Risking Melodrama @_BarrettWarner

His elegance hides a crushed conscience. Author @pubgen. Editor @FreeStateReview. A thrilling pessimism. Aries. Has almost started chapter one. barrettwarner.com South Carolina, USA Joined February 2014

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Risking Melodrama @_BarrettWarner

6 months ago

My daughter's Lincoln Center debut opens in May. Her play Five Models in Ruins, 1981, has been two years in the writing and revising and table reading. Elizabeth Marvel plays the lead. lct.org/explore/blog/j…

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7 months ago

"You know me--I like to be a little gauche but not too gauche." --from an anxious email I sent to @MayaCPopa

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Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky

8 months ago

Molly Brodak

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8 months ago

Here's some new flash I wrote for @OtisNebula otisnebula.com/otisnebula/ON1…

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9 months ago

sent out four subs today for poems I've been knuckling down on but still haven't tried them at a reading.

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9 months ago

See this Instagram video by @medicaequine instagram.com/reel/DD0Itzdv5…

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The Baffler @thebafflermag

9 months ago

Black utopians sought to work around—or beyond—the racist structure of the United States, creating alternative systems and organizations. A new book explores the history of Albert Cleage Jr. and his Shrine of the Black Madonna. thebaffler.com/latest/we-owe-…

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a year ago

Me, living my best poem, but then my tire got flat. A nail or something.

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Garden Party Collective @gardenpartylit

a year ago

Next up from this year’s forthcoming chapbooks, here’s what GPC judge Stephen Furlong had to say about his selection, Ashley Elizabeth’s red line! <3<3<3 🪴📚🪩 @ae_thepoet

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a year ago

Nice to light up the board

Cleaver Magazine @CleaverMagazine

a year ago

Nice to light up the board

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a year ago

hearts and minds should not be two different things

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a year ago

Me: what comes after the ravioli is done? My Crush: don't you know? Me: yeah I know but just wanted to hear your voice. My Crush: give me your face. now.

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a year ago

Instead of telling people I'm a poet, I just say that I'm increasingly influenced by the Spanish language surrealists, and then I gently sip my Toronto.

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Free State Review / Galileo Press @FreeStateReview

a year ago

Looking for manuscripts. Tell a joke, throw in a song, indulge in a fantasy, display an intimate knowledge of such disparate subjects as physics, astronomy, art, jazz, how a nose-job is done, the wildlife in the New York sewage system. And send it to us.

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a year ago

When you walk somewhere do you wave your arms in big circles? I do.

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a year ago

Just got the worst personal rejection of my life: "Your characters are interesting, but so is a two-headed carrot."

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2 years ago

So happy when I'm dreaming and I think, "miles to go before I wake."

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2 years ago

My life: jogging to catch a bus going somewhere I don't want to be. #isthatseattaken?

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2 years ago

If the mag does reading assignments but doesn't want to overload readers it'll hold off before moving to in progress. Moving to in progress involves the assignments step. Usually the longer it takes to change status the sooner it will be read once the status is changed.

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2 years ago

"Been on and round ponies all my life. I'd be ashamed if I never fell off one"--what cowboys say when their story is declined. I'll look @chillsubs and send it out again. Heaven's just a ride away.