Very, very happy to share that my essay ‘Sunita’ won the Porter House Review nonfiction Editor’s Prize, judged by ahem ahem Elisa Gabbert (!!) and is now up for you to read:

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I've got a few hours to kill today, maybe I should try to figure out how to live, how to be and to see

Hey for Independent Bookstore Riffraff is doing 10% off everything INCLUDING ONLINE so pals all over the world, maybe smash that button (and perhaps smash the retweet too)?

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Two of my poems in the new American Poetry Review

Exciting mail day

In the wake of the sudden shuttering of our distributor, SPD, we need your help!
We estimate losses in the realm of $15,000. This includes money owed to us by SPD and the cost of shipping our books to a new distributor.

I asked J what the weather was supposed to be like and he said, How would I know, I can’t *remember* tomorrow

From Javier Marias's short biography of Rilke: 'It is not known what he liked, as regards food or other things, apart from the letter 'y'—which he wrote whenever he could'

You can preorder my book at 25% off through B&N right now!

My debut novel Bitter Water Opera is out from Graywolf Press today. Thank you to everyone who helped in the making of this book 🙏

“At the higher reaches of our experience we don’t know the things that we say, but we say that we do. That’s the ultimate artistic lie.”
We’ve unlocked our interview with William Meredith, chosen by Elisa Gabbert, whose own poem appears in our Spring issue.

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More people should want to invite Melville to their little fantasy dead writer dinner parties. First of all, that guy liked to eat and drink, but also, imagine if you got to show him all of his Goodreads reviews? Like, Dude, look! You're famous now!

“If you tell enough lies, you’re bound to say something true.”

This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Poetry interview with William Meredith, chosen from the archive by Elisa Gabbert, whose own poem appears in our new Spring issue.

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When Rilke said 'Every angel is terrifying' he meant older kids at the Chuck E. Cheese