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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thanks to editor @jrobertlennon.com and @epochliterary.com for including my odd little piece "Nineteen Footnotes on a Poem About My Marriage" as a featured essay in the Fall 2025 issue. I'm grateful to be part of such an impressive collection. You can find it at www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay

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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · Feb 2

Brain-damaged psychopath methamphetamine addict . . . we're now squarely in the "Tuco Salamanca" era in the history of the republic.

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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · Jan 27

Many thanks to Adam Bechtold and Dylan Hogan at @samfiftyfour.bsky.social for their deep dive into my odd, cross-genre piece "Prayer for a Lost Child (with notes)" on the Jan. 16 edition of Samfiftyfour's "Loose Criteria" podcast. You can find it here: open.spotify.com/episode/0ef1...

Almost Unimaginable Suffering

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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · Jan 25

Yes. It absolutely feels like watching a plane crash. It feels like "wishing this weren't happening" is the best one can do. But that's actually not true. The feeling that things are sadly inevitable is a kind of toxin secreted on the skin of malignancy to paralyze the impulse to do more than wish.

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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · Jan 25

As individuals, as a culture, as adherents to an idea, we are what we do and create. Full stop. We are not the things we wish for, justify or explain. If you care for someone, you are a caregiver. If you wish someone would somehow be cared for, even if you wish for it with passion, you are nothing.

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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · Jan 21

I'm excited to share that my poem "The Dardanelles: Hero and Leander at 60" has been selected as one of the winners of the Lazuli Literary Group's fall prize. I'm grateful to editor Sakina Fakhri for her support and guidance. You can read the piece here: www.lazuliliterarygroup.com/the-dardanel...

THE DARDANELLES (HERO AND LEANDER AT 60) by Greg Sendi

It shows the moment in the tale \ she wails to find his pale exquisite corpse. \ entangled in the kelp beside the water. \ The truth, of course, is odder.

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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · Jan 9

Many thanks to the team at US Catholic magazine and its gifted editor Rebecca Bratten Weiss (@rbratten.bsky.social) for making a home for my poem "Prayer for a Lost Child." It's about a lot of things . . . fathers and daughters, prayers, grave things in the dark and old railroads and railroad men.

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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · Dec 10

In Act III, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Titus has been presented with the monstrous reality of his daughter's assault and mutilation, the decapitated heads of two sons and his own severed hand. From the depth of his horror and grief, he starts to laugh . . .

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Titus

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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · Dec 9

Not gonna lie, I'm about 88% Pearl with Jupiter in Torgo.

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Hannah Cohen @hcohen.bsky.social · Dec 5

a few years ago I took this picture of a toilet on the street corner and it’s haunted me ever since

there are poems everywhere for those with eyes to see

A picture I took in 2020 of a white toilet discarded on a street corner in a neighborhood. It’s sitting upright on a storm drain. The toilet appears as if waiting for a bus. It’s a very lonely picture.

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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · Dec 5

The beige with the white seat makes it almost too much to bear.

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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · Nov 28

So beautiful and well made. Beyond.

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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · Nov 28

Feeling grateful for my sister, who for 20 years gathered our complicated clan at her house, until her passing a little over two years ago. She visited us, briefly, a few months later. This one's for her.