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Chris’s whole post is amazing, including this, from E.B. White:
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Chris’s whole post is amazing, including this, from E.B. White:
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If you weren’t able to join us for the 2025 Literary Prize presentation, you can view it here. An inspiring double reading! Our thanks to our winners and judges, including @talianeffson.bsky.social, @nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social, and @randallmann.bsky.social! youtube.com/watch?v=r53p...
2025 Nimrod Literary Awards Reading
YouTube video by Nimrod International Journal
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November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
If you weren’t able to join us for the 2025 Literary Prize presentation, you can view it here. An inspiring double reading! Our thanks to our winners and judges, including @talianeffson.bsky.social, @nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social, and @randallmann.bsky.social! youtube.com/watch?v=r53p...
It's an honor to have 2 poems in this month's issue of Poetry magazine. Thanks to the Poetry editors for featuring them, and providing the opportunity to record them.
"Arrival in Montpellier":
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"The Last Catalogue":
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
"Arrival in Montpellier":
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
"The Last Catalogue":
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
November 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's an honor to have 2 poems in this month's issue of Poetry magazine. Thanks to the Poetry editors for featuring them, and providing the opportunity to record them.
"Arrival in Montpellier":
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
"The Last Catalogue":
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
"Arrival in Montpellier":
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
"The Last Catalogue":
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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Please join us on Friday, November 14, at 2pm CST, to celebrate and hear the winners of NIMROD’s annual literary awards, Michael Lavers and Talia Neffson, with judges Randall Mann and Nancy Jooyoun Kim.
Zoom address in post below.
Zoom address in post below.
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Please join us on Friday, November 14, at 2pm CST, to celebrate and hear the winners of NIMROD’s annual literary awards, Michael Lavers and Talia Neffson, with judges Randall Mann and Nancy Jooyoun Kim.
Zoom address in post below.
Zoom address in post below.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
Helena Bonham Carter: This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams
YouTube video by Pan Macmillan
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November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Wild that there aren’t more Tennessee Williams revivals considering how miserably hot life will be now. We are all of us sweaty and slightly unwell
July 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Wild that there aren’t more Tennessee Williams revivals considering how miserably hot life will be now. We are all of us sweaty and slightly unwell
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Wrote something on Harrison & class. Also scansion. But remember the first rule of Foot Club. open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Tony Harrison's 'Study'
Don Paterson on the best room
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October 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Wrote something on Harrison & class. Also scansion. But remember the first rule of Foot Club. open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
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'Dissent at the Temple of Gemini' by @austinwriting.bsky.social badlilies.uk/austin-allen-2
November 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
'Dissent at the Temple of Gemini' by @austinwriting.bsky.social badlilies.uk/austin-allen-2
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As long as I’ve got my laptop and summer breaks, no urban legend is safe.
Gone Fishin’ - The American Scholar
Could two famous rivermen really have met their end while grappling giant fish in a Kansas river?
theamericanscholar.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
As long as I’ve got my laptop and summer breaks, no urban legend is safe.
“But for him it was not an important failure”
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“But for him it was not an important failure”
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Doing this soon:
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Doing this soon:
Grateful to @kathryngray.bsky.social and @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social for including my narrative poem "Dissent at the Temple of Gemini" in the new issue of Bad Lilies. Enjoy, and please do yourself the favor of reading the full issue!
www.badlilies.uk/austin-allen-2
www.badlilies.uk/austin-allen-2
Austin Allen — Bad Lilies
A poem by Austin Allen
www.badlilies.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Grateful to @kathryngray.bsky.social and @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social for including my narrative poem "Dissent at the Temple of Gemini" in the new issue of Bad Lilies. Enjoy, and please do yourself the favor of reading the full issue!
www.badlilies.uk/austin-allen-2
www.badlilies.uk/austin-allen-2
If you're eagerly seeking a copy of The Travels of Blad J. Garamond: In Search of Geneviève Sans-Serif (and I know you are), why not try Powell's Books? Special thanks to the good folks at @powells.bsky.social for helping ensure the "è" rendered correctly!
www.powells.com/book/the-tra...
www.powells.com/book/the-tra...
October 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If you're eagerly seeking a copy of The Travels of Blad J. Garamond: In Search of Geneviève Sans-Serif (and I know you are), why not try Powell's Books? Special thanks to the good folks at @powells.bsky.social for helping ensure the "è" rendered correctly!
www.powells.com/book/the-tra...
www.powells.com/book/the-tra...
The Hecht Prize contest is open through Dec. 1. Poets, send your manuscripts!
www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...
www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...
Writerfolk: the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize contest opens tomorrow. Poets with no more than one published full-length collection are eligible. A. E. Stallings will be this year's judge. Send your work!
October 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The Hecht Prize contest is open through Dec. 1. Poets, send your manuscripts!
www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...
www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...
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Sonnet in The London Magazine!
October 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Sonnet in The London Magazine!
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Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game. That's why universities and law firms and nonprofits can't let themselves be picked off one by one. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game. That's why universities and law firms and nonprofits can't let themselves be picked off one by one. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
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Today marks the official launch of my new poetry confection, THE TRAVELS OF BLAD J. GARAMOND:
www.measurepress.com/measure/cata...
www.measurepress.com/measure/cata...
October 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Today marks the official launch of my new poetry confection, THE TRAVELS OF BLAD J. GARAMOND:
www.measurepress.com/measure/cata...
www.measurepress.com/measure/cata...
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It's nice to be reminded that the iambic pentameter line is one of the most beautiful things to have ever existed.
August 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It's nice to be reminded that the iambic pentameter line is one of the most beautiful things to have ever existed.
I have a new book coming out next month. It's called THE TRAVELS OF BLAD J. GARAMOND, it's a comic romance (a com-rom?), and it's available for preorder:
www.measurepress.com/measure/cata...
www.measurepress.com/measure/cata...
Measure Press :: The Travels of Blad J. Garamond
www.measurepress.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I have a new book coming out next month. It's called THE TRAVELS OF BLAD J. GARAMOND, it's a comic romance (a com-rom?), and it's available for preorder:
www.measurepress.com/measure/cata...
www.measurepress.com/measure/cata...
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I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
Opinion | How I Ran Afoul of the Air Force Academy
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
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Waywiser Books, the 501(3)(c) US-based successor to the UK's venerable Waywiser Press, is now running the 21st Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, to be judged by A.E. Stallings. Deadline December 1, 2025. We want to read your poems!
www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...
www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...
The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize — Waywiser Books
www.waywiserbooks.org
September 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Waywiser Books, the 501(3)(c) US-based successor to the UK's venerable Waywiser Press, is now running the 21st Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, to be judged by A.E. Stallings. Deadline December 1, 2025. We want to read your poems!
www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...
www.waywiserbooks.org/the-anthony-...
Writerfolk: the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize contest opens tomorrow. Poets with no more than one published full-length collection are eligible. A. E. Stallings will be this year's judge. Send your work!
August 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Writerfolk: the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize contest opens tomorrow. Poets with no more than one published full-length collection are eligible. A. E. Stallings will be this year's judge. Send your work!