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8000 fragments! Congratulations, @fragmentarium.bsky.social! Folks, PLEASE survey your early modern bindings and share what you find. #fragmentology

When in doubt, take your students to the Library of Congress. Look at books. Think about books. Be inspired by books. Exit through the gift shop #ArthurSze

Please never give up on your dream that one day, you will finally have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder.

Omg the auto captions for my lecture #medievalsky

A gang of youths Have been hanging around The shop For over an hour Discussing books

Various Types of Women

One of those minimalist poems only Idea Vilariño knew how to write. Like a floating Jasmine Like a floating jasmine that falls weightless through the air

This made me laugh

Lots going on at Iffy Books in Philly 🤖 #independentbookstore #bookshops #philly #shopsmall #buildyourowncomputer

So apparently Pizza Hut is bringing back their “Book It” program and maaaan I’m gonna read these kids under the table. No pizza left behind. Gimme.

I volunteer one day a week in my kid’s school library, and it’s just the best. But book friends, when we talk about how books have a long tail, a long shelf life? This is a fun example of what we’re talking about. I reshelve this every single week and it’s been regularly checked out since 2001.

It’s hard to believe that I would just come home from a long day of fifth grade and just casually hum along to “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails on the radio while doing my math homework. The 90s were truly a blessed time. #TrentReznor

April is the trillest month, breeding Sick beats out of the dead land, mixing Tracks and memories, melting Faces with acid rain.

#smallpoemsunday #poem #writingcommunity #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

O dig me a hole in your hair, swaddle me without flax. Myrrh-bearer! What do I need with myrrh? You washed round me like a wave. “Christ to Magdalene,” Marina Tsvetaeva, 1923 #easter #resurrection #believewomen #russianpoetry #holysaturday

“the single body alone in the universe / against its own best time” ::updates LinkedIn byline:: #SharonOlds #PoetryMonth

Philoxenia: ALL FLAVORS WELCOME. So pleased to have scored the geyest shirt at the Greek yogurt ice cream place. #GoodFriday

This 💯

hold my beer, hemingway

Don’t mind if I do make my own #IVF #collage at the free library event #paper #subtrates #postagestamps #fertility #textandimage

Today in #typeface thoughts en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_Ge... #gerrymander #gerrymandering #font #script #democracy or whatever

Veronica doing improv comedy.

Necessary reading

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

I like this glorious list poem from Martin Stannard’s forthcoming Collected Poems.

We each spoke a spell of stone and in her gloom heard prayers turn poems. Ask her, Bríd, what will be come of us? Listen. Liquid, the syllables; the echo, luminous. -Doireann Ní Ghríofa #imbolc #JohnDuncan #Goddess #IrishMythology #brigid #brigit #TuathaDeDanann #birch #prechristian #pagan #poem

are they not monsters?

you don't own a poem; if you're lucky, you can catch one, like a firefly, a cold. it's an act of fixed transience. the words in print don't change. you do.

nothing will fix the dying world, but I’m hoping this Elliot Smith cover will help the new one be born

now I can’t believe— that the bible & qur’an & bhagavad gita … exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”— all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as: life is merely to ovum and sperm and where those two meet and how often and how well and what dies there

Someone once said "Happy Throuple Day!" and I can't unsee it. Blessings to all who celebrate. Salzburg Missal, C15, Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 15708, f. 63v. #Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay #Theophany #LoveWillWin #Jan6 #DayOfLights #GreekOrthodox #ηΗμέρατωνΦώτων #Bogoyavlenie #DíaDeLosReyes

William Blake's depiction of the Circle of Traitors in Hell from Dante's Inferno, 1827 www.artic.edu/artworks/233...

Sometimes I open a new poetry manuscript and Adobe asks me if I’d like an “AI” summary of the document. I wish there was a way to make it clear that I’d rather have plague-carrying squirrels gnaw off my thumbs.

Come, Revealer of the hero-path. We shall no longer cast thee away. May our entire life become a ceaseless worship...all our acts a continuous service to the Mother, full of love, full of energy. #Durga Stotra (1909), Sri Aurobindo trans. Nolini Kanta Gupta #GoddessPoetry #YearOfTheMother #poem

“Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate/That Time will come and take my love away.” …but blessèd New Year, one and all! 🫖 🪩 📖 #Bard #Shakespeare #sonnet #HelenVendler #vintage #tealeaves #teacup #NYE #NewYearsEve #chronos #kairos #TempusEdaxRerum #AuldLangSyne #countown #poetrysky

synaloepha: the merging of two syllables into one Los cabellos que-al oro-oscurecían. [The hair that endarkened the gold.] -Garcilaso de la Vega d.1536 Not quite the same, but I thought this lady's name was "Anna Rundell" (d.1649) for a long time #hendecasyllable #hendecasyllabic #poetrysky

Hanging up all the season's #Krampusnacht cards on the wall. "Then he’ll bind them in chains, throw them in his dank sack, Take them deep in to hell, and they’ll never get back" - Ann Hart 🖤 Anapestic Tetrameter 🖤 #poetry #poetrysky rattle.com/krampusnacht... www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Do we all agree that there's an implicit badass ranking amongst letters? And that these are remarkably similar across alphabet systems? Roman 1. Z 2. X 3. Q Arabic 1. ق 2. ظ 3. ك Purely here to ruffle feathers on this #SnowDay #alphabet #alphabets #writingsystems #language #phonemes #poetry

palinode: i take it back! Confess(ion): I’m starting to think I have an attraction to impossibility – tonight, the sky is a punched-out molar, & here I imagine a desire vast enough to bleed & float for – when you text me i love you, i drift to sleep & leave you on seen - @intifadabatata.bsky.social

#anamorphosis in poetry? a matter of looking To'our bodies turn we then, that so Weak men on love reveal'd may look; Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book. -The Ecstasy, J. Donne www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... Anamorphic art by Thomas Quinn.

happy #smallpoemsunday this is invite by melita matsinhe, translated by beth hickling-moore from mozambican portuguese :0 i think it's so beautiful and vital and mysterious and a real celebration of life on earth! @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Don't catch a leopard by the tail, but if you do, don't let it go. #Ethiopian proverb sem-ena-werq #Amharic: ሰምና ወርቅ www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/08...

quipu / khipu : knot-writing, record keeping by knots #inca #fabricpoetry #textilepoetry #knotwork #writingsystem #datasystem #poetry #poetrysky Larco Museum, Lima, Peru www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/158...

Am I the first law professor wanting to assign parts of this book to law students, esp. the Introduction by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

Waiting for this to show up in one of those “If you can identify these people, you’re as old as the hills!” buzzfeed clickbait quizzes. #IDidntInhale #usedbooks #secondstorybooks #smallbookshops #smallbookstores #shopsmall #shoplocal #bookgifts #givebooks #resellbooks #bookresale #independentbooks

As the clocks turn again, the old debate rears its stubborn head: Should we abolish time? #daylightsavings

Léni Paquet-Morante up at Art@Bainbridge Princeton #BACHtoberfest

Limerence has become a demon in mental health chat in the last decade. Yes, limerence removes one from the wheel of capitalism & the social bonds deemed acceptable therein, oh no. #Limerence also gives us humanity’s best art & a lens through which to view the most tangled aspects of the self.