Eric T. Racher
@ericracher.bsky.social
Words in Exacting Clam, ballast, Apocalypse Confidential, minor literature[s], Socrates on the Beach, Your Impossible Voice, and elsewhere.
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Eric Racher — Socrates on the Beach
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Many thanks to @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social for publishing this essay on Ezra Pound, John Milton, music and poetry in Socrates on the Beach.
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Many thanks to Citywide Lunch for publishing this very short piece.
...as I stooped to prepare her burial vault, brushing into a dustpan the dirt fallen from the walls of her freshly dug grave, I watched stubborn, dusty bootprints, mine...
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...as I stooped to prepare her burial vault, brushing into a dustpan the dirt fallen from the walls of her freshly dug grave, I watched stubborn, dusty bootprints, mine...
citywidelunch.wordpress.com/angel-forms-...
“Angel Forms” by Eric T. Racher.
Stephanie Lynn Archer, aged 24, died suddenly on October 13, 1999, a mere one hundred and eighteen days after her birthday, and as I stooped to prepare her burial vault, brushing into a dustpan the…
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December 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Many thanks to Citywide Lunch for publishing this very short piece.
...as I stooped to prepare her burial vault, brushing into a dustpan the dirt fallen from the walls of her freshly dug grave, I watched stubborn, dusty bootprints, mine...
citywidelunch.wordpress.com/angel-forms-...
...as I stooped to prepare her burial vault, brushing into a dustpan the dirt fallen from the walls of her freshly dug grave, I watched stubborn, dusty bootprints, mine...
citywidelunch.wordpress.com/angel-forms-...
Allora cominciamo con il gran Lombardo.
December 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Allora cominciamo con il gran Lombardo.
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Hey experimental writers, are you experimenting enough these days? Are you [thoughtfully] circumventing the rules and/or pushing past established thresholds when it comes to language and form? Are you [un]doing the work? If so 👉 SUBMIT @minorliteratures.bsky.social
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December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Hey experimental writers, are you experimenting enough these days? Are you [thoughtfully] circumventing the rules and/or pushing past established thresholds when it comes to language and form? Are you [un]doing the work? If so 👉 SUBMIT @minorliteratures.bsky.social
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Winter submission windows for @MinorLits are now open for fiction, nonfiction, and experimental.
Nonfiction details can be found here: oleada.io/publication/...
Nonfiction details can be found here: oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
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December 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Winter submission windows for @MinorLits are now open for fiction, nonfiction, and experimental.
Nonfiction details can be found here: oleada.io/publication/...
Nonfiction details can be found here: oleada.io/publication/...
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"American Exeptionalism", the worldview, the ideology, spills all the way down into American Poetry Inc. So much of what goes by "personal", "intimate" and "transcendant", is mainly the national subject doubling down on individualism, when what's needed is 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮.
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"American Exeptionalism", the worldview, the ideology, spills all the way down into American Poetry Inc. So much of what goes by "personal", "intimate" and "transcendant", is mainly the national subject doubling down on individualism, when what's needed is 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮.
Many thanks to Citywide Lunch for publishing this very short piece.
...as I stooped to prepare her burial vault, brushing into a dustpan the dirt fallen from the walls of her freshly dug grave, I watched stubborn, dusty bootprints, mine...
citywidelunch.wordpress.com/angel-forms-...
...as I stooped to prepare her burial vault, brushing into a dustpan the dirt fallen from the walls of her freshly dug grave, I watched stubborn, dusty bootprints, mine...
citywidelunch.wordpress.com/angel-forms-...
“Angel Forms” by Eric T. Racher.
Stephanie Lynn Archer, aged 24, died suddenly on October 13, 1999, a mere one hundred and eighteen days after her birthday, and as I stooped to prepare her burial vault, brushing into a dustpan the…
citywidelunch.wordpress.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Many thanks to Citywide Lunch for publishing this very short piece.
...as I stooped to prepare her burial vault, brushing into a dustpan the dirt fallen from the walls of her freshly dug grave, I watched stubborn, dusty bootprints, mine...
citywidelunch.wordpress.com/angel-forms-...
...as I stooped to prepare her burial vault, brushing into a dustpan the dirt fallen from the walls of her freshly dug grave, I watched stubborn, dusty bootprints, mine...
citywidelunch.wordpress.com/angel-forms-...
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I have three sonnets in the latest wave of @iambapoet.com.
Many thanks to the extraordinary @markantonyowen.com
www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-eric...
Many thanks to the extraordinary @markantonyowen.com
www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-eric...
Eric T Racher | wave 23 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard
Hear poet Eric T Racher read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I have three sonnets in the latest wave of @iambapoet.com.
Many thanks to the extraordinary @markantonyowen.com
www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-eric...
Many thanks to the extraordinary @markantonyowen.com
www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-eric...
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No-one read poems like Olson: youtu.be/gAYxpSjkyAg?...
Charles Olson reads 'Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld]' (Mar 1966)
YouTube video by generoix
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December 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
No-one read poems like Olson: youtu.be/gAYxpSjkyAg?...
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we open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts for a month starting Monday* ...
*in addition to rolling subs for reviews, interviews, extracts, textos en español & more
all info here:
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*in addition to rolling subs for reviews, interviews, extracts, textos en español & more
all info here:
oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Una lettera che Pier Paolo Pasolini scrisse a Livio Garzanti nel novembre del 1954, in cui delinea la problematica e lo schema di «Ragazzi di vita», all'epoca intitolato «Il Ferrobedò».
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Una lettera che Pier Paolo Pasolini scrisse a Livio Garzanti nel novembre del 1954, in cui delinea la problematica e lo schema di «Ragazzi di vita», all'epoca intitolato «Il Ferrobedò».
Una lettera che Pier Paolo Pasolini scrisse a Livio Garzanti nel novembre del 1954, in cui delinea la problematica e lo schema di «Ragazzi di vita», all'epoca intitolato «Il Ferrobedò».
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Una lettera che Pier Paolo Pasolini scrisse a Livio Garzanti nel novembre del 1954, in cui delinea la problematica e lo schema di «Ragazzi di vita», all'epoca intitolato «Il Ferrobedò».
Today's post ...
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Today's post ...
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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
Edmund Spenser
from Amoretti
from Amoretti
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Edmund Spenser
from Amoretti
from Amoretti
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Some Dryden for Saint Cecilia's day.
Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music
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Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music
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November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Some Dryden for Saint Cecilia's day.
Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music
poets.org/poem/alexand...
Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music
poets.org/poem/alexand...
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
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Our latest issue finds us rushing through time and space courtesy of new work from @geoliminal.bsky.social Elisabeth Sheffield, @israelbonilla.bsky.social Roberto Ontiveros, @supernaturalfeat.com @juliaevem.bsky.social Stephen Cicirelli, Jaryd Porter, Joyce Meggett, @addisonzeller.bsky.social
Issue 33 | Fall 2025 | Your Impossible Voice
Our latest issue includes new work from Eric Williams, Elisabeth Sheffield, Israel Bonilla, Roberto Ontiveros, Dan Weaver, Julia Meinwald, Stephen Cicirelli, Jaryd Porter, Joyce Meggett, Addison Zelle...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Our latest issue finds us rushing through time and space courtesy of new work from @geoliminal.bsky.social Elisabeth Sheffield, @israelbonilla.bsky.social Roberto Ontiveros, @supernaturalfeat.com @juliaevem.bsky.social Stephen Cicirelli, Jaryd Porter, Joyce Meggett, @addisonzeller.bsky.social
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October 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Among these poems the curious reader will also find a tenzone between ChatGPT and DeepSeek, which includes a critical and philological commentary by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“The sonnet is a script, a timeworn frame”
Poetic forms, AI and timely re-assessments all involve in the profound work of @ericracher.bsky.social
showcased in this our latest.
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Poetic forms, AI and timely re-assessments all involve in the profound work of @ericracher.bsky.social
showcased in this our latest.
version9magazine.com/edition-1-vo...
Edition 1 Volume 8 Autumn 2025
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October 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Among these poems the curious reader will also find a tenzone between ChatGPT and DeepSeek, which includes a critical and philological commentary by Ralph Waldo Emerson.