Al Green, "Take Me to the River" What a voice... 🎵 youtu.be/9FBUgdhxe9M

12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 6/12: 2001: A Space Odyssey / Stanley Kubrick, dir., 1968 Of course, Kubrick’s masterwork must be on this list. 📽️🎬

I am an instrument in the shape of a woman trying to translate pulsations into images for the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind. Adrienne Rich #writer #poetry

‘To the men of both sides alike, worn out… it began equally to appear doubtful whether they should continue to slaughter one another…‘For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?…You may go and kill whom you please, but I don’t want to do so any more!’— Tolstoy, W&P for #BookWormSat 🖼️ Igor Karash

Awesome morning chore tune from a Bach boy. Pair with a triple espresso and biscotti. Crank up to 11, mebbe dare to start the day with a noise complaint by waking neighbors hearing it through double courses of bricks & fist-deep horsehair plaster. 😁 music.apple.com/us/album/mag... #ClassicalMusic

Thanks to @jmwwjournal.bsky.social for letting me think thru my own writing journey in this craft/personal essay. As usual, writing this helped me see.

It is thus that we live, they say, driven by an unseizable force. They say that the novelists never catch it; that it goes hurtling through their nets and leaves them torn to ribbons. (Jacob's Room, ch. 12)

This song by Coralie Clément will put a smile on your face 😊 youtu.be/FxxZc-aOOWk?...

#rejectionletters, #rejection, #unrequitedlove, #poetry, #poem, #visualpoem, #visualpoetry, #erasurepoem, #erasurepoetry, #blackoutpoetry, #redactedpoetry, #literature, #writerslife, #essaywriting, #essay, #poetrycommunity

“… if you see a crow sitting on a crocodile’s head, it is an omen. *Listen to it.*’” @kossworks.bsky.social in Midway Journal midwayjournal.com/how-to-avoid...

if youre going to be a poet, with the feet of history firm in this modern world, then there are no better role models than mr. wright.

jay wright JOURNEY TO THE PLACE OF GHOSTs www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42738/...

Did I say this last week? All those folks who voted GOP, voted third party, or didn’t vote at all, are you feeling happy now? SCOTUS blocked SNAP benefits. I’m scared about marriage equality. Like, really scared. And once that’s overturned, it erodes Loving v. Virginia. Jesus Christ.

Witch’s Ascension #art #drawing #witch

New poetry! #poetry #experimentalpoetry #atheism

Now Ovid is weeping. Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. In his spare time he is teaching himself the local language (Getic) in order to compose in it an epic poem no one will ever read. - Anne Carson, "On Ovid"

Thank you to the Piggly Wiggly parking lot for hosting my sad thoughts on too much Kierkegaard and a rainy Friday and the intractable parts of life that are not literature. 🖤

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, tr. Reinhold Grimm

A. R. Ammons

Dreams of That Night What seems like a century ago, we witnessed a New Hampshire canvas painted in cobalt, a field of sparkling stars— pinpoints of white illuminating open hay fields guarded by turning maple as we clung to one another under a Hunter's Moon— deeply absorbed in the moment— dreaming…

Read Natalie Solmer’s poem “I Am a Great Lake” here: merliterary.com/2024/08/26/p... And listen to Episode 80 with @nataliesolmer.bsky.social here: share.transistor.fm/s/bb99659d #poetry #podcast #booksky 📚💙🎙️

wild nights, wild nights (taking your bra off at 7:45 and getting into bed with Gertrude Stein’s How to Write is freee) 📚💙

“Reality is the basis of all great art. Without it there is no life, no substance. Reality is the ground under our feet and sky over our head. Everything the artist creates has its point of departure in nature.” -- Yvan Goll, “Surrealism Manifesto”

The Zombies, "Time of the Season" 🎵 youtu.be/6FndvMeXUgU

12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 5/12: Winter Light / Ingmar Bergman, dir., 1963 📽️🎬 Ah… Bergman. One of his best.

The late evening crow of deep autumn longing suddenly cries out Yosa Buson #poetry #writer [Tr. Sam Hamill; art, Landscape with House by Buson ]

Forest in Late Autumn, Caspar David Friedrich, 1835.

She was watching

got some cattle dog, yep and some beagle and some foxhound and some pit and some staffie and some shepherd tl/dr no sleep till Brooklyn or something like it. the older hound's eyes are spinning in his head.

“These differences didn’t matter so much now. We had Butthole Surfers to find.” @alkratz.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

Delighted to see that Jarnal #4 (@masonjarpress.bsky.social) is almost here! Featuring a wonderful lineup of writers and artists from the US and around the globe. I'm lucky be one of them🙏 Excited to read all the beautiful work! Huge thanks to EIC Steph Sundermann-Zinger 💙 Open now for preorders.

Am incredibly moved the brilliant and erudite @genesegrill.bsky.social wrote this about my novel ‘The Orange Notebooks’ (out with @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social and @pressassembly.bsky.social .)

“Today’s poem unexpectedly merges the playfulness of anagrams with the gravitas of a terminal diagnosis — the weight of reckoning with the end of one’s life," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1388. Read “When I learn Catastrophically " by the late Martha Silano: bit.ly/43SNIA9

mapledeathrecords.bandcamp.com/album/flower... Listening to...Laura Agnusdei

After-Form

treasuring this treasure on close reading edited by @johannawinant.bsky.social and Dan Sinykin. Last night was all Berlant and Ashbery vibes by Brian Glavey. Tonight will be more Berlant.

Robert Creeley

for the uninitiated: the monk documentary STRAIGHT, NO CHASER youtu.be/wE2UmaSjkzc?...

"Do you remember the men outside the 7-11 one night, or maybe it was every night, on every highway, roamed by all the other girls like us?" Catch @lynnebeckenstein.bsky.social's THE 7-11 THAT EXISTS IN EVERY REALITY from our OCTOBER ISSUE before it hits the archive: buff.ly/wV9kmHV

"What we sell here wears itself drop-waisted, accordion-pleated in rust, gradients of blacklisted thrift rubble." @connorharding.bsky.social's "The Curiosity Shop" trampset.org/the-curiosit...

Soon this will happen to us She thought there was a bone in the sand and unearthed its ceramic bowl-suggestive fragment. How alive are the old stories that do not require our themes or tired journals? Toothless light shard with bandings, brass stars along a rim and the seven points that should…

Fanny and Susan (Sukey) Howe, c1945

“I'm the kind of poet who thinks in the opposite manner, tending to see first what a thing resembles, and only afterward-almost reluctantly-do I see it for what it actually is.” -- Carl Phillips

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Greyhound" by Caroline Shea (@therealcshea.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/greyhound/

Shawn Colvin, “Shotgun Down the Avalanche” 🎵 youtu.be/8DbxN0ukCyU

12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 4/12: A Man Escaped / Robert Bresson, dir., 1956 One of the most unique filmmakers in the history of cinema. 📽️🎬

So it has come to this – insomnia at 3:15 A.M., the clock tolling its engine like a frog following a sundial yet having an electric seizure at the quarter hour. The business of words keeps me awake. Anne Sexton #poetry #writer

“You care like a chump.” This wonderful gem by @woodardwriter.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social.🔥