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NEW: The May/June edition of On The Seawall -- w/a featured poem by Peter Streckfus, lots of commentary & much more. Please stop by the gallery for a look ... ronslate.com

I asked several friends (& family members) to tell us "What I Will Read This Summer" -- including tesslewis, Christoph Irmscher, Alina Stefanescu, Heather Treseler, Esteban Rodriguez, Leah Umansky, Ben Shattuck / bit.ly/4j6GLjQ On The Seawall

"Nights and nights at the wooden frame fighting // sleep to finish that quilt — a gift for a couple / whose marriage would last — I fight // for ours": from "Itremble sometimes when I remember what that quilt knows" by Cindy Veach On The Seawall bit.ly/4diIFg5

Stop in for a gallery tour of the May/June edition of On The Seawall / ronslate.com

Frost's work encourages us to make our poems a locus for auditing and not just repeating one’s memories, and for vetting the usual expressions of one’s convictions. My take on Adam Plunkett's LOVE & NEED Farrar,Straus&Giroux On The Seawall / bit.ly/4iWkhSt

Sometimes, you CAN judge a book by its cover. 👅 (If you need more, here’s my review of the latest from Alina Stefanescu.) ronslate.com/on-my-heresies…

Today I remember Alice Notley and the brilliant gift of her poems. Here's an interview she granted me in 2009. Alice Notley kenyonreview.org/conversation/a…

At ON THE SEAWALL, we're delighted to show "Canto XXVIII," an excerpt from Dante's PARADISO, translated by Mary Jo Bang, due from Graywolf Press in July. ronslate.com/canto-xxviii-f…

Amelia Rosselli's pivotal DOCUMENT now available via World Poetry Books, poems written 1966-73. Here's an earlier piece I wrote on Rosselli for On The Seawall / bit.ly/3ZCIshZ

"Hitler vowed to end the 'eternal battle' between the states & the central government by dismantling the federated system, crushing states’ rights, & forging 'a unified will' for the nation": Timothy Ryback The Atlantic bit.ly/4jN3HoC

RIP Brian Wilson. A while back, I reviewed his I AM BRIAN WILSON and Mike Love's GOOD VIBRATIONS On The Seawall / bit.ly/3TitFp5

from Durs Grünbein's PSYCHE RUNNING Seagull Books سیگل

Today is Fernando Pessoa's bday (1888). When I visited his house in Lisbon, the docent allowed me to place a fingertip on the letter P of his typewriter.

Parnia Abbasi (2002–2025), a young Iranian poet, was killed with her family in an Israeli strike on Tehran. We share her poem The Extinguished Star, in mourning. Translated by Ghazal Mosadeq Ghazal Mosadeq pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-ab…

RIP Rosalind Fox Solomon. A few words on her A WOMAN I ONCE KNEW via On The Seawall bit.ly/4nqhKmY

Fanny Howe's work is a gift to us. My pieces on MANIMAL WOE ('21) bit.ly/3GyD4WZ & THE WINTER SUN ('09) bit.ly/4leal8Z via On The Seawall

Katherine Larson's WEDDING OF THE FOXES is due 7/15 via Milkweed Editions. Splendid essays. Here's "Soap: Art of Failure" via On The Seawall / (our review is coming in Sept) bit.ly/40ETyUK

Today's mail brought enticing new titles from UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE -- I'm starting with EXERCISES 1950-1960 by Yannis Ritsos whose work I've always loved and who had been arrested in '48 & tortured during the Greek Civil War. He spent 4 years in jail. Translated by Spring Ulmer.

... & now on to Bruno Dario's LANTANA, OR THE INDISSOLUBLE EXHALATION tr by Kit Schluter