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Glenn Bach
@atlascorpus.bsky.social
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(Retired) sound artist. Long poem Atlas in progress since 2003: EVAD forthcoming 2026, above/ground press. Micro-chap excerpts in 2024 from @ghostcitypress.bsky.social and @stonecorpse.com. https://glennbach.com/
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A knockout opening paragraph. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social‬, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas.
EVERY PLACE DESERVES AN ATLAS, an atlas is at least implicit in every place, and to say that is to ask first of all what a place is. Places are leaky containers. They always refer beyond themselves, whether island or mainland, and can be imagined in various scales, from the drama of a back alley to transcontinental geopolitical forces and global climate. What we call places are stable locations with unstable converging forces that cannot be delineated either by fences on the ground or by boundaries in the imagination—or by the perimeter of the map. Something is always coming from elsewhere, whether it's wind, water, immigrants, trade goods, or ideas. The local exists—an endemic species may evolve out of those circumstances, or the human equivalent— but it exists in relation, whether symbiotic with or sanctuary from the larger world. Pocatello, Idaho, has had its inventions and tragedies: a heartbreak that can be mapped out in six blocks, with bars and slammed doors and a bedroom; the tale of what happened to the lands of the Shoshone and Bannock; a gold rush; the larger forces of geology and climate and animal migration and watersheds. Petaluma, California, has its radical chicken farmers and Coast Miwok name and its atlas waiting to happen, as do Flint and Buffalo, Yellowknife and Chimayo. The cup of coffee in your hand has origins reaching across the region and the world. A city is a particular kind of place, perhaps best described as many worlds in one place; it compounds many versions without quite reconciling them, though some cross over to live in multiple worlds—in Chinatown or queer space, in a drug underworld or a university community, in a church's sphere or a hospital's intersections.
August 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Tonight! Nov 22 in Cleveland Heights! My first featured reading in 18 years!
Community Mausoleum presents a celebration of Eric Wallgren's new chapbook Icewalker & Dirtwork, which has just been published by Community Mausoleum. Eric Wallgren will read poems. Alyssa Perry also has a new book called Oily Doily out from Bench Editions. Alyssa Perry will read poems. Caryl Pagel will read poems. Glenn Bach will read poems. This event will take place at The Rhizome House in Cleveland Heights, Ohio on November 22, 2024. It will start at 7 P.M. eastern time.
November 22, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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I miss playing records on my college radio shows. This is the next best thing. @hemlockshakedown.bsky.social
screenshot of my Hemlock Shakedown page on Bluesky, a 'radio station' showcasing free folk, psych rock, drone, field recordings, dub, and other exploratory sounds. Mostly Bandcamp.
November 20, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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I have revived Hemlock Shakedown, my old 'radio station' active on Twitter 2016-2018. Free folk, psych rock, drone, field recordings, dub, and other exploratory sounds. @hemlockshakedown.bsky.social #music #bandcamp
Closeup of wood bark, blues and grays.
November 20, 2024 at 1:23 AM
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Lower Shaker Lake in Cleveland. Most leaves have turned, but the first snow is also coming soon.
A photograph of Lower Shaker Lake in Cleveland, Ohio. A line of late autumn trees reflected almost perfectly on the placid surface of a lake, with moody clouds in the sky and their reflections in the water.
November 18, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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Basically the mission statement of my entire project. @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot.
“We tend to think of landscapes as affecting us most strongly when we are in them or on them, when they offer us the primary sensations of touch and sight. But there are also the landscapes we bear with us in absentia, those places that live on in memory long after they have withdrawn in actuality, and such places—retreated to most often when we are most remote from them—are among the most important landscapes we possess.”
November 14, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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For anyone in Northeast Ohio, I will be reading some poems in support of Eric Wallgren's new chapbook from Community Mausoleum, a new press from @zerkperkem.bsky.social. Nov 22 at The Rhizome House in Cleveland Heights. Honored, also, to be on the same bill as Caryl Pagel and Alyssa Perry.
Community Mausoleum presents a celebration of Eric Wallgren's new chapbook Icewalker & Dirtwork, which has just been published by Community Mausoleum. Eric Wallgren will read poems. Alyssa Perry also has a new book called Oily Doily out from Bench Editions. Alyssa Perry will read poems. Caryl Pagel will read poems. Glenn Bach will read poems. This event will take place at The Rhizome House in Cleveland Heights, Ohio on November 22, 2024. It will start at 7 P.M. eastern time.
November 11, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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The second book from Atlas is now online as a free PDF download from @ghostcitypress.bsky.social as part of their 2024 Summer Micro-Chapbook Series ghostcitypress.com/2024-summer-...
leaves from Laurel Bay Fig on a cream colored background, with a brown ruler on the bottom
June 17, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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Honored to have the first sequence-length Atlas excerpt published by Stone Corpse Press. This micro-chapbook, "cricket (eclipse)," is available for pre-order and will be physically released on June 8. stonecorpse.com/store/glenn-...
cover image for "cricket (eclipse)" a series of three vertically stacked, interlocking mandalas in dark grey lines with pops of purple and green at key intersections. On a dark grey background.
June 4, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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Excited to announce that I won the Stone Corpse Press Micro-Chapbook Contest for my manuscript “cricket (eclipse),” which consists of a few pages from the ‘catch-all’ chapter of Atlas. The micro-chap should be available later this year. Honored and humbled.
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April 5, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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A frozen Lower Shaker Lake, with a layer of white, before the sun broke through. Our second winter in Cleveland did not disappoint.
a winter scene of a frozen lake with a layer of snow against a line of dark trees and cloudy sky
January 16, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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Honored to have five excerpts from Atlas in the third issue of #Ranger Magazine: www.rangermagazine.net/bach_issue3
Cover art by Mike Ferguson, white text in all caps overlaid on navy blue background
November 14, 2023 at 2:35 PM
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I have five poems from Atlas in the Fall 2023 edition of BlazeVOX (thanks Geoffrey Gatza). These poems span the project from inception in 2003 to the most recent work since moving to Cleveland. If you needed a primer of what I'm doing with Atlas, here it is. www.blazevox.org/BX%20Covers/...
Circular badge of a bird in flight with the BlazeVOX logo at the top.
October 16, 2023 at 11:42 AM
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Lower Shaker Lake, end of summer, just as some of the trees are starting to turn.
Lower Shaker Lake, Cleveland, Ohio. A line of dense trees reflected in a calm lake surface, with dark clouds, traces of blue sky, and the rising sun.
September 20, 2023 at 6:52 PM
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Received my @thedaybooks.bsky.social bundle from above/ground press. Thanks @robmclennan.bsky.social!
image of four chapbooks by Jessica Smith published by above/ground press
September 1, 2023 at 2:43 PM
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Thanks @lakeicychill.bsky.social for the invite. Six months back in the Midwest and very happy here. Lower Shaker Lake my near daily go to:
Lower Shaker Lake, a row of summer trees and their reflection in a still lake. Green foliage in the foreground. Blue-gray sky.
August 22, 2023 at 3:47 PM