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Coming Tuesday night 7:30pm ET -- Catherine Barnett will read for us at PathwaysArts & you can watch/listen via Zoom. The link will be available on Tuesday afternoon at www.pathwaysmv.org ...
February 1, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Splendid tribute to Fanny Howe at Arrowsmith Journal via @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social -- beginning with a reading by Fanny -- www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/fann...
Fanny Quincy Howe: A Tribute — ARROWSMITH
Featuring Andrea Cohen, Christina Davis, Carolyn Forché, Ezra Fox, James Fraser, Sheila Gallagher, Robert Hass, Kythe Heller, Brenda Hillman, Richard Kearney, Askold Melnyczuk, John Mulrooney, Eileen ...
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January 27, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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There’s no other choice / when you get that close // to a vagina
Here's "Commerce" by @simeonberry.bsky.social, his poem in the new edition of On The Seawall / www.ronslate.com/commerce/
January 16, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Please join us when Thea Matthews reads via zoom for PathwaysArts -- Tuesday nite 1/20 7:30 ET -- link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Her latest collection is GRIME via @citylightsbooks.bsky.social ...
January 17, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Funambulism: "Attraction to perilous landscapes in times of upheaval ... promise us something eternal, something removed from the world’s vanities, immaterial and din-free": essay by @ykomska.bsky.social @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social bit.ly/4svdaqh
On the Wire above the Ruins | Yuliya Komska
Funambulism in postwar Germany
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January 8, 2026 at 5:17 PM
"This doubleness — lament braided with exuberance, suffering braided with awe — structures the emotional, formal & ethical terrain of the collection": Kimberly Grey on Gabrielle Calvocoressi's THE NEW ECONOMY @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4jxIbpq via On The Seawall
January 7, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Here's "Commerce" by @simeonberry.bsky.social, his poem in the new edition of On The Seawall / www.ronslate.com/commerce/
January 7, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Thanks for publishing my review of Maria Stepanova's new novel, The Disappearing Act, translated by Sasha Dugdale!

www.ronslate.com/on-the-disap...
January 6, 2026 at 8:47 PM
"His poems dug down into memory to find their source. More precisely, the excavation of memory -- both personal and cultural, and the continuity he sought in it -- IS his subject": Christian Detisch on THE POEMS OF SEAMUS HEANEY @fsgbooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/4aIxLB1
January 6, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Do y'allselves a favor and preorder @namwalien.bsky.social's "On Morrison," a magisterial close reading of an American master in an age of lit-lite substacks. Out 2/24 from Hogarth. Here's my review for @ronslate.bsky.social's "On the Seawall": www.ronslate.com/on-on-morris...
on On Morrison by Namwali Serpell – On the Seawall
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January 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
NEW: The January edition of ON THE SEAWALL, our first expanded quarterly. We invite you to stop by the "gallery" & have a look / ronslate.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Tune in tomorrow night 7:30PM ET when Philip Metres reads from FUGITIVE/REFUGE. The zoom link will be available on Tues afternoon at pathwaysmv.org. If you're on Martha's Vineyard, we'll see you at the Chilmark Tavern where poetry & revelry often mean the same thing.
January 5, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Tomorrow (Tues) night 7:30ET -- Hank Lazer reads from ABUNDANT LIFE, his new & selected poems. Zoom link available tomorrow afternoon at pathwaysmv.org
Pathways ARTS
Pathways. . .Creating and catalyzing creative projects in the visual arts, writings, dance & collaborative forms. Keeping a Light On in Chilmark...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors,/I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd./My century— my poison, my century—my harm,/my century—my enemy, my century— hell": from 4 poems by Marina Tsvetaeva via On The Seawall bit.ly/48gdMaZ tr by Margaree Little
November 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social and Jonathan Farmer for this interview about When the Earth Flies into the Sun! The book celebrated its first birthday last month!
"I encounter a lot of overly long and under-edited books, many weighed down by prose poems. Some feel strident. These books sound like they began with a thesis, not a question": @derekmong.bsky.social in convo w/Jonathan Farmer via On The Seawall bit.ly/47vs87k
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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NBCC member Tiffany Troy reviewed "When We Only Have the Earth," written by Abdourahman A. Waberi and translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson, for World Literature Today:
When We Only Have the Earth by Abdourahman A. Waberi
Trans. Nancy Naomi Carlson. University of Nebraska Press. 2025. 80 pages.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Friends, I'm happy and honored to have another poem in #OntheSeawall --thanks to editor @ronslate.bsky.social, www.ronslate.com/tacoma-narro...

"Tacoma Narrows" is from the new edition of my #chapbook, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems, to be released soon by #BlueLightPress.
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"I encounter a lot of overly long and under-edited books, many weighed down by prose poems. Some feel strident. These books sound like they began with a thesis, not a question": @derekmong.bsky.social in convo w/Jonathan Farmer via On The Seawall bit.ly/47vs87k
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. It’s sneaky like that": @tobiascarroll.bsky.social on @delaneynolan.bsky.social 's novel HAPPY BAD via Astra House & On The Seawall
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November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Here's an invitation to take a trip through the new Nov/Dec edition of On The Seawall ... beginning with our feature on poems from STUDY OF SORROWS: TRANSLATIONS by
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors, / I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century — my poison, my century — my harm, / my century — my enemy, my century — hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall / bit.ly/4opoNN2
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors, / I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century — my poison, my century — my harm, / my century — my enemy, my century — hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall / bit.ly/4opoNN2
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I wrote a novel. Or rather, I imagined a novel. And then I imagined reading it....

...many thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for publishing the resulting poem at On the Seawall: www.ronslate.com/the-novel/
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Here's an invitation to take a trip through the new Nov/Dec edition of On The Seawall ... beginning with our feature on poems from STUDY OF SORROWS: TRANSLATIONS by
Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
/ ronslate.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM