Songwriter & producer. Prose editor INCH @BullCityPress. Fiction in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, The Believer & more. He/him.
Cambridge & NYC
Joined January 2014
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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.
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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! splitlipthemag.com/lip-servi…
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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:
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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.
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Scribbling in a notebook at André 3000's feet made me feel absurd, and then despaired and then, somehow, hopeful:
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Super excited about our #awp24 reading! Join us! 2/10 3pm #awp24offsite, with Kenyatta Rogers, @MauriceRuffin, @johnshakespear, @substockman, Caitlin Thorn 📷📷📷
NYC album release show tomorrow night at Berlin!
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.
ALT Concert poster featuring four figures silhouetted by sunset next to the water. Text reads “ John Shakespear with special guests Alex Huston and Nan Macmillan. Berlin under A! 25 Avenue A, New York City, Thursday, June 1 7:30 PM tickets & info at johnshakespear.com/tour
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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:
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help, I moved to crown heights and made a Substack
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playing with my friend @Nickcmacdonald in new york on 11/29 !
Excited to join @johnshakespear for a double bill at @RockwoodNYC stage 3. November 29, 830pm.
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get the brand new title from one of 2022's @BestNewPoets @GraceMacnair | EVEN AS THEY CURSE US is #OnSaleNow here: bullcitypress.com/product/ev…
We've posted our fifty selections for Best New Poets 2022 at bestnewpoets.org/finalists.p…. Special thanks to guest editor Paula Bohince. Please join us in congratulating these wonderful poets!
A true and good review of a true and good new album by @lou__turner
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So excited to announce that my novela THE CARETAKERS will be published by @pankmagazine in 2025!
Submissions close this Friday! Send us your micro chapbooks (10-16 pages, poetry or prose). No fee to submit.
#CallForSubmissions
4/15 deadline | INCH series selects 4 writers each year: FC, NonFC, Poetry, & a fourth issue featuring a NC writer (any genre) | no fee bullcitypress.com/submission…
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Delighted—and so grateful— to share that my Dominican fairytale is among the 2022 O'Henry prizewinners selected by @ValeriaLuiselli and @jmintonq! And all the sweeter to share a ToC with my friend @PemiAguda.
Huge, huge thanks to @EmilyNemens, @parisreview, and @kentdwolf! ❤️
Congratulations to all the winners of this year's O. Henry Prize! You can read stories by Olga Tokarczuk (tr. @jenniferlcroft), Daniel Mason, and Alejandro Zambra (tr. Megan McDowell) right this way.
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3/29 hearty congrats to @itsdbouts!! BURIALS #Inch50 is on sale NOW!! get your copy here: bullcitypress.com/product/bu…
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Over two days at @BostonCollege, award-winning poet Claudia Rankine met with students, faculty, and staff and shared an intimate look at the experience of racism. bc.edu/content/bc-web/bcnews…
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all: my fiction collection, BURIALS, officially has a cover (!!!) & is officially available to preorder (!!!) right here: bit.ly/3J0JI3J
endless thank yous to @BullCityPress's talented team & to my incredible editor, @mariacarlospoet. i feel so grateful!❤️
