Author of NERVOSITIES (@AntiOedipusP) and NOMAD SCIENCE (Spuyten Duyvil). Editor of @BigOtherMag. Publicist at @RhizomaticPR. More at johnmadera.com.
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16 May 2024
Delighted to share that NERVOSITIES, my debut collection of short fiction, was published today! Kapow! NERVOSITIES has received advance praise from some of the world's finest writers, e.g., Rikki Ducornet, Brian Evenson, Lance Olsen, Sam Lipsyte, Garielle Lutz, & Michael Martone.
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Join us tomorrow, June 14, 2026, for the 2025 @BigOtherMag Book Awards Ceremony!
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Happy birthday, William Butler Yeats!
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Happy birthday, Fernando Pessoa!
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Jun 12
“Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.”
―Wendell Berry
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Jun 12
"If you want to see the brave, look for those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.”
―Bhagavad Gita
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Jun 12
"It is only enough
To live incessantly in change."
―Wallace Stevens
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Jun 11
Read Alexander Cigale's astute review of @MarcVincenz1's NO MORE ANIMAL POEMS (@WhitePine_Press) in @EvergreenReview!
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(Message me for a review copy, etc.)
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Read @LarissaShmailo's astute review of @MarcVincenz1's NO MORE ANIMAL POEMS (@WhitePine_Press) in @Arteidolia!
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(Message me for a review copy, etc.)
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First step toward exiting the echo chamber and/or popping the filter bubble is recognition; of their existence; of their terrible constraint of vision, thought, etc.; and of your place within them, the ways you help sustain them, etc.
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Jun 11
One-word writing prompt: Write!
(Image: Remedios Varo’s Creación de las aves (Creation of the Birds), 1957)
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Jun 11
"Sheer abundance of being / floods my heart."
—Rainer Maria Rilke
(Image: Rob Gonsalves's Here Comes the Flood, 2003)
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Jun 11
"When we accept false and violent laws and submit to them, we can neither establish truth nor combat lies in this world."
—Leo Tolstoy
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Jun 10
Wherein Arah Ko reads from BRINE ORCHID (YesYes Books), a Finalist for the 2025 @BigOtherMag Book Award for Poetry!
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Jun 10
"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."
—Christopher Morley
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Jun 10
"Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter—but beautiful—struggle for a new world."
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Rabbett Before Horses Strickland's Iskwaaj Nibi (The Last Waterhole: Creating a New World), 2018)
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Jun 10
"Slow down and be aware of the small opportunities to benefit others that arise in your daily life. You’ll then have a chance to connect with others and help them feel secure, worthwhile, and appreciated. This will brighten your day, too."
—Thubten Chodron
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“If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don’t imagine it impossible—for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you.”
—Marcus Aurelius
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Jun 9
A robot kicking a child is one picture of the future. Orwell's boot stamping on a human face is another. Neither is inevitable. Let's imagine and realize a future built on love, solidarity, collective power, and shared flourishing. The choice is ours.
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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
—Ursula K. Le Guin
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