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Maria Meindl
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Writer, historian, Feldenkrais practitioner. Booster of works-in-progress at Draft Reading Series. http://mariameindl.com http://draftreadings.com Checking this account once a week or so.
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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 13d
Two Bluemoose Books adapted for BBC Drama Series in the last 2 years.

Not bad for an Indy publisher!

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ecw press @ecwpress.bsky.social · 13d
We have some wonderful authors signing books in our booth at The Word On The Street Toronto this year! We hope to see you there! 📚 @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @aaronkreuter.bsky.social @joellekidd.bsky.social @tonialaird.bsky.social @kjaiello.bsky.social
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 16d
'Will Rees's Hypochondria interweaves a historical, literary, psychoanalytic and philosophical survey of hypochondria with a personal story. Lively and compelling, it’s an extended philosophical essay that I couldn’t put down.'

Read Maria Meindl's review here: www.thetemzreview.com/meindl-rees....
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 16d
Read @mmeindl.bsky.social's review of Will Rees' Hypochondria (pub. @coachhousebooks.bsky.social)!

The glimpses of Rees’s life serve as a backbone for his philosophical and historical explorations, and make Hypochondria a propulsive and deeply satisfying read.

www.thetemzreview.com/meindl-rees....
The cover of Hypochondria, by Will Rees. The font is red and blocky. The cover is a slightly blurry black-and-white photo of a person tentatively walking on a highwire towards the left side of the cover; the highwire starts in a cliff on the right side
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · Sep 2
We are currently OPEN for Issue 33 journal submissions! We close on Oct. 31, 2025.

www.thetemzreview.com/submissions....
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Don't miss this great review! 👇
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Mona Angéline @creativerunnings.com · 23d
Book review #published —thank you
@thetemzreview.bsky.social and @houseofanansi.bsky.social
! In Su Chang's #debutnovel, political and cultural conflict shape a family from oppression in China to freedom in North America.

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Su Chang - The Immortal Woman — creative.runnings.
I thoroughly enjoyed Su Chang’s debut novel, The Immortal Woman —a generational saga set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. It is a beautiful exploration of persona...
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Don't miss Louise Carson's wonderful poems in Issue 32! From "And a bird...":

I have tried to slip these words
into a poem over many summers,
but always drowned in the details.

...

www.thetemzreview.com/carson-32.html
Headshot of Louise Carson, standing outside in front of a white brick wall, with the lower edges of a cedar's branches above her head. There is sun on the branches and on her
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Read Kelly Norah Drukker's lovely poems in Issue 32! "origins":

to dwell
on the rocks

like a rough moss
among the scrub

of dead things,
beginning

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Read Leah Duarte's haunting poems in Issue 32! From "calcium":

angel hair scalded in boiling milk
sugar steam licking thin-skinned lids
wait for the custard to thicken

sugar crystals dissolving at the roots
hang dripping hair upside down
...

www.thetemzreview.com/duarte-32.html
Headshot of Leah Duarte, sitting on a swing that has chains as ropes. She is inside, in front of a rose-colored, paneled wall
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Read Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe's lyrical poems in Issue 32! From "Angels":

..
This is what he does, what I do, what we have
all done.

Hold the things we say we love the most in
the worlds collapsing

in our palms. And watch them crumble,
watch them unravel
..

www.thetemzreview.com/igwe-32.html
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Read PW Jarungpiterah's fantastic poems in Issue 32! From "The Reader":

... Your body is planographic—
black ink corridors of copies
of copies. Under a hot shining
firmament, the gilt that covers everything
comes off on your hands.

www.thetemzreview.com/jarungpitera...
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Don't miss Hannan Khan's inventive poems in Issue 32! From "Amore & Accelerants":

i charred the haven to hone how torch behaves
my jaws were always stuffed with someone else’s fire
the fucking mirror lamented ...

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Headshot of Hannan Khan, against a backdrop consisting of large, brightly-colored advertising slogans
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Read @ziyanakotadia.bsky.social's lovely poem "Sacred" in Issue 32!

I know my religion like a habit,
carefully crafted performance art,
sloping verses of Du’a
tattooed over my tongue
in muscle memory swirls and loops,
rust-worn stories upon well-rehearsed lips
...
www.thetemzreview.com/kotadia.html
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Read Sreeja Naskar's moving poems in Issue 32! From "concourse A, body unclaimed":

...
forgive me, mother. i ate news again
  for breakfast. choked on the names.
    the bodies.
      the borders.
...

www.thetemzreview.com/naskar.html
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Don't miss Jon Riccio's fantastic poems in Issue 32! From "Aptitude":

Like powdered milk discerning its best friend
was the mailbox, some iambs should never—

Play-Doh romcom—

frangible the new tangible
per beauty magazines of the bi-valvous.

...

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Read Stan Rogal's wry and effective poems in Iss 32! From "Love, inc.":

so say we inhabit a drowsy movie
theatre-type darkness full of American
bullet holes : a monkey on its back
— this is the state of the empire, yes? —
...
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Read Bryan Sentes' moving poems in Issue 32! "Ars Poetica ... 'The top global stories that matter'":

Russian destruction of Borodyanka
even “more horrific” than in Bucha,
oxytocin turns lions into lovecats,
one big step for the space economy.

www.thetemzreview.com/sentes-32.html
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Don't miss @paulsheppard.bsky.social's visually innovative poem "a n y w a y (s)" in Issue 32! Excerpting doesn't do it justice; just click through to the poem:

www.thetemzreview.com/sheppard-32....
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Don't miss Sarah Clowes' whimsical-yet-acid story "Seahorse Daddy" in Issue 32!

...A year ago, I was living with a friend in a one-and-a-half-bedroom apartment, and now it’s me, my infant son, and forty-seven rats...

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Read Nelson Chukwu John's haunting story "Click Here to Get Started" in Issue 32!

You are a 37-year-old man whose index finger reacts badly to honey. You are a 37-year-old man who just signed up for an escort service, of course as a patron...

www.thetemzreview.com/john-32.html
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Read Sumaiya Matin's devastating story "A Sweet Life" in Issue 32!

... The poison floating in my bloodstream cures me, if not permanently, just for the time being. It holds me from the inside as I melt into the tears of all my disappointments ...

www.thetemzreview.com/matin-32.html
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Don't miss Amanda Merpaw's wonderful "How Should the Night Feel?" in Iss 32!

I knew I would agree to meet him when I recognized his voice upon hearing it, our only phone call after weeks of emails and texts, when I could tell it was the voice that should be his

www.thetemzreview.com/merpaw-32.html
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Don't miss Per Olvmyr's sinister, surrealist flash "Failed attempts with horses" in Issue 32!

​How do you get a hundred thousand people into a horse's ass? I asked Dad at breakfast. He started crying...

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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Read Itto & Mekiya Outini's fantastic story "Death of an Icon" in Issue 32!

Bakhtiyor was pronounced dead on Monday morning. The kids at the nonprofit where he used to volunteer must’ve worked on his eulogy all weekend because it took up their entire newsletter...

www.thetemzreview.com/outini.html
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 23d
Read Allison Snyder's acid story "The Girl Runner's Pocket Dictionary" in Issue 32!

...
Battle (bǎt’l) n. 1. What Coach likens every race, every practice to...

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