BOMB’s Fall 2024 issue has arrived, featuring interviews with Garth Greenwell, Yuri Herrera, Dionne Brand, Noël Dolla, Char Jeré, Jennie C. Jones, and Rabih Mroué, along with Oral History excerpts by Carole Harris and Randy Williams. bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…

writing about sleep. i love dürer's pillows.

I was born in 1987, the year Gaza began to be reduced to a 'bad place' with the First Intifada; I grew up immersed in a hegemonic narrative that says Gaza’s safety is gone; they are many, we are few; they represent death, we represent life; It’s not occupation, it's protection👇

Matthew Rohrer

"Perhaps the literary community needs a lot more of the absurd, even in spades, and perhaps especially in relation to economics." Brandon North on class diversity in publishing clereviewofbooks.com/writing/money-…

Illegible Paul Celan (Tr. Felstiner) Illegible this world. Everything doubled.

“Maybe your parents have to be far enough away before everything returns as desire.” Lutz Seiler in Tess Lewis’ translation of this splendid novel that does what literature does best, without mercy for Chronos or national ego. Unforgettable.

And out of nowhere a girl receives an ovation - Fady Joudah

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Ambrogio Borghi, The Hair of Berenice, 1878

The myth they chose was the constant lovers. The theme was richness over time. - Robert Hass, from "Against Botticelli"

Its eyes. Not his. The angel seems ambivalent about gender.

Still, let us try a turn of the wheel— Clumsy, rasping, enormous— Dividing the ocean like a driven plough, We will remember when Lethe is frozen That life to us was worth ten heavens. - Osip Mandelstam, from Tristia (1918) t. by Styron & Carlisle

You could wring the sourness of the sumac from the air, the fescue sweetness from the grass, the slightly maniacal cicadas tuning up to tear the fabric of the silence into tatters, so that night, if it wants to, comes as a beggar to the door - Robert Hass, wringing it

The wallpaper really does extra labor in this fantastic scene.

Amazing news Yomi Ṣode 🇳🇬 Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉 & Yousif M Qasmiyeh taking over the reign of PBS selectors wishing them all the best and lots of reading that will nourish your poetry soul 🔥👏🏾👏🏾

Today online, a brief story from Addison Zeller , "Brief Remarks from Inside an Exquisite Piece of Eighteenth-Century Office Furniture" Read: sublunaryeditions.com/magazine/brief…

My second collection, Games for Children, won the National Poetry Series! Congrats to the other winners! It's a book I've been working on forever that contains poems as one usually imagines poems as well as weird visual poem I thought were unpublishable! We shall see! lol

As corrupt universities compete with one another to see who can take the strongest stance *against* students and professors for Gaza solidarity protests, hats off to 🍉 Dr. Thrasher still cares about Covid & Gaza🔻 for taking the principled stance, regardless of the consequences...Down with the whole system!💥