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Joseph Grantham
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wrote Tom Sawyer and Raking Leaves editing R&R: https://www.relegationbooks.com/journal/ https://southwestreview.com/volume-108-number-1/finder/ https://archwayeditions.us/three-poems-by-joseph-grantham/
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Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · Aug 15
three poems up at archway editions today https://archwayeditions.us/three-poems-by-joseph-grantham/
Three Poems by Joseph Grantham - Archway Editions
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 2d
“In heaven there are no automatic weapons
To be found guilty of a crime there
One need only to have arrived unexpectedly”

Read two new poems by Norman Fischer on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...
Two Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 4d
“Once you get them back to your place, you pet him and he curls up on your lap and then you see it: that sparkle in their eyes, the tenderness. Suddenly, they like you more just for petting a cat.”

Read fiction by Marta Jiménez Serrano:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/buddy/
Buddy
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 12d
“He memorized pi to nine decimal places—3.141592654—and then he squared that. Another trick he did was he typed in this number that, when he turned the calculator upside-down, it spelled BOOBIES.”

Read six new stories by Paul Maliszewski on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/six-...
Six Stories
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 19d
“I didn’t have anything, really, besides this harrowing anti-life and lightweight clerical job that I escaped to five days a week, smiling and befuddled, in order to escape my cramped, depressing apartment.”

Read new fiction by David Nutt on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/slat...
Slathingering
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 23d
“UNCLE

jungle

DAUGHTER

doctor”

Read ten new poems by Craig Dworkin on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/ten-...
Ten Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 26d
“When I went into the fridge next, I took a cucumber. I drank a glass of water. I read five pages of a book. I held a plank for seventy-three seconds.”

Read three new stories by Hannah Applebaum on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
Three Stories
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 12
“Just one thing more I promise.
Do you have rain too? Drainpipes and waterfalls?
(Did you tell me already?)”

Read two new poems by Charles North on R&R, the poet that James Schuyler called “the most stimulating poet of his generation.”

www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...
Two Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 9
“I’m always happy when people return their pizzas, that’s my dinner. I basically eat pizza every night. Albert Einstein ate the same thing every day, and never changed his clothes, and that’s why he was so smart.”

Read new fiction by Dallas Campos on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/skit...
Skittles
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 2
“Same poet,
more in focus

historically competent
with pretty words

rarely short-tempered,
5 foot 6

aggressively interested
in football

but that was
always true.”

Read four new poems by Isaac Jarnot:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
Four Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 26
“eBay collectors
spend thousands on dollar bills
with printing errors”

Read three new poems by Tom Snarsky (@tomsnarsky.bsky.social) on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
Three Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 19
“Jenny’s misfortunes were more or less about how she came into the world. Mine were about wanting to get out of it.”

Read new fiction by Grace Byron (@emotrophywife.bsky.social) on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/prin...
Princess Idiot
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 12
“I can’t decide what I want to be. Right now, I am becoming more careful with myself. I eat green foods. I’m dating around, but never stay out later than nine. Mom and Dad love me for being smart for so long.”

Read new fiction by Jasey Roberts on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/vale...
Valedictorian
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 5
“The sea monsters committed suicide in the mountains.

There are no sea monsters in the world anymore.

That’s why he grew up

to work for Amazon.”

Read three new poems by Yuyi Chen on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
Three Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 29
“Because I've been wallowing too long. And now, in a stranger's apartment, happiness reveals itself to be an obese cat, and a woman from Alsace.”

Read new fiction by Steve Anwyll on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/leo/
Léo
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 22
“my little mother, my little father
in the morning when the sun is new
my father’s village on my head
feeding me, shaking with laughter
i smell them like beer in the night time”

Read new poetry by Leo Dunsker:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/naiv...
NAÏVE AND SENTIMENTAL POETRY
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 15
“The common denominator was the impression that something had happened to each person, maybe at once, maybe over the course of decades. An event or simply an idea. An emotion. Something painful or unforgettable or both.”

Read new fiction by Angela Ma:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/as-i...
As It Pass'd Me Flying By
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 8
“She was still thinking about the King James Bible, thinking there had been an error in the translation of the Latin, no, Hebrew. The English loved their Greyhounds so much they wrote them into the past.”

Read new fiction by Mitchell Galloway:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/grey...
Greyhound
Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 1
“Why bother writing so much that your own writing doesn’t recognise you? If you mean to get everyone to publish you, you know how many people you’ll keep busy working for how many decades?”

Read three new poems by Ouyang Yu:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
Three Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 24
“I want you to be happy
like a man wants to live with his wife
in neo-liberal derangement
How she might feel about it is another poem”

Read three new poems by David Larsen:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
Three Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 17
“And then the waterfalls are nice. They’re nice the way these things tend to be nice: they’re pretty and two minutes later you don’t know what to do with them.”

Read a short story by Samuel Solleiro, translated from the Galician by Jacob Rogers:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/grea...
Great White Shark
Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 10
“I thought the duration of human lives
stacked up in a row and you could go back a century
quite quickly if you only remembered
a few lives would send you back to Rome”

Read four poems by Hannah Piette on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
Four Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 6
To celebrate his birthday today, June 6th, we are happy to share a never-before-published short story by Stephen Dixon.

Read “The Day is Done” on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/the-...
The Day is Done
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 3
“Lawson feels that he is in a kind of place he’s never been, a place with dark spaces above, below, to the left and right, front and back, kind of closing in.”

Read new fiction by Clyde Edgerton on R&R:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/deat...
Death Trip
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · May 27
“The Washington Metro is not sexy
People read books like
The Secret History of Neo-Liberalism
They take calls from their realtor
The floor is a Pollock-inspired linoleum
It used to be industrial carpet”

Read three new poems by Simon Schuchat:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
Three Poems
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Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · May 26
the final
hidden palace

thursday, june 5th, 2025
baltimore, 7pm

with:
jimmy cajoleas
brian allen carr
edy modica
ariana reines

poster by jason wallace
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