cait weiss orcutt

HOUSTON POETS (if you're out there) I'm leading a workshop on getting poetry published on Saturday, March 8. Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/getting-po...

stars and moon reflected in a lake or other body of water sounds cheesy but it truly actually is one of the most stunning and most important things to witness in this life on this earth

Ed Kraken Top Auction item 'Ed Kraken Top' hosted online at 32auctions.

The new item: www.32auctions.com/organization...

This auction has already raised 25k! Plus I just added two more items, one up today, the second up Monday. Come check it out! www.32auctions.com/ofmdcraftfai...

Trans Pride Fingerless Gloves Auction item 'Trans Pride Fingerless Gloves' hosted online at 32auctions.

For instance, check out these fingerless gloves…

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So many fantastic items here! Take a look, make a bid 👀🩷

English poet and essayist Anna Laetitia Barbauld's A New Map of the Land of Matrimony, Drawn From the Latest Surveys (1772).

More allegorical maps dedicated to charting the highs and lows of love, courtship, and marriage here: buff.ly/3BjcRoc

Magical 😍❤️❤️❤️

Patterns all from @pacificknitco.bsky.social’s doodle decks.

Valentines day sweater knit by me just for today. But I do plan to make a Swans Only (swans on swans on swans) one for more daily general wear. 🦢🦢🦢

Leafing through ‘Biological Exuberance,’ Lulu Miller finds herself giggling a little (lots of unabashed drawings). But awe creeps in too. With page after page of scientific proof that queerness exists in nature, she wonders: How were we not told?
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POEM TO POETRY Poetry, you are an electric, a magic, field — like the space between a sleepwalker’s outheld arms . . .

Bill Knott

I am obsessed. 🤩

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🩵🩵🩵🩵P E O P L E🩵🩵🩵🩵
🩵🩵🩵🩵B E L O N G🩵🩵🩵🩵
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It took me participating in this craft fair (on a total Bluesky whim) to finally watch Our Flag Means Death & *I AM IN LOVE* with the show’s world, its characters, its humor, care, & possibilities. So I will be shopping this auction (which raises money for trans youth) & I hope you’ll be too. 🏴‍☠️🩷🩵🤍

Artists and writers often look to masterpieces for a source of inspiration.

But what I’ve found sparks my creativity even more is stuff that is almost good, but not quite.

It gets ya thinking about what they should have done different, and apply to your own work.

If you aren’t a big fan of Valentine’s Day then let The Folklore Podcast help as we revisit the lost tradition of Vinegar Valentine’s - cards to send to an avid admirer to let them know you couldn’t give a rats about their advances.

We start with a tame bucket of water

#VinegarValentines

i don't believe in sin, but listening to music/watching videos on your phone without headphones on is a sin

AND the land keeps a record of this. AND because time (at least chronological) is a human perception, land holds this info like a pool, each square foot steeped in the events that will (& have) happen(ed) there. And so the land is made of mythic echos/portals. And we, too, get triggered by the land.

Basically I understand this as there is something much grander than time that hauls us up into its maws when we enact a series of (unknown) catalysts. We’re all little bunnies in time and the mythic is an eagle who can scoop us in its clutches.

Beautiful, creepy passage from Mark Fisher on how mythic structures capture us when we trigger a deeper sense of time. Or that’s how I took this at least. (From his 2016 book “The Weird and the Eerie”)

Call for submissions!

Snapshots are short essays which focus on environmental challenges of the 21st century, looking to historical perspectives to inform a more sustainable world.

See the attached call & send a pitch to @tluneau.bsky.social, deputy editor (tyson.luneau@cortland.edu) #envhist

This is also true for signed copies of my book VALLEYSPEAK, ofc. storysouth.com/stories/146/

Sweet trans pride gloves I made for a fundraiser. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 If anyone ever wants me to make something in exchange for a donation to a local mutual aid fund, bail fund, abortion fund, or food bank, hmu. Fingerless gloves are my speciality.

This one even seems to do better when I’m gone. 😂

The fact that these guys have survived all my travels is a miracle.

Poetry Workshop: Craft and Vision The poet Katerina Stoykova-Klemer writes, “Lineation can make or break your poems.” This class is designed for both experienced writers seeking new tools to refresh their poetic practice and beginners...

Registration for my online poetry workshop opens Feb. 24. Thanks for sharing and would love to work together!
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We left so early this morning, we were the only ones in the street.

Day 8: Arrivederci!