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David Roderick

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Author of Blue Colonial, The Americans, and the forthcoming Darkness for Beginners (Spring, 2027). Director of Left Margin LIT. Director of Content at The Adroit Journal. Old Man Basketball Commissioner. www.davidroderick.com

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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 11h
John Skoyles has a new autobiographical novel (ALL THE QUESTION MARKS) just out from @unboundedition.bsky.social, and we've interviewed him for it @adroitjournal.bsky.social. Thanks to Hayley Pisciotti for conducting the conversation. theadroitjournal.org/2026/09/30/a...
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A Conversation with John Skoyles
John Skoyles is the author of eight books of poems and five of prose. All the Question Marks, an autobiographical novel (Unbound Edition Press) was recently published on September 22nd, 2026. His…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Everyone at @adroitjournal.bsky.social is excited to share this passage from Brittany Perham's new memoir, EXECUTRIX. The book won the Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction, sponsored by @awpwriter.org. And chosen by @cherylstrayed.bsky.social! theadroitjournal.org/2026/09/24/f...
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An Excerpt from Brittany Perham’s Executrix
I’m teaching this night class for adults on contemporary San Francisco poets. My father’s dying and someone’s asking me if this poem’s a sonnet. My father’s dying or already dead. My father’s dyi…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@mackenziekoz.bsky.social interviews poet and critic @davidbiespiel.bsky.social today @adroitjournal.bsky.social. David's new book is BEAUTIFUL THE WORLD: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, out this month from @unboundedition.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/2026/09/02/a...
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A Conversation with David Biespiel
David Biespiel is a poet, novelist, critic, memoirist, and painter. The author of over twelve books, he is a contributor to The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and e…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You should all read @mawsheinwin.bsky.social's lovely meditative essay up @adroitjournal.bsky.social today. Click the link to read "Notes on an Incident: Painting for Trees." theadroitjournal.org/2026/08/31/n...
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Notes on an Incident: Paintings for Trees
Future and past blurred; what he had already experienced and what he would eventually experience blended so that nothing remained but the moment. ―Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric …
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Danielle Shi reviews Eva Figes's NELLY'S VERSION, just out from Dalkey Archive. theadroitjournal.org/2026/08/26/a...
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A Review of Eva Figes’s Nelly’s Version
Circular logic, circular reasoning, and cast shadows people Eva Figes’s 1977 novel of an unreliably narrated account of a woman’s descent into dissociative forgetfulness. Told by a woman—presumab…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Check out Maria Nazos's essay "The Gecko Was Never Dead" up at @adroitjournal.bsky.social's blog today. Her new book of poems is PULSE, just out from @omnidawn.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/2026/08/24/t...
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The Gecko Was Never Dead
Almost two decades ago, while backpacking alone in Costa Rica, I fell in love with a Jersey surfer named Tom. I had escaped to Costa to get away from an obsessive, stalking ex. Tom had come down th…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@adroitjournal.bsky.social #58 is here, including conversations with @adrianmatejka.bsky.social, Elizabeth Metzger, Avigayl Sharp, @lindsayturner.bsky.social, and @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social. Plus @Divya Mehrish's review of Maggie Smith's A SUIT OR A SUITCASE. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
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Issue Fifty-Eight
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: @michaelcostaris.bsky.social interviews @juliebuntin.bsky.social. Julie's new novel, FAMOUS MEN, comes out from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social this week. theadroitjournal.org/2026/07/13/a...
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A Conversation with Julie Buntin
Julie Buntin’s new novel, Famous Men, is recently out from Random House. She’s also the author of Marlena (Holt, 2017)—a finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize—and the co-editor of Notes to…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Today Rosalie Moffett reviews Lisa Russ Spaar's SOUL CAKE @adroitjournal.bsky.social. The book just came out from Persia. theadroitjournal.org/2026/06/22/a...
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A Review of Lisa Russ Spaar’s SOUL CAKE
A soul cake, I did not know, was a small, spiced cake given to the poor or to children, who would in turn offer prayers for the deceased thought to be lingering between earth and heaven. One might …
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
There's a wonderful review of @kelliagodon.bsky.social's ACCIDENTAL DEVOTIONS up @adroitjournal.bsky.social today. The book just came out from @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/2026/06/03/a...
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​​A Review of Kelli Russell Agodon’s Accidental Devotions
Accidental Devotions, Kelli Russell Agodon’s fifth full-length collection published by Copper Canyon Press in May 2026, is an incandescent and tender exploration of what it means to be human in the…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Thank you to the @poetry.foundation and Poetry Magazine for publishing two new poems from JACKALOPES, INC. in the June issue. And make sure to check out the poems from @akasomeguy.bsky.social, Tomas Q. Morin, Jan Beatty, and @briantierney.bsky.social. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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The Canopy App
When I was a child in the backwoods of a provincial place there were so many forests trees bounding all around us you could climb carve sleep under boughs…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Cate Lycurgus chats with poet Ryan Teitman today @adroitjournal.bsky.social. Ryan's new book is PAPERWEIGHT, just out from @uakronpress.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/2026/06/01/a...
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A Conversation with Ryan Teitman
Ryan Teitman is the author of the poetry collections Litany for the City (BOA Editions, 2012) and Paperweight (University of Akron Press, 2026), winner of the Akron Poetry Prize. His poems have app…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
James Ciano's essay "The Glory of Love" is up today on @adroitjournal.bsky.social's blog. James's debut collection is just out from @boa-editions.bsky.social. It's called THE COMMITTEE OF MEN. theadroitjournal.org/2026/05/13/t...
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The Glory of Love
When I was a young man in high school, you believe it or not, I wanted to play football for the coach, begins the titular, closing track of Lou Reed’s sixth solo album, Coney Island Baby, released …
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This is the first installment of @adroitjournal.bsky.social's new blog series, "The Poetics of Place." In this piece Shannon Salter tours around the Rough Hat Solar Project near Pahrump, Nevada. theadroitjournal.org/2026/05/11/p...
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Poetics of Place #1: Pahrump, Nevada
I drive slowly on the shoulder of HWY 160, thirty miles west of Las Vegas, outside of Pahrump, Nevada, looking for the land which will become the western edge of the Rough Hat Solar project. I come…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: @danielleshi.bsky.social reviews Jake Rose's JOAN, just out from the University of Chicago Press. theadroitjournal.org/2026/05/06/a...
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A Review of Jake Rose’s JOAN
The winner of the 2026 Phoenix Emerging Poet Prize from The University of Chicago Press, Rose’s astounding debut volume of poetry rhapsodizes on a paradoxically controlled beat, inhabiting the ling…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Up on @adroitjournal.bsky.social's blog today: Robert Hass's "Author's Note" that frames his new book of essays out from @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social: A THIRD COMMONNESS: ESSAYS ON POETRY, POETICS, AND THE NATURAL WORLD. Beautiful book from a genius poet. theadroitjournal.org/2026/05/04/a...
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A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World
This is, by my count, my third gathering of essays and reviews. And I noticed that, inside the genre of the essay, it includes a number of introductions—an introduction to an anthology of the histo…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
@adroitjournal.bsky.social issue #27 is here! Check out: Lisa Russ Spaar reviews new books by @preetivangani.bsky.social and @sophiadahlin.bsky.social. Interviews with Kevin Young, @emilynemens.bsky.social, @tayari.bsky.social, and @paradiselaust.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
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Issue Fifty-Seven
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social's blog: @izineh.bsky.social interviews @cphillipspoet.bsky.social. Carl's debut, IN THE BLOOD, has been re-released from @fsgbooks.bsky.social. I remember devouring this beautiful book when it originally appeared in the mid-90s. theadroitjournal.org/2026/04/06/a...
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A Conversation with Carl Phillips
In the Blood, Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips’s debut collection, was rereleased last month, over three decades after its original publication. The book signaled the arrival of a singular, ne…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Read @kategaskin.bsky.social and @gendeguzman.bsky.social convo today up @adroitjournal.bsky.social. Genevieve's new book is KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (@jacklegpress.bsky.social) and Kate's is A RED KNOCK-KNOCKING LIKE A HEART (@lsupress.bsky.social). theadroitjournal.org/2026/03/30/a...
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A Conversation between Genevieve DeGuzman and Kate Gaskin
To read Genevieve DeGuzman’s Karaoke at the End of the World (JackLeg Press, 2026) is to undergo a crash course in marvels. Woven through this debut collection are complex relational intricacies be…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Tired of AI doom-and-gloom articles in your feed? 1. Read this inspiring piece in NYT about the unforeseen power of book reviews that changed the literary trajectories of Annie Proulx and Larry McMurtry. www.nytimes.com/.../larry-mc....
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Check out Bobby Elliot's essay "On Shame and Rejection" on @adroitjournal.bsky.social's blog today. theadroitjournal.org/2026/03/18/o...
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On Shame and Rejection
When Nate Marshall called to tell me I’d won the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, I lost it. Jumped for joy. Wept. Could not—in any way—keep it together. What I’d longed for, and worked towa…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Sophie Hamel interviews Elisa Shua Dusapin about her new novel, THE OLD FIRE. theadroitjournal.org/2026/03/16/a...
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A Conversation with Elisa Shua Dusapin
I have admired Elisa’s evocative prose and intimate stories ever since I discovered Winter in Sokcho in French at my hometown local bookstore while on vacation in France. Ten years later, it is a…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Will Brewer's NOCTURAMA, from @milkweededitions.bsky.social, reviewed today in @adroitjournal.bsky.social. Thanks to Sean Cho A. for this smart criticism. theadroitjournal.org/2026/02/23/a...
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A Review of Will Brewer’s Nocturama
A nocturama is an architectural device: a controlled, low-light habitat in which nocturnal animals can be observed during manufactured daylight. Visitors enter a reversed world where creatures accu…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Ryan Teitman reviews D.S. Waldman's new collection, ATRIA. theadroitjournal.org/2026/02/18/a...
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A Review of D.S. Waldman’s Atria
It feels appropriate that D.S. Waldman’s debut poetry collection, Atria, opens with the speaker looking at the work of the artist Alexander Calder. Calder’s mobiles and Waldman’s poetry could be di…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Our very own Ben Regan Marra interviews poet Richie Hofmann. Richie's new book is THE BRONZE ARMS, just out from @aaknopf.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/2026/02/10/a...
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A Conversation with Richie Hofmann
Richie Hofmann is the recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2025 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry appears in two previous collections, A Hundred …
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Michael Costaris's interviews fiction writer @evgeniyadame.bsky.social about her story "Mother, Tongue" in our most recent issue. theadroitjournal.org/2026/02/04/w...
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Writing from Innocence: A Conversation with Evgeniya Dame
Evgeniya Dame’s “Mother, Tongue” follows two women navigating a teacher’s training college in Samara, Russia. Language sits at the forefront of the story, less a subject of study for its narrator t…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Read @adroitjournal.bsky.social's Larry Levis project with essays by David St. John, @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social, James Ciano, @lizajohnson1.bsky.social, Jon Pineda, @sharalessley.bsky.social, @cubistoctopus.bsky.social, @nxo.bsky.social, @megg-bean.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
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Issue Fifty-Six
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Check out today's blog post @adroitjournal.bsky.social, an excerpt from Grant Faulkner and Gail Butensky's SOMETHING OUT THERE IN THE DISTANCE. theadroitjournal.org/2026/01/07/s...
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From Grant Faulkner and Gail Butensky’s something out there in the distance
“How do you describe a person?” How do you describe a person? Is it their smell, the rhythm of their breaths? The way they pinch their lips without even knowing it, the crimp of their brow? …
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Livia Meneghin reviews @gabbat.bsky.social's THE NEW ECONOMY today @adroitjournal.bsky.social, calling it "a portal of hauntings and extraordinary song, summoning readers to have courage amidst their own sorrows." @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social theadroitjournal.org/2026/01/05/a...
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A Review of Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s The New Economy
Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s The New Economy, published by Copper Canyon Press in October 2025, is a portal of hauntings and extraordinary song, summoning readers to have courage amidst their own sorro…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Adrian Lue reviews Lana Lin's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM, just out from @dorothyproject.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/2025/12/01/a...
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A Review of Lana Lin’s The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam
My copy of Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas features two portraits on its cover. The first, depicting a sepia-toned Stein with her famous cropped haircut, takes up over half th…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Today on @adroitjournal.bsky.social's blog: Abby Lacelle reviews Olga Ravn's third book, THE WAX CHILD. New Directions published the novel in September. theadroitjournal.org/2025/11/19/a...
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A Review of Olga Ravn’s The Wax Child
Musk and petrichor waft from the pages of Olga Ravn’s third novel, The Wax Child. The novel details the tragedy of 17th-century Danish women condemned for witchcraft, as told in first-p…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Mike Good interviews Varun Ravindran, whose debut, BETWEENNESS, was just published by Baobab Press. theadroitjournal.org/2025/11/17/a...
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A Conversation with Varun Ravindran
This interview took place in a courtyard outside of Varun’s Pittsburgh apartment on a summer evening in July. The sound of cicadas, crows, and blue jays called out during our conversation. Varun an…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Katy Dycus reviews Faroese poet Kim Simonsen’s WHAT GOOD DOES IT DO FOR A PERSON TO WAKE UP ONE MORNING THIS SIDE OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM today @adroitjournal.bsky.social. @deepvellum.bsky.social theadroitjournal.org/2025/11/12/a...
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A Review of Kim Simonsen’s What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium
In What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium, Faroese poet Kim Simonsen suggests we have the opportunity to encounter the universe in every person: “T…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: @poetryphone.bsky.social interviews @theoceanisgay.bsky.social about their new book just out from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, LET THE MOON WOBBLE. theadroitjournal.org/2025/11/10/a...
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A Conversation with Ally Ang
Ally Ang is a gaysian poet & editor based in Seattle. Their work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, The Seattle Met, and elsewhere. Ally is a National…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Today at @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Danielle Shi reviews Austyn Wohlers's HOTHOUSE BLOOM, out this fall from Hub City Press. theadroitjournal.org/2025/11/05/a...
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A Review of Austyn Wohlers’s Hothouse Bloom
Austyn Wohlers’s novel Hothouse Bloom effortlessly draws the reader into a fever state of interiority, an interiority too large to be seen in its entirety. The edges of raw, unadulterated color are…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Emily Mitchell's THE CHURCH OF DIVINE ELECTRICITY reviewed today @adroitjournal.bsky.social. Many thanks to @allisonwyss.bsky.social for this smart critical piece. theadroitjournal.org/2025/11/03/a...
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A Conversation with Emily Mitchell
Emily Mitchell is the author of The Last Summer of the World (W. W. Norton), a novel, and two collections of short stories: Viral (W. W. Norton, 2015); and The Church of Divine Electricity, winner …
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We've got lots more great reading in @adroitjournal.bsky.social #55, which launched yesterday. Here's a conversation with Spencer Reece conducted by Kimberley Grey. Spencer's most recent book of poems is ACTS, from @fsgbooks.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
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A Conversation with Spencer Reece
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
More from @adroitjournal.bsky.social's 55th issue: @rbjrichardson.bsky.social interviews Aracelis Girmay. "When I was in June Jordan’s archives, over a decade ago now, I found several loose sheets of paper where she was working on a revision..." theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
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A Conversation with Aracelis Girmay
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
And here's Colby Cotton's @adroitjournal.bsky.social interview with poet Bobby Elliott. His new book is THE SAME MAN, just out from the University of Pittsburgh Press. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
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A Conversation with Bobby Elliott
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
@adroitjournal.bsky.social Issue #55 is out! Check out Lisa Russ Spaar's new column and interviews with Aracelis Girmay, Spencer Reece, Teresa Dzieglewicz, and Bobby Elliott. AND: we've got a fantastic interview with Rita Dove. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
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You Have to Be Ferocious: A Conversation with Rita Dove
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