M. Forajter
@saint-remus.bsky.social
Tarpaulin Sky / Interrogating the Eye (Schism Press, 2022) / chaps @ dancing girl / mforajter.com The act of being seen becomes one of self-torture.
Save the date! Words // Friends is back on 5-26-26 at 7pm cst/ 8pm est! Lineup & free tickets coming soon 💥
I often think about that old norse story where the hero eats the dragon’s heart and suddenly he can understand bird song. (The birds all tell him his friend is going to kill him.)
went through the proof this afternoon and it's a beaut asterismbooks.com/product/john...
Piżama Press@pizamapress.bsky.social · 5mo agoAfter reading it one final *final* *FINAL* time, John's Table by Lesle Lewis is officially going to the printers!
first announcement! chicago darlings, come join me & my dear pal @makecommon.bsky.social for readings from/chat about our latest, next month at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social : pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/50470
Jay Besemer and Joe Hall | Pilsen Community Books
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New from Action Books! Leia Penina Wilson's Call the Necromancer! "What is necromancy if not a refusal of order? Wilson’s ecstatic narrator is narrative’s transcendent rejector"-@niina.bsky.social "written at a blistering pitch in the key of Cassandra"-Lara Glenum actionbooks.org/leia-penina-...
Leia Penina Wilson, call the necromancer • Action Books
call the necromancer By Leia Penina Wilson ISBN: 978-0-900575-28-0 | 172 pages | Price: $20 | Release Date: 4/1/2026 “it seeped into my blood too that shade of green killer!” Incantation or hex? Curat...
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if you ever have problems at a hospital, mention "legal counsel", "negligence" and "never event"
"Incantation or hex? Curative or curse? Buzzing, clomping, and crying out solilo-quies, Leia Penina Wilson’s call the necromancer performs boldly on the page. Be medusa’d, be transmogrified" New from Action Books today: Call the Necromancer by Leia Penina Wilson: actionbooks.org/leia-penina-...
Leia Penina Wilson, call the necromancer • Action Books
call the necromancer By Leia Penina Wilson ISBN: 978-0-900575-28-0 | 172 pages | Price: $20 | Release Date: 4/1/2026 “it seeped into my blood too that shade of green killer!” Incantation or hex? Curat...
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im glad i fell asleep before i could weepy depressed post abt being a failure poet at 1 am lol
New books from Action Books coming this spring! Two Poems by Jaime Saenz (trans Schluter/Dodson) and Call the Necromancer by Leia Penina Wilson. The Saenz includes the long poems The Cold and Death at the Very Touch. Both visionary masterpieces.
Friends! Welcome our December guest editor - MATTHEW KINLIN!!! @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Matt’s theme for the month will be/// __My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico Sendyourmagicxx burninghousepress.com/2025/12/01/d...
DECEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is MATTHEW KINLIN!!! Theme: My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico
Burning House Press are excited to welcome Matthew Kinlin as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today Matt will take over editorship of Burning House Pr…
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we had suspected from earlier test results but confirmed today my mom has stage 4 cancer. happy thanksgiving, everyone can go fuck off.
got my author copies of a chapbook i’ve long wanted to see into the world, but which hadn’t gotten there till earlier this fall. very limited edition (35 copies) letterpress cover, by z-axial press, available for free (until they run out) at the free stuff reading series (“& nowhere online”).
"fervent and propulsive. devastating and sublime." - Christine Shan Shan Hou on Summer in Goodreads (lol I'm the last person in the world to discover Goodreads) www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...
Summer
... inside language treacherous lilac / language syrene…
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I keep wanting to take a photo of myself and the book with fake blood everywhere but keep putting it off. As such I forgot to note that this episode is out. It eased a ton of my anxieties about talking about work like this. John is a legend.
Inside the Castle@incastellated.bsky.social · 11mo agoI got to talk with everyone's favorite independent literature podcaster again, now almost a year out from the release of MASSIVE, we talked about Joe's insights and the general response to the book. www.noisemakerjoe.com/wtr/2025/11/...
I got to talk with everyone's favorite independent literature podcaster again, now almost a year out from the release of MASSIVE, we talked about Joe's insights and the general response to the book. www.noisemakerjoe.com/wtr/2025/11/...
I'm learning that I'm a Very Elderly Millennial, emphasis on elderly, as in *take me back to the home, i'm going to miss matlock*
A floating skull wafts by your feed, drawn by me in carbon dust technique at the Gordon Museum
In the new episode of Writing The Rapids @divinetailor.bsky.social and I talk exclusively about Horses. Not really, but wouldn’t it be funny if we did?
What's the Deal with the Horses with Jay Besemer
YouTube video by Joe Bielecki
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actually we don’t talk about horses at all. well, maybe a little. little horses. very small.
Joe bielecki@noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 11mo agoIn the new episode of Writing The Rapids @divinetailor.bsky.social and I talk exclusively about Horses. Not really, but wouldn’t it be funny if we did?