Ron Slate @ronslate.bsky.social
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Hosting @On_The_Seawall -- a community gallery of writing & commentary at http://ronslate.com. JOY RIDE, new poetry via Carnegie Mellon Univ Press.
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"For this secret flame I extinguish the world, / I burn up all that is living without love" Octavio Paz
Please join us when Thea Matthews reads via zoom for PathwaysArts -- Tuesday nite 1/20 7:30 ET -- link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Her latest collection is GRIME via @CityLightsBooks ...
Funambulism: "Attraction to perilous landscapes in times of upheaval ... promise us something eternal, something removed from the world’s vanities, immaterial and din-free": @ykomska @cabinetmagazine bit.ly/4svdaqh
"This doubleness — lament braided with exuberance, suffering braided with awe — structures the emotional, formal & ethical terrain of the collection": @KimmyGrey on Gabrielle Calvocoressi's THE NEW ECONOMY @CopperCanyonPrs bit.ly/4jxIbpq via @On_The_Seawall
Here's "Commerce" by @simeonberry, his poem in the new edition of @On_The_Seawall / ronslate.com/commerce/
Thanks for publishing my review of Maria Stepanova's new novel, The Disappearing Act, translated by Sasha Dugdale! ronslate.com/on-the-disappe…
NEW: The January edition of @On_The_Seawall, our first expanded quarterly. We invite you to stop by the "gallery" & have a look / ronslate.com
"His poems dug down into memory to find their source. More precisely, the excavation of memory -- both personal and cultural, and the continuity he sought in it -- IS his subject": Christian Detisch on THE POEMS OF SEAMUS HEANEY @fsgbooks @On_The_Seawall bit.ly/4aIxLB1
"She affirms Morrison’s body of work as a profound philosophical investigation": @HamiltonCain on Namwali Serpell's ON MORRISON bit.ly/4qEGSY7 @HogarthBooks via @On_The_Seawall
NEW: The January edition of @On_The_Seawall, our first expanded quarterly. We invite you to stop by the "gallery" & have a look / ronslate.com
Tune in tomorrow night 7:30PM ET when Philip Metres reads from FUGITIVE/REFUGE. The zoom link will be available on Tues afternoon at pathwaysmv.org. If you're on Martha's Vineyard, we'll see you at the Chilmark Tavern where poetry & revelry often mean the same thing.
Tomorrow night 7:30ET -- Hank Lazer @hanklazer reads from ABUNDANT LIFE, his new & selected poems @chaxpress. Zoom link available tomorrow afternoon at pathwaysmv.org
On criticism & critics, from Confucius' ANALECTS: "The Master said, 'Yan Hui is of no help to me. Of all the things I say, there is nothing he doesn't like.'" Coming via @LiverightPub in Feb '26 tr by Erin M Klein.
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“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.” A new poem by D. A. Powell. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
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“Senescence”
“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”
translated by Margaree Little
"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors,/I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd./My century— my poison, my century—my harm,/my century—my enemy, my century— hell": from 4 poems by Marina Tsvetaeva @On_The_Seawall bit.ly/48gdMaZ
"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors,/I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd./My century— my poison, my century—my harm,/my century—my enemy, my century— hell": from 4 poems by Marina Tsvetaeva @On_The_Seawall bit.ly/48gdMaZ
"I encounter a lot of overly long and under-edited books, many weighed down by prose poems. Some feel strident. These books sound like they began with a thesis, not a question": @Derek_Mong in convo w/Jonathan Farmer @On_The_Seawall bit.ly/47vs87k
After experiences w/hallucinogens, he says, “It was as if we were given a chance to see the layer of connectivity that undergirds our existence, as real or realer than we are": on ANOTHER BONE-SWAPPING EVENT by @BredFoks @astrahousebooks @On_The_Seawall bit.ly/3WC4dNc
Reviewing great debut collections is always satisfying. In 2025, I hailed the work of @vjoshuaadams and Liza Hudock in essays for @On_The_Seawall. Links: ronslate.com/on-past-lives-… ronslate.com/on-reveille-po…
"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. It’s sneaky like that": @TobiasCarroll on Delaney Nolan's novel HAPPY BAD @astrahousebooks @On_The_Seawall bit.ly/43fQHT7
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