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Glenn Bach

@atlascorpus.bsky.social
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(Retired) sound artist. Long poem Atlas in progress since 2003: EVAD out now from above/ground press. Micro-chap excerpts in 2024 from @ghostcitypress.bsky.social and @stonecorpse.com. glennbach.com

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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“I do not want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.” Nobel Prize Winner & longtime fave, Anne Carson. This is only one example of her brilliance. ✨
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Delighted to have two excerpts in Indefinite Space Vol XXXIV, 2026, thanks to Marcia Arrieta. In good company with folks like @shemurph.bsky.social, David Wolf, Alan Catlin, et al.
Photograph of front cover of Indefinite Space, a poetry journal edited by Marcia Arrieta. Photograph of poem by Glenn Bach:

seeing rock for the first time / hammer in hand //

much of the river is / pristine

a thicket of evergreen / broadly / mix of chaparral / covered by //

an abalone shell / and a digging stickPhoto of poem by Glenn Bach

past a marsh past / a stately tree the only / hint that creeks /
and wetlands might / be 

are the red-winged / blackbirds that touch / down

on the small islands / plants covering / where people aren't allowed

where you meet open water / of little more than ice than 

resting egrets nesting.
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ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@billymills.bsky.social - Anniversary of The Gallery 6 reading . - allenginsberg.org/2026/10/w-o-7/
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
all these men I just want a place for myself Joanne Kyger #SmallPoemSunday
Thursday

the quality of mind
like I am keeping track of 
3 or 4 people at one time
bathing naked
A letter to Bobbie Creeley 
no place to sit 
all these men
I just want a place 
for myself
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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“...an important poem, a major long poem of the 1960s... Uniformbooks are to be commended for bringing it back into circulation in a format that is both handsome and serviceable.” —Billy Mills blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Book-of-the-Green-Man-by-Ronald-Johnson/9781910010044 #PoetryDay
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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The John Coltrane Centennial is here today. He only lived for 40 of those years. The world’s heaviest spirit, left behind a monumental legacy that we’re lucky to be able to continue sifting through, maybe even for eternity. God bless Trane. ❤️‍🔥 Dedication from LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka’s Black Music.
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Bookpack is much better and I will be using it going forward.
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What a gift this was. Plunging back in.
Photo of cover of paperback edition of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard against a wood table background.
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A glimpse from my first poetry career: scans of Chiron Review when it was still in tabloid format. Thanks to Michael Hathaway for his archival efforts.
Scanned cover of Chiron Review #83, Summer 2008, with a photograph of Denise Low-Weso, Poet Laureate of Kansas.Scanned cover of Chiron Review #56, Winter 1998, with a photo of Ruth Moon KempherScanned cover of Chiron Review #77, Winter 2004, with a photograph of Robert L. Penick
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Rachel Blau Duplessis. "Often, then, the structures do not displace each other but continue to accumulate, marking the poem with its own history of instances as well as incorporating, in the outline of a long poem, an archaeology/assemblage of the poet's changes over time."
Photograph of Rachel Blau Duplessis' A Long Essay on the Long Poem, highlight: "Often, then, the structures [of the long poem] do not displace each other but continue to accumulate, marking the poem with its own history of instances as well as incorporating, in the outline of a long poem, an archaeology/assemblage of the poet's changes over time."
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
And, agreed, this timeline can suck it.
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm so sorry, Jessica. I share your affection for Drafts, although I'm still working through them, and so not as deep an influence as they are for you. More pressing for me was/is her Long Essay on the Long Poem, which, as a self-taught poet, is a goldmine of context and inspiration.
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wow! Rare and odd, indeed.
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
RIP Wendell Berry. share.google/Y5ppik9sAdH8...
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Beloved writer and environmentalist Wendell Berry has died at age 92
Wendell Berry has died at age 92 He was a beloved American poet, novelist, essayist, and farmer.
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Awesome! They were the surprise (to me) opener for Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds on the Boatman's Call tour in L.A. Almost outshined them. Almost...
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Godspeed You! Black Emperor The Blasters Nels Cline + Devin Sarno The Magnetic Fields Damien Jurado Low Mazzy Star Banyan 16 Horsepower Amps for Christ
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Andrew Joron / from “Five Inquiries Beyond Sequence [for Gustaf Sobin]”
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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
During Covid lockdowns my partner and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning – from 6am to 8.30am. On our walks, we paid attention to life around us – to small creatures, insects and birds. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...
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Tzu-Jan in Post-Nature: A Process | Matthew Clegg
History has lured me here – a lining of moss on a crumbling log. During Covid lockdowns my partner [i] and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning …
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm very sorry to hear this. What a nightmare.
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
For you I would build a whole new universe Jack Spicer
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For you I would build a whole new universe but you obviously find it cheaper to rent one. Eurydice did too. She went back to hell unsure of what kind of other house Orpheus would build. “I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.” Shot
In the back by an arrow, President Kennedy seemed to stiffen for a moment before he assumed his place in history. Eros
Do that.
I gave you my imaginary hand and you give me your imaginary hand and we walk together (in imagination) over the earthly ground.
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Evan Kindley @evankindley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm excited to announce that my book "The New York School: Poetry, Art, and Friendship in Midcentury Manhattan" will be published by Knopf in March 2027. It's a group biography of the New York School of Poets, centered on John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch.
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boomkat.com @boomkat.com · 19/08/2026
Ghost Dubs has a new album on the way, even deeper and moodier than its predecessor, crafting blurred melodies and narco loops into something heavyweight and hypnotic, tipped FFO Echospace, Burial Mix, Andy Stott... Boomkat Exclusive red vinyl 2LP: boomkat.com/products/obl...
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
2/2 epigraph for Gaspar Orozco’s Book of the Peony (tr. Mark Weiss)
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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
William Carlos Williams from Selected Poems #SmallPoemSunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
The Locust Tree in Flower
Among of green
stiff
old
bright
broken branch come
white sweet May
again
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 13/08/2026
"It’s like going to church whether you want to or not. If you know it, you’ll know what I’m talking about. It’s just beautiful. Beautiful’s the only word I can say." Cat Power on #JohnColtrane - Crescent #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/hZlbcJr
John Coltrane - Crescent album cover. Coltrane blowing on the sax, with titles in red, pale gold and light blue and an Impulse! sticker.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 11/08/2026
"When I was 11 turning 12, my big sister, Mandy, gave me a cassette of Metal Circus, and she said in her Southern accent: ‘I heard this was pretty good, happy birthday’. 

I loved that that tape so much" #CatPower on #HüskerDü - Metal Circus #ThePortal buff.ly/mweWasY
HüskerDü - Metal Circus album cover.
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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Sol LeWitt's DO IT letter: "don’t think that your work has to conform to any preconceived form, idea or flavor. It can be anything you want it to be": news.lettersofnote.com/p/do-13c read DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... @pressassembly.bsky.social
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Cid Corman
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Jonathan Griffin (for mk)
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Delighted to have five Atlas excerpts in Misophist Magazine #3. They are all pulled from different chapters of the long poem, but, assembled together, create an entirely new sequence. www.misophistmag.com/glenn-bach-m...
‘The Green Issue’ - Ben Ketterer. Wonderful illustration of a winter tree watching over a table displaying copies of the latest issue of Misophist Magazine
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
happy thirty-third birthday sale, above/ground press! , in which an anniversary continues to be celebrated, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/07/happ...
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happy thirty-third birthday sale, above/ground press!
Today is the thirty-third anniversary of above/ground press ! And that first ever above/ground press event held at the (long gone) Stone Ang...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 22/07/2026
Dub never disappeared... it seeped into everything. From post-rock and trip-hop to illbient, dub techno and beyond, The Afterlives of Dub, 1995–2025 traces three decades of echo, atmosphere and low-end pressure in one mixtape. Dubwise summer continues. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/22/t...
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"A cancelled book launch. Not the end of the world. What would that look like. Would we know it if we saw it. I rise to leave. My clothes are damp with sweat. I’ve scarcely moved in the last two hours." 'Seven Degrees': on cancellations and connections longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/seven-degr...
Rehearsals for The Gleaning, upstairs at The Harlequin, Sheffield, 9 June 2026. L-R: Matthew Clegg, Fay Musselwhite, Karl Hurst, Ray Hearne, Rob Hindle.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 24/06/2026
'This music has been lost for decades – genuinely lost in that nobody outside the Meher Baba organisation knew where they were or even that they definitely existed' Robbie Basho Song Of The Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes (2020) The Strange World Of… #RobbieBasho - #ThePortal buff.ly/XHTShyD
Robbie Basho Song Of The Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes cover. Blue bordered picture of Basho playing the guitar.
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boomkat.com @boomkat.com · 22/06/2026
This one back in - Bim Sherman’s self-released 1988 dub killer ‘Ghetto Dub’, mixed by King Tubby, Prince Jammy and Adrian Sherwood w/ rhythms by The Roots Radics and Sly & Robbie, newly remastered for its first new edition in 30 years boomkat.com/products/ghe...
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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Bread and Puppet Theatre's WHY CHEAP ART MANIFESTO was a huge inspiration for my new book DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Rethink why you create : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... Assembly Press (More on the manifesto here: breadandpuppetpress.org/products/why...)
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Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Story is out now in the August issue of @uncutmagazine.bsky.social!
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byron coley @byroncoley.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
excellent piece from the times on robbie basho, as part of their "overlooked" series. no firewall www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/o...
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Overlooked No More: Robbie Basho, Guitar Mystic Who Sought Enlightenment in Sound
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 19/06/2026
John Coltrane Quartet :: Ballads (1963) aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/19/j... The central mystery of Ballads is how an album of standards, recorded during one of the most radical periods in jazz history, feels every bit as profound as Coltrane’s more adventurous work. Midnite jazz column returns.
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Poets: you can be as quiet as you want. The right readers will find you.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 18/06/2026
4AD is reissuing Mojave 3’s full back catalogue, encompassing five studio albums buff.ly/HNJi8W6
Mojave 3, black and white photo by Phil Nicholls.
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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This album completely captured my imagination in the spring of 1998, finishing my first undergraduate year and having just seen them live on campus in a crowd of maybe 20. From the evocative artwork to the mysterious and impossible to remember song titles to the songs themselves, creeks and oboes.
Hand holding a vinyl copy of the self-titled Songs: Ohia album, which features a silver engraving of an owl sitting on a loop of a small sapling through which a rabbit runs The back of the album with the song titles: Cabwaylingo, Crab Orchard, Gauley Bridge, Blue Jay, Tenskwatawa, White Sulfur, Our Republic, Big Sewell Mt., Cotton Hill, Dogwood Gap, Greenbrier, Little Beaver, Blue Stone, U.M.W. Pension
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 17/06/2026
"Hüsker Dü were the band for me in the mid 80s. Their music supplied the kicking out against your surroundings energy of hardcore but also brought elements of ascension and transcendence." Simon Reynolds on #HüskerDü - Zen Arcade buff.ly/PtTIv96
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade album cover. Photograph of the band in a car wreckage yard that has been coloured in from black and white, apparently with crayons.
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walk · listen · create @walklistencreate.org · 13/06/2026
dlvr.it
Seasonal Slow – January 2020
Early in 2012 we moved from Dulwich to Greenwich – as one of our American friend joked ‘from one silent W neighbourhood to another’. Soon after moving we won a contract from Greenwich Healthy Living Service, part of the borough council, to create more than 100 walking and cycling routes centred on children and health centres
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Alec Finlay, from <Be My Reader>
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Glenn Bach @atlascorpus.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I love these!! The color of the imaging process, the warping. So cool! I can totally see this as a series (meaning: take my money). Back in the day I tried to use Photoshop but with poor resolution. Recently I've used the text box feature in Word, and it worked better, if a little flat.
An overlay of multiple texts with some words showing through but most obscured and unreadable.An overlay of multiple texts with an occasional word showing through but nearly all text obscured and unreadable.
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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
someone shared their experience of reading Continent with me and maybe I should go back to it and share pages that mean the most to me once and a while here's one, from "Archipelagoes"
sink in grasses' say what'll sign now
plover murmurations
who'll wrap us
and drift
listening with seasons
a name's shifting
hours
swarm
where's
counselled
by wind's rufflings
I stray
not to know but wonder what no
discord may feather
trying to feel limbs
pulse as questions
just that
radii open
a tempest fragrant edge
with a gesture that could land us where we have only alighted
how to be livable here
trial
syntax undertow
water's
rise from
wave's cadences remain me
and choral
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I do not struggle with the poem, but with my own attentions. —@robmclennan.bsky.social
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I do not struggle with the poem, 
but with my own attentions.

Valzhyna Mort: Sometimes our words can cut meat 
The back of fire, curved. From one language

to another. I slip out, step away. The outdoor view, so Alta Vista smooth. Cars trundle, bus.

And for a spell,
all else is quiet.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 03/06/2026
Written by music journalist Lauren Martin, Aftershock: The Seismic Impact Of Dubstep features words from Mala, Loefah, Kode9 and lots more New Book Narrates the Oral History of Dubstep buff.ly/J847U9w
Photo by Orson Sieverding.
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