Andrei Codrescu
@andreicodrescu.bsky.social
My new book, How To Live Under Fascism: New Poems and Photos out now (https://tinyurl.com/How-To-Live-Under-Fascism)
Walker Evans and The Great Depression. First reply.
November 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Walker Evans and The Great Depression. First reply.
"Of meat I have no fear. I understand terrestrial animals. They are most like me. I prefer them cooked, covered in sauce and, I believe, happy to be chewed and swallowed."
Inviting a poet to Thanksgiving. First reply.
Inviting a poet to Thanksgiving. First reply.
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Of meat I have no fear. I understand terrestrial animals. They are most like me. I prefer them cooked, covered in sauce and, I believe, happy to be chewed and swallowed."
Inviting a poet to Thanksgiving. First reply.
Inviting a poet to Thanksgiving. First reply.
"The form of the poem should fit the subject: long fast lines, languorous jerky ones, or slow dark-syllabled half-sentences wrapped around domed Latinate dips and rises. Use the breath-measures that might have been those of your conceivers. One page, due Friday."
Exercises for poets. Link below.
Exercises for poets. Link below.
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"The form of the poem should fit the subject: long fast lines, languorous jerky ones, or slow dark-syllabled half-sentences wrapped around domed Latinate dips and rises. Use the breath-measures that might have been those of your conceivers. One page, due Friday."
Exercises for poets. Link below.
Exercises for poets. Link below.
"In 1990, I was on a panel in Wyoming. Our hosts presented every panelist with a chunk of the fallen Berlin Wall, rugged chunks of cement with an inch or so of rusted rebar sticking out. Pieces of the Berlin Wall were sought-after souvenirs."
The ransacking of the White House. Link below.
The ransacking of the White House. Link below.
November 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"In 1990, I was on a panel in Wyoming. Our hosts presented every panelist with a chunk of the fallen Berlin Wall, rugged chunks of cement with an inch or so of rusted rebar sticking out. Pieces of the Berlin Wall were sought-after souvenirs."
The ransacking of the White House. Link below.
The ransacking of the White House. Link below.
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Come join myself, @miriamseidel.bsky.social, and other fantastic contributors next Tuesday, October 28th, at the Bowery Poetry Club. Link to more information in the reply!
October 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Come join myself, @miriamseidel.bsky.social, and other fantastic contributors next Tuesday, October 28th, at the Bowery Poetry Club. Link to more information in the reply!
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NYC peeps: Join us for a book party for TESLA'S OPERA, Tuesday 10/28 7-9 pm at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery! I'll be there with contributors @andreicodrescu.bsky.social, Terry O'Reilly, and Mick Rossi! www.eventbrite.com/e/teslas-ope...
October 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
NYC peeps: Join us for a book party for TESLA'S OPERA, Tuesday 10/28 7-9 pm at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery! I'll be there with contributors @andreicodrescu.bsky.social, Terry O'Reilly, and Mick Rossi! www.eventbrite.com/e/teslas-ope...
We are streaming on Amazon and Apple TV! Julian Semilian’s film “Fish Have No Psychiatrists,” featuring yours truly
October 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
We are streaming on Amazon and Apple TV! Julian Semilian’s film “Fish Have No Psychiatrists,” featuring yours truly
"This is where we are -- staring at the future from the stands. Some of us are applauding. Others are booing. But none of us, fans or hecklers, can see, or even imagine, what it might look like."
New blog about the history of Futures. Linked below.
New blog about the history of Futures. Linked below.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"This is where we are -- staring at the future from the stands. Some of us are applauding. Others are booing. But none of us, fans or hecklers, can see, or even imagine, what it might look like."
New blog about the history of Futures. Linked below.
New blog about the history of Futures. Linked below.
October 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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September 28, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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This Friday, September 26th, come watch a live reading of Forms of Fire, a powerful multimedia theater experience created by me, Lynnea Villanova, and Micah Ariel James. RSVP below.
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"Forms of Fire", a powerful multimedia theater experience, premieres at RCI | RCIUSA
Step inside the circuitry of a multimedia theater experience created by Andrei Codrescu, Lynnea Villanova, and Micah Ariel James
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September 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This Friday, September 26th, come watch a live reading of Forms of Fire, a powerful multimedia theater experience created by me, Lynnea Villanova, and Micah Ariel James. RSVP below.
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"Trump’s Stalinist effort will fail because Trump was always a joke. All the surveillance and snitches can’t change that, but he has to be stopped before he turns the U.S. into a joke."
Where did all the jokes go? Find out on this week's Keep The Sabbath With Me. Linked below.
Where did all the jokes go? Find out on this week's Keep The Sabbath With Me. Linked below.
September 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"Trump’s Stalinist effort will fail because Trump was always a joke. All the surveillance and snitches can’t change that, but he has to be stopped before he turns the U.S. into a joke."
Where did all the jokes go? Find out on this week's Keep The Sabbath With Me. Linked below.
Where did all the jokes go? Find out on this week's Keep The Sabbath With Me. Linked below.
"If we are good boys and girls and stay close to our phones, take our Xanax and have no desire to leave the city, we can get close to annihilation without anxiety."
Read about a strange dream I had, linked below.
Read about a strange dream I had, linked below.
September 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"If we are good boys and girls and stay close to our phones, take our Xanax and have no desire to leave the city, we can get close to annihilation without anxiety."
Read about a strange dream I had, linked below.
Read about a strange dream I had, linked below.
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Codrescu suggests that readers make up a pseudonym under which to do their reading, “free of the name they carry like a sack of potatoes on their backs and hear called out in derision or displeasure by parents and teachers.” It’s a totally great idea.
September 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Codrescu suggests that readers make up a pseudonym under which to do their reading, “free of the name they carry like a sack of potatoes on their backs and hear called out in derision or displeasure by parents and teachers.” It’s a totally great idea.
This week's post is devoted to my friend Jimmy Nolan, who passed this week. Link in first reply.
August 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This week's post is devoted to my friend Jimmy Nolan, who passed this week. Link in first reply.
SHOTGUN WEDDING: Part Three of a three-part essay on A.I.
you'll take me if you like it or not
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you'll take me if you like it or not
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August 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
SHOTGUN WEDDING: Part Three of a three-part essay on A.I.
you'll take me if you like it or not
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you'll take me if you like it or not
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Shotgun Wedding: Part Three of essay on A.I. andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/shotgun-we...
SHOTGUN WEDDING: Part Three of a three-part essay on A.I.
you'll take me if you like it or not
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August 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Shotgun Wedding: Part Three of essay on A.I. andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/shotgun-we...
ICYMI: Read a batch of brand new poems by Yours Truly on my Substack. Getting through these times the only way we know how: through poetry. Link in first reply.
August 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
ICYMI: Read a batch of brand new poems by Yours Truly on my Substack. Getting through these times the only way we know how: through poetry. Link in first reply.
This week in August we rise from the obscene muck of our national shame to turn our lyric guns on the butcher of Russia. We will also lie down in the grass by the stream and think about nothing. We let poetry do our job.
New poems, linked below.
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New poems, linked below.
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THIS AUGUST SWANS ENTERTAIN THE LINCOLN BRIGADE
we let poetry do the job
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August 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This week in August we rise from the obscene muck of our national shame to turn our lyric guns on the butcher of Russia. We will also lie down in the grass by the stream and think about nothing. We let poetry do our job.
New poems, linked below.
andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/this-augus...
New poems, linked below.
andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/this-augus...
Next Saturday, August 2 at 10 am I am coming your way reading poetry. At $1 per poem, being a paid subscriber at $8/month is a bargain, even if you are not Wallace Stevens. Do it!
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August 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Next Saturday, August 2 at 10 am I am coming your way reading poetry. At $1 per poem, being a paid subscriber at $8/month is a bargain, even if you are not Wallace Stevens. Do it!
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"The matryoshka egg is the favorite toy of the Russian people. Melania played with one until she found just the gold pervert inside. I bought one myself just after communism fell: inside, there was Gorbachov, Andropov, Brezhnev, Stalin, Lenin..."
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THESE ARE WALDO'S CLOTHES! WHERE IS WALDO?
Melania Gifts America a Beloved Russian Toy
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July 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"The matryoshka egg is the favorite toy of the Russian people. Melania played with one until she found just the gold pervert inside. I bought one myself just after communism fell: inside, there was Gorbachov, Andropov, Brezhnev, Stalin, Lenin..."
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melania’s gift to america
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July 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
melania’s gift to america
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