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The thing to always remember about poetry: it can take ten years to write a book that should only take an hour to read. Be at peace with that idea.
Free State Review THE MUSICAL! --poem meets story, poem loses story, poem is chased by a chorus of essays, story is just, "Oof, my sucky life."
January 8, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Free State Review THE MUSICAL! --poem meets story, poem loses story, poem is chased by a chorus of essays, story is just, "Oof, my sucky life."
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Would be so crazy to write a haunting song about the human toll of your war-torn region all for Americans to be like “Halloween playlist lols”
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The Cranberries - Zombie (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TheCranberriesVEVO
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October 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Would be so crazy to write a haunting song about the human toll of your war-torn region all for Americans to be like “Halloween playlist lols”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejg...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejg...
wish we could flip the business model and get paid for writing but then we did editing for free, or payment in copies
December 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
wish we could flip the business model and get paid for writing but then we did editing for free, or payment in copies
T. R. Poulson is in the bubbler--https://freestatereview.com/2025/12/09/fifteen-hundred-ladybugs/
December 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
T. R. Poulson is in the bubbler--https://freestatereview.com/2025/12/09/fifteen-hundred-ladybugs/
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Poets aren’t bad at self-promotion because we’re inherently humble, but because the habits that sustain poetry have very little to do with the habits required to promote it. Promotion can feel like an assault on the inner world by the outer one.
Poets, We Need to Talk About Self-Promotion
Why asking for support feels harder than writing the book
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December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Poets aren’t bad at self-promotion because we’re inherently humble, but because the habits that sustain poetry have very little to do with the habits required to promote it. Promotion can feel like an assault on the inner world by the outer one.
Remember that Chris Toll poetry zine Strangled by a Cardigan Sweater?
Up until last night I have never owned a cardigan sweater in my life, but I recently decided that sometimes I might actually want to wear something warm around the house other than a bathrobe. Here is my Very First Cardigan, and I hope you appreciate the Very Serious Author Look accompanying it.
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Remember that Chris Toll poetry zine Strangled by a Cardigan Sweater?
"A repeated phrase serves as a variable to connect two non-adjacent ideas." (Michael Dean)
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"A repeated phrase serves as a variable to connect two non-adjacent ideas." (Michael Dean)
New interview with Galileo Press author Emily May
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Late Capitalism, French Philosophy and Dad Rock: Author Emily May on Some Girls by Carmen Cornue
Emily May’s book of essays Some Girls covers familiar territory for a 21st century writer–reflections on recurring financial catastrophe, writing’s purpose as it battles technofeudalism and what our a...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
New interview with Galileo Press author Emily May
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
The story is fascinating, but the prose is somewhat transparent and overwrought in places. The writing is definitely a means to an end but not an end in itself. The book is not about the way it is told, but what is told...
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Review of The Only Woman in the Room, by Marie Benedict
This historical novel retells the story of the 40’s screen actress Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Kiesler, an Austrian Jew living in Vienna during the years preceding WWII.
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September 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The story is fascinating, but the prose is somewhat transparent and overwrought in places. The writing is definitely a means to an end but not an end in itself. The book is not about the way it is told, but what is told...
juliawendell.substack.com/p/review-of-...
juliawendell.substack.com/p/review-of-...
If you're one of our authors and are planning a transition please let us know so we can change your name and gender in your online bio.
September 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
If you're one of our authors and are planning a transition please let us know so we can change your name and gender in your online bio.
We don't need no point of view. We don't need no tense control. No dark star chasm in the class room...
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
We don't need no point of view. We don't need no tense control. No dark star chasm in the class room...
Something is beginning to worry me about how we refer to The Speaker in a poem. It puts words on a higher level than action, or motion. I wish we could call her The Mover. The Doer. The Engager.
September 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Something is beginning to worry me about how we refer to The Speaker in a poem. It puts words on a higher level than action, or motion. I wish we could call her The Mover. The Doer. The Engager.
"I had a dream with symbolism so transparent that it makes me want to write a scathing review of my own unconscious." (Robin Meyer, poet, translator)
September 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
"I had a dream with symbolism so transparent that it makes me want to write a scathing review of my own unconscious." (Robin Meyer, poet, translator)
Crane's 1895 Red Badge book is a good example of cinematic writing (when descriptive nouns become sentient), but before there was actual cinema:
"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."
"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."
September 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Crane's 1895 Red Badge book is a good example of cinematic writing (when descriptive nouns become sentient), but before there was actual cinema:
"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."
"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."
Lights. Camera. Inaction.
September 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Lights. Camera. Inaction.
Characters are people.
They do shit for no reason.
Not everything they do has to be explained.
(Jessica Bonder)
They do shit for no reason.
Not everything they do has to be explained.
(Jessica Bonder)
September 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Characters are people.
They do shit for no reason.
Not everything they do has to be explained.
(Jessica Bonder)
They do shit for no reason.
Not everything they do has to be explained.
(Jessica Bonder)
"The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten, where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.” Edwin Arlington Robinson
September 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten, where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.” Edwin Arlington Robinson
Plot points are not plot
September 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Plot points are not plot
I like to know whether someone is the kind of person who eats broccoli before I knew whether she's been to hell and back. A teaspoon of portraiture, all I'm saying.
September 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I like to know whether someone is the kind of person who eats broccoli before I knew whether she's been to hell and back. A teaspoon of portraiture, all I'm saying.
A sonnet is only the expectation of a sonnet, whether or not a sonnet 'actually' happens.
September 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
A sonnet is only the expectation of a sonnet, whether or not a sonnet 'actually' happens.
Not sure about people who say, "That's hilarious," instead of actually laughing. That's what we want in your poems, actual out loud laughing and singing. Come rave with us.
September 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Not sure about people who say, "That's hilarious," instead of actually laughing. That's what we want in your poems, actual out loud laughing and singing. Come rave with us.
Is that a single line or is it a half-couplet?
September 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Is that a single line or is it a half-couplet?
C. I. Marshall reviews Davide Dodd Lee's The Bay, out from @broadstone16.bsky.social
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A Review of David Dodd Lee’s The Bay – by C. I. Marshall
David Dodd Lee’s The Bay dazzles with clarity, humor, and lyric depth—poems of swine, goldfinches, memory, ads, and aging that remind us to notice everything.
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September 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
C. I. Marshall reviews Davide Dodd Lee's The Bay, out from @broadstone16.bsky.social
freestatereview.com/2025/09/03/a...
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All my poems are about you. The "I" is just a mask.
August 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
All my poems are about you. The "I" is just a mask.
If you're a right handed poet try writing a poem with your left hand now and then just to use the other side of your head.
August 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you're a right handed poet try writing a poem with your left hand now and then just to use the other side of your head.