“When someone recognizes you in a grocery store / nod briefly and become a cabbage.” —Naomi Shihab Nye, “The Art of Disappearing”

Anne de Marcken @annedemarcken.com / @spuytenduyvil.bsky.social

I see the old woman behind the flowering broom. I have followed her from poem to poem … —Iain Crichton Smith, “Old Woman” from Deer on the High Hills: Selected Poems, ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social. @carcanet.bsky.social 2021 #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017094...

On this #memorialday, thinking of children who have lost parents, parents who have lost children, and all who have lost homelands. Matthew Arnold, closing lines of “Dover Beach,” c.1851 #everynightapoem

Thinking of different ways of marking Time, and how Richard Eberhardt takes leave of us in “The Groundhog”:

Monday Scaries

Said while exhaling a fat bong rip

This beauty by J-T Kelly #poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Here’s a first look at Issue 8’s cover art by Gordon Hunt, a Cornish artist inspired by the light, sea and shifting colours of the Cornish coast. Issue 8 publishes June 8th (World Ocean Day). #worldoceanday #coverreveal #poetry #summer #sunny #happy #behappy #swim #swimming #Ocean #sea #vibes

This beauty by J-T Kelly #poetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Poem "Little Sabbaths"

Bob Seger is the Buddha.

This artwork, titled Face and Flowers, was painted in 1957 by the iconic Australian modern artist Charles Blackman.

Japanese poster for Nosferatu

this goes so hard Song: Divine Light Vocalist: Liam Bailey Producer: St Francis Hotel Animator: RUFFMERCY

I have a really intense story in this anthology. I can’t wait for you to read it.

He’s correct. Death Valley exists.

SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!

Gracias to Gonzoid for giving these two fellows a home. 🫶 gonzoid.neocities.org/AlinaStefane...

This artwork is titled "Tropics" and was created by artist Szabina Góré.

🍃 Announcing the winner of our Waasnode Fiction Award: Crystal Odelle for “The Big Show”! This short will be published in our next print edition of Passages North. Thank you to this year’s Waasnode judge Megan Milks for their careful consideration and choosing our winner.

It’s James Stewart’s birthday. Seen here in The Matrix (1946) Dir: Frank Capra

At the end of the day, I want my writing to be something like the sound of Lole’s voice.

“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” Stanley Kubrick’s DR. STRANGELOVE (1964) is playing in 35mm this Sat. 5/23 at 3 pm at the Aero. www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

Selma Asotić @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

94°F/34°C outside and the sunlight is streaming into my little office-studio space. #Art #paintings

Jay Wright, from Párodos (@floodeditions.bsky.social)

Jean Follain (Tr: W.S. Merwin) #Poetry #Translation

11 days! asterismbooks.com/publisher/pi...

Haiku by Bashō, translated by Jane Reichhold.

Here we have a meditation on self-recovery, identity, & emotional healing delivered through a series of imperatives It examines the self we present to others & the self we neglect internally It is a poem about returning home to yourself. #poetry #poemoftheday #MentalHealthMatters

Flanders is in shop!

i am so sad and everything is beautiful. Adrift by Mark Nepo

I E M B E R S B E N E A T H T H E Q U I E T I A forest holds its breath while something burns softly within. Not destruction—memory. Not fire—feeling. Embers Beneath the Quiet — The Asylum Art — Art and words by Yves #landscape #nature #blueskyart #art #cptsd #complexptsd #sun

Jean Follain (Tr: W.S. Merwin) #Poetry #Translation

This oil painting, titled "This Land is Your Land," is by contemporary artist Eric Bowman. The painting focuses on themes of heritage, nativity, and the claiming of the land and sky as an inheritance passed down through generations.

"Keeping House" from my first chapbook Like Now (CCCP/Subpress, 2023). #weirdpoemwednesday

Some news! UNCLE TIME, my new chapbook of prose poems, is out this fall with @gasherpress.bsky.social pre-order: www.gasherpress.com/product-page...

LOVE this Elena Zhang micro today! https://www.havehashad.com/qvhjf

today from Vic Nogay! https://www.havehashad.com/g6rgg

"One Last Call From Harrowden"

Split / Game of Little Deaths by Réka Nyitrai is out in two weeks! We’re honored to have these four masterful poets blurb this strange & surreal 2-in-1 book. @noahfalck.bsky.social / @vikshirley.bsky.social / @johannesg.bsky.social / Mikko Harvey

Words from the Ancient Egyptian poet Khakheperraseneb (1500 B.C.) #booksky 💙📚

Jean Follain (tr. W.S. Merwin)

Kammer Castle on Lake Attersee Gustav Klimt