thank you to BOOTH for including me and giving this weird little love(?) poem a home 🏠🩵

Eric Gamalinda. ✨✨ From Zero Gravity ( Alice James Books , 1999)

Bangalore 1924 Map ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು

This book, A Theory of Birds by Zaina Alsous, is absolutely brilliant and timely.

Honored to have "Tender" appear in another beautiful anthology - get your copy : bookshop.org/p/books/poetry…

Woke up to rain and to this drop of light.

A prophet or two from your part of the world Thank you Boris Dralyuk

I just love Bear Review, so it's a lovely feeling to have 2 poems in the spring issue! Thanks to Marcus Myers & the editorial team for including me. Here's "We Will Find out Very Shortly" & enjoy the entire issue here, w/ work from so many stellar poets: bearreview.com/11-2

Succession intro is perfect, sets the tone like no other. Dramatic, tense, and just the right amount of chaos.

The PENGUIN BOOK of POEMS on the INDIAN CITY is out for pre-orders now! Profoundly grateful to the poets, translators, estates and Penguin India Ramachandra Guha Alicia E. Stallings Manasi Subramaniam Archana Nathan for helping make this mammoth book a reality! amazon.in/dp/014347068X

Adam Zagajewski always reminds me I can never ever forget that I’m human

I find myself consistently revisiting The Master because of Philip Seymour Hoffman & Joaquin Phoenix. PTA’s filmmaking here is tremendous, but the performances are unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Hoffman & Phoenix embody everything it means to be an actor in this film.

Elif Batuman wrote this amazing essay for N+1 called ‘Short Story and Novel’ that was a takedown of a huge swath of the (then) contemporary lit scene, and in the alternatives she champions instead (which should always be done alongside a broad attack!) she really cracked Murakami

i have a poem in the spring issue of Pleiades as part of a beautifully curated elegy folio. feels weird to say “please read about the worst time of my life” but that’s life huh! 👍🏽

so good 'the most important nonsense/ of my desperate and embittered life.'

Great piece on such a sad moment for cricket newslaundry.com/2025/06/07/the…

‘…the walls were ghosting me when I’d come all that way to hear them speak’ - Patrick Romeo McCafferty, from his pamphlet ‘glass knot sun’

Really enjoyed this Preeti Vangani Detail befitting a novel. But also, I thought, just the perfect length. My congratulations on such a deeply felt story. Rumpus Original Fiction: Second of April therumpus.net/2025/06/02/sec… via @the_rumpus

Bolaño's huge novels like 2666 and The Savage Detectives are glorious, but this wonderful edition of his collected stories show him as a great master of the short form too. He knows so well the beauty and strangeness of words, the power and possibility of language, of literature.

ً If you're not going to do your homework you're only allowed to do something more awful, not more fun. Clean the toilets, scrub the tub, mop the floor, take out the trash, do dishes and laundry, exercise, pay bills. Don't slack. Work up a sweat.