The beautiful people are dead set on keeping their myth alive.

the bigger they are, the harder they fall

Hi all, I revamped my author website. It had gotten away from me! Too much sprawl, so I took it back to the basics. Also added some new poems.... sharing the publications page with you here~ www.markharrispoet.com/publications

Proud of the new issue of Notre Dame Review, my first as poetry editor. A lot of great writing in this issue. One thing I'm particularly proud of is the first translation of some of the outtakes (published posthumously) of Inger Christensen's masterpiece, Alphabet, incl the legendary "O series".

please don't tell me how the poem ends

Claire Malroux (RIP), tr. Marilyn Hacker 💜

Forthcoming from Ornithopter Press in 2025, poetry collections by Emma Winsor Wood and Eve Luckring!

incredibly grateful to @chaudhari.bsky.social for this overwhelmingly generous reading of “Gardenback” from Light-Ip Swan up @periodicities.bsky.social — this poem was probably the most edited one in the book, and I’m in awe of what Cole finds in it: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/02/cole...

in California news, the elusive Lyell shrew has been captured on video (first time ever!) and I keep thinking ~go back into hiding, this is not the moment to let your guard down~

I haven't been doing the social media thing for quite a while, because, because, because. Despite the certainty there's no safe place under heaven, I guess I will hang out here for awhile, get a feel for what's up.

"I have seldom seen such disorder and brokenness—such a mass of unrelated parts of things lying about. That’s it! I concluded to myself. An unrecognizable order! Actually—the new! And so good-natured and calm. So definitely the thing! And so compact. Excellent." —William Carlos Williams

Please read this review of Michael D. Snediker's JONES VERY written by the inimitable H. L. Hix: internationaltimes.it/urgency/

Introducing JONES VERY by Michael D. Snediker ✨ From what do we assemble ourselves, of what fervors is that scene of us comprised? Jones Very—named after Ralph Waldo Emerson’s haunted acolyte—is an ecology of oxymel and abacus.... ✨ www.ornithopterpress.com/store/p24/JO...

Introducing AN INCH THICK by Theo Ellin Ballew ✨ AN INCH THICK is a future-mythic life story in lullaby, peopled by punkish attempts to bind and measure and hold still (attempts egged on by the memory of their impossibility). ✨ www.ornithopterpress.com/store/p23/AN...

borrowing these lines by Eve Luckring (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social) for an author bio

I keep meaning to say. I got a copy of @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 's Reclaimed Water, and I am enjoying it! It's on my new bookshelf in my bedroom and I'm not in bed to take pictures. But the longer "Rare Birds of Massachusetts" is really good!

Hi all, please check out this review in Diagram 23.2 of Gabrielle Joy Lessans's poetry collection [a go] by Sarah Alcaide-Escue! thediagram.com/23_2/rev_les...

Empire will protect you up until the moment you cross the line-- where is that confounded line anyway?

forthcoming from Ornithopter Press in 2024, poetry collections by Michael D. Snediker and Theo Ellin Ballew!

"Americanness is nobodiness. Deep down, I feel like nobody; and this void in me is the earnest of my belonging. A hole in my heart pledges allegience to America." —Peter Schjeldahl

"To tell the truth, let us be honest at least, it is some considerable time now since I last knew what I was talking about." - Samuel Beckett

happy #smallpoemsunday! inspired by @tomsnarsky.bsky.social to share a small poem I’ve written along with one I love by someone else, here is a poem by 10th grade me & a small poem by Frank Samperi

photo by Robert Frank

I joined the Wild and killed him with knowledgeable unknowing. I saw where he was going. I saw him Crossed. And seeing, I did not take him down. from "The Boy Died In My Alley" dedicated "to Running Boy" - by Gwendolyn Brooks

Kansai Yamamoto fitting David Bowie's Space Samurai suit.

"O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall / Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed...." - Gerard Manley Hopkins

“In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.” ― V.S. Ramachandran

final entries in a list scrawled by painter Richard Diebenkorn: 9. Tolerate chaos. 10. Be careful only in a perverse way.

“All of our lived experiences, our psychologies, our understandings of our physical and mental capabilities is filtered through our situatedness.” - Simone de Beauvoir

Hey, check out this terrific interview with Erin Malone in the Chinook Observer in which she talks about her new poetry collection Site of Disappearance! www.chinookobserver.com/opinion/colu...

Can someone please direct me to the stately pleasure-dome? Have you seen it hereabouts?