fast

as a stack of angel-hair pasta

slides out its box and into a pot,

Thanks to the crew at Swamp Pink, especially Emily Rosko and Jonathan Heinen, for including this excerpt from MONOLITH (with a little Sports Night fan fiction) in the new issue! swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/fro...

Turn the volume up.

And if you're in Columbia, SC, there's also a cool reading at All Good Books this Friday, 6 pm: Nathan Dixon, Chris Tonelli, @samuelamadon.bsky.social. Info here: allgoodbooks.com/events/31878...

Today’s Featured Poem:

“Of Time, Guilt, and Sorrow” by Cal Bedient published in Michigan Quarterly Review Issue 64:1.

Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/of-time...

Tonight!!

NYC! @lizlizcountryman.bsky.social and I are coming through to read with these kickass people! Come by if you can! 7/28 7pm Unnameable Books

Thrilled to have my essay included in Chicago Review's new dossier on the late wonderful Elizabeth Arnold. She was such a deep influence on me and on so many of us, such a wildly generous mentor, never not moving through the world as an artist.
www.chicagoreview.org/moving-throu...

Happy end of the fucking world for all who celebrate.

I've got some excerpts from my book-length poem MONOLITH up in the new Action, Spectacle here: www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2025-... Issue looks pretty great. Ronaldo Wilson, Josh English, Thea Brown, lots more...

"The End Is Always Sudden" from Liz Countryman's GREEN ISLAND up on Poetry Daily Today!

poems.com/poem/the-end...

We're reading over in Athens tomorrow night!

Oh yeah. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...