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The Zoom link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Please join us!

28.02.2026 16:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've been sharing this Adrienne Rich poem with a lot of folks as we move closer to the collapse of first amendment freedoms. Please read, understand, share. It is not an answer. It is, instead, the very question we must ask and keep asking.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51092/...

27.02.2026 06:11 👍 33 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 2
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26.02.2026 16:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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24.02.2026 18:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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 www.pathwaysmv.org -- scroll down to this poster & click on the Zoom prompt.

17.02.2026 01:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Coming Tuesday night 7:30pm ET -- Catherine Barnett will read for us at PathwaysArts & you can watch/listen via Zoom. The link will be available on Tuesday afternoon at www.pathwaysmv.org ...

01.02.2026 21:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fanny Quincy Howe: A Tribute — ARROWSMITH Featuring Andrea Cohen, Christina Davis, Carolyn Forché, Ezra Fox, James Fraser, Sheila Gallagher, Robert Hass, Kythe Heller, Brenda Hillman, Richard Kearney, Askold Melnyczuk, John Mulrooney, Eileen ...

Splendid tribute to Fanny Howe at Arrowsmith Journal via @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social -- beginning with a reading by Fanny -- www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/fann...

27.01.2026 18:20 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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grrrrrr ....

19.01.2026 14:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

There’s no other choice / when you get that close // to a vagina

16.01.2026 17:47 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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.bsky.social ...

17.01.2026 18:37 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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On the Wire above the Ruins | Yuliya Komska Funambulism in postwar Germany

Funambulism: "Attraction to perilous landscapes in times of upheaval ... promise us something eternal, something removed from the world’s vanities, immaterial and din-free": essay by @ykomska.bsky.social @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social bit.ly/4svdaqh

08.01.2026 17:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"This doubleness — lament braided with exuberance, suffering braided with awe — structures the emotional, formal & ethical terrain of the collection": Kimberly Grey on Gabrielle Calvocoressi's THE NEW ECONOMY @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4jxIbpq via On The Seawall

07.01.2026 17:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Here's "Commerce" by @simeonberry.bsky.social, his poem in the new edition of On The Seawall / www.ronslate.com/commerce/

07.01.2026 17:05 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2

Thanks for publishing my review of Maria Stepanova's new novel, The Disappearing Act, translated by Sasha Dugdale!

www.ronslate.com/on-the-disap...

06.01.2026 20:47 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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"His poems dug down into memory to find their source. More precisely, the excavation of memory -- both personal and cultural, and the continuity he sought in it -- IS his subject": Christian Detisch on THE POEMS OF SEAMUS HEANEY @fsgbooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/4aIxLB1

06.01.2026 19:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
on On Morrison by Namwali Serpell – On the Seawall

Do y'allselves a favor and preorder @namwalien.bsky.social's "On Morrison," a magisterial close reading of an American master in an age of lit-lite substacks. Out 2/24 from Hogarth. Here's my review for @ronslate.bsky.social's "On the Seawall": www.ronslate.com/on-on-morris...

06.01.2026 18:30 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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NEW: The January edition of ON THE SEAWALL, our first expanded quarterly. We invite you to stop by the "gallery" & have a look / ronslate.com

06.01.2026 17:23 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Tune in tomorrow night 7:30PM ET when Philip Metres reads from FUGITIVE/REFUGE. The zoom link will be available on Tues afternoon at pathwaysmv.org. If you're on Martha's Vineyard, we'll see you at the Chilmark Tavern where poetry & revelry often mean the same thing.

05.01.2026 19:51 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Pathways ARTS Pathways. . .Creating and catalyzing creative projects in the visual arts, writings, dance & collaborative forms. Keeping a Light On in Chilmark...

Tomorrow (Tues) night 7:30ET -- Hank Lazer reads from ABUNDANT LIFE, his new & selected poems. Zoom link available tomorrow afternoon at pathwaysmv.org

02.12.2025 01:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors,/I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd./My century— my poison, my century—my harm,/my century—my enemy, my century— hell": from 4 poems by Marina Tsvetaeva via On The Seawall bit.ly/48gdMaZ tr by Margaree Little

16.11.2025 19:46 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social and Jonathan Farmer for this interview about When the Earth Flies into the Sun! The book celebrated its first birthday last month!

09.11.2025 21:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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When We Only Have the Earth by Abdourahman A. Waberi Trans. Nancy Naomi Carlson. University of Nebraska Press. 2025. 80 pages.

NBCC member Tiffany Troy reviewed "When We Only Have the Earth," written by Abdourahman A. Waberi and translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson, for World Literature Today:

08.11.2025 22:00 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Friends, I'm happy and honored to have another poem in #OntheSeawall --thanks to editor @ronslate.bsky.social, www.ronslate.com/tacoma-narro...

"Tacoma Narrows" is from the new edition of my #chapbook, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems, to be released soon by #BlueLightPress.

08.11.2025 00:55 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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"I encounter a lot of overly long and under-edited books, many weighed down by prose poems. Some feel strident. These books sound like they began with a thesis, not a question": @derekmong.bsky.social in convo w/Jonathan Farmer via On The Seawall bit.ly/47vs87k

07.11.2025 19:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. It’s sneaky like that": @tobiascarroll.bsky.social on @delaneynolan.bsky.social 's novel HAPPY BAD via Astra House & On The Seawall
bit.ly/43fQHT7

07.11.2025 18:26 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Here's an invitation to take a trip through the new Nov/Dec edition of On The Seawall ... beginning with our feature on poems from STUDY OF SORROWS: TRANSLATIONS by
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com

04.11.2025 15:45 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors, / I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century — my poison, my century — my harm, / my century — my enemy, my century — hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall / bit.ly/4opoNN2

04.11.2025 15:59 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors, / I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century — my poison, my century — my harm, / my century — my enemy, my century — hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall / bit.ly/4opoNN2

04.11.2025 15:59 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I wrote a novel. Or rather, I imagined a novel. And then I imagined reading it....

...many thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for publishing the resulting poem at On the Seawall: www.ronslate.com/the-novel/

04.11.2025 15:33 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Here's an invitation to take a trip through the new Nov/Dec edition of On The Seawall ... beginning with our feature on poems from STUDY OF SORROWS: TRANSLATIONS by
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com

04.11.2025 15:45 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1