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Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
my interview with Cincinnati poet F. Keith Wahle is up now at The Paris Review (@parisreview.bsky.social) www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/09...
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Naked at Last: A Conversation with F. Keith Wahle by Joseph Grantham
September 29, 2026 – “When I carried this in from the funeral home, I thought, This is the kind of bag that a magician would make live doves fly out of.”
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Walking around with a torch
Seems like a nice idea.
I could have been watching television.
Instead I was investigating an old, ruined monastery” Read new poems by Patty Nash on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...
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Five Poems
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Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
here on bluesky, we do things a little bit differently
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Gene @genemorgan.info · 26/04/2025
I like it in rap videos when the rapper points a gun at the camera and suggests they want to kill me
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Gene @genemorgan.info · 11/03/2025
Pretty sad when you get new underwear and your previous “good” underwear becomes your new “bad” underwear
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Thom was embracing & being embraced by another man when suddenly out of the steam Michel Foucault padded up to them on all fours, barking madly like a dog, and began licking Thom’s feet.” Read new poems by James Cummins on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
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Three Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Whenever a big piece went viral, it was hard not to wonder if the criticisms of it that resulted were not based a bit in jealousy. Why did you get something I want?” Read new fiction by Grace Byron on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/chiv...
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Chivalry
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“You can’t tell when strange things with meanings will happen
Avoiding a root, adjusting easily to some rough place” Read new poems by Julia Vose on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
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Four Poems
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Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ashleigh and i put together a couple readings in north carolina for september
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
‘Years before, I’d first read Robinson Jeffers. One poem had the line, “I’d sooner kill a man than a hawk.” I tore the book in half and threw it at a wall.’ Read new poems by Keith Shein on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
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Four Poems
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Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One of the greatest poets to come out of Cincinnati, right up there with Kenneth Koch
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“She lived with her dog, who was also her husband. Sometimes she let him watch her while she swallowed live frogs.” Read five new poems by F. Keith Wahle on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...
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Five Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“‘When did you find out you were blessed, Herbie,” Chloe asked. “Wednesday,” Herbie said. “No, wait,” he said, “it was Tuesday. Late on Tuesday. In the middle of the night.’” Read new fiction by Ken Sparling on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/in-r...
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In recent days, sleep has awoken some questions inside me, such as: what if I aren't even there?
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“This is your mother. I hoped you’d be home but that’s fine; I know you’re busy.” Read three new poems by Ron Koertge on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
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Three Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“I should be outlawed. There should be campaigns to convince people I’m fatally uncool.” Read new fiction by Leonard Meldbath on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/shel...
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Shelby
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“This is not a video game. It’s not a movie. It’s not Scotland Yard. It’s fucking real life.” Read five new poems by Marie Buck on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...
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Five Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“No one knows me I am most unknown to myself yet language is self-generating so in its use I must be being me knowing me” Read four new poems by Pat Nolan (@xileinparadise.bsky.social): www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
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Four Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“What the readings are, what Father Hank mumbles for a homily—that I can’t say, because it’s not long after the priest gets to the pulpit that this psycho wanders inside the church.” Read new fiction by Alexander Sammartino on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/the-...
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The Only English Mass
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“Somewhere on this planet of shiny phones and dressed salads, maps of oceans and brass doorknobs, a giraffe is greedily separating seeds from a pod with its violet tongue.” Read two stories by Santiago Craig, translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude: www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...
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Two Stories
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
“We strongly request that you do not send us any more of your work, and that you abstain from sending it to any other literary magazine so as to not waste any time on either parties.” Read new writing by Ellie Goins on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...
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Two Poems and Two Stories
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“I dreamed last night that I was a saint. Before that, I dreamed that I was a piece of paper. And before that, I dreamed that I was nitrogen.” Read six new poems by F. Keith Wahle on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/six-...
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Six Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
“And how could he look like lightning If he was wearing clothes? And how could the clothes be white as snow If there was never any snow?” Read two new poems by Donald Berger on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...
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Two Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“I sit around to reduce
my spending
to change
my way of life
tomato, mozzarella, basil
to look forward to” Read four new poems by Paul Maziar on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
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Four Poems From <i>Junebug</i>
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“The worst is feeling I must spend my life trapped inside a tree with you.” Read three new poems by Elaine Bleakney: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
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Three Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
“‘You don’t know a thing you’re talking about. A leprechaun could crawl over right now and whip you in the skull, and you’d think a piece of airplane had fallen from the sky and hit you.’” New fiction by Alex Ransom on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
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Three Scraps
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
“That trusty time-tested
cottonwood-leaf hat, rustling,
sussing, chuckling just overhead.” Read four new poems by Merrill Gilfillan on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
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Four Poems from the Tortoiseshell Cahier
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“the party's
over, it was a
good time, you can tell,
all the cabinet doors
got left open” Read six new poems by Michael Klausman: www.relegationbooks.com/article/six-...
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Six Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“I turned on the TV with my phone. Tight suits on men who’d played for years and still made a living from the game. They analyzed, and I checked the messages on my phone.” Read new fiction by Alexander Fredman, with artwork by @tvbeaches.bsky.social www.relegationbooks.com/article/the-...
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The Heat
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Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
reading may 29th in brooklyn
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“You’ll see me When the flock of small black birds Warps the air around tree branches And launches into a swarming cloud of chattering grey dust You’ll see me I am dead I am not invisible.” Read three new poems by Paul Kahn: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
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Three Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
“still you make your own life
though it begins before you are ready
and there is never enough time
there are rabbits even the dead one
whose skin I keep
change inside” Read four new poems by Serena Solin on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
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Four Poems
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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 17/04/2026
"I’ve been in search of truth, the truth of experience, not an artifact, but something that’s true, and that somehow, because it’s true, is liberating. So I can’t tie things up with a bow." —novelist Sherril Jaffe, interviewed by @josephgrantham.bsky.social
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An Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer Magazine
For more than fifty years Sherril Jaffe has been mining her life for material. Each moment or detail is a brick that might be used to build a story or novel. A father’s heart attack, a marriage…
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
“That I'm not to be a poet because I'm not one now is not all that sound a reason, I sometimes think. It (writing) is what compels me.” Read six new poems by Cliff Fyman: www.relegationbooks.com/article/six-...
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Six Poems
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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 14/04/2026
"It isn’t that you read the whole novel and then you get the payoff. I wanted it to be a payoff all the way along... I wasn’t into plot. The books don’t have plots." —novelist Sherril Jaffe, interviewed by @josephgrantham.bsky.social www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
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An Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer Magazine
For more than fifty years Sherril Jaffe has been mining her life for material. Each moment or detail is a brick that might be used to build a story or novel. A father’s heart attack, a marriage fallin...
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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 09/04/2026
"Now that I’m old, that’s my material... I want to write about the reality of pain and age, and in a matter-of-fact way." —novelist Sherril Jaffe, interviewed by @josephgrantham.bsky.social
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An Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer Magazine
For more than fifty years Sherril Jaffe has been mining her life for material. Each moment or detail is a brick that might be used to build a story or novel. A father’s heart attack, a marriage…
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“Anders and Laura walked through the door. He found it depleting. Time and energy were like disposable income for these people. They spent it just to spend it.” Read new fiction by Benjamin Jasnow on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/theo...
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Theocritus
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“I ask him what he does, I hope he is a football player on the Lions or something, but if he was he’d never tell me anyway he says he is a diesel mechanic” Read “The Night-Sucker” by Scott Watson on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/the-...
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The Night-Sucker
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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 05/04/2026
“It’s autofiction—maybe that’s what we would call it now? We never called it that before. The life is the material, but it isn’t about the person.” —Sherril Jaffe, interviewed by @josephgrantham.bsky.social
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An Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer Magazine
For more than fifty years Sherril Jaffe has been mining her life for material. Each moment or detail is a brick that might be used to build a story or novel. A father’s heart attack, a marriage…
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
middle daughter has an appointment, so my usual stack of reading: this interview with American writer Sherril Jaffe in The Believer might be a new favourite, // @thebeliever.net
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
“I'm stuck in dread Hollywood in a two-banger on Fuller Street outside simulated introvision of purgatory. Feel like shit. Feel like wallowing in it. Hate everybody. Can't wake up. And I'm doing a scene about love.” Read new writing by Will Patton: www.relegationbooks.com/article/indo...
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Indolent Traveler
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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 29/03/2026
“How can I make the fiction as strong as poetry? That was my ambition. I didn’t want to challenge poets. They’re very sensitive.” —Sherril Jaffe, interviewed by @josephgrantham.bsky.social
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An Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer Magazine
For more than fifty years Sherril Jaffe has been mining her life for material. Each moment or detail is a brick that might be used to build a story or novel. A father’s heart attack, a marriage…
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
“And the whole pageant of the world—all of life—falls in behind her and everybody gets a nice little lunch with a soup. There are daffodils and a guy with a snare drum, plus a careening truck full of bozos.” Read new writing by Stephen Emerson on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/two-...
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Two Stories and Three Variations
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“Watch this video of a river. Or don’t. I’m not comfortable telling anyone what to do. You will learn what’s done
and you will do it.” Read new poems by Jacqueline Waters in R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
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Four Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
“There would be no releasing of the geese. There would be no plucking of the ducks. There would be no brushing out the bangs of his highland cattle.” Read new fiction by Will Mountain Cox on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/who-...
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Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs?
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Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Had a great time interviewing Sherril Jaffe for @thebeliever.net. We talked about Black Sparrow Press, a bad marriage, a good marriage, growing older, writing happiness, and lots lots more. Go get a copy of the new Believer! And go read Sherril’s books! Go go go!
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“I’d believe you on a panel, behind a row of water bottles. You know, the Middle Ages had no need for architects. People used to all share the same sun.” Read three new poems by Sam Lohmann on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
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Three Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“Marsh grass bows in the breeze. A slow boat drones on the river. The moon rises to a first star. How could writing Ever lead to anything?” Read five new poems by Joseph Torra on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...
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Five Poems
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
“Lauren called me a “femcel” today. I’m just from a conservative household. They didn’t let me eat M&Ms until I was ten.” Read new fiction by Iris Lee on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/sex-...
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Sex Positive
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
“You never heard anything like it. She was screaming screams like off this earth and Russell gave her his shirt and she just kept screaming and screaming.” Today on R&R, read another new story by Dale Herd (1940-2026): www.relegationbooks.com/article/don-...
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Don't Worry About Donald
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
“I’d never done anything like this before. Berg cheated on his wife all the time. Now I was going to be just as bad as Berg.” It’s Dale Herd (1940-2026) week on R&R. We’ll have two new Herd stories on the site, beginning today with “At the Blue Fox Inn”: www.relegationbooks.com/article/at-t...
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At the Blue Fox Inn
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