⚡️⚡️⚡️Issue 04 Cover Reveal ⚡️⚡️⚡️ cover art by Francesca Leader

Being a writer has meant living much of my emotional and psychological life in uncertainty, a practice of living in readiness for what I don't yet know, the surprise without which, to my mind, what's the point of writing? —Carl Phillips, 2023 Pulitzer Prize winner

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there should be a way to let spotify know u r joking

I’d rather ExxonMobil build up tolerance to lower profits.

it's 10 pm! eastern time! guess WHAT. our new issue, our spankin new issue, number SEVEN, is here. please bury your beautiful faces in all this filth & future & frenzy— underblong.com/issue-7

I am over the diaphanous moon to have a poem in the new (truly incredible, truly hot) issue of underblong. Thank you 兔兒神 and Sam Herschel | ACAB for having me! ✨

Plz go read @__day_lily__'s incredible work in the latest issue of underblong. And plz make note of the fact that our poems are dating. 🤍

Are you passionate about proofreading? Love reviewing manuscripts and crafting reports? Excited to see a project move from Word doc to finished book? We’ve got the gig for you! bit.ly/3Y5Ef3R

Artists tend to be pretty lopsided people. I don’t think there’s anything balanced about us. We have passions and obsessions and predilections. We overreact to the world. ...I don’t think people who are truly balanced need recourse to artistic expression. —Mary Ruefle

We are witnessing the tragic consequences of settler colonialism and capitalism in real time. Native Hawaiians are forced to pay the price of climate change, while the US military that occupies their land is also the world's largest polluter.

She’s here! Thank you Kevin Bertolero & Kalyn R. Livernois for giving this experimental micro-chap a home ✨

catching up with the news... and yes, it is the guns. it is absolutely the guns. it is a distinctly, horribly american problem. other countries have mental health crises, white supremacy, forms of fascism, and everything else. but they don't have this daily level of gun violence.

Sometimes when I see traditional plot and narrative arc being pushed I think about how John Cheever's "The Swimmer" is one of my favorite stories and one that has haunted me for years

Look, I know the mundane details of the world are not a poem. Look closer—they are what we have. — Kalyn R. Livernois, from "Here is the World" underblong.com/kalyn-livernois

What collection is Franz Wright's "Publication Date" in? Google is not being helpful to me here.