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The Nu Review@thenureview.bsky.social · yesterdayNu Review Re-Launch Reading Tuesday, October 13 at 6:30 At Torn Page, 435 W 22nd St Featuring: Charles Bernstein Cheryl J. Fish Hermine Meinhard Andrew Levy Adeena Karasick Elinor Nauen, host www.eventbrite.com/e/nu-review-...
I like social media, but only to talk about what I want to talk about, which is almost never what people are talking about to the exclusion of paying attention to anything else. I guess what I’m saying is I like talking to myself
I’m typing up a new long poem as time allows. It’s been a while since I tried seeing how long a subject wants to stick around. (Yes I *am* reading Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Drafts, is it that obvious)
Final cover image for *Little Survivors Everywhere*! We should be gearing up in the next week... watch this space! Coming soon from www.pearlpirie.com/phafours
So much bad writing being held up as good writing. It’s just like when I was a kid
I forget who here said over and over to read Ernst Fraenkel but I’m reading Ernst Fraenkel and it hadn’t occurred to me that the point of the tariffs was to accelerate monopolization of literally every market
Jordan Davis@jordandavis.bsky.social · 2w agoOr, he’s illustrating the Prerogative State down to the last rivet
Or, he’s illustrating the Prerogative State down to the last rivet
Professa Murray@kalimurray.bsky.social · 2w agoHe really does immediately make the justices on the Supreme Court who accept his ridiculous factual claims look like fools. He is beclowining Unitary Executive Theory.
My essay-review of the new translation of Attila József, *The Song of the Cosmos,* is live at Zona Motel. zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-bor...
REVIEW: Born With a Knife In My Hand: Attila Jószef in Translation
Jordan Davis on the incendiary poetics of the modern Hungarian poet, and why no single translator has yet brought a comprehensive look at his work into English.
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Jordan Davis@jordandavis.bsky.social · 4w agoStand by for publication news
I saw the best minds of my generation sacrificed to death cults
some above/ground press author activity: Elena Zhang, Beatriz Hausner, Noah Sparrow, Jérôme Melançon, Jordan Davis + Carrie Olivia Adams, / @ezhang77.bsky.social @lethejerome.bsky.social @jordandavis.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/09/some...
some author activity: Zhang, Hausner, Sparrow, Melançon, Davis + Adams,
Elena Zhang has work in the Spotlight series ; Beatriz Hausner is now part of the Canadian Poets Series at Peripety and/or Tronies ; Noah Sp...
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I had to laugh — I was puzzled that everybody didn’t put down their crossword puzzles and their knitting to read this. But it’s about a) a poet b) writing in a difficult language c) a hundred years ago. It’s amazing anybody will read this piece at all, as proud as I am to have written it.
Jordan Davis@jordandavis.bsky.social · 4w agoMy essay-review of the new translation of Attila József, *The Song of the Cosmos,* is live at Zona Motel. zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-bor...
wow fossil fuel industry getting real pass these days
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 4w agoI've said this in the past a few times, and it bears repeating: I'm convinced that most of the tech industry are sociopaths. There is no industry more committed to rationalizing mass destruction, and in our current environment, that's saying something.
I was thinking if we read Jordan Davis's essay about Attila József we might decide to learn Hungarian zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-bor...
REVIEW: Born With a Knife In My Hand: Attila József in Translation
Jordan Davis on the incendiary poetics of the modern Hungarian poet, and why no single translator has yet brought a comprehensive look at his work into English.
zonamotel.substack.com
Pre-publication anxiety / post-publication blues. But I have one near-term deadlines, two deadlines a couple months out, and one just over the horizon of the new year. A minute to catch my breath then back to work.
My essay-review of the new translation of Attila József, *The Song of the Cosmos,* is live at Zona Motel. zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-bor...
REVIEW: Born With a Knife In My Hand: Attila Jószef in Translation
Jordan Davis on the incendiary poetics of the modern Hungarian poet, and why no single translator has yet brought a comprehensive look at his work into English.
zonamotel.substack.com
Jordan Davis@jordandavis.bsky.social · 4w agoStand by for publication news
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Benjamin Gantcher robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/09/12-o...
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some above/ground press author activity: Elizabeth Robinson, Vik Shirley, rob mclennan, Jordan Davis, Jason Heroux + Sarah Burgoyne, / @jordandavis.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/09/some...
some author activity: Robinson, Shirley, mclennan, Davis, Heroux + Burgoyne,
Elizabeth Robinson has new work up at dialogist ; Vik Shirley has both poem and prompt as part of Benjamin Niespodziany's Sunday poem + prom...
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The Nu Review mourns the loss of contributor Rachel Blau DuPlessis (1941-2026). Her poems “You” and “Manna Stories” appeared in Volume One Issue Seven. Baruch Dayan Ha’emet.
Halfway through @luaz.bsky.social ‘s excellent book, Mapless, which is a treasure trove of wisdom and whimsy. Here’s a poem I really enjoyed:
