Against this future, we tailor a bespoke love, nooks sewn in calamity.”
D.W. Baker (@lowermelody) reviews Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon (Black Ocean, 2025), a lyrical meditation on damage, residuum, and reclamation.
Read the full review: https://t.co/jABoam7xii
New review up at @VariantLit! On OUR HUMAN SHORES by @FomonJosh (@BlackOceanOrg), a "sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled poems" which "offers hope in ... human agency, despite the waves of damage now impacting our shared material realities."
https://t.co/bjKxzSfInB
Israel has killed at least 20 people, including several journalists, in a double strike on Nasser Medical Complex, the largest health facility in southern Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave. https://t.co/yw5sagr6ih
Today marks 80 years since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 78,000 people in an instant. The U.S. has never apologized and continues to support Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, which has dropped the equivalent of “six Hiroshimas” in tonnage.
We are literally just $52 away from meeting our goal of completely replacing the National Endowment of the Arts funding that was taken from Deep Vellum and Open Letter:
https://t.co/0wTleqavok
I'm curating a new poem-film series at the @action__books blog called #Accelerants! I thought we'd begin with some neon-glitching radioactives by @VidhuAggarwal