RIP Czech novelist Ivan Klíma (1931 - 2025). Back in 2016 I interviewed him for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social "Each of my books opposes death because I have written about life. My books insist on life and therefore they defy death." lareviewofbooks.org/article/defy...

Uniting technical documentation and training is a game-changer. At Write the Docs Berlin Stephan Delbos explains how his team broke down silos, aligning on outcomes and goals. This mental shift turns "how it works" into "how to use it well” and drives adoption while empowering users buff.ly/k1fqh2m

Still one of the best autumn poems. yalereview.org/article/robe...

better than coffee www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGzA...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Angular Circle Shuriken Comma" is a whispered glyph in the sonic dojo. youtu.be/-chsn05D0KY?...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Just Like A Joke" is a hat-trick from the hand of God. youtube.com/shorts/Dm9-S...

i kept asking it to tell me

Low Water https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/low-water-1969

Reinhard Döhl, et ce cette terra, 1966

I was pleased to recently read a new batch of poems from one of my favorite contemporary Czech poets, Tereza Riedlbauchová, and see how her style is evolving. Here's my translation of one of her poems in the Spring 2025 issue of @bodylit. www.bodyliterature.com/2025/07/01/t...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Stairs, Duchamp" is a cryptic picture that enacts all we are to hearsay. www.youtube.com/shorts/7A7xk...

summer goals www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zxi...

"My father particularly impressed me with the information that a friend of his had once repelled a home invader by descending the staircase in the dark carrying a single lighted candle and intoning a sulphurous passage from Book One of Paradise Lost." www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Crystal Lake" is four-to-the-floor Voorhees on a Gretsch, finally finding his groove on Friday the 13th. www.youtube.com/shorts/Kb8aj...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Marquee Sun" is CBGC's at noon on a Tuesday, 1977. Flip the script and get optimistic. www.youtube.com/shorts/EiDYx...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Marquee Sun" is CBGC's at noon on a Tuesday, 1977. Flip the script and get optimistic. www.youtube.com/shorts/EiDYx...

I was happy to have the chance to translate this poem from an excellent contemporary Czech poet, Ondřej Macl. It's a poem of brotherly love. Check it out in the summer issue of B O D Y! www.bodyliterature.com/2025/06/05/o...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Wax Your Skis" is shaking with anticipation for the quick white glide, from Blue Hills to Obergurgl-Hochgurgl. youtube.com/shorts/ban8_...

Working on something fun.

Happy that these 3 poems have found a home in Prague's BODY journal . . . thank you @sdelbos.bsky.social www.bodyliterature.com/2025/05/27/a...

Chet Baker: style

"'Relaxin' at Camarillo' is a composition by jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. It is inspired by his six-month stay in Camarillo State Hospital in Ventura County, California, after serving a prison term for arson and resisting arrest." www.youtube.com/watch?v=F22y...

Good news coming!

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Conclave" is a thread afire along a spiral staircase, decisions to be made, transactions and desires. youtube.com/shorts/Pwkiq...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Chreasters" rises again on the third day and eats men like air. www.youtube.com/shorts/2ZvsM...

late style www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbsY...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Any Eggs?" is determinedly nonplussed; a shell on a wall, experimentally sophisticated, curiously liminal. www.youtube.com/shorts/GzaDi...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "The Alligator We Didn't See Later" is a wistful elegy of swampy energy, all mud, grit and stoic regret. www.youtube.com/shorts/6Mcmo...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Breadfruit Toast" is high-noon shore-side wedding ceremony w/ Honey Rockwell and Mr. Zog. No prenup needed. www.youtube.com/shorts/Xxe2Z...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Breadfruit Toast" is high-noon shore-side wedding ceremony w/ Honey Rockwell and Mr. Zog. No prenup needed. www.youtube.com/shorts/Xxe2Z...

Thanks to Rupert Loydell for his perceptive review of Ceilings in International Times: " ‘No matter what, it’s going to be one hell of a trip’ declares our narrator, and it is." internationaltimes.it/the-dark-scar/ Available for order here: www.twistedspoon.com/ceilings.html

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Trade War Blues" is a dead-blood dirge trading you hours for a handful of dimes as you trip on the starting-line of financial independence. www.youtube.com/shorts/2-gZK...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Fellaheenology" wanders shifting dunes sheltered under skies online; sweet mint tea and clove upperdeckies. www.youtube.com/shorts/gus2A...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Highway 13" splashes across high-tide airwaves: uncertain yet collected, cooly keen to know yourself more truly and more strange. www.youtube.com/shorts/jk1PW...

time spends us

Contributor features from ballast 3.1! Here’s Stephan Delbos and “DISTANCE & DESTINATION” @sdelbos.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/stephan-delbos #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #StephanDelbos

"What was unexpected and possibly shocking about V... was the use of iambic pentameter quatrains, at a time when closely patterned, regular verse was regarded as outmoded, an unfitting vehicle for modern concerns." www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "API Samurai" takes the Application Programming Interface back to feudal Japan, with a bass line from Eminem and inspiration from Noh drama and ukiyo-e. youtube.com/shorts/ASBA-...

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Stars Among Mausoleums" is haunting and cinematic, unsettling yet mesmerizing as it tiptoes across your frontal lobe. www.youtube.com/shorts/jBKJz...

czeslaw milosz greatest eyebrows in the biz

Weekend reading: check

RIP Pierre Joris pierrejoris.com

RIP Michael March, Founder of the Prague Writers' Festival. magazin.aktualne.cz/kultura/zemr...

Jean-Claude Van Damme Manhandled him For vandalism.

Poem of the Week in Saturday's Scotsman Magazine was 'Sea Song for Couples in Love' by Christopher Crawford, from his debut poetry collection Divorcee Disco Music (Blue Diode Press). #poetry

anybody got Stephen Jonas Arcana in pdf?