Tethered Sky

YouTube video by Kenneth Koch At 100 Kenneth Koch at 100: A Celebration at the New School, March 17, 2025

Listen, I know this is not the friendliest user experience but you can now stream the entire Kenneth Koch 100 celebration we held at The New School on March 17

youtu.be/3kWnWuKuPPA

Small town quick sketch
Ink on paper 💙

🌊 my dream-house by the sea 🌊 waves 🌊 to your ocean home 🌊

The unbroken prairie & the vastness of its cloud formations feel psychoactive to me

I live in a house

on the

edge of the ocean

from Grime Kerbstone Psalms pbd 2013 Celandor Books

My house hunting search criteria is to find little house on the edge of something

Anything, really

Most affordable edge out there seems to be the edge of civic civilization

Where roads pipes sewers power lines simultaneously dead end into prairie

Me, a clown, working hard so my cat can have a good life My cat, ungrateful

She’s actually a little shep, also black, also ungrateful.

and the birds flew to wards me from all the four cor ners of the globe they flew at me direct ly from god forming a spon taneous flock just outside my very kitchen window and i felt great affection for those paltry mites as if they’d been the children i’d never had myself

Klaus Høeck
(translated by John Irons)

from 1001 poems

いつになく心やすませ山霞む

Unusual as it may be
slow your heart
mountain mist

*mist / mountain mist is a spring #kigo

#haiku #俳句

the open window and the rope. like a trap! You get out of

Ways of Seeing: Diary Keeping a record of the present moment

Do you keep a journal or diary? Would you like to?

I invite you try out the ancient and contemporary form of tanka (as transformed by poet Harryette Mullen) as a way of documenting something of your own intimate experience of these extraordinary times.

salrandolph.substack.com/p/ways-of-se...

Women's History Month: Julia Biggs in conversation with PL Henderson. Author and art historian PL Henderson has generously taken time out to answer some questions about her work focused on women artists.

My thanks to P.L. Henderson for discussing the brilliant @womensartbluesky.bsky.social project with me to celebrate Women’s History Month 🤩👇👀

www.ocasa.org.uk/post/women-s...

something passing up from the toes an impulse to run spin around- make curious mistakes anything can be capsized

orbital judo;
low-albedo sucker punch
out of the oort cloud

A collage of a woman in three-quarter bust view on gray newsprint. She has her hair in an old-fashioned up do and wears a dress with wide neckline. In front of her dance some narrow pink flames, while behind her head a large yellow semicircle and an incongruent green cabbage float against the neutral taupe background. A closed-caption sound effect that serves as the piece’s title sits below her in a dark gray box, reading (SCREECHING, FLAPPING WINGS). © Shanna Compton, 2025, from the artist book Deep Whoosh.

(SCREECHING, FLAPPING WINGS) from Deep Whoosh, my artist book of 50 closed-caption collages, coming from @blacksquareeditions

My clients are headed to AWP today, so I’m using the lull to work on my own book. New themes revealing themselves as I work & finish up the essay. #collage #visualpoetry

Last night’s dream-house was nothing but roofs

Quod umbra est: Pasolini’s ‘David’ and the vulnerability of desire — Eric T. Racher Une manière d’ange était assis sur le bord d’une fontaine. Il s’y mirait, et se voyait Homme, et en larmes, et il s’étonnait à l’extrême de s’apparaître dans l’onde nue cette proie d’une tristesse …

"The vulnerability of the poem is the vulnerability of the body. The vulnerability of the poem is a form of sacrifice ..."

Quod umbra est: Pasolini’s ‘David’ and the vulnerability of desire — @ericracher.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2025/03/25/q...

Michael Earl Craig

@fencebooks.bsky.social

Photo of two tiny abstract ink drawings (blue, purple, green, and black) on handmade paper. A black pen is visible between the two drawings

Gosh social media today is pretty toxic. Ugh. Here's some art. #inkdrawings

Two copies of a small poetry chapbook with linocut covers in a multicolored seaweed pattern. The title is “three tides” by Pattie McCarthy. Design © Shanna Compton for Bloof Books, 2022.

Process shot of trimmed covers for “three tides” by Pattie McCarthy alongside some folded and trimmed inner booklets, binding thread and tools. The cover features a multiblock linocut pattern of seaweeds and hand-carved lettering. Design © Shanna Compton for Bloof Books, 2022.

And here’s some sea #foliage for #printpromptmonday, in the form of a linocut bookcover I did a while back. Each seaweed is its own block so the pattern is different on each book.

Last night, The moon got in my house

引くことは逃げではないと鳥帰る

Say, withdrawing is not escaping
when birds return

*birds return is a spring #kigo

#haiku #俳句

Snow-Blind hands to her eyes she was enveloped so to speak

PARADIGM I have only You have Comma Dream I had often You had Stop Wish I love You love Apostrophe Sleep

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"I have only you have comma..."
—Joseph Rocco (1929)

#ForgottenPoets #poetry #poem

Every now and then I remember something about the obscured text, as with this one about a copse of weeping willow trees.

Eve Castle's review of Furia 5/5: I give furia 5 stars for its raw and brutal honesty and for the poet’s ability to entrap and digest the powerful language of loss, grief and sorrow. Ink is spilled, spent and smeared into a gift ...

My review of ‘furia’ a book of poetry by ire’ne lara silva, 2021 (review is a 3 min read)

#poetry

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we wept in surrender weeping like silver beautiful masses of Weeping like silver

“i will give you more flowers than you can eat push them into your mouth with my mouth lick them into you thrust them into the hollow of your chest curl them beneath your eyelids whisper them over your skin until they dissolve into you”

Ire'ne Lara Silva,
the eaters of flowers
#quote

If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental, that is only half of it. Your poems probably need to be even more sentimental. Don’t be less of a flower, but could you be more of a stone at the same time?

—Mary Ruefle, from "On Sentimentality"