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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I am, to use the most infelicitous phrasing, writing on, at, or around: a new novel. I cast those other four in-progress novels into the sorry desk to be messed with some other year. Onward!

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Just pulled out a couple guitars so I can start my youngest on the path to an expensive hobby. I am not the man I was when I last fingerpicked anything. But, I've been listening to Howlin' Wolf's Evil. Three chords and a little lick, bwah. I cannae do it right now. Soon though!

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Bought a couple weeks ago, just now looking at it closely. May be the best purchase I've made in a while!

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Since I'm part of the MFA cabal, this seems like a no-brainer to read. Fascinating stuff.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The Library of America Carver collection is first-rate. And I don't generally buy hardcovers.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Listening to the basketball game and reading this one. What are you all up to?

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Trying Delmore Schwartz again. Can't remember why I stopped the first time.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Shits and giggles on a Friday: whatchoo got going on?

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Saturday night, I'll be in Weymouth listening to these folks. Come join?

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

What's happening in poetry tonight? I'm reading this:

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Trying not to think about MN. Failing. Skimming these.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Tackling this again. I can't recall why I stopped reading it.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

If I can't concentrate well enough to write or edit or review, I can still make a big pile of "research." Witness my pile'o'pound. Ooops. I see some WCW snuck in there too.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

If you want to know more, go to the Encyclopedia! :-) I may actually buy the SF one as well, even though I read much less SF these days. I like to know stuff.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Trying to read: Robin Blaser. Anyone read?

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Got this today--completes my Pete Fromm collection. He started out writing sporting stories which bordered on litfic and then went to novels. He's one of the best we have, I think.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Flannery O'Connor's Prayer Journal, long before she was FLANNERY.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Universe, make with the woo-woos, help me out! I want to make this look productive.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Easing into the weekend. . . got a lot of poetry/review stuff coming up quickly. What are you reading? Anything cool going on?

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

72 pages to go entering changes, then some connective tissue work and reordering, then. . . off to an editor. Uh. Also need a new title. Pic by Sierra.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I once was obsessed with poet Paul Blackburn. Now I think John Berryman is better. And I am much looking forward to this book.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Ongoing project: Canadian poets/poetry! I have a huge pile of chapbooks and books by John Thompson, Irving Layton, Al Purdy, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, bpnichol. Which titans am I missing?

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

This book is near impenetrable for me. I'm not sure why. I mean, I get Eliot as well as I get *any* poetry, so Pound should be, if not easy, something that rewards close attention. I've tried off and on over the years. Maybe the break will come now!

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Reading tonight before the ballgame.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Such a good book on the little mags from 1960-1980. I wish another edition existed for the last 45. The po-scene has splintered into several smaller loci. Anybody else read this?

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Watching the game and lazily reading in and out of these.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Small press mags received today. I'm just into the first one, so no report on content yet. I like the cut of their jib.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Baseball and Woolrich for today! Thanks to Gonzalo Baeza for the memory jog.

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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Fuck it. I'm reading this tonight as prep for the forthcoming bio and collected letters. Just finding the rich poetry is all I want to do tonight.

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