John Miguel Shakespear

Songwriter & producer. Prose editor INCH @BullCityPress. Fiction in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, The Believer & more. He/him.

[John Miguel Shakespear @johnshakespear]

I’ve got a piece up today at @believermag about the irreplaceable John Prine, who would’ve turned 74 this past weekend. Thanks to @dlb for including it in his wonderful Distancing series - an archive I keep coming back to again and again.

https://t.co/kKXBahuly7

[Maureen Langloss @MaureenLangloss]

HUGE THANKS to @ziskayt for curating this 💫Roundup! Big congrats to the INCREDIBLE @splitlipthemag FAM! @adriennenovy @ginathechung @Dango_Ramen @johnshakespear @stevenespadaw @JJLofflin @egabbert @recycledgiraffe @dorothykchan @chenchenwrites & More! https://t.co/OMgUmdEQh4

[Passages North @PassagesNorth]

Assoc. Ed. Lauren Sparks on today’s bonus poem: “John Miguel Shakespear’s cuttingly grounded voice remains insistently aware of the violent memory housed within its very own language of mourning”

Read it here:

https://t.co/dJsEmzrBho

[John Miguel Shakespear @johnshakespear]

I downloaded a tree app and it filled me with dread. Thank you to the editors @PassagesNorth for giving a home to this, my first published poem.

https://t.co/BWu6HPsaw5

[Adlan Jackson @adlankj]

Scribbling in a notebook at André 3000's feet made me feel absurd, and then despaired and then, somehow, hopeful:

https://t.co/RAVsk9AE6W

[Caitlin she/her @caitlindmcgill]

Super excited about our #awp24 reading! Join us! 2/10 3pm #awp24offsite, with Kenyatta Rogers, @MauriceRuffin, @johnshakespear, @substockman, Caitlin Thorn 📷📷📷

[John Miguel Shakespear @johnshakespear]

NYC album release show tomorrow night at Berlin!

[M(all the vowels)h @micaiah_johnson]

Very excited to get to support my fellow Vanderbilt-Brooklyner tomorrow! Be there or be…I don’t know, some other place, I’m not the boss of you.

[Adlan Jackson @adlankj]

Hell Gate is having our anniversary drive.

As you can hopefully tell, HG is expanding our arts & culture coverage in New York. So if you wanna support what I do, please subscribe. but I think I have one other point I wanna make so check this out right:

https://t.co/7rWmClpAhQ

[John Miguel Shakespear @johnshakespear]

@OptimumHelp My internet in Brooklyn has been out for 3 days. I’ve tried everything and have been on hold for 4 hours. Can you please help me?

[John Miguel Shakespear @johnshakespear]

help, I moved to crown heights and made a Substack
https://t.co/dWVs1QjNiU

[John Miguel Shakespear @johnshakespear]

@Samuel_Rutter @astra_mag Nooo - sorry to hear this, Sam. It was excellent

[John Miguel Shakespear @johnshakespear]

playing with my friend @Nickcmacdonald in new york on 11/29 !

[Nick Christian MacDonald @Nickcmacdonald]

Excited to join @johnshakespear for a double bill at @RockwoodNYC stage 3. November 29, 830pm.

https://t.co/ujLHRLiZ8d

[Bull City Press 🐂 @BullCityPress]

get the brand new title from one of 2022's @BestNewPoets @GraceMacnair | EVEN AS THEY CURSE US is #OnSaleNow here: https://t.co/KTddx3kkpF

[John Miguel Shakespear @johnshakespear]

@lou__turner I really love it :)

[John Miguel Shakespear @johnshakespear]

A true and good review of a true and good new album by @lou__turner

[kaj tanaka @kajtanaka]

So excited to announce that my novela THE CARETAKERS will be published by @pankmagazine in 2025!

[John Miguel Shakespear @johnshakespear]

@kajtanaka @FLCDurango Rad! Congratulations Kaj, this is so well deserved.

[John Miguel Shakespear @johnshakespear]

@DinaLRelles @kajtanaka congratulations!!