Rebecca Morgan Frank
@poetmorgan.bsky.social
Author of 4 books, including Oh You Robot Saints!(Carnegie Mellon UP). Board member, National Book Critics Circle. Cofounder/Editor of Memorious.org (2004-2023.)
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More poetry publishers and readers are joining in here, so I thought I’d get a little poetry publishers starter pack going.
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My September poetry column @literaryhub.bsky.social is live! lithub.com/mystics-mart...
Mystics, Martyrs, Bats, Blood Sonnets: Seven Poetry Collections to Read in September
Poetry Readers, what a month. Copper Canyon delivers a much-anticipated one-two punch with Richard Siken’s I Do Know Some Things and Natalie Shapero’s Stay Dead. Our most recent U.S. Poet Laureate,…
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September 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My September poetry column @literaryhub.bsky.social is live! lithub.com/mystics-mart...
Tonight! Stephanie Burt. David Orr. Anahid Nersessian. There is still time to sign up for our poetry criticism event @bookcritics.bsky.social
Looking forward to co-moderating with @davidwoo.bsky.social @bookcritics.bsky.social. Register today for A Conversation on Poetry Criticism! Be part of the convo by bringing your questions for these three critics!
June 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Tonight! Stephanie Burt. David Orr. Anahid Nersessian. There is still time to sign up for our poetry criticism event @bookcritics.bsky.social
Looking forward to co-moderating with @davidwoo.bsky.social @bookcritics.bsky.social. Register today for A Conversation on Poetry Criticism! Be part of the convo by bringing your questions for these three critics!
June 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Looking forward to co-moderating with @davidwoo.bsky.social @bookcritics.bsky.social. Register today for A Conversation on Poetry Criticism! Be part of the convo by bringing your questions for these three critics!
How about hiring a books editor to make up for this @chicago.suntimes.com? chicago.suntimes.com/press-room/2...
Chicago Sun-Times response to May 18 special section
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May 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
How about hiring a books editor to make up for this @chicago.suntimes.com? chicago.suntimes.com/press-room/2...
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I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not.
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
May 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not.
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
May Poetry! Latest column live @literaryhub.bsky.social! (I am still trying to rebuild over in this new space so shares are much appreciated!)
May 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
May Poetry! Latest column live @literaryhub.bsky.social! (I am still trying to rebuild over in this new space so shares are much appreciated!)
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The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...
April 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Cory Booker has completed reading the first five volumes of Septology, now on six.
April 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Cory Booker has completed reading the first five volumes of Septology, now on six.
It’s a wrap! What a gift to be in the room w/ Maxine Hong Kingston and all of the finalists, to hear all of the voices in the previous night’s reading. What a gift to be on this board. This matters. Writers, critics, readers, librarians, artists: this work matters.
Congratulations to all of the winners of the NBCC Awards! #NBCCAwards www.bookcritics.org/2025/03/20/n...
March 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It’s a wrap! What a gift to be in the room w/ Maxine Hong Kingston and all of the finalists, to hear all of the voices in the previous night’s reading. What a gift to be on this board. This matters. Writers, critics, readers, librarians, artists: this work matters.
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@poetmorgan.bsky.social rounds up new poetry collections that are “a wee bit apocalyptic.”
Angels, Apocalypse, Bees: Seven New Poetry Collections to Check Out in March
How does the mind survive its internal battles, or a world burning around it? What angels, creatures, and songs does it manifest? In which artists and works does it find solace or reflection? And h…
buff.ly
March 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@poetmorgan.bsky.social rounds up new poetry collections that are “a wee bit apocalyptic.”
John Murillo translates Rafael Alberti. Marianne Boruch takes us to the Cadaver Lab and Life Drawing. Debuts from Hedgie Choi and the new Yale Younger winner. And more. New poetry roundup at Lit Hub. Happy reading!
@poetmorgan.bsky.social rounds up new poetry collections that are “a wee bit apocalyptic.”
Angels, Apocalypse, Bees: Seven New Poetry Collections to Check Out in March
How does the mind survive its internal battles, or a world burning around it? What angels, creatures, and songs does it manifest? In which artists and works does it find solace or reflection? And h…
buff.ly
March 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
John Murillo translates Rafael Alberti. Marianne Boruch takes us to the Cadaver Lab and Life Drawing. Debuts from Hedgie Choi and the new Yale Younger winner. And more. New poetry roundup at Lit Hub. Happy reading!
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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
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February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Statement on the Trump Administration’s January 20, 2025
Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Americans:
Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Americans:
February 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Statement on the Trump Administration’s January 20, 2025
Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Americans:
Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Americans:
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Today we revealed the shortlists for the @bookcritics.bsky.social awards. Check it out! There is so much you are going to want to read! And thanks to all my colleagues on the NBCC board, and to our amazing members. www.bookcritics.org/2025/01/23/n...
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2024, MARKING 50 YEARS OF THE AWARDS - National Book Critics Circle
Sandra Cisneros, Third World Press to receive lifetime achievement awards, distinguished guest Maxine Hong Kingston to speak New York, NY (January 23, 2024)—Today the National Book Critics Circle anno...
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January 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Today we revealed the shortlists for the @bookcritics.bsky.social awards. Check it out! There is so much you are going to want to read! And thanks to all my colleagues on the NBCC board, and to our amazing members. www.bookcritics.org/2025/01/23/n...
Congratulations to the poets and poetry publishers on our finalist list for the NBCC Awards!
We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Poetry! Congratulations to all of the finalists.
January 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Congratulations to the poets and poetry publishers on our finalist list for the NBCC Awards!
Hearty congratulations to this year’s Nona Balakian recipient, Lauren Michele Jackson! It is such an honor and pleasure to serve on this committee and read the terrific work members of the NBCC are doing as working critics.
Congratulations to Lauren Michele Jackson, the winner of the 2024 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing!
January 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Hearty congratulations to this year’s Nona Balakian recipient, Lauren Michele Jackson! It is such an honor and pleasure to serve on this committee and read the terrific work members of the NBCC are doing as working critics.
If you aren’t familiar with Third World Press, I hope this opens doors to their amazing history and presence for you! Cheers!
Congratulations to @thirdworldpress.bsky.social, the winner of the 2024 Toni Morrison Achievement Award!
January 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
If you aren’t familiar with Third World Press, I hope this opens doors to their amazing history and presence for you! Cheers!
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Congratulations to Sandra Cisneros, the winner of the 2024 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award!
January 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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We’re excited to announce that in honor of our 50th anniversary, we’ll be joined at the NBCC Awards ceremony by Maxine Hong Kingston!
January 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Congratulations to all of our finalists! Please join us in sharing and cheering for them!
Congratulations to all of our finalists and winners! www.bookcritics.org/2025/01/23/n...
January 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Congratulations to all of our finalists! Please join us in sharing and cheering for them!
More poetry publishers and readers are joining in here, so I thought I’d get a little poetry publishers starter pack going.
go.bsky.app/BVfd79J
go.bsky.app/BVfd79J
January 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
More poetry publishers and readers are joining in here, so I thought I’d get a little poetry publishers starter pack going.
go.bsky.app/BVfd79J
go.bsky.app/BVfd79J
First day of the new term. “Feels like -17.” And thinking of this Larry Levis poem: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53388/...
Winter Stars
My father once broke a man’s hand Over the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man, Rubén Vásquez, wanted to kill his own father With a sharpened fruit knife, & he held The curved tip of it, lig...
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January 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
First day of the new term. “Feels like -17.” And thinking of this Larry Levis poem: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53388/...
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We're excited to announce that in honor of our 50th anniversary—and for the first time in our history—we'll be revealing longlists for our NBCC Awards! We'll be announcing the lists next week, so please watch this space. And thank you so much for your support!
December 9, 2024 at 7:00 PM
We're excited to announce that in honor of our 50th anniversary—and for the first time in our history—we'll be revealing longlists for our NBCC Awards! We'll be announcing the lists next week, so please watch this space. And thank you so much for your support!
Come for the poetry, stay for NYT cooking recipes. This cauliflower Parmesan goes out to everyone else freezing this week! (Ok, back to the syllabi.) cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017...
Cauliflower Parmesan (Published 2015)
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January 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Come for the poetry, stay for NYT cooking recipes. This cauliflower Parmesan goes out to everyone else freezing this week! (Ok, back to the syllabi.) cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017...
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If you are a writer (or artist or musician) between 18 and 30 living near Chicago, you should apply for a Luminarts fellowship! They give you $10,000-$15,000 (unrestricted), plus further project grant opportunities. Deadline is 1/17...
January 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
If you are a writer (or artist or musician) between 18 and 30 living near Chicago, you should apply for a Luminarts fellowship! They give you $10,000-$15,000 (unrestricted), plus further project grant opportunities. Deadline is 1/17...