Phil Spotswood
Poet | Instructional Assistant Professor at Illinois State University | https://www.philspotswood.com
- Reposted by Phil Spotswood"this chain to the throat which tightens not unlike lichen. encroaching encircle. collared from heaven." —Temperance Aghamohammadi
- <shouts into the deep blue> 1. Joined @stevehalle.bsky.social this week as assistant director of the Publications Unit at ISU (!) 2. Today is a fundraising day at ISU, and it'd be rad if you were able to throw some $$ at the Pub Unit so we can continue to support the excellent:
- Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora ! ! ! Fiction Collective 2 (FC2) ! SRPR (Spoon River Poetry Review) ! ! Downstate Legacies ! & PRESS 254 ! birdsgiveback.illinoisstate.edu/campaigns/th...
- Reposted by Phil SpotswoodProofs! Excitement is in the air at the Acre offices with @cdeskilson.bsky.social's SCREAM / QUEEN soon set to debut! Preorder your copy of this examination queerness, mental illness, and transgender identity -- all through the lens of thrillers and B movies -- at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
- Stoked to be part of this split chapbook project with the brilliant Candice Wuehle! Pre-order info coming soon 📡
- 📣 HAPPY 2025, BEDHEADS! Thrilled to announce our inaugural BEDFELLOWS SPLIT series winners! These writers will be published in paired chapbooks: WINTER '25 Candice Wuehle & Phil Spotswood FALL '25 Kawai Shen & Kyra Simone Pre-order info coming soon! 💌 Get our newsletter @ bedfellows.substack.com
- And some more open circuits recently published in the very cool Broken Lens Journal 📹 www.brokenlensjournal.com/issue-9-9 These poems make up a majority of a manuscript, "It Bears Repeating," that was a series of strange encounters in making
- Late to sharing with the sky but I have three poems up in the newest issue of the brilliant mercury firs 📡🌱 www.mercuryfirs.org/5-phil-spots... Desktop viewing recommended! Have been calling these poems "open circuits" and thinking about Renee Gladman's incredible writing-drawings 🙏
- Dreamt last night that Wayne Koestenbaum was teaching me how to paint blue circles with my feet. Seems like a good omen for the year to me.
- Reposted by Phil SpotswoodAbsolutely tickled pink to have my chapbook included in this smart, generous review essay by @biometrash.bsky.social in the latest issue of SRPR. And alongside two other poets whose work I admire so much!
- Very grateful for space in SRPR to think about some poetry I care deeply about 💕 And to share in Steve Halle’s inaugural issue as editor! I hope you consider reading these poets’ crucially disruptive work 🔥
- Have a new review up in Fecund of DM Closet's "Offal Opacities" — I was excited to engage this strange work published through the very rad CLOAK, a press of digital experimentations into issues of surveillance. fecundmag.com/dust-gathers... cloak.wtf
- "Presented as a series of three lyric essays “violently stirred together,” D.M. Closet’s Offal Opacities is invested in the serious play of virtual character creation as a means of interrogating and complicating social norms surrounding gender and sexuality."
- Looking for theories of writing (poetry) that understand the writer as a simultaneous reader, or that try to hold these two positions together in one subject. Any suggestions?
- Very adorable that the URL for this app reads like a pet name for biscuit
- Reposted by Phil SpotswoodPlaces open for subs today: AGNI River Teeth The Kenyon Review The Cincinnati Review New England Review The Southern Review The Yale Review Bellevue Literary Review
