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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 25/05/2026

John Paul Martinez’s lush, aching debut is a book for the heart that breaks open and still blooms. preorder ALTERNATIVES FOR SUCCULENTS here: buff.ly/BBmuI7J

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

What’s that?! Oh yes, we are open to submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts ALL OF MAY. 📚❤️ Fee optional, no questions asked. Submit here: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

Collage of all of our book covers, designed by Alban Fischer

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Just finished reading this wonderful collection by @trix6911.bsky.social. As an admirer of her work for 25 years and someone who grew up in Cumberland, MD, I couldn't get enough of these stories, set in Whistle Pig, MD.

Cover of Patricia Henley's Apple & Palm: Stories. Gray background with a table containing four red apples in the foreground.

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for recommending this collection. Finished it yesterday, and it’s amazing. Love reading about Aaron’s daily story-reading practice!

Illustrated cover of Jon Raymond’s story collection Livability.

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Moon City Review @mooncityreview.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Congrats to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees: Mikaela Hagen, @gabrielwelsch.bsky.social, @jstewartmiller.bsky.social, @duffusmatthew.bsky.social, Claire Hero, and @kellypedro.bsky.social. Good luck!

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Southern Review of Books @southrevbooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

“This collection is filled with love, caution, correction, and ferocity.” @duffusmatthew.bsky.social reviews LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING by Ashley M. Jones. @hubcitypress.bsky.social southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/09/12/l...

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Fierce Love in “Lullaby for the Grieving”

A review of Ashley M. Jones’ new poetry collection, “Lullaby for the Grieving.”

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Just saw that Cubs' great Ryne Sandberg has passed away. He's been my favorite player since 1984 and will be missed by many, I'm sure. RIP, Ryno.

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

You won't regret adding ANY Bull City titles to your collection, not matter the occasion.

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Excited to share that I'm the new Fiction Editor for Orison Books (co-editor coming soon?). Already getting started on the wonderful submissions from the annual fiction book contest.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Psst—BOTH of our fall poetry 2025 titles are available for preorder! And you can use our summer sale code, SUMMER2025 for an additional 20% discount! 💙📚 riverriverbooks.org/store/

ENCOUNTERS
FOR THE LIVING AND THE
POEMS
DEAD
JAMEELA
F. DALLIS

Cover design by Alban Fischer
Image of a Dutch still life with lemon, oysters, grape and orange

E.G.
CUNNINGHAM
POEMS
FTELD NOTES

Cover design by Alban Fischer
Image of a Great Plains, photographed by author

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

What a beautiful, timely piece from Devin Kelly this morning: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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W.S. Merwin's "Ash"

Thoughts on remembering.

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I admire this book so much. Anyone interested in reviewing nonfiction should jump on this offer.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

perhaps you would like to read a long essay on the simile: carcanet.substack.com/p/pattern-bo... (perhaps you would not? but perhaps,,,)

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Pattern-book: Éireann Lorsung

Éireann Lorsung on gesturing towards an ethics of the simile

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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

For Miles Davis’ 99th birthday, here’s a searching attempt to harmonize his life with his art.

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Memorializing Miles

An honest reckoning with a genius

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Poetry Daily is trying to add 1000 subscribers to their poem-a-day newsletter this month—it’s free, it’s a diverse reading experience, it’s an email you’ll actually be happy to see. 💫 @poetrydaily.bsky.social Sign up here:

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Poetry Daily

Poetry Daily Email Forms

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Man, have I been in a reading slump lately. Might be time to fall back on the Break Glass In Case of Emergency case filled with my remaining unread Henry James novels.

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Thanks to @mooncityreview.bsky.social for publishing my latest story in the 2025 issue. Hoping it will one day be part of the collection I'm trying to finish. Big shout out to @bettysueblue.bsky.social for her edits before submission!

Opening paragraphs of my story "Hiatus," published in Moon City Review 2025: My brother's partners all but blindfolded me before they took me to his homestead. He was squatting on a huge tract of land in the mountains near Asheville, and the two people who helped him with the operation, as they called it, were jumpy. My brother had gone into the woods to live deeply and suck out all the marrow of life. Then he disappeared.

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

To come up with a good AI policy for a university, one first has to have an idea of which skills and formative experiences they are prepared to lose for the sake of AI use, and which ones they will fight to retain. And it’s here that we have discovered that consensus is most importantly lacking.

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A Matter of Words | The Point Magazine

Over the course of the past two years, university committees focused on the impact of artificial intelligence have assembled across the country.

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I’ve been getting so many fundraising emails (understandably, of course!) from orgs that have lost NEA grants. Idk how many I can donate to, but I’m trying!

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

So excited to see @rosswhite.com 's name in the ToC of the latest Poetry Magazine. I can't wait to read the poem!

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Ann VOTE EARLY Gelder ❌👑 @anngelder.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

If you’ve never created anything yourself—only bought or stolen other people’s work and pretended you made it—then AI makes perfect sense to you. The rest of us, not so much.

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Today is one of those days when I wish I lived in a big city with a vinyl shop. #RecordStoreDay

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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 05/04/2025

From Broadsides to Full-Lengths and most things in between--our National Poetry Month sale is running NOW! bullcitypress.com/product-cate...

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Been sitting with the Meta AI news. My novel is in the database. I spent 4 years writing it. The press is defunct, so the book is out-of-print and homeless. But thankfully a massive company was able to benefit from it, even if I only have memories of the optimism I had for it as I was writing it.

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Mike Soskil @msoskil.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

When we use "the future of work" to solely drive decisions in education, we prepare students solely for a future as "workers" rather than a future as citizens, community members, & unique individuals. We prepare them to be exploited by those with money & power rather than to shape their own future.

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Happy to start out 2025 with a flash in @mrbullbull.bsky.social. I wrote this ages ago in a @kathyfish.bsky.social workshop (highly recommended!) and have tinkered with it ever since. mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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In Joyful Obedience Your Tasks to Fulfill | MrBullBull

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Any writers out there have experience with Nisus Writer Pro? I'm considering transitioning but am not sure how effective it is.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

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OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free

OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I don't want to despair, but sometimes it's hard. I fear we're rocketing toward a future where we've truly forgotten what it's like to do the work, rather than allow work-like simulations to pass for the real thin. My book is my attempt to arrest that slide. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...

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More Than Words

A veteran writing teacher makes a “moving” (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by...

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Today is our co-editor Amorak Huey’s (@amorak.bsky.social) birthday 🎉 🎉🎉 Share a poem to celebrate?! River River is two people and a trenchcoat of poetry…we could not work without his generous, kind, brilliant attention 📚💙🌊🌊 HBD, Amorak! 🎈

All Weather Wants to Be Some Other Kind of Weather

A boy lies on top of his sheets in Alabama,
his skin glazed with sweat and wonder.
The late-summer air is soup, swamp, tongue. The boy suspects he was kidnapped
as an infant. Suspects he does not belong,
here or anywhere, has no home to return to,
and if once he had some other name
it has long been forgotten. The darkness
is a promise. The quiet is a promise.
He opens his eyes. Closes them.
And for the rest of his life
he will pretend there was a time
when he was comfortable in his skin
a season that was not about waiting
for the wind to change—
a moment unshaped by hunger.

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Margaret Ray @mbrrray.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Cool cool now do it for teachers

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I really admired and learned a great deal from this book. Highly recommended!

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Excited to receive my contributor’s copy of the latest Brilliant Corners, with my essay about back when I was young and used to go to jazz shows with my mother.

Front cover of Brilliant Corners: a journal of jazz & literature

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I wasn’t prepared for the fact that having a teen daughter means watching Titanic more times than I ever thought necessary.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Y’all we have a recommendation and it is that you buy at least ONE book directly from a small press today—not bookshop, not Amazon. Help keep small presses open. @juneroadpress.bsky.social @sundresspub.bsky.social @bellepointpress.bsky.social @lightscatterpress.bsky.social @bullcitypress.com

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Buy a small press book today

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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 29/11/2024

Do you love chapbooks of poetry and prose? Do you want to support a small press in a year where small presses really need your support? Then check out our Black Friday sale: all books and ebooks are on sale, some over 60% off. www.bullcitypress.com

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Bull City Press

A micropress in Durham, NC. We love readers. We love writers.

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Another great book that is worth your reading time at any price!

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I love all four of these books! Take advantage of this sale if you haven't read them.

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Charles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Poets, what's a good edited collection of essays on writing poetry? My go-to was always Donald Hall's CLAIMS FOR POETRY but I'm looking for something more recent. xoxo

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Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

One of my very favorite poems to share. I hope that some of you are reading this for the first time. #poetry

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Beth is an excellent editor. She'll take care of your work and help you see it from a fresh perspective. Jump on this opportunity!

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’m a proud contributing writer to RainTaxiReview, so before the end of Give to the Max Day on Nov 21, please join me in showing them some love by making a donation here: www.givemn.org/organization...

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Support Rain Taxi on GiveMN

Rain Taxi champions aesthetically adventurous literature. We take readers where writing is going. Join us on the ride!

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

As a writing studies person & academic (😬), I’ve honestly felt embarrassed & disappointed at how some teacher-scholars seem inclined to make peace w/ AI, trying to teach it rather than calling it out as fundamentally unethical. But here’s an article arguing for resistance & not giving an inch.

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Burn it down: a license for AI resistance (opinion)

Resistance is not futile, Melanie Dusseau writes.

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Look what just came in the mail, #jazzsky! Can't wait to listen to it. What a great combination of players.

Back cover of vinyl edition of Lionel Louie and Dave Holland's jazz album entitled United. Light red background with white and black geometric patterns.

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

For all you sentence lovers: I’m learning so much that I’ve merely intuited over the years from this book.

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Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Not new, but I am absolutely loving C Pam Zhang's Land of Milk and Honey. So far, it's easily as good as How Much of These Hills Is Gold, which was one of my absolute favorites of that year.

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