Ron Slate @ronslate.bsky.social

"For this secret flame I extinguish the world, / I burn up all that is living without love" Octavio Paz

Amazed by how much Ada Limón accomplished during her 3-year tenure as US Poet Laureate, much of it mentioned in her AGAINST BREAKING: ON THE POWER OF POETRY coming next month via @ScribnerBooks.

The Zoom link will be available open Tuesday afternoon. Please join us!

Please join us on Tuesday night 7:30ET when Robin Becker comes to PathwaysArts via Zoom. The link will be available on Tuesday afternoon at pathwaysmv.org -- scroll down to this poster & click on the Zoom prompt.

@asymptotejrnl My take on Bolano via @On_The_Seawall ... ronslate.com/on-the-romanti…

What does it mean to encounter a writer through his unfinished work? Robert Bolaño’s Posthumous Stories offers nineteen pieces that range from fully realized narratives to what might be early drafts or abandoned experiments. Dive in! tinyurl.com/4e5cj94m

Coming Tuesday night 7:30ET -- Catherine Barnett will read for us at PathwaysArts & you can watch & listen via Zoom. The link will be available on Tuesday afternoon at pathwaysmv.org ...

Please join us when Thea Matthews reads via zoom for PathwaysArts -- Tuesday nite 1/20 7:30 ET -- link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Her latest collection is GRIME via @CityLightsBooks ...

@HamiltonCain @nkulw I'd say she should get her eyes checked, but perhaps her eyes aren't the problem.

@nkulw She really is dumb!

Batya thinks you’re as stupid as she is

Funambulism: "Attraction to perilous landscapes in times of upheaval ... promise us something eternal, something removed from the world’s vanities, immaterial and din-free": @ykomska @cabinetmagazine bit.ly/4svdaqh

"This doubleness — lament braided with exuberance, suffering braided with awe — structures the emotional, formal & ethical terrain of the collection": @KimmyGrey on Gabrielle Calvocoressi's THE NEW ECONOMY @CopperCanyonPrs bit.ly/4jxIbpq via @On_The_Seawall

Here's "Commerce" by @simeonberry, his poem in the new edition of @On_The_Seawall / ronslate.com/commerce/

Thanks for publishing my review of Maria Stepanova's new novel, The Disappearing Act, translated by Sasha Dugdale! ronslate.com/on-the-disappe…

"His poems dug down into memory to find their source. More precisely, the excavation of memory -- both personal and cultural, and the continuity he sought in it -- IS his subject": Christian Detisch on THE POEMS OF SEAMUS HEANEY @fsgbooks @On_The_Seawall bit.ly/4aIxLB1

"She affirms Morrison’s body of work as a profound philosophical investigation": @HamiltonCain on Namwali Serpell's ON MORRISON bit.ly/4qEGSY7 @HogarthBooks via @On_The_Seawall

NEW: The January edition of @On_The_Seawall, our first expanded quarterly. We invite you to stop by the "gallery" & have a look / ronslate.com

Tune in tomorrow night 7:30PM ET when Philip Metres reads from FUGITIVE/REFUGE. The zoom link will be available on Tues afternoon at pathwaysmv.org. If you're on Martha's Vineyard, we'll see you at the Chilmark Tavern where poetry & revelry often mean the same thing.