Paul Cunningham
@p-cunning.bsky.social
Co-Managing Editor @actionbooks.bsky.social | Author of SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 (@eldiagram.bsky.social, 2025); FALL GARMENT (Schism, 2022); THE HOUSE OF THE TREE OF SORES (Schism, 2020)
One week from today: I'll be returning to #SlipperyRock to give a reading and celebrate 20 years of SLAB (Sound and Literary Arts Book)! Free food and costume party!
Doors @ 6:30pm
Event @ 7:00pm
(Admission is free!)
#SRU #CreativeWriting #Pittsburgh #Pennsylvania
Doors @ 6:30pm
Event @ 7:00pm
(Admission is free!)
#SRU #CreativeWriting #Pittsburgh #Pennsylvania
October 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
One week from today: I'll be returning to #SlipperyRock to give a reading and celebrate 20 years of SLAB (Sound and Literary Arts Book)! Free food and costume party!
Doors @ 6:30pm
Event @ 7:00pm
(Admission is free!)
#SRU #CreativeWriting #Pittsburgh #Pennsylvania
Doors @ 6:30pm
Event @ 7:00pm
(Admission is free!)
#SRU #CreativeWriting #Pittsburgh #Pennsylvania
"The religious parallel is clear: both plerosis (filling) and kenosis (purging) must be achieved before reaching God. Paul Cunningham decrypts the cubes, only to uncover a 'flesh of code' and a 'cryptography of open pores' that cannot be wormed through"
#Brillo
www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/br...
#Brillo
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September 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"The religious parallel is clear: both plerosis (filling) and kenosis (purging) must be achieved before reaching God. Paul Cunningham decrypts the cubes, only to uncover a 'flesh of code' and a 'cryptography of open pores' that cannot be wormed through"
#Brillo
www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/br...
#Brillo
www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/br...
September 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
September 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My next book, #Brillo, is forthcoming from #NOLA press Lavender Ink. (Cover reveal coming soon!) 'Brillo' is a book-length meditation on #PaulThek's "Meat Piece with #Warhol Brillo Box" (1965)
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September 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
My next book, #Brillo, is forthcoming from #NOLA press Lavender Ink. (Cover reveal coming soon!) 'Brillo' is a book-length meditation on #PaulThek's "Meat Piece with #Warhol Brillo Box" (1965)
philamuseum.org/collection/o...
philamuseum.org/collection/o...
'The Beach' (2000) Directed by Danny Boyle
September 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
'The Beach' (2000) Directed by Danny Boyle
Equal parts exercise and exorcism, #AncientAlgorithms recasts translation as an endlessly generative art form unto itself. Katrine Øgaard Jensen mistranslates, rewrites, and remixes her award-winning translations of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s poetry!
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
September 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Equal parts exercise and exorcism, #AncientAlgorithms recasts translation as an endlessly generative art form unto itself. Katrine Øgaard Jensen mistranslates, rewrites, and remixes her award-winning translations of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s poetry!
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
***NOW AVAILABLE TO PREORDER***
Grateful to Katrine for having invited me to be part of #AncientAlgorithms w/ so many #translators and friends whom I greatly admire: CAConrad, Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, Baba Badji, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen herself!
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
Grateful to Katrine for having invited me to be part of #AncientAlgorithms w/ so many #translators and friends whom I greatly admire: CAConrad, Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, Baba Badji, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen herself!
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
September 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
***NOW AVAILABLE TO PREORDER***
Grateful to Katrine for having invited me to be part of #AncientAlgorithms w/ so many #translators and friends whom I greatly admire: CAConrad, Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, Baba Badji, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen herself!
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
Grateful to Katrine for having invited me to be part of #AncientAlgorithms w/ so many #translators and friends whom I greatly admire: CAConrad, Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, Baba Badji, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen herself!
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
September 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
On September 18, I'll be introducing IDENTIKIT (starring #ElizabethTaylor and #AndyWarhol) at Notre Dame's Browning Cinema at 9:30pm. (Adult tickets: $7 / Senior Tickets: $5 / Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB students.)
More info available at: performingarts.nd.edu/event/18620/...
More info available at: performingarts.nd.edu/event/18620/...
August 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
On September 18, I'll be introducing IDENTIKIT (starring #ElizabethTaylor and #AndyWarhol) at Notre Dame's Browning Cinema at 9:30pm. (Adult tickets: $7 / Senior Tickets: $5 / Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB students.)
More info available at: performingarts.nd.edu/event/18620/...
More info available at: performingarts.nd.edu/event/18620/...
To date, five favorite runway shows:
5. Rick Owens ('14)
youtube.com/watch?v=TirA...
4. Westwood ('93)
youtube.com/watch?v=2qKI...
3. Thom Browne ('24)
youtube.com/live/LA4cKrH...
2. Versace ('91)
youtu.be/V8LLeYdOfSw?...
1. McQueen ('01)
youtube.com/watch?v=XFrn... pic.x.com/z63hcU0Adz
5. Rick Owens ('14)
youtube.com/watch?v=TirA...
4. Westwood ('93)
youtube.com/watch?v=2qKI...
3. Thom Browne ('24)
youtube.com/live/LA4cKrH...
2. Versace ('91)
youtu.be/V8LLeYdOfSw?...
1. McQueen ('01)
youtube.com/watch?v=XFrn... pic.x.com/z63hcU0Adz
August 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
To date, five favorite runway shows:
5. Rick Owens ('14)
youtube.com/watch?v=TirA...
4. Westwood ('93)
youtube.com/watch?v=2qKI...
3. Thom Browne ('24)
youtube.com/live/LA4cKrH...
2. Versace ('91)
youtu.be/V8LLeYdOfSw?...
1. McQueen ('01)
youtube.com/watch?v=XFrn... pic.x.com/z63hcU0Adz
5. Rick Owens ('14)
youtube.com/watch?v=TirA...
4. Westwood ('93)
youtube.com/watch?v=2qKI...
3. Thom Browne ('24)
youtube.com/live/LA4cKrH...
2. Versace ('91)
youtu.be/V8LLeYdOfSw?...
1. McQueen ('01)
youtube.com/watch?v=XFrn... pic.x.com/z63hcU0Adz
"and there you are, ceiling / with all the flies, future"
Thanks M. Forajter for publishing two of my poems ("To Lift" and "Night Shift") in this sublime new "Art & Annihilation" issue of @thearsonista.bsky.social. So many kindred spirits are here, too! 🖤 ❤️🔥
burninghousepress.com/2025/08/01/a...
Thanks M. Forajter for publishing two of my poems ("To Lift" and "Night Shift") in this sublime new "Art & Annihilation" issue of @thearsonista.bsky.social. So many kindred spirits are here, too! 🖤 ❤️🔥
burninghousepress.com/2025/08/01/a...
August 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"and there you are, ceiling / with all the flies, future"
Thanks M. Forajter for publishing two of my poems ("To Lift" and "Night Shift") in this sublime new "Art & Annihilation" issue of @thearsonista.bsky.social. So many kindred spirits are here, too! 🖤 ❤️🔥
burninghousepress.com/2025/08/01/a...
Thanks M. Forajter for publishing two of my poems ("To Lift" and "Night Shift") in this sublime new "Art & Annihilation" issue of @thearsonista.bsky.social. So many kindred spirits are here, too! 🖤 ❤️🔥
burninghousepress.com/2025/08/01/a...
Thanks @nataliesolmer.bsky.social for featuring some ekphrasis I fashioned for The Indianapolis Review! A poem inspired by @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social and the insect-flecked Schiaparelli piece below. And "Cipher": inspired by the late Alber Elbaz's own glittering swarm:
theindianapolisreview.com
theindianapolisreview.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Thanks @nataliesolmer.bsky.social for featuring some ekphrasis I fashioned for The Indianapolis Review! A poem inspired by @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social and the insect-flecked Schiaparelli piece below. And "Cipher": inspired by the late Alber Elbaz's own glittering swarm:
theindianapolisreview.com
theindianapolisreview.com
"Ferocious and unsparing"
— Jonathan Crary
"It's VHS culture, the irrational exuberance of Ryan Trecartin"
— Joyelle McSweeney
"Every new Paul Cunningham book is different than the one that came before it and all of them rule"
— Benjamin Niespodziany
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— Jonathan Crary
"It's VHS culture, the irrational exuberance of Ryan Trecartin"
— Joyelle McSweeney
"Every new Paul Cunningham book is different than the one that came before it and all of them rule"
— Benjamin Niespodziany
thediagram.com/merch/produc...
July 31, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"Ferocious and unsparing"
— Jonathan Crary
"It's VHS culture, the irrational exuberance of Ryan Trecartin"
— Joyelle McSweeney
"Every new Paul Cunningham book is different than the one that came before it and all of them rule"
— Benjamin Niespodziany
thediagram.com/merch/produc...
— Jonathan Crary
"It's VHS culture, the irrational exuberance of Ryan Trecartin"
— Joyelle McSweeney
"Every new Paul Cunningham book is different than the one that came before it and all of them rule"
— Benjamin Niespodziany
thediagram.com/merch/produc...
"shout them at full volume because imagineering because fantazmorgrophobing inside the portal because with machine for real"
Thanks David Brennan for this experimental microreview of SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 (@eldiagram.bsky.social)
fckyrbookclub.substack.com/p/sociocide-...
#poetry #reviews #books
Thanks David Brennan for this experimental microreview of SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 (@eldiagram.bsky.social)
fckyrbookclub.substack.com/p/sociocide-...
#poetry #reviews #books
July 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"shout them at full volume because imagineering because fantazmorgrophobing inside the portal because with machine for real"
Thanks David Brennan for this experimental microreview of SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 (@eldiagram.bsky.social)
fckyrbookclub.substack.com/p/sociocide-...
#poetry #reviews #books
Thanks David Brennan for this experimental microreview of SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 (@eldiagram.bsky.social)
fckyrbookclub.substack.com/p/sociocide-...
#poetry #reviews #books
Before I forget, this month marks the 5-year anniversary of my debut book: THE HOUSE OF THE TREE OF SORES! Many thanks to everyone who's read and/or reviewed it over the years. Still very fond of this review by James Pate:
tskymag.com/2022/09/paul...
#IKEA #Sweden #Poetry #Books
tskymag.com/2022/09/paul...
#IKEA #Sweden #Poetry #Books
July 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Before I forget, this month marks the 5-year anniversary of my debut book: THE HOUSE OF THE TREE OF SORES! Many thanks to everyone who's read and/or reviewed it over the years. Still very fond of this review by James Pate:
tskymag.com/2022/09/paul...
#IKEA #Sweden #Poetry #Books
tskymag.com/2022/09/paul...
#IKEA #Sweden #Poetry #Books
July 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I'll be reading online tonight alongside other contributors at 5:30pm EST / 4:30pm CDT in celebration of issue 49.2 of Spoon River Poetry Review! Register at the link below:
illinoisstate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
illinoisstate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
July 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I'll be reading online tonight alongside other contributors at 5:30pm EST / 4:30pm CDT in celebration of issue 49.2 of Spoon River Poetry Review! Register at the link below:
illinoisstate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
illinoisstate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
July 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
This Friday @ 7pm! I'll be reading in Durham, NC with Ellen Boyette, Nathan Dixon, and Laura Jaramillo! See you at The Fuzzy Needle Records & Books!
thefuzzyneedle.com
thefuzzyneedle.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This Friday @ 7pm! I'll be reading in Durham, NC with Ellen Boyette, Nathan Dixon, and Laura Jaramillo! See you at The Fuzzy Needle Records & Books!
thefuzzyneedle.com
thefuzzyneedle.com
"Merry Christmas"
'Tangerine' (2015) Directed by Sean Baker
'Tangerine' (2015) Directed by Sean Baker
July 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"Merry Christmas"
'Tangerine' (2015) Directed by Sean Baker
'Tangerine' (2015) Directed by Sean Baker
Cole Escola has T-Bone from Grindr, and*I* have Aaron from Goodreads. Thank you Aaron! 🙏🫶
goodreads.com/book/show/22...
goodreads.com/book/show/22...
July 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Cole Escola has T-Bone from Grindr, and*I* have Aaron from Goodreads. Thank you Aaron! 🙏🫶
goodreads.com/book/show/22...
goodreads.com/book/show/22...
June 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Excited to read in Durham, NC next month with Ellen Boyette, Nathan Dixon, and Laura Jaramillo! See you at The Fuzzy Needle Records & Books on Friday, July 11!
www.thefuzzyneedle.com
www.thefuzzyneedle.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Excited to read in Durham, NC next month with Ellen Boyette, Nathan Dixon, and Laura Jaramillo! See you at The Fuzzy Needle Records & Books on Friday, July 11!
www.thefuzzyneedle.com
www.thefuzzyneedle.com