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07.03.2026 01:51
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Using my chin stubble to scratch my hand
so damn proud of these first three books from my new press
@pizamapress.bsky.social
I hope we see you I have books for you!
over “Pandora’s Box,” no less
Marker graffiti over a mall directory sign that reads “I love my family” with a drawn heart next to it.
sweet graffiti
love this, Tom! Grackles are my fave with their oil-dipped heads & modem-tone calls!
Grackle I am a poet at the height of my powers says the light purple sponge covered in little mozzarella shreds on its arc into the garbage I am an emerging poet says the woodpecker frightened by the glinting CDs on their strings too afraid to breach the treeline I am a prize-winning poet says the unfried catfish closing its primeval jaw irrevocably around the bright orange bait I am a poet says the common grackle accusing, lamenting
honored & grateful to be back in Be About It today with 2 more bird poems :) here’s one~
Any other #AWP -ers have “Good Morning Baltimore” from Hairspray stuck in their head?
See all you cool people tonight! 💜
Editor in Chief Maureen Langloss with Whitney Birenbaum, executive director of CHARM. They're standing at a booth covered in books.
Fiction Editor Anne Rasmussen sits with member of CHARM at a booth promoting CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth.
Group shot of listeners.
Photo of audience listening to readers.
Wow wow wow. Thank you to everyone who came to our reading with CHARM! It was such a privilege hearing such wonderful readers!! 🙌 More photos to come. 😁
📸 @wendyoleson.bsky.social
+ @saltpeterdraws.bsky.social
Adrian smoking a joint and squinting in a hat with a horse like mane
bought the absolute stupidest hat
Split Lip fam poses by their AWP booth.
More fun at the Bookfair! ✨ @adrianf.bsky.social @erinvachon.bsky.social @annablabs.bsky.social
a mirrored pedestal with a green FART button over it.
The American Visionary Arts Museum has a very moving fart exhibit
interesting etymology: “review” was first coined in 1998 and it came from “viewing” a computer screen.
2 books went into another printing on Day 1 of AWP! Congrats to Hannah Grieco for seeing First Kicking, Then Not reach an unprecedented 5th & become the best selling book in Stanchion's history! & three cheers for @FBereaud! His novel A Question of Family went to 2nd just a month after publication.
I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand
“There is no Silence in the Earth”
so glad to have seen you!
Please don’t make me take things back to Albany! I’ll probably give away copies of Dreams & Letters to be honest…
Perfect @splitlipthemag.bsky.social reading! Loved meeting “the fam” in person and getting to experience the awesomeness of the readers!
Adrian in a green sweater stands next to Michael in a red and black plaid jacket. The baltimore harbor at dusk in the background
Harborside w/ @saltpeterdraws.bsky.social
If you're going to the Book Fair, stop by CutBank Books table and pick up my latest collection, Tricks. But be forewarned: it is raunchy, crude, and perhaps even indecent. In other words, makes a great gift.
Variant Lit open for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, and speculative.
Submissions are open for our summer issue!
variantlit.submittable.com/submit
The lighting at the #AWP bookfair is meant to imitate the dim solitude of the writers’ life
No one goes DZ at Discovery Zone anymore 😥
"Everyone in aisle seven knows the cans are mine. I stack faster than anyone. I’ve got a system."
There's still time to catch SHELF LIFE by Rowan Tate from our FEBRUARY ISSUE before it hits the archive!
"Where else, we ask, to put the feelings, pending revolution? A scary movie shrinks the world’s horrors down into, not manageable exactly, but bounded, feelable parcels. In a landscape dense with quiescent cultural products, horror is anti-anesthetic."
Find me tomorrow at AWP! I’m off to a museum now but I really don’t want to take copies of my book or chapbook home so please find me if you’d like a copy!
