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Mark Scroggins

@markscroggins.bsky.social
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Poet, biographer, critic—bear of very little brain, troubled by long words. Rudimentary bass player. Pre-raphaelite wannabe. Aesthete, always.

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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some stanzas from a forthcoming longish poem here: wordpress.boogcity.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Poetry/ Mark Scroggins – Boog City
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today: JH Prynne, Force of Circumstance and Other Poems (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today: Jennifer Nelson, On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies (Fence Books, 2025)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today: Ken Babstock, Methodist Hatchet (Anansi, 2011)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today: Michael D. C. Drout, The Tower and the Ruin: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Creation (Norton, 2025)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today: Michael S. Begnal, Death Trip: Iggy and the Stooges, 1972-74 (Reaktion, 2026)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today: Carl Rakosi, Spiritus, I (Pig Press, 1983)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today: Carl Rakosi, Droles de Journal (Toothpaste Press, 1981)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Today: Paul Trynka, Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed (Broadway, 2007)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today: Christopher Ricks, True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (Yale UP, 2010)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today: Penelope Fitzgerald, Edward Burne-Jones (Sutton, 1997)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Today: Carl Rakosi, Ex Cranium, Night (Black Sparrow, 1975)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Today: James Longenbach, The Art of the Poetic Line (Graywolf, 2008)
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Mark Scroggins : My Writing Day / @markscroggins.bsky.social ; mysmallpresswritingday.blogspot.com/2026/08/mark...
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Mark Scroggins : My Writing Day
Aside from some morning rituals (coffee, minimal ablutions, headlines and puzzles and social media) and the practical mechanics of lif...
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Today: Jean-Luc Nancy with Adèle Van Reeth, Coming (Fordham UP, 2017)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This review I wrote went live this week— open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...
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A Lonelier Planet: On Marc Vincenz
Mark Scroggins reviews Marc Vincenz's No More Animal Poems.
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Today: Selected Letters of Louis Zukofsky (revised and expanded edition), ed. Barry Ahearn with Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas (Z-site Publications, 2026)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Today: Michèle Mendelssohn, Making Oscar Wilde (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Today: Stephanie Burt, We Are Mermaids (Graywolf, 2022)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today: JH Prynne, The White Stones (New York Review Books, 2016)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Today: David Need, Sweetbitter (MiddleLost Books, 2025)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Today: John Tipton, Paramnesia (Flood Editions, 2016)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Today: Holly Melgard, Fetal Position (Roof Books, 2021)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Today: Nate Klug, Hosts and Guests (Princeton UP, 2020)
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Today: Carl Rakosi, Collected Prose (National Poetry Foundation, 1983)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today: Basil Bunting, Complete Poems (New Directions, 2003)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Today: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Today: Randolph Healy, Envelopes (Poetical Histories chapbook, 1996)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Today: Oscar Wilde, Wildeana (ed. Matthew Sturgis, riverrun, 2012)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Today: Timothy Materer, Modernist Alchemy; Poetry and the Occult (Cornell UP, 1995)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Today: Joseph Lease, The Body Ghost (Coffee House, 2018)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Today: Sarah Anne Cox, definite articles (a+bend chapbook, 1999)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Today: CG Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Pantheon, 1963)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Today: Susanna Clarke, Piranesi (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Today: Elizabeth Treadwell, Eve Doe: Prior to Landscape (movements 9-31) (a+bend chapbook, 1999)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Today: Richard Noll, The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Jung (Random House, 1997)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Today: Michael Ruby, from an Album of Verses (SurVision Books, 2025)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Today: CG Jung, On the nature of the Psyche (Princeton/Bollingen, 1960)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Today: Susan Howe, Penitential Cries (New Directions, 2025)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Today: Matthew Sturgis, Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography (Overlook Press, 1998)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Today: Stephen Vincent, Sleeping with Sappho (BlazeVox, 2023)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Today: Dorothea Lasky, The Shining (Wave Books, 2023)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Today: Friederike Mayröcker, Scardanelli (trans. Jonathan Larson, The Song Cave, 2018)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Today: Hank Lazer, The Silver Bowl Is Filled with Snow (Dos Madres, 2026)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Today: Linda Dowling, Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (Princeton UP, 1986)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Today: How It Goes, Michael Augustin (trans. Sujata Bhatt, The Bodily Press chapbook, 2026)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Today: Count Stenbock, The Shadow of Death (Snuggly Books, 2019)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Today: Arthur Symons, Selected Writings (Carcanet, 2003)
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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It’s out now! You wanna read this!! www.blacksquareeditions.org/asterism-boo...
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Excursus: Selected Prose by John Peck ed. Mark Scroggins — Black Square Editions | Unique Literary Works & Translations
$30.00
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