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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Lynch book I edited can now be pre-ordered: lsupress.org/978080718850... Thanks, 12 gifted poet-essayists! James Arthur, Elena Karina Byrne, George Elliott Clarke, John Beer, Rebecca Aronson, Zach Savich, Micheline Maylor,Stephanie Bolster, Eric Shoemaker,Adrienne Su, Alina Stefanescu,Tom Healy

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Grateful to the vibrant poetry community of Philadelphia for giving me such a great book launch last night! (Resurrection Pie, @lsupress.bsky.social)

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Thanks to the Red Wheelbarrow reading series in Rutherford for inviting me to be a feature. (And it was fun to see William Carlos Williams' old house down the block!)

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I'm going on a tour! I'm also reading w very cool people. I'll post more specific details as I go. If you'd like to invite me to read, let me know! I love reading poems & giving workshops. Please share widely! & give me a high 5 if you come to these events! 🎉 Big thanks @lsupress.bsky.social

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

If anyone would like a review copy of Resurrection Pie (to write a review, do an interview, etc), let me know! @lsupress.bsky.social

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My box of Resurrection Pies has arrived in Vermont! Would you like a signed copy? DM me and I'd be happy to drop one in the mail for you! (I can also include discounted copies of my earlier books, The Elephant of Silence, The Mean Game ...) 🥳 #newbook #poetrylovers

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

It's publication day for my new book! Thanks @lsupress.bsky.social for helping me create this good looking object! #newbook #poetry

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Thankful for these generous words from Zach Savich about my new poetry book, Resurrection Pie. Out in two weeks! Preorders here: lsupress.org/978080718606... #poetry #newbook

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It was a real pleasure to interview film critic A.S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social about "Escape from End Times Cinema" at Dartmouth. Grateful that he came 🎉

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I'll be interviewing film critic A.S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social on Wednesday at 4:30pm at Dartmouth, about the current state of cinema and also his two new books (Last Week in End Times Cinema, and Algorithm of the Night) which are great.

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Honored by these generous words from Matthew Olzmann about my new poetry book, Resurrection Pie. Out in one month. Preorders here: lsupress.org/978080718606... #poetry #newbook

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Here's something super cool I get to put on the back cover of my forthcoming book, which comes out in March 2026. Giant thanks to Shane McCrae @akasomeguy.bsky.social

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I’ve got a cover! My new book of poetry is coming out with @lsupress.bsky.social early in 2026. 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Grateful to the designers who made this spiraling metallic (anti-pie) cover-vibe. And to my editor James W. Long for his guidance and encouragement. 🥳 Preorder info: lsupress.org/978080718606...

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

How to write about memories of being bullied? I have no idea! Anyway, thanks Prairie Fire Magazine for including this little poem in their new issue!

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Here is a picture my mother Jean took of my parents' gorgeous desi dog Ruthie beside the marvelous literary journal The Dalhousie Review which was good enough to publish one of my poems. Little pockets of love and light

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Grateful to have a new poem in the latest Tampa Review.

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Excited to share some good news in my life, with big gratitude to LSU Press @lsupress.bsky.social & editor James W. Long, and others I'll thank soon, my next poetry collection, RESURRECTION PIE, is coming out in early 2026. 🥳🥳(second pic is me fiddling with pages of the ms in an empty classroom) ❤

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Just got some good news! Mary Dalton chose my poem “Darwin Awards Song” for Best Canadian Poetry 2026, which will come out in a few months. Big thanks to Event for originally publishing the poem in 2024. And to Mary Dalton!

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

After a super-chaotic morning, I'm psyched to be at my gate in Boston on my way to AWP in L.A.!

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I'm still (living in Vermont) haunted by the dogs of Himachal Pradesh, India

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I'm so grateful to the terrific journal I-70 Review for making me a feature poet in their new issue, and publishing six new poems of mine. They also submitted one of the poems, The Great Cooling (pic below), for a Pushcart prize!

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This seems about as appropriate as it will ever be

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I've tried to avoid self-promotion on BLUE SKY so far because there seems to be less of it, and that's super-nice. But I'd love to post what I discovered this morning: My book of essays, the Elephant of Silence, is one of Quill and Quire's (@quillandquire.bsky.social) best books of the year!

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

When your to-do list is the fourth circle of hell

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John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The famous part I always think of from that poem:

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