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@illepitaph.bsky.social // issue8 now showing
coolly compulsive neo-epistolary novel ... chockfull of comically curlicuing texture ... with the amazingly assured artificiality of the "letter-ness" branching into all manner of reverberant riffs regarding the present day's ridiculousness
August 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
He could not remember where he had heard it before, the idea of one side of the Pacific as dream, the other reality. But which was reality and which dream?

@alvinlu.bsky.social ~ THE WHITE ALBUM ~ new_sinews_issue8
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alvin_lu ~ the white album — new_sinews
_Alvin Lu_fiction_THE WHITE ALBUM_news_sinews_issue8_
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April 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Squall Path" ... a horizontally-printed poem by new_sinews contributor Yongyu Chen in Volume 59 Number 1 of
Denver Quarterly 🧐
April 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The rain which had just topped o’er…
The rain which continued to unveil in the hopes of solar switch…
The rain which was a bead…
The rain which saw a death…

Elise Houcek ~ 8 POEMS ~ new_sinews_issue8
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elise_houcek ~ to be totally distant ++ is the tone of cruel ++ — new_sinews
_Elise Houcek_poetry_8 POEMS_issue8_
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April 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

An excerpt from A Seam of Electricity by Ian U Lockaby (@ursalockaby.bsky.social), published by Ghost Proposal (@ghostproposal.bsky.social).

Read here:
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A Seam of Electricity (excerpt)
Language is breaking apart in our hands.
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April 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
someone came to the AWP table Thursday & i was showing 'em new_sinews on my laptop.. then they came back Friday saying they'd rlly enjoyed reading the site ... esp. "Father Figure" by Andrea Harper.. total new_sinews staple! a kind of technofable..
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andrea_harper ~ father_figure — new_sinews
_Andrea Harper_fiction_FATHER FIGURE_news_sinews_issue8_
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April 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Video of a reading I gave during the @new-sinews.bsky.social offsite reading at AWP!

This is an excerpt from my book 'The Veldt Institute', forthcoming with Double Negative Press in September 2025.

Thanks to Jesse Chappelle (video) and Steve Barbaro (organizer)

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Samuel M. Moss reading from 'The Veldt Institute'
YouTube video by Sam Moss
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March 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
new_sinews stalwart Gabriel Palacios mesmerizing the rather raucous crowd @ the @fonografeditions.bsky.social ++ Futurepoem ++ Wonder reading last Saturday evening ... @ the charismatic Now Instant Image Hall in Chinatown LA🧐🔊
March 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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First time to read from my upcoming novel Daydreamers last week.

Thank you @nameofauthor.bsky.social @illepitaph.bsky.social @fictioncollective2.bsky.social @taiwaneseamerican.bsky.social for inviting me.

And thank you @alinaetc.bsky.social and @neonpajamas.bsky.social for the pics!
March 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Me and @addisonzeller.bsky.social at the @new-sinews.bsky.social event, reading in sync from a parallel simultaneous-text section of my forthcoming novel, Daydreamers. Thanks Addison and @illepitaph.bsky.social for hosting!
March 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
1st piece for new_sinews issue9 hath been secured! exciting.. tons of work 2 go 2 follow issue8.. meantime submissions are rather ajar.. open to anything ofc.. but especially: longer form fiction & essays ... details:
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March 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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We'll be at #AWP25, hanging at T925 with @new-sinews.bsky.social! And if you're just around for readings, well, we have an easy and excellent option for your Thursday night, too, featuring contributors Timmy Straw, @aditimachado.bsky.social, Monroe Lawrence, Talin Tahajian, and Tasia Trevino!
March 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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A passage from Sleep Decades:

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March 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
another gem from the archives—& to my mind somehow maybe *the* essential anchor-text orienting everything new_sinews has published ... a poem sprawling amazingly assuredly into its own vast uncategorizability ...

RETRIEVE THE DUSK by Vi Khi Nao
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vi_khi_nao ~ retrieve_the_dusk — new_sinews
_Vi Khi Nao_poetry_RETRIEVE THE DUSK_new_sinews_issue3_
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March 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Keep an eye out for @alvinlu.bsky.social's novel DAYDREAMERS, coming in July! You can pre-order now! www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366212...
3 of the best short-shorts I ever wrote—Carnival of Souls; Fat, Sugar, and Salt; and Style—got collected in the latest, fancily produced issue of @cherrytreelit.bsky.social.

Thank you to Fiction Editor Sarah Blackman—the author of a haunting and complex novel called Hex that I really dug.
March 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
you are like a painting
I could’ve grown up with
if I were plantagenet
and wouldn’t replace the problems I had
with the problems you would bring me

Valerie Hsiung ~ 9 poems ~ new_sinews_issue8
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valerie_hsiung ~ it's giving off deep earth ++ to make a concertina the shape of a gasket ++ — new_sinews
_Valerie Hsiung_poetry_9 POEMS_issue8_
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March 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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March 27, Los Angeles, in the Neuromantic-sounding neighborhood of Skid-Tokyo, a bit of the Old Hollywood glamour and menace …
new_sinews Skid Tokyo awp offsite reading!! 3/27 @ The Escondite in downtown LA .. 410 Boyd Street ... doors 5 reading 6 (5-8 also === Happy Hour @ The Escondite) .. featuring:

Gabriel Palacios ... @alvinlu.bsky.social ... Allison Hummel
@illepitaph.bsky.social ... @perfidiousscript.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
new_sinews Skid Tokyo awp offsite reading!! 3/27 @ The Escondite in downtown LA .. 410 Boyd Street ... doors 5 reading 6 (5-8 also === Happy Hour @ The Escondite) .. featuring:

Gabriel Palacios ... @alvinlu.bsky.social ... Allison Hummel
@illepitaph.bsky.social ... @perfidiousscript.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
For several moments, they drily rub their mouths against each other. The audience oooohs and aaaaahs. They pull away from each other, completely placid.

Abigail Denton ~ POST-CREDITS SCENE ~ new_sinews_issue8
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abigail_denton ~ post-credits scene — new_sinews
_ABIGAIL DENTON_fiction_POST-CREDITS SCENE_new_sinews_issue8_
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March 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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There's one more day of our micro-reading period for submissions to our upcoming folio, "American Poetry & Poetics, 2008–2025"—send your essays (or if not an essay, a very thought through query) by March 1st!

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CFP: American Poetry & Poetics 2008–2025 — Annulet
Open Reading Period/CFP: American Poetry & Poetics, 2008–2025                       Between January 15th–March 1st, Annulet is open for a...
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February 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
from the archive: issue5: fires, deities, labyrinths, biodata, villages, notebooks, foxes, borders, fate, torture, solitude, pics, fires, wine, privacy, blurs, ancestors, titanomachy, icecream, hell, sun, fires, owls, souls +++++
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new_sinews issue5
_newsinews issue5_Julia Shiota+Mike Corrao+Vi Khi Nao+Jessica Alexander+Samuel Moss+Steven Alvarez+Jaqueline Feldman+Alvin Lu+Delia Rainey+Paul Bisagni
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February 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"At the base of the interface I witness a cinematic series of dreams. The shift from sitemap to labyrinthine floor plans. The excavation of the digital badlands..."

mike_corrao ~ THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF VIRTUAL SPACES ~ from the archives

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_Mike Corrao_THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF VIRTUAL SPACES_fiction_new_sinews _issue2_
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February 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The discourse: a treaty that a trick of light undoes. When I peer off toward what seems to be

its edge’s lip, I meet in me a whirl of faces looking aside & smirking intermittently

Logan Fry ~ 6 poems ~ new_sinews_issue8
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logan_fry ~ an If unfixed ++ all kinetic in rectitude ++ — new_sinews
_Logan Fry_poetry_6 POEMS_issue8_
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January 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
you should read new_sinews issue8 if you've not already ... so many modes of substantial writing—poems; fiction; an essay; even 2 plays ... & all types of temporality too—the present; the future; even antiquity
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_newsinews issue8_Andrea Harper+Yongyu Chen+Cary Stough+Logan Fry+Abigail Denton+Valerie Hsiung+Alvin Lu+Elise Houcek+Gabriel Palacios+Israel Bonilla
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January 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM