Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · 12hI have an apartment in every major American city. I like it that way. I want to keep it that way. 000
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“So many ice coolers don’t last and that’s why I spent $350 on one, for my ancestors, the poor white trash filling up wagons with bones and arrows, disappointing me here in the future” Read new poems by Gene Morgan (@genemorgan.info) on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...relegationbooks.comFour PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 054
Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026coughing a lot in public should be viewed the same way we consider farting in public. if you’re coughing a lot in a store or cafe, you’re ripping ass out of your mouth. it might even be worse than farting. anyway, glad to be here on bluesky. 010
Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026my interview with Cincinnati poet F. Keith Wahle is up now at The Paris Review (@parisreview.bsky.social) www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/09...theparisreview.orgNaked at Last: A Conversation with F. Keith Wahle by Joseph GranthamSeptember 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.” 054
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comFive PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 042
Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026here on bluesky, we do things a little bit differently 021
Reposted by Joseph GranthamGene @genemorgan.info · 26/04/2025I like it in rap videos when the rapper points a gun at the camera and suggests they want to kill me 031
Reposted by Joseph GranthamGene @genemorgan.info · 11/03/2025Pretty sad when you get new underwear and your previous “good” underwear becomes your new “bad” underwear 021
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comThree PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 042
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comChivalryFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 032
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comFour PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 032
Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · 02/09/2026ashleigh and i put together a couple readings in north carolina for september 021
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comFour PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026One of the greatest poets to come out of Cincinnati, right up there with Kenneth Koch 011
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comFive PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 032
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comIn recent days, sleep has awoken some questions inside me, such as: what if I aren't even there?Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 013
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comThree PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 032
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comShelbyFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comFive PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comFour PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 033
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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-...relegationbooks.comThe Only English MassFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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-...relegationbooks.comTwo StoriesFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 054
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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-...relegationbooks.comTwo Poems and Two StoriesFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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-...relegationbooks.comSix PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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-...relegationbooks.comTwo PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 042
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comFour Poems From <i>Junebug</i>Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comThree PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comThree ScrapsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comFour Poems from the Tortoiseshell CahierFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 023
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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-...relegationbooks.comSix PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 032
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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-...relegationbooks.comThe HeatFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 033
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comThree PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 032
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comFour PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamThe 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.socialthebeliever.netAn Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer MagazineFor 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… 011
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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-...relegationbooks.comSix PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamThe 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...thebeliever.netAn Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer MagazineFor 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... 053
Reposted by Joseph GranthamThe 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.socialthebeliever.netAn Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer MagazineFor 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… 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comTheocritusFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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-...relegationbooks.comThe Night-SuckerFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamThe 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.socialthebeliever.netAn Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer MagazineFor 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… 011
Reposted by Joseph Granthamrob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026middle 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 042
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comIndolent TravelerFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamThe 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.socialthebeliever.netAn Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer MagazineFor 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… 022
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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-...relegationbooks.comTwo Stories and Three VariationsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · 26/03/2026now you can read this online: www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...thebeliever.netAn Interview with Sherril Jaffe - Believer MagazineFor 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... 000
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comFour PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 032
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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-...relegationbooks.comWho's Gonna Feed Them Hogs?Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 022
Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Had 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! 121
Reposted by Joseph GranthamR&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...relegationbooks.comThree PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers. 032