@ronslate.bsky.social
"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors,/I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd./My century— my poison, my century—my harm,/my century—my enemy, my century— hell": from 4 poems by Marina Tsvetaeva via On The Seawall bit.ly/48gdMaZ tr by Margaree Little
November 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors,/I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd./My century— my poison, my century—my harm,/my century—my enemy, my century— hell": from 4 poems by Marina Tsvetaeva via On The Seawall bit.ly/48gdMaZ tr by Margaree Little
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Thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social and Jonathan Farmer for this interview about When the Earth Flies into the Sun! The book celebrated its first birthday last month!
"I encounter a lot of overly long and under-edited books, many weighed down by prose poems. Some feel strident. These books sound like they began with a thesis, not a question": @derekmong.bsky.social in convo w/Jonathan Farmer via On The Seawall bit.ly/47vs87k
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social and Jonathan Farmer for this interview about When the Earth Flies into the Sun! The book celebrated its first birthday last month!
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NBCC member Tiffany Troy reviewed "When We Only Have the Earth," written by Abdourahman A. Waberi and translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson, for World Literature Today:
When We Only Have the Earth by Abdourahman A. Waberi
Trans. Nancy Naomi Carlson. University of Nebraska Press. 2025. 80 pages.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
NBCC member Tiffany Troy reviewed "When We Only Have the Earth," written by Abdourahman A. Waberi and translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson, for World Literature Today:
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Friends, I'm happy and honored to have another poem in #OntheSeawall --thanks to editor @ronslate.bsky.social, www.ronslate.com/tacoma-narro...
"Tacoma Narrows" is from the new edition of my #chapbook, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems, to be released soon by #BlueLightPress.
"Tacoma Narrows" is from the new edition of my #chapbook, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems, to be released soon by #BlueLightPress.
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Friends, I'm happy and honored to have another poem in #OntheSeawall --thanks to editor @ronslate.bsky.social, www.ronslate.com/tacoma-narro...
"Tacoma Narrows" is from the new edition of my #chapbook, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems, to be released soon by #BlueLightPress.
"Tacoma Narrows" is from the new edition of my #chapbook, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems, to be released soon by #BlueLightPress.
"I encounter a lot of overly long and under-edited books, many weighed down by prose poems. Some feel strident. These books sound like they began with a thesis, not a question": @derekmong.bsky.social in convo w/Jonathan Farmer via On The Seawall bit.ly/47vs87k
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"I encounter a lot of overly long and under-edited books, many weighed down by prose poems. Some feel strident. These books sound like they began with a thesis, not a question": @derekmong.bsky.social in convo w/Jonathan Farmer via On The Seawall bit.ly/47vs87k
"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. It’s sneaky like that": @tobiascarroll.bsky.social on @delaneynolan.bsky.social 's novel HAPPY BAD via Astra House & On The Seawall
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bit.ly/43fQHT7
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. It’s sneaky like that": @tobiascarroll.bsky.social on @delaneynolan.bsky.social 's novel HAPPY BAD via Astra House & On The Seawall
bit.ly/43fQHT7
bit.ly/43fQHT7
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Here's an invitation to take a trip through the new Nov/Dec edition of On The Seawall ... beginning with our feature on poems from STUDY OF SORROWS: TRANSLATIONS by
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Here's an invitation to take a trip through the new Nov/Dec edition of On The Seawall ... beginning with our feature on poems from STUDY OF SORROWS: TRANSLATIONS by
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com
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"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors, / I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century — my poison, my century — my harm, / my century — my enemy, my century — hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall / bit.ly/4opoNN2
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors, / I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century — my poison, my century — my harm, / my century — my enemy, my century — hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall / bit.ly/4opoNN2
"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors, / I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century — my poison, my century — my harm, / my century — my enemy, my century — hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall / bit.ly/4opoNN2
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors, / I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century — my poison, my century — my harm, / my century — my enemy, my century — hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall / bit.ly/4opoNN2
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I wrote a novel. Or rather, I imagined a novel. And then I imagined reading it....
...many thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for publishing the resulting poem at On the Seawall: www.ronslate.com/the-novel/
...many thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for publishing the resulting poem at On the Seawall: www.ronslate.com/the-novel/
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I wrote a novel. Or rather, I imagined a novel. And then I imagined reading it....
...many thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for publishing the resulting poem at On the Seawall: www.ronslate.com/the-novel/
...many thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for publishing the resulting poem at On the Seawall: www.ronslate.com/the-novel/
Here's an invitation to take a trip through the new Nov/Dec edition of On The Seawall ... beginning with our feature on poems from STUDY OF SORROWS: TRANSLATIONS by
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Here's an invitation to take a trip through the new Nov/Dec edition of On The Seawall ... beginning with our feature on poems from STUDY OF SORROWS: TRANSLATIONS by
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com
Joe Brainard's COMICS is coming via @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social on December 2.
October 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Joe Brainard's COMICS is coming via @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social on December 2.
To be an unloved Kennedy in MA, you have to be particularly vile. So we gave RFK a Vineyard welcome yesterday here in our tiny town of Aquinnah.
September 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
To be an unloved Kennedy in MA, you have to be particularly vile. So we gave RFK a Vineyard welcome yesterday here in our tiny town of Aquinnah.
"A scrupulous reviser, whose poems went through multiple drafts before they were deemed ready to be gathered in his samizdat pamphlets": David Wojahn on the new Cavafy biography by GJusdanis and PJeffreys @fsgbooks.bsky.social
via ON THE SEAWALL
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via ON THE SEAWALL
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September 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"A scrupulous reviser, whose poems went through multiple drafts before they were deemed ready to be gathered in his samizdat pamphlets": David Wojahn on the new Cavafy biography by GJusdanis and PJeffreys @fsgbooks.bsky.social
via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/47V2sSd
via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/47V2sSd
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"Part novel, essay, autofiction & poetry, the book explores the burdens of inherited trauma, gender & identity, seeking empowering forms of knowledge": @brittastromeyer.bsky.social on Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues by Kim de L'Horizon @fsgbooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/4m8fj6J
September 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"Part novel, essay, autofiction & poetry, the book explores the burdens of inherited trauma, gender & identity, seeking empowering forms of knowledge": @brittastromeyer.bsky.social on Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues by Kim de L'Horizon @fsgbooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/4m8fj6J
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"To know how to approach. / How we see the riddle of distance / from here to where the places we’ve lived thicken.": from 4 poems in Maria Borio's TRANSPARENCIES
@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall
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@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall
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September 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"To know how to approach. / How we see the riddle of distance / from here to where the places we’ve lived thicken.": from 4 poems in Maria Borio's TRANSPARENCIES
@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall
bit.ly/3KaqZbT
@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall
bit.ly/3KaqZbT
Life folds over, or turns another way.
No wonder we are so estranged from each other.
-- Fanny Howe
No wonder we are so estranged from each other.
-- Fanny Howe
September 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Life folds over, or turns another way.
No wonder we are so estranged from each other.
-- Fanny Howe
No wonder we are so estranged from each other.
-- Fanny Howe
"To know how to approach. / How we see the riddle of distance / from here to where the places we’ve lived thicken.": from 4 poems in Maria Borio's TRANSPARENCIES
@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall
bit.ly/3KaqZbT
@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall
bit.ly/3KaqZbT
September 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"To know how to approach. / How we see the riddle of distance / from here to where the places we’ve lived thicken.": from 4 poems in Maria Borio's TRANSPARENCIES
@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall
bit.ly/3KaqZbT
@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall
bit.ly/3KaqZbT
"For all its eccentricities, the novel makes a surprisingly sturdy sense of its own, and its gestures and form are more shapely than they may seem at first": my piece on Caren Beilin's SEA, POISON
@ndbooks.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/4gv9UFU
@ndbooks.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/4gv9UFU
September 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"For all its eccentricities, the novel makes a surprisingly sturdy sense of its own, and its gestures and form are more shapely than they may seem at first": my piece on Caren Beilin's SEA, POISON
@ndbooks.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/4gv9UFU
@ndbooks.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/4gv9UFU
"Part novel, essay, autofiction & poetry, the book explores the burdens of inherited trauma, gender & identity, seeking empowering forms of knowledge": @brittastromeyer.bsky.social on Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues by Kim de L'Horizon @fsgbooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/4m8fj6J
September 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"Part novel, essay, autofiction & poetry, the book explores the burdens of inherited trauma, gender & identity, seeking empowering forms of knowledge": @brittastromeyer.bsky.social on Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues by Kim de L'Horizon @fsgbooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/4m8fj6J
"In her wish for phoenix-like resurrection, she always admits a profound uncertainty, yet the underlying song is her compass": Valerie Duff-Strautmann on THE FIRE PASSAGE, poems by Lisa Wells @fourwaybooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
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bit.ly/4gmEXUd
September 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"In her wish for phoenix-like resurrection, she always admits a profound uncertainty, yet the underlying song is her compass": Valerie Duff-Strautmann on THE FIRE PASSAGE, poems by Lisa Wells @fourwaybooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/4gmEXUd
bit.ly/4gmEXUd
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My take on Jonathan Aaron’s wonderful “Just About Anything” @cmupress.bsky.social in @ronslate.bsky.social’s “On the Seawall”: “Aaron’s poetry, for the length of a few lines, a handful of pages, persuades us that things or people that are gone aren’t, in fact, lost.” www.ronslate.com/on-just-abou...
September 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
My take on Jonathan Aaron’s wonderful “Just About Anything” @cmupress.bsky.social in @ronslate.bsky.social’s “On the Seawall”: “Aaron’s poetry, for the length of a few lines, a handful of pages, persuades us that things or people that are gone aren’t, in fact, lost.” www.ronslate.com/on-just-abou...
"When you don’t make decisions for yourself, the world makes decisions for you—large and small, which Chambers’ novel expertly traces": @mathitak.bsky.social
on GREAT DISASTERS by Grady Chambers @tinhouse.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/48kQPns
on GREAT DISASTERS by Grady Chambers @tinhouse.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/48kQPns
September 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"When you don’t make decisions for yourself, the world makes decisions for you—large and small, which Chambers’ novel expertly traces": @mathitak.bsky.social
on GREAT DISASTERS by Grady Chambers @tinhouse.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/48kQPns
on GREAT DISASTERS by Grady Chambers @tinhouse.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/48kQPns
"I thought I was finished with beauty, / having shed — given away, or sold — so much / and committed myself // to necessary objects only": from "Thirst," 1 of 3 poems by Robin Becker via On The Seawall
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bit.ly/4mdquv6
September 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"I thought I was finished with beauty, / having shed — given away, or sold — so much / and committed myself // to necessary objects only": from "Thirst," 1 of 3 poems by Robin Becker via On The Seawall
bit.ly/4mdquv6
bit.ly/4mdquv6
"Vidyan Ravinthiran reflects on what ignorance gives rise to and how it persists, through the Sri Lankan civil war that began in 1983 and ended 2009": Calista McRae on
Avidyā @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
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Avidyā @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
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September 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"Vidyan Ravinthiran reflects on what ignorance gives rise to and how it persists, through the Sri Lankan civil war that began in 1983 and ended 2009": Calista McRae on
Avidyā @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/3IiDEZM
Avidyā @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/3IiDEZM