These handsomely crafted books make excellent Christmas presents and, being rectilinear, they are very easy to wrap

I have a poem about that. 😎

Thankful today for @robmclennan.bsky.social’s single-handed effort at sustaining an entire side of the poetry world.

A Thank #Poem -- AN ESSAY ON ONTOLOGICAL PRAGMATISM by Jon Cone, in *Against Perfectionism & Other Poems*, available from above/ground press. I am sorry for the poor image quality, but the text is all there in the alt. 💜 robmclennan.blogspot.com

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "persephone’s descent" by Eugenia Pozas #Tbt stonecirclereview.com/persephones-...

“If I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.” -- John Berryman

Did you know we offer gift bags of native wildflower seeds curated to your specific state or region? 25% off now through Dec 2nd: sevenhillfarm.etsy.com/listing/1575... 🌱💚 #gardening #wildflowers #nativeplants #giftideas

News! The Sacred Memory Bank is an exhibition of assemblage, collage and word at Kirkby Gallery. It’s a joint exhibition with the mighty Mike Badger and we open on 19th January. We would love to see you there! @mikebadger.bsky.social

Plump Douglas is a great name for a character in a story. You're welcome.

Lovely to have Jethro and Galanthus back, who have been out conservation grazing meadows, happily arriving back to Pinkery to join the other conservation grazing Exmoor ponies. The sowing the seeds project is supported by CareMoor for Exmoor

Excuse me while I kiss the sky. (Jimi Hendrix. Today is his day.)

youtube.com/shorts/NzA1q... Morning Butterflies This 👇🏻

Okay, sure. Here's *Becoming Altar*, new and selected poems, available from asterismbooks.com/product/beco.... (They ship worldwide.) Would make an awesome gift or library acquisition. 🌹

“saying they are going to help save the bee by encouraging all the farmers who supply them to keep more hives. This was, he went on, akin to trying to reverse bird declines by keeping more chickens”

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

Seven years later I can finally write about it. I’m sure many can relate. 🐾

What a lovely treat this morning to have Stone Circle replay my experiment with an acrostic poem, in which I dare to talk back to Maggie Nelson!

Navajo Weavers by Pennington & Rowland, 1914. More images from Native America in our Photo Print Shop 👇 photos.legendsofamerica.com/nativeameric...

could anyone please help with at least part of this soon, even if a bit after 5?

No one really follows me here but I belong to a non-profit that packs and delivers survival backpacks to the homeless of Detroit where they live: abandoned buildings, under bridges. We have an opportunity thru a vendor. Please help. I can answer questions! www.coe1.org/product/coe1...

“…we are reminded that what we love is also what renders us most vulnerable to heartbreak, because, after all, as Vanderhart writes, ‘the heart is muscle and sore.’” Really grateful to Bridget Bell for this review of What Pecan Light in @nclitreview.bsky.social 🙏💙📚

🌱 Holiday decor, wild style

Because yes, Thanksgiving as a national holiday has to do with the Civil War and not the Puritans or previously proclaimed days of Thanksgiving (of which there were hundreds) - so be sure, as you gather about the table, to give thanks for the victories brought by Union arms at Vicksburg & Gettysburg

I truly need "AI Won't Stand in Authentic Wonder" swag sold in the Vatican gift shop. Also, I will need it on a tote and shirt.

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "But We Did Read the Darkness" by Jessica Coles (@prairievixen.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/but-we-did-r...

my debut nonfiction book comes out in less than a year, which is kind of freaking me out 🌝 if anyone knows where to pitch interviews or essays related to it, or has experiences to share, please let me know I'm barely functioning lately & this added layer of being perceived is really quite the trip

Gavagaï!

[Eartha Kitt voice] Cassandra baby

To the folks snitching on hardworking immigrants who are building businesses and taking care of their families: you're mad because people who've been here less than a decade have achieved more than you have in your entire life — Prove me wrong. 🔆☕

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” W. Somerset Maugham, born on this day in 1874

Occasional #Poem -- Looking out at a drab sky

"The strangest thing about traveling for a long time is the return. Your descent back into your old life and old patterns feels like a direct confrontation with your past self." New Orleans artist and tattoist @lake.bsky.social on her random impulse to go to sea. [via @thearsonista.bsky.social]

Read in heavy Yorkshire accent: Ey-Up! Surely not! He can’t go that early can he? He can! Bloody Nora! He’s not only taken it t’ bridge he’s only gone on walked it cross t’ river right t’other side and it’s only after ten on t’ clock. Haven’t even done with second cup o’ Tetleys! My flippin’ word.

Shout out to the poets,photographers, writers, the introverts, journalists, Sports writers of blue sky. You ROCK. Happy Thanksgiving. I get so traumatized when I peek in on the X site, it is an honor to be on Blue Sky.🎠🎭🎰🎲🃏♥♠♦♣ eileen.

"Character.AI, which was started by two former Google A.I. researchers, is the market leader in A.I. companionship. More than 20 million people use its service, which it has described as a platform for 'superintelligent chat bots that hear you, understand you, and remember you.'"

I think a red flag in all this ai stuff is that when you hear public conversations between ai folks about ai they sound like fucking dumbasses who just took lots of drugs or maybe got hit really hard on the head.

I’ve done this for years! If you think Black Friday is nonsense, it’s very therapeutic!

The holidays are coming. Be of good cheer and generosity for my destitute, unwell, aging friends. Whenever you give, something good returns to you. Yes, America is hurting but fling some cash to CC and Given. It's worth it.

Lost souls

Not uncommon. Some of us are capable and willing to lead organizations but Boards will not let us flatten compensation & org structures. We need to move money out of NPIC and into different org types that are equitable. The time is now.

God what a metaphor. From Blythe Baird's book Sweet, Young & Worried. #poem #booksky #writing

"This is not an essay about psychogeography or being a flâneur, it is a question of what about settling somewhere is it that resists what is otherwise one of life’s great pleasures." @sylvswarren.bsky.social writes about familiar walks she describes as 'mizmazes. [via @thearsonista.bsky.social]

That means it's two years since I stopped. I was chill with making myself broker and deader, but helping some asshole who's already loaded buy a new ute was a bridge too far, and to this minute I've saved $30,002.32

"Environmental groups sue USFS over logging in Pisgah National Forest [in NC]...Logging on a steep slope right next to this phenomenal river is going to pollute, clogging it with sediment. It's going to kill endangered species." wlos.com/news/local/e... 🌎

Remember our joy pop-up? It’s going to keep popping. We’re permanently opening subs for flashes of joy (well, as permanent as anything, which is not very but you get the idea). If we love it and it’s joyful we’ll add it to the issue. Like a little library of joy. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

‘Everyone has a book inside them’. They don’t. They really don’t.

A note by @anthonyframe.bsky.social on Threads reminded me: November deadlines. Are not in my budget due to the adding up of submission fees. I know it’s an evil empire, but Google forms or just email would work fine. I’ve used email as an editor just fine.