Elizabeth Pickard

Jen Bervin Poet and visual artist Jen Bervin’s interdisciplinary range of projects and long-term research tends to relationships between text and textiles, the presence…

More Jen Bervin because their work: 👩‍🍳 (chef’s kiss)

More about poet and visual artist, Jen Bervin’s, work. If you don't know their art yet, you’re welcome!

From my idol, Jen Bervin’s, Shift Rotate Reflect
Selected Works (1997-2020)exhibition

A multidimensional delve into Jen Bervin’s latest. What a freaking treat.

Thinking a lot about Mary Ruefle's work today. Madness, Rack, and Honey was/is formative and her erasures...

“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here together today to look into the face of the river. One of us has stayed at home to rake the leaves, gathering those poor tears shed for the rest of us. If there is one among you who sees in the face of the river your own, please step forward” Mary Ruefle #poetry

“Dearly beloved, we are gathered
here together today to look into
the face of the river.
One of us has stayed at home
to rake the leaves,
gathering those poor tears
shed for the rest of us.
If there is one among you
who sees in the face of the river
your own, please step forward”
Mary Ruefle
#poetry

What is it, the heart,
is it the sound of the pine trees
blowing in the painting?

—Ikkyū, tr. Mary Ruefle

Roxane Gay: The Portable Feminist Reader | Hammer Museum In her new innovative anthology, acclaimed author Roxane Gay explores what feminism looks like in practice in an interpretation of the feminist canon that is expansive rather than definitive. Moderate...

If you're in L.A. tonight, I am doing an event at the Hammer Museum with Amber J. Phillips, where we will be talking about the Portable Feminist Reader! It's free: hammer.ucla.edu/programs-eve...

How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love “Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits,” Emily Dickinson sighed in one of her love letters to Susan an epoch before Kurt Vonnegut, in a sh…

How to have enough – poet, farmer, and philosopher Wendell Berry on creativity, love, and the art of the sabbath www.themarginalian.org/2024/12/14/w...

Peter Gallo: Divine sense and madness • Oregon ArtsWatch The artist's West Coast debut, "Peter Gallo: Gods, Sluts & Martyrs" on view at Adams and Ollman, incorporates found materials, thickly painted impasto, and juxtaposed text to explore creativity and art's...

The artist's West Coast debut, "Peter Gallo: Gods, Sluts & Martyrs" on view at Adams and Ollman, incorporates found materials, thickly painted impasto, and juxtaposed text to explore creativity and

Four minimalist Japanese artworks depicting bats in flight, two of them on full moon nights.

Bats in Japanese art

Clockwise from top left:
- Ohara Koson (1877-1945)
- Yamada Hōgyoku (1804-1844)
- Nomura Yoshikuni (1855-1903)
- Yashô (1782-1825)

Art should prepare us for tenderness.

—Chekhov

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love these large scale ceramic & sculptural assemblage pieces by artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins 👀

🔥🔥 TONIGHT 🔥🔥

Tickle Me Ivory Keyboards for the Children of Gaza, Rieko Okuda & Mia Dyberg, Jane in Ether, Felix Henkelhausen Quintet

This week's edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter is piano-heavy, with thoughts on a new benefit compilation for children in Gaza, Rieko Okuda & Mia Dyberg, Jane in Ether, and Felix Henkelhausen Quintet. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

Filament Reading Series on Instagram: "Come out to the last Filament reading of the school year, particularly honoring our current and past graduates. The event will be taking place in a backyard, so ... 17 likes, 0 comments - psufilament on May 21, 2025: "Come out to the last Filament reading of the school year, particularly honoring our current and past graduates. The event will be taking place in a...

Come hear me and these smart lovelies read on Friday! ❤️‍🔥📖❤️‍🔥

My alma mater featuring work of my friend and inspiring poet, Consuelo Wise = good all around.

A graphic that says “Poetry Month 2025: Omnidawn Publishing” and features covers of six books by Martha Ronk, Sam Creely, Brody Parrish Craig, Consuelo Wise, Maw Shein Win, and Kimberly Reyes.

Continuing our #NationalPoetryMonth celebrations, today we spotlight Omnidawn, a nonprofit publisher based in California that publishes boundary-pushing work that pushes the limits of convention.

buff.ly/rQiCZD4

Vera Klement, Painter Who Saw Both Beauty and Evil, Dies at 93 (Published 2024)

I am sad and late to learn that my most influential teacher, Vera Klement, has died. From Vera, I learned that a painting, or really any piece of art, is never truly "finished."

“People should be doing everything they can to be as kind as possible and to enjoy each other’s company. Any art, any anything, that helps us do that is worth having. But if it doesn’t, it isn’t.”

This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Nonfiction interview with Adam Phillips. buff.ly/aoLP8Od

“Anyone who writes is a seeker. You look at a blank page and you’re seeking. The role is assigned to us and never removed. I think this is an unbelievable blessing. I mean, to be seventy-eight years old and still looking—this amazes me.” —Louise Glück buff.ly/lgqE3GU

Jen Bervin erasure of Shakespeare sonnet

This one from Jen Bervin's "Nets" is among my favourites.

A white background with two thin black outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, black text reads: "My flesh is burned on my hands and my face. It happened when I tried to set the house on fire. I could've succeeded if you hadn't intervened. — Lucie Bonvalet, 'The Gloves' (Issue 10, 2018)"

A black background with two thin white outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, white text reads: "Mary Toft of Rabbits. Each kit is unearthed from my womb, tranquil darlings. These are my children, and all the men come running. — L.W. Nicholson, 'All Gristle and Pulse' (Issue 10, 2018)"

A white background with two thin black outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, black text reads: "This is where we learned the names ponderosa and bitterroot. We learned the difference between the morel and the death cap. I look through the snow to find them. I can't. I feel shy. Even my boots hide. — Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel, 'Carry the Forest Home' (Issue 10, 2018)"

A black background with two thin white outlines of circles overlapping. Inside the circles, white text reads: "Her past sits there. It's a dog tied to a post outside a grocery store. It's so convinced someone's coming back. It wags at every human. — Kevin Hatch, 'Clove Pink' (Issue 10, 2018)"

our 10th issue of Shirley offers up stories by Lucie Bonvalet, L.W. Nicholson, Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel, and Kevin Hatch, all which creep right along the edge of a sharp knife.
read it with us at surelymag.com/archive

Whoop! And, of course because it's fantastic.

what's going on in Ireland? 🍀

"Poets whose work supports the status quo often fail to acknowledge that their poems are just as political as poets whose work questions it."
- Jericho Brown

If everything ends,

why are you sharpening your sorrow

—Martha Silano

doodle. write poems you never show anyone. make banana bread. take pictures of birds. grow a plant. the goal isn’t to build job skills or “become a creative” it’s to just fool around and experience yourself and the world around you