Listen, I know this is not the friendliest user experience but you can now stream the entire Kenneth Koch 100 celebration we held at The New School on March 17 youtu.be/3kWnWuKuPPA

Small town quick sketch Ink on paper 💙

The unbroken prairie & the vastness of its cloud formations feel psychoactive to me

I live in a house on the edge of the ocean

from Grime Kerbstone Psalms pbd 2013 Celandor Books

My house hunting search criteria is to find little house on the edge of something Anything, really Most affordable edge out there seems to be the edge of civic civilization Where roads pipes sewers power lines simultaneously dead end into prairie

She’s actually a little shep, also black, also ungrateful.

Klaus Høeck (translated by John Irons) from 1001 poems

いつになく心やすませ山霞む Unusual as it may be slow your heart mountain mist *mist / mountain mist is a spring #kigo #haiku #俳句

Do you keep a journal or diary? Would you like to? I invite you try out the ancient and contemporary form of tanka (as transformed by poet Harryette Mullen) as a way of documenting something of your own intimate experience of these extraordinary times. salrandolph.substack.com/p/ways-of-se...

My thanks to P.L. Henderson for discussing the brilliant @womensartbluesky.bsky.social project with me to celebrate Women’s History Month 🤩👇👀 www.ocasa.org.uk/post/women-s...

orbital judo; low-albedo sucker punch out of the oort cloud

(SCREECHING, FLAPPING WINGS) from Deep Whoosh, my artist book of 50 closed-caption collages, coming from @blacksquareeditions My clients are headed to AWP today, so I’m using the lull to work on my own book. New themes revealing themselves as I work & finish up the essay. #collage #visualpoetry

Last night’s dream-house was nothing but roofs

"The vulnerability of the poem is the vulnerability of the body. The vulnerability of the poem is a form of sacrifice ..." Quod umbra est: Pasolini’s ‘David’ and the vulnerability of desire — @ericracher.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/03/25/q...

Michael Earl Craig @fencebooks.bsky.social

And here’s some sea #foliage for #printpromptmonday, in the form of a linocut bookcover I did a while back. Each seaweed is its own block so the pattern is different on each book.

引くことは逃げではないと鳥帰る Say, withdrawing is not escaping when birds return *birds return is a spring #kigo #haiku #俳句

. "I have only you have comma..." —Joseph Rocco (1929) #ForgottenPoets #poetry #poem

My review of ‘furia’ a book of poetry by ire’ne lara silva, 2021 (review is a 3 min read) #poetry www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

“i will give you more flowers than you can eat push them into your mouth with my mouth lick them into you thrust them into the hollow of your chest curl them beneath your eyelids whisper them over your skin until they dissolve into you” Ire'ne Lara Silva, the eaters of flowers #quote

If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental, that is only half of it. Your poems probably need to be even more sentimental. Don’t be less of a flower, but could you be more of a stone at the same time? —Mary Ruefle, from "On Sentimentality"

Electric Blossom Textile artist Louise Gardiner (embroidery, paint, appliqué)

4 views of an unimportant tree acrylic mixed media on bristol 7x11"

水星も逆行するとは花の夢 If Mercury is to retrograde dream of flowers 🪷dream of flowers is a spring #kigo #haiku #俳句

St Gertrude of Nivelles, patron Saint of cats, gardeners, and the mentally ill. Overlooked because of the coincidence that her feast day coincides with Saint Patrick's day. #StGertrude #SaintGertrude

I finally took a proper photo of my summer-themed mitosis sampler (2024). I’m writing a pattern for this one in four season colourways so watch for that in a few months! #SciArt #embroidery #MedSky 🧶🧪🐡

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from Persephone, book of the fall