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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

My chapbook of poems is out with Bottlecap Press. It’s about falling in love, simping, swooning, 🔥 in your DMs, and dating, with a lot of TV, Girls, and many deep cuts. I’m excited/terrified to be putting this out there, and you can preorder it here bottlecap.press/products/bot...

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I spoke with the one and only Elizabeth Kott about Too Niche, The Artist’s Way, and creative partnerships. Check out our chat here referential.substack.com/p/you-are-st...

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Looking at my bookmarks on Twitter before deleting my account

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Spoke with Sayantani Dasgupta on artistic process, the writer’s life, and her latest essay collection, Brown Women Have Everything referential.substack.com/p/there-is-n...

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

“What if we don't live in a story but in a poem, or in a photo, or in a painting? It requires a different kind of temporality and approach to how we think of ourselves, the world, family, and our lives.” Q&A out with @bmanuel.bsky.social on Hello Stranger referential.substack.com/p/intimacy-w...

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Oh and here are my favorite books of 2024 referential.substack.com/p/cinnamon-p...

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Just in time for the year end lists, my conversation wirh @daniellefferts.bsky.social about one of my favorite books this year, Ways & Means, is up at Gulf Coast. We spoke about money, throuples, and my other favorite, The Shards gulfcoastmag.org/online/37.1-...

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

For Decor Maine, I wrote about this spec house from Mobile Studio Design in Kennebunkport

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Happy healthy really positive year

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

She walked so The Substance could do whatever it is that it did

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Great haul from @summitbooks.bsky.social’s relaunch list

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Book Talk with S.J. Naudé on substack on literary translation, gay bars, and Fathers and Fugitives. referential.substack.com/p/queer-inte...

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Me walking around New York, thinking about Maine

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

In my Alex Dimitrov era — love immediately! Right now!

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I have a poem out in the new issue of Banshee Lit, on chicken biscuits and friendship between gay men and lesbians

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Dickie Greenleaf summer leads to Christopher Moltisanti fall

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Conversation with @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social up today on Substack. We talked about Earthly Gods and permission in the writing process referential.substack.com/p/book-talk-...

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Some news! For years, I've loved interviewing writers. I'm launching a newsletter called Referential, where every week or so I'll share a conversation with a creative person about their work and how they access their creativity. referential.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Thirty, flirty, and verklempt to share that we have an agent! I’m so excited to be working with Mary C. Moore at Aevitas. Some hints of what’s to come 👻 💫

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Excited (and thoroughly horrified!!) to contribute to Mr. Ripley discourse with this essay about how I used the film to (mis)internet sexuality and obsession. hazlitt.net/longreads/my...

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

All I want is someone to watch Death Proof with!

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

My story, “How to Be a Couple’s Third,” is this month’s One Story! One Story has been my favorite journal forever, and I’m so excited to be sharing this story. It’s inspired by Lorrie Moore’s “How to Be an Other Woman,” about gay dating, and is full of spoonerisms.

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Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

I have an unhinged essay in the new Harpur Palate! It’s inspired by Little Weirds and dating. harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/michael-colb...

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