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Author poetry collection PLAYTHINGS + novel ZINSKY THE OBSCURE. Work forthcoming/in The Cincinnati Review, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Salamander, elsewhere.

Joined March 2009
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Thank you for the shout out! 🤍🪶
Hey Poetry Community! If you're in the Boston area, don't miss this poetry event with @DzviniaOrlowsky Thursday, November 19th.
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Tomorrow:
Join us at the shop on Thursday, November 5th, 2026, for a reading by Audrey Henderson and Alan Smith Soto, presenting Collected Poems by Mark Smith-Soto. Please join us in person or virtually. Sign up via our website.
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Please join us on Thursday, November 12th, 2026 at 4 pm when Richard Fein will read his own poems and Marcia Karp will read the poems of Ted Richer (1931-2022). George Kalogeris will provide Richard Fein’s introduction and Marcia Karp will introduce the work of Ted Richer.
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Ilan Mochari retweeted
Last night I was a featured #poet and read from my new #book Treesongs at the monthly Green Pavilion #Poetry Event in #Brooklyn hosted by Evie Ivy with co-features Elizabeth B. Morse and Stephen Paul Miller. A lively open mic rounded out the reading! #Halloween – at Brooklyn, NY
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Anthony Walton, Meia Geddes and Hugo Dos Santos October 8, 2026
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Today the 23rd Annual brevitas #Festival of the Short #Poem in collaboration w/the 2026 @smithsonian Folklife Festival People's Poetry Gathering packed @bowerypoetry - brevitas #poets read projected #poems & the new #Anthology was released @City_Lore @austinalexis3 @MariaLisella – at Manhattan, NY
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November 4th. Salem State University. Jacinda Townsend Gides. Author of Trigger Warning, Mother Country and Saint Monkey. Free and open to the public. More info: salemstate.edu/calendar/writ…
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The 23rd Annual brevitas Festival of the Short #Poem in collaboration with the 2026 @smithsonian Folklife Festival People's Poetry Gathering takes place on 10/24 at 12pm to 2:30pm at the @bowerypoetry-#poets read their best original poems of the year & new #Anthology is released – at Manhattan, NY
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~ later this week ~
Join us at the shop on Wednesday, October 21st, 2026, for a reading by Lindsay Turner. Nina MacLaughlin will provide the introduction and speak in conversation with Turner following the reading. Please join us in person or virtually. Sign up via our website.
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#Art + #Poetry Today I read #poems from my new #book Treesongs at a poetry event at The Little Gallery in Chestnut Hill hosted by co-feature Mary Ann Domanska who read from her upcoming book Untethered & earlier books-a lively open mic rounded out the reading @ChestnutHillPA – at Philadelphia, PA
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Our next Salem State Writers Series event features Jacinda Townsend Gides the prolific author of Trigger Warning. “A searing and unflinching exploration of identity and country” says Xochitl Gonzalez. Don’t miss. November 4th. Free and open to the public. salemstate.edu/calendar/writ… #writingcommunity.
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Today I read #poetry from my new #book Treesongs (Broadstone Books) at A Persistence of Cormorants series hosted by Gerald Wagoner with talented writers Margo Taft Stever, Nicole Callihan and Zoe Ryder Wright - a big thank you to all who supported the event! @thebluepitcher – at Brooklyn, NY
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If every other song at the in-office coffee place is by Coldplay and now specifically The Scientist is playing, and there are lots of unnamed feelings bubbling up for that person is that person OK or just old or overly cheesy? Asking for a friend
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Martha Collins, Melissa Range and Jennifer Clarvoe September 17, 2026
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Eeek! So thrilled to be nominated! Thanks @GhostParachute & @brettpribble !!!
Congratulations to our 2026 Best Small Fictions Nominees: @chelseahannac, @AFB16, @WriterLeeFlatt, Chloe N. Clark, and Mamie Pound.
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Delighted to discover that some of my reporting for NPR was named a finalist for the 2026 Online Journalism Awards. This project took months of work to do properly, and I'm honored by and grateful for the recognition: awards.journalists.org/entri…
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Nice! Would love a healthy season from Asigen ☝🏽 1) Mets start Sammy Stafura in AA, and he has his Mets breakout there. 2) Aidan Smith, 2026 Brooklyn breakout, continues into 2027, bc he has legitimately upgraded his hit tool. 3) Randy Guzman OF/1B healthy season.
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Happy birthday to… us! We are 99. The Grolier Book Shop opened its doors on this day, September 23, 1927. Stay tuned for plans about our centenary. Watercolor by Irena Roman.
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