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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Solnit sees the photos as sly commentary on human capacity to memory-hole humanity’s destruction of the environment. The Bay, she writes, is 'the region’s half-forgotten heart'": @mathitak.bsky.social on CARGO photos by Richard Misrach bit.ly/4hMgAAu via Aperture & On The Seawall

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"I’m not anti-cerebral. I’m anti-only-cerebral & I’m not here to be some poetry mall cop terrorizing people on my Segway — poets should disregard any opinion that doesn’t help them make their work": @erinwriter.bsky.social in conversation with Joy Priest via On The Seawall www.ronslate.com/41861-2/

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"He views literacy as the foundation of liberal democracy; if the foundation crumbles, the edifice collapses. The shift away from print has stoked a broader crisis": Hamilton Cain on THE NEW DARK AGES by James Marriott @doubledaybooks.bsky.social via On The Seawall bit.ly/4yDXzaD

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In 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?

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Dorian Stuber @ds228.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I reviewed Yoko Tawada’s puzzling essay collection for On the Seawall www.ronslate.com/on-exophony-...

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on Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, essays by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda – On the Seawall

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A 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

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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

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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

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Very 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.

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on The Eighth Wonder, a novel by Vlady Kociancich, translated from the Spanish by Jessica Sequeira – On the Seawall

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The 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

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I'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...

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The April quarterly edition of ON THE SEAWALL awaits your arrival. www.ronslste.com

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Really 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:

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on 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.'”

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The Zoom link will be available on Tuesday afternoon -- see poster for how to access it ...

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The Zoom link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Please join us!

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I'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/...

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Please 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.

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Coming 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 ...

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

There’s no other choice / when you get that close // to a vagina

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Please 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 ...

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Funambulism: "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/4svdaqh

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Funambulism in postwar Germany

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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

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Here's "Commerce" by @simeonberry.bsky.social, his poem in the new edition of On The Seawall / www.ronslate.com/commerce/

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Thanks for publishing my review of Maria Stepanova's new novel, The Disappearing Act, translated by Sasha Dugdale! www.ronslate.com/on-the-disap...

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on The Disappearing Act, a novel by Maria Stepanova, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale – On the Seawall

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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

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Hamilton Cain @hamiltoncain.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Do 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...

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on On Morrison by Namwali Serpell – On the Seawall

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

NEW: The January edition of ON THE SEAWALL, our first expanded quarterly. We invite you to stop by the "gallery" & have a look / ronslate.com

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Tune 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.

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Tomorrow (Tues) night 7:30ET -- Hank Lazer reads from ABUNDANT LIFE, his new & selected poems. Zoom link available tomorrow afternoon at pathwaysmv.org

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Pathways. . .Creating and catalyzing creative projects in the visual arts, writings, dance & collaborative forms. Keeping a Light On in Chilmark...

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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

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Derek Mong @derekmong.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Thanks 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!

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

NBCC 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:

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Trans. Nancy Naomi Carlson. University of Nebraska Press. 2025. 80 pages.

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Friends, 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.

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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

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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

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Here'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

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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

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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

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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I 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/

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ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

To 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.

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