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• Post #2759641

  Orion magazine recommends 14 #poetry collections for Winter 2022. I think I will like these. https://orionmagazine.org/article/14-poetry-recommendations-november-2022/?mc_cid=32de3e4c68&mc_eid=008af82d1c

• Post #2759640

  @briangeiger This is a beautiful essay. Thank you for sharing it. When my daughter was little and would complain, "I'm bored," I used to say, "Only boring people are bored." Which was sort of pompous, but I wanted her to find her own inner resources or just enjoy being for a while, as in your essay. Then she got a smartphone, and . . . <sigh>

• Post #2759639

  @briangeiger Yes, my daughter is now 20, and I watched that transformation of her life and all of society. Most changes have their virtues, but still, corrosive is a good word, and "created by people who didn't love us" is a very important reminder. I look forward to your next essay!

• Post #2759638

  @mszll #wildern is an Old English word that needs to be brought back. Now wilderndata 😀

• Post #2759637

  @clive I use this a lot; does it have a name? !--

• Post #2759636

  @clive Hmmm . . . an excladash or exclash?

• Post #2759635

  @clive The commash is special because it connotes "mashup" while using "comm" from "comma." "Exclash" has a bit of the same vibe because we hear "clash" when combining "exclamation" and "dash." So, there we are, a new coinage, with thanks to you for the inspiration!

• Post #2759634

  Happy #MakerMonday! I finally tried using a handmade brick to help me cut book board, and it sure did help my hands. A handmade brick is esp great for holding down the ruler because it has no holes and so is super heavy.

• Post #2759633

  Happy New Year! Happy #MakerMonday! Here are some greeting cards that I made with marbled paper. My idea was to make a composition on the water like a painting and then catch it on paper at the right moment! These 4 are called (left to right): Dryad 1, Dryad 2, Morphospace, and Geometry in Motion. #BookArts

• Post #2759632

  Following up on my previous #MakerMonday #BookArt post, here are 4 more marbled-paper cards. Titles are Orange Flow, Green Flow, Light and Water, and Topography. I made the cards by scanning and printing the art at reduced size; I trimmed each image and glued it to the cards. (Process is laborious, but I like the result: high quality card and matte finish.)

• Post #2759631

  @sharonipov Also #PoetryThursday, though no one has used that one for a while!

• Post #2759630

  "Hope is round, an apple in a lunchpack on the kitchen counter,/ A birds’ nest, a candle lantern, a ready bowl." From my own poem, "The Road Home." In the original it actually says "Hope is a round," but in a short quote that sounds odd! I'm referring to a musical round, but also roundness in general and the cycle of life. Happy New Year and Happy #PoetryThursday ! #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writers #...

• Post #2759629

  Greetings on #PoetryThursday! This morning I loved "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo" by Cortney Lamar Charleston on Poem-a-Day from Poets.org. (Really worth signing up for!) What a graceful use of the sonnet form--almost invisible, but the rhyme scheme is there, and five, well, certainly not iambs, but pulses--to express both the social alienation of pandemic times and appreciation for the love of his partner. https://poets.org/poem/brown-estate-2018-tempranillo #Poetry #Po...

• Post #2759628

  A lovely local shop, MyMuses card shop in Carrboro, NC, ordered more of my greeting cards; hurrah!--except also Yipes! Because it's 42 cards! Here is a picture of multiples in progress. Fortunately I do love making multiples! #MakerMonday

• Post #2759627

  Hi! I haven't been here for a while; I've been traveling in Spain and then NYC. Here's a gift from Madrid, a stunning bookbinding on display at the Arte del Libro museum made by Vicente Cogollor Mingo in 1964. #bookart #BookArts #BookHistory

• Post #2759626

  Wow, just saw this on LinkedIn. "NPR’s organizational accounts will no longer be active on Twitter because the platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent. " --Isabel Lara, Chief Communications Officer at NPR #npr #news #newsmedia #birdsite

• Post #2759625

  "Open an Old Window" is the name of this piece of #mailart for the Triangle Book Arts postcard project. It's based on a photo I took last year at Gaudí's astonishing Casa Battló in Barcelona. I wrote a poem to put on the back. "Open an old window, unbolt a curved door. Soft blossoms waft aloft. . . . How astonishing its persistence, the seasonal cycle, spring’s bright burgeoning, resisting doom." It was hard to let this one go! :-) #paperart...

• Post #2759624

  @clive Love this! Brilliant and beautiful.