It’s official: @abdulelsayed.bsky.social wins the Democratic Primary for Senate! The People Prevail Over Corporate Profits Once Again!
Caleb Curtiss
@cdcurtiss.bsky.social
Parent, teacher, writer, notably slow learner. books: Age of Forgiveness (Sundress), A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us (Black Lawrence). I live in a special economic zone called Delaware.
You can only worry about your audience so much because if you truly cared about reaching the masses you would have chosen something other than writing a novel.
Editor badges ready for our 20th (!!!) @barrelhouse.bsky.social Writer Camp. See you good weirdos soon, @aaronburch.bsky.social, @livesinpages.bsky.social, @mikeingram.bsky.social, @danbrady82.bsky.social, @embfitz.bsky.social, @beckybarnard.bsky.social, @cdcurtiss.bsky.social.
Congrats to Issue 7's @adamg.bsky.social whose poem "Consumption" is on Poetry Daily today! tinyurl.com/ajp6bbb2
Consumption
I have swallowed rot as rank as riverbeds, gnawed mold- pitted pride until it reached its dim-lit dwelling
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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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Just read an absolute triumph of a friend’s poetry manuscript. Outlandishly good. God, I love poems and (several of) the poets who write them.
New work out today in @thedodgemag.bsky.social; it is about, among other things, Shrimp Jesus thedodgemag.com/summer-2026-...
It’s an incredible honor to see this poem, originally published by @roxanegay.bsky.social in @therumpus.net, featured in today’s episode of The Slowdown. I am beyond grateful. therumpus.net/2026/05/13/f...
Four Poems - The Rumpus
Kwikset That lock we kept on our doorwasn't so much of a lock as a nonbinding contract I keptwith an outside world only vaguely complicitin our agreement—
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The Slowdown@slowdownshow.org · last mo."I’m awarding bonus points for a clever nod to Prufrock in a poem about a sexy selfie," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1549. Read "Thirst Trap" by @cdcurtiss.bsky.social, originally published in The Rumpus: bit.ly/4arVm87
"I’m awarding bonus points for a clever nod to Prufrock in a poem about a sexy selfie," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1549. Read "Thirst Trap" by @cdcurtiss.bsky.social, originally published in The Rumpus: bit.ly/4arVm87
It’s an incredible honor to see this poem, originally published by @roxanegay.bsky.social in @therumpus.net, featured in today’s episode of The Slowdown. I am beyond grateful. therumpus.net/2026/05/13/f...
Four Poems - The Rumpus
Kwikset That lock we kept on our doorwasn't so much of a lock as a nonbinding contract I keptwith an outside world only vaguely complicitin our agreement—
therumpus.net
The Slowdown@slowdownshow.org · last mo."I’m awarding bonus points for a clever nod to Prufrock in a poem about a sexy selfie," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1549. Read "Thirst Trap" by @cdcurtiss.bsky.social, originally published in The Rumpus: bit.ly/4arVm87
"I'd seen it and wondered several things, including: what kind of baby would stick its head into a bucket? And what became of him, anyway?" // "Bucket Baby" + 4 more by the inimitable Caleb Curtiss (@cdcurtiss.bsky.social) / new today at AC
CALEB CURTISS / 5 POEMS — always crashing
Bucket Baby The wedding had been over for a good long while, and so, it was just me and the wife standing there talking about how nice some parts were and how we might’ve done other...
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This isn’t exactly the question asked but it made me think of Salter: "There's wide agreement that writing is difficult even for very good writers. Sometimes it's more difficult, sometimes less. In climbing the difficulty defines the achievement. In writing it doesn't have anything to do with it."
Shona Kinsella@shonak.bsky.social · last mo.Writers! I’m curious - when you are writing, do you have a sense of how good or otherwise the work is? Can you tell if a particular book/story/poem is better or worse than any other piece you have produced?
Still open for Barrelhouse essay subs, keep em coming
Tom McAllister@tmcallister.bsky.social · 2mo agofull guidelines for Barrelhouse NF subs below. We'll be open till 6/28 or 500 subs, whichever comes first
We saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe
New poem in the inaugural issue of Waltz and honored to share space with so many incredible poets. waltzjournal.com/issue-one/
Has anyone made a gif of it yet? No, I don’t want to talk about it. I’m tired. I just want the gif.
PRIDE SALE! Two gay poetry books for $20, with free shipping. Sales will benefit gay shenanigan throughout June (e.g. buying more gay books for myself).
Just saw this tiktok of a linguist talking about Adler’s levels of reading and he said “recognition is not the same as recall” aka “knowing” and I realized all these AI evangelists constantly mistake recognition of AI generated content as their own knowing.
Thanks to NYHTC, the essential work of housekeepers — so often ignored or demeaned — pays enough in NYC to lead a life of dignity. That’s the power of a union. At this moment of staggering inequality, we need more of it.
N.Y.C. Hotel Housekeepers Will Earn Over $100,000 Under New Contract
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"Bless / the wound / for what it has changed, / how it heals into itself." From "Thirst Trap," one of four new poems by @cdcurtiss.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/TdXvzaS
I'm very grateful to @roxanegay.bsky.social for publishing these four new poems in the beautifully redesigned @therumpus.net! therumpus.net/2026/05/13/f...
Four Poems - The Rumpus
Kwikset That lock we kept on our doorwasn't so much of a lock as a nonbinding contract I keptwith an outside world only vaguely complicitin our agreement—
therumpus.net