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From the annals of The Threepenny Review
December 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
From the annals of The Threepenny Review
Such luminous language, interspersed with passages of prose that normalize problematic portrayals of indigenous people and people of colour. Oh, César Aira, why?! #TheHare
November 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Such luminous language, interspersed with passages of prose that normalize problematic portrayals of indigenous people and people of colour. Oh, César Aira, why?! #TheHare
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“(we get enough white depravity IRL)”
Their Unbearable Whiteness Blots Out the Light - Electric Literature
Mark Doten’s "Whites" is a darkly comic look at white America
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October 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“(we get enough white depravity IRL)”
So I sat with Ida Börjel and Jennifer Hayashida, and sang praises about Ida's amazing poetry collection, MA, expertly translated by Jennifer. Sang, in the form of Q&As, over lengthy and laborious emails.
www.poetrynw.org/clusters-of-...
www.poetrynw.org/clusters-of-...
"Clusters of Naming": A Conversation with Ida Börjel and Jennifer Hayashida | Poetry Northwest
"The unbearables, the unnamables—are they to be named, reworded? or avoided?"
www.poetrynw.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
So I sat with Ida Börjel and Jennifer Hayashida, and sang praises about Ida's amazing poetry collection, MA, expertly translated by Jennifer. Sang, in the form of Q&As, over lengthy and laborious emails.
www.poetrynw.org/clusters-of-...
www.poetrynw.org/clusters-of-...
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In the face of facism and oppressive state violence, these poetry books offer imagination, resilience, and a re-centering on our interconnectedness.
7 Poetry Books Written From Activism’s Front Lines - Electric Literature
These poems about collective movements told from individual perspectives are essential to our understanding of resistance
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October 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
In the face of facism and oppressive state violence, these poetry books offer imagination, resilience, and a re-centering on our interconnectedness.
Anne Carson
October 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Anne Carson
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“Gaza is full of stories. The stories we see are nothing compared to the stories that we don’t actually see.”
A Diary Detailing 45 Days Living Through Genocide in Palestine - Electric Literature
Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad wants her book “The Eyes of Gaza” to remind us that what she experienced is still happening in Gaza today
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October 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Gaza is full of stories. The stories we see are nothing compared to the stories that we don’t actually see.”
inherited forms by summa iru | Amsterdam Review
Read "[inherited forms]" by summa iru
www.amsterdamreview.org
October 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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These poetry collections offer language to witness the unwitnessable.
8 Innovative Poetry Collections that Articulate Atrocity - Electric Literature
These poets twist language to witness the fractured reality of violence and survival
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September 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
These poetry collections offer language to witness the unwitnessable.
As simple as that.
September 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
As simple as that.
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The 20 books out today include titles by Arundhati Roy, Nathan Harris, Bolu Babalola, and more!
Arundhati Roy! Helen Garner! Joan Silber! 20 new books out today.
September is back to school season: a busy time of fresh starts, remembering how to work hard, trying to multitask, and generally getting the old chestnut back in action. In the world of publishing…
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September 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The 20 books out today include titles by Arundhati Roy, Nathan Harris, Bolu Babalola, and more!
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“We delight in publishing. Unfortunately, not your work.”
RE: [YOUR SUBMISSION] (spoiler alert, the news is bad) - Electric Literature
rejection-erasure-poems-by-rl-maizes
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August 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“We delight in publishing. Unfortunately, not your work.”
I. Adore. This Poem.
August 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I. Adore. This Poem.
"Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously." - Prentis Hemphill
"Compassion is how I can be in relationship with suffering without being hijacked by it." - James A. Pearson
"Compassion is how I can be in relationship with suffering without being hijacked by it." - James A. Pearson
August 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously." - Prentis Hemphill
"Compassion is how I can be in relationship with suffering without being hijacked by it." - James A. Pearson
"Compassion is how I can be in relationship with suffering without being hijacked by it." - James A. Pearson
"I love the perfect contentment of a kite caught in a tree."
Oh, Andrea!
andreagibson.substack.com/p/a-list-of-...
#RIPAndreaGibson
Oh, Andrea!
andreagibson.substack.com/p/a-list-of-...
#RIPAndreaGibson
A List of Things I Love
The poetry of everyday
andreagibson.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"I love the perfect contentment of a kite caught in a tree."
Oh, Andrea!
andreagibson.substack.com/p/a-list-of-...
#RIPAndreaGibson
Oh, Andrea!
andreagibson.substack.com/p/a-list-of-...
#RIPAndreaGibson
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Robert Finch remembers the challenging yet rewarding days spent during one summer in rural Newfoundland.
A Place of Rugged, Simple Beauty: One Summer in Rural Newfoundland
After five days of driving and a hundred-mile ferry crossing, I’ve arrived at my destination in the village of Burnside, a tiny outport tucked deep into the inner recesses of Bonavista Bay on the …
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June 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Robert Finch remembers the challenging yet rewarding days spent during one summer in rural Newfoundland.
"The fox, like me, ate yakgwa from my hand and sat quietly in corners and observed them, deigning to touch them. Did that make me, too, a wild animal?"
www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feat...
www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feat...
www.asymptotejournal.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"The fox, like me, ate yakgwa from my hand and sat quietly in corners and observed them, deigning to touch them. Did that make me, too, a wild animal?"
www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feat...
www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feat...
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In Craig Mod’s memoir of photos and prose, a 300-mile walk through rural Japan leads to heartrending meditations on loss. David Mitchell says Things Become Other Things “reads like a future classic of its genre.” [Sponsored] bookshop.org/p/books/thin...
May 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
In Craig Mod’s memoir of photos and prose, a 300-mile walk through rural Japan leads to heartrending meditations on loss. David Mitchell says Things Become Other Things “reads like a future classic of its genre.” [Sponsored] bookshop.org/p/books/thin...
RIP Alice Notley. A poet of candor, a sommelier of articulation.
May 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
RIP Alice Notley. A poet of candor, a sommelier of articulation.
