Excited Utterance

@ExcitedUttRead

A quarterly reading series, in-the-round! Established 2014.

Chicago, IL

Joined December 2013

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Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · Mar 6

Excited Utterance, March 2025: host Larry O. Dean welcomes Rochelle Hurt... youtu.be/mMtSPes7zgs via @YouTube

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For the New Year ⁦@Poetry_Daily⁩ poems.com/poem/for-the-n…

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Dead Leaf Bouquet by Chase Twichell ⁦@RattlePoetry⁩ rattle.com/dead-leaf-bouq…

ExcitedUttRead's tweet card. What a strange thing to give someone just out of the hospital! But here comes Maeve with four brown leaves and a spiky twig bound with blue yarn. The twig for measuring.

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American Erotica by william o'neal ii ⁦@onlypoemsmag⁩ onlypoems.substack.com/p/american-ero…

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Sphinx by Else Lasker-Schüler - Poems | Academy of American Poets ⁦@POETSorg⁩ poets.org/poem/sphinx-0

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · 19 h

Most Anticipated Celebrity Memoirs Of 2025 ⁦@TheOnion⁩ theonion.com/most-anticipat…

ExcitedUttRead's tweet card. Most Anticipated Celebrity Memoirs Of 2025

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · 22 h

I Want This Poem Read Aloud at My Funeral nytimes.com/interactive/20… via ⁦@nytimesbooks⁩

ExcitedUttRead's tweet card. Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs its depths.

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · 23 h

These Two Books Spotlight Guerrilla Soldiers in Malaya’s Forgotten War ⁦@ElectricLit⁩ electricliterature.com/these-two-book…

ExcitedUttRead's tweet card. Writer and translator Jeremy Tiang discusses the connections between his debut novel, “State of Emergency,” and his translation of Hai Fan’s “Delicious Hunger”

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · 23 h

Mandy Shunnarah Cannot Separate Love From Palestine ⁦@ElectricLit⁩ electricliterature.com/mandy-shunnara…

ExcitedUttRead's tweet card. The author of "We Had Mansions" on their intersectional identity, the language wound, and the poppy as a metaphor for Palestine

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · 23 h

15 Novels in Translation You Should be Reading This Summer and Fall ⁦@ElectricLit⁩ electricliterature.com/15-novels-in-t…

ExcitedUttRead's tweet card. The second half of 2025 is introducing literary voices from Japan, Ecuador, Kurdistan, and elsewhere"

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · Jul 25

Agatha Christie’s Mysterious Disappearance ⁦@JSTOR_Daily⁩ daily.jstor.org/agatha-christi…

ExcitedUttRead's tweet card. In December 1926, Christie went missing for more than a week. Where did she go, and what was she up to?

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · Jul 25

Nerves, Nerves, Nerves ⁦@DefectorMedia⁩ defector.com/nerves-nerves-…

ExcitedUttRead's tweet card. On autobiographies of trans female sexuality

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · Jul 25

Modernist Blondes by Marlowe Granados ⁦@parisreview⁩ theparisreview.org/blog/2025/07/2…

ExcitedUttRead's tweet card. July 24, 2025 – On Anita Loos’s Great American Novel.

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · Jul 25

Fighting for my students right to read put my teaching career on hold ⁦@Chalkbeat⁩ chalkbeat.org/2025/07/25/okl…

ExcitedUttRead's tweet card. Summer Boismier told her students about digital library cards. That put her teaching career and livelihood on hold.

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · Jul 25

Johns Hopkins Press Plans to License Books to Train AI ⁦@insidehighered⁩ insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · Jul 25

EveryLibrary's 2025 Report on 130+Bills Across the Country That Affect Libraries: Book Censorship News, July 25, 2025 ⁦@BookRiot⁩ bookriot.com/everylibrarys-…

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · Jul 25

[encore] 624: Sunflowers in the Median ⁦@slowdownshow⁩ slowdownshow.org/episode/2025/0…

ExcitedUttRead's tweet card. [encore] 624: Sunflowers in the Median

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · Jul 25

In Praise of Pyrex by Paige Gilchrist ⁦@RattlePoetry⁩ rattle.com/in-praise-of-p…

ExcitedUttRead's tweet card. The week we returned home after my young daughter’s surgery they began to appear. Loaf pans of pound cake and spoon bread, a deep bowl of lentils with celery seed, square casseroles of parsnips or...

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · Jul 25

A Single Woman's Bedroom by Yi Lei ⁦@onlypoemsmag⁩ onlypoems.substack.com/p/a-single-wom…

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · Jul 25

Venom / If a Stanza Is a Room ⁦@Poetry_Daily⁩ poems.com/poem/venom-if-…

Excited Utterance@ExcitedUttRead · Jul 25

Note on Method by Jeffrey Pethybridge - Poems | Academy of American Poets ⁦@POETSorg⁩ poets.org/poem/note-meth…