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Mordecai Martin

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He/him. Writer. איבערטייטשער. Fifth generation New Yorker. Mad man and Psychiatric Survivor. Hairy AND over-share-y. MFA from Randolph College. http://www.MordecaiMartin.net. https://fartaytshtundfarbesert.substack.com/

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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · Nov 11

Fuck I did my #introduction post and I forgot to put a link to my website that has all my publications and my blog and my contact form. Fuck. Fuck me. Shit. Shit balls. Fuck a duck. Fuck a rama ding dong. Shit and piss. Fuck, shit, and assholes. Assholes and piss. Fuck a dog.
Jesus fucked. Dang.

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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 2m

Oh I dunno, sometimes I think maybe the third or fifth acceptance of the week would be the best one, don’t you? Just absolutely crushing it, cherry on top situation would be nice. Just once.

Anyway, thank you Donna

Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 16m

Thank you!

Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 16m

Thanks Maureen!

Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 2h

Holding that down arrow key

Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 4h

"Listen, I think we can all agree I translated the shit out of this. Happy reading, losers."

Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 4h

Thanks for the reminder, I'ma go lie down

Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 5h

Thanks Erika! Now to write the translator's note

Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 5h

Got one of those acceptances from a dream pub that arrives after days of despair and thinking about giving up. A huge shudder of relief ran through me. I nearly cried. I needed a win.

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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 7h

thank you @anmlymag.bsky.social / @sarahclark.bsky.social for making space for autistic protest poetry & inviting me to introduce the issue. as i read through these works, i feel i can see the future of our craft.

anmly.org/autistic-pro...

The small something could be a creature, perhaps a technology. Maybe, in more abstract terms, a political orientation or set of social norms. Looking back, I now understand “A small something” as part of a larger body of autistic poetic work, which, in my view, are always and already “protesting” neuronormative creative and political frameworks. Thinking back to the misleading figure of the savant and this demand for autistic exceptionality, it seems to me that to impute autistic life into our creative practices, to document it as it exists and not as our neurotypical counterparts with it were, then we must turn to a form prepared to resist normative grammars and restrictive relationships to language, activity, and achievement. After all, these very restrictions—this sociocultural “common sense”—are what got us into this mess in the first place: demands for tact over honesty, ambiguity over courage.

Instead, I want live in a poetics which refuses common sense, a poetics of autism.

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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 5h

Even as someone with an abiding fondness for several of my exes, they are not "the ones that got away", and thinking of them in that sense would seriously hamper my happiness-particularly in my current relationship- and ability to be normal around them! WHY IS THIS A THING.

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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 5h

No, I love it, it's great, don't be mean

Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 5h

because they're just awful

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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 5h

Trapped! Trapped like rats!

Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 1d

Check it out!!!

NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 26d

Announcement time! October 14th, 7:00 Eastern: Hear poems from @clbpoetry.bsky.social, @mitchnobis.bsky.social, and @djvorreyer.bsky.social! Hosted by the amazing @readinstead.bsky.social!

Hit the eventbrite link to register. NAWP!

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

Promo graphic with author photos of Donna Vorreyer, Chris Butler, and Mitchell Nobis. And the NAWP ostrich, of course.
The text says:
A NAWP Reading
Chris L. Butler
Mitch Nobis
Donna Vorreyer
Hosted by
Jared Beloff
October 14, 2025
7:00-8:00PM EST

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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 1d

Oh wait, youse was talkin' bout VIKTOR Shklovsky? Da Russian Formalist? Oh naw, naw bro, I was talking about my guy BILLY Shklovsky! From Canarsie!

Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 1d

I advise patience to myself

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Bluma @bluma.bsky.social · 1d

A small boat floated amongst the ship. A boat called an LST, built to sail right up to the shore, open its wide mouth, and spew trucks, jeeps and soldiers from its innards. Supply trucks, guns, rifles, ammunition rest in the belly of the LST, and the deck is loaded with war materials. And amongst the vehicles, crates of rifles, young men lie staring in the dark.

Eight days they had been cutting through the sea, and tomorrow, on the ninth, the bloody shore must appear from the blue of the ocean.

The youths lie in the LST, packs under their heads like pillows at night. Rifles resting close by their sides. Young men lie, thinking thoughts, rocked on the waves.

In the darkness, a harmonica plays. The thin, yearning notes draw out across the length of the boat. The tune — a story of a girl and her soldier-boy:

I’ll be seein’ you
In all the old familiar places…

The harmonica weeps, creeping into the eyes, into the throat — until ——————

— Give it a rest, Okie — a hoarse voice shouts from somewhere in the darkness.

Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 2d

making literature in translation your whole online personality is a great way to really stump most social media algorithms

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 2d

They do so love to scream

Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 2d

Fidelity should be, if not wholly abandoned, seriously questioned as the goal and assumption of literary translation.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 2d

Dizzy is so real for this one

poison ( haunted ) doll @poisondoll.sisc.one · Oct 13

i don't know how to say it but the fact that there used to be websites and there used to be places are related

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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · Nov 13

Who’s got plans? Like, schemes?

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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · Nov 14

It’s odd how when traveling from Mexico City and reaching New York, I have to adjust to hearing English and think something other than “arrogant tourists.” Or maybe I don’t have to. Anyway, I speak English in Mexico often, to my great embarrassment and hypocrisy.

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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · Nov 14

It is lovely to see a good fat pigeon though

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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · Nov 15

The two parts of that process, the falling in love and the attempt to capture and replicate the experience, could roughly correspond to the act of reading the work and then writing the translation. But it’s more complex than that.

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