ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 27/07/2026In architecture school, they teach you that a person can survive a leap from a window no higher than the 3rd floor. But who is teaching this to the leapers? 010
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialDorian Stuber @ds228.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I reviewed Yoko Tawada’s puzzling essay collection for On the Seawall www.ronslate.com/on-exophony-...ronslate.comon Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, essays by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda – On the Seawall 2133
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 08/07/2026A pleasure to read/write about Alyce Mahon's DOROTHEA TANNING: A SURREALIST WORLD @yalepress.bsky.social -- I had forgotten she published her first book of poems at age 94 / bit.ly/4h34vIc via ON THE SEAWALL 030
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 07/07/2026"She urges all who live in one language to recognize that our seeming linguistic purity or separateness is only an inability to see the differences that inhere between & within languages": @ds228.bsky.social on EXOPHANY by Yoko Tawada [published by New Directions via On The Seawall bit.ly/4wvxE3k 070
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 07/07/2026"Graham writes from within a world where catastrophe no longer announces itself as event & instead settles ... into the very medium through which perception itself must now pass": Jeffrey Levine on @joriegraham.bsky.social's KILLING SPREE @wwnorton.com bit.ly/44ib5Da via ON THE SEAWALL 0103
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialCory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Very grateful to @ronslate.bsky.social for the opportunity to write about the late Argentine author Vlady Kociancich’s 1982 debut, out in English for the first time as THE EIGHTH WONDER translated by Jessica Sequeira. It’s a playfully ambiguous novel about which I had a great time (over?)thinking.ronslate.comon The Eighth Wonder, a novel by Vlady Kociancich, translated from the Spanish by Jessica Sequeira – On the Seawall 064
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The July quarterly edition of ON THE SEAWALL has just been published, featuring Jeffrey Levine's essay on @joriegraham.bsky.social's KILLING SPREE @wwnorton.com / www.ronslate.com 051
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I've launched a Substack to write on titles that I can't cover for ON THE SEAWALL, starting with a piece on Martin Walker's Bruno novel AN ENEMY IN THE VILLAGE (FSG, '25) that starts with a memory of a conversation with Louise Glück about the mystery genre. substack.com/profile/1810...substack.comRon Slate (@ronslate)In an early conversation, Louise Glück asked me about my reading as a child. I told her about my maternal grandfather who lived nearby and brought scores of books to me over the years. By my teens, th... 041
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 25/04/2026"Perhaps the 'secret' of Dylan’s late stage creativity resides in his ability to store & process an enormous database about himself & the history of American folk music": Barry Faulk reviews @fantomas2go.bsky.social's AFTER THE FLOOD @wwnorton.com via On Thje Seawall bit.ly/4sTCRj2 020
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 24/04/2026"Kertész was wincingly aware of what he saw as his artistic misfortune & neglect, but by posthumously landing Albers as his biographer, he’s gotten lucky": @bquinnterest on Patricia Albers' EVERYTHING IS PHOTOGRAPH via Other Press bit.ly/4u3rW7y On The Seawall 030
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 10/04/2026"Her poetry often reflects on getting things wrong while imagining what getting things right might look or sound like. This amounts both to an attitude and a technique": my review of TRUE MISTAKES by @lenamschmitt.bsky.social @uarkpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4t6xDSf via On The Seawall 030
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 10/04/2026The April quarterly edition of ON THE SEAWALL awaits your arrival. www.ronslste.com 172
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialCory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Really thankful for the chance to dig into Eduardo Halfon’s work for @ronslate.bsky.social at On the Sewall, specifically TARANTULA, translated by Daniel Hahn, which makes for a fascinating complement to Halfon’s prior English-language novel, CANCIÓN:ronslate.comon Tarantula, an autofiction by Eduardo Halfon – On the Seawall“The book couldn’t be timelier: the wars in the Middle East signal the folly of American Empire, seeking to entrap other countries, an historical inflection point — an ‘unraveling of political cultures built up over many decades.'” 021
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 30/03/2026The Zoom link will be available on Tuesday afternoon -- see poster for how to access it ... 041
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 28/02/2026The Zoom link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Please join us! 000
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialD. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I've been sharing this Adrienne Rich poem with a lot of folks as we move closer to the collapse of first amendment freedoms. Please read, understand, share. It is not an answer. It is, instead, the very question we must ask and keep asking. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51092/...poetryfoundation.org 13411
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Please join us on Tuesday night 7:30ET when Robin Becker comes to PathwaysArts via Zoom. The link will be available on Tuesday afternoon at www.pathwaysmv.org -- scroll down to this poster & click on the Zoom prompt. 030
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Coming Tuesday night 7:30pm ET -- Catherine Barnett will read for us at PathwaysArts & you can watch/listen via Zoom. The link will be available on Tuesday afternoon at www.pathwaysmv.org ... 020
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Splendid tribute to Fanny Howe at Arrowsmith Journal via @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social -- beginning with a reading by Fanny -- www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/fann...arrowsmithpress.comFanny Quincy Howe: A Tribute — ARROWSMITHFeaturing Andrea Cohen, Christina Davis, Carolyn Forché, Ezra Fox, James Fraser, Sheila Gallagher, Robert Hass, Kythe Heller, Brenda Hillman, Richard Kearney, Askold Melnyczuk, John Mulrooney, Eileen ... 043
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialSamuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 16/01/2026There’s no other choice / when you get that close // to a vagina 011
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Please join us when Thea Matthews reads via zoom for PathwaysArts -- Tuesday nite 1/20 7:30 ET -- link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Her latest collection is GRIME via @citylightsbooks.bsky.social ... 042
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Funambulism: "Attraction to perilous landscapes in times of upheaval ... promise us something eternal, something removed from the world’s vanities, immaterial and din-free": essay by @ykomska.bsky.social @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social bit.ly/4svdaqhbit.lyOn the Wire above the Ruins | Yuliya KomskaFunambulism in postwar Germany 010
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 07/01/2026"This doubleness — lament braided with exuberance, suffering braided with awe — structures the emotional, formal & ethical terrain of the collection": Kimberly Grey on Gabrielle Calvocoressi's THE NEW ECONOMY @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4jxIbpq via On The Seawall 010
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Here's "Commerce" by @simeonberry.bsky.social, his poem in the new edition of On The Seawall / www.ronslate.com/commerce/ 040
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialOlga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Thanks for publishing my review of Maria Stepanova's new novel, The Disappearing Act, translated by Sasha Dugdale! www.ronslate.com/on-the-disap...ronslate.comon The Disappearing Act, a novel by Maria Stepanova, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale – On the Seawall 0103
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 06/01/2026"His poems dug down into memory to find their source. More precisely, the excavation of memory -- both personal and cultural, and the continuity he sought in it -- IS his subject": Christian Detisch on THE POEMS OF SEAMUS HEANEY @fsgbooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/4aIxLB1 030
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialHamilton Cain @hamiltoncain.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Do y'allselves a favor and preorder @namwalien.bsky.social's "On Morrison," a magisterial close reading of an American master in an age of lit-lite substacks. Out 2/24 from Hogarth. Here's my review for @ronslate.bsky.social's "On the Seawall": www.ronslate.com/on-on-morris...ronslate.comon On Morrison by Namwali Serpell – On the Seawall 062
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 06/01/2026NEW: The January edition of ON THE SEAWALL, our first expanded quarterly. We invite you to stop by the "gallery" & have a look / ronslate.com 091
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Tune in tomorrow night 7:30PM ET when Philip Metres reads from FUGITIVE/REFUGE. The zoom link will be available on Tues afternoon at pathwaysmv.org. If you're on Martha's Vineyard, we'll see you at the Chilmark Tavern where poetry & revelry often mean the same thing. 031
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Tomorrow (Tues) night 7:30ET -- Hank Lazer reads from ABUNDANT LIFE, his new & selected poems. Zoom link available tomorrow afternoon at pathwaysmv.orgpathwaysmv.orgPathways ARTSPathways. . .Creating and catalyzing creative projects in the visual arts, writings, dance & collaborative forms. Keeping a Light On in Chilmark... 010
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 16/11/2025"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors,/I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd./My century— my poison, my century—my harm,/my century—my enemy, my century— hell": from 4 poems by Marina Tsvetaeva via On The Seawall bit.ly/48gdMaZ tr by Margaree Little 050
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialDerek Mong @derekmong.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social and Jonathan Farmer for this interview about When the Earth Flies into the Sun! The book celebrated its first birthday last month! 011
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialNational Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 08/11/2025NBCC member Tiffany Troy reviewed "When We Only Have the Earth," written by Abdourahman A. Waberi and translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson, for World Literature Today:buff.lyWhen We Only Have the Earth by Abdourahman A. WaberiTrans. Nancy Naomi Carlson. University of Nebraska Press. 2025. 80 pages. 053
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialRebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Friends, I'm happy and honored to have another poem in #OntheSeawall --thanks to editor @ronslate.bsky.social, www.ronslate.com/tacoma-narro... "Tacoma Narrows" is from the new edition of my #chapbook, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems, to be released soon by #BlueLightPress. 041
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 07/11/2025"I encounter a lot of overly long and under-edited books, many weighed down by prose poems. Some feel strident. These books sound like they began with a thesis, not a question": @derekmong.bsky.social in convo w/Jonathan Farmer via On The Seawall bit.ly/47vs87k 030
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 07/11/2025"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. It’s sneaky like that": @tobiascarroll.bsky.social on @delaneynolan.bsky.social 's novel HAPPY BAD via Astra House & On The Seawall bit.ly/43fQHT7 032
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Here's an invitation to take a trip through the new Nov/Dec edition of On The Seawall ... beginning with our feature on poems from STUDY OF SORROWS: TRANSLATIONS by Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social / ronslate.com 085
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 04/11/2025"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors, / I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century — my poison, my century — my harm, / my century — my enemy, my century — hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall / bit.ly/4opoNN2 031
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 04/11/2025"If the century doesn’t care for the ancestors, / I don’t care for its great-grandchildren: the herd. / My century — my poison, my century — my harm, / my century — my enemy, my century — hell": from poems by Marina Tsvetaeva tr by Margaree Little via new edition of On The Seawall / bit.ly/4opoNN2 031
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialMichael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I wrote a novel. Or rather, I imagined a novel. And then I imagined reading it.... ...many thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for publishing the resulting poem at On the Seawall: www.ronslate.com/the-novel/ 092
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Here's an invitation to take a trip through the new Nov/Dec edition of On The Seawall ... beginning with our feature on poems from STUDY OF SORROWS: TRANSLATIONS by Shangyang Fang @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social / ronslate.com 085
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Joe Brainard's COMICS is coming via @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social on December 2. 140
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 24/09/2025To be an unloved Kennedy in MA, you have to be particularly vile. So we gave RFK a Vineyard welcome yesterday here in our tiny town of Aquinnah. 020
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 18/09/2025"A scrupulous reviser, whose poems went through multiple drafts before they were deemed ready to be gathered in his samizdat pamphlets": David Wojahn on the new Cavafy biography by GJusdanis and PJeffreys @fsgbooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/47V2sSd 010
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 13/09/2025"Part novel, essay, autofiction & poetry, the book explores the burdens of inherited trauma, gender & identity, seeking empowering forms of knowledge": @brittastromeyer.bsky.social on Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues by Kim de L'Horizon @fsgbooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/4m8fj6J 001
Reposted by @ronslate.bsky.socialronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 15/09/2025"To know how to approach. / How we see the riddle of distance / from here to where the places we’ve lived thicken.": from 4 poems in Maria Borio's TRANSPARENCIES @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social book via On The Seawall bit.ly/3KaqZbT 022
ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Life folds over, or turns another way. No wonder we are so estranged from each other. -- Fanny Howe 020
