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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 10d

this prose poem by Liza Hudock omg

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Sometimes my mother wants to sit up and look around. She gets anxious lying down. For this, I wedge myself behind her in bed, my feet against the wall to hold her up back to back. I ask her if we don't look like soldiers. A couple of grunts in the muck. She says soldiers would have cigarettes. She's gotten picky about comparison, she won't make do with a poor one, and anyway, our bodies have grown different. I touch her more sitting like this than I have in my entire life, her back delicate, muscles softened but still broad and full of recent strength. I got my back from her. Shoulder to shoulder, rib to rib. She didn't ask me for a mirror. She asked me for a match.

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john-tipton64.bsky.social @john-tipton64.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks @floodeditions.bsky.social, looking forward to another 25 years.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 7d

Liza Hudock

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Once, you texted me
a line of poetry.

It wasn't one of the big ones,
it was the kind of line I like.

The record of a life:
and I have sat and watched the trees.

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Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social · 14d

Now available! Jennifer Moxley's The Midnight Work:

"In a time where many of us seem hypnotized by apocalyptic visions, Moxley celebrates everyday life, even in extraordinary circumstances. This is now unusual enough, I think, to be called brave."―Rae Armantrout

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 21d

Today’s Featured Poem:

What Sparks Poetry: Liza Hudock on "Hope" from Reveille published by Flood Editions

Read here:

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Hope

I feel a foot at 3 a.m., nudging me to get out of the way. She says, I’m going out to the crab apple tree to stand among the apples and see what I can see.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Oct 4

Today's Featured Poem:

"Crayola Da Gamba" by Merril Gilfillan from Three Roans In the Shallows, One of Them Blue published by @floodeditions.bsky.social

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Crayola Da Gamba

whippets without the within

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Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social · Sep 15

Forthcoming next month: The Midnight Work by Jennifer Moxley. "In a time where many of us seem hypnotized by apocalyptic visions, Moxley celebrates everyday life, even in extraordinary circumstances. This is now unusual enough, I think, to be called brave."—Rae Armantrout

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Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social · Sep 9

John Wilkinson discusses an elegy by Jennifer Moxley that's forthcoming in her book The Midnight Work...

fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/elegies-on...

Elegies on Brambles: On Jennifer Moxley, Stephen Rodefer, and Poetic Grief

John Wilkinson explores the elegiac form.

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Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social · Aug 25

Publication day for REVEILLE by Liza Hudock! Order from Flood Editions, Wesleyan University Press, HFS Books, or your independent bookseller.
www.weslpress.org/979898578748...

Reveille – Wesleyan University Press

The poems in Liza Hudock's Reveille offer an unvarnished look at the tenacious ties that bind us to family, home, and to ways of talking."Here is a world i...

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Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Liza Hudock’s debut collection, Reveille, reflects on ordinary life with such humility that her artfulness sneaks up on you like a coyote at twilight."—Ron Charles, The Washington Post

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Aug 21

Graham Foust

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Jacob JB @jajobi.bsky.social · Aug 3

When a ﬂood recedes,

the ground looks unfamiliar.
Everything is out of place

and all the witnesses can say is
this is where the water was.
—Liza Hudock

Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social · Jul 31

Read the title poem from Liza Hudock's Reveille, forthcoming from Flood Editions in August!
friendsofwriters.org/2025/07/30/a...

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Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social · Jul 31

Read the title poem from Liza Hudock's Reveille, forthcoming from Flood Editions in August!
friendsofwriters.org/2025/07/30/a...

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Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social · Jul 24

Graham Foust feature on "Poets on the Plains"...

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Poets on the Plains: On Dialectible Image

Hi, I’m Wayne Miller. I’m a poet who lives in Denver, Colorado, and I’m here for Poets on the Plains.Today I’m going to read a poem by the poet Graham Foust.

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David Leftwich @davidleftwich.bsky.social · Jul 23

Just reread Ronald Johnson’s amazing The Book of the Green Man (a lovely British reprint from @uniformbooks.bsky.social ), reaffirming that he is one of my favorite poets and rekindling my interest in doing a deep dive into the connections between his poetry and his cookbooks. 1/2

A stack of poetry books and cookbooks by Ronald Johnson.

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Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social · Jun 20

Patrick James Dunagan reviews She Is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann, in the new issue of Rain Taxi: "There’s a sense of an outside force working on Eckermann’s consciousness, taking her toward a higher understanding of her relationship with the physical environment."
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CURRENT PRINT EDITION - Rain Taxi Review of Books

Volume 30, Number 2, Summer 2025 (#118) To purchase issue #118 using Paypal, click here.To become a member and get quarterly issues of Rain

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · Jun 14

also my copy of this arrived today. Be more ARK www.weslpress.org/979898578747...

ARK – Wesleyan University Press

A new edition of Ronald Johnson's masterpiece"ARK is a metaphysical poem that could only have been written in our time, of which it displays a new vision. It...

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Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social · May 22

Elaine Equi @elaineequi.bsky.social quotes Ronald Johnson's ARK in this characteristically alert poem responding to Peter Halley's artwork. We recommend Equi's new book, OUT OF THE BLANK, just published by @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
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Spotlight: Peter Halley — The FLAG Art Foundation

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · May 5

With the warbler migration approaching full bore here in North America, I think of Merrill Gilfillan’s 2006 “Warbler Haibun,” out of Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue (Flood Editions, 2024). A little string excerpted out of its bounty and fervor:

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · May 6

wonderful cover

(Flood Editions, design: Quemadura,
drawing by Charles Burchfield, 1915)

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Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social · Apr 27

Forthcoming October: Jennifer Moxley’s The Midnight Work is a meditation on the fragility of memory and love in the increasingly mediated post-Covid world of polarized politics and climate change. It addresses old friends, living and dead, in a series of epistles among more condensed lyric poems.

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Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social · Apr 19

At The Common, Nathaniel Perry has a perceptive recommendation of Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems by Merrill Gilfillan: "like a weird novel, or like an atlas, or like a guidebook, or like an aviary, or like a bestiary . . ."

www.thecommononline.org/what-were-re...

What We’re Reading: April 2025

DAVID LEHMAN <br> His sentences are labyrinthine, and you soon realize how little happens in a story ... Yet we keep reading, not only for the syntactical journey but for the author’s subtle understan...

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Roz Milner @rozmilner.bsky.social · Mar 26

Picked this up today @floodeditions.bsky.social

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Flood Editions @floodeditions.bsky.social · Mar 21

Our latest books, postcards, and catalog will be available next week at the AWP in Los Angeles, booth #605. Please say hello!

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