From Angelo Mao’s ABATTOIR (Burnside Review Press, 2021)

Angelo Mao is a scientist & writer. He earned his Ph.D. in bioengineering from Harvard University. His 1st book, Abattoir, was selected by Darcie Dennigan as the winner of the 2019 Burnside Review Press Book Award.

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For those in Boston/Cambridge, my friend Ben Bellet will be reading from his new book at the Woodberry Poetry Room tonight at 7pm.

"I would need help to enter, hesitatingly, into my mother’s sick body, to bite into her cancer, twist it every which way..."

From “Menthol” by Jennifer Bélanger, translated from the French (Québec) by Sophie Grace Lellman. Art by Patty Paine.

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Announcing the winner of the 2025 Gasher Book Award @angelosmao.bsky.social

Keep an eye out for A White Horse is Not a Horse in spring 2027!

Happy Pride Month!!!❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Celebrate with us in supporting LGBTQ+ writers, artists and community - - check out our catalog (🔗 in bio)

Kyle Marbut
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O gentlemen, the time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long
If life did ride upon a dial’s point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
An if we live, we live to tread on kings.

The lone long-lost MingKwai typewriter, invented by Lin Yutang in 1947, has resurfaced in a NY basement. How did it get there? Where might it go next? The journey of the groundbreaking invention embodies the search for modernity and Chinese identity. My latest:
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DIALOGIST will be having an off-site reading at AWP, hosted by Sibylline Records. We'd love to see you there!