Looking for a little reading to wrap up the day? Contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social's review of Gregory Alan Isakov's lighting design was published in Motif Magazine! buff.ly/lN2MKqi
Enjoy ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY, fam 💕Contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social's essay "Cut-ups" is in Catamaran Literary Reader! Get your copy now: buff.ly/lnqrroW
"What I’ve come to appreciate is that 'home' can be less a particular place and more a sense of safety and belonging and continuity found within a place." Contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social was beautifully interviewed by Elsewhere: A Journal of Place 😍 buff.ly/uQOA77T
We gotta close ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with some poetry 😍 Contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social's poem "Easter Week in Valencia" was published in Image Journal ✨️ Its a beautiful reflection: buff.ly/Ymk1GpV
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Before the weekend, my poem "Easter Week in Valencia" in the latest Image: imagejournal.org/article/east...
"Imagine you had a spoon, and also thousands / more of you had a spoon, what you could do / when cutting toward the same direction, down / one small shovel of dirt each until a new world / took form out of earth, even if set with stones." Seán Carlson, "Ant Hill" in Presence 2026
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Vudu Sister started as a solo project in a gothic-folk tradition often tinged with early '90s grunge. The Providence, Rhode Island band's fifth album, Adynata, draws on H.P. Lovecraft, Lord Byron, and Alice in Chains. My latest review for alt-monthly Motif Magazine: motifri.com/impossible-t...
A pleasure to sit over coffee with Michelle Quay to discuss the Persian language, Iranian exile, and her debut translation of Reza Ghassemi's novel Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime (@deepvellum.bsky.social, 2026). Interview out now in @adroitjournal.bsky.social: theadroitjournal.org/2026/06/08/a...
Holy Tuesday, a bag of dried figs left with our stroller
Michelle Quay is a scholar and translator of Persian literature and was the inaugural winner of the Mo Habib Translation Prize for Persian Literature in 2023. She teaches Persian Language and Liter…
We continue our series of occasional short interviews with contributors and friends of Elsewhere with Seán Carlson, whose poetry featured in our Trespass issue:
www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2026/3/...
Elsewhere. A Journal of Place
My latest newsletter, with new writing on the Irish language, Gregory Alan Isakov, old t-shirts, and a few St. Patrick’s Day notes, published in Modern Language Studies, Catamaran, and Motif Magazine: seancarlson.substack.com/p/new-writin...
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A few St. Patrick’s Day notes, plus new work in Modern Language Studies, Catamaran, and Motif Magazine