A. A.
@knownasaa
Obscure author. @DappledThings1 @DoorIsAJarMag @EkstasisMag @JDVjournal @merionwest @mezzocammin @newversereview @NRO @OneArtPoetry1 @TrampolinePoet1 & more
2024 publications thread! “At the MoMA, With My Sister and Without My Glasses” in @OneArtPoetry1 oneartpoetry.com/2024/03/30/at-…
Might need M. I. Devine to write a blurb for me someday!!!
"And on the escalators we pretended and pretended" Note how the mall IS the poem here--a repetition machine, a civic technology, like the escalator, that brings people together, elevating even. Warhol intuited this. Po-mo forgot it. Formalists are remembering again.
I like how the mall is a poem--a repetition machine: (that's what we used to call pop culture) "And on the escalators we pretended and pretended" newversereview.com/2-3-a-a-gunther
nationalreview.com/magazine/2025/… In September’s @NRO, a poem close to my heart. I grew up in a large family. You hear a lot of questions:
Great analysis.
call it the tension of the bomb and the cathedral, perhaps: the issue does a great job tracing those places/spaces in which we (once) could play & be--malls @knownasaa, card games @Zina_GomezLiss, the novel, fatherhood--they are made sacred as the poems conjure their collapse.
Please pray for my second cousin, a girl who is about my daughter’s age. Her cancer has returned for a fourth time. Her parish community is asking the faithful to pray the novena to St Jude, starting tonight.
A rollicking but also poignant poem from A.A. Gunther (@knownasaa) in NVR's newly released summer issue. I drove by the Staunton Mall yesterday, and it is now gigantic piles of demolition rubble.
A.M. Juster’s poem “Arraignments” was one of the things that inspired me to submit to National Review in the first place—really honored to see that he read “Third Youngest.”nationalreview.com/magazine/2025/…
"Third Youngest" by #AAGunther: nationalreview.com/magazine/2025/…
This is a poem that needs to be read. ❤️
newversereview.com/2-3-a-a-gunther Today in @newversereview, a poem I’ve been submitting around since I wrote it in March of 2020. You may already be sick again of what I’m eulogizing here, but remember: I wasn’t sure if it would be back.
All these eulogies meant that I discovered all of @NorthDakotaJane’s best poetry just in time to not be able to tell her how much I liked it. God bless you, poet. I hope eternity gives you insight into how crazy I am about “God of the Gold and Purple Finches.”
Very sad to hear about the death of the wonderful poet Jane Greer. Here was one of my favorite poems of hers:
I am very sad to report that the wonderful Catholic poet Jane Greer @NorthDakotaJane has died. Please keep her soul, her family and her husband Jim in your prayers.
Here is a plain style elegy for my brother in the new issue of New Verse Review.
Our Summer 2025 issue is available! A striking cover by @RobMcDonaldVA and poems by @AmitMajmudar, @azforeman, Shane McCrae, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell (@AODonnellAngela), @alexissearspoet, @MidgeGoldberg, James Matthew Wilson (@JMWSPT), Rachel Hadas, Jared Carter, and others
newversereview.com/2-3-tamarah-ro… @tamrmint grips your heart in mid-errand.
I know everyone says this, but I’m truly in incredible company in this issue.
Thrilled to have a couple of poems in @newversereview along with great work by @knownasaa, @Zina_GomezLiss, Suzanne Yuskiw, @midgegoldberg, @JMWSPT, Andrew Frisardi, Rachel Hadas, Betsy Howard, David Rosenthal and Sydney Lea and others. newversereview.com/2-3-eric-colbu…
I read this poem by @NorthDakotaJane during a talk last week. Eternal rest. "Gravel" My prayers drop to the ground like so much gravel, salting the path on which it seems I travel. Who made the path before me? Others praying. Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh I hear them saying.
Lots of great poems in the new NVR--I really enjoyed the amazing work by @knownasaa, @Zina_GomezLiss, Suzanne Yuskiw, @midgegoldberg, @JMWSPT, Andrew Frisardi, Rachel Hadas, Betsy Howard, David Rosenthal and Sydney Lea--and there's other good stuff too! newversereview.com/issue-2-3--sum…
newversereview.com/2-3-a-a-gunther Today in @newversereview, a poem I’ve been submitting around since I wrote it in March of 2020. You may already be sick again of what I’m eulogizing here, but remember: I wasn’t sure if it would be back.