Liam
@libraryliam.bsky.social
Book wrangler.
Up River, my first zine:
mondobummer.com/Liam-Curley-Up-River
Up River, my first zine:
mondobummer.com/Liam-Curley-Up-River
in Oakland alone, there’s a wellspring of new spaces - Clio’s, Bathers, Local Economy, and now Nomadic Bookshop - that are community or membership supported. book adjacent (lol). like the purpose of the spaces is organizing. they require buy-in instead of selling
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
in Oakland alone, there’s a wellspring of new spaces - Clio’s, Bathers, Local Economy, and now Nomadic Bookshop - that are community or membership supported. book adjacent (lol). like the purpose of the spaces is organizing. they require buy-in instead of selling
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Prepping for class on figuration in the age of AIDS & this one is coming just in time for the holiday next week: "Eggs Having Turkey Dinner," 1985–95, painting in nail polish on metal tray by inimitable artist & drag performer Jerome Caja
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Prepping for class on figuration in the age of AIDS & this one is coming just in time for the holiday next week: "Eggs Having Turkey Dinner," 1985–95, painting in nail polish on metal tray by inimitable artist & drag performer Jerome Caja
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It was an honor to be invited to write about Small Press Traffic's newly organized Print Collection Archives.
The work that SPT has done to preserve & make available these materials, recordings, & stories is remarkable. (& the website is really great)
www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/sust...
The work that SPT has done to preserve & make available these materials, recordings, & stories is remarkable. (& the website is really great)
www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/sust...
Sustained beyond these Institutions: The Small Press Traffic Print Collection Archives
www.smallpresstraffic.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It was an honor to be invited to write about Small Press Traffic's newly organized Print Collection Archives.
The work that SPT has done to preserve & make available these materials, recordings, & stories is remarkable. (& the website is really great)
www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/sust...
The work that SPT has done to preserve & make available these materials, recordings, & stories is remarkable. (& the website is really great)
www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/sust...
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Soooooo fucking grim to see the sycophantic "yes-and" machine of GPT-4o affirming the aesthetic and narrative virtue of this kid's suicide plans
August 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Soooooo fucking grim to see the sycophantic "yes-and" machine of GPT-4o affirming the aesthetic and narrative virtue of this kid's suicide plans
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Unraveling of federal arts funding infrastructure continues. Hard to describe the decades of debates & advocacy invested in sustaining the CW fellowships at the NEA. Now, wiped out.
August 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Unraveling of federal arts funding infrastructure continues. Hard to describe the decades of debates & advocacy invested in sustaining the CW fellowships at the NEA. Now, wiped out.
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In which I share my books' sales and kind words of wisdom from @dannymlavery.bsky.social, @rumaan.bsky.social @mysoncool.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com, @jayasaxena.com, @islemcelroy.bsky.social, and @lydiakiesling.bsky.social meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/the-mortif...
The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Published
Eleven writers weigh in. Plus, my book's sales: exposed!
meantforyou.beehiiv.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In which I share my books' sales and kind words of wisdom from @dannymlavery.bsky.social, @rumaan.bsky.social @mysoncool.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com, @jayasaxena.com, @islemcelroy.bsky.social, and @lydiakiesling.bsky.social meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/the-mortif...
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I feel like when it's really hot we should dig little tombs for sleeping in, to cool off, like 6 feet deep, right down into the ground. Why should only the dead be cool.
August 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I feel like when it's really hot we should dig little tombs for sleeping in, to cool off, like 6 feet deep, right down into the ground. Why should only the dead be cool.
I’m hunting for a job that can’t be automated maybe I’ll pick delicate juicy berries until I die
August 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I’m hunting for a job that can’t be automated maybe I’ll pick delicate juicy berries until I die
“What is an alien but the hallucination or projection of a haunted, mortified body—a person, a people, a nation—in the midst of being separated from its soul? Doesn’t that also describe an enemy?” thebaffler.com/latest/alien...
Alien Enemies | Brandon Shimoda
The torturers have been revising, the gestapos have been busy, and the prisons have been full for generations.
thebaffler.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“What is an alien but the hallucination or projection of a haunted, mortified body—a person, a people, a nation—in the midst of being separated from its soul? Doesn’t that also describe an enemy?” thebaffler.com/latest/alien...
saw Lydia Lunch at The Knockout last night. the best thing about punk, the worst sound you ever heard cut off after 15 minutes, is wanting it
July 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
saw Lydia Lunch at The Knockout last night. the best thing about punk, the worst sound you ever heard cut off after 15 minutes, is wanting it
I respect Legion of Honor’s homage to Wayne Thiebaud at the Wayne Thiebaud show
July 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I respect Legion of Honor’s homage to Wayne Thiebaud at the Wayne Thiebaud show
“The infrastructure of comradeship, of friendship—that was Joshua … infrastructure can also be a gift from the past to present, as it would be in communism, a materialized ancestry. He is still present, then, as long as he is remembered and read.”
Jasper Bernes writes on a summer against ICE, in Memory of Joshua Clover
For a Summer against ICE, in Memory of Joshua Clover
Joshua Clover lived for moments like these, days or nights “when the partisans of riot exceed the police capacity for management, when the cops make their first retreat...when the riot becomes fully i...
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June 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
“The infrastructure of comradeship, of friendship—that was Joshua … infrastructure can also be a gift from the past to present, as it would be in communism, a materialized ancestry. He is still present, then, as long as he is remembered and read.”
I wish Ocean Vuong's first books of poetry, published by small presses, got mentioned more. No (YesYes Books) and Burnings (Sibling Rivalry Press)
June 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I wish Ocean Vuong's first books of poetry, published by small presses, got mentioned more. No (YesYes Books) and Burnings (Sibling Rivalry Press)
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New poem day! I wrote about what it’s like living with #VerySevereME and #LongCovid. Thanks to the Mid-Atlantic Review, and please read in landscape mode for correct linebreaks!
midatlanticreview.com/2025/05/a-di...
midatlanticreview.com/2025/05/a-di...
A Disabled Person’s Guide to Survival by Emily Pinkerton | Mid-Atlantic Review
This poem is published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce. A Disabled Person’s Guide to Survival Don’t bother with weapons. Those are for abled people.You don’t have the mobility to [hit, throw, aim] and the adrenalineof a fight will kill you. Instead,
midatlanticreview.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
New poem day! I wrote about what it’s like living with #VerySevereME and #LongCovid. Thanks to the Mid-Atlantic Review, and please read in landscape mode for correct linebreaks!
midatlanticreview.com/2025/05/a-di...
midatlanticreview.com/2025/05/a-di...
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Lucio Massari, The Holy Family, or, St. Joseph and Baby Jesus help with the Laundry, 1620 (Galleria degli Uffizi)
May 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Lucio Massari, The Holy Family, or, St. Joseph and Baby Jesus help with the Laundry, 1620 (Galleria degli Uffizi)
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Happy to share that preorders are now open for Glove Money, my second full length collection of poetry. Preorder here or from your best loved local bookstore nightboat.org/book/glove-m...
April 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Happy to share that preorders are now open for Glove Money, my second full length collection of poetry. Preorder here or from your best loved local bookstore nightboat.org/book/glove-m...
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I finally did it. I made a version of the four children with Sesame Street characters. Here's a PDF if you want to include it in your haggadah this year!
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March 31, 2025 at 5:39 AM
I finally did it. I made a version of the four children with Sesame Street characters. Here's a PDF if you want to include it in your haggadah this year!
static1.squarespace.com/static/64418...
static1.squarespace.com/static/64418...
“To me, this is for the freaks. That’s an ethos for us.” Kenower and Paul talk about Woolsey Heights. what even is it www.berkeleyside.org/2025/03/05/w...
This living room on Woolsey Street is the beating heart of Berkeley’s poetry scene
Hundreds of poets, famous and not, have stepped in front of the mic at Woolsey Heights, hosted by a pair of South Berkeley roommates.
www.berkeleyside.org
March 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“To me, this is for the freaks. That’s an ethos for us.” Kenower and Paul talk about Woolsey Heights. what even is it www.berkeleyside.org/2025/03/05/w...