Kasey Jueds

Burgi, ❤️🙏

Thank you thank you, Rebecca... means so much to me ❤️

Oh thank you, Kim! 💕

That's so kind, and means so much to me. Many many thanks.

dear Han, oh, thank you 💙💙

So much gratitude to and for you.

"after / or before: only the obvious blue."

What a beautiful new poem by @kaseyryoen.bsky.social 😍✨️😍!

I love this journal so much!

💙 So happy for you, dear Burgi!

How the Sea Might Speak: On Eva Meijer’s Sea Now - Words Without Borders Sea Now hints "at mysteries that humans can sense but never penetrate," writes critic Rebecca Hussey.

NBCC Tech VP and Membership Co-VP Rebecca Hussey reviewed "Sea Now," written by Eva Meijer and translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo, for Words Without Borders:

It's a joy and an honor to be a (small) part of this wise, brave, lovely book. So happy it's in the world. Congratulations @burgi.bsky.social!

Big news for the pod!

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

~ Allen Ginsberg

Coming out in February, but I wish it were tomorrow. Waiting (impatiently) for this book I already know I love.

Everything is terrible, except the view-from-below paws of this ready-to-sew trompe l’oeil cat issued by Arnold Print Works, MA c. 1892 (courtesy Fashion and Textile Museum London)

Thinking about an elder who talked w/me at the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth about trying to find out what was happening with her sister on their island during a hurricane a few years ago & no US weather station was covering it--the racist structure that created those hours of silence & waiting

#AContinuation25 A collaboration between Kim (@joiedevivre9), Rebecca (@ofbooksandbikes)  ​& everyone else who wants to participate. "The beginning of each new project was always a continuation."  ​— Kate...

And here's a link to our web page with information on our 'project' and lots of links.

It's never too late to join. Everyone is welcome!!! 💛

(in collaboration with @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social)

www.joiedevivre9.com/katebriggs24...

Cover of IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME VOLUME 1: SWANN'S WAY by Marcel Proust (translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)

#AContinuation25 It took us a bit longer than expected (life!), but we're wrapping up our reading of Roland Barthes' THE NEUTRAL.❤️‍🔥

Part 6 of our project—Proust's IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME—will begin soon! We're doing a slow, slow read (40pp/wk) & we'll begin SWANN'S WAY on August 2nd. Links below. ⬇️

“What is this work we do? What are we good for? The literary critic Northrop Frye once said all art is metaphor, and a metaphor is the grammatical definition of insanity. What art does is meet us at the site of our insanity, our derangement, the plainly irrational mechanics of what it means to be human. There comes from this, then, at least a working definition of a soul: one's capacity to sit with the mysteries of a thing that cannot in any rational way be understood— only felt, only moved through. And sometimes that thing is so grotesque-what we do to one another so grotesque-that sitting with it feels an affront to the notion of art as a conduit of beauty. Still, sit. Sit.”

ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad.

We are open for submissions All genres, always free June 1-July 15 Background graphic of a hand writing.

We are open for submissions!
All genres, always free!
June 1-July 15!

psalteryandlyre.org/submissions/

So when you leave your messages for your senators over the weekend, you will want to demand:
- No cuts/obstacles to Medicaid
- Retain gender-affirming coverage
- No handouts for what Alec is describing in this thread below

From Jen Bervin's Nets: "When we write poems, the history of poems is with us, pre-inscribed on the white of the page; when we read or write poems, we do it with or against this palimpsest."

This is a persistent feeling in a poet, but staying alert to all the ways one is coerced into denying experience, sense, and reason is a huge task.

Alice Notley

PSST... WE HAVE A STUDENT & TEACHER DISCOUNT! USE CODE: EDUCATION15 AT CHECK OUT! RIVERRIVERBOOKS.ORG

You heard it here first…🌊🌊📚

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if you are not a billionaire, read this note Pattern-book is now available for UK and Ireland preorder. You people of North America, please hold for the next available operator

hello! preorders for #patternbook available in North America, the UK, Ireland (and elsewhere!). anyway, I wrote about the book and why you might enjoy it at the link below. get a copy from yr local bookshop or from @carcanet.bsky.social in the UK (ELPB15 = 15% off and free shipping in the UK)

Poetry lost the wonderful Martha Silano this week. From her book “The One We Call Ours”

Hero.

Every one of these is stunning, @hanvanderhart.bsky.social!