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Wow, two of the best critics writing today attended the same high school...

Reposting for you, apparently my library (San Diego) doesn't carry the Best New Poets series.

You know what May is, don't you? National Short Story Month! Check out my review of this little collection of short stories - Willoughby, New York by Carson Pytell: youtube.com/watch?v=BvP8cg…

They chose a goddamn POPE in less than a week. There's no reason a magazine needs to hold your submission for months

The National Endowment for the Farts sometimes hands out cash to true outsiders who actually need the money. Or at least used to.

Don't the poets love the working class? What heroes! Here's something a little closer to reality from my latest collection Chicken Bones and Snot Rags: amazon.com/Chicken-Bones-…

Y'all know what May is don't you? Short story month! Check out my video review of this collection of short stories Port Awful by Mather Schneider: youtube.com/watch?v=4Tf0tC…

My next National Short Story Month pick: The Penult by Colin Gee, a collection of weird short stories. Check out my video review youtube.com/watch?v=JchlK3…

Almost halfway through National Short Story Month! Next up my review of Wilson Koewing's nineteen gritty short stories Rolling on the Bottom. Check out my review: chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2025/04/05/rol…

Write what you know, they say. That's why I have no poems about Homer or art museums. But I do have this (from my latest book Chicken Bones and Snot Rags): amazon.com/Chicken-Bones-…

Another advantage of a near-complete withdrawal from society: I ain't been sick in three years.

Have something you think would fit at The Gorko? Email fake news reviews cartoons art poems and queries to [email protected] Attn: Raddy

Only about a week left in National Short Story Month. Here's my review of a collection of gritty crime stories - Half Crime by Rusty Barnes: theyardcrimeblog.com/2024/09/19/ful…

The preface from my latest book Chicken Bones and Snot Rags (get it on Amazon or DM me): amazon.com/Chicken-Bones-…

I reviewed this book for Eulogy Press: eulogy.press/#section48

A review of my latest book Chicken Bones and Snot Rags: amazon.com/gp/customer-re…

Robert Pinsky's poetry collection Proverbs of Limbo comes out in paperback next week. I reviewed it for Anxiety Press last year: athinsliceofanxiety.com/2024/12/review…

A couple of years ago I video reviewed a Taylor collection and he dedicated a poem to me today at Pixelated Shroud. (see review here: youtube.com/live/zO-OUrTTf… )

Christian Lorentzen writing on what the Millennial hipsters will be remembered for: "The hippies had Charles Manson, one friend noted. “We haven’t even produced a decent serial killer.”" nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

Edmund White has died. This article doesn't mention it, but his biography of Jean Genet won the NBCC award: npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-…