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Grazie, amico!
How lucky can one guy be? Such a kick to see my little rondeau in the first issue of PORTICO alongside work by Aaron Poochigian, Amit Majmudar, Christian Wiman, Jason Guriel, Victoria Moul, Dana Gioia, and others… porticoquarterly.com/poetry/dino-...
What do you give a historical detective novel that has everything? Twin ⭐️s in @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social and @publisherswkly.bsky.social, of course! The novel in question is Andrey Kurkov’s THE LOST SOLDIERS, the third of his Kyiv mysteries. @harpercollins.bsky.social
Find yourself doomscrolling this morning? Alexander Voloshin was doing the same in 1936, down to the ads… @pauldrybooks.bsky.social
Draft of “Visions of Johanna”
Really loved Woody’s art too, this expressionistic one of kids in a band.
A total pleasure to meet @bdralyuk.bsky.social IRL on a quick trip to Tulsa. He told me a touching story about how Portis came to mean so much to him and we shared Berryman lines. Also, for those like me with meager output, a visit to the Guthrie and Dylan centers is both enthralling and humbling.
Made my month, Jay!
It was terribly apt! Page Dr. Freud.
The hole we’re in gets deeper, scoop by scoop. Ernest Hilbert takes its measure.
Origins Andrew Neilson They all have one. There is the Spider-Man, winsome Peter Parker, bitten, blood-let by a radioactive - I forget. Something happens...an alleyway...a man... to give young master Bruce his yen for skin-tight wear and a fetish mask. If you see Clark Kent, don't bother to ask, unless you're fluent in Kryptonian. Fine examples but you don't need a cape, or a magic ring, or a gold lasso - there are options including just being you, as in Auden's vision of Agape. No cosmic rays and no superpower, just people finding their place on the earth, something profound and it feels like birth and is liked by those who bill by the hour - though strictly speaking, keep it to yourself. A classic trope, that the source of your might contains the seeds of your Doomsday night, that all weakness lies at the start of self and so must be secret, boxed with a lid, until the time comes for the big reveal, a final unmasking of how you feel. Ask not what was done but of what you did.
Ahead of the Edinburgh launch of Little Griefs tonight, there's a poem from the book on the Poetry London website poetrylondon.co.uk/origins/
Thank you, dear Philip!
Today I get to speak about John Berryman with Shane McCrae, whose “Jones Very Sonnet on the Mirror Stage” has just appeared at THE SONNETEER. Don’t know whether the unpredictable JV would have embraced it, but JB would have lapped it up. thesonneteer.substack.com/p/jones-very...
Why, thank you!
Your must-read for the day.
“…a resolve to face that tragedy [of the human condition] honestly, but not morosely or histrionically, not without humor, not without style. Think of Weltschmerz, but with a bit more zest, even a little selzter.”
#poetry
Yes, I do indeed! Dana introduced me to it!
Yes. I am a charter member of said cult.
The secret handshake is just a weary wave.
Dana Gioia and I just couldn’t stop talking about Weldon Kees: borisdralyuk.substack.com/p/weldon-kee...
Shane McCrae, one of the nation’s finest poets—and a contributor to the Winter 2026 issue—joins editor Boris Dralyuk in conversation about John Berryman, 152 of whose uncollected “Dream Songs” he has recently gathered in ONLY SING (FSG, 2025).
“You could say the astonishing survival of these [frost-resistant miniature banana trees] mirrors the unexpected staunchness with which Ukrainians are facing adversity.” — Andrey Kurkov
Thank you, @timjudah.bsky.social and @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
“You could say the astonishing survival of these [frost-resistant miniature banana trees] mirrors the unexpected staunchness with which Ukrainians are facing adversity.” — @AKurkov
Thank you, @timjudah.bsky.social and @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
My pleasure! I think you would enjoy the entire thing.
Thank you a dozen times more!
What, you may ask, does a forgotten poem by a foreign-born Hollywood extra have to tell us now? All I can say is that Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED has been a source of comfort for me over the past few years—a sympathetic voice reaching across decades. “Been there,” he nods…
I have great confidence in @bdralyuk.bsky.social who does the coolest stuff
Mutual, mutual!!
I hold in my hands a finished copy of the strangest and most wonderful little book, Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED: EXILE IN HOLLYWOOD. Not officially out until April 21, but I bet @pauldrybooks.bsky.social won’t stand on ceremony. Order it now, won’t you? www.pauldrybooks.com/products/sid...
This arrived today! Thank you!
Oh, goodness, first sighting!
Two piercing poems, beginning with this one, by Will Wells.
Sad, powerful