ThinkyBooks
Life’s too short for bland books. Let’s talk about the books that are opening you up, books as conscious of form as content. I also review forthcoming small press poetry collections by authors historically overlooked by “the canon” for VerseCurious, so let me know what’s in the air.
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@1benjaminlandry.bsky.social
@nicolerobinson.bsky.social
poet | narrative medicine practitioner | admirer of water & land and the living that lives there | author of Without a Field Guide (Unbound Edition Press) | nicolerobinsonpoetry.com | opinions are my own
@versecurious.bsky.social
Account for VerseCurious, the podcast of new poetry reviews, featuring poetry from BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, women & debut poets. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/versecurious/id1625916560 https://redcircle.com/shows/c74b01b8-5f22-4e9c-827d-48bd96f2597a
@jessicacuello.bsky.social
Poet, Public School Teacher, Editor. Would-be translator, emerging essayist. "I'm not a person who likes to trespass but sometimes you just find yourself over the line." https://jessicacuello.com/
@cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social
Poet. Exploding Head (an OCD memoir in prose poems), Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, Sightseer. Essays in TIME, The Sun, Lit Hub. (she/her) www.cynthiamariehoffman.com
@corinnaboard.bsky.social
EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her. https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
@juliecarr.bsky.social
Books: Underscore; Mud, Blood, and Ghosts; Real Life: An Installation; 100 Notes on Violence; Someone Shot my Book. RAG. &others. Ac-job: Chair of WGST; teach poetry; CUB. juliecarrpoet.com; counterpathpress.org; aprilinstitute.org.
@rhinopoetry.bsky.social
Annual collection of literature by new and established writers, hosting programs that have served countless emerging and established poets for 49 years. rhinopoetry.org/
@marybid.bsky.social
Writer of poems + small fiction | The Girl with the Black Lipstick (novella-in-flash, Black Lawrence Press, July 25) | Preorder from BLP at https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-girl-with-the-black-lipstick/
@sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Award-winning publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay. Headquartered in Louisville, KY. linktr.ee/sarabandebooks
@splitlippress.com
publisher of boundary-breaking prose books come get us @ splitlippress.com and https://linktr.ee/splitlippress posts by yrs truly @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
@jenwithwords.bsky.social
Writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Currently missing the ocean. 🇨🇦 Debut chapbook SHIFTINGS & OTHER COORDINATES OF DISORDER (Pinhole Poetry, 2024). Website: http://opencorners.ca/about YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@jenwithwords
@shelleywong.bsky.social
poet • author of AS SHE APPEARS (2022), National Book Award longlist, Lambda Literary Award 🌈 shelley-wong.com
@j9joseph.bsky.social
🇵🇭 & 🇺🇸| poet, librettist, prof | Co-organizer: Undocupoets | 📚: Decade of the Brain / Driving Without a License / Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora | 🐶♏️ | fka undocumented
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
@dorothyproject.bsky.social
St. Louis-based press. Fiction & near fiction. Two books each Fall. Renee Gladman. Leonora Carrington. Cristina Rivera Garza. Nathalie Léger. Amina Cain. Giada Scodellaro. Pip Adam. Kate Briggs. Etc. Distributed by New York Review Books. dorothyproject.com
@poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social
Maybe the Saddest Thing & Silencer @eccobooks. Harvard @RadInstitute Fellow. @uofmemphis MFA Prof. @NEAarts Fellow. Poet. Boxing fanatic. Human as all get-out.
@aireadee.bsky.social
Poet. Thinker. Professor. 2024 Gugg Fellow. Assembles without reading directions.
@1benjaminlandry.bsky.social
MERCIES IN THE AMERICAN DESERT (@lsupress), BURN LYRICS (Spuyten Duyvil Press) & PARTICLE AND WAVE (@uchicagopress). Host of VerseCurious. https://benjaminlandrypoet.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/versecurious/id162591656