Rob Roensch

a fiction, OKC. The Wildflowers of Baltimore @saltpublishing; The World and The Zoo @outpost19; In the Morning, the City is the Prairie @bellepointpress (2023)

[Rob Roensch @robroensch]

My novel, In the Morning, The City is the Prairie, is a year old. Here's a review in the wonderful The New Territory. I'm heartened by this line: "stylistically minimal, but not without its moments of deep intimacy and reflection." I hope minimalism and intimacy aren't opposites.

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

Butlerian Jihad against AI, data centers, and the overall anti-human life agenda of Silicon Valley billionaires would be a 90-10 issue for either party, so don't expect it to happen anytime soon

[Rob Roensch @robroensch]

Very cool to have a story about what it feels like to be a dolphin, originally published in @Wigleaf, in this new anthology and craft book. Thanks to @RealBenWarner and Ron Tanner.

[Benjamin Myers @BenMyersPoet]

Here's my mediation on a poem by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish

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[Rob Roensch @robroensch]

The quote captures Thoreau's spirt well. He's often seen as an entitled isolationist, but he died a weird earnest failure who was deeply loved, deeply committed to caring for others, and who wanted everyone to be able to see how meaningful the woods at the edge of town are.

[Andrew Berzanskis @ABerzanskis]

"Thoreau kept boxes of his debut title, 'A Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers' (1849) in his cottage and didn't sell many. In his diary, he noted, 'I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes, over 700 of which I wrote myself."

—Michael Castleman, "The Untold Story of Books"

[Shaun Johnson @ShyBucketGetter]

This is the exact type of shit Future raps about

[Rob Roensch @robroensch]

Franz Wright

[Vinson Cunningham @vcunningham]

this sounds very level-headed until you remember that one of the people is dead and one is not; that one of them is granted license by the state to kill and one was not

[Mina Kimes @minakimes]

The ghouls on this app are reacting to this the way you'd expect, but they are not real people.

Real people--your neighbors, friends, anyone with a conscience--see this and feel angry and sad. Real people know it's wrong.

[Rob Roensch @robroensch]

Woolf: "If I could catch the feeling, I would; the feeling of the singing of the real world, as one is driven by loneliness and silence from the habitable world."

[Rob Roensch @robroensch]

https://t.co/ZAbwd5bfyM Today I shared this very good Brodsky dark-Christmas-Eve poem with the writers' group I visit at the retirement home

[Rob Roensch @robroensch]

The scissors are a part of it

[Rob Roensch @robroensch]

Just read a great story, Jayne Anne Phillips' "Callie," from Fast Lanes. It starts and you are looking through some old photographs then all at once it's the 20s and you're dying.

[Rob Roensch @robroensch]

“She fed her own rations to the cat, whom she called ‘my dear, silver child’.”

[Rob Roensch @robroensch]

I just started Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. An epic novel built of short Chekhov stories. Wonderful.

[Rob Roensch @robroensch]

@BenMyersPoet True. Very difficult to see the world as it is, first.

[Lakshya Jain @lxeagle17]

In many educational regards and by many independent standards, Mississippi's schools are now better than California's. This is insane and even *more* people should be talking about it.

Illiteracy is actually a policy choice.
https://t.co/sEB9NfvEX4

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

The leaders of 20 major humanitarian aid organizations released this statement calling for someone, anyone, to stop the slaughter in Gaza. This is just part of it:

[Lou Berney @Lou_Berney]

From @CrimeReads