Ecstatic to be part of this David Lynch anthology edited by John Wall Barger and forthcoming from @lsupress.bsky.social 🫀 lsupress.org/978080718850...

Fix Your Hearts or Die!

What happens when you ask contemporary poets to look into the cracked mirror of David Lynch’s work? Fix Your Hearts or Die! is an exuberant, eccentric coll...

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This interdisciplinary treat for poets & composer offers workshops, performances, individual mentorships, & more in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. Join John Wall Barger, Thomas Weaver, & Tim Fitts next June for The Doorway Effect. Scholarships available! Deadline: Jan 15. #poets #composers #retreat

The Doorway Effect: Retreat for Poets and Music Composers

The Doorway Effect: Retreat for Poets and Music Composers takes place in International in June. Discover more writing conferences & literary events at NewPages.com.

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The Lynch book I edited can now be pre-ordered: lsupress.org/978080718850... Thanks, 12 gifted poet-essayists! James Arthur, Elena Karina Byrne, George Elliott Clarke, John Beer, Rebecca Aronson, Zach Savich, Micheline Maylor,Stephanie Bolster, Eric Shoemaker,Adrienne Su, Alina Stefanescu,Tom Healy

From 32 Poems #48, Winter 2026

I like how Zen overlaps with the language of poetry. Poetry isn't therapy, but can have a cathartic component, and a spiritual side. I wrote an essay about Zen and Chase Twichell and the director Antonioni, for Guernica. Grateful to the editors. www.guernicamag.com/the-gateless...

The Gateless Gateless Gate of the Poem

Dualism is the figure in the cave staring at the shadows on the wall; nondualism is the figure stepping out of the cave and looking at forms directly.

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Grateful to the vibrant poetry community of Philadelphia for giving me such a great book launch last night! (Resurrection Pie, @lsupress.bsky.social)

Sunday at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series presents John Wall Barger & Hillary Gonzalez at The Ivy Bookshop! The reading includes the best open mic in town. Join us on the patio as we return to The Ivy for the summer! @johnwallbarger.bsky.social @hillarygonzalez.bsky.social #poetry #bmoreart #openmic

Thanks to the Red Wheelbarrow reading series in Rutherford for inviting me to be a feature. (And it was fun to see William Carlos Williams' old house down the block!)

I'm going on a tour! I'm also reading w very cool people. I'll post more specific details as I go. If you'd like to invite me to read, let me know! I love reading poems & giving workshops. Please share widely! & give me a high 5 if you come to these events! 🎉 Big thanks @lsupress.bsky.social

Grateful to @lsupress.bsky.social for their support with Resurrection Pie ❤️

LSU Press@lsupress.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"These are poems that are both easily apprehended and fathomless.” —Shane McCrae In "Resurrection Pie," John Wall Barger's new collection of poetry, Barger writes the odd, the marvelous, and the wounded with unguarded clarity. Happy #pubday! 📚: https://bit.ly/resurrectionpie

"Lacan’s Real is not the stories and laws which we think make up reality, but the raw void that appears when those stories and laws collapse. An abyss just out of reach, forever." "The Abyss of Fascism" by @johnwallbarger.bsky.social clereviewofbooks.com/the-abyss-of...

The Abyss Of Fascism - Cleveland Review of Books

The Real is not the stories and laws which we think make up reality, but the raw void that appears when those stories and laws collapse. An abyss just out of reach, forever.

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If anyone would like a review copy of Resurrection Pie (to write a review, do an interview, etc), let me know! @lsupress.bsky.social

My box of Resurrection Pies has arrived in Vermont! Would you like a signed copy? DM me and I'd be happy to drop one in the mail for you! (I can also include discounted copies of my earlier books, The Elephant of Silence, The Mean Game ...) 🥳 #newbook #poetrylovers

It's publication day for my new book! Thanks @lsupress.bsky.social for helping me create this good looking object! #newbook #poetry

Thankful for these generous words from Zach Savich about my new poetry book, Resurrection Pie. Out in two weeks! Preorders here: lsupress.org/978080718606... #poetry #newbook

It was a real pleasure to interview film critic A.S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social about "Escape from End Times Cinema" at Dartmouth. Grateful that he came 🎉

I'll be interviewing film critic A.S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social on Wednesday at 4:30pm at Dartmouth, about the current state of cinema and also his two new books (Last Week in End Times Cinema, and Algorithm of the Night) which are great.

Healthcare providers, in the absence of a physical cause, often presume that symptoms are psychological in origin. Impactful and necessary paper from Tiina Rosenqvist @tcrosenqvist.bsky.social

Tiina Carita Rosenqvist@tcrosenqvist.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our paper about women's pain and psychogenic diagnoses is now out: doi.org/10.1007/s110...

Honored by these generous words from Matthew Olzmann about my new poetry book, Resurrection Pie. Out in one month. Preorders here: lsupress.org/978080718606... #poetry #newbook

Here's something super cool I get to put on the back cover of my forthcoming book, which comes out in March 2026. Giant thanks to Shane McCrae @akasomeguy.bsky.social

I’ve got a cover! My new book of poetry is coming out with @lsupress.bsky.social early in 2026. 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Grateful to the designers who made this spiraling metallic (anti-pie) cover-vibe. And to my editor James W. Long for his guidance and encouragement. 🥳 Preorder info: lsupress.org/978080718606...

I've got a new essay on Hiroshima -- via the poet Tōge Sankichi, the director Ishirō Honda, David Lynch, and others -- in the great journal @fullstopmag.bsky.social 🥳 www.full-stop.net/2025/10/30/f...

Original Child Bomb Threnody

It would be tempting, if you were a theoretical physicist working on the first atomic bomb, to imagine yourself as a demiurge. To frame the process as spiritual longing for God’s wrath . . .

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How to write about memories of being bullied? I have no idea! Anyway, thanks Prairie Fire Magazine for including this little poem in their new issue!

"When a poem has an ideological mission, it knows where it wants to go, and turns its back on all the other possible destinations" -- Chase Twichell Thanks to Chase Twichell for talking to me about Zen & wasps & the limits of language. & to Guernica! www.guernicamag.com/things-as-it...

Things as It is: An Interview with Chase Twichell

Chase Twichell on poetry, Zen, and the luminous attention that begins where the self ends.

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Here is a picture my mother Jean took of my parents' gorgeous desi dog Ruthie beside the marvelous literary journal The Dalhousie Review which was good enough to publish one of my poems. Little pockets of love and light

Grateful to have a new poem in the latest Tampa Review.

I'm working hard this summer on translating the powerful and puzzling poems of Marina Pizzi from Italian. I hope to have a draft of her book, Intimate Distances, finished before long. Pleased to have a few of these translations published in Beltway Poetry. www.beltwaypoetry.com/three-poems-...

Stunning poem by Victoria Chang in the Yale Review yalereview.org/article/vict...

Victoria Chang: “The Swan”

A poem by Victoria Chang: “The thin shirtless / man fishing by / the river. The woman // by his side, smoking.“

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Excited to share some good news in my life, with big gratitude to LSU Press @lsupress.bsky.social & editor James W. Long, and others I'll thank soon, my next poetry collection, RESURRECTION PIE, is coming out in early 2026. 🥳🥳(second pic is me fiddling with pages of the ms in an empty classroom) ❤

Just got some good news! Mary Dalton chose my poem “Darwin Awards Song” for Best Canadian Poetry 2026, which will come out in a few months. Big thanks to Event for originally publishing the poem in 2024. And to Mary Dalton!