Ricardo D. Velásquez's Avatar

Ricardo D. Velásquez

@velasquez.bsky.social

—Author once. Poet; traditional illustrator. He / Him. 18+ ig: 𝚛𝚍.𝚟𝚌 tw: ridvec ➡ https://savepalestine.carrd.co/ 🔗 https://linktr.ee/rdvc/ 🔗 https://instagram.com/rd.vc/

150 Followers  |  380 Following  |  30 Posts  |  Joined: 30.08.2023  |  1.754

Latest posts by velasquez.bsky.social on Bluesky

Post image

Réka
Prismacolor pencil on Canson paper, 15"x11"
email me at daniel at danielmaidman dot com to purchase original or prints

12.03.2025 14:15 — 👍 45    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

I started my own press!! Piżama (Polish for 'pajamas') is dedicated to showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better.

Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi.

neonpajamas.com/pizamapress

01.01.2025 18:28 — 👍 169    🔁 33    💬 18    📌 4

Happy New Year!!

02.01.2025 00:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Past Continuous — Workshops 4 Gaza Step 1: Donate to Othman here (suggested donation $60 USD). Step 2: Register for “Past Continuous” here . In this workshop led by award-winning poet Lena Tuffaha, participants will rea...

This is tomorrow! Last chance to sign up for a workshop with @lenakt.bsky.social ❤️ www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/pas...

06.12.2024 16:21 — 👍 29    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 2

An incredibly special opportunity to discuss the work of one of the historic and all-time giants of poetry, Mahmoud Darwish, with a present-day legend, the great Lena Khalaf Tuffaha ✨

06.12.2024 23:17 — 👍 34    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1

Another poet whom the angels guide, cherish and torment is Erik Satie, who walks every night from Montmartre or Montparnasse to his bome at Arcueil-Cachan - a miracle which cannot be explained unless the angels carry him...
JEAN COCTEAU

Another poet whom the angels guide, cherish and torment is Erik Satie, who walks every night from Montmartre or Montparnasse to his bome at Arcueil-Cachan - a miracle which cannot be explained unless the angels carry him... JEAN COCTEAU

Jean Cocteau on the angel named Erik Satie.

03.12.2024 04:13 — 👍 45    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

meow [delayed]

28.11.2024 03:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations!—

23.11.2024 18:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Preview
My Heresies, Alina Stefanescu — SARABANDE BOOKS Pre-order only. Available April 2025. Behold My Heresies : the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, b...

Dear humans,
Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

23.11.2024 16:13 — 👍 1037    🔁 213    💬 193    📌 34

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!

#litmags #writer #writingcommunity

go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

17.11.2024 03:56 — 👍 903    🔁 481    💬 71    📌 32

I'm still very lost on here. The poets have organized and gathered, but with my weird threads and random interests on twitter. This starter pack is an attempt to include some of those names, though many are missing. Just a messy attempt.🙏

We need a book twitter list too?

go.bsky.app/Feh35s1

15.11.2024 18:58 — 👍 656    🔁 90    💬 87    📌 8
Preview
Issue #13 - Alina Stefanescu - Iterant Poem with a Line from an Asterisk on page 15 of Marguerite Yourcenar’s Dark Brain of Piranesi We hang this morning over a twine line   like laundry betweenthe seesaw and the pendulum.   Smoke a few wo...

A few poems that were published earlier this year in Iterant— for those who like Beckett, Canetti, or asterisks. 🖤

iterant.org/issue13/alin...

14.11.2024 21:17 — 👍 144    🔁 36    💬 6    📌 1

We have a starter pack for lit mags and small presses on bsky—check it out! go.bsky.app/Syyu1ZT

13.11.2024 14:05 — 👍 48    🔁 15    💬 7    📌 3

Looking for poets, poems, and so on? Here's a place to start. No promises that it includes everyone but I tried to get a lot of y'all in here. Some room to add a few more as people show up. go.bsky.app/5oLR4YJ

10.11.2024 16:44 — 👍 324    🔁 114    💬 99    📌 14

Another Poem Dedicated to the Billionaires

Security guards their
sleep. Safety loads the
shots of their hired
guns. May we grow the
cajones required to become
their worst nightmares
and then, sum.

14.11.2024 16:31 — 👍 28    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
Preview
Ricardo Velásquez on Instagram: "Always with you." 9 likes, 2 comments - rd.vc on October 1, 2024: "Always with you.".
20.10.2024 02:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
If, in the later hours toward
dusk, as the energies are released
into embrace, we see each other’s
eyes as clearly as you can taste
the sweet young corn
of summer, then we will know
that the force of gravitational
pull is as real as that
of time. And we will talk into
the hours when we have often
talked.

If, in the later hours toward dusk, as the energies are released into embrace, we see each other’s eyes as clearly as you can taste the sweet young corn of summer, then we will know that the force of gravitational pull is as real as that of time. And we will talk into the hours when we have often talked.

this love poem by Gale Nelson!!!!

19.10.2024 23:30 — 👍 25    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

NEW POEM #173: "After the Slum Clearances" by Hannah Linden

"We watched ourselves, snow-clocked tidal
floes in a melting landscape. We were
crystals held together by the cold, our home
disintegrating around us."

stonecirclereview.com/after-the-sl...

#Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

19.10.2024 14:08 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Preview
Ricardo Velásquez on Instagram: "Cruentus. w/ inspiring @ossuary__angel 🩸✨" 8 likes, 2 comments - rd.vc on October 15, 2024: "Cruentus. w/ inspiring @ossuary__angel 🩸✨".
20.10.2024 02:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Ricardo Velásquez on Instagram: "…in gratia eorum tenebrarum. Ink over paper." rd.vcApril 18, 2024 on : "…in gratia eorum tenebrarum. Ink over paper.".

New #artwork post!
www.instagram.com/p/C56WV2DOIFI/

18.04.2024 18:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Σ( ノ。 •̀ ᴖ •́ 。)ノ︵ ┻━┻

18.04.2024 00:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

鵼(ぬえ) 2023年

鳥山石燕-今昔画図続百鬼-

鵼は深山にすめる化鳥なり。
源三位頼政、頭は猿、足手は虎、尾はくちなはのごとき異物を射おとせしに、なく声の鵼に似たればとて、ぬえと名づけしならん。

京極夏彦氏の「鵼の碑」を読んで鵼やー!ってなって描いた絵

27.03.2024 23:19 — 👍 33    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
the word “aren’t” with an extra apostrophe above the one that’s usually there

the word “aren’t” with an extra apostrophe above the one that’s usually there

Aram Saroyan

26.03.2024 14:43 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Seems to be working just fine.

11.03.2024 13:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Ricardo Velásquez on Instagram: "❝ —My entrails are a safe space— ❞, 2024. Ink over paper. #illustration #artwork #drawing #ink #traditionalart #art" rd.vc on March 8, 2024: "❝ —My entrails are a safe space— ❞, 2024. Ink over paper. #illustration #artwork #drawi..."

❝ —My entrails are a safe space— ❞. Pencil over paper.
#illustration #traditionalart

08.03.2024 23:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Ricardo Velásquez on Instagram: "ReBirth, 2021. Pencil over paper. Wake up, this is the other morning. _ Today, yet another massacre took place. #freepalestine #sketch #illustration #drawing #artwo... rd.vc on February 29, 2024: "ReBirth, 2021. Pencil over paper. Wake up, this is the other morning. _ Today, yet another mass..."

ReBirth. Pencil over paper.

29.02.2024 22:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Ricardo Velásquez on Instagram: "Some incident at night, 2024. Markers over paper. Different doodles parts on the same paper joined to conform a figure. Tweaked. FIxes. B #drawing #illustration #tra... rd.vc on February 21, 2024: "Some incident at night, 2024. Markers over paper. Different doodles parts on the same paper joi..."

Doodles to drawing.
#illustration

21.02.2024 21:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

17.02.2024 01:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Ricardo Velásquez on Instagram: "…και Λήθης, και Μνημοσύνης…, 2014. […and Lethe, and Mnemosyne…] Inks, marker over paper. Bringing back this one scanned. Dimensions fit this format better. #traditi... rd.vc on December 20, 2023: "…και Λήθης, και Μνημοσύνης…, 2014. […and Lethe, and Mnemosyne…] Ink..."

Unshadowbanning my artworks.
#illustration

16.02.2024 15:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Ricardo Velásquez on Instagram: "After the hunt, 2019. Sketches, w/ inspiring @simonefriis11 Pencil over paper. #sketches #drawing #traditionaldrawing #artwork #pencildrawing" rd.vc on February 8, 2024: "After the hunt, 2019. Sketches, w/ inspiring @simonefriis11 Pencil over paper. #sketches #draw..."

I guess the best way to go against the narrow limits imposed by the virtual artefacts is to move and share.
#sketches

15.02.2024 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@velasquez is following 18 prominent accounts