I have some new fiction up at the excellent ergot. press: two stories about three booksellers in old Philadelphia, bright and central as the sun itself. www.ergot.press/authors/Matt...
For the Almanac, I wrote about Bertolt Brecht, Wolfgang Hilbig, and nature poetry in a time of atrocities: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/talking-ab...
On German lyric poetry between Brecht and Hilbig
For the Almanac, I wrote about Bertolt Brecht, Wolfgang Hilbig, and nature poetry in a time of atrocities: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/talking-ab...
On German lyric poetry between Brecht and Hilbig
Hey, it’s my first (of maybe 2 or 3?) blog posts for 2024! Get your infrequently updated content while it’s hot. Will appeal to fans of short fiction and poems. 🙂 mattjakubowski.com/2024/03/05/b...
Some amazing luck with a very short story (soon to be anthologized!) got me thinking about writing small things.
Clouds in their roundelay, pass through the world’s repose. Robert Walser (trans. Kristofor Minta)
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: Breaker (1976) app.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk.surface3.vm.bytemark.co.uk/Sea-waves-an...
There’s a creeping green that creeps into darkness. That darkness is the night, soon to be upon all that snow upon all the green in the whole world. -Robert Walser (tr. Kristofor Minta)
For the Almanac, I wrote about Robert Walser, whose birthday is today, and a recent collection of his early poetry, out through @sublunary.bsky.socialwww.paradise-almanac.net/p/no-time-is...
On the early poetry of Robert Walser
For the Almanac, I wrote about Fernando Pessoa and Disquiet Radio, an internet radio program about his life and work: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/greenness-...
On Pessoa and Disquiet Radio