Watching the moon over one of my favorite places 🫶🏽
📍the university of texas- El Paso

One more for the Manuel Muñoz fans out there or just fans of consequences in general: angermonsoon.threadless.com/designs/the-co…

Loving 'Fungus: A Poem in Five Acts' by Daniel Borzutsky!
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Author Javier Zamora's memoir is the June California Book Club selection. altaonline.com/california-boo…

Tomorrow: registration here. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Shout out to all the puns unintended and whatnot.

My favorite candy that you eat from the broken neck of a beloved fictional character is probably Pez and whatnot.

Here is the most erudite review of Anxious Generation, by Michael Toscano, linking the book to Hobbes, Arendt, Lasch, and Putnam, especially on social atomization. We are now 'scrolling alone.'

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As the Imperium contracts, poets can ask themselves, are they: fighting yesteryear's expansionism (vying to out 'radical' others); wrestling with the unruly patient in an eternal present; offering up flecks of an unknown, better future; perfecting that Atlantic turdlet poem.

Who else learned in their English classes that poetry is meant to be read out loud? 🗣️ Tell us your favorite poem to read or hear in the comments! #PoemInYourPocketToday

Terrific new issue. You should be reading County Highway.

Awesome title:

Yo Tucson folks and UAMFA peeps, hometown hero Zoë Bossiere is launching CACTUS COUNTRY live in person at Barnes & Noble in Tucson THIS SATURDAY at 1pm. Come on out! stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/97800621…

Cat’s outta the bag via The Bookseller! Stoked to report Titan Books is bringing House of Bone and Rain to the UK! Many thanks to Cath Trenchman, Melissa Danaczko, and Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency!
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Is it cool to enjoy narco culture - when there are 30K murders a year in Mexico and 100K OD deaths in the US?

With Peso Pluma in the top 50 most streamed and narco series reaching hundreds of millions, I look at the ethics of mass narco culture.

Read↓
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I want to live in a world where criticism in poetry exists as freely (and widely) as it does for the King’s portrait.

#ElPaso author Daniel Chacon's THE LAST PHILOSOPHER IN TEXAS is the new selection of the El Paso Matters Book Club. Come and get it! All profits go to support El Paso Matters, our community's nonprofit news organization focused on Borderland issues.
elpasomatters.org/2024/05/15/el-…

Congratulations 🎊 to the CNF finalists for the 2024 Firecracker Award! It was truly an honor to serve on the judges panel and arrive at these radiant works with my fellow judges Edgar Gomez & Gaël LeLamer.

THIS SATURDAY, 5/18! Find me and Raquel Gutiérrez, inimitable author of BROWN NEON, in conversation at the Broadway Blvd B&N for CACTUS COUNTRY's launch!
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🎆Congratulations to LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs ! Join us in celebrating on June 27!
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