Sean Bates

Also the anniversary edition afterword has me thinking about being a needy little reader and time as and the wildness of watching one's work find new and different times and new and different readers. That afterword was as thought provoking as the poems, especially as a teacher.

Finished "Crush" by @richard-siken.bsky.social

Wow. I get it now.

Review coming Tuesday.

If you're heading to Gama next week, stop by the Buried Giant booth (#1049). And, if you're there early, you can come find me at a few events I'll be helping with during the education summit (little schedule 🧵) @buriedgiantstudios.bsky.social

We’re Out Here: The Poet and How to Survive a review of Chen Chen's 2022 "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency" for BOA Editions.

NEW REVIEW......"We’re Out Here: The Poet and How to Survive"
----a Review and Love Letter about (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) Chen Chen's 2022 "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency"

tinyurl.com/yaf2v7kk

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#poetry #booksky #substack #writingcommunity #poemsky #writing #reviews

A cartoon giant head with blue hair buried into a mountain, smiling with a wee little house and trees on covering his head. Art by Kyle Ferrin.

HI WORLD! Buried Giant Studios is a new company formed by Cole Wehrle and Kyle Ferrin 🏠 Learn more here: buriedgiant.com

Boat culture is psychotic.

#leica #leicam6 #film #photography #35mmfilm #35mm #filmphotography #colorfilm #colorphoto

The poet, like the onion, does not care who cries.

Sometimes I'm a writer who didn't write today

Blizzard and plague?! now we're talking

Hotel work station.

#film #photography #mamiya #mamiya7 #filmphotography #mediumformat #mediumformatfilm #tokyo #japan

The Ethos of Eephus The Meaning of Games That End

I’m too sad to write any Sunday Feeld Notes today because hockey broke my heart. If it broke yours, maybe read this instead to remind us that the beauty of sports exists outside of the spotlight.

open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...

What a good blizzard book? #booksky

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

The Ethos of Eephus The Meaning of Games That End

The Ethos of Eephus

Eephus sees sport not as a cultural commodity, but a community engagement, and the simplicity of its framing [...] finds the beauty in the relationship baseball has not just to its participants and onlookers, but the landscape of the country.

open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...

Made from logs, built by hand.

#mamiya #mamiya7 #film #photography #filmphotography #mediumformat #mediumformatfilm #mediumformatphotography #garden #permaculture #colorfilm #colorphoto

Blissssss

Regular guy takes advice and tries to read more...inspiration ensues.

You're so so welcome. The book is a gift.

A tree line of snow covered trees…near the front black silhouette of trees.

Winter is textures and shapes…I love the black silhouette down the bottom..as if it’s in a movie theatre and trees are in the audience..

My Friday the 13th is when I wonder if my threenager or my teenage students got me sick

a box featuring a toy bear on the cover with the name PICNIC BEAR versus the same box opened and the picnic bear looks like a hollowed-eye withered version of a bear who was witnessed THE HORRORS and nothing in this life can spare him from the memory of it

oh look they made a toy about writers’ social media versus writers’ work

...I'm reading "Crush" by Richard Silken

Ever read a poem and it's soul shaking because it's so so good and also somehow exactly what you've been trying to say...so much so that it's a little disheartening...

Seems like something @colewehrle.bsky.social would have an angle on

It's all "I don't think this class should be required for engineers" until we break out the cover letters.

#writersteachingwriting

We’re Out Here: The Poet and How to Survive a review of Chen Chen's 2022 "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency" for BOA Editions.

NEW REVIEW......"We’re Out Here: The Poet and How to Survive"
----a Review and Love Letter about (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) Chen Chen's 2022 "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency"

tinyurl.com/yaf2v7kk

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#poetry #booksky #substack #writingcommunity #poemsky #writing #reviews

Culture.

#leica #leicam6 #film #photography #35mm #filmphotography #photo #colorphoto #35mmphotography #seltzer

Posting my Chen Chen review/love letter tomorrow. So I want to specifically wish @chenchenwrites.bsky.social a beautiful start to the semester as we settle into Feb and ...the dreaded March.

Super Bowl Sunday Feeld Notes 8.2.26 Things I’m feeling on a Sunday of jingoism and Ozempic ads

Super Bowl Sunday Feeld Notes 8.2.26

I’m going to make chili and cheer for a tie. Wouldn’t we all just rather watch Kid Rock and Bad Bunny in a celebrity boxing match?

My Super Bowl column/self-indictment: open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...

Phoenix is vibey this way.

#pentax #film #photography #filmphotography #mediumformat #mediumformatfilm #mediumformatphotography ##colorfilm #colorphoto