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Two terrific new poems from Page! Take a look at the new "On the Seawall." Page Ron Slate “Phantom State” & “About the Pen” ronslate.com/phantom-state-… via On The Seawall

"The compelling combination of familiarity & mystery stems from the varied ways Revell discovers to bring these concerns into continually awakening conversations with one another": on CANANDAIGUA by Donald Revell Alice James Books / On The Seawall ronslate.com

"By luring us into the severities of this character’s psyche, Zaher simply dispenses with our feel-good ethics, not because those ethics are bad but because they are weak." ⚡️ A particularly insightful review of The Coin by Ron Slate for On The Seawall ronslate.com/book-notes-fic…

"Disinterested in portraying a universal experience of obsessive compulsive disorder, EXPLODING HEAD is a rich depiction of a life experienced beyond & outside of diagnosis, entrenched in personal experience": Imogen Osborne on Cynthia Marie Hoffman's novel / ronslate.com

From Ron Slate's "Book Notes" column, also including comment on Yoko Tawada's PAUL CELAN & THE TRANS-TIBETAN ANGEL New Directions & Yazmin Zaher's novel THE COIN Catapult

It's here: our September/October edition. Come on in. ronslate.com

Lisa Spaar writes on Jessica Fisher's DAYWORK Milkweed Editions & Carl Phillips's SCATTERED SNOWS, TO THE NORTH Jason Farrar in our new edition / bit.ly/4giuLvx

In our new edition, Jessica Clarvoe reviews GRIEF'S ALPHABET, poems by Dr Carrie Etter Seren / bit.ly/3XCJZnO

In our new edition's "Book Notes, Fiction" column, Ron Slate reviews THE ANTHROPOLOGITS by Ayşegül Savaş Bloomsbury U.S. & OVERSTAYING by Ariane Koch Dorothy, a publishing project / bit.ly/3MFwkWz

"Memoir, fiction, criticism, political punditry, a pinch of travelogue: Flanagan sees a mashup of genres as the form perfectly tailored to our mashed-up era": Hamilton Cain on Richard Flanagan's QUESTION 7 Alfred A. Knopf / bit.ly/3MCR0ia

Today, in the new On The Seawall, my review of a wonderfully complex short novel Mothersland by Shahzoda Samarqandi, in translation to English by Shelley Fairweather-Vega, who worked from the Russian translation by Yultan Sadykova who translated from Persian original. 1/3

It’s like wandering into a literary festival when a new issue of On The Seawall drops. 🩷 Thanks to Ron Slate for including two of my Ekphrastic poems. 🙏 #poems #art #kusama

Peter Carey says that Richard Flanagan's "Question 7" "may just be the most significant work of Australian art in the past hundred years." It messed me up, real good. Here's my review for On The Seawall , with thanks to the estimable Ron Slate .

Check out my latest review-essay on @RaeA100900Rae's new collection, #GoFigure, from @WeslPress, curated at @On_the_Seawall: A Community Gallery of New Writing & Commentary ronslate.com/on-go-figure-p…

Thrilled and grateful to have a poem in this edition!

"...rich w/allusions to climate crisis, artificial intelligence, and other dangers. Such themes pair well with Rae Armantrout’s iconic version of Language poetry & her interest in quantum physics": P. Aiden Hunt on Rae Armantrout's GO FIGURE weslpress / bit.ly/4giGz0N

"Humanity thrives, Powers means to say, when we can write a story that’s optimistic. And if we allow technology to help write the story as if plugging society into ChatGPT, won’t we wind up in a better place, maybe?": Mark Athitakis on PLAYGROUND W. W. Norton & Company bit.ly/47kBnW9

"She has given us a model of expression, inquiry & attitude to begin to resist the normalization of our lonely disconnection from what has left and what is leaving.": Ron Slate on THE AGE OF LONELINESS by Laura Marris Graywolf Press bit.ly/4gmZasp

"When violence occurs and people are killed, injured and distressed, what do we want or expect to see? What does the 'high tolerance for black death' say about our media?": Ron Slate on MORTEVIVUM by Kimberly Juanita Brown The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4gmZasp

"Allen seeks to calibrate an audience attuned to irony & misinformation, a correction necessary before saying anything in earnest, resistsing the eurocentric demand to explain Oneida culture": Asa Drake on CLOUD MISSIVES by Kenzie Allen Kenzie Allen 🌵 Tin House bit.ly/3ZnLfMK