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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 42m

Croatian Baroque Ensemble, Bach, "Air on the G String"
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Air on A G String

YouTube video by Baroque Ensemble of Vienna - Topic

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 51m

La Dolce Vita / Federico Fellini, dir., 1960
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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 56m

The sky’s white with November’s teeth,
and the air is ash and woodsmoke.
A flush of color from the dying tree,
a cargo train speeding through, and there,
that’s me, standing in the wintering
grass watching the dog suffer the cold
leaves. I’m not large from this distance,
just a fence post
Ada Limón

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 1d

As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44389/... Via Poetry Foundation

#Hopkins #FavouritePoets

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 19h

Goodnight.
Hamlet and the Ghost, Frederick James Shields, 1901. #31DaysofHalloween #Gothtober

As described, beneath night sky, cloud, haloed moon, painting.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 22h

Would’ve been Mum’s birthday today. “Alcione” is a variant of her name—from the myth—passed down to women in my fam.
When a girl-child is born:
“Here’s yer Marais opera, some research vessels, yer bird, three myths, a video game, and a coupla nice weeks in midwinter in yer honor…”
#ClassicalMusic

Alcione, Acte V Scène 6: Chaconne by Marin Marais, Jordi Savall, Le Concert Des Nations

Listen to Alcione, Acte V Scène 6: Chaconne song by Marin Marais, Jordi Savall, Le Concert Des Nations on you preferred music platform. Links generated and arranged by Lynkify.

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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 7d

"A Circus of Songs" by Shome Dasgupta--a quietly moving non-fiction giving us a poetic peek into the author's internal world. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 1d

My October newsletter is live and I'd love for you to read it! 💙The Fleeting, Electric Moment: Ginsberg's American Sentence open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

The Fleeting Moment: Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence

the ultra micro

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 21h

"One way to go about practicing extreme brevity, is to take inspiration from the poets."

I love the inspiration by @kathyfish.bsky.social in this awesome October newsletter! 💙💙💙

Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 1d

My October newsletter is live and I'd love for you to read it! 💙The Fleeting, Electric Moment: Ginsberg's American Sentence open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

The Fleeting Moment: Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence

the ultra micro

open.substack.com

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 6h

Larry Moore at Broadstone Books was a dream (tho much of Teal's wording went unchallenged)...

& nothing but love for the professional staff at Wayne State Univ Press. Jupiter goes underappreciated, imo.

& UPK has been phenomenal (tho they forbade my attempts at copyright infringement!)

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 6h

Michael Scharf at Harry Tankoos Books was an amazing publisher for my 1st collection, Deifying... HTB was extremely choosey about the projects they publish & im forever & deeply grateful for Michael's friendship & insights; i hope other poets get that same opportunity to work with him.

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Rhona Greene @rhonagreene.bsky.social · 2d

🤩This is going to be a real treat!

‘In the Blueprint
Of
Her Iris’

A gorgeous collaboration featuring
Poems by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
and
Art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social

Published @icefloepress.bsky.social
What a dream combination. So exciting!
Congratulations Vikki & Robert 💐💖💫

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Ice Floe Press (Closed No Subs for a Bit) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 22h

Our latest release! A #hybrid collection of #poetry & #vispo by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social & @rfredekenter.bsky.social is now out in the world. We'd love to share this oceanic visionary collection w/readers Enter dream worlds explore textured realizations on memory, histories, speculative futures.

Rhona Greene @rhonagreene.bsky.social · 2d

🤩This is going to be a real treat!

‘In the Blueprint
Of
Her Iris’

A gorgeous collaboration featuring
Poems by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
and
Art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social

Published @icefloepress.bsky.social
What a dream combination. So exciting!
Congratulations Vikki & Robert 💐💖💫

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 2d

The Peace of Wild Things
—Wendell Berry

#Poetry #SmallPoemSunday

May all find a moment of peace in nature today. At minimum go stand below a tree and look up toward the sky for a full minute. #Peace

The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 11h

Queer Verbage: A Volume of Poetry by Patricia Harris

#poetry #queerpoetry

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 11h

The Sky Was Once A Dark Blanket by @kinsaledrake.bsky.social @ugapress.bsky.social

#poetry

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 2d

When you find yourself beneath the hearts carved by others into bark and you wonder if they look back at this tree fondly. Or with rue. Or as music.

Shadow against a lower tree trunk of woman with hair back in ponytail and wearing a backpack

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 23h

Monday with Jane Hirshfield

Obstacle

This body, still walking.
The wind must go around it.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 12h

John Wieners

The higher one goes
up the angelic ladder
remains the minute bits
and ends of our life:

Seeds there to recur when we
are most unaware.
Old faces, letters crop up again.
Words from our poems

Menace the night.

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 1d

“Downstairs, another husband makes a smoothie, and I ask if he wants to hear my dream.” - @emilyrinkema.bsky.social

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Or Was It a Baby? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Diane Picchiottino on Unsplash by Emily Rinkema It’s 5:00 a.m. and I ask my husband if he wants to hear my dream, but he pulls the quilt over his shoulders. I ask my other husband, but he jus...

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Kim Magowan @kimmagowan.bsky.social · 21h

I have a new story in wonderful New World Writing! Many thanks to Kim Chinquee for taking this one:

newworldwriting.net/kim-magowan-...

Kim Magowan ~ A Series of Lukes - New World Writing Quarterly

What first gave us the idea is that Gwen was a lead in the school play, and her character would only love men named Ernest. So we decided that for the next

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 17h

Evangeline Lim discusses intentionality with SLM Contributor Nini Berndt. You can listen to them right here. ⬇️

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 21h

"Some context. As a sound guy being quiet is huge. You don’t want a reputation as the sound guy that talks."

Don't miss contributor @nickmandernach.bsky.social's story in @newenglandreview.bsky.social! buff.ly/Kd048Cx

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Eunoia Review @eunoiareview.bsky.social · 4h

Harmless Enough

I Trees shadow the snow-thick road. They are jagged arms— bruise-blue— that stretch to the other side while the sun starts her descent. Her ferocious glare is warm and angry. I unzip my coat. I take off my mittens. I walk defiantly toward her on my trek home. Feet squeak the…

Harmless Enough

I Trees shadow the snow-thick road. They are jagged arms— bruise-blue— that stretch to the other side while the sun starts her descent. Her ferocious glare is warm and angry. I unzip my coat. I take off my mittens. I walk defiantly toward her on my trek home. Feet squeak the styrofoam snow telling me it is cold and that sun is deceiving me,

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 23h

It's true she had read
Sophocles in a fairly good translation
And caught that bitter allusion to the sea,
But all the time he was talking she had in mind
The notion of what his whiskers would feel like
On the back of her neck.

Anthony Hecht

poets.org/poem/dover-b...

The Dover Bitch

So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl

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