Mary Ann Samyn #smallpoemsunday

Phyllida’s hair was where her power resided. Jeffrey Eugenides, "The Marriage Plot"

Once when I was 8 years old my grandmother asked me, what will you do when you grow up? And I answered, I want to die. I want to die when I grow up. I want to die soon. And I think my sister really liked that answer. ― Fleur Jaeggy, "I Am the Brother of XX"

all mistakes are past mistakes

All mistakes are past mistakes.

collage postcards with aphorism from @dinalrelles.bsky.social

hopes of changing for the better make glue of them, then they will stick

when I spoke of bathing a dazed state commenced all round about us, with a splash a big, heavy morning was beginning to break. -a visual poem from my book, Classic Crimes

stay tender somehow old postcard-collage-collab with @dinalrelles.bsky.social

Fanny Howe

a desire for repose came with a can of hot water; and a little Marsala with a tumbler of wine, and more wine: a shut door and pet dogs and a nightshirt, and collapse that ministering angel (from Classic Crimes, my book of visual poetry pubbed by @sarabandebooks.bsky.social)

Thanks to Kelly Fordon for sharing my (current) favorite piece from Classic Crimes open.substack.com/pub/kellyfor...

who turned the window down and surveyed all the tatters and waste and cleared his throat as if about to speak

I remember 15 years ago it was great to wake up to find you'd gotten an email. Now I feel like oh my god what can this email be, nothing good...!

Liegt Böhmen noch am Meer, glaub ich den Meeren wieder. Und glaub ich noch ans Meer, so hoffe ich auf Land. -Ingeborg Bachmann

"If there could be love without violence, there would be no breakers or boat. There would be no tower to dive from. Maybe there would be a field..." Run over & read @jessicapoli.bsky.social's poems about diving horses at Blackbird. I took the image from her post on the poems elsewhere! rb.gy/wi6md7

in books we learn enough of despair

Today’s featured cover: Classic Crimes by Sarah J. Sloat. True crime transformed—collage, whimsy, and cheek where mayhem once lived. Vote via link in bio. 🩸 #booksky #books #art #design @sjane.bsky.social @sarabandebooks.bsky.social

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A website that holds a weekly book cover competition has Classic Crimes up this week, competing with other nice covers. Would you go over and vote for your favorite, even if it isn't mine? It's @willpassbooks.bsky.social's Book Jacket Bracket. bookjacketbracket.com?fbclid=PAZXh...

THE SHINING (1980) in Lego

"I crossed / deep on a level elsewhere and / sleigh-bells / bent down" Three poems by 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵 𝗝. 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝗮𝘁 @sjane.bsky.social in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

“CLASSIC CRIMES is a work of genius.” —Mark Wunderlich Out now, Sarah J. Sloat’s (@sjane.bsky.social) newest collection of visual poetry repurposes William Roughhead’s mid-century true-crime volume with her signature whimsy, wry humor, and cheeky, liberating poetics. Link in bio to get your copy!

"Wonderful, imaginative, lively, angry in a good way" -- Nancy Hopkins (MIT) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777553...

If you ignore me, I will become more ignored than you can possibly imagine

It's pub day for my 2nd book of visual poetry, Classic Crimes. Thanks to the super humans at @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. They took great care -- from the paper that makes the images/text crisp & vibrant to the title page to collage outtakes scattered throughout. Support independent publishers!

‘SESAME STREET’ is coming to Netflix with new episodes and past seasons premiering later this year.

"If there could be love without violence, there would be no breakers or boat. There would be no tower to dive from. Maybe there would be a field..." Run over & read @jessicapoli.bsky.social's poems about diving horses at Blackbird. I took the image from her post on the poems elsewhere! rb.gy/wi6md7

Good morning from Placa Prim. Two girls are filling balloons from the fountain and watering the trees.

next street over got a new cheese monger he was passing out little slivers of cheese getting all of the neighbourhood hooked I am broke now and very happy

The judges have chains in their sleeves * WS Merwin

Our 4th reading period is coming to a close soon! Submit now to be considered for Issue 4 (and maybe 5 or 6 or 7!)!!

Pennsylvania Ave. SE is the opening poem to Taylor Johnson's "Inheritance." There's a short discussion of the poem over at Poetry Unbound. onbeing.org/programs/tay...

Happy #PubDay to A TERRIFYING BRUSH WITH OPTIMISM, new & selected works by Lambda & Asian-American Literary Award winner Brian Leung! “Fascinating… beautiful” —Entertainment Weekly “Engaging and beguiling” —Kirkus Reviews “Stylish and unique” —Out Magazine Get your copy at the link in our bio!

I love the look of old paper, the so-called yellowing, as if it were a living thing aging. When I'm plundering the free public bookshelves I open the older ones first to see what shades are taking over. I love using old paper in my visual poems. This one is from "Classic Crimes," out May 20.

For #smallpoemsunday, "A Moment to Consider" from my book Classic Crimes, which comes out end of next week from @sarabandebooks.bsky.social ! And to note for Mother's Day, the book is dedicated to my mom, who passed away in Jan. Amid final proofs, Sarabande generously let me change the page.

freaking people out in church by doing the sign of the cross with both hands simultaneously

I dreamed // of a high place, RIP Martha Silano 💜

when the pope emerged on the balcony I asked myself do priests pay taxes just wondering if the pope as an American citizen has to file taxes while working abroad or not because I could get real religious real quick advise me o great spirit

'a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels'

Someone is looking for writing about games & I'm not sure it is "about" games but what immediately springs to mind is Jenni B. Baker's Pacman erasures. Very sadly, Jenni passed away a few years ago. cartridgelit.com/2016/01/27/f...

The sword looks foolish beside the dagger.

"Get up, sweet-Slug-a-bed, and see" (read this today to ring in May, having been abed till 11 am with ye olde jetlag) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47284/...

"The Common Era" by Abigail Dembo, from the latest @parisreview.bsky.social

a visual poem of mine for #smallpoemsunday. This one, which uses Walden as a source text, is in the new @amsterdamreview.bsky.social.

Do used book stores count as independent bookstores? If yes thumbs up to The Title Page in Bryn Mawr, PA, where I scored a signed copy of Sharon Olds's first book for a song. ❤️

Along with petrichor 27 now up, submissions are open for a number of things (Pebbles subs are closed till October). petrichormag.com/submit/