32.html
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Don't miss Amanda Merpaw's wonderful "How Should the Night Feel?" in Iss 32!
I knew I would agree to meet him when I recognized his voice upon hearing it, our only phone call after weeks of emails and texts, when I could tell it was the voice that should be his
www.thetemzreview.com/merpaw-32.html
I knew I would agree to meet him when I recognized his voice upon hearing it, our only phone call after weeks of emails and texts, when I could tell it was the voice that should be his
www.thetemzreview.com/merpaw-32.html
September 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Don't miss Amanda Merpaw's wonderful "How Should the Night Feel?" in Iss 32!
I knew I would agree to meet him when I recognized his voice upon hearing it, our only phone call after weeks of emails and texts, when I could tell it was the voice that should be his
www.thetemzreview.com/merpaw-32.html
I knew I would agree to meet him when I recognized his voice upon hearing it, our only phone call after weeks of emails and texts, when I could tell it was the voice that should be his
www.thetemzreview.com/merpaw-32.html
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Don't miss Per Olvmyr's sinister, surrealist flash "Failed attempts with horses" in Issue 32!
How do you get a hundred thousand people into a horse's ass? I asked Dad at breakfast. He started crying...
www.thetemzreview.com/olvmyr.html
How do you get a hundred thousand people into a horse's ass? I asked Dad at breakfast. He started crying...
www.thetemzreview.com/olvmyr.html
September 16, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Don't miss Per Olvmyr's sinister, surrealist flash "Failed attempts with horses" in Issue 32!
How do you get a hundred thousand people into a horse's ass? I asked Dad at breakfast. He started crying...
www.thetemzreview.com/olvmyr.html
How do you get a hundred thousand people into a horse's ass? I asked Dad at breakfast. He started crying...
www.thetemzreview.com/olvmyr.html
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Read Itto & Mekiya Outini's fantastic story "Death of an Icon" in Issue 32!
Bakhtiyor was pronounced dead on Monday morning. The kids at the nonprofit where he used to volunteer must’ve worked on his eulogy all weekend because it took up their entire newsletter...
www.thetemzreview.com/outini.html
Bakhtiyor was pronounced dead on Monday morning. The kids at the nonprofit where he used to volunteer must’ve worked on his eulogy all weekend because it took up their entire newsletter...
www.thetemzreview.com/outini.html
September 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Read Itto & Mekiya Outini's fantastic story "Death of an Icon" in Issue 32!
Bakhtiyor was pronounced dead on Monday morning. The kids at the nonprofit where he used to volunteer must’ve worked on his eulogy all weekend because it took up their entire newsletter...
www.thetemzreview.com/outini.html
Bakhtiyor was pronounced dead on Monday morning. The kids at the nonprofit where he used to volunteer must’ve worked on his eulogy all weekend because it took up their entire newsletter...
www.thetemzreview.com/outini.html