Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. This magnificent #Roman monochrome mosaic makes quite an impact! 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

"Everyone, including the father," in the UK's Poetry Review and forthcoming in my next book, Althea: Poems, from Graywolf Press in 2027. poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/everyo...

Very happy to have my painting "Some Other Eden" in San Jose State University's (my alma mater) wonderful @reedmagazine, issue 158. My thanks to the editors and to Hilary for the heads up on the open submission window. Mille grazie.

Delighted to return to the pages of this amazing journal. Please consider subscribing, consistently wonderful work in every issue. Together with @dapowell.bsky.social ? Pinch me!

Happy birthday to the one and only, Siouxsie! May you be enjoying whatever you're up to! ♥️photo by Anton Corbijn, London, 1985

Our Black Knight butterfly bush is about to blossom out and, frankly, I'm scared!

happy cosmos!

2 older poems came up on my FB memories today - "Letter to the Broom Moss" from Poet Lore and "Landings" from the Aurorean - very happy these poems found their perfect homes with those journals - thank you to the extraordinary editors: Jody Bolz, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Cynthia Brackett-Vincent

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Dreamy olivine Kaweco 🤩

End of the Week Art: Natalia Rybka (b.1988), “Untitled” (first painting in her forest series), oil on canvas, 2015. Be gentle with yourselves and each other x galeria-rij.com/en/polish-co...

Hunkered down for the cooler morning...their throat feathers, adore.

Wonderful poem from @hanvanderhart.bsky.social on Poetry Daily this morning - yes to all of it. From her latest book, "Larks" from Ohio University Press.

End of the Week Art: Rose Espinosa (b. 1995), “Little Silver”, oil on board, 2018. Love this piece, to get those layers and textures of white/gray/silver. Gothic portraiture coming in hot! Holy smokes, let's all go walk the moors! ♥️ more recent work: martinbrownecontemporary.com/rose-espinosa

"Strange Landscape"...drying today then some varnish tomorrow.

Rest easy, Clem Burke, and thank you for the music - one of the best to ever do it, absolute legend. The intro to Dreaming is one of my favvroite beats ever. His work with Blondie and Eurythmics, part of my musical fabric forever.

Spring snooze from my deck arbor

Tire repair waiting room metaphor

from my backyard this morning - new mama hummingbird is all of us 🪹

Protect and celebrate trans lives ♥️

Honoring Trans Visibility and Two Spirit folx by checking out this publication: beestungmag.com/issues/

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“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.” ~ Virginia Woolf

BIG NEWS! The Rumpus will transition to new ownership under @roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social effective May 1. This change is an opportunity for a more sustainable future and meaningful growth. 🎉 Read the full announcement from our publisher, Alyson Sinclair. buff.ly/aFeXcEE

Make sure you're getting enough sugar in your diet. You want a nice protective crackle to form over the brain.

first pull from the new deck - spooky good

I have a new book out today, the Portable Feminist Reader. I hope you check it out. audacity.substack.com/p/new-book-o...

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Love and safe travels to all my friends winging their way to AWP. Meet up, make new friends, share your incredible work, rest, read books, buy books, gather great swag, and support each other ❤

I've overworked it and it became more emo than anticipated, but it's growing on me: "Peace Where You Can Find It", acrylic on canvas, 12x16x1.5, 2025

Incredibly fun, well-written, hilarious spy adventures with 4 female assassins in their 60s. Killers of a Certain Age, Book 1 - Kills Well With Others, Book 2 - by Deanna Raybourn 🔪✈️♥️🚞🐓

Morning coffee ☕️ (pre-stain by someone else) with Fanny Howe

Baby dandelion finch (yes, I know they're called Lesser finches, but this is what I call them) in my front yard tonight is bringing me joy...thank you, little one.

First freesia unfurled

Written in late 2016

The demons don’t like fresh air. What they like best is if you stay in bed with cold feet. ~ Ingmar Bergman

Love poem for my beloved written many years ago but still true...thanks to Jon and Allison from Crab Orchard Review for being its first home x Happy Valentine's Day ♥️

Oh hey guess who decided to show up. 💌 www.ohioswallow.com/978082142591...

always liked this one from my book, but it's one I've never read in public 🦂

End of the Week Art: Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), “The Blue Room”, oil on canvas,1923, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Trailblazer 💙

Anyone else varnishing at 5:30am?😂

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Today's focus...every day

Going into 2025 like...and as the Germans say, wishing you a good slide into the New Year ♥️

Over the moon to have two poems in issue 3 of The Glacier Journal: "Maternal Bond" and "Private Earthquake, Asheville, 2007” - sincere thanks to the wonderful editors David Dodd Lee and John Leonard. Do check out the terrific accompanying art and prose ❤️‍🔥 theglacierjournal.com/issue-three/...

End of the Week Art: Tom Hammick (b. 1963), “Northern Shore”, monotype, woodcut, ed. 9, 2023. Wishing you all the most gentle 2025 possible, look to the light – wherever you can find it ♥️ tomhammick.com

Merry eve to whatever you celebrate - my good cheer sent via Gorey's flaming punch bowl ✨☕️❄️♥️🎉🕊️