David Harrison Horton
@unionherald.bsky.social
Artist, curator, editor, and writer based in Beijing. Author of Necessary (Downingfield, 2025), Model Answers (CCCP Chapbooks, 2024) and Maze Poems (Arteidolia, 2022). Edits poetry zine SAGINAW.
Excellent mail day came just in time for my Christmas break.
December 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Excellent mail day came just in time for my Christmas break.
Really happy to have a poem in the latest issue of the Inkwellian.
December 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Really happy to have a poem in the latest issue of the Inkwellian.
It’s a top selling poetry book. I saw him on Jimmy Kimmel promoting it. Is it any good?
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It’s a top selling poetry book. I saw him on Jimmy Kimmel promoting it. Is it any good?
I love it when my small neighborhood cinema in Beijing shows random treats like 1957’s Witness for the Prosecution for no apparent reason.
December 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I love it when my small neighborhood cinema in Beijing shows random treats like 1957’s Witness for the Prosecution for no apparent reason.
胡格吉乐图(Hugejiletu) and Dasom Baek @ Traverse. Horsehead fiddle and flute avant improv. So glad to see music like this live in Beijing.
December 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
胡格吉乐图(Hugejiletu) and Dasom Baek @ Traverse. Horsehead fiddle and flute avant improv. So glad to see music like this live in Beijing.
The bookstore in my neighborhood had this today. They don’t usually carry English language books outside of old school classics (think Dante, Dickens and Hemingway and you’ll get the idea). I’ve never read this, so it’s a nice unexpected treat.
December 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The bookstore in my neighborhood had this today. They don’t usually carry English language books outside of old school classics (think Dante, Dickens and Hemingway and you’ll get the idea). I’ve never read this, so it’s a nice unexpected treat.
Second hand find. How some learned English around these parts 50 years ago. To be fair, it’s at a fairly advanced level. Looking forward to reading it.
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Second hand find. How some learned English around these parts 50 years ago. To be fair, it’s at a fairly advanced level. Looking forward to reading it.
An envelope of goodness from @allisonanne.com. Really great collage zines.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
An envelope of goodness from @allisonanne.com. Really great collage zines.
An envelope of goodness from @allisonanne.com. Really great collage zines.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
An envelope of goodness from @allisonanne.com. Really great collage zines.
Li Biao Percussion Group @ the Egg. Easily in my top 5 of performances I’ve seen here. At one point, they were playing tinfoil and bottle brushes (pic). Steve Reich, Xenakis, even Bach on the program. Glad the NCPA put this on. Easily the closest to avant I’ve seen in concert hall officialdom here.
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Li Biao Percussion Group @ the Egg. Easily in my top 5 of performances I’ve seen here. At one point, they were playing tinfoil and bottle brushes (pic). Steve Reich, Xenakis, even Bach on the program. Glad the NCPA put this on. Easily the closest to avant I’ve seen in concert hall officialdom here.
Look what my friend and fellow poet, Dom Armstrong, did. It’s a pretty great chap.
November 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Look what my friend and fellow poet, Dom Armstrong, did. It’s a pretty great chap.
SAGINAW has nominated pieces by @billymills.bsky.social, Stephen Ratcliffe, Katie Coy, @dangodston.bsky.social, and
@thedaybooks.bsky.social for the Pushcart Prize.
@thedaybooks.bsky.social for the Pushcart Prize.
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
SAGINAW has nominated pieces by @billymills.bsky.social, Stephen Ratcliffe, Katie Coy, @dangodston.bsky.social, and
@thedaybooks.bsky.social for the Pushcart Prize.
@thedaybooks.bsky.social for the Pushcart Prize.
Kyla Houbolt's book came in the mail today. I read it earlier this year to rightly praise it. Now, I am going to re-read it over a cup of beautiful longjing tea. You should get a copy if you haven't already.
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Kyla Houbolt's book came in the mail today. I read it earlier this year to rightly praise it. Now, I am going to re-read it over a cup of beautiful longjing tea. You should get a copy if you haven't already.
Not sure why someone however long ago decided to carve two goats outside of their pen into a rock up in the Helan Mountains in north China, but I’m kinda glad they did. I do, however, feel there’s probably more to the story than we’re getting now.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Not sure why someone however long ago decided to carve two goats outside of their pen into a rock up in the Helan Mountains in north China, but I’m kinda glad they did. I do, however, feel there’s probably more to the story than we’re getting now.
Walking around the Western Xia Imperial Tombs thinking about how everything eventually slips into history (remembered or not). It was actually a very calming experience.
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Walking around the Western Xia Imperial Tombs thinking about how everything eventually slips into history (remembered or not). It was actually a very calming experience.
A couple of odes in Penumbra (out of CSU Stanislaus). Ode to Sam Langford was a staff pick and will also appear in the print edition. www.penumbraonline.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
A couple of odes in Penumbra (out of CSU Stanislaus). Ode to Sam Langford was a staff pick and will also appear in the print edition. www.penumbraonline.com
Sometimes, I think about how Villard de Honnecourt's (13th century) sketchbook shows the cows in the towers of the Cathedral of Laon. This is what I think about when I'm waiting for football to start.
October 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Sometimes, I think about how Villard de Honnecourt's (13th century) sketchbook shows the cows in the towers of the Cathedral of Laon. This is what I think about when I'm waiting for football to start.
I’m embarrassed by how many of the poets included in this are new to me. Definitely a good used find for me. Seamus Heaney is listed under “New Voices.”
October 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I’m embarrassed by how many of the poets included in this are new to me. Definitely a good used find for me. Seamus Heaney is listed under “New Voices.”
3 volumes and I’m starting at the beginning with Georgias of Leontini (ca 483-376 BCE). Hope my next project benefits from this.
October 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
3 volumes and I’m starting at the beginning with Georgias of Leontini (ca 483-376 BCE). Hope my next project benefits from this.
Sometimes you visit the Nat’l Art Museum of China and see a circular painting of a cow with a bird on its head, and everything is good.
September 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Sometimes you visit the Nat’l Art Museum of China and see a circular painting of a cow with a bird on its head, and everything is good.
The (re)claimed: flotsam photographs & new retellings launch was a great success. Below is the poem I contributed to the exhibition and subsequent zine anthology. Congrats to @anapf89.bsky.social and Jessica Medhurst for putting it all together.
September 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The (re)claimed: flotsam photographs & new retellings launch was a great success. Below is the poem I contributed to the exhibition and subsequent zine anthology. Congrats to @anapf89.bsky.social and Jessica Medhurst for putting it all together.
If you’re in Beijing tonight, come out to the Golden Weasel for the opening of (re)claimed, an exhibition of reclaimed photos along with a poetry reading and zine launch.
September 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
If you’re in Beijing tonight, come out to the Golden Weasel for the opening of (re)claimed, an exhibition of reclaimed photos along with a poetry reading and zine launch.
Oh good. Why’d I waste two decades on my last book?
September 21, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Oh good. Why’d I waste two decades on my last book?
Chinese poet Zuo Fei has translated a selection of poems from my new book Necessary into Chinese along with a good discussion about some of the key aspects to them. You can see it here if you are on WeChat: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/pBkjCgVpP3...
September 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Chinese poet Zuo Fei has translated a selection of poems from my new book Necessary into Chinese along with a good discussion about some of the key aspects to them. You can see it here if you are on WeChat: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/pBkjCgVpP3...
Not every day Sun Ra Arkestra lands the mothership on your town.
September 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Not every day Sun Ra Arkestra lands the mothership on your town.