Mark Dow
mdow99.bsky.social
Mark Dow
@mdow99.bsky.social
Author of Plain Talk Rising (poems) and American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons.
“These totally remarkable renderings – I won’t even say translations – of the superb French Surrealist poet, Philippe Soupault, are nothing short of miraculous."
(Mary Ann Caws)

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Philippe Soupault - Serving House Books
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September 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Manhattan, Sept. 25, 2025.
September 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The CoreCivic employee's i.d. badge hangs from a purple lanyard with white lettering: "CoreCivic Diversity Equity Inclusion."

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'There Is No Law': Scenes From a Houston Immigration Court in Trump's America | Common Dreams
On August 29, US District Judge Jia M. Cobb wrote, "The Supreme Court has therefore 'long held that no person shall be removed from the United States' without due process of law." Will the administrat...
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September 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Houston, South Gessner immigration court building (Alliance Tower) in the background. June 2025.
September 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Houston, June 13, 2025. Outside CoreCivic/ICE immigration prison. (Que viva Mount Pleasant.)
August 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Reporter Sean Carlson just repeated DHS propaganda that Bklyn high schooler Mamadou Diallo entered illegally. DHS also says he "was released into our country by the Biden administration." @wnyc.org fails to grasp that the admin. is trying to make "legal" into "illegal." @maketheroadny.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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any poetry loving friends close to Hudson NY, here's an interesting upcoming event at Flow Chart: www.eventbrite.com/e/philippe-s...
Philippe Soupault, Poetry, Prose, and Interviews
Gregg Ellis will read from his new book of translations of Soupault’s poems and prose followed by a conversation around surrealist poetry.
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August 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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check out my post on Garth Greenwell's Small Rain, with thanks to Kevin Pask and Mark Dow, editors extraordinares: westronwynde750443069.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/2...
Small Rain and Verbal Power
Contributed by Marcie Frank, Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen; How to be an Intelle…
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August 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"'New spaces in our interiors,'" wherein Marcie Frank talks Garth Greenwell talking Westron Wynde on the Westron Wynde Blog --

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Small Rain and Verbal Power
Contributed by Marcie Frank, Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen; How to be an Intelle…
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August 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
July 18, 2025.
July 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Demonstration outside ICE/CoreCivic immigration prison. Houston, June 13, 2025.
July 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
June 13, 2025 at 5:29 AM
With thanks to editor Jonathan Minton.

Index Card Poems

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April 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Also featuring:
Mark Dow’s remembrances of October in Sacramento (2022)
David Herman on the late Ahron Appelfeld
An excerpt from Philip Terry’s What is Poetry?
Gregory Woods on Coding and Gendering

Woods's essay is free to read here: www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scri...
April 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Glad to be there.
PN Review 281 is here! Keep scrolling for a sneak peek…

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April 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The longstanding principles of U.S.detention and deportation policy—dehumanization of the immigrants and unchecked power for their guards and deporters—have metastasized under the Trump-Vance plan. www.commondreams.org/opinion/prot...
Dehumanization and Protest: Miami's Krome Detention Center and Beyond | Common Dreams
Demonstrators from Miami to Tacoma support immigrants detained by ICE.
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April 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Dehumanization and Protest: Miami's Krome Detention Center and Beyond www.commondreams.org/opinion/prot...
Dehumanization and Protest: Miami's Krome Detention Center and Beyond | Common Dreams
Demonstrators from Miami to Tacoma support immigrants detained by ICE.
www.commondreams.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM