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—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/
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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

Happy New Year!!

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

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 ✨

Jean Cocteau on the angel named Erik Satie.

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...

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

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

A few poems that were published earlier this year in Iterant— for those who like Beckett, Canetti, or asterisks. 🖤 iterant.org/issue13/alin...

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

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

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.

this love poem by Gale Nelson!!!!

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

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

Σ( ノ。 •̀ ᴖ •́ 。)ノ︵ ┻━┻

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

Aram Saroyan

Seems to be working just fine.

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

ReBirth. Pencil over paper.

Doodles to drawing. #illustration

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Unshadowbanning my artworks. #illustration

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

過去作をあげていきます 「白澤(はくたく)」2019年 まだコーヒーを使っていない作品 その昔、中国の黄帝が出会った白澤に11,520種もの妖怪と対策方法を聞きたらしいので妖怪いっぱいと手前に黄帝と同一とされる帝江を描いた

Don't miss´'Drowning in Love' a virtual zine made and curated by Zoe Angeli @ossuaryangel.bsky.social for Valentine's Day. It features water related horror films collages, art and writing, among which you'll find a small artwork contribution from yours truly.

"In writing and ordering your poems, you are forging a self. Housing it in a stall of your own making. You are building a bearable myth. You are constructing, as much in your process as your product, some fragment of the everlasting." -- Diane Seuss

New post! #illustration

Listen here! 🙏🎙️💙✨

Anyways! New post art ig! www.instagram.com/p/C3GE1pqubT...

Haha. No.

What are we doing today?

Do you love photography? Drop me a line so I can follow your feed. Cheers!

妖怪っぽい生き物ときどき神仏を描いています

JACK

Here my poem that's in the newest issue of Riggwelter. Thanks again to Jonathan Kinsman for giving it a home.

joker

New post at ig. www.instagram.com/p/C3A9Afsu0h...

Bluesky is officially “open” now (no more invites). So just a reminder to not engage with trolls and bad actors, there is no algorithm here to promote or spread them, replying to them is what puts them on everybody’s timelines. So block and give no oxygen.

You can now sign up for Bluesky without an invite! 🎉 bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Poetry teachers! The second edition of the textbook @toddkaneko.bsky.social & I made for Bloomsbury is here. www.bloomsbury.com/us/poetry-97...

Okay, we’re doing it!! I’m offering two one-hour poetry review writing workshops on 1/27 and 1/28, 12pm EST. We’ll cover choosing titles & requesting media copies, reading for & writing the review, and placing your review 📚💙 Email [email protected] for zoom link for either meeting.

Tomorrow and Sunday, FYI 👇 No cost. I’ll be sending out more meeting links—behind in my emails! 🙏

you’re never alone in the forest

Joy Harjo