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odysseus couldn't have done all that stuff if he had a job

An after work treat...

American painter Zoey Frank's 'Blueberries', from Issue 36 #MothArchives 🫐

Gift of the estate of Alexander M. Bing

Harmonized Region https://www.artic.edu/artworks/10999/

December | Rust & Moth —the mint green birthday cake we passed in slo-mo on the lap of a man on a park bench under the shade of a Jacaranda tree in full purple bloom. It must have been winter, the window pane cold against...

New #poetry from Vismai Rao @vismairao: "December".

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Booker Prize longlist 2025: ‘alive with great characters and narrative surprises’ says chair of judges Roddy Doyle www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Very grateful to have placed second in this competition - a nice confidence boost for sure!

Portrait of a Lady

Portrait of a Lady #artbots #klimt
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28579

#WriteCBC

To know you is the sum of life’s tortures. Years spent watching and burning, sat politely by your husband.

But if I were to tell you now?

You pull back and look at me, and I have never known fear as in that moment. You smile, though, and laugh; kiss me as if we’ve been doing it all our lives.

Gift of the American Abstract Artists

Ida E. Fischer, Florida Bark, 1951 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134552

Thank you so much! :)

I stitched a little house I would quite like to live inside

We hope you're taking care of yourself and resting with your favorite read. If you need something new, we still have our APRIL ISSUE💕 buff.ly/kgc4UlM

but worlds are made of hello and goodbye:
glad sorry or both
(big little and all)

e.e. cummings

Oo we can't wait to host the 2025 Northern Publishers' Fair Sat 26th of April!!

Join readers and writers alike at this free event celebrating independent publishing. Peruse books from 15 publishers across genres incl literary fiction, genre fiction, YA and children's, poetry and memoir.
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Dark faces pale against that rosy flame,
The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came.

Tennyson & The Lotus Eaters - painted by Barbara Neustadt

Words! be
sick as I am sick, swoon,
roll back your eyes, a pool,

and I’ll stare down
at my wounded beauty
which at best is only a talent
for poetry.

Frank O'Hara - Mayakovsky

Sweating, salivating, damp all over. Beyond the clamp of my eyes It watched. Long fingers pushed through the seams of here and there.
I turned to well-worn prayer: Teeth knocking together. A hole in my skirt her pinky fit through. Gravel tipped out of our shoes. A wish for a breath safely shared.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with FSG’s Dial-A-Poem. The American Academy of Poets launched National Poetry Month in 1996. Since then, April has been synonymous in some circles with verse. Even before that, the dawn of spring has felt poetic. Eliot c…

Every weekday this entire month, you can call the FSG Poetry Hotline and hear an FSG author read a poem, right into your personal ear.

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