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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 02/04/2025

My chapbook JEWISH AMERICAN DREAM is out in August from @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. Here's the cover, featuring a beautiful pastrami in acrylic by Maggie Cowles. I'd love for you to preorder it: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 25/02/2025

Some news: my chapbook JEWISH AMERICAN DREAM is a winner of the 2024 @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Chapbook Prize, and it'll be published this August. So grateful to @kristenmiller.bsky.social and the whole Sarabande team for having faith in these poems.

A picture of Danny Caine with the text "Announcing New Poetry, Jewish American Dream by Danny Caine, Winner of the 2024 Sarabande Chapbook Prize, out August 2025"

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 23/02/2025

you have got to be kidding me

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 24/01/2025

spam email or bad postmodern poetry?

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 15/12/2024

Been a huge fan of @clereviewbooks.bsky.social from day one so it’s a huge honor to have six poems from my “The Beatles Were More Jewish Than You Think” sequence in issue 2.2. Thanks to everyone on the team for finding a space for me in a beautiful issue.

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 05/12/2024

I looked up "Food Desert" on iStock Photo for work and

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 04/12/2024

is this some kind of madlib

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 03/12/2024

Wrote a poem about a corned beef sandwich in space and now it’s a Pushcart nominee, heck yes www.minyanmag.com/dannycaine.h...

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 02/12/2024

Throwing a reading party at 8th Street Taproom on December 22 to say "so long for now" to Lawrence, Kansas. I'll read some stuff, and so will folks like @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social, @danhoyt.bsky.social, @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social, @chancedibben.bsky.social and more. I'd love to see you there.

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 29/02/2024

thanks so much to @maris.bsky.social for saying what needs to be said lithub.com/there-are-bi...

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 22/02/2024

really, really excited to do a “How to Protect Bookstores and Why” event with @tricialockwood.bsky.social tomorrow at E Shaver’s in Savannah

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 17/01/2024

Going on a bit of a tour this winter / AWP + Atlantic South + Paris / hope to see you out there!

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 21/12/2023

Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for publishing this Chanukah poem at @havehashad.com! Three sections, eighteen lines each, each featuring a joke, a punchline, a menorah, a metaphor, an outdoor Chanukah commemoration, and some kids.

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 12/12/2023

My favorite deli closed today, without any warning. It was a space, rare these days, where I could feel both Jewish and at peace. Im adding the loss of this community space to the long list of losses I’m grieving for

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 02/12/2023

the captioning on the TV at the gym was stuck on [screams] for my entire workout

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 01/12/2023

well folks, looks like I’m writing a trilogy thanks so much to @microcosm.bsky.social for taking another chance on this guy

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 29/11/2023

I didn’t buy the Chai Anxiety hat and I think I regret my decision

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 24/11/2023

researching for my work in progress poetry collection has taken me to some pretty dark places

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 17/11/2023

Harvey Pekar is maybe my #1 writer hero, yet I had somehow not read his posthumous Israel comic yet. Still, I’m glad the book found me in this moment. It’s timely enough that it could’ve been written yesterday, but that says as much about the cycles of state violence as it does about the book.

The front cover of NOT THE ISRAEL MY PARENTS PROMISED ME by Harvey Pekar

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 06/11/2023

I’m delighted to have two new poems in @havehashad.com today! 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 24/10/2023

3 more book tour events! ✨ 11/4 I’m at the Raven Book Store with the Autofocus Books family (incl. @suburbanprairie.bsky.social, @aaronburch.bsky.social, Holly Pelesky & host Michael Wheaton! ✨ 11/5 I’m back at the Raven with @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social! ✨ 11/6 I’m at Magic City Books in Tulsa!

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 07/10/2023

Going to bookstores to meet booksellers and talk about the radical possibilities for bookstores…not a bad way to spend a week. Thanks so much to Moon Palace, @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social, and Bookends & Beginnings for hosting events for me!

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 28/09/2023

While I cannot stand the sound of my voice on tape, I realize that may not be true of others. With that in mind, here’s the HOW TO PROTECT BOOKSTORES AND WHY audiobook on @librofm.bsky.social featuring 6h 47m of my voice on tape: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 26/09/2023

Can’t wait to tour the Midwest starting next week, doing author events at six of the bookstores featured in HOW TO PROTECT BOOKSTORES AND WHY, and eating lots of gas station beef jerky

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 19/09/2023

It’s been sneaking into the world for a while now but today is the official publication day for HOW TO PROTECT BOOKSTORES AND WHY, here pictured with some of the amazing books that guided me in the process of writing it.

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 14/09/2023

My friends at the English Bookshop in Sweden sent me this photo of a display at their Uppsala location—not only do they have all four of my @microcosm.bsky.social books and zines, but they have a ton of great books by so many friends (including @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social). You love to see it!

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 11/09/2023

sometimes cool things happen

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 05/09/2023

It would be my honor to see you on the How to Protect Bookstores and Why tour this Fall at one of these fine bookselling establishments

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 05/09/2023

JAMES, Percival Everett’s retelling of Huck Finn from Jim’s perspective, is somehow even better than I thought it’d be. What a master.

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 04/09/2023

Found my new motto on a green Tacoma

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 28/08/2023

I don’t usually galley brag but I feel like today’s mail calls for a galley brag so forgive me

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 31/07/2023

On my tour for HOW TO PROTECT BOOKSTORES AND WHY, I’m excited to do as many bookstore events as I can at the stores I profiled in the book. First up: a meet and greet happy hour at Loyalty Bookstore in Washington DC on Monday August 7! Hope to see you there!

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 27/07/2023

Pretty sure heaven looks like the poetry room at City Lights

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 27/07/2023

I had the best time at Green Apple Books today (of course the very first stop on my California vacation was a bookstore). Boy did me and the fam walk out of here with a pile.

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 21/07/2023

Love that Terrance Hayes’s new book opens with a big fuck you to the “no adverbs in poetry” people

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Danny Caine @dannycaine.com · 21/07/2023

Thanks to HAD for publishing three poems from my collection-in-progress, which I think is called JEWISH AMERICAN DREAM. The first poem is a reckoning with old and new antisemitism. The second two poems are (basically) transcriptions of dreams I had about Jewish celebrities, which happens a lot.

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