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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 44: Theo LeGro’s DON'T LET IT KILL YOU, from Persea Books. "LeGro turns the poem into a reliquary or sacred cache." Listen/subscribe/rate/share! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v... redcircle.com/shows/c74b01...

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Episode 44: Theo LeGro's DON'T LET IT KILL YOU

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 43: Serena Chopra’s A CATALOG OF FUTURE MERCIES, from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. "Surreal, enigmatic moments war with the confessional pain in a way that seems to make the suffering briefly livable." Listen/subscribe/rate/share!

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Episode 43: Serena Chopra's A CATALOG OF FUTURE MERCIES

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Whoever donated to VerseCurious yesterday…thank you. May you have an extra hour of sunlight today! 🌞

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 42: Anna Nygren’s BLUSH/RIVER/FOX, from @milkweededitions.bsky.social. "[BLUSH/RIVER/FOX] is deeply personal and yet also high-wire daredevilry and in this strange combination, profoundly moving." Listen/subscribe/rate/share!

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Episode 42: Anna Nygren's BLUSH/RIVER/FOX

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Asa Drake @asaldrake.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This Verse Curious episode has made explaining my book to family 100% easier. I've shared it with all my parents. So grateful to Benjamin Landry for offering my work so much context.

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 41: Asa Drake’s MAYBE THE BODY. "Asa Drake urges us to reconsider, and this is invaluable in a time of hot takes." Listen/subscribe/rate/share! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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Episode 41: Asa Drake's MAYBE THE BODY

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 40: Andrés Cerpa's THE PALACE (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social). "We need any refuge built of wood or kindness or, indeed, of language." Listen/subscribe/rate/share!

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Episode 40: Andrés Cerpa's THE PALACE

Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 12/29/2025 · 8m

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 39: Ally Ang's LET THE MOON WOBBLE (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social). "As much as Ally Ang's LET THE MOON WOBBLE serves as a testament to survival, it is also buzzing with erotic energy." Listen/subscribe/rate/share!

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Episode 39: Ally Ang's LET THE MOON WOBBLE

Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 11/15/2025 · 8m

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 38: Erin L. McCoy's WRECKS (@noemipress.bsky.social). "I appreciated [McCoy's] skillful weaving of textures and materials in a book that comes to resemble less the chaos of the wreck than the natural artistry and ingenuity of a nest." Listen/subscribe/rate/share!

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Episode 38: Erin L. McCoy's WRECKS

Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 10/07/2025 · 11m

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Intriguing autumn harvest of ARCs to consider for VerseCurious. Thanks to @akashicbooks.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social and @tinhouse.bsky.social/ @zandoprojects.bsky.social for sending!

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

📚🚨VerseCurious is back from summer hiatus with Episode 37: Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE (@fordhampress.bsky.social). "Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE holds us, briefly, back from the fray, provides the curative caesura." Listen/enjoy/rate/share/subscribe!

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Episode 37: Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE

Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 09/09/2025 · 11m

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

VerseCurious returns shortly from its customary summer holiday with new #poetry reviews of work by #LGBTQIA+, #BIPOC, #women and debut authors. Up next: a collection published by @fordhampress.bsky.social. Watch this space!

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

#Juneteenth is a day to celebrate Black excellence. Check out Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS, published by @triohousepress.org and reviewed recently on VerseCurious.

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Episode 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS

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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 05/06/2025

We love the @versecurious.bsky.social podcast - 10 minute audio reviews of recent and forthcoming poetry books by @tagreathouse.bsky.social @martheaus.bsky.social Erin Marie Lynch and other poets we love. Please follow them and subscribe!!

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Get a Listen of Ep. 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS (@triohousepress.org)... "Have grace, Perkins enjoins in the collection's titular poem—grace which is 'a story we keep / because we cannot keep each other.'" Listen/share/rate. #poetry #poems #poets #books

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Episode 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS (@triohousepress.org). "Perkins's [...] fierce debut [...] asks us to feel deeply, despite a world that attempts to deaden our ability to feel with unending indignities..." Listen/share/rate. #poetry #poems #poets #books

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Episode 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

ICYMI This Week: ✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 35: Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE, from @omnidawn.bsky.social . "[Naomie's story] ends up being the story not so much of pandemic survival as survival, proper." Listen/share/rate. #poetry #poems #poets #books #NationalPoetryMonth

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Episode 35: Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE

Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 04/13/2025 · 10m

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 35: Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE, from @omnidawn.bsky.social. "[Naomie's story] ends up being the story not so much of pandemic survival as survival, proper." Listen/share/rate. #poetry #poems #poets #NationalPoetryMonth

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Episode 35: Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE

Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 04/13/2025 · 10m

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT, arrives from Persea Books next week. Hear all about it in Episode 34. "[This collection's] thematic seriousness beckons us closer, & the playful slipperiness reminds us that joy is a radical response to difficulty." #poetry #poems #poets #books #readers

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Episode 34: Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT

Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 03/25/2025 · 10m

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 34: Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT, from Persea Books. "[This collection's] thematic seriousness beckons us closer, and the playful slipperiness reminds us that joy is a radical response to difficulty." #poetry #poems #poets podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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Episode 34: Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT

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Wesleyan University Press @weslpress.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Benjamin Landry reviewed Rachel Trousdale's Five-Paragraph Essay on the Mind-Body Problem, winner of the Cardinal Poetry Prize. Hear the full episode: redcircle.com/shows/c74b01... #Poetry #RachelTrousdale #CardinalPoetryPrize

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

✨📚New Release: Episode 33: Rachel Trousdale's FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY ON THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM📚✨ @weslpress.bsky.social "Rachel Trousdale's MIND-BODY PROBLEM is a steadying collection in our most turbulent of times." Listen/share/subscribe/rate. #poetry #poems #books podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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Episode 33: Rachel Trousdale's FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY ON THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM

Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 02/28/2025 · 11m

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Day after book recommendation (@harvardpress.bsky.social) for thinking people in increasingly cruel times:

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Exciting! Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD (Milkweed) arrives in a week. Prepare by listening to the brief review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get pods. Rate/share/enjoy VerseCurious, the podcast of new #poetry #book reviews featuring the work of LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, women and debut #poets.

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Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD

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Annie Wenstrup @akwenstrup.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It’s a joy to have Benjamin Landry’s close and thoughtful reading of The Museum of Unnatural Histories as the first full review of my debut collection. Thank you @1benjaminlandry.bsky.social for taking such care in linking my book to the larger world w/ your review at @versecurious.bsky.social

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

✨📚NEW REVIEW📚✨Episode 32: Annie Wenstrup's THE MUSEUM OF UNNATURAL HISTORIES (@weslpress). "We need #poets and #poetry like Wenstrup’s to take these risks, to shock the archive, to make us see the unnatural tendencies of our current endeavors." Listen/share/rate! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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Episode 32: Annie Wenstrup's THE MUSEUM OF UNNATURAL HISTORIES

Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 01/06/2025 · 11m

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

We see you with that “What-books-do-I-buy-for-the-people-I-love?” December panic in your eye 👀 . VerseCurious has you covered, with brief reviews of great new #poetry titles. Have a listen, then make informed gift choices! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

NEW REVIEW! VerseCurious Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD "Askia Ba writes with verve and attitude." Want to hear more? Listen/subscribe/rate VerseCurious @ Apple Podcasts. Follow VC on Bluesky & share what you think. #poetry #poems #poets #books #TBR

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Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

📚✨NEW REVIEW RELEASED✨📚 VerseCurious Ep. 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD "Askia Ba writes with verve and attitude." Want to hear more? Listen/subscribe/rate @ Apple Podcasts. Follow VerseCurious on Bluesky & share what you think. #poetry #poetrybluesky #poems #poets #poetrycommunity #books

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Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

If you run a small or independent #poetry #press that produces physical galleys/ARCs & you are about to publish a #poet that fits VerseCurious’s emphasis (LGBTQIA+/BIPOC/women/debut), drop me a message. The TBR stack is getting low, & I am always looking for great new presses/ #books to review.

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Brad Listi @bradlisti.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

elizabethclarkwessel ‘s excellent NONE OF IT BELONGS TO ME arrived from @gameoverbooks on Saturday. Have a listen to the VerseCurious review over at Apple Podcasts (or wherever you get your pods) and then consider ordering your copy. Congrats to all involved! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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‎VerseCurious: Episode 27: Elizabeth Clark Wessel's NONE OF IT BELONGS TO ME on Apple Podcasts

‎Show VerseCurious, Ep Episode 27: Elizabeth Clark Wessel's NONE OF IT BELONGS TO ME - Jun 4, 2024

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

ICYMI, yesterday saw a new release from VC, Episode 27: Elizabeth Clark Wessel’s NONE OF IT BELONGS TO ME, arriving from @gameoverbooks on 6/15. It’s a great debut collection, and you’ll want to hear all about it. Have a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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‎VerseCurious: Episode 27: Elizabeth Clark Wessel's NONE OF IT BELONGS TO ME on Apple Podcasts

‎Show VerseCurious, Ep Episode 27: Elizabeth Clark Wessel's NONE OF IT BELONGS TO ME - Jun 4, 2024

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

📖📘NEW REVIEW📙📚Episode 27: Elizabeth Clark Wessel’s forthcoming NONE OF IT BELONGS TO ME (@gameoverbooks) “excels at the sort of density that characterizes memorable work.” Listen/subscribe/rate/share over at VerseCurious on 🍎Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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‎VerseCurious: Episode 27: Elizabeth Clark Wessel's NONE OF IT BELONGS TO ME on Apple Podcasts

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

New VerseCurious Review! Episode 26: Stephanie Choi’s THE LENGEST NEOI (@uiowapress). “A #poetry of determination and care.” Listen at Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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‎VerseCurious: Episode 26: Stephanie Choi's THE LENGEST NEOI on Apple Podcasts

‎Show VerseCurious, Ep Episode 26: Stephanie Choi's THE LENGEST NEOI - May 5, 2024

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

New VerseCurious Review! Episode 25 brings news of Jennifer Richter's DEAR FUTURE (The Word Works). Celebrate #nationalpoetrymonth with this engaging collection. Hear all about it on VerseCurious, available at Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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‎VerseCurious: Episode 25: Jennifer Richter's DEAR FUTURE on Apple Podcasts

‎Show VerseCurious, Ep Episode 25: Jennifer Richter's DEAR FUTURE - Apr 7, 2024

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Today’s the Daye! Congratulations to Tyree Daye on the publication of his compelling A LITTLE BUMP IN THE EARTH (@copper_canyon_press). Hear all about it over at the VerseCurious podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Tyree Daye’s excellent A LITTLEST BUMP IN THE EARTH (@copper_canyon_press) arrives tomorrow! Have a listen to the VerseCurious take over at Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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‎VerseCurious: Episode 24: Tyree Daye's A LITTLE BUMP IN THE EARTH on Apple Podcasts

‎Show VerseCurious, Ep Episode 24: Tyree Daye's A LITTLE BUMP IN THE EARTH - Mar 24, 2024

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

VerseCurious thus far in 2024: Reviews of Alison C. Rollins’s BLACK BELL, Tyree Daye’s A LITTLE BUMP IN THE EARTH (@copper_canyon_press) and Sheila Carter-Jones’s EVERY HARD SWEETNESS. Have a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

ICYMI, this week VerseCurious reviewed A LITTLE BUMP IN THE EARTH (Copper Canyon), the intriguing forthcoming collection from Tyree Daye. Have a listen? Available on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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‎VerseCurious: Episode 24: Tyree Daye's A LITTLE BUMP IN THE EARTH on Apple Podcasts

‎Show VerseCurious, Ep Episode 24: Tyree Daye's A LITTLE BUMP IN THE EARTH - Mar 24, 2024

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

New Episode! Check out the VerseCurious review of Tyree Daye's A LITTLE BUMP IN THE EARTH (@copper_canyon_press), now available on Apple Podcasts and all other major podcast distributors. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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‎VerseCurious: Episode 24: Tyree Daye's A LITTLE BUMP IN THE EARTH on Apple Podcasts

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Sheila Carter-Jones's captivating EVERY HARD SWEETNESS (BOA), an examination in poetry of her father's 1965 unlawful imprisonment in an asylum, arrives in April. Get a sneak peek here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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‎VerseCurious: Episode 23: Sheila Carter-Jones's EVERY HARD SWEETNESS on Apple Podcasts

‎Show VerseCurious, Ep Episode 23: Sheila Carter-Jones's EVERY HARD SWEETNESS - Feb 26, 2024

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

NEW EPISODE! Sheila Carter-Jones’s EVERY HARD SWEETNESS (BOA Editions) recounts the nearly 7 year sentence her father served in an asylum, beginning in 1965, for the crime of being Black in America. Glad to review it during #BlackHistoryMonth. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Resurrecting this thread while we’re at it. Give your favorite indie publishers a follow 🙌

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