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Experimental Poet • Sound Artist Philosophy Φ • She/They Trans & Nonbinary • Pan Artist Site: Roseknapp.weebly.com

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · Feb 3

My new poetry collection, Neo—Dadaist Psyche, is out now!

These poems are raw, dark, paranoid, radical, nonsensical, illogical, mythological, syncretic, eclectic, and first and foremost, Dadaist poems.

Lulu:
www.lulu.com/shop/rose-kn...

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 3h

Hello!

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 1d

“Everything ends up being an ode to death.”

—Martha Silano in TERMINAL SURREAL (@acrebooks.bsky.social)

DEATH POEM

Death is the one-day-alive mayfly clinging to a watering can.
When the grass turns brown, how can I not think of death?
In my heart, death lives like a mama raccoon with her two young.
We haven't figured out a way to undo death.
Death awaits the pigeon on a roof, says the Cooper's hawk.
It's not cool to mention corpse beetles when there's a death.
Did you know there's a death's-head hawkmoth?
A scrub jay squawks death, death, death!
Dragonflies and death: they live about six months.
Eating is for sure some kind of elaborate death feast.
Sometimes death is invisible, especially when we laugh.
Our planet: one big tribute concert to death.
Death be not proud, says John Donne, but death is proud, I think.
Everything ends up being an ode to death.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 1d

The music that is inside me.
The music that is in silence, in possibility
May it come and amaze me.

— Paul Valery, Notebook VI

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Nathan Anderson/Submersible Press @njapoetry.bsky.social · 1d

Vows of Silence

print: www.lulu.com/shop/nathan-...

pdf: nathanandersonwriting.home.blog/wp-content/u...

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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 5d

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Jul 10

American Futurist painter Joseph Stella, a leading figure in the origins of American Modernism.

Brooklyn Bridge (1919–20)

Brooklyn Bridge is Joseph Stella’s best-known and most moving testimonial to the power and majesty of America’s modern industrial landscape.

#JosephStella #Futurism

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 1d

American artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz, who was closely associated with the art movement that developed in NYC's Lower East Side during the 1980s.

Wind (for Peter Hujar), 1987

#DavidWojnarowicz #PeterHujar #ContemporaryArt

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch photographer Nona Limmen
#Photography

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 1d

Contemporary experimental German photographer Floris Neusüss.

Traumbilder (c), München, 1958
#Photography

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 1d

The Oval, Naoshima Island, Japan, designed by architect Tadao Ando.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 9d

When someone dies, we go searching for poetry.

But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings.

—Jenny Zhang

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 6d

Diana's Trees by Elizabeth Willis.

DIANA'S TREES

Silvery measures are being cut down, tricked by sun to slaughter.

My elm won't even let me break a sweat, something to believe by or just forget the dream, a fiery underlife, my score. My part becomes a piece of glass, a hand outside, against the one inside it. Make that ship you're thinking of a ship already, so I'll find it, in the water, in the sun.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 5d

K. Curtis Lyle

There is the SPIRIT
There is the SPIRIT
There is the SPIRIT
There is the SPIRIT

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Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social · 5d

I have dark moments, I suppose. #erasurepoetry, #blackoutpoetry, #emilydickinson

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Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social · 7d

#wutheringheights, #emilybronte, #erasurepoem, #erasurepoetry, #blackoutpoetry, #penandinkartist, #inkdrawing, #quillpen, #ink

Thanks, @beavermagazine for publishing this

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 2d

A poem for today.

From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379

#poetry #booksky #writing

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1d

For your Saturday
The World Has Need Of You
~ Ellen Bass
…everything here seems to need us...
—Rilke

The World Has Need Of You
...everything here seems to need us...
—Rilke
I can hardly imagine it
as I walk to the lighthouse, feeling the ancient prayer of my arms swinging in counterpoint to my feet.
Here I am, suspended between the sidewalk and twilight, the sky dimming so fast it seems alive.
What if you felt the invisible tug between you and everything?
A boy on a bicycle rides by, his white shirt open, flaring behind him like wings.
It's a hard time to be human. We know too much and too little. Does the breeze need us?
The cliffs? The gulls?
If you've managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn't care.
But when Newton's apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell toward the apple as well.
- Ellen Bass

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 5d

keep your wonder alive, keep your aliveness alive

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 1d

Hannah Arendt —

This was the farewell:
Many friends came with us
and whoever did not come was no longer a friend.

This was the evening:
Haltingly, it slowed our pace, and drew our souls out the window.

This was the train:
Measuring the country in flight
and slowing as it passed through many cities.

This is the arrival:
Bread is no longer called bread
and wine in a foreign language changes the conversation.

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Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 5d

"her memory is a cloud she can't hold..."

Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey.

(And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 2d

Victoria Chang

Late Wonders

My face is now gone.
Instead, I have a hawk's face.
None of the poets
notice, they only want fame.
Fame is a bucket of eyes.

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Mar 28

The great French photographer Jeanloup Sieff

Mode pour nova Paris, 1966
#Photography

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Jun 25

Leonora Carrington ~ The Burning of Giordano Bruno, 1964
#LeonoraCarrington #Surrealism

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Apr 25

Leonora Carrington ~ Sueño
(Nephesh as the Soul in a State of Sleep, 1956)

Nephesh, the word used to describe the "life force",
presented as the journey of the soul through various realms, protected by mystical and spiritual guardians.

#LeonoraCarrington #Surrealism

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 2d

Elizabeth Street, 11:30pm
#Photography #NewYorkCity

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