Jeff Shotts

Larry Levis Swirl & Vortex, Graywolf Press, with a few new poems like this one

It’s favorite poem time. This favorite poem is brought to you by Solmaz Sharif.

@johndavisjrFL Thank you so much!

@JeffShotts1 Congrats on the A.P. Anderson Award!

Emily Skaja's BLACK LAKE—a frank new book about the devastation of recurring pregnancy loss, by the author of the award-winning BRUTE—is out September 1. Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/black-…

What if we all took the week off and just screamed.

★ This monumental volume of Larry Levis’s collected works is a study in the development and deepening of his gifts, from his debut in 1972 to poems published following his death in 1996. It’s an essential celebration of a poet of tremendous power. @graywolfpress buff.ly/bpnkG1V

I know That everything I look out upon will vanish. But I have Always been astonished at any sort of permanence, & so, Thank You. Before everything I look out upon has vanished: Thank You. altaonline.com/books/poetry/a…

It's pub. day for two incredible books: @criveragarza's AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON (trans. by Christina MacSweeney) and Larry Levis's SWIRL & VORTEX. Pick up copies from your local indie today!

Larry Levis’s collected poems, SWIRL & VORTEX, is out today from @graywolfpress! Our new issue features a collection of essays and criticism honoring the late poet, including reflections from the book’s associate editor, L. A. Johnson.

Carolina Ebeid’s “Winternet” traces grief, memory, and the technologies that carry our voices through time. Issue Fifty-Six is out now—read the rest through the link in our bio.

@adroitjournal #56 is here, with special Larry Levis retrospective anticipating the release of the University of Pittsburgh Press's reissue of WINTER STARS and @GraywolfPress's collected SWIRL & VORTEX. Special thanks to Paisley Rekdal and David St. John! theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-si…

Vénus Khoury-Ghata (1937–2026) was far more than a celebrated Lebanese-French poet and novelist: she was a rare voice who turned exile, memory, and the Lebanese imagination into living literature, honored by major French institutions for a body of work that helped shape contemporary Francophone poetry.  For TAKREEM Foundation, she was family. She witnessed our launch in 2010, and in Paris she showed up, every time, standing by our mission with quiet loyalty, intellectual grace, and the kind of steadfast support that holds a community together. She didn’t simply attend; she anchored, with presence, with belief, with friendship. Last night in Paris, she left peacefully. Today, we bow not to a « career ». but to a journey, a life written with dignity and fire. We loved you, Vénus. And you will always remain part of us. #vénuskhouryghata #poet #litterature #culture #arabvoices

L’OIF rend hommage à Vénus Khoury-Ghata, écrivaine franco-libanaise, qui s'est éteinte le 28 janvier. Grande dame des lettres francophones, elle aura contribué pendant plus de 20 ans à la promotion du #Prix5Continents de la #Francophonie avec constance, exigence et fidélité.

"When a whistle sounds anywhere in Minneapolis or St. Paul, we come running."--Dobby Gibson, via Lit Hub lithub.com/letter-from-mi…

Republicans have made it clear they stand behind this president and his lawless slaughter of people in the street. They must be held accountable.

That night, out of respect for something missing, I stopped listening to it. Out of respect for someone missing, I have to say This isn't the whole story. The fact is, I was still in love. My father died, & I was still in love. I know... Larry Levis

“This is not / a good year. / But it has / witnesses.” A new poem by Ilya Kaminsky. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ecrMpO

Minneapolis is strong!

Waiting for Fahrenheit 451 to be translated into Celsius.

Claudia Rankine returns with TRIAGE on August 4, 2026. This is a book for those complicated but beautiful friendships that we come to rely on to unsettle us, to make us better. Preorder: graywolfpress.org/books/triage