My Substack Summer, Just in Time for Fall
My Substack Summer, Just in Time for Fall
I took time off from writing PopPoetry this summer, but I still spent some time reading some great Substacks you might enjoy, too!
I didn’t do much writing this busy summer, but I still found myself dipping into the Substacks I love and found a few new ones, too. Read on for reading list recs, a new PopPoetry Postscript, and more!
Highlights
☕ I read the most in the morning
💌 I subscribed to 2 new Substacks
🕵️ I discovered 1 new post via Notes
Top Substacks
Culture Study by
Think more about the culture that surrounds you
Top post this summer: Welcome to Bama Confidential
I will never not be an AHP super-stan. Everything she writes about turns to gold; even the subjects that seem to interest me least on the surface leap to life in her hands. I can’t recommend Culture Study enough.
bitches gotta eat! by
judge mathis recaps + occasional sad garbage
Top post this summer: HELL YEAH BROTHER
I routinely snort laugh out loud while in line at the coffee shop or the grocery store reading Samantha Irby’s Substack. Who knew that Judge Mathis recaps could be this gripping? One of the funniest writers out there, hands down.
Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith by
Dismantling diet culture and anti-fat bias, especially in health, fashion, and parenting. (But non-parents like it too!)
Top post this summer: Do We Need Another Thin Person's Ozempic Take?
I’ve learned so much from Virginia Sole-Smith, and whenever I need a break from the body image madness our culture marinates in, I head back to Burnt Toast. Diet culture is so passé. Don’t believe me? Chaeck out Virginia’s Substack.
Share your own Summer Recap
You can see your own summer recap in the Substack app. I’d love to see what you’ve been reading.
PopPoetry Postscript
Longtime reader Katherine Quevedo quotes PopPoetry the latest installment of her essay series on video game poetry for gaming magazine Sidequest.
Attention Millennials: Carson Daly recently marked the anniversary of his mother’s death and the poem that helped him manage his grief after his mother’s passing.
The Golden Bachelorette contestants are reciting (original!) poetry. Hoooo boy!
File under not my cup of tea but I will dutifully report it to you anyway: a recent article in American Songwriter highlights three songs inspired by Charles Bukowski.
August Kleinzahler’s “Whitney Houston” was just published at LitHub. It’s giving long-winded “The Day Lady Died.” Also on the topic of New Jerseyite elder statesmen of poetry…
I don’t think we’d accept this kind of “those were the days” poem from someone less lauded and successful than Robert Pinksy, but coming from a three-time poet laureate, it lands in The New Yorker. I get it. He’s earned it! “Old Movies” is about exactly that:
And finally, a bit of fun: now that summer is over, what will you get up to this fall? Do the changing leaves and cooling temperatures make you want to curl up with a book (poetry or otherwise) or does it send you dutifully to your desk