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Independent 20th Century 2025 with Bruce Richards — Sea View September 4-7, 2025

I had the supreme privilege of interviewing the artist Bruce Richards for the Sea View exhibition at Independent 20th Century www.sea-view.us/independent-...

Newly available via American Archive of Public Broadcasting: A digitized collection of "Poetry Discovered," a WRVR-FM radio show in NYC including 43 episodes featuring readings by 85 poets in 1966: John Ashbery, Daisy Aldan, Helen Adam, Lorenzo Thomas, & more.

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Such a great painting!

Here's an open link to a PDF of the original "Memorial Day" booklet, by Ted Berrigan & Anne Waldman with covers by Donna Dennis, published at The Poetry Project in 1971.

"The sky is dark / The dark is closed"

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Quick Millions Author: Paul Maziar Publisher: Cuneiform Press (2023) “I hear an unerring genius for phrasing in this voice, a poet brimming with charm and ‘self-selecting’ vividness. I am reminded of the work of Eil...

If you’re in Milwaukee or just wanna support a local bookshop, hit the Woodland Pattern Book Center who’s got my book QUICK MILLIONS in stock! 🖤 woodlandpatternbookcenter.com/products/qui...

“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason”
— ED RUSCHA

Oh rad! ❤️‍🔥

Luigi Ten Co Vol.3 n.1 Third season of the PRINT ONLY Luigi Ten Co little poetry mag returns, this issue featuring; Patrick Morrissey Chloe Bliss Snyder Bradley King...

part of my new prose-poem sequence, HIVES, is published in the new Luigi Ten Co, alongside some incredible poets. pick one up! wryawry.bigcartel.com/product/luig...

Painted blue field with various all-caps words synonymous with someone who is stupid

Mel Bochner, Stupid, 2003 whitney.org/collection/w...

Plum Cloutman

Dear friends if this reads a little heavy it is because I feel a little heavy now. I wish you all health wealth and happiness and with these my last words I fall back onto my pillow.

Larry Fagin

Josef Albers

Whitman

Somewhat cartoonlike painted rendering of a male figure at center, rousing a crowd with a noisemaker, megaphone, drums, etc.

George Grosz, The Agitator, 1928 www.stedelijk.nl/en/collectio...

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David Johansen’s dead but lives on inside my head.

Why fool around with work and stuff How about some short but sweet kisses

happy Friday from Bernadette Mayer

It is a time for poems. For unsettling every word.

perhaps pride breaks and we look again

(Denise Levertov)

Sounds exciting! Looking forward. And HI SUE!

Our dog with soulful hound dog eyes looks mildly unimpressed as she is photographed beside my recently unboxed new books of poems, WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE.

Now available for pre-order—my new book of poems, WHAT TO CARRY INTO A FUTURE. bookshop.org/a/110446/979...

Assholes

The Bureau of Prisons — agent of deliberate cruelty — cruelty, when it is deliberate, is the definition of evil

I think it’s a mistake to think of the pro-natalist polygamy of Elon Musk as a departure from the “traditional” sexual conservatism. The tradition, really, is not primarily about male monogamy so much as male domination; the collection of multiple women affirms this, rather than subverting it.

This is excellent

This is the same kind of experience I had with it. Makes me want to reread it soon

The line can sustain itself in the wind-
swept landscape of hills & valleys
where are we on this map?
I followed the route along the wood
Place holders in
Could one be put together
from memory, the Gulf air

TOO MUCH SLEEP IS BAD I don’t have a chronic cough. Cats don’t drool over me. You can’t listen to the change that’s being monitored. You can only participate in your life— mutatis mutandis— and they finally get it wrong.

John Ashbery

Fuck theeese botssss

I think in today’s social media landscape it’s first trying to not seem like a bot