"Sheer abundance of being / floods my heart."
—Rainer Maria Rilke
(Image: Rob Gonsalves's Here Comes the Flood, 2003)
John Madera
"It is only enough
To live incessantly in change."
―Wallace Stevens
Read Larissa Shmailo's astute review of Marc Vincenz's NO MORE ANIMAL POEMS (White Pine Press) in ARTEIDOLIA!
www.arteidolia.com/a-review-of-...
(Message me for a review copy, etc.)
First step toward exiting the echo chamber and/or popping the filter bubble is recognition; of their existence; of their terrible constraint of vision, thought, etc.; and of your place within them, the ways you help sustain them, etc.
"When we accept false and violent laws and submit to them, we can neither establish truth nor combat lies in this world."
—Leo Tolstoy
“Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.”
―Wendell Berry
One-word writing prompt: Write!
(Image: Remedios Varo’s Creación de las aves (Creation of the Birds), 1957)
Wherein Arah Ko reads from BRINE ORCHID (YesYes Books), a Finalist for the 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award for Poetry!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1VbJCIvPxU
Cc: @yesyesbooks.bsky.social and @bigothermag.bsky.social
Read Alexander Cigale's astute review of Marc Vincenz's NO MORE ANIMAL POEMS (White Pine Press) in EVERGREEN REVIEW!
evergreenreview.com/read/an-ode-...
(Message me for a review copy, etc.)
Cc: @evergreenreview.bsky.social
"If you want to see the brave, look for those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.”
―Bhagavad Gita
