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RS Deeren

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Cat Stepdad Michigander in the South Michigan Notable Book Author ENOUGH TO LOSE from Wayne State University Press Prof. & Coordinator of Creative Writing at Austin Peay State University

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RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Nov 19

Started a list of working-class and rural authors, for your ease of follow. Feel free to share and add to the list.

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 26d

"What’s important to me isn’t to capture an experience so much as the emotional truth of an experience."

@rsdeeren.bsky.social's interview with Valencia Robin on her new book “Lost Cities: Poems” (Persea Books) is out now.
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"The Emotional Truth of an Experience:" An Interview with Valencia Robin - Chicago Review of Books

A conversation with Valencia Robin on her new poetry collection, "Lost Cities"

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RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · 26d

I had the joy of speaking with Valencia Robin on her newest poetry collection, LOST CITIES, for @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
Check out the brilliant insight below. Thanks to Gabriel Fried for putting us in contact.

"The Emotional Truth of an Experience:" An Interview with Valencia Robin - Chicago Review of Books

A conversation with Valencia Robin on her new poetry collection, "Lost Cities"

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RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Sep 5

Such an honor to be from a state that has a huge love for its own authors and books.

Wednesday Night Sessions Reading Series @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social · Sep 5

GET YOUR COPY TODAY!
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RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Sep 5

What a great interview Mitch gave. He is such a deep reader. EtL has a 2nd birthday tomorrow@

RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Sep 5

An absolute gem of a collection! Celebrating its 2nd birthday tomorrow

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RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Jun 23

Preorders are live for this major anthology edited by Michael Welch. I am always stoked for work that shows honest aspects of the Midwest, especially the Great Lakes Region. Honored to be in these pages.

Michael Welch @mbwwelch.bsky.social · Jun 23

Preorders are open for "On an Inland Sea: Writing the Great Lakes," coming your way from @beltpublishing.bsky.social on March 10, 2026!

Featuring everything from shipwrecks & ice caves to zebra mussels & manoomin, & 32 writers on why the lakes loom so large.

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On an Inland Sea: Writing the Great Lakes, Edited by Michael Welch

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RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Jun 18

Read the headline in some feed and came straight here

RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Jun 18

I'm from Michigan's Thumb and I support this.

RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Jun 13

The team at Wayne State UP have told me that online sales of ENOUGH TO LOSE are still climbing. I don't know what is contributing to this boom 18 months after the book came out but I'm extremely grateful! My neighbor even told me she got a copy!

RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Jun 10

I like mine with lettuce and tomatah!

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RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Jun 10

Real honored to sit down with Mitch at KicksART Farmington to discuss class, writing fiction, rural spaces, and of course THE THUMB. Coming this August!

Wednesday Night Sessions Reading Series @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social · Jun 10

In August, @rsdeeren.bsky.social, author of the short story collection Enough to Lose, joins us to read & chat all things Thumb & Michigan. Love those things? You'll love his book! Don't know much about MI or the Thumb? You'll love his book!

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RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · May 8

Excellent!

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RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Apr 9

And it's a brilliant piece!

Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Apr 9

I have a new essay about snapdragons, dinosaurs, and predatory men in the new issue of Zone 3. Many thanks to @awrightawright.bsky.social, @rsdeeren.bsky.social, and the team for giving this piece a home.

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Snapdragon - Zone 3

I hold open my hand for bloom but feel only burst. My grandmother’s garden is an oasis in the desert, a small bit of land behind her house that stretches toward an empty meadow like it is running away. The

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RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Mar 29

I'll be discussing thr working-class, my book, and answering your questions live! See you there.

Bridge Michigan @bridgemi.com · Mar 26

Bridge Culture Club discusses book ‘Enough to Lose’ with author RS Deeren

Bridge Culture Club resumes April 9 with RS Deeren to discuss his book about working-class characters in rural Michigan.

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RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Mar 27

Wreckage and the Hollywood sign for the Poetry in Woods #AWP25 hike.

RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Mar 27

They got totes, at least. Had leftover KC pins, too.

RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Mar 27

Started of #AWP25 right with eight street tacos and poetry talk with a fellow Thumbody.

RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Mar 27

They got totes! #APW

RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Mar 26

This may be my first #AWP with bluesky. I'm hoping to get fives of reactions to my silly posts.

Excited for a handful of working-class panels!

RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Mar 26

I had another chance to speak with a wonderful poet. Gabriel Fried's recent collection is stunning, halting, and fantastic!

Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · Mar 26

"...connection comes in feeling out how what we think we know about ourselves isn’t completely congruent with what we don’t, in fact, permit ourselves to know."

Online now: @rsdeeren.bsky.social's interview with Gabriel Fried on his new book "No Small Thing."
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"Bring Those Threads Back Together Where They Belong:" An Interview with Gabriel Fried for No Small Thing - Chicago Review of Books

Gabriel Fried’s upcoming collection of poetry, No Small Thing (Four Way Books), is a tour of identities, interpersonal expectations, and the blend of internal and external perceptions that shape an in...

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RS Deeren @rsdeeren.bsky.social · Mar 26

Great book. Great conversation!