Jim Whiteside
@whiteside_jim
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Poet, @NYTimes, @TheAtlantic, @pshares, @southern_review || Writing Your Name on the Glass, @BullCityPress || Former Stegner Fellow, @Stanford || he/him
Brooklyn, NY
Joined September 2015
I’ve always appreciated @poetrynw as a home for my work. This poem, “In the Park,” is about care and tenderness and loneliness in the months and years after we lost my dad — we’re lucky to be doing much better these days. Thanks to the whole PNW team 💗📚💗 [PS love you mom 🦆]
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I can't believe how lucky I was today to record an episode of the Sewanee Review podcast with @whiteside_jim, hang out with the incredible @sewaneereview staff, and join Dr. Stephanie McCarter for a Classics-focused keynote on Helen of Troy, 1993. Sewanee, you are so good to me.
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Cover drop 👽♥️
Cover reveal! Check out this cover of Rhoni Blankenhorn’s (@rhonierika) debut collection, Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet- Winner of the 2024 Trio Award. It drops on July 1, 2025, but you can pre-order now and get free shipping! https://t.co/4uu0hS7jgA
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Growing up, this clock was in my dad’s office. He’s not around to see it, but now it’s in mine 💗
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Dear humans, Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my usual self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025. 🖤 https://t.co/NePGvk1Ayu
sarabandebooks.org
Behold My Heresies : the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, belief, longing, and grief, the poems of My...
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A HUGE congratulations to #RWW alumna Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, who won the 2024 National Book Award in Poetry for her book Something About Living! https://t.co/9sZpma8ChX
#MFA #PLU #NationalBookAward
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what would you like sir ground meats with kiwi sorry, what was that? GROUBD MEATS WIF KIWI
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Transformative, stirring, energizing. @jerichobrown reads at Sewanee for the Aiken Taylor Award from @sewaneereview 💗📚💗
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“I think, in a way, a queer childhood provides painful but valuable instruction on how to be a poet: we learn early the power—and often necessity—of solitude.” Honored to have an interview with the brilliant poet Matthew Gellman at @adroitjournal today. @boaeditions 💗📚💗
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@whiteside_jim interviews poet Matthew Gellman today @adroitjournal. Matthew's new book is BEFORELIGHT, published this year by @boaeditions. https://t.co/omKeh1uFt3
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Matthew Gellman’s first book, Beforelight, was selected by Tina Chang as the winner of BOA Editions, Ltd.’s A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. He is also the author of a chapbook, Night Logic, selected by...
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Once in a while—often—I revisit this poem by Bertolt Brecht:
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Four Way Books, 2025) Cover Art by Brian Christensen
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