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"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors,/I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd./My century— my poison, my century—my harm,/my century—my enemy, my century— hell": from 4 poems by Marina Tsvetaeva via On The Seawall bit.ly/48gdMaZ tr by Margaree Little
November 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors,/I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd./My century— my poison, my century—my harm,/my century—my enemy, my century— hell": from 4 poems by Marina Tsvetaeva via On The Seawall bit.ly/48gdMaZ tr by Margaree Little
"I encounter a lot of overly long and under-edited books, many weighed down by prose poems. Some feel strident. These books sound like they began with a thesis, not a question": @derekmong.bsky.social in convo w/Jonathan Farmer via On The Seawall bit.ly/47vs87k
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"I encounter a lot of overly long and under-edited books, many weighed down by prose poems. Some feel strident. These books sound like they began with a thesis, not a question": @derekmong.bsky.social in convo w/Jonathan Farmer via On The Seawall bit.ly/47vs87k
"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. It’s sneaky like that": @tobiascarroll.bsky.social on @delaneynolan.bsky.social 's novel HAPPY BAD via Astra House & On The Seawall
bit.ly/43fQHT7
bit.ly/43fQHT7
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. It’s sneaky like that": @tobiascarroll.bsky.social on @delaneynolan.bsky.social 's novel HAPPY BAD via Astra House & On The Seawall
bit.ly/43fQHT7
bit.ly/43fQHT7
"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors, / I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century — my poison, my century — my harm, / my century — my enemy, my century — hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall / bit.ly/4opoNN2
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors, / I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century — my poison, my century — my harm, / my century — my enemy, my century — hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall / bit.ly/4opoNN2
Here's an invitation to take a trip through the new Nov/Dec edition of On The Seawall ... beginning with our feature on poems from STUDY OF SORROWS: TRANSLATIONS by
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Here's an invitation to take a trip through the new Nov/Dec edition of On The Seawall ... beginning with our feature on poems from STUDY OF SORROWS: TRANSLATIONS by
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com
Joe Brainard's COMICS is coming via @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social on December 2.
October 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Joe Brainard's COMICS is coming via @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social on December 2.
To be an unloved Kennedy in MA, you have to be particularly vile. So we gave RFK a Vineyard welcome yesterday here in our tiny town of Aquinnah.
September 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
To be an unloved Kennedy in MA, you have to be particularly vile. So we gave RFK a Vineyard welcome yesterday here in our tiny town of Aquinnah.
"A scrupulous reviser, whose poems went through multiple drafts before they were deemed ready to be gathered in his samizdat pamphlets": David Wojahn on the new Cavafy biography by GJusdanis and PJeffreys @fsgbooks.bsky.social
via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/47V2sSd
via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/47V2sSd
September 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"A scrupulous reviser, whose poems went through multiple drafts before they were deemed ready to be gathered in his samizdat pamphlets": David Wojahn on the new Cavafy biography by GJusdanis and PJeffreys @fsgbooks.bsky.social
via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/47V2sSd
via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/47V2sSd
"To know how to approach. / How we see the riddle of distance / from here to where the places we’ve lived thicken.": from 4 poems in Maria Borio's TRANSPARENCIES
@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall
bit.ly/3KaqZbT
@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall
bit.ly/3KaqZbT
September 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"To know how to approach. / How we see the riddle of distance / from here to where the places we’ve lived thicken.": from 4 poems in Maria Borio's TRANSPARENCIES
@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall
bit.ly/3KaqZbT
@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall
bit.ly/3KaqZbT
"For all its eccentricities, the novel makes a surprisingly sturdy sense of its own, and its gestures and form are more shapely than they may seem at first": my piece on Caren Beilin's SEA, POISON
@ndbooks.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/4gv9UFU
@ndbooks.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/4gv9UFU
September 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"For all its eccentricities, the novel makes a surprisingly sturdy sense of its own, and its gestures and form are more shapely than they may seem at first": my piece on Caren Beilin's SEA, POISON
@ndbooks.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/4gv9UFU
@ndbooks.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/4gv9UFU
"Part novel, essay, autofiction & poetry, the book explores the burdens of inherited trauma, gender & identity, seeking empowering forms of knowledge": @brittastromeyer.bsky.social on Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues by Kim de L'Horizon @fsgbooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/4m8fj6J
September 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"Part novel, essay, autofiction & poetry, the book explores the burdens of inherited trauma, gender & identity, seeking empowering forms of knowledge": @brittastromeyer.bsky.social on Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues by Kim de L'Horizon @fsgbooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/4m8fj6J
"In her wish for phoenix-like resurrection, she always admits a profound uncertainty, yet the underlying song is her compass": Valerie Duff-Strautmann on THE FIRE PASSAGE, poems by Lisa Wells @fourwaybooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/4gmEXUd
bit.ly/4gmEXUd
September 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"In her wish for phoenix-like resurrection, she always admits a profound uncertainty, yet the underlying song is her compass": Valerie Duff-Strautmann on THE FIRE PASSAGE, poems by Lisa Wells @fourwaybooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/4gmEXUd
bit.ly/4gmEXUd
"When you don’t make decisions for yourself, the world makes decisions for you—large and small, which Chambers’ novel expertly traces": @mathitak.bsky.social
on GREAT DISASTERS by Grady Chambers @tinhouse.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/48kQPns
on GREAT DISASTERS by Grady Chambers @tinhouse.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/48kQPns
September 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"When you don’t make decisions for yourself, the world makes decisions for you—large and small, which Chambers’ novel expertly traces": @mathitak.bsky.social
on GREAT DISASTERS by Grady Chambers @tinhouse.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/48kQPns
on GREAT DISASTERS by Grady Chambers @tinhouse.bsky.social via On The Seawall
bit.ly/48kQPns
"I thought I was finished with beauty, / having shed — given away, or sold — so much / and committed myself // to necessary objects only": from "Thirst," 1 of 3 poems by Robin Becker via On The Seawall
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bit.ly/4mdquv6
September 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"I thought I was finished with beauty, / having shed — given away, or sold — so much / and committed myself // to necessary objects only": from "Thirst," 1 of 3 poems by Robin Becker via On The Seawall
bit.ly/4mdquv6
bit.ly/4mdquv6
"Vidyan Ravinthiran reflects on what ignorance gives rise to and how it persists, through the Sri Lankan civil war that began in 1983 and ended 2009": Calista McRae on
Avidyā @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/3IiDEZM
Avidyā @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/3IiDEZM
September 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"Vidyan Ravinthiran reflects on what ignorance gives rise to and how it persists, through the Sri Lankan civil war that began in 1983 and ended 2009": Calista McRae on
Avidyā @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/3IiDEZM
Avidyā @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/3IiDEZM
"A rural horror story - what happens when a couple trades a ceramic cooktop in Prague for a gas stove that must be lit in a one-pub village": @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on PLAYING WOLF by Zuzana Říhová, tr from the Czech by @alexzucker.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/4plMxCs
bit.ly/4plMxCs
September 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"A rural horror story - what happens when a couple trades a ceramic cooktop in Prague for a gas stove that must be lit in a one-pub village": @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on PLAYING WOLF by Zuzana Říhová, tr from the Czech by @alexzucker.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/4plMxCs
bit.ly/4plMxCs
"In all her guises — mother, biologist, poet, Japanologist — Larson looks for commonality, itself a form of repair. 'We are the world’s body. There is no separation'": Melissa Pierson
on Katherine Larson's WEDDING OF THE FOXES @milkweededitions.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/48fYKT3
on Katherine Larson's WEDDING OF THE FOXES @milkweededitions.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/48fYKT3
September 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"In all her guises — mother, biologist, poet, Japanologist — Larson looks for commonality, itself a form of repair. 'We are the world’s body. There is no separation'": Melissa Pierson
on Katherine Larson's WEDDING OF THE FOXES @milkweededitions.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/48fYKT3
on Katherine Larson's WEDDING OF THE FOXES @milkweededitions.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
bit.ly/48fYKT3
The Sept/Oct edition of ON THE SEAWALL has just been published. Come on by the gallery & take a look at what we have to show. www.ronslate.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Sept/Oct edition of ON THE SEAWALL has just been published. Come on by the gallery & take a look at what we have to show. www.ronslate.com
An accomplished novelist & friend sent me this dismissal from the NEA re his grant application. This isn't the language of an arts organization. No matter, stay fierce, everyone.
August 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
An accomplished novelist & friend sent me this dismissal from the NEA re his grant application. This isn't the language of an arts organization. No matter, stay fierce, everyone.
Today's mail brought enticing new titles from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social -- I'm starting with EXERCISES 1950-1960 by Yannis Ritsos whose work I've always loved and who had been arrested in '48 & tortured during the Greek Civil War. He spent 4 years in jail. Translated by Spring Ulmer.
July 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Today's mail brought enticing new titles from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social -- I'm starting with EXERCISES 1950-1960 by Yannis Ritsos whose work I've always loved and who had been arrested in '48 & tortured during the Greek Civil War. He spent 4 years in jail. Translated by Spring Ulmer.
Katherine Larson's WEDDING OF THE FOXES is due 7/15 via
@milkweededitions.bsky.social. Splendid essays. Here's "Soap: Art of Failure" via ON THE SEAWALL / (our review is coming in Sept) bit.ly/40ETyUK
@milkweededitions.bsky.social. Splendid essays. Here's "Soap: Art of Failure" via ON THE SEAWALL / (our review is coming in Sept) bit.ly/40ETyUK
July 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Katherine Larson's WEDDING OF THE FOXES is due 7/15 via
@milkweededitions.bsky.social. Splendid essays. Here's "Soap: Art of Failure" via ON THE SEAWALL / (our review is coming in Sept) bit.ly/40ETyUK
@milkweededitions.bsky.social. Splendid essays. Here's "Soap: Art of Failure" via ON THE SEAWALL / (our review is coming in Sept) bit.ly/40ETyUK
Fanny Howe's work is a gift to us. My pieces on MANIMAL WOE ('21) bit.ly/3GyD4WZ & THE WINTER SUN ('09) bit.ly/4leal8Z via ON THE SEAWALL
July 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Fanny Howe's work is a gift to us. My pieces on MANIMAL WOE ('21) bit.ly/3GyD4WZ & THE WINTER SUN ('09) bit.ly/4leal8Z via ON THE SEAWALL
RIP Rosalind Fox Solomon. A few words on her A WOMAN I ONCE KNEW bit.ly/4nqhKmY from ON THE SEAWALL
June 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
RIP Rosalind Fox Solomon. A few words on her A WOMAN I ONCE KNEW bit.ly/4nqhKmY from ON THE SEAWALL
Today is Fernando Pessoa's bday (1888). When I visited his house in Lisbon, the docent allowed me to place a fingertip on the letter P of his typewriter.
June 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Today is Fernando Pessoa's bday (1888). When I visited his house in Lisbon, the docent allowed me to place a fingertip on the letter P of his typewriter.