Winter is textures and shapes…I love the black silhouette down the bottom..as if it’s in a movie theatre and trees are in the audience..

My Friday the 13th is when I wonder if my threenager or my teenage students got me sick

oh look they made a toy about writers’ social media versus writers’ work

Ever read a poem and it's soul shaking because it's so so good and also somehow exactly what you've been trying to say...so much so that it's a little disheartening...

It's all "I don't think this class should be required for engineers" until we break out the cover letters. #writersteachingwriting

NEW REVIEW......"We’re Out Here: The Poet and How to Survive" ----a Review and Love Letter about (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) Chen Chen's 2022 "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency" tinyurl.com/yaf2v7kk . . . #poetry #booksky #substack #writingcommunity #poemsky #writing #reviews

NEW REVIEW......"We’re Out Here: The Poet and How to Survive" ----a Review and Love Letter about (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) Chen Chen's 2022 "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency" tinyurl.com/yaf2v7kk . . . #poetry #booksky #substack #writingcommunity #poemsky #writing #reviews

Culture. #leica #leicam6 #film #photography #35mm #filmphotography #photo #colorphoto #35mmphotography #seltzer

Posting my Chen Chen review/love letter tomorrow. So I want to specifically wish @chenchenwrites.bsky.social a beautiful start to the semester as we settle into Feb and ...the dreaded March.

Super Bowl Sunday Feeld Notes 8.2.26 I’m going to make chili and cheer for a tie. Wouldn’t we all just rather watch Kid Rock and Bad Bunny in a celebrity boxing match? My Super Bowl column/self-indictment: open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...

Phoenix is vibey this way. #pentax #film #photography #filmphotography #mediumformat #mediumformatfilm #mediumformatphotography ##colorfilm #colorphoto

Sunday Feeld Notes 01.02.2026 So many feelings this week: Loving @thedollop.bsky.social, Sophie Turner and Steal, not SNL, not the weather, and not the Super Bowl. Plus, last week's and this week's essays. open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...

Wall outside Hi Bridge Books. #mamiya #film #photography #filmphotography #mediumformat #mediumformatfilm #streetphotography #mediumformatphotography #shibuya #tokyo #japan

f e e l i n g s

Nothing gets my engineering students focused like the cover letter & resume unit. Game on. #writersteachingwriting #teachers #writinghelp

"Haunted by Futures Promised: Stranger Things, PLUR1BUS, and the ghost of expectation" New essay on #StrangerThings, hauntology, and the quiet disappearance of expectation. mikespry.substack.com/p/haunted-by... #GenX #Hauntology #PLUR1BUS

12 hour exposure. #mamiya7 #film #photography #filmphotography #mediumformat #mediumformatfilm #colorphoto #nikko #japan #colorfilm #iso100

Shoutout my friend the Poet Emily Siegenthaler for helping keep twenty twenty-somethings alive for a month in Tokyo. #mamiya #film #photography #mediumformat #mediumformatfilm #mediumformatfilmphotography #colorphoto #tokyo #japan

#writingthoughts I tell my students that it's not just them... writing is hard

Small group ice breakers with students today because I am evillllllllll

NEW AUDIO --- My review of 'Designated Stranger' a poetry collection by Gion Davis @gion.bsky.social published by @thirdhandbooks.bsky.social now has an audio version narrated by yours truly. Give it a listen---> tinyurl.com/2v43jd3d #poemsky #writingcommunity #audiobooks #poetry #booksky

NEW AUDIO --- My review of 'Designated Stranger' a poetry collection by Gion Davis @gion.bsky.social published by @thirdhandbooks.bsky.social now has an audio version narrated by yours truly. Give it a listen---> tinyurl.com/2v43jd3d #poemsky #writingcommunity #audiobooks #poetry #booksky

Happy #pubday to @gion.bsky.social! His debut collection 'Designated Stranger' for @thirdhandbooks.bsky.social Read the first piece in my new series of reviews of poetry collections from independent presses. ----> tinyurl.com/bdhx6aux #poemsky #WritingCommunity #booksky #5amwritersclub #substack

Happy #pubday to @gion.bsky.social! His debut collection 'Designated Stranger' for @thirdhandbooks.bsky.social Read the first piece in my new series of reviews of poetry collections from independent presses. ----> tinyurl.com/bdhx6aux #poemsky #WritingCommunity #booksky #5amwritersclub #substack

power #35mmfilm #35mm #35mmphotography #leica #leicam6 #film #photography #filmphotography

Sunday Feeld Notes: prediction markets, Netflix doom,+ why everything feels like satire. 🧠 Prediction markets=existential threat 🎬 Netflix & #TheRip 🐴 Ponies is low-key kinda great 🎥 Deep Local & Poems by Sean Bates = cultural sherpas mikespry.substack.com/p/sunday-fee... #NECo #MediaCriticism

Never far from my mind, this poem.

Dabls Mbad African bead Museum Detroit, MI #mamiya7 #film #photography #filmphotography #mediumformatfilm #mediumformatphotography #colorphoto

Next up: a phased system of tax credits available to victims of ICE harassment with incomes under $75K who were brutalized in calendar year 2025 & have been enrolled in community college for a year or more but less than four years, notwithstanding other deductions.

NEW AUDIO —- My new reading series announcement can now be listened to. The Substack voiceover feature lets you hear this piece read by the author....me!

More from Sleepwalker. #short #writing #digitalshort substack.com/home/post/p-...

Can’t ye see the world where you stand?

beestung is now open for new work by two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers! beestungmag.com/about/

NEW AUDIO —- My new reading series announcement can now be listened to. The Substack voiceover feature lets you hear this piece read by the author....me!

Deep Local | Ep.4: Sleepwalker #digitalshort #digitalphotography #canon5d youtu.be/T5m6_hN2jp0

ANNOUNCING--- Indie Press Poetry: A Series of Reviews This winter I’ll be reviewing a new collection each week from #poets published on independent presses. Each book is a reccommendation from a friend or mentor. Follow along here: tinyurl.com/3w5zwywv #writingcommunity #poemsky #booksky #poems

ANNOUNCING--- Indie Press Poetry: A Series of Reviews This winter I’ll be reviewing a new collection each week from #poets published on independent presses. Each book is a reccommendation from a friend or mentor. Follow along here: tinyurl.com/3w5zwywv #writingcommunity #poemsky #booksky #poems

My queen.

Hi hi hi hi hi, This month I’ll be starting a new series of reviews of poetry collections over on my substack…big announcement tomorrow but for now here is a teaser of the first collection. substack.com/@seanjbates #poemsky #booksky #reviews #poetrycommunity #writers #5amwritersclub #poetry

Hi hi hi hi hi, This month I’ll be starting a new series of reviews of poetry collections over on my substack…big announcement tomorrow but for now here is a teaser of the first collection. substack.com/@seanjbates #poemsky #booksky #reviews #poetrycommunity #writers #5amwritersclub #poetry

Sunday Feeld Notes 11.01.2026 On #DCBDay, OBAA, Twitter/X, His & Hers, and more from Vermont on a Sunday morning. NECo. Season Three is coming Wednesday! open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...

Poet Zan De Perry, whose book Cold Dogs, is out now at The Song Cave. #mamiya #mamiya7 #film #photography #filmphotography #mediumformat #mediumformatphotography #mediumformatfilmphotography #colorphoto

Zora Neale Hurston in Chicago, Illinois (1934), photographed by Carl Van Vechten

Renée Nicole (Macklin) Good "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." lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Renée Nicole (Macklin) Good "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." lithub.com/renee-nicole...

I’m a first reader this month for Five Minutes. If you have a pivotal Five Minutes moment in your life you’d like to share, then I’d like to read it! Thank you for the shout out @fiveminutelit.bsky.social!

X is only allowing “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website. www.wired.com/story/x-didn...

It's officially up to something season over here... 👀

The New York Times states it plainly in display type: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis