Lynda Smith Hoggan’s Our Song: A Memoir of Love and Race is a profoundly moving memoir that helps us to see the difficulty of breaking through sexual and racial norms. John Brantingham reviews. buff.ly/3XsY6si

New poetry by John Brantingham on AIOTB Magazine today!

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Yours, Creature, the newest poetry collection by Jessica Cuello, is a work of exceptional sensitivity and thoughtfulness. John Brantingham reviews. buff.ly/3LyOSJ0

Hey everyone, I am so thrilled to be leading this workshop. For national poetry month, we're going to write one poem a day for the entire month. We'll be revising in class, and I'll be giving prompts and directions!
Here's the direct link: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSfT…

I have an essay up at Coffee Times!

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I just published The Geese Scream at Me to Look up from My Phone link.medium.com/vb4LYsNlhpb

Among other things, HEAD V HEART by Rob Sturma is a discussion of how popular culture can be magic, how it can help those who love it and take it seriously through life’s most difficult times. Review by John Brantingham buff.ly/3LVQmKe

I just published Early Radical Amazement: The Pear link.medium.com/cAdVQQhRapb

John Brantingham’s great micro 20 Seconds during an Earthquake in Walnut, California won the AdHoc contest, 2018. His NiF, Inland Empire Afternoon, set in the same location, was a runner up selected by Michael Loveday in Bath Flash Fiction Novella Award, 2019 adhocfiction.com/2018/09/20-sec…

This is part of my daily walk!

The false narrative of burnout and one reason I completely changed my life. I quit my tenured professorship and moved to the other side of the continent.

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I just published Moments of Thought: False Narratives of Stress and Burnout While Hiking Allegheny State Park link.medium.com/XduYV8OkXob

Hiking in Long Point State Park this morning thinking about Paul Klee. This is a pretty good place to be.

Nothing I love more than wandering around the forest on a snowy morning just after dawn! Allegheny State Park is wonderful for silent trudging.

I'm a New Yorker now!

It is our incredible honor:
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Now that I'm finished with Culturama for the year, I don't know what to do with my weekends. As a teenager, I took up juggling to impress girls. Maybe I'll get back into that.

“Shadow Brother,” a work of fiction by John Brantingham, was featured in the Fall 2021 issue of TWR. You can read his piece here: bit.ly/3cP3ily

Interviewed Rich Soos from Cholla Needles Press!

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