Fred Schmalz

fiberoptic hair, swelling and bruising, grim reaper son in law... worth thousands of words.

Who among us wouldn't take a sick day if that happened?

ICE just moved through Rogers Park, headed north into Evanston. The RP community response has not gotten slower in the winter. A lot of folks were out in the streets the moment they got off Lake Shore Drive. Everyone on the North Side is on high alert today. Stay ready.

Graywolf, Poetry Foundation Team on New Book Award The Pegasus Poetry Book Prize will recognize poets 40 and older with a $10,000 prize and publication for their first or second book. The inaugural winner will be named next fall.

The Pegasus Poetry Book Prize will recognize poets 40 and older with a $10,000 prize and publication for their first or second book. The inaugural winner will be named next fall.

Ice staging at hood and broadway #ice #chicago

Uh huh.

Ring of Fire | Michael Friedrich A new book explores the incentives that sparked an arson wave in the Bronx during the 1970s.

In the 1970s, landlords burned their buildings for profit, displacing thousands of tenants in poor neighborhoods. For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about @benchansfield.bsky.social's excellent “Born in Flames” and the consequences of the arson wave. thebaffler.com/latest/ring-...

Poetry Review Submissions: Paying Markets

Hi poetry reviewers, writers, readers: here’s a document I made of paying reviews markets. Holler at me if you see something that needs to be updated/deleted/added! 🙏 I would appreciate it. Would love this to be a community resource for freelance writers to be paid for their criticism.

more on the folk end of folk-rock, but Davy Graham & Shirley Collins Folk Roots, New Routes is super great.

Conduit Conduit is a biannual literary journal that is at once direct, playful, inventive, irreverent, and darkly beautiful.

lolz there already is a conduit books and it... isn't whatever this is. www.conduit.org/books

We Walk Together
Installed in O’Hare airport Terminal 5 international arrival corridor.
Finally Max got to see my piece at O’Hare.

Issue 3 is here! 10 postcards with 10 poems by 10 amazing poets (Emma Bolden, Adam Clay, Jessica Cuello, Erin Dorney, Susan Leary, Erin Malone, Nora Nadjarian, Michael Robins, Diane Wald, and Jane Zwart). Order your copy at www.postcardlit.com/store today! Preorders and orders ship soon!

Orange County

Fred Schmalz | wave 21 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard Hear poet Fred Schmalz read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.

'your daughters take spoons
to devour the cakes we brought
propped on round white plates

they remind me of
the palm-sized paving stones
we pocketed last night on our walk home'
iambapoet.com/wave/21-fred...

These books have four-digit numbers in the titles and are very, very good.

Tiny Bjilly’s Tjeerd Bongers

I'm in her district. Sleepwalking through the last ten years, really.

CHICAGO! March 5! March 5!

@anandalima.bsky.social / @coffeehousepress.bsky.social / @meeklingpress.bsky.social / @martinezfjulian.bsky.social / @ezhang77.bsky.social

Way, way gone (from the rotation)

Lake Michigan from the shore just before sunrise on January 25, 2025, the clouds providing a streak of orange along the horizon, ice on the surface of the water.

some mornings the lake is just right... Saturday was one of those mornings:

Chicago! Start your New Year with Poetry & Biscuits!
Carrie and I are excited to bring you readings by Natalie Eilbert, Donato Loia, Ruben Quesada, and Deborah Shapiro along with biscuits and cozy company.

Fri, Jan. 17 @ 7pm
2145 W Walton
RSVP to the biscuit maker: mailto:carrieolivia@gmail.com

Thanks so much, Jennifer.

The new DIAGRAM is here and Susy and I have a visual poem in it. Check out the whole scene. @eldiagram.bsky.social www.thediagram.com/24_4/

I've found that real oatmeal reheats easily without getting gluey/mushy, so I take the half hour to make enough for the week and then portion it out every morning. it's WAY better (w/maple syrup and fruit).

The 2024 Poetry Award goes to Daniel Borzutzky for his collection “The Murmuring Grief of the Americas” (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social)

It's a concept of a Program.

Photo of the traffic signal and street signs at the intersection of Penn Ave and Atlantic Ave in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Cooking on a new art project in Pittsburgh. So many amazing humans and artists and writers here. Thankful.

Thanks for getting this rolling, Lucy. Would love to be added.

close-up image of a small gray and white cat standing on a red-and-white checkered tablecloth.

Here's Shishito, who lives with her sister, Poblano, (and sometimes an opossum) under the porch of our building. I feed her every day, but can't invite her in because my partner's allergic. She's perfect.

Taking all my Bluesky etiquette cues from @aaronshaw.bsky.social