Benjamin Landry
@1benjaminlandry.bsky.social
MERCIES IN THE AMERICAN DESERT (@lsupress), BURN LYRICS (Spuyten Duyvil Press) & PARTICLE AND WAVE (@uchicagopress). Host of VerseCurious. https://benjaminlandrypoet.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/versecurious/id162591656
✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 44: Theo LeGro’s DON'T LET IT KILL YOU, from Persea Books. "LeGro turns the poem into a reliquary or sacred cache." Listen/subscribe/rate/share! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v... redcircle.com/shows/c74b01...
Episode 44: Theo LeGro's DON'T LET IT KILL YOU
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · September 13 · 8m
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Amazing textile sculpture by Olga de Amaral (Colombia) at the ICA.
I thought he was strictly a telegraph man. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Mitch McConnell’s Colleagues Say He's Alive, Talking On The Phone
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One thing #TheBoroughs 💯 got right from the start: A vampire-spider terrorizing and systematically draining a community of residents is the perfect embodiment of private equity assisted living.
Did you hear? Republican majority just exploded off the coast of #Boston.
I saw #AlvinAiley #dance on May 2, 2026, including some new choreography. Here are some thoughts, in the form of a #review.
Dance Review: Old, New, Borrowed, Blue / Alvin Ailey at the Wang Theatre
May 2, 2026 There’s a moment early on when one braced dancer places their hand on the sternum of another dancer who has been moving furiously and is now, momentarily, paused in their exertion…
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✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 43: Serena Chopra’s A CATALOG OF FUTURE MERCIES, from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. "Surreal, enigmatic moments war with the confessional pain in a way that seems to make the suffering briefly livable." Listen/subscribe/rate/share!
Episode 43: Serena Chopra's A CATALOG OF FUTURE MERCIES
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · May 7 · 10m
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Now *that's* fucking up with precision! www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/f...
U.S. military shoots down government drone in Texas accident, Reuters sources say
The U.S. military shot down a government drone with a laser-based anti-drone system, causing the FAA to bar flights near Fort Hancock, Texas, sources told Reuters.
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Trust me, this is better news than that other thing that happened yesterday (@milkweededitions.bsky.social). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
Episode 42: Anna Nygren's BLUSH/RIVER/FOX
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · February 22 · 10m
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Snowed in? Have a listen!
VerseCurious@versecurious.bsky.social · 7mo ago✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 42: Anna Nygren’s BLUSH/RIVER/FOX, from @milkweededitions.bsky.social. "[BLUSH/RIVER/FOX] is deeply personal and yet also high-wire daredevilry and in this strange combination, profoundly moving." Listen/subscribe/rate/share!
I loved this blistering demolition of JP Morgan’s architectural hubris: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
An eco obscenity: Norman Foster’s steroidal new skyscraper is an affront to the New York skyline
It contains enough steel to go round the world twice – and even has a fake breeze to flutter the stars-and-stripes flag in its lobby. If this colossus is just the first of a new breed of bulky superta...
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A special weekend update:
VerseCurious@versecurious.bsky.social · 11mo ago✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 39: Ally Ang's LET THE MOON WOBBLE (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social). "As much as Ally Ang's LET THE MOON WOBBLE serves as a testament to survival, it is also buzzing with erotic energy." Listen/subscribe/rate/share!
✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 39: Ally Ang's LET THE MOON WOBBLE (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social). "As much as Ally Ang's LET THE MOON WOBBLE serves as a testament to survival, it is also buzzing with erotic energy." Listen/subscribe/rate/share!
Episode 39: Ally Ang's LET THE MOON WOBBLE
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 11/15/2025 · 8m
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(1/2) #OneBattleAfterAnother is really quite good, but be forewarned, it isn’t nearly as humorous as suggested in the trailers I saw in the months leading up to its release. The script is eerily timely. I wish PTA had spent a bit more time exploring the righteousness of the resistance’s cause
Check out the most recent episode of @versecurious.bsky.social reviewing Wrecks by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social! Link to the full episode in our story Wrecks will be released on October 15th!
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VerseCurious@versecurious.bsky.social · 12mo ago✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 38: Erin L. McCoy's WRECKS (@noemipress.bsky.social). "I appreciated [McCoy's] skillful weaving of textures and materials in a book that comes to resemble less the chaos of the wreck than the natural artistry and ingenuity of a nest." Listen/subscribe/rate/share!
Intriguing autumn harvest of ARCs to consider for VerseCurious. Thanks to @akashicbooks.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social and @tinhouse.bsky.social/ @zandoprojects.bsky.social for sending!
📚🚨VerseCurious is back from summer hiatus with Episode 37: Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE (@fordhampress.bsky.social). "Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE holds us, briefly, back from the fray, provides the curative caesura." Listen/enjoy/rate/share/subscribe!
Episode 37: Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE
Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 09/09/2025 · 11m
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VerseCurious returns shortly from its customary summer holiday with new #poetry reviews of work by #LGBTQIA+, #BIPOC, #women and debut authors. Up next: a collection published by @fordhampress.bsky.social. Watch this space!
Gourmet Emergency!🚨 Folks, where are the pine nuts? I cannot find them in our local grocery stores. Has anyone else noticed their absence? Is this a result of Trump tariffs on European goods? Agricultural crisis? Any insights appreciated.
I can't believe there are multiple media outlets actually asking Bill Cosby to eulogize #MalcolmJamalWarner. Seriously, ask Phylicia Rashad or any of the other dozens of Cosby Show veterans who WEREN'T drugging/raping victims at the time, to talk about MJM. Why rehabilitate a sex offender?
He is now and forevermore Pube-Doodler-In-Chief.
Yes, I'm late to the party, but having just finished watching the series, I must share that SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE is a great show. You know characters like these in your very life, and it is unfortunate that certain TV execs cut the work short before some character arcs had the chance to develop.