Rusty Barnes
@rustybarnes23.bsky.social
Today and this week's study:
October 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Today and this week's study:
If I can't concentrate well enough to write or edit or review, I can still make a big pile of "research."
Witness my pile'o'pound.
Ooops. I see some WCW snuck in there too.
Witness my pile'o'pound.
Ooops. I see some WCW snuck in there too.
October 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
If I can't concentrate well enough to write or edit or review, I can still make a big pile of "research."
Witness my pile'o'pound.
Ooops. I see some WCW snuck in there too.
Witness my pile'o'pound.
Ooops. I see some WCW snuck in there too.
If you want to know more, go to the Encyclopedia! :-) I may actually buy the SF one as well, even though I read much less SF these days. I like to know stuff.
October 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
If you want to know more, go to the Encyclopedia! :-) I may actually buy the SF one as well, even though I read much less SF these days. I like to know stuff.
I hope you all have a good weekend. I'm going to update Fried Chicken & Coffee--I haven't in a loooongg time--and try to take stock of my creative life. Like, what next?
October 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I hope you all have a good weekend. I'm going to update Fried Chicken & Coffee--I haven't in a loooongg time--and try to take stock of my creative life. Like, what next?
Trying to read: Robin Blaser. Anyone read?
October 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Trying to read: Robin Blaser. Anyone read?
Which Bowles should I reread tonight? Let it Come Down or the Spider's House? Maybe Sheltering Sky?
October 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Which Bowles should I reread tonight? Let it Come Down or the Spider's House? Maybe Sheltering Sky?
Got this today--completes my Pete Fromm collection. He started out writing sporting stories which bordered on litfic and then went to novels. He's one of the best we have, I think.
September 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Got this today--completes my Pete Fromm collection. He started out writing sporting stories which bordered on litfic and then went to novels. He's one of the best we have, I think.
I have a new poem coming out in Nixes Mate Review soon. Where's your poetry appearing recently?
September 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I have a new poem coming out in Nixes Mate Review soon. Where's your poetry appearing recently?
Pome, po-em or poy-em?
September 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Pome, po-em or poy-em?
Flannery O'Connor's Prayer Journal, long before she was FLANNERY.
September 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Flannery O'Connor's Prayer Journal, long before she was FLANNERY.
Where I feel best and safest.
September 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Where I feel best and safest.
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September 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Hi friends. I hope you all have a great weekend. I am going to try to get outside in sunlight, maybe go for a walk, read Flannery O'Connor, maybe some chapbooks, contemplate universal mysteries.
What are you up to?
What are you up to?
September 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Hi friends. I hope you all have a great weekend. I am going to try to get outside in sunlight, maybe go for a walk, read Flannery O'Connor, maybe some chapbooks, contemplate universal mysteries.
What are you up to?
What are you up to?
Universe, make with the woo-woos, help me out! I want to make this look productive.
August 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Universe, make with the woo-woos, help me out! I want to make this look productive.
Easing into the weekend. . . got a lot of poetry/review stuff coming up quickly.
What are you reading? Anything cool going on?
What are you reading? Anything cool going on?
July 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Easing into the weekend. . . got a lot of poetry/review stuff coming up quickly.
What are you reading? Anything cool going on?
What are you reading? Anything cool going on?
72 pages to go entering changes, then some connective tissue work and reordering, then. . . off to an editor. Uh. Also need a new title. Pic by Sierra.
July 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
72 pages to go entering changes, then some connective tissue work and reordering, then. . . off to an editor. Uh. Also need a new title. Pic by Sierra.
out of the cradle gently revising
July 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
out of the cradle gently revising