Thank you, Michigan. I love you from the bottom of my heart!
James Schwartz
@queeraspoetry.bsky.social
X-Amish poet/ Lambda Literary Award nom author of The Literary Party: Growing Up Gay and Amish in America, Big Island Beatnik (Alien Buddha Press) http://Literaryparty.blogspot.com 📍Detroit
My Detroit photography has been published by The Great Lakes Review! greatlakesreview.org/james-schwar...
James Schwartz Photography: Portaits of Palmer Park
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@theguardian.com ‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson for criticising Nolan’s Odyssey www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson for criticising Nolan’s Odyssey
The novelist suggested Wilson should have been ‘a wee bit more thoughtful and respectful’ towards a film-maker who may have helped boost her book sales
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My "Portrait of a Primary" has been published via The New Verse News today! newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/07/port... @newversenews.bsky.social @jamespenha.bsky.social #MIPrimary #miprimary2026 #michigan #abdulforsenate
Starting today until Sunday, August 2nd, you can vote early in person at a polling location! Make your plan to vote and be sure your voice is heard. Michigan, it’s time to get money out of politics, put money in pockets, and pass Medicare for All. More info at abdulforsenate.com/vote.
On my summer reading list - UFOs, poetry and a spiritual book! 🏖📚
My book of short stories drops August 17th from @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social with a beautiful Foreword by #perrybrass! I'm over the moon! 🌚🪩 #shortstories #book #amishfiction #LGBTQ
The advent of reading “altered people’s consciousness and politics, along with the intellectual feats they were capable of,” @rosehorowitch.bsky.social argues—and the decline of reading will bring about changes of the same magnitude:
The Age of Reading Is Over
Can civilization survive the postliterate era?
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It's a sequel kinda summer! 🏖📚 My collab with Sourav Sarkar includes new and selected #Michigan themed poems! #poetry #Poems2 #souravsarkar #bookrelease
I'm very happy to share my VERY FIRST book of short stories will be dropping later this summer by Alien Buddha Press (@alienbuddhapress.bsky.social) ⛱️ ☀️ 📚 ............... Details TBA! #beachreads #shortstories #alienbuddhapress #booknews
A beautiful summer day with authors, poets and art! 🌳 PalmerParkArtFair.com #naturetherapy #palmerparkartfair
Happy PRIDE Month 2026! alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/alien-buddha-press-pride-month-2026/ Here's to the 2020s getting even gayer. 🌈
Check out this refreshing & honest chapbook from @queeraspoetry.bsky.social . It's out now with the inimitable @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social . Sharing one of the poems that stayed with me! #AmishAlchemy #JuneReads #MustRead
James Schwartz@queeraspoetry.bsky.social · 5mo agoICYMI: my new chapbook "Amish Alchemy" now available via Amazon! #booksky #poetrycommunity #sonnets #poetry #amish #swissamish #frenchamish #anabaptist #religiousintolerance #LGBTQ #gaypoetry #newrelease #alienbuddhapress
For the price of your morning latte (or a gallon of gas) you can add our new book of "Poems" to your summer reading list! 🏖 Sourav Sarkar & James Schwartz Poems: a.co/d/07unhEj1
Several #nature themed #poems of mine appear in "Environmental Anthology" now available via Amazon! www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2Y99G9H
And just like that... Rev. Dr. Ray's third book will be available June 2!!
My "Detroit Dispatch" is up today at The New Verse News, read it here: newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/05/detr... #poem #detroit #ufo #detroitflyingsaucerclub
DETROIT DISPATCH
The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.
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