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biometrash.bsky.social
Poet | Instructional Assistant Professor at Illinois State University | https://www.philspotswood.com
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<shouts into the deep blue> 1. Joined @stevehalle.bsky.social this week as assistant director of the Publications Unit at ISU (!) 2. Today is a fundraising day at ISU, and it'd be rad if you were able to throw some $$ at the Pub Unit so we can continue to support the excellent:

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Proofs! Excitement is in the air at the Acre offices with @cdeskilson.bsky.social's SCREAM / QUEEN soon set to debut! Preorder your copy of this examination queerness, mental illness, and transgender identity -- all through the lens of thrillers and B movies -- at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Stoked to be part of this split chapbook project with the brilliant Candice Wuehle! Pre-order info coming soon 📡

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

And some more open circuits recently published in the very cool Broken Lens Journal 📹 www.brokenlensjournal.com/issue-9-9 These poems make up a majority of a manuscript, "It Bears Repeating," that was a series of strange encounters in making

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Late to sharing with the sky but I have three poems up in the newest issue of the brilliant mercury firs 📡🌱 www.mercuryfirs.org/5-phil-spots... Desktop viewing recommended! Have been calling these poems "open circuits" and thinking about Renee Gladman's incredible writing-drawings 🙏

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Dreamt last night that Wayne Koestenbaum was teaching me how to paint blue circles with my feet. Seems like a good omen for the year to me.

submitted 428 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely tickled pink to have my chapbook included in this smart, generous review essay by @biometrash.bsky.social in the latest issue of SRPR. And alongside two other poets whose work I admire so much!

submitted 448 days ago • 0 comments

Very grateful for space in SRPR to think about some poetry I care deeply about 💕 And to share in Steve Halle’s inaugural issue as editor! I hope you consider reading these poets’ crucially disruptive work 🔥

submitted 459 days ago • 0 comments

Have a new review up in Fecund of DM Closet's "Offal Opacities" — I was excited to engage this strange work published through the very rad CLOAK, a press of digital experimentations into issues of surveillance. fecundmag.com/dust-gathers... cloak.wtf

submitted 490 days ago • 1 comment

Looking for theories of writing (poetry) that understand the writer as a simultaneous reader, or that try to hold these two positions together in one subject. Any suggestions?

submitted 540 days ago • 0 comments

Very adorable that the URL for this app reads like a pet name for biscuit

submitted 550 days ago • 0 comments

Places open for subs today: AGNI River Teeth The Kenyon Review The Cincinnati Review New England Review The Southern Review The Yale Review Bellevue Literary Review

submitted 550 days ago • 4 comments

Seeping into bluesky with a new website for poems, reviews, maybe some audio recordings down the line: www.philspotswood.com

submitted 550 days ago • 0 comments