"I give birth to a shadow & my wife gives birth to a / Bible & my wife’s wife gives birth to a handful of / rusted nails" From "I Give Birth to a Shadow" by @mathiassvalina.bsky.social for National Poetry Month. ➡️ buff.ly/HGPxKfH

The Dream Delivery Service crew (pictured here) will begin delivering dreams in Philadelphia Tuesday, 4/1, delivering until the 14th. If you’d like to subscribe to dreams for you or a friend, by bike in philly or by mail in not-philly, break on through to the bio for more info.

En route the slow & oceany way to Philadelphia to deliver dreams to the people. Click through to subscribe to dream delivery for you or a friend.

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt 1. Plant words in the abandoned lot. 2. Among broken plates & rotting drywall. 3. Watch the words stretch to the light. 4. Listen to the wind & write what it says. 5. Hold your blank page out to the falling rain. 6. Write until the words unearth the poem.

Dream Delivery Service is super duper excited to be delivering dreams in Philadelphia in April: 4/1-4/14. DDS is a DIY art&poetry-project, writing & delivering daily dreams to subscribers, to your door by bike in the city it’s in, by mail in the cities it’s not in.

I am hosting a reading at Little Wish Toys this Friday. If you’re in Richmond & you like words &/or toys, please come out! @littlewishtoys.bsky.social

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt

The first batch of Fifty Dream Beasts is headed out in the mail tomorrow. Still time to subscribe to a very beasty March from the Dream Delivery Service. More info & subscribe-y stuff here: www.mathiassvalina.com/work/dream-b...

Want to receive some beasts in the mail? Or to send some beasts to a friend? Dream Delivery Service is delivery Dream Beasts through March. More info here: www.mathiassvalina.com/work/dream-b...

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt 1. Write a poem in the form of a leaf 2. Use only what a leaf needs for words, punctuation, syntax, sunlight, despair, etc 3. Nourish the shape of the leaf, after the leaf has fallen, & rot has had its way, eaten & shatted & formed anew & eaten & rotted again

I’ll be leading a six-week online writing workshop in Jan & Feb. let me know if you’re interested. I’ll cap the workshop at eight participants.

If you’d like to send a gift of dreams for a coming holiday, you can do that. The recipient will receive a one-month bundle of 31dreams, a unique set in 31 pink envelopes. Sliding scale of $30-75.

Hello Richmond, VA folks! I’ll be leading the last of four Dream History Tours in Brookland Park on Saturday. (Or the last for now…) If you’d like to join, bundle up & meet at North Central Park / 3301 Fendall. Come learn about some histories that could’ve never happened!

My new book, Thank You Terror, is now available from Big Lucks. I started this book in 2013 in Denver & finished it in 2023 in Richmond. It is as close as I have been able to get in my life to prayer. www.biglucks.com/store/thank-...

Seattle friends! I’m doing three things at Hugo House April 4th & 5th: 4/4, 7pm: a reading, followed by conversation w/ the amazing & brilliant Serena Chopra 4/5, 11am: a workshop on dream-logic & writing the self 4/5, 1:30pm: a Dream History tour of Capitol Hill, starts at HH Hope to see you!

Made these two zines & they’re heading out to folks supporting Dream Delivery Service on Patreon. Immense & deep thanks to them! Also made some extras. If you’d like one, send me your mailing address. Sliding scale: 0-10 Pypal: MathiasSvalina Vnmo: Mathias-Svalina

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt Write a poem nine words long & live in the poem until you are nine words, each word one you long.

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt

Trends of rhabdomancy

Trends of writhe

hello! I've compiled a list of 2024 books I'm anticipating from women of color & here it is, a bonanza of novels, essay collections, memoirs, & more electricliterature.com/75-books-by-...

My Let’s Read Gerard Manley Hopkins Together workshop starts in two weeks. Join with a group of passionate & smart weirdos in a non-academic setting to discuss the ecstatic & visionary poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins for six weeks. www.mathiassvalina.com/work/circuit...

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt Plant some nothing in an empty grave which you dug yourself & let your own unique nothing grow into walls so permeable they can only be poems, could only understand how a poem understands.

Mary Ruefle

Larry Levis

I’m running two reading workshops this winter. A one-day workshop to discuss & puzzle out John Donne’s “A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day,” & a two-month workshop to discuss the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt 1. Write a hole through your own heart. 2. Slip a thread through the hole. 3. The poem is the way you wear your heart. 4. The poem is the fact that you can 5. wear your own heart like a pendant 6. until the thread breaks.

Starting November 15, Dream Delivery Service will be in New Orleans, delivering dreams, nightmares, & dreams about Tony Barker, mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. I’ll be delivering dreams by bike in New Orleans, by mail elsewhere. Linkisinthebio!

A Poetry Prompt 1. Write a poem that is all at once 2. all that all things are. 3. A poem that can’t contain itself, 4. beyond being, beyond books. 5. Let the poem stand, untouched & still. 6. Until the world aligns around the poem 7. like crystals in a child’s science fair project.

Larry Levis

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt 1. Pray this fleeting light 2. into the melting ice 3. of the blank page.

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt

First day mailing out dreams from Huntsville, Texas & squinting into the morning sun. If you’d like dreams or nightmares delivered this month, you can still subscribe through the link the the ol’ bio.

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt, from Huntsville, Texas. Homebase of the Dream Delivery Service for October.

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt

It was a dark & stormy night, because of the rain & the nightness.

There is no word in the English language for the idea of an “author.”

Gabrielle Bates, in her wonderful new book Judas Goat.

Kafka

I interviewed irreducible poet Alice Notley for The Poetry Project Newsletter: "I think I’m saying that in the Real World there is no power. Power is what bodies do to each other. It’s kind of disgusting. I must be proposing a love that isn’t power." www.poetryproject.org/publications...

As a writer, I like to think I’m in cahoots with the reader.

I regret not buying this.

I’m just using this site to post my collection of hunks.