David Cazden
@dcazdn
New Book: https://www.davidcazden.net/books/ https://linktr.ee/davidcazden, @newrepublic, @PassagesNorth, semi-finalist Pablo Neruda award (@NimrodJournal).
Talking abt my family makes me think of this poem abt my Dad, just released in Action, Spectacle. action-spectacle.com/winter-2025-pa…
"From deeply embodied origins, the poet conjures the profound thin spaces between womb and shadowland, fairytale and fever dream." It was an honour to provide an endorsement for @taylorhamannlos' BETWEEN MY SPINE & THE RIVER (Ridge Books) @eastridgereview. @TopTweetTuesday
This is a great writing. I don't use that adjective lightly. I admire how the story pulls the reader to the very edge of things and then goes back for another look. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (out of four).
“Sometimes the past pulls at me like seaweed gripping around my ankle, dragging me into a rift in the ocean floor. And if I just look down, look at the face of the sea creature holding me, then some great idea will be illuminated.” New work @okaydonkeymag okaydonkeymag.com/2025/07/11/div…
flash that makes me want to run into the woods too. frantic, tragic, spinning into nothingness.
New Flash by @kimmagowan "Perhaps you will find yourself in this situation, returning late at night to a university campus, deserted for the summer. This is where all of you visiting chemists are bunking during your one-week Biomolecular conference." fracturedlit.com/what-to-do-if-…
Extraordinary.
The Beekeepers and the Birdnester, a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, created around 1568.
I will miss Jane a lot, her lyric gift and her super sharp sense of humor.
I am deeply saddened by the news of Jane’s death. I never met her, but she was a boisterous, provocative, funny online penpal, and, most importantly, a poet of rare lyric grace. It was an honor to publish the poem below earlier this summer.
Jane's poems sometimes moved me to tears, but her humor always made burst out in laughter. Social media can't be all bad when you get to interact with poets who write as well as she did and also have a wickedly funny sense of humor. May her memory be eternal.
When you get all hoity-toity, it will come around and bite you you-know-where.
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Another from Jane Greer, this time from @newversereview “In none of her other ages” The future was as flexible as the past,
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These poems by Jane Greer published by @Plough mean a great deal to me as a parent: "Help me be mild. The good in me please amplify" @NorthDakotaJane will be missed by many. plough.com/en/topics/cult…
woke up thinking about this poem by Raymond Carver
"At the farthest remove from knowledge, the poem is exemplarily a thought that is obtained in the retreat, or the defection, of everything that supports the faculty to know. And no doubt this is why the poem has always disconcerted philosophy." Badiou
Edward Hirsch, “American Summer” but each night was a Walt Whitman of holidays
Dorianne Laux, “Dark Charms” Eventually the future shows up everywhere: [from The Book of Men]
It's my dog's birthday this week. Here's a picture of her at her first birthday party. 🐕 🎂
A Close Reading of David Cazden's Poem "Vertigo" open.substack.com/pub/damncuriou…
Say goodbye to the pumpkin, we're surprised it lasted this long, grown from a store bought Haloween pumpkin. Around here, cucumber beetles w mosaic virus cannot be prevented from killing entire plant (+ squash bugs), so wife digging it all up.
A true original who won’t be forgotten: Fanny Howe: “Tapestry”
I’m in England for less than 48 hours but I had to come up to Yorkshire to pay my respects. ❤️
Held up at Stansted Security for FIFTEEN MINUTES by this suspicious object in my underseat bag. They swabbed nearly every page, especially where I had underlined that snakes are immoderate wine drinkers!