Burn it down, they say. If so, might need some long matches. // BLUE-TIP MATCHES // acrylic + masking tape on paper

If Mary Oliver were here to give us her take on AI, I think she'd simply point to this poem. #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Have a new piece in @100wordstory.bsky.social written in @smokelong.bsky.social's March Micro Marathon. 100wordstory.org/i-ran-into-g...

It astonishes me, this creating business, and yet each time we sit down to create - a poem, a painting, some prose - we get to be astonished all over again at what appears on the page or canvas. Something that didn't exist before sitting down emerges seemingly out of nowhere. This is the gift.

It's Friday. You made it. You deserve your flowers. (I'm harvesting a bumper crop of this variety rn) // DANDELIONS & MASON JAR // acrylic on USPS shipping box

Had no idea I needed this "hate poem" in my life. Enjoy the disdain that Despy Boutris makes clear in the latest issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/poetry/00526...

always a bizarre feeling to have written something that you're proud of/excited about and realize that it might be years before it appears in the wild, in someone else's hands, if at all

My friend-in-absurdity is a gifted writer -- his last 2 books from @xraylitmag.bsky.social & @okaydonkeymag.com are proof. But Ben also has this one-man indie press, and is dropping TWO books today. Writer-turned-publisher to champion others. YES! Support Ben & Reka & Lesle. Buy these books!

I’M ONE YEAR OLDER & MY INDIE PRESS HAS TWO MORE BOOKS OUT TODAY! A one-person operation I launched on my birthday in 2025, @pizamapress.bsky.social has been both a passion project & a learning experience. Rewarding, daunting, joyous, stressful, all of the above. asterismbooks.com/publisher/pi...

Ready. Set. Summer. . // BEACH FIRES // . I applied an aged sense of nostalgia, that buried & beat-up postcard in an old drawer feel, that scratchy film you haven't seen in decades. The kind where as soon as you see it, you're there, transported back to that place as if it was yesterday.

Piżama lore: the cover of Réka Nyitrai's collection (out this week!) is from a hand-drawn frame of a longer animation by Italian visual artist Gaia Alari 🎨

The waning hours of #smallpoemsunday seems ideal for a Matthea Harvey poem. From Modern Life (2007 @graywolfpress.bsky.social ) @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

// WHITE-HOT TEARS // acrylic + graphite on wood block A lot of the time I have no real sense of when a painting is "done" but often the work will tell me when to stop.

First Lollapalooza (1991) Chris Whitley w/ Wilco Neko Case Cowboy Junkies Yo La Tengo Radiohead Ride / James Beck / Swervedriver Nation of Language This Will Destroy You

Looking forward to reading @suzyeynon.bsky.social and Rachel King, but first... judging books by their cover art... Angelo Maneage's work knocked me out when I first saw it in context w/ Suzy's synopsis, and this cover work by @hexliterary.bsky.social editor Daniel Miller is such a delight!!

I'm telling you, it's the little things that accompany the bigger thing. @malarkeybooks.bsky.social does it right.

if you pre-order, you support incredible literature (and a one-person indie press) @pizamapress.bsky.social asterismbooks.com/publisher/pi...

In college I would daydream about working for a small killer indie record label, writing stuff + creating stuff + making it wild + weird and all on-brand before I knew what on-brand was... and all these years later I think I need that kinda work more than ever; championing my peeps + my soul

Did you bother looking up today? It's a marvelous way to get lost. // CLOUDED PERSPECTIVE // acrylic on canvas

Truly dislike what became of Ryan Adams, but still have a soft spot for Strangers Almanac (Whiskeytown) and the solo debut Heartbreaker

Love that my 80-year-old neighbor looks out for me. Instead of throwing out scrap wood from his workshop, he cleans it up and shapes each piece into a canvas for me. Here's the latest batch of small paintings.

ICYMI - I was permitted to the party, but as a newbie I had to enter slowly at the zero entry point. No cannonballs, no deep end quite yet, but love to all @poolpartymag.com !

if the wildflowers can still push through in dark times, perhaps there's hope // VERTICAL URGENCY // acrylic on reclaimed wood block

// metamorphosis // ink + highlighters

When the Red-Headed Pilgrim & the band of lifeguards @poolpartymag.com welcome you to their inflatable, of course you say, HELL YASSS! Grateful that @kevinmaloney.net @femmeintheory.bsky.social & @brianstephenellis.bsky.social let this micro skinny-dip its way in. poolpartymag.com/why-song-of-...

Read my new poem in Spectra today or a bad May. spectrapoets.org/Factory-Psal...

"If you tolerate this then your children will be next" - Manic Street Preachers (1998) This song is never not relevant, and the Welsh band's Kubrick-like video still holds up with its sterile creepiness www.youtube.com/watch?v=22HT...

Late to the show for #WorldCollageDay but here's a couple of collages on book bindery Celan's Way & Split It In Half, We'll Go Dutch

ah, yes... the return of the yard flower I seem to grow effortlessly

Powerful micro from @sfmontgomery.bsky.social Read it slow, read it out loud, then read it again.

Certain things about music and friendship are hyper-ephemeral. Yet, somehow, also forever. How does that work? ✈️🎧 Read "By the Way" • Red Hot Chili Peppers by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in Volume 27. www.major7mag.com/post/by-the-...

I think I see a trend here... and it's not fuzzy at all. If you're gonna gaze into a screen, make it Claire's... CHANGE THE SUBJECT @clairehopple.bsky.social's new novel from @rejectionlit.bsky.social Have you pre-ordered your copy yet?

Stressing about the book that's coming out, the book I'm shopping, the book underway, the paintings that don't paint themselves... who has time to stress about an actual job???

super excited I have a poem in @thedodgemag.bsky.social inspired by my favorite poet of all time, Charles Simic

however... I am exploring ways to merge writing, story and art in ways that are erasure or collage, more like breadcrumbs of story (or stories) embedded in the visual

Sometimes it's better not to ask questions. Thank you and please come again. // BEST LAID PLANS (or) BOY IN SHORT PANTS WITH ZIPPER // mixed media on canvas panel

Charles Simic's Watermelons for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

This might sound absurd, but slowing down long enough to simply look up and watch the clouds, I'm telling you... it's creative oxygen. . // SLOW ETHER // acrylic on reclaimed wood

// Crowning Achievement // . mixed media on reclaimed wood

But does it count? I've been submitting to Bat City Review since the stone age and finally cracked the code.... with four paintings. A win is a win, right?

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." -- Ray Bradbury

Artwork that resembles your writing that doesn't follow genre // THE MECHANICAL CENTAUR // analog collage

reading prose poems with some legends of the form on Saturday!

12 or 20 (second series) questions with LJ Pemberton / @ljabouttown.bsky.social @malarkeybooks.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/04/12-o...

// DIVER TOO FAR DOWN // . acrylic on reclaimed wood

resurfacing this in case your weekend was just pure bliss, but we really should be talking about this novel more with the current state of "move fast and break things"

Feeling like Olga Ravn's sparse, memo-driven novel should be required reading in this early age of chat bots and humanoid robots. This reads less like fiction (or science fiction) and more like inevitable confessions. Shakingly brilliant.

Here's something I haven't said in a while: New Mitch poem! I've sent out very little work over the last couple of years*, but here's one in the Winter '26 Inscape Journal: inscape.byu.edu/2026/04/09/u...

UPDATE: now it's Friday. Cheers.

Love this new piece by @tomsnarsky.bsky.social. The early grounding and clarification of oven temps... the constant changing of music... Feel like a kitchen convo I have nightly w/o the tech