"I want John Darnielle to send me sixteen dollars. I don't know why, I just do. And I have a plot so fiendish to make him do it, check it out. I'm gonna do a facsimile edition of a 1957 magazine that ran a Robbe-Grillet piece. This fuckin guy, he won't even care what piece is it. 16 dollars please"

The Evergreen Review@evergreenreview.bsky.social · 4w ago

SUMMER READING IDEA: Order a perfect facsimile copy of the summer 1957 issue of the Evergreen Review, Vol. 1, No. 3! $16 (+ shipping), exclusively at the Evergreen Review online store: evergreenreview.com/shop

SUMMER READING IDEA: Order a perfect facsimile copy of the summer 1957 issue of the Evergreen Review, Vol. 1, No. 3! $16 (+ shipping), exclusively at the Evergreen Review online store: evergreenreview.com/shop

“On the plane ride from Miami to Tegucigalpa, Owen Mills thinks more about money than he thinks about his mother. Valerie has been out of his life too long to be more than an idea. She’s a concept, right?” —“Bad Blood” by Mark Jacobs. Art by Pablo Zelaya Sierra. evergreenreview.com/read/bad-blo...

Bad Blood

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“She’d married Desire because she was sure. He would provide the kind of life she never feared would split at the seams. . . .” Up now: “Reimagining What My Mother Would Have Done If She’d Had the (Eye)” by Zibusiso Mpofu. Art by Michalina Janoszanka. evergreenreview.com/reimagining-...

Reimagining What My Mother Would Have Done If She’d Had the (Eye)

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Read an excerpt of @livingjelly.bsky.social's GLORY HOLE in @evergreenreview.bsky.social: evergreenreview.com/read/glory-h...

Glory Hole

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“As we sit at this juncture of hospicing the old and dreaming the new into being, I think deeply about the literary legacies we live and love . . . .” —“Somehow We Survive: Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Soweto Uprising” by Uhuru Phalafala. evergreenreview.com/read/somehow...

Somehow We Survive: Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Soweto Uprising

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“Fifty years constitute more than a mere chronological milestone; they represent a half-century of a ‘telegraphed punch’ that landed on the jaw of an empire.” Up now: “The Rhythms of Resistance: The Soweto Uprising Fifty Years Later” by Maakomele R. Manaka. evergreenreview.com/read/the-rhy...

The Rhythms of Resistance: The Soweto Uprising Fifty Years Later

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“There’s an aspect to these shootings that nobody talks about, a sense that by not getting gorped we’ve accomplished something . . .” Up now at Evergreen: “Hide” and two more poems by Edward Johnson. Art by Maritza Ranero. evergreenreview.com/read/explode...

Exploded Portmanteaux and Wayward Palindromes and other poems

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“Marc Vincenz’s ‘No More Animal Poems’ is not so much a Cassandra cry in advance of impending ecological disaster as a paean to a prelapsarian world in which humans and animals intermix.” —“An Ode to Extinction” by Alexander Cigale. Art: @karsenheagle.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/an-ode-...

An Ode to Extinction: Marc Vincenz’s No More Animal Poems

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Read Alexander Cigale's astute review of Marc Vincenz's NO MORE ANIMAL POEMS (White Pine Press) in EVERGREEN REVIEW! evergreenreview.com/read/an-ode-... (Message me for a review copy, etc.) Cc: @evergreenreview.bsky.social

An Ode to Extinction: Marc Vincenz’s No More Animal Poems

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“Jean’s overzealousness about Christ was the driving factor of her life, and my tame Muslim family was the perfect prey for her, since she’d never managed to convert her husband.” Up now: “The Dark Duality of US-Iran Relations” by Mohammad Hakima. evergreenreview.com/read/the-dar...

The Dark Duality of US-Iran Relations

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“Tonight, I learn the umami of iron by pulling a man through it and the fence quakes in my grip of green. The wire croons along my stem. Rust powders like dry skin . . .” —“Chambēlī Bleeds Between Borders” and more poems by Hannan Khan. Art by Adam Francis Scott. evergreenreview.com/read/chambel...

Chambēlī Bleeds Between Borders and other poems

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“Africa never ceases to amaze. Tatum and his hosts find an adequate three-star restaurant even in this forest. The cuisine includes a number of dishes that delight the palate.” Up now: an excerpt from “The Terrible Fives,” by Ishmael Reed. Art by Devan Shimoyama. evergreenreview.com/read/the-ter...

The Terrible Fives

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“The egret straightens himself, looks to the right and then left, looks up at the chandelier over the dining-room table, flies up onto the Medusa-shaped lights, and perches along the stem of her braids.” —“Emergency Room” by Bram Gunther. Art by Tanya Marcuse. evergreenreview.com/read/emergen...

Emergency Room

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“In academia the use of the word ‘cult’ is controversial. The reason? ‘The cult wars.’ Which I’d never heard of until I sold ‘American Trickster’ to the University of California Press.” —“The Cult Wars” by @rumarshall.bsky.social. Art by Jean-Frédéric de Waldeck. evergreenreview.com/read/the-cul...

The Cult Wars

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“The morning’s events were embarrassing, and that was being nice about it. The eviction trucks came—loudly drove up their cul-de-sac at eight AM.” Up now: “Naked Elijah and the Twin Flames,” a new short story by Emelda Gwitimah. Art by Raffaele Mainella. evergreenreview.com/rea/naked-el...

Naked Elijah and the Twin Flames

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“Both left and right overstate her influence, flatten her philosophy, and use a particular image of Rand for their own advantage. But most egregiously, she is so rarely thought about as a novelist.” —@ciaramoloney.bsky.social on ‘The Fountainhead’ by Ayn Rand. evergreenreview.com/read/on-the-...

On The Fountainhead

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"Reading her most famous novel, The Fountainhead, I was constantly struck by the yawning gap between the Ayn Rand everyone talks about... and the contents of the book." my latest / longest gestating, a christian socialist defence of ayn rand (of all things) for @evergreenreview.bsky.social

On The Fountainhead

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was so happy when @evergreenreview.bsky.social finally put my Big Family has a Funeral ghost story into the world evergreenreview.com/read/dori-wh...

Dori (Who Walked Barefoot Over the Mountain)

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“I’m holding hands with a group of strangers in a circle, and we’re all jumping up and down screaming ‘I’m a piece of shit! I’m a stupid piece of shit! I’m a stupid fucking piece of shit!’ This is our first task in the world of clowning.” —“Clowning” by Jamie Kahn. evergreenreview.com/read/clowning/

Clowning

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Historic publication. Pleased to have my work included 🙏 !

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“As some men do, he opens with a question that’s really a wedge. ‘I saw your work in “--” a while back. Do you write protest poems?’ . . .” —“Fourteen-line note to self as we enter a darkling time” and more poems by Erin Redfern. Art by @sharonbutler.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/fourtee...

“The man’s underpants emerged above his trousers; a strip of waist, loose flesh with the complexion of sliced turkey, was exposed; and a shirt hem flowered from under a sweater.” —“St. Patrick Drives Out the Snakes” by Mark Martin. Art by Sir William Orpen. evergreenreview.com/read/st-patr...

St. Patrick Drives Out the Snakes

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“As some men do, he opens with a question that’s really a wedge. ‘I saw your work in “--” a while back. Do you write protest poems?’ . . .” —“Fourteen-line note to self as we enter a darkling time” and more poems by Erin Redfern. Art by @sharonbutler.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/fourtee...

Fourteen-Line Poems

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“There are numerous culturally accredited conduits for time travel: phone booth, tanning bed, sleeping bag, hot tub, and so on. I found my way by way of a chance encounter with a discarded pile of Artforums.” —“Back Issues” by Jessica Almereyda. Art by Wolf Paw. evergreenreview.com/read/back-is...

Back Issues

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“You are twenty-six years old. The day before you are admitted into Akeso, a psychiatric clinic in Milnerton, Cape Town, you see the sky blinking and depositing stars across the horizon.” —“Death Is for the Living” by @rofhiwamaneta.bsky.social. Art by Lynd Ward. evergreenreview.com/read/death-i...

Death Is for the Living

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“Everything about the mother-daughter relationship, particularly during the teenage years, is claustrophobic. Mother-daughter conflicts take place in tight, contained spaces: cars, kitchens, dressing rooms.” Up now: “Blood Bonds” by Hannah Engler Harvey. Art by Margo Hoff.

Blood Bonds

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“I am not a synesthete, yet I often perceive Tippit’s paintings through multiple senses. It’s a strange feeling but true to my experience in encountering open forms . . .” —“The Rose Is Obsolete,” an essay on artist Alice Tippit by @simpsome.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/the-ros...

The Rose Is Obsolete

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“There were paintings on the huge ceiling, of men and women in robes, shepherds and sheep, men holding sticks with a curve at the top, and clouds and fires and skies. The men looked angry.” —“The Children Everywhere, Asleep” by Paul Cody. Art by Shanna Zentner. evergreenreview.com/read/the-chi...

The Children Everywhere, Asleep

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Oh shit I have a reading tomorrow! For National Poetry Month. With bunch of cool people! On account of how I am secretly a poet. Here is the flier! You should come! I will be being as Whitmanaical as possible... DEETS AT singaporeunbound.org/event-list/2...

“you pictured yourself crossing the river linking agadaz to reality as your eyes play the tape of fishermen netting dead bodies out of the river. . .” Up now: “agadaz: the river/ the dead bodies” and two more poems by Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi. Art by Lauren Drescher. evergreenreview.com/read/medusa-...