ashleigh and i put together a couple readings in north carolina for september
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‘Years before, I’d first read Robinson Jeffers. One poem had the line, “I’d sooner kill a man than a hawk.” I tore the book in half and threw it at a wall.’ Read new poems by Keith Shein on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
Four Poems
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One of the greatest poets to come out of Cincinnati, right up there with Kenneth Koch
R&R@rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 2w ago“She lived with her dog, who was also her husband. Sometimes she let him watch her while she swallowed live frogs.” Read five new poems by F. Keith Wahle on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...
“She lived with her dog, who was also her husband. Sometimes she let him watch her while she swallowed live frogs.” Read five new poems by F. Keith Wahle on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...
Five Poems
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“‘When did you find out you were blessed, Herbie,” Chloe asked. “Wednesday,” Herbie said. “No, wait,” he said, “it was Tuesday. Late on Tuesday. In the middle of the night.’” Read new fiction by Ken Sparling on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/in-r...
In recent days, sleep has awoken some questions inside me, such as: what if I aren't even there?
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“This is your mother. I hoped you’d be home but that’s fine; I know you’re busy.” Read three new poems by Ron Koertge on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
Three Poems
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“I should be outlawed. There should be campaigns to convince people I’m fatally uncool.” Read new fiction by Leonard Meldbath on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/shel...
Shelby
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“This is not a video game. It’s not a movie. It’s not Scotland Yard. It’s fucking real life.” Read five new poems by Marie Buck on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...
Five Poems
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“No one knows me I am most unknown to myself yet language is self-generating so in its use I must be being me knowing me” Read four new poems by Pat Nolan (@xileinparadise.bsky.social): www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
Four Poems
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“What the readings are, what Father Hank mumbles for a homily—that I can’t say, because it’s not long after the priest gets to the pulpit that this psycho wanders inside the church.” Read new fiction by Alexander Sammartino on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/the-...
The Only English Mass
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“Somewhere on this planet of shiny phones and dressed salads, maps of oceans and brass doorknobs, a giraffe is greedily separating seeds from a pod with its violet tongue.” Read two stories by Santiago Craig, translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude: www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...
Two Stories
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“We strongly request that you do not send us any more of your work, and that you abstain from sending it to any other literary magazine so as to not waste any time on either parties.” Read new writing by Ellie Goins on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...
Two Poems and Two Stories
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“I dreamed last night that I was a saint. Before that, I dreamed that I was a piece of paper. And before that, I dreamed that I was nitrogen.” Read six new poems by F. Keith Wahle on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/six-...
Six Poems
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“And how could he look like lightning If he was wearing clothes? And how could the clothes be white as snow If there was never any snow?” Read two new poems by Donald Berger on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...
Two Poems
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“I sit around to reduce my spending to change my way of life tomato, mozzarella, basil to look forward to” Read four new poems by Paul Maziar on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
Four Poems From <i>Junebug</i>
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“The worst is feeling I must spend my life trapped inside a tree with you.” Read three new poems by Elaine Bleakney: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
Three Poems
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“‘You don’t know a thing you’re talking about. A leprechaun could crawl over right now and whip you in the skull, and you’d think a piece of airplane had fallen from the sky and hit you.’” New fiction by Alex Ransom on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
Three Scraps
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“That trusty time-tested cottonwood-leaf hat, rustling, sussing, chuckling just overhead.” Read four new poems by Merrill Gilfillan on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
Four Poems from the Tortoiseshell Cahier
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“the party's over, it was a good time, you can tell, all the cabinet doors got left open” Read six new poems by Michael Klausman: www.relegationbooks.com/article/six-...
Six Poems
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“I turned on the TV with my phone. Tight suits on men who’d played for years and still made a living from the game. They analyzed, and I checked the messages on my phone.” Read new fiction by Alexander Fredman, with artwork by @tvbeaches.bsky.social www.relegationbooks.com/article/the-...
The Heat
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“You’ll see me When the flock of small black birds Warps the air around tree branches And launches into a swarming cloud of chattering grey dust You’ll see me I am dead I am not invisible.” Read three new poems by Paul Kahn: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
Three Poems
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“still you make your own life though it begins before you are ready and there is never enough time there are rabbits even the dead one whose skin I keep change inside” Read four new poems by Serena Solin on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
Four Poems
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“That I'm not to be a poet because I'm not one now is not all that sound a reason, I sometimes think. It (writing) is what compels me.” Read six new poems by Cliff Fyman: www.relegationbooks.com/article/six-...
Six Poems
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"It isn’t that you read the whole novel and then you get the payoff. I wanted it to be a payoff all the way along... I wasn’t into plot. The books don’t have plots." —novelist Sherril Jaffe, interviewed by @josephgrantham.bsky.social www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
An Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer Magazine
For more than fifty years Sherril Jaffe has been mining her life for material. Each moment or detail is a brick that might be used to build a story or novel. A father’s heart attack, a marriage fallin...
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"Now that I’m old, that’s my material... I want to write about the reality of pain and age, and in a matter-of-fact way." —novelist Sherril Jaffe, interviewed by @josephgrantham.bsky.social
An Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer Magazine
For more than fifty years Sherril Jaffe has been mining her life for material. Each moment or detail is a brick that might be used to build a story or novel. A father’s heart attack, a marriage…
thebeliever.net
“Anders and Laura walked through the door. He found it depleting. Time and energy were like disposable income for these people. They spent it just to spend it.” Read new fiction by Benjamin Jasnow on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/theo...
Theocritus
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“I ask him what he does, I hope he is a football player on the Lions or something, but if he was he’d never tell me anyway he says he is a diesel mechanic” Read “The Night-Sucker” by Scott Watson on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/the-...
The Night-Sucker
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middle daughter has an appointment, so my usual stack of reading: this interview with American writer Sherril Jaffe in The Believer might be a new favourite, // @thebeliever.net
“I'm stuck in dread Hollywood in a two-banger on Fuller Street outside simulated introvision of purgatory. Feel like shit. Feel like wallowing in it. Hate everybody. Can't wake up. And I'm doing a scene about love.” Read new writing by Will Patton: www.relegationbooks.com/article/indo...
Indolent Traveler
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“How can I make the fiction as strong as poetry? That was my ambition. I didn’t want to challenge poets. They’re very sensitive.” —Sherril Jaffe, interviewed by @josephgrantham.bsky.social
An Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer Magazine
For more than fifty years Sherril Jaffe has been mining her life for material. Each moment or detail is a brick that might be used to build a story or novel. A father’s heart attack, a marriage…
thebeliever.net