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Robert Eric Shoemaker

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Robert Eric Shoemaker (he/him) is a poet and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores magical poetics, translation, and queer identity. He is the author of three books: Ca’Venezia (Partial Press 2021), an artist’s book of hybrid writing and visual art; We Knew No Mortality (Acta Publications 2018), poetry and memoir; and the poetry chapbook 30 Days Dry (Thought Collection Publishing 2015). Eric’s poem “Hex on Elon Musk as a Portrait of Humanity” won honorable mention in Spoon River Poetry Review’s editor’s contest, and his manuscript FireBear was a finalist for the PANK Big Book contest.

Eric’s work has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best New Translation and is published or is forthcoming in Zone 3, Tupelo Quarterly, Spoon River
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30 Days Dry

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Paper Money by Winshen Liu
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I very much wanted to eat the food from these poems. Delicate and thoughtful poetry!
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Crush by Richard Siken
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It rushes along like a Jeff on a motorcycle, like a body unsure of itself in a too-sure culture. It was easy to be heartbroken for myself during some parts of this book, and I’m grateful I read it to see how the speaker’s gay experiences harmed him e ...more
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The Naomi Poems, Book One by Bill Knott
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Like a good Beat poet, Knott is tired of slaughter and urges poetry onward. Like any good hipster, Knott is suspicious of poetry and its institutions. Full of jewel-like lines and musings one might keep under a pillow for dreams or nightmares.
Robert Shoemaker added a status update: Reading poetry daily this month for the #SealeyChallenge!
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this abattoir is a college by Orchid Tierney
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A stanza, too, is a “room for slaughter” (24) and poetry is a field like all others assimilated into the college for production. Nothing is sacred, nothing is safe. This is a plant for processing, a plan for process. You are a unit, a reader, and thi ...more
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Embodied Unconscious by C. M. Chady
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Situating the archive as a thing to experience certainly embodies Naropa’s approach to creativity and lineage—this is a meditation, not a thesis. Still, core to Embodied Unconscious is an argument for re- or un-defining woman-ness by becoming in writ ...more
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Wave of Blood by Ariana Reines
Wave of Blood
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Formally and stylistically innovative, Wave of Blood moves between prose and poetry with a captivating hybridity, mostly using a candid direct address that feels distinct from the voice in A Sand Book. This book is addressed to a trusted reader, a me ...more
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Crane by Tessa Bolsover
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Blackouts by Justin Torres
Blackouts
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