“M. sees a fly crash repeatedly into a window and says: ‘What a stubborn girl, she reminds me of my sister trying to convince mom to do more exercise and mom saying she won’t.’” Read new stories by Ariel Magnus, translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude: https://t.co/Z5LlecKZxA

“You were a semicolon in the last printed edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which ran to 32 volumes. You provided a crucial pause between two connected but discrete ideas about the nature of being.” Read seven new poems by James Brown: https://t.co/dR9snXbtZc

“Do you like the way I have divided this poem into six-line stanzas, to give it more gravitas? Serious poets divide their poems into stanzas.” Read four new poems by Stuart Ross on R&R: https://t.co/L1P17rzHuk

“A voice jumped out of a device that you had thought you had turned off. Stuff like that happens a lot these days. Just waiting for the pin to drop. Or bomb.” Read four new poems by Gillian McCain on R&R: https://t.co/HiLroU3hMi

“I liked the sound the school copier made. Sometimes when I needed to clear my head, I made blank copies or copies with a single word—‘apple’ maybe, or ‘petroleum.’” Read new fiction by Dalton Monk (@mammawmistletoe) on R&R: https://t.co/FdFc4Giybu

“You love poetry and baseball--are they like one another? They both get you used to something--and then comes a surprise. You love it.” Read three new poems by Canada’s first Poet Laureate, George Bowering: https://t.co/g4HpPqeoJW

“Someone cleared their throat. I looked southwest toward the promise of a never-ending day, then we all grimaced up at the sky that now seemed to be pressing down on us like the stubborn lid of some overfilled thing.” Read new fiction by Corey Lof: https://t.co/uCe9zJcGSM

“sitting among the old men each singular at his own table separated by empty chairs unwrapping Burger King Whoppers my Burger is Impossible” Read four new poems by Bob Rosenthal: https://t.co/xzciUxSdtn

PhD Jessie has come a long way from the Southern girlhood she shared with her sister—the one who stayed behind. In new short fiction by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, Jessie’s thoughts turn to Joan of Arc, another rural refugee who recanted her faith. https://t.co/EwuwTMT1bp

To celebrate his birthday today, June 6th, we are happy to share a never-before-published short story by Stephen Dixon. Read “The Day is Done” on R&R: https://t.co/m2t5BTeU1q

Here’s a new short story of mine called “Foxes or Red Foxes”. Thank you for the great edits @MisterJGrantham. Psyched to see this one at @RnRlitmag

“This is something that happened to me today. I’m sitting at a counter in a restaurant.” Today we have a never-before-published short story by the late Stephen Dixon, paired with original art by Dixon himself. https://t.co/FivGeYvin1

Came across one of those lending libraries, and WHAT?!

I have a poem in here. Thanks, Jaime!

This was one of the nicest readings I've ever done, maybe *the* nicest--comfortable venue, enthusiastic crowd of readers, host who stood behind me with a flashlight when my aged eyes could no longer read in the dark. HIGHLY recommend this series, what's like it in NYC?

hey everyone I am going to Baltimore! I've never been, please come say hello.

now playing on the @otherppl w brad listi podcast, a conversation w bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel, whose latest novel, SEA OF TRANQUILITY, is now available in trade paperback from @vintageanchor. listen: