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Rusty Barnes
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Today's mail!
October 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
This week:
October 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Today and this week's study:
October 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If I can't concentrate well enough to write or edit or review, I can still make a big pile of "research."

Witness my pile'o'pound.

Ooops. I see some WCW snuck in there too.
October 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
If you want to know more, go to the Encyclopedia! :-) I may actually buy the SF one as well, even though I read much less SF these days. I like to know stuff.
October 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I hope you all have a good weekend. I'm going to update Fried Chicken & Coffee--I haven't in a loooongg time--and try to take stock of my creative life. Like, what next?
October 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Trying to read: Robin Blaser. Anyone read?
October 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Which Bowles should I reread tonight? Let it Come Down or the Spider's House? Maybe Sheltering Sky?
October 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
New poem on Substack.

substack.com/@rustybarnes...
A Knife in the Night
after Frank Stanford
substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Respite.
September 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Got this today--completes my Pete Fromm collection. He started out writing sporting stories which bordered on litfic and then went to novels. He's one of the best we have, I think.
September 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I have a new poem coming out in Nixes Mate Review soon. Where's your poetry appearing recently?
September 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Pome, po-em or poy-em?
September 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Flannery O'Connor's Prayer Journal, long before she was FLANNERY.
September 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Where I feel best and safest.
September 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
By Caravaggio - Downloaded from Google Arts & Culture using dezoomify-rshttps://artsandculture.google.com/asset/der-ungl%C3%A4ubige-thomas-michelangelo-merisi-named-caravaggio/OAEjjQkNdRL9sg, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
File:Der ungläubige Thomas - Michelangelo Merisi, named Caravaggio.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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September 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Hi friends. I hope you all have a great weekend. I am going to try to get outside in sunlight, maybe go for a walk, read Flannery O'Connor, maybe some chapbooks, contemplate universal mysteries.

What are you up to?
September 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Universe, make with the woo-woos, help me out! I want to make this look productive.
August 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Hardly working.
July 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
New-to-me books!
July 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Easing into the weekend. . . got a lot of poetry/review stuff coming up quickly.

What are you reading? Anything cool going on?
July 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
72 pages to go entering changes, then some connective tissue work and reordering, then. . . off to an editor. Uh. Also need a new title. Pic by Sierra.
July 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
out of the cradle gently revising
July 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM