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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 1h

ten poems

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BAKED ALASKA My Inuit name is Baked Alaska. My Russian name is Traktor Dazdraperma. I can never tell anyone about what happened in Anchorage, Alaska, one hot August night. LAST NI...

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 1h

Mike Topp

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I partnered with Hulk Hogan for a while, until I realized he was using up all my gasoline, liquor, dynamite, and toilet paper. Eventually I started to realize that there is an upside to being alone in the world. No, wait, hear me out. There is.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks so much! Really appreciate that

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 14h

These are so good. Especially loved "Simply Horrific."

Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 23h

I have four new poems in the newest 'censorship' issue of The Indianapolis Review

Here's one of them

theindianapolisreview.com

Silent America

The superstitious
lamb asks
for more
bricks.

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 17h

You can find Kiik's book at any of these awesome stores!

- Alienated Majesty Books
- Arundel Books
- The Astoria Bookshop
- The Daily Planet
- Kinokuniya Bookstore
- Leviathan Bookstore
- Open Books
- Perelandra Bookshop
- Powell's Books
- Topos Bookstore
- Unnameable Books
- Village Books

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks!

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 23h

I have four new poems in the newest 'censorship' issue of The Indianapolis Review

Here's one of them

theindianapolisreview.com

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 1d

I was interviewed nine years ago, before I'd published a poem, before I'd released a book, before I'd participated in a reading, before I'd hosted my own reading series, before I'd launched my website, before I'd worked for a music label...

reflecting on this fall Wednesday

What could we expect from you as 2016 begins to come to an end?

The “zine” this week, a sleep album the day after Christmas, my own multimedia platform sooner than later, and a book of haikus for you to keep by the fireplace as you question the endless void of nothingness. But seriously. I want to start my own label and/or work for a larger label. I’m also trying to force myself to do readings at open mics.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 1d

Daniel Borzutzky

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 1d

I've been on a Zahler kick all year long, having read four screenplays and three novels. This novel rips.

A Congregation of Jackals

"A noir Western of uncommon power."

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HAD @havehashad.com · 1d

amazing new triptych from Benjamin Niespodziany today!!

The wolf full of old candles is melting in the parking lot. Parked at the waxing wolf, the melting wolf sees a permanent time of fire. Last night was the weather. Tonight's still unsure."

https://www.havehashad.com/jytay

Candlewolf by Benjamin Niespodziany

[1] Two area residents found a wolf full of old candles while on a walk yesterday evening. Authorities are trying to uncover the culprit, be it monster or nomad or youth. The mauled wolf is being…

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much! Anything to help me get on the page 😂

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 1d

sorry for the wrong tag @havehashad.com

Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 1d

I once read a fairytale pedagogy advising against writing about wolves & candles, because they were cliché & overdone. I then proceeded to write a long sequence about a wolf full of candles.

Here are 3 from that sequence, thanks to @havehadhavehad 🐺🕯️

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HAD @havehashad.com · 1d

amazing new triptych from Benjamin Niespodziany today!!

The wolf full of old candles is melting in the parking lot. Parked at the waxing wolf, the melting wolf sees a permanent time of fire. Last night was the weather. Tonight's still unsure."

https://www.havehashad.com/jytay

Candlewolf by Benjamin Niespodziany

[1] Two area residents found a wolf full of old candles while on a walk yesterday evening. Authorities are trying to uncover the culprit, be it monster or nomad or youth. The mauled wolf is being…

www.havehashad.com

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 1d

Tuesday reading

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Afro-Surrealism: Embracing & Reconstructing the Absurdity of “Right Now”

Surrealism is described as a 20th-century unusual or unconventional art movement that serves the purpose of releasing creative expression…

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 2d

"This is what Disintegration does over and over again, pairs truth against humanity."

Really insightful & thoughtful review of Kiik's book is up on @bendinggenres.bsky.social today!

Thanks to Yetta Stein & @rgvaughan.bsky.social

bendinggenres.com/review-of-ki...

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 2d

Kaveh Akbar

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 2d

The Sense God Gave a Goat

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 2d

Kyle Marbut

BRAIN FREEZE

my filaments burned violet
a mind-body collage
I pulled my hands out of your eyes
we planted them under the bed
grown now into destroying angels
aglow in afterbirth
I pulled my eye out of your eye

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 3d

❤️❤️❤️

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J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social · 3d

I have this book. I have read it, and I like it.

Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 3d

"In Mr. Neonpajamas' neighborhood, every item becomes a totem, every event an omen. In Niespodziany's imagination, everything is possible inside a city block."

- Matt McBride

out now via @okaydonkeymag.com

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 3d

"In Mr. Neonpajamas' neighborhood, every item becomes a totem, every event an omen. In Niespodziany's imagination, everything is possible inside a city block."

- Matt McBride

out now via @okaydonkeymag.com

okaydonkeymag.bigcartel.com/product/no-f...

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 3d

six of the rarest books in our collection

📚 The Butcher’s Tales
📚 POOL
📚 The Battlefield where the Moon Says I Love You
📚 Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me
📚 The Zoo Club
📚 I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 3d

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi / @pizamapress.bsky.social @neonpajamas.bsky.social ;
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi

Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi is the author of DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY (Piżama Press) and THE BOOK OF KANE AND MARGARET (FC2 / UAP). 1...

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 3d

Neon Night Mic is BACK on Nov. 5!

We hope to see you there 📚🍸

🎤 Sam Berman
🎤 Suzanne Buffam
🎤 Jacob Saenz
🎤 Sara Matson
🎤 Ruben Quesada
🎤 Christy Prahl

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