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Danny Caine
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author HOW TO PROTECT BOOKSTORES AND WHY • work @ Institute for Local Self-Reliance • books from Microcosm, Mason Jar Press, Autofocus and more • dannycaine.com
My chapbook JEWISH AMERICAN DREAM is out in August from @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. Here's the cover, featuring a beautiful pastrami in acrylic by Maggie Cowles.

I'd love for you to preorder it: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
April 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Some news: my chapbook JEWISH AMERICAN DREAM is a winner of the 2024 @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Chapbook Prize, and it'll be published this August. So grateful to @kristenmiller.bsky.social and the whole Sarabande team for having faith in these poems.
February 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
you have got to be kidding me
February 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
spam email or bad postmodern poetry?
January 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Been a huge fan of @clereviewbooks.bsky.social from day one so it’s a huge honor to have six poems from my “The Beatles Were More Jewish Than You Think” sequence in issue 2.2. Thanks to everyone on the team for finding a space for me in a beautiful issue.
December 15, 2024 at 3:40 PM
I looked up "Food Desert" on iStock Photo for work and
December 5, 2024 at 3:45 PM
is this some kind of madlib
December 4, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Wrote a poem about a corned beef sandwich in space and now it’s a Pushcart nominee, heck yes

www.minyanmag.com/dannycaine.h...
December 3, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Throwing a reading party at 8th Street Taproom on December 22 to say "so long for now" to Lawrence, Kansas.

I'll read some stuff, and so will folks like @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social, @danhoyt.bsky.social, @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social, @chancedibben.bsky.social and more.

I'd love to see you there.
December 2, 2024 at 5:29 PM
please clap
December 1, 2024 at 4:03 PM
thanks so much to @maris.bsky.social for saying what needs to be said

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February 29, 2024 at 3:55 PM
really, really excited to do a “How to Protect Bookstores and Why” event with @tricialockwood.bsky.social tomorrow at E Shaver’s in Savannah
February 22, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Going on a bit of a tour this winter / AWP + Atlantic South + Paris / hope to see you out there!
January 17, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for publishing this Chanukah poem at @havehashad.com!

Three sections, eighteen lines each, each featuring a joke, a punchline, a menorah, a metaphor, an outdoor Chanukah commemoration, and some kids.
December 21, 2023 at 9:18 PM
My favorite deli closed today, without any warning. It was a space, rare these days, where I could feel both Jewish and at peace. Im adding the loss of this community space to the long list of losses I’m grieving for
December 12, 2023 at 8:25 PM
the captioning on the TV at the gym was stuck on [screams] for my entire workout
December 2, 2023 at 2:16 PM
well folks, looks like I’m writing a trilogy

thanks so much to @microcosm.bsky.social for taking another chance on this guy
December 1, 2023 at 4:11 PM
I didn’t buy the Chai Anxiety hat and I think I regret my decision
November 29, 2023 at 9:36 PM
researching for my work in progress poetry collection has taken me to some pretty dark places
November 24, 2023 at 5:43 PM
Harvey Pekar is maybe my #1 writer hero, yet I had somehow not read his posthumous Israel comic yet. Still, I’m glad the book found me in this moment. It’s timely enough that it could’ve been written yesterday, but that says as much about the cycles of state violence as it does about the book.
November 17, 2023 at 6:07 PM
I’m delighted to have two new poems in @havehashad.com today!
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
November 6, 2023 at 6:20 PM
3 more book tour events!

11/4 I’m at the Raven Book Store with the Autofocus Books family (incl. @suburbanprairie.bsky.social, @aaronburch.bsky.social, Holly Pelesky & host Michael Wheaton!

11/5 I’m back at the Raven with @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social!

11/6 I’m at Magic City Books in Tulsa!
October 24, 2023 at 1:02 PM
Going to bookstores to meet booksellers and talk about the radical possibilities for bookstores…not a bad way to spend a week.

Thanks so much to Moon Palace, @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social, and Bookends & Beginnings for hosting events for me!
October 6, 2023 at 11:53 PM
While I cannot stand the sound of my voice on tape, I realize that may not be true of others. With that in mind, here’s the HOW TO PROTECT BOOKSTORES AND WHY audiobook on @librofm.bsky.social featuring 6h 47m of my voice on tape:

libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
September 28, 2023 at 12:54 PM
look at this guy
September 27, 2023 at 12:05 PM