Han VanderHart

Too late; doing a line of Alice Notley before bed

Nine-Fourteenths Sonnet (Forgive me This is the only place I may speak to you freely As conversation is not what I intend in talk)

Laynie Browne

On the need to draw boundaries Wretched and dishonest was the sea.

Czesław Miłosz

It has become very relevant with AI. I point to it a lot. I hand out copies. Students are very into it.

I think it comes baked in, in the sperm ahaha

Desk with orange Stanley cup and stickers, sunglasses, Robert Hass’s A Little Book on Forms, Read Write Edit Cite poster, and Poetry is Not a Luxury print from Big Baby Small Press. Also a punctuation poster, made by me ✨

Ended up getting too busy and forgetting to post, but this was my work space for a few minutes today 🙏💙 chill friday FTW 🙌

flirting! at the etymology

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

The mostest fun I had today was rereading Stein today and feeling her voice wash over me like the tidal wave it is—hope this brings you some joy, too ✨

My work/life (Buddhism) is heavily interested with and occupied by breathing. While Gertrude Stein does complicate the breath, I find her comma-less sentences also an insight into Buddhist practice:

The Punctuation Series: The Comma What does a comma do.I have refused them so often and left the out so much and didwithout them so continually that I have come finally to be indifferentto them. I do not now care whether you put th…

“I think, in this hard life, we deserve a little ease.”

On ease, complication, pleasure, and the comma. And Gertrude Stein.

Omggg. I want to be friends.

She does not! 💅 How incredible. A natural force. The wind does not need people!

What does a comma do. I have refused them so often and left the out so much and did without them so continually that I have come finally to be indifferent to them. I do not now care whether you put them in or not but for a long time I felt very definitely about them and would have nothing to do with them. As I say commas are servile and they have no life of their own,and their use is not a use, it is a way of replacing one's own interest and I do decidedly like to like my own interest my own interest in what I am doing. A comma by helping you along holding your coat for you and putting on your shoes keeps you from living your life as actively as you should lead it and to me for many years and I still do feel that way about it only now I do not pay as much attention to them, the use of them was positively degrading. Let me tell you what I feel and what I mean and what I felt and what I meant. Gertrude Stein

A comma by helping you along holding your coat for you and putting on your shoes keeps you from living your life as actively as you should lead it and to me for many years and I still do feel that way
about it…Let me tell you what I feel and what I mean and what I felt and what I meant.

G. Stein

I love Stein because I also tell people how I really feel about things and then people are like “tell me how you really feel” and I’m like “I just did weren’t you listening.”

The question mark is alright when it
is all alone when it is used as a brand on cattle or when it could be used
in decoration but connected with writing it is completely entirely completely uninteresting.

Gertrude Stein

Padme: There's good in him, I know. I know there's stil... Obi-wan: Padme, that’s his SECOND genocide

How I would have felt if anything having to do with Israel was involved in a Nobel peace prize win.

Ef genocide and our involvement in Palestine’s destruction.

On the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, October 2025) and an Except by rob mclennan I don’t hold too much stock in ideas of the muse, instead seeking the attention of craft. The working class farm-lad in me, I suppose: writing as simultaneous muscle and study, a bl…

my short piece on the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025), along with a few excerpts, is now online at The Woodlot; / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @the-wood-lot.bsky.social ;
the-wood-lot.ca/2025/10/09/o...

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Foules

Conserve your energy for what is most meaningful to you 💜

happy friday

I am already like oooooh I am going to loove this book 😍🙏

Tomorrow The metaphysics of the quotidian was what he was after: A little dew on the sunrise grass, A drop of blood in the evening trees, a drop of fire. If you don't shine you are darkness. The future is merciless, everyone's name inscribed On the flyleaf of the Book of Snow. // poem on the page from Charles Wright’s book Sestets, stack of books above (LeVine’s FORMS Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network CECELIA WATSON’s SEMICOLON CHELSEA GIRLS by EILEEN MYLES Keats Selected Letters)

If you don’t shine you are darkness.

Charles Wright, from Sestets

not me giggling in bed over this ✨

Somebody needed some dopamine, ahaha

Just finished cleaning up a Dutch Renaissance symbol of desire off of my garage floor (broken eggs). #poetlife

This is real cats-on-sills weather 🧣

A poem is an anti-capitalist machine

yes, it is broken if you try to produce with it

no, it doesn’t produce on command

the factory is closed

the worker is sleeping

omgggg, James ❤️

László Krasznahorkai New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.

the absolutely terrific @ndbooks.bsky.social is responsible for every happy english speaking nerd (on this continent) right now

When I see it displayed in airports, I gasp