Hosting @On_The_Seawall -- a community gallery of writing & commentary at ronslate.com. JOY RIDE, new poetry via Carnegie Mellon. Also on Substack.
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17 Jan 2017
"For this secret flame I extinguish the world, / I burn up all that is living without love" Octavio Paz
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Over at my Substack, you can read "Larger Than Life [at the Observatory], short lyric prose. Free subscription. ronslate.substack.com/p/larg…
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At my Substack, a short essay on encountering the a-bombing of Nagasaki while at the deli counter / substack.com/home/post/p-196…
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One of the most-read reviews @On_The_Seawall is a piece I wrote in 2008 about Roberto Bolaño's evolution as a writer and his poetry in THE ROMANTIC DOGS. April 28th = his birthday
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I've started a Substack for brief reviews of titles I can't cover for @On_The_Seawall -- starting with one about Martin Walker's latest Bruno mystery AN ENEMY IN THE VILLAGE @fsgbooks / & I'll be writing on other topcs as well / substack.com/profile/1810368…
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"Perhaps the 'secret' of Dylan’s late stage creativity resides in his ability to store & process an enormous database about himself & the history of American folk music": Barry Faulk reviews @Fantomas2go's AFTER THE FLOOD @wwnorton @On_The_Seawall bit.ly/4sTCRj2
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"Kertész was wincingly aware of what he saw as his artistic misfortune & neglect, but by posthumously landing Albers as his biographer, he’s gotten lucky": @bquinnterest on Patricia Albers' EVERYTHING IS PHOTOGRAPH @otherpress bit.ly/4u3rW7y @On_The_Seawall
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Looks like @bluehost is having issues again because ronslate.com @On_The_Seawall is dark. Apologies to our readers.
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"Her poetry often reflects on getting things wrong while imagining what getting things right might look or sound like. This amounts both to an attitude and a technique": my review of TRUE MISTAKES by @lenamschmitt @uarkpress bit.ly/4t6xDSf @On_The_Seawall
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"The book couldn’t be timelier: wars in the Middle East signal the folly of American Empire ... an 'unraveling of political cultures built up over many decades'": @HamiltonCain on Rana Dasgupta's AFTER NATIONS @VikingBooks bit.ly/3Q3549B @On_The_Seawall
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"The collection is about what the bonds between parent and child are made of, offering a story not just about separation but violent renting and grief": Valerie Duff-Strautmann on Maggie Dietz's poems in IF YOU WOULD LET ME @FourWayBooks @On_The_Seawall bit.ly/47TOMpL
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Amazed by how much Ada Limón accomplished during her 3-year tenure as US Poet Laureate, much of it mentioned in her AGAINST BREAKING: ON THE POWER OF POETRY coming next month via @ScribnerBooks.
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The Zoom link will be available open Tuesday afternoon. Please join us!
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Please join us on Tuesday night 7:30ET when Robin Becker comes to PathwaysArts via Zoom. The link will be available on Tuesday afternoon at pathwaysmv.org -- scroll down to this poster & click on the Zoom prompt.
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Coming Tuesday night 7:30ET -- Catherine Barnett will read for us at PathwaysArts & you can watch & listen via Zoom. The link will be available on Tuesday afternoon at pathwaysmv.org ...
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Please join us when Thea Matthews reads via zoom for PathwaysArts -- Tuesday nite 1/20 7:30 ET -- link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Her latest collection is GRIME via @CityLightsBooks ...
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