"My first big snow was in New York in 1967. I built a snowman with my neighbor and we made snow angels that filled up the minute we got up, and then we had a snowball fight in the middle of the street where no car was to be seen." The Snow door. First reply.

#filmsky As the studios and networks race to abase themselves to fulfill the artless whims of the incontinent incompetent, #independentfilm, live #theater and #underground arts matter more than ever. That is to say, watch the movie @andreicodrescu.bsky.social called "a sharp essay on art!"

"If there was a trace of concern for people, it was dividing them into 'friends' and 'enemies' who, in some instances, Russia for example, were one and the same." Our 007 in Davos. First Reply.

"The machine isn’t just tanks and guns, like it was in the 20th century. It is also the fastest disinformation machine in a history that is falsified the moment it happens. Words and images change sides the second they are uttered." Missing Revolutions. First reply.

Our money

Revisiting the 2016 election: The Dada Show. Check first reply.

Valley of Christmas: a fairytale for children about the perils of screens. First reply.

"I used to be a run-of-the-mill paranoid American who believed quite rightly that power gives the rich license to steal, and that government was a cabal that built roads to keep the cars of the rich out of the mud." Paranoia. First reply.

Au Revoir Raison! New poetry--first reply.

"Our mono-pictoral black & white world gave reluctant way to a serial picture world with hints of color in it. It wasn’t until I left Romania in 1965 that I realized that the world could be multi-imaged and color-explosive, and that people could actually wear unconstrained faces." On Photography.

Walker Evans and The Great Depression. First reply.

"Of meat I have no fear. I understand terrestrial animals. They are most like me. I prefer them cooked, covered in sauce and, I believe, happy to be chewed and swallowed." Inviting a poet to Thanksgiving. First reply.

"The form of the poem should fit the subject: long fast lines, languorous jerky ones, or slow dark-syllabled half-sentences wrapped around domed Latinate dips and rises. Use the breath-measures that might have been those of your conceivers. One page, due Friday." Exercises for poets. Link below.

"In 1990, I was on a panel in Wyoming. Our hosts presented every panelist with a chunk of the fallen Berlin Wall, rugged chunks of cement with an inch or so of rusted rebar sticking out. Pieces of the Berlin Wall were sought-after souvenirs." The ransacking of the White House. Link below.

Come join myself, @miriamseidel.bsky.social, and other fantastic contributors next Tuesday, October 28th, at the Bowery Poetry Club. Link to more information in the reply!

NYC peeps: Join us for a book party for TESLA'S OPERA, Tuesday 10/28 7-9 pm at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery! I'll be there with contributors @andreicodrescu.bsky.social, Terry O'Reilly, and Mick Rossi! www.eventbrite.com/e/teslas-ope...

We are streaming on Amazon and Apple TV! Julian Semilian’s film “Fish Have No Psychiatrists,” featuring yours truly

"This is where we are -- staring at the future from the stands. Some of us are applauding. Others are booing. But none of us, fans or hecklers, can see, or even imagine, what it might look like." New blog about the history of Futures. Linked below.

Soros taught us to speak again email.mg-d1.substack.com/c/eJxkkc-O2y...

This Friday, September 26th, come watch a live reading of Forms of Fire, a powerful multimedia theater experience created by me, Lynnea Villanova, and Micah Ariel James. RSVP below. tinyurl.com/5352xfrf

"Trump’s Stalinist effort will fail because Trump was always a joke. All the surveillance and snitches can’t change that, but he has to be stopped before he turns the U.S. into a joke." Where did all the jokes go? Find out on this week's Keep The Sabbath With Me. Linked below.

"If we are good boys and girls and stay close to our phones, take our Xanax and have no desire to leave the city, we can get close to annihilation without anxiety." Read about a strange dream I had, linked below.

Codrescu suggests that readers make up a pseudonym under which to do their reading, “free of the name they carry like a sack of potatoes on their backs and hear called out in derision or displeasure by parents and teachers.” It’s a totally great idea.

This week's post is devoted to my friend Jimmy Nolan, who passed this week. Link in first reply.

SHOTGUN WEDDING: Part Three of a three-part essay on A.I. you'll take me if you like it or not andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/shotgun-we...

Shotgun Wedding: Part Three of essay on A.I. andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/shotgun-we...

ICYMI: Read a batch of brand new poems by Yours Truly on my Substack. Getting through these times the only way we know how: through poetry. Link in first reply.

This week in August we rise from the obscene muck of our national shame to turn our lyric guns on the butcher of Russia. We will also lie down in the grass by the stream and think about nothing. We let poetry do our job. New poems, linked below. andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/this-augus...

Next Saturday, August 2 at 10 am I am coming your way reading poetry. At $1 per poem, being a paid subscriber at $8/month is a bargain, even if you are not Wallace Stevens. Do it! andreicodrescu.substack.com/about

"The matryoshka egg is the favorite toy of the Russian people. Melania played with one until she found just the gold pervert inside. I bought one myself just after communism fell: inside, there was Gorbachov, Andropov, Brezhnev, Stalin, Lenin..." andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/these-are-...

melania’s gift to america email.mg-d1.substack.com/c/eJxkks2OnD...

Finally, enjoy a wonderful piece by Richard Collins: Mina Loy and the Millennium. andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/mina-loy-a...

It Was Today: Revisiting Myself on NPR: read as I reprise a 2000 interview from Chris De Benedetti with comments from 2025. andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/twenty-fiv...

"When I was 20, an elder poet, who still looks young at seventy five, asked me if I’d ever been happy, and then answered without waiting for me to reply: 'I’ve been ecstatic and I’ve been miserable, but never happy.'" New Post: ARS VIVENDI VS. ART MEMORIAE andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/ars-vivend...

Saturday Substack: Snails and Laughter, an excerpt from my new pamphlet. andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/snails-and-laughter

ICYMI: the slow resurrection of Exquisite Corpse on Substack. andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/the-weekly-spawn-of-exquisite-corpse

My Saturday Substack, "The New York Question," is out now! andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/the-new-york-question

It's Saturday--so that means new posts on my Substack, Keep The Sabbath With Me. Read my latest post on Pope John Paul II, "God's Broker." substack.com/@andreicodre...

Also, a bonus segment revisiting myself on NPR, this one titled "Your Selfies Have Shades." substack.com/@andreicodre...

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