Mathias Svalina

The quote and information written in charcoal against a white background. At the top is the Rumpus's full logo in white on top of a yellow ink splotch with "National Poetry Month" written beside it with a red underline.

"I give birth to a shadow & my wife gives birth to a / Bible & my wife’s wife gives birth to a handful of / rusted nails"

From "I Give Birth to a Shadow" by @mathiassvalina.bsky.social for National Poetry Month.

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The Dream Delivery Service crew (pictured here) will begin delivering dreams in Philadelphia Tuesday, 4/1, delivering until the 14th. If you’d like to subscribe to dreams for you or a friend, by bike in philly or by mail in not-philly, break on through to the bio for more info.

En route the slow & oceany way to Philadelphia to deliver dreams to the people.

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A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt

1. Plant words in the abandoned lot.
2. Among broken plates & rotting drywall.
3. Watch the words stretch to the light.
4. Listen to the wind & write what it says.
5. Hold your blank page out to the falling rain.
6. Write until the words unearth the poem.

You can subscribe for yourself or for friends: just include the names of all household members & pets with subscription, & if it’s a gift subscription include the recipients’ address.

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Dream Delivery Service is super duper excited to be delivering dreams in Philadelphia in April: 4/1-4/14. DDS is a DIY art&poetry-project, writing & delivering daily dreams to subscribers, to your door by bike in the city it’s in, by mail in the cities it’s not in.

I am hosting a reading at Little Wish Toys this Friday. If you’re in Richmond & you like words &/or toys, please come out!

@littlewishtoys.bsky.social

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt

The first batch of Fifty Dream Beasts is headed out in the mail tomorrow.
Still time to subscribe to a very beasty March from the Dream Delivery Service.

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Want to receive some beasts in the mail? Or to send some beasts to a friend?

Dream Delivery Service is delivery Dream Beasts through March.

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4. Feel grief how a leaf feels your grief. Feel love how a leaf rots with love. Feel The Sun how a leaf feels The Sun.
5. Travel the edges of the leaf, as if it were a map, as if there were such a thing as “The Sun.”

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt

1. Write a poem in the form of a leaf
2. Use only what a leaf needs for words, punctuation, syntax, sunlight, despair, etc
3. Nourish the shape of the leaf, after the leaf has fallen, & rot has had its way, eaten & shatted & formed anew & eaten & rotted again

I’ll be leading a six-week online writing workshop in Jan & Feb. let me know if you’re interested. I’ll cap the workshop at eight participants.

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Not to brag, but my hubris has been known to do that 🫥🫥

It can be both!

If you’d like the order to be for the whole household, include names of all humans & pets. In my hubris, I like when everyone in the house gets dreams.

To order vnmo me at Mathias-Svalina or pypal me at MathiasSvalina & include the names of recipients & address to mail the bundle to with the $ or via email to mathias dot svalina at gmail.

If you’d like to send a gift of dreams for a coming holiday, you can do that. The recipient will receive a one-month bundle of 31dreams, a unique set in 31 pink envelopes.

Sliding scale of $30-75.

Hello Richmond, VA folks! I’ll be leading the last of four Dream History Tours in Brookland Park on Saturday. (Or the last for now…) If you’d like to join, bundle up & meet at North Central Park / 3301 Fendall. Come learn about some histories that could’ve never happened!

My new book, Thank You Terror, is now available from Big Lucks. I started this book in 2013 in Denver & finished it in 2023 in Richmond. It is as close as I have been able to get in my life to prayer.

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Seattle friends! I’m doing three things at Hugo House April 4th & 5th:

4/4, 7pm: a reading, followed by conversation w/ the amazing & brilliant Serena Chopra
4/5, 11am: a workshop on dream-logic & writing the self
4/5, 1:30pm: a Dream History tour of Capitol Hill, starts at HH

Hope to see you!

Made these two zines & they’re heading out to folks supporting Dream Delivery Service on Patreon. Immense & deep thanks to them!

Also made some extras. If you’d like one, send me your mailing address.

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A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt

Write a poem
nine words long
& live in the poem
until you are nine words,
each word
one you long.

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt 1. Write a poem, not with a word’s definition, 2. but with the nothing at the core of each word. 3. Write lines like linked chains of nothing. 4. Sentences like walls of nothing. 5. Until the whole poem’s nothing circles you like a lip. 6. Until you are the word that nothing speaks. 7. Bear, bridge, bread, blossom.

A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt

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75 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2024 - Electric Literature We couldn’t be more excited for these highly anticipated books to hit shelves in the coming year

hello! I've compiled a list of 2024 books I'm anticipating from women of color & here it is, a bonanza of novels, essay collections, memoirs, & more

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