#EveryDayAGift: I call this #Geranium #ThreeSisters. #Nature #Art #Awe #MyBackyard #SFBayArea #California #MyPhoto #Photography

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! #SanFranciscoPoet #DanielBrady will be at #NorthBayPoetics, a virtual venue co-hosted by me. Only a few spots left for the #OpenMic. DM w/your email to be on the list and for a link to this refreshing afternoon of #Poetry

Guess who's going to have this 'Rooted' #Sculpture in an upcoming #June #PublicArt #expo in #Madrid? Yep! #International #Digital #Art #CollectiveDisplay

This #BirdSong series is a story to tell! From #BirdNestFragments & #cherias to #birdnests within nests! Read abt the flight of this collection in #PatriciasPen @pmosbornewriter.bsky.social #CloverdaleArtsAlliance #Art #Nature #MixedMedia whitewingsbooks.com/2026/05/05/g... bsky.app/profile/kare...

#Connect2Nature Not a bird photo, but one of my collection of photos. I took this one at the Toronto Zoo in 2014 while practicing with my gear in anticipation of a trip to South Africa in 2018. #Rhino #Endangered #Closeup

Happy Mother's Day (or not) to you from me and two other #poets @benedictan.bsky.social @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social #OneSizeDoesNotFitAllMothers #Substack karenpiercegonzalez.substack.com/p/one-size

"Days of chemical spraying had grown into weeks. The toxic scents lingering over everything." What should be #fiction may well be #fact. Grateful to @written-tales.bsky.social for publishing this #ShortStory. #StayCreative writtentales.com/death-fog/

Hear Ye; hear ye, #DanBrady #SanFranciscoPoet will be May 19th feature #NorthBayPoetics I co-host. Some #OpenMic spots still avail. DM if interested and/or if just want to tune into this #zoom event to honor this #SanFrancisco #Legend

Now available: #SpeakUpSpeakOut This 14-poem micro chap about #social(in)justice is included in #FourFeather Press’ Book Ten 4-in-1. DM for purchase details. #Poetry

Frederico Cortese. (b.1971, Italy) Flamingos. 2022. Oil on canvas.

© Je Shen. 'Meditation 948.' Oil on canvas, 2026. 160 × 120 cm.

What an installation #BirdSong will be! My bird nests (3 real, 3 abstract) in a garden-like setting celebrate reinterpret what a #birdsong can be. Read about it in #Patricia'sPen @pmosbornewriter.bsky.social #Sanctuary #May16-July12 #Art #Nature #MixedMedia whitewingsbooks.com/2026/05/05/g...

Today is the world premiere of #ShaShaHigby's #ShadowOfTheFox at the @sf_international_arts_festival Thrilled to see her again. Those who know me know she is such an inspiration. Am beyond excited!!! #PerformanceArt #Sculpture

Just published in BLOT, an eclectic literary journal curated by #InternationalBeatPoetLaureate #FinHall of Scotland. #photograph #cherita #poetry #visualart

Carol Nelson, contemporary US painter known for her landscapes #WomensArt

Of course! I spent time with it this morning with the sun shining and it was just what I needed at that moment in time. 💛

An absolutely beautiful life affirming collection. 🔆

#EveryDayAGift: This #SonomaBotanicalGarden is a community of old and new. #Nature #Art #Awe #MyPhoto #Photography #SaturdayArt

That’s a big win. Now, defund ICE.

#EveryDayAGift: Good morning #BlackRoseSucculent! #nature #art #awe #mybackyard #myphoto

It's #NationalPoetryMonth! And every Monday this month I have posted a video I made of a #poet reading a #poem. Here's my #RunawayChicken. #StayCreative #Celebrate #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #Writers

'Sun and Moon Wired Together' charts the immediate and imagistic movements of life both day and night. This #poetic#video, #StartOfDay, opens the 22-poem collection. @Bottlecap bottlecap.press/products/sun...

Lovely interview!

Lovely interview!

#EveryDayAGift: A world of beauty in just this leaf! #Nature #Art #Awe #MyBackyard #SFBayArea #MyPhoto #Photography #SaturdayDay #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Here's my take on #CatInAHat: Willow in a Box #FelineMorningPose #CaliforniaKitty #MyPhoto #Photography

They changed the headlines—not the policy. ICE isn’t in the spotlight anymore… but the raids, detentions, and family separations never stopped. I break down what’s really happening open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

When you come home from work after a shitty day, and you're greeted like this . 😍

#EveryDayAGift: Oh, the magic of three drops of #DishSoap in #Water. How amazing!! #art #awe #kitchenwork #SFBayArea

Some interviews shine best BECAUSE of the person who conducts the interview! @samszanto.bsky.social is such a soul. Grateful to have this #poetic conversation with her! #Poetry #StayCreative #PoetsSupportPoets #PoetsOfBlueSky

Dedicated to @arwashington.bsky.social There is no doubt I love you friend, you are gorgeous- inside and out, your words and art unparalleled, your voice, your heart, always beheld #solseed #poetry #friendship

This is what happens when you rollout cookies and bake poems! Meet my friend @prestonspantry.bsky.social whose #NationalPoetryMonth recipe is inspired by one of his favorite #poems. #composingpoems #bakingcookies #staycreative #substack karenpiercegonzalez.substack.com/p/composing-...

In the Asian Woodlands of the Sonoma Botanical Garden. #California #Nature #ExoticSpecies #MyPhoto #PhotographersOfBluesky

It's #NationalPoetryMonth! And every Monday I'll post a #poetryvideo I made of a #poet reading a #poem. Here's #InPursuit by #Donna Faulkner #StayCreative #Celebrate #PoetsofBlueSky #Poetry #Writers

#watercoloryourday365 - Prompt / Vorgabe : Spiderwort / Dreimasterblume - 110/365/26 #KleineKunstKlasse #watercolor #doodlewashApril2026 #watercolorsketchbook #watercolour Via @doodlewashed (Instagram)

Sometimes I can't help my self! Here's a close-up of a painted braid of #garlic #acrylic #Stunday #BlueSkyPhotographers #MyPhoto #SFBayArea

In less than two hours #RobertRubino will be reading #poetry. Join me and sister co-host #AntoinetteVellaPayne as we do our part to keep #SacredGroundsOpenMic, the longest running open mic in #SanFrancisco alive! #SacredGroundCoffeeHouse #writers #StayCreative #SupportLiteraryArts #PoetsSupportPoets

This #CoyoteFish is one of the larger-than-life #SpiritGuides: Fantastical Creatures from the Workshop of #OaxacanArtists #JacoboAndMaríaAngeles #SonomaBotanicalGarden #GlenEllen #NorthernCalifornia sonomabg.org

Morning light on a leaf. #Nature #Art #Awe #MyPhoto #SFBayArea

Mayari Literature has raised the bar on what a literary journal can be. This issue's #poetry, #prose, #art and #literary commentary jumps off the pages! So pleased Midnight Tsunami has a home here alongside the work of so many, many other fine writers and artists. mayariliterature.substack.com

Don't you just love it when editors say yes? I do!!! So happy to have 2 #nature #photographs in #ViridineLiterary, a very beautiful online journal #art #poetry #prose Download: viridineliterary.wixsite.com/viridinelit/...

We wouldn’t here at all if it weren’t for your joy of community and the creative!! 🩵🩵🩵

Thank you so so much for inviting me to be a part of this, Karen! 🩵🩵🩵

It's #NationalPoetryMonth! Every Monday I'll post a video I made of a #poet reading a #poem. Here's #RevisingTheBluePrintOfNormal @jenwithwords.bsky.social whose extraordinary care w/words matches the depth of truth she writes of. #Brava! #StayCreative #Celebrate #PoetsofBlueSky #Poetry #Writers

These are deep and perfectly suited for surfing #poetry that catches the waves to and from any shore. Another great @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk project! bsky.app/profile/theb...

Major announcement: #Wave3 of #TheWhiskeyTree is complete. Built on the work of #Wave1 + #Wave2 — writers like @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @markantonyowen.com @eatthestorms.com et al — who laid the foundations and built this project into what it is. This is the final wave. #TheWhiskeyTree #Wave3

Thank you. And thank you for participating in 7syllablesentence!

Give simply because you can #7syllablesentence #give

Give the lost a safe harbor #7syllablesentence #give

Make greedy give to the poor. #7syllablesentence #give