Jeremy Michael Reed

A part of the text linked to in this post: an image of handwritten text on cut out paper on a wooden desk with scissors and white paper both partially visible in the frame of the picture.

“The punctum is the camera - really an iPhone - and me, as I am now. Though my voice punctures the past at times.”

Read the full visual essay “Progue” by Lindsey D. Alexander in our first issue here: swiftslitmag.com/lindsey-d-al...

The Complete Stories of Ingeborg Bachmann Complete Stories spans three decades of work from one of the most important German-language writers of the last century. Each of these short stories, beautifully translated by Philip Boehm and Tess Le...

“For the first time in English, all the short fiction that Ingeborg Bachmann wrote in her lifetime in a single volume. Available Sep 29, 2026” (!!!) @ndbooks.bsky.social 🔥🔥🙌 www.ndbooks.com/book/the-com...

Thrilled and honored to be included. Thank you Phillip and @thefiddlehead@gmail.com.

welcome to a/q hq introducing accumulate/quiet & s w i f t s: a literary magazine

If you haven’t signed up for it already, check out the first edition of our newsletter! You can read what we’re about, see a note from our editor @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social, & learn about our first project @swiftslitmag.bsky.social here:

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So delighted to have work in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social alongside poets I admire.

Screenshot of a white page with black text and a drawing of a swift (bird) at the top. Text reads: two poems by Molly Akin / I had a scan: “I had a scan / of something / lurking // in and around / my coiled masses // so neatly folded/ and unfolded”

The first writer in our first issue is the phenomenal @mollyakin.bsky.social!

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Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter (Bulgaria)

Book cover reveal for There Is News Along The Ohio River: a fog encased Big Four Bridge, that crosses the Ohio River between Louisville, KY and Jeffersonville, IN.

COVER REVEAL & PREORDERS ARE OPEN! I’m thrilled to share to the cover for my forthcoming hybrid/micro CNF collection from @riverriverbooks! Thank you to @han.vanderhart & @amorakhuey for believing in my odd, sad bird & my eternal gratitude to brilliant designer, @albyfischer for this gorgeousness!

February 2026 a great poem, announcements, & a prompt

My newsletter’s back up & running after a little break! This month features a fantastic @susanpoet.bsky.social poem, the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social, a video poem, & more.

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Thrilled to have two pieces in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social!

Thank you, @djvorreyer.bsky.social! Your description gets right at what I was hoping for the space to be. Thanks for trusting me with your writing!

Honored to be in this first issue with so many writers I admire. Please check out the issue - it's small and beautiful and a perfect one-sit read. Thanks to @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social for his hard work in curating a new space for writers.

Thanks for sending along your great work and trusting us with it, @jackbedell.bsky.social !

Really grateful to have a poem in the debut issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social ! Big thanks to @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social for including me! 👇🏻

Cannot be more excited for Issue One to be out for everyone to read! Incredible, incredible work here from @mollyakin.bsky.social @jackbedell.bsky.social @amorak.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social & more!

“Psalm for the Slightly Tilted” “This is not / a good year. / But it has / witnesses.”

Spending time with this new poem by @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social in @newyorker.com this morning

The cover of the book of poems Mouth, by Amorak Huey. Cover depicts a red-lipsticked mouth open in water.

Praise for Mouth The voice of Mouth is confident in its moves, sometimes breath-stopping in its leaps, by turns despairing and lusty, deeply funny, and-always— restoratively human. -Sandra Beasley, author of Made to Explode: Poems Amorak Huey's Mouth is an exploration-sometimes gentle, sometimes raucous-of one of the fundamental forces of nature: desire.... If we must crave and end, and if we must do it in this particular moment of human and geologic time-and, of course, we must-how lucky we are to have Mouth as our companion. -Molly Spencer, author of Invitatory If it is possible to make a guitar amp for the soul, to hear what moon, river, barn, and paramour all desire of each other, Amorak Huey has done it in Mouth. Each line is electric, illuminating poems that extend their metaphors, believing to endure in language is to make love endure. —Steven Leyva, Author of The Opposite of Cruelty

Mouth comes out this week.

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Did you know the incredible @riverriverbooks.bsky.social has all their spring poetry titles up for preorder? If not, or if you haven't read all their past books yet, here's where to go. I can't recommend their books highly enough!

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A photo of teenage Claudette Colvin in glasses and a sweater.

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

One of my great joys this year has been launching Tiny Cat Press (tinycatpress.com), which will focus on handmade, limited-edition chaps. I'm already itching to find the next tiny book to make! (But I just started a semester, so maybe that's a bad idea right this minute.)

Just realizing 2026 for @ndbooks.bsky.social includes another of their Pessoa series (!!), a new Kamau Brathwaite (!!!) and a repub of all three parts of The Arrivants (!!!!) - I need to start saving now

2025 LONGLIST BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE Bodies Found in Various Places, by Elvira Hernández, translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky and Alec Schumacher (Cardboard House) (Poetry) Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (New Directions) (Nonfiction) Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece, by Nasser Rabah, translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal and Khaled Al-Hilli (City Lights) (Poetry) Heart Lamp, by Banu Mushtaq, translated from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi (And Other Stories) (Fiction) Near Distance, by Hanna Stoltenberg, translated from the Norwegian by Wendy H. Gabrielsen (Biblioasis) (Fiction) Sad Tiger, by Neige Sinno, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer (Seven Stories) (Nonfiction)

2025 LONGLIST BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE The Frog in the Throat, by Markus Werner, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, (NYRB) (Fiction) The Ruins, by Ye Hui, translated from the Chinese by Dong Li (Deep Vellum) (Poetry) The Wax Child, by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken (New Directions) (Fiction) Ugliness, by Moshtari Hilal, translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer (New Vessel Press) (Nonfiction) We Do Not Part, by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hogarth) (Fiction) Wickerwork, by Christian Lehnert, translated from the German by Richard Sieburth (Archipelago) (Poetry)

2025 BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE LONGLIST COMMITTEE Tobias Carroll Mandana Chaffa Isabella Corletto Adam Dalva Frances Evangelista Rebecca Hussey Andrea Lingenfelter Idra Novey Mira Rosenthal Defne Saricetin Alina Stefanescu Hannah Weber Liz Wood

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

national book critics circle 2025 LONGLIST POETRY After You Were, I Am, by Camille Ralphs (McSweeney's) Chronicle of Drifting, by Yuki Tanaka (Copper Canyon) Death of the First Idea, by Rickey Laurentiis (Knopf) Into the Hush, by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon) Night Watch, by Kevin Young (Knopf) The Other Love, by Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Salvage, by Hedgie Choi (University of Wisconsin) small lives, by Gary Jackson (University of New Mexico) Stay Dead, by Natalie Shapero (Copper Canyon) Unravel, by Tolu Oloruntoba (McClelland & Stewart)

national book critics circle 2025 LONGLIST POETRY After You Were, I Am, by Camille Ralphs (McSweeney's) Chronicle of Drifting, by Yuki Tanaka (Copper Canyon) Death of the First Idea, by Rickey Laurentiis (Knopf) Into the Hush, by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon) Night Watch, by Kevin Young (Knopf) The Other Love, by Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Salvage, by Hedgie Choi (University of Wisconsin) small lives, by Gary Jackson (University of New Mexico) Stay Dead, by Natalie Shapero (Copper Canyon) Unravel, by Tolu Oloruntoba (McClelland & Stewart)

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Poetry

national book critics circle 2025 LONGLIST AUTOBIOGRAPHY Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday) The Broken King, by Michael Thomas (Grove) I'II Tell You When I'm Home, by Hala Alyan (Avid Reader Press) Memorial Days, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) Mother Mary Comes to Me, by Arundhati Roy (Scribner) Paper Girl, by Beth Macy (Penguin) Shattered, by Hanif Kureishi (Ecco) Things in Nature Merely Grow, by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) A Truce That Is Not Peace, by Miriam Toews (Bloomsbury) Twice Born: Finding My Father In the Margins of Biography, by Hester Kaplan (Catapult)

national book critics circle 2025 LONGLIST AUTOBIOGRAPHY Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday) The Broken King, by Michael Thomas (Grove) I'II Tell You When I'm Home, by Hala Alyan (Avid Reader Press) Memorial Days, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) Mother Mary Comes to Me, by Arundhati Roy (Scribner) Paper Girl, by Beth Macy (Penguin) Shattered, by Hanif Kureishi (Ecco) Things in Nature Merely Grow, by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) A Truce That Is Not Peace, by Miriam Toews (Bloomsbury) Twice Born: Finding My Father In the Margins of Biography, by Hester Kaplan (Catapult)

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Autobiography

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Criticism

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction

Fiction Submissions OPEN Indigenous Authors

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My job remains designing situations within which it is both desirable and possible to become more human, more capable of thinking and asking questions, more capable of being alive with others, on earth

So excited to hear today that I'll have some work in the first issue!!

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