David Harrison Horton
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David Harrison Horton
@unionherald.bsky.social
Artist, curator, editor, and writer based in Beijing. Author of Necessary (Downingfield, 2025), Model Answers (CCCP Chapbooks, 2024) and Maze Poems (Arteidolia, 2022). Edits poetry zine SAGINAW.
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My second full-length poetry book, Necessary, is out today from Downingfield Press. I am really very excited about this. If you’re interested in reviewing it please DM me. downingfield.com/book/necessa...
Excellent mail day came just in time for my Christmas break.
December 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Speaking of famous men, can y'all who study history recommend any theory to me that specifically rejects Carlyle's "Great Man Theory"? This isn't my field, so I need some guidance if anyone can point me in the direction of a rabbit hole I can go down.
December 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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This collection has magic, humor, spirit, lyricism, resistance, delight, and lots of animals. Thought-provoking and kind, *Becoming Altar* makes a great gift for yourself or any reader.

What I want for Christmas is for *Becoming Altar* to sell out!

❤️ 🎄 📘 💖

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December 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Hey poetry editors, once again thanks for the wonderful work you do. One request, if your publication decides to fold, please do let the writers you’ve already accepted but won’t publish know about it. This is the third time in recent years I’m learning the hard way.
December 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Really happy to have a poem in the latest issue of the Inkwellian.
December 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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I want to be sad, but who has the time?

Xin Qiji, tr. Jon Hansen
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It’s a top selling poetry book. I saw him on Jimmy Kimmel promoting it. Is it any good?
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Got the first stew of the season going on the stove.
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I love it when my small neighborhood cinema in Beijing shows random treats like 1957’s Witness for the Prosecution for no apparent reason.
December 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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It really is a beautiful book.
#Poetry #booksky
My lovely publisher made these postcards to help promote my book. If you had one, you could get your library to order a copy! Plus they make nifty bookmarks. If you'd like one, or a couple to share, DM me your mailing address and I'll send you a Happy Holiday card! (US only.) 📚 ❤️‍🔥 📬
December 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no star wars or trek, LOTR, Marvel, Potter, Disney or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Je hais le mouvement qui déplace les lignes,
Et jamais je ne pleure et jamais je ne ris.

Charles Baudelaire, La beauté
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 AM
胡格吉乐图(Hugejiletu) and Dasom Baek @ Traverse. Horsehead fiddle and flute avant improv. So glad to see music like this live in Beijing.
December 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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I've just published a new poetry pamphlet, titled THE MOUSETRAP. It's the 10th in a chapbook sequence, provisionally titled SHIELD OF MNEMOSYNE.
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The Mousetrap
THE MOUSETRAP is a set of poems, comprising the 10th section of a work-in-progress, tentatively titled SHIELD OF MNEMOSYNE.
www.lulu.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The bookstore in my neighborhood had this today. They don’t usually carry English language books outside of old school classics (think Dante, Dickens and Hemingway and you’ll get the idea). I’ve never read this, so it’s a nice unexpected treat.
December 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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the usual reminder that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews, essays and translations; yes, please!
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submissions
periodicities is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews and essays. Please send submissions as .d...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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He literally has no comeback
December 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Second hand find. How some learned English around these parts 50 years ago. To be fair, it’s at a fairly advanced level. Looking forward to reading it.
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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A poet is not responsible for their poems prompting in other people the wish to write poems themselves. Except that that’s what poetry is — the continuing of a conversation, with the probable consequence of the conversation being continued later on by someone else.
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
An envelope of goodness from @allisonanne.com. Really great collage zines.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
An envelope of goodness from @allisonanne.com. Really great collage zines.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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A DIRT SALE.

starting December 1st, the pdf for my first collection, Deifying A Total Darkness, will be available for FREE (or, yaknow, "paywhutchalike") through gumroad.com/upfromsumdirt ... the paperback will be a slender $10.

discount will end on my birthday, January 21st, 2026.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Going through the IWW’s Big Red Songbook and love how the songs list the lyrics and then the forgotten tune that is meant to supply the music, like “The Workers, So They Say” is set to the tune of “The Bird on Nelly’s Hat.”
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM