In architecture school, they teach you that a person can survive a leap from a window no higher than the 3rd floor. But who is teaching this to the leapers?

I reviewed Yoko Tawada’s puzzling essay collection for On the Seawall www.ronslate.com/on-exophony-...

A pleasure to read/write about Alyce Mahon's DOROTHEA TANNING: A SURREALIST WORLD @yalepress.bsky.social -- I had forgotten she published her first book of poems at age 94 / bit.ly/4h34vIc via ON THE SEAWALL

"She urges all who live in one language to recognize that our seeming linguistic purity or separateness is only an inability to see the differences that inhere between & within languages": @ds228.bsky.social on EXOPHANY by Yoko Tawada [published by New Directions via On The Seawall bit.ly/4wvxE3k

"Graham writes from within a world where catastrophe no longer announces itself as event & instead settles ... into the very medium through which perception itself must now pass": Jeffrey Levine on @joriegraham.bsky.social's KILLING SPREE @wwnorton.com bit.ly/44ib5Da via ON THE SEAWALL

Very grateful to @ronslate.bsky.social for the opportunity to write about the late Argentine author Vlady Kociancich’s 1982 debut, out in English for the first time as THE EIGHTH WONDER translated by Jessica Sequeira. It’s a playfully ambiguous novel about which I had a great time (over?)thinking.

The July quarterly edition of ON THE SEAWALL has just been published, featuring Jeffrey Levine's essay on @joriegraham.bsky.social's KILLING SPREE @wwnorton.com / www.ronslate.com

I've launched a Substack to write on titles that I can't cover for ON THE SEAWALL, starting with a piece on Martin Walker's Bruno novel AN ENEMY IN THE VILLAGE (FSG, '25) that starts with a memory of a conversation with Louise Glück about the mystery genre. substack.com/profile/1810...

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In an early conversation, Louise Glück asked me about my reading as a child. I told her about my maternal grandfather who lived nearby and brought scores of books to me over the years. By my teens, th...

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"Perhaps the 'secret' of Dylan’s late stage creativity resides in his ability to store & process an enormous database about himself & the history of American folk music": Barry Faulk reviews @fantomas2go.bsky.social's AFTER THE FLOOD @wwnorton.com via On Thje Seawall bit.ly/4sTCRj2

"Kertész was wincingly aware of what he saw as his artistic misfortune & neglect, but by posthumously landing Albers as his biographer, he’s gotten lucky": @bquinnterest on Patricia Albers' EVERYTHING IS PHOTOGRAPH via Other Press bit.ly/4u3rW7y On The Seawall

"Her poetry often reflects on getting things wrong while imagining what getting things right might look or sound like. This amounts both to an attitude and a technique": my review of TRUE MISTAKES by @lenamschmitt.bsky.social @uarkpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4t6xDSf via On The Seawall

The April quarterly edition of ON THE SEAWALL awaits your arrival. www.ronslste.com

Really thankful for the chance to dig into Eduardo Halfon’s work for @ronslate.bsky.social at On the Sewall, specifically TARANTULA, translated by Daniel Hahn, which makes for a fascinating complement to Halfon’s prior English-language novel, CANCIÓN:

The Zoom link will be available on Tuesday afternoon -- see poster for how to access it ...

The Zoom link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Please join us!

I've been sharing this Adrienne Rich poem with a lot of folks as we move closer to the collapse of first amendment freedoms. Please read, understand, share. It is not an answer. It is, instead, the very question we must ask and keep asking. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51092/...

Please join us on Tuesday night 7:30ET when Robin Becker comes to PathwaysArts via Zoom. The link will be available on Tuesday afternoon at www.pathwaysmv.org -- scroll down to this poster & click on the Zoom prompt.

Coming Tuesday night 7:30pm ET -- Catherine Barnett will read for us at PathwaysArts & you can watch/listen via Zoom. The link will be available on Tuesday afternoon at www.pathwaysmv.org ...

Splendid tribute to Fanny Howe at Arrowsmith Journal via @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social -- beginning with a reading by Fanny -- www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/fann...

Fanny Quincy Howe: A Tribute — ARROWSMITH

Featuring Andrea Cohen, Christina Davis, Carolyn Forché, Ezra Fox, James Fraser, Sheila Gallagher, Robert Hass, Kythe Heller, Brenda Hillman, Richard Kearney, Askold Melnyczuk, John Mulrooney, Eileen ...

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There’s no other choice / when you get that close // to a vagina

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Here's "Commerce" by @simeonberry.bsky.social, his poem in the new edition of On The Seawall / www.ronslate.com/commerce/

Please join us when Thea Matthews reads via zoom for PathwaysArts -- Tuesday nite 1/20 7:30 ET -- link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Her latest collection is GRIME via @citylightsbooks.bsky.social ...

Funambulism: "Attraction to perilous landscapes in times of upheaval ... promise us something eternal, something removed from the world’s vanities, immaterial and din-free": essay by @ykomska.bsky.social @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social bit.ly/4svdaqh

On the Wire above the Ruins | Yuliya Komska

Funambulism in postwar Germany

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"This doubleness — lament braided with exuberance, suffering braided with awe — structures the emotional, formal & ethical terrain of the collection": Kimberly Grey on Gabrielle Calvocoressi's THE NEW ECONOMY @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4jxIbpq via On The Seawall

Here's "Commerce" by @simeonberry.bsky.social, his poem in the new edition of On The Seawall / www.ronslate.com/commerce/

Thanks for publishing my review of Maria Stepanova's new novel, The Disappearing Act, translated by Sasha Dugdale! www.ronslate.com/on-the-disap...

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NEW: The January edition of ON THE SEAWALL, our first expanded quarterly. We invite you to stop by the "gallery" & have a look / ronslate.com

"His poems dug down into memory to find their source. More precisely, the excavation of memory -- both personal and cultural, and the continuity he sought in it -- IS his subject": Christian Detisch on THE POEMS OF SEAMUS HEANEY @fsgbooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/4aIxLB1

Do y'allselves a favor and preorder @namwalien.bsky.social's "On Morrison," a magisterial close reading of an American master in an age of lit-lite substacks. Out 2/24 from Hogarth. Here's my review for @ronslate.bsky.social's "On the Seawall": www.ronslate.com/on-on-morris...