Saint Louis Public Library, stained glass in main stairwell.

Choose #20paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyartchallenge #art #painting #abstract #abstractart [7/20] "Tehachapi #2”, 1979 by Mary Heilmann

Better that the clamor of the birds should exhaust itself, be swallowed into the blue hole overhead; then one can hear the private whisper of branch to branch while the air hardly moves ~from "The Lemons" by Eugenio Montale (trans. from the Italian by Millicent Bell) AGNI 51 buff.ly/InDonoU

“My classroom was on the first floor, next to the nuns’ lounge. I used their bathroom to puke in the mornings.”

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

For our autumn edition, Granta goes to Modi’s India. granta.com/products/gra...

Dress for the job you wa— yeah, okay, I see it now

Cablers, submit your proposals! 🏰📜

Good afternoon friends - I have a six-book backlog for Patreon reviews, so today's goal is to make a serious dent in that! First up is In The Sea-Cave, which I enjoyed even though it has some pretty major technical issues 🩵

Cozy!

Egon Schiele, Hand, 1910

On this day, November 4th 1918, a week - almost to the very hour - before the Armistice, the poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action. He was 25. Here is my recording of one of his most famous poems. Dulce Et Decorum Est #warpoetry #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

The best.

Big old pin oak on a perfect fall afternoon in Missouri. Crockpot weather.

If you draw the cognitive science hexagram, Jerry Fodor appears and calls you a relativist.

We're busy with the layout of Cable Street Issue 10. It drops in less than a month and features an interview with @yannoehl.bsky.social and writing by @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social, @kevinmcmahon.bsky.social, Stefany Golberg, @hardygriffin.bsky.social, and many more! #poetry #essays #fiction #art

So we enter November, aka Anubis month. This image from a calendar mosaic from Thysdrus (El-Jem, Tunisia) depicts a festival commemorating the death of Osiris, which was celebrated all over the Roman Empire (Sousse Archaeological Museum, © Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons) 🏺 #AncientBluesky

This is a good issue—check it out.

Thrilled to have 4 poems in the wonderful @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social #poetry #journal

For #poets #readers #publishers #writers in the #toronto area On Nov 1. from 10am to 5pm Ice Floe Press will be at the TIFA Small Press Market Fair w/ our various wares! #poetry #smallpress #canada #books #prose #art #bskywriters At Victoria Chapel U. Toronto festivalofauthors.ca/event/small-...

New Orleans LA, Louisiana, Moisant Airport, Main Lobby, 1962

Deadline Today: TRAVEL Novel Festival (3 options to submit) documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/travel-novel... Submit your TRAVEL Book by the deadline. A travel story is a piece of writing that describes a location, its people, culture, and customs. It can also be a narrative of a journe.

From my new zine Satyr: The Greene-Wood #folklore #selkie #scotland #childballads #suleskerry #collage #zine #illustration

“If you can’t put it in image, it’s just an essay” Richard Siken podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Did this between some commission bird learning, but now not sure whether to add a blue wash to the background of the main bird now... I rather like it as it is but🤔

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Yeats www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...

Good interview with translator @wordkunst.bsky.social in this month's issue of @theberliner.bsky.social . Alex's translation of The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm is out soon. www.scribd.com/document/929...

#Amherst friends! The brilliant Jericho Brown will be reading at Amherst College next wednesday the 29th. Be sure to mark your calendars: www.amherst.edu/news/events/...

The Clock Holds Its Heartbeat by Laura Ann Reed in ONE ART: a journal of poetry oneartpoetry.com/2025/10/21/t...

#art #digitalart #abstract #abstractcomposition

Honoured to have a new poem 'Survivorship' included in the latest 'Flaw and Favor' issue of The Ilanot Review alongside stunning work by talents worldwide 🌍 💙 Gratitude to EIC Marcela Sulak and Guest Poetry Editor Flower Conroy. Enjoy the full issue here: www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-fav...

POEM #276: "Keepsakes" by Lana Hechtman Ayers (@lanaayers23.bsky.social) "what the heart holds it holds despite rebuttals from blurred photos home movie reels or grandma’s pshaws & there are chrysanthemums growing in the past that move like a storm blowing in" stonecirclereview.com/keepsakes

Wait! Just checked—this book by @paulelie.bsky.social won’t be out until May 2026—ok, my lake read, then!

We interviewed @paulelie.bsky.social in Cable Street a while back. Psyched about his new book, The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex and Controversy in the 1980s. Check out this video👇

Looking forward to discussing THE LAST SUPPER with the first-class novelist Phil Klay (@philklay.bsky.social) at Fairfield University on Monday, November 17 -- an event in the university's really aptly named Inspired Writers series . . . events.fairfield.edu/event/paul-e...

The second hand appliance store pickled onion Christmas window is back.

"Old Trees" by artist Vlad Miroshnikov, 2019, oil on canvas

Our consulting poetry editor has a new poem out in @zhagaram.bsky.social 💙📚

I Fade I fade, not— scent the air. A brief erasure, a liminal prayer. I sent a poem that mends, less pleasure— bent. one you believe, one you concede.

The inaugural Community Episode of the podcast at Haus of Owl Creation Lab. Poets @zoeidadickinson.bsky.social, Lorne Daniel, Tracy Wai de Boer and Jeremy Loveday, all read poems and talk about their new books! Launching in December. :)

Episode Seven features Yvonne Blomer, 4th Poet Laureate of Victoria BC. @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social This episode is generously sponsored by Bolen Books and recorded in-studio at Haus of Owl Creation Lab. Launching Oct 22nd!

Incredible night at Victoria Festival of Authors with poets @christinashah.bsky.social, Cecily Nicholson and Karen Solie--so grateful to have been a part of this memorable experience.

Please join us for Victoria's inaugural reading of the DC Reid Book Prize Finalists on November 5th at Cafe Fantastico! Congratulations to Cynthia Woodman Kerkham, @melaniesiebert.bsky.social and Kayla Czaga! Hosted by the fabulous @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social Tickets are FREE on Eventbrite.

stayman apples, painted by james marion shull, 1928

For almost 10 years, artist Klari Reis created a petri dish painting every day #sciart www.adailydish.com?m=1

Printmaking has not only been integral to the creativity of women in art but to the course of art itself, influencing and inspiring artists over the ages, including the fantastic talent of Louise Bourgeois - Spirals, 2005 woodcuts #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Along with seeing the David Wojnarowitz: Arthur Rimbaud in New York show & joining the #NoKings protest in Brooklyn, I also popped into Unnameable books & came out with a haul of new & used books. I'm reading the Dangarembga essays now because I am teaching Nervous Conditions next week.