"The rejection of the sacred is the fundamental reason for our existential discontent. 'I love you' and 'I am sorry' spoken into the universe are two sentiments forever worth declaring." - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Red Hand Files Issue #323

I don't understand why private individuals or media personalities feel the need to tweet official-sounding condemnations in response to news events. You're not the president's spokesman or a Ministry of Foreign Affairs

“My current problem, what I struggle with, is that I cannot find an outside to technology. It is as if the outside had disappeared, as if it were no longer a possible place.” Karl Ove Knausgaard on enchantment in the digital age. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

I had the pleasure of doing this little interview with Creative Process Podcast recently 🖤 creativeprocess.info/writers-interv…

Absolutely thrilled to share new translations on the Four Way Books Translator's Page today: Leisa Loan's exquisite translations of Italian poet Antonia Pozzi. Hope you will love these gems as much as I love them ❤️ fourwaybooks.com/site/3-poems-b…

Grateful for this thoughtful conversation with New England Review nereview.com/maja-lukic/

a bad mayor but you have to appreciate when someone finds their true calling as a hater

Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006. She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.” With gratitude to Poetry Foundation for letting me try to restore this healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy. poetryfoundation.org/articles/17056…

My new book, “The Bronze Arms,” comes out from Alfred A. Knopf in February 2026. Jacket designed by Chip Kidd 🖤

Please help us welcome our newest installment, ISSUE FOURTEEN: ALL THE WORDS ⭐️✨

August is Women in Translation month, and we have gorgeous Monika Cassel translations of three Daniela Danz poems on the Four Way Books Translator's Page fourwaybooks.com/site/3-poems-b…

Richard Siken’s CRUSH defined a generation of poets. Then it had a second life on the internet. In our fall issue, Richie Hofmann writes about the book that remade American poetry. yalereview.org/article/richie…

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I think Curtis Sliwa should be in every debate. Not just in New York. Like every single debate. A political ghost runner. Send him right to second base when we get to extra innings to keep things interesting.

Mamdani isn’t even mayor yet and he’s already getting results

Thrilled to share new translations on the Four Way Books Translator's Page: Kathleen Maris Paltrineri's exquisite translations of the Norwegian poet Kristin Berget. All my thanks to Kathleen, Kristin, Northwestern University Press, and Cappelen Damm ❤️🇳🇴fourwaybooks.com/site/four-poem…

I don't want to distract from Zohran Mamdani's incredible and historic achievement, but Andrew Cuomo is one of the vilest politicians in either party in recent memory. He deserves humiliation. He deserves to live in infamy and shame. He deserves to live in Florida.

Friends, I'm grateful to have a poem from my forthcoming book, IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY, in this week's New Yorker. 🤍

My new poem in Bennington Review ❤️

Stunning poem!