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joshuarothes.bsky.social
Writer, editor, worker. Sublunary Editions, Empyrean Series, Hanuman Editions, Asterism Books, etc. Opinions my own.
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Now would be a good time to ask yourself if you’re working for the clampdown.

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Found this FDR stamp (c. 1968) in my copy of Osvaldo Lamborghini’s stories, published in Argentina around 2003. Open to interpretations.

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Projects I’ll never have time to finish, part whatever. Please enjoy these prototypes for trading cards based on Fernando Pessoa’s many heteronyms and alter egos.

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

Remember: Sometimes the other guy dies on the hill. Then you still have a hill.

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

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Ending 2024 with an ill-advised text conversation with my brother that ended with “Really little bro? I can deal with the atheism, but socialism?”

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“Go to your earth, you who have not died.” Jean Paul, ‘The Parson in Jubilee’ (1797), tr. Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social [forthcoming 2025]

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You’re darn right I made it snow asterisks.

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Update: Merle is now part lynx.

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Dear humans, Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤 www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

submitted 215 days ago • 194 comments

Get a DEEPER LOOK at our LOOK BOOKS series through writer, designer, and chef of @sublunary.bsky.social Joshua Rothes' TOMB OF THE ECSTATIC POETS: a series of compressed, abstracted histories. Find out more and subscribe today: acontainer.co/projects/loo...

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Awful to see another independent distribution resource for publishers go down. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Pre-orders for my chapbook, Some Deer @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, are open! 🦌🦌🦌 Huge thanks to Ian McMillan, Alina Stefanescu & Michael Earl Craig for blurbs; to Aaron Kent for publishing; & to Kristofor Minta for putting deer in my head at Seattle AWP.🦌 www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

submitted 219 days ago • 4 comments

Thinking back fondly on the time I reported a bug in WordPress’s core code and got it fixed… the simple things.

submitted 220 days ago • 1 comment

A morning visitor.

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Interesting article by Swedish critic Rebecca Kärde about contemporary US "workshop style" poetry: "polished and measured... It is important to behave with a certain elegance. It must never be too much..." www.ornenochkrakan.se/smakfullt-ti...

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An education, really.

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Seattle (and adjacent) folks, come on out this weekend!

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Here's the first page of Sleep Decades (@malarkeybooks.bsky.social), my debut short story collection. You can find it here: malarkeybooks.com/sleep-decades.

submitted 222 days ago • 2 comments

had a blast in Seattle visiting @joshuarothes.bsky.social in Seattle this weekend & planning future Empyrean Series projects for the year ahead. a great opportunity to see Asterism Books HQ again, much expanded, & to visit Arundel Books & others. (I’ll be back in Ottawa tomorrow, god willing)

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Welp, here we are.

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