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Congrats are in order! Both contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social and contributor Lauren Hunt received the 2025 St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award for Literature 👏

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Best wishes to everybody in, or heading to, Listowel for Writers' Week. So sorry to be missing this year's festivities! #LWW25

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I'm in awe to be included in this lineup: My first work of fiction, a short story titled "Cricklewood," will air on Irish national radio @rteradio1.bsky.social this summer — on Sunday, July 6th — as part of a new series, @wearetheprompt.bsky.social, presented by @zoecomyns.bsky.social!

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Sometimes we could all use a living-room show with a toy dinosaur bubble machine. My little essay / review on Mirah's recent @undertowmusic.bsky.social stop in Providence: motifri.com/the-changing...

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Congratulations to @gphibbett.bsky.social on receiving the 2025 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize!

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We're enjoying poetry on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY ✨ Contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social has a detailed poem on anger featured in @versedaily.bsky.social ✨ Find ANGER IS A FISHING TRAWLER here: buff.ly/scNAjzD

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Today's poem is "Anger is a fishing trawler" by Seán Carlson from Elsewhere: A Journal of Place Subscribe to our substack and find out what you're missing. www.versedaily.org/2025/angeris...

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Written after a conversation at John B's in Listowel and first published in @elsewherejournal.bsky.social, "Anger is a fishing trawler" is today's poem-a-day pick over at @versedaily.bsky.social! www.versedaily.org/2025/angeris...

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“Against the insurmountable, music, like any art, need not deliver salvation to provide a salve.” @sean-carlson.bsky.social reviews Mariah Stovall’s I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both (Soft Skull Press). ➡️ buff.ly/815qRNy

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"For a moment in time... emotional masculinity was all the rage." Thanks so much to @therumpus.net for the opportunity to revisit the onset of emo, browse the Punk Planet archives, and mull on the enduring power of Jawbreaker in light of Mariah Stovall's debut novel: therumpus.net/2025/04/22/u...

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NBCC member @sean-carlson.bsky.social reviewed "Mood Machine" by Liz Pelly for Rhode Island's alt-monthly Motif Magazine:

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I stopped by @lizpelly.bsky.social's book talk in Providence and ended up with a few words of my own on her debut Mood Machine and the intersection of music and technology — plus, context from @sugzone.bsky.social on establishing a localized streaming server at the venue. motifri.com/breaking-dow...

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NBCC member @sean-carlson.bsky.social interviewed @stephenbrodsky.bsky.social from the band @caveinboston.bsky.social, including discussion of the poetry that influences his songwriting, for Rhode Island's alt-monthly Motif Magazine:

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"The five o’clock bus is nearly full by the time it leaves Tralee eight minutes after the hour." That's the opening line of contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social 's excellent new poem "Bus to Ballybunion," published in the winter/spring 2025 issue of Trasna. Read the piece here: buff.ly/RAdZ6Cr

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"So much sorrow in this life comes from feeling like we are not in control. Independent means you are in control." My conversation with @stephenbrodsky.bsky.social of @caveinboston.bsky.social (and many other projects over the years) for R.I.'s alt-monthly Motif Magazine: motifri.com/laying-the-g...

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Crisscrossing from Co. Kerry to Hong Kong to Rhode Island through a frame of Wong Kar Wai's film Chungking Express, an audio excerpt of my essay "False Cognates" is now live over at @newenglandreview.bsky.social. Listen, if you'd like: www.nereview.com/ner-out-loud...

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"On St. Patrick’s Day of all days, may we remember the exile in every immigrant, from every land. It’s an Irish story, sure, but it’s also all our stories." www.nydailynews.com/2013/03/17/a...

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Home and/or Home: Seán Carlson @sean-carlson.bsky.social Interviews Erin Fornoff and Gustav Parker Hibbett www.thecommononline.org/home-and-or-...

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NBCC member @sean-carlson.bsky.social's interview with @erinfornoff.bsky.social ("We Are an Archipelago," 2025) and @gphibbett.bsky.social ("High Jump as Icarus Story," 2024) on their experiences growing up in the U.S. and writing poetry in Ireland, was published in The Common:

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@sean-carlson.bsky.social interviews @erinfornoff.bsky.social and @gphibbett.bsky.social in this interview at a literary fest in County Kerry, Ireland.

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i’m so grateful to @sean-carlson.bsky.social for transcribing and polishing this conversation between him, me, and @erinfornoff.bsky.social from last year’s Listowel Writers’ Week & finding a home for it in @commonmag.bsky.social 🏡♥️ so nice to see it digitally in print! ♥️

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Thank you to Trasna for including my eensy-weensy dispatch, "Bus to Ballybunion," in their latest issue, full of beautiful work from Ireland and its diasporas: trasna.online/sean-carlson/

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New writing in @newenglandreview.bsky.social, @ninthletter.bsky.social, @commonmag.bsky.social, and more — and remembering Brendan Costello, president of the nonprofit Irish American Writers & Artists and a friend: seancarlson.substack.com/p/new-writin...

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I have read @commonmag.bsky.social since its very first issue, so it's especially sweet to see my conversation with @erinfornoff.bsky.social and @gphibbett.bsky.social in these pages. Such fun discussing their poetry and experiences in the U.S. and Ireland: www.thecommononline.org/home-and-or-...

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For writers enamored with place, consider dwelling on the rudderless and the uncertain (and break out some Pogues!) for @elsewherejournal.bsky.social's Adrift edition. If you'd like, you can read my "alone, adrift, at sea" poem in the recent Trespass issue: www.elsewhere-journal.com/latest-issue...

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Last week I visited @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social to commune with my great-grandparents' incinerated dreams while #ElonMusk was flexing his best #Hitlergruß. My reflections today in @motherjones.com… www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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As we’re saying goodbye to 2024, we’re delighted to close out the year with our December compilation of our SLM FAM’s wonderful accomplishments. https://buff.ly/40HiYAX

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Today's poem is "Every time a fly went by" by Seán Carlson from The Honest Ulsterman Subscribe to our substack and find out what you're missing. www.versedaily.org/2025/everyti...

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Folks, just so you know, our lovely second issue of Ragaire is out and available to buy. Copies are available in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop and Bell, Book & Candle in Galway, as well as The Winding Stair and Raven Books in Dublin. Grab your food selves a copy!

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NBCC member @sean-carlson.bsky.social's poem "Water wants"—in part responding to Sally Hayden's "My Fourth Time, We Drowned"—was published in @ninthletter.bsky.social's folio of new writing from 2024 Elizabeth Kostova Foundation fellows:

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"Who wouldn’t / wish we could / say, nobody dies any more at sea / the way they did / in the past, lives" Thank you to @ninthletter.bsky.social for including my poem, "Water wants," as part of a special web feature. ninthletter.com/2025/01/07/s...

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We hope you enjoyed ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY as much as we did 💗 Contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social published a piece in the New England Review. Order the latest issue in print or as an ebook! https://buff.ly/3BOcRl0

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NBCC member Sean Carlson's essay, "False Cognates," appears in the latest issue of the @newenglandreview.bsky.social (45.4) as part of a special folio celebrating the 30th anniversary of Wong Kar Wai's film "Chungking Express":

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Check out the new feature live on ninthletter.com feature poems from the eight poetry fellows of Elizabeth Kostova Foundation's 2024 Koprivshtitsa Poetry Conference in Bulgaria. Thank you to the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and the poets for allowing us to run this international feature!

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