Join the NHFPL for a special summer event with Elliott Sharp, a central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene of New York since the 1970s. Elliott will read from and discuss his new book Feedback, which deals with music, AI consciousness, the Improviser's Mind, and much more.

“Frog!” cried Toad. “I am sorry for all the dumb things I do. I am sorry for all the silly things that I say. Please be my friend again!”

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Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Classicism in Canada, edited by Joan Coutu and David A. Galbraith, examines the classical design precepts that shaped much of Canada’s built environment – leaving an imprint for how we continue to experience place today. Out now! buff.ly/dslfkv5

“Frog, tell that turtle to go away,” said Toad. “I do not want him to see me in my bathing suit when I come out of the river.”

Also still co working on grants (and micro grants) with artists here, probably will be for the last month of ☀️ 🌊 ✨; on one of them it will have taken more time to correct a change made from one year to the other then the actual time for the project itself… let’s see if it will go through. 🤞 🫡

Credit the Arab wizard lean, And still at favoring hour are seen (But not by Franks, whom doubts debar) Through waves the cities overthrown. Clarel. Part 2, Canto 37: Of Traditions Happy #MelvilleMonday , dear friends!

Horizon Review (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Re-opening: Horizon Review

Horizon Review (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/horizon-review-39634 #amwriting

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“The Pequod now went rolling through the bright Quito Spring, which, at sea, almost perpetually weighs on the threshold of the eternal August of the Tropic” — chapter 29, Moby Dick #melvillemonday #naturesky

Sculptor Stefanie Rocknak is known for the Edgar Allan Poe statue in Boston, among others. Her design for New Bedford is titled “Melville and Jonah’s Journey.” The name refers to the sermon on Jonah and the Whale in the Whaleman’s Chapel scene in “Moby-Dick.” #MelvilleMonday

Photos: Herman Melville statue being installed in New Bedford

Installers have been working this week to place a new statue of famed “Moby-Dick” author Herman Melville outside the Seamen’s Bethel in downtown New Bedford.

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So…there are people mass destroying books to feed into 🤖 but (some) academics/writers still get upset when you prioritize metaphor and beautiful prose, or to try to explain that the past is profoundly queer and complicated?

Long weekend dysphoria continues. Shall I see a movie? Is it raining? Is there a bus? Is the market open? Is anything special happening uptown? No idea. I think I’ll try walking to the market and maybe get hot chocolate and read for a bit.

he had been a great prophet; in their cracked, secret meetings having several times descended from heaven by the way of a trap-door, announcing the speedy opening of the seventh vial

This morning I am envisioning a healthier and more generous world 💙💜

The portal opens tomorrow… are you ready? We want horror stories up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints. We pay $0.08 per word. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you keep us informed. More details on our website (below).

the houseless, familyless old man staggered off a vagabond in crape; his every woe unreverenced

all the subtle demonisms of life and thought

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heroes, saints, demigods, and prophets alone comprise the whole roll of our order

Our criteria for success are disastrously skewed. In my view, a successful person is one who does more good than harm, on any scale. On this measure, most billionaires are massive failures, while humble folk in my neighbourhood who look after other people are highly successful.

Green Linden Press Essential Voices Anthology Series (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Re-opening: Green Linden Press Essential Voices Anthology Series

Green Linden Press Essential Voices Anthology Series (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com/anthology/green-linden-press-essential-voices-29617 #amwriting

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four weird poems by Réka Nyitrai for #weirdpoemwednesday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

On Toad’s birthday Frog gave him a hat. Toad was delighted.

🚨Attention🚨 This Magazine is URGENTLY looking for someone who wants to write book reviews for us AND who is able to read Chinese. If this sounds like you, please send your info to editor@thismagazine.ca by the END OF THIS WEEK!

Please help us celebrate these 27 publications reported to us by our workshop participants in July! Onward, trousers! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

The SmokeLong Workshop Celebration – July 2006 - SmokeLong Quarterly

Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...

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She also stops short of calling Anne Carson too “avant garde” for Classics (and the T slur) in a write up of her work which always read as bizzare bc so much of her retellings of myths embrace a rigid gender binary+lacks any creative approach to language whereas Carson’s (and many others) do not :)

Today's listing of the day is: SFPA Speculative Poetry Contest (fee-based) #WritingCommunity

Listing of the Day

Today's listing of the day is: SFPA Speculative Poetry Contest (fee-based) #WritingCommunity

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No Melville Monday from me this week because there is still so many grant things being sorted out but always thinking of 🐳 🐳 🐳