"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take
Amorak Huey
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Loyola grad’s dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Proud union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. Auburn fan. Dodgers fan. I like board games & ttrpg. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
oh shit @robertjbennett.bsky.social's A TRADE OF BLOOD comes out TOMORROW & GUYS! GUYS! HE DID IT AGAIN! Ana & Din are back in a story chock full of WEIRD MUSHROOMS and BLOOD-SOAKED ABATTOIRS and FAMILY REUNIONS & goddamn if I didn't love this just as much as the first two in the series
A Trade of Blood
Detective Ana Dolabra must prove a condemned man’s innocence and confront a terrifying magical technology in this fantasy-mystery from the bestselling author of The Tainted Cup, winner of the Hugo and...
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Paz Pardo@pazsays.bsky.social · last yr.@stephenblackmoore.com's The Enshillening has inspired me start a sporadic PREORDER PARTY, in which I tell you what parts of my obsessive netgalley-reading-to-stave-of-the-existential-despair-of-the-end-of-the-world you absolutely do NOT want to miss
GOOD MORNING! ☀️ Cover reveal for Martha Zweig’s Snails of the Apocalypse, design by Alban Fischer, which you can PREORDER TODAY! 📚💙🎉 riverriverbooks.org/store/Snails...
My heart hurts too much to even say something ironic about this. What if we just fucking start fighting for every single precious human life before they’re under attack. What if we treat now like it matters as much as it does.
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3d agoan immigration lawyer working on some of these Haitian cases today says an ICE officer told them, re: the ankle monitors: “We’re following our orders.” Direct quote Hm
Very sad to have learned that Nance Van Winckel passed away late last month. Nance was among the most supportive and attentive poets I have ever had the joy to learn from. She was so present in her poems. I will miss her here and keep looking for her there. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Been About
Says he’s sure I’d been swallowed by the elements, says he’d been about to come looking.
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Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.
There is a certain level of obtuseness in (some) "AI" apologists when they flounce up to point out what "AI" is good for in science, etc, while eliding the fact that almost none of that use is driving the current market capitalization, environmental degradation and resource hogging of the field
A nice list of journals, and for once, we're listed at the top! Congrats to all, and print this up to submit your best!!! Insider tip- read their latest issue first. BRAVO!
excited to be in @havehashad.com again with a tiny micro about a bar for ghosts. grateful to @aaronburch.bsky.social + any of you who read it 💀 🍻 👻 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/whe...
“What are you reading. Some instructions to leaping beyond the time that we live in…” Dionne Brand
I think this is the best poem I've ever written in the latest issue of Notre Dame Review
Only small press publishers take the time to add personal notes and swag to customer orders. 💙 Loving these two from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
I’m so sick of the both sides-ing. AI is creating monumental existential problems for book publishing but okay cool it makes metadata easier. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
AI May Be Making Publishing Easier, But It’s Still Not Easy
At an online summit cohosted by industry platform Publishing Signal, participants agreed that AI is accelerating the pace of production and lowering some costs, but core questions about curation, audi...
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"... An ocean isn’t really water until you take it / into your hands. Her breathing kiss me right now in the hot, melting dark, / and I could only stare unmoving at her moon-white teeth. Turning / my heart into seafoam. I’m sorry. I don’t know how else to love." readwildness.com/41/jin-ocean
What I Learned About the Ocean, by Fiona Jin | wildnesswildness
Wildness is an online literary and arts journal.
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in case anybody needed a primer in how to write a press release that clearly states its position
Legendgerry@gerald-t-mc-evoy.bsky.social · 6d agoOh wow. FIFA is done. www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
Feels like I’m doing something right as a poetry teacher when a past student is texting me because the moon is amazing tonight.
We appreciate our readers so much, and we love to see Perugia books making their way into readers’ hands. Here is a post featuring Corrie Williamson’s SWEET HUSK, from our steadfast supportive reader Burgi Zenhaeusern. Many thanks to @burgi.bsky.social for sharing love for this collection. 📚💞📖
#SummerReading recommendation: PASTORAL, 1994 by Joe Wilkins, a finalist for the 2026 #FirecrackerAward in Poetry! @riverriverbooks.bsky.social riverriverbooks.org/store/Pastor...
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New interview up over @south85journal.bsky.social thanks to the lovely Renee Kalagayan for the lovely conversation about my latest, There Is News Along The Ohio River out now from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social www.south85journal.com/2026/
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you can tell my writing’s not AI bc—and just hear me out on this—I’m obviously not the kind of loser who would use AI
Get your fresh interview with Beth Gilstrap at South 85 Journal right here! www.south85journal.com/2026/ Many thanks to Renee Kalagayan! 📚💙
![Q. How did you see these possibilities Lof hybrid work] at play in your book?
A. I think hybrid work is a fun place to experiment and play and innovate. At the same time, I think hybrid work is also an exceptional place to work on extremely difficult material, particularly in terms of trauma.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sczn3f6ljcfwpxryk6cmenbr/bafkreifdefjiu4wag6jczk2bqjzuna44v6srphbq65zyguqtilnlghm3oa)
I'm not letting AI horseshit maneuver me into a defensive position with my writing. I write like I write. I love emdashes. I keep using emdashes. Whatever we write, AI will take and copy it -- all you can do is keep writing the best shit you can write in the form you want it to take, and fuck it.
Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...
I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.
Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...