Brian Boyd
@brianacadia.bsky.social
Writer of fiction, poems, and arts journalism. Teacher and forever student.
My article on Gisela McDaniel's light-embodied portraits at Ogunquit Museum of American Art through Nov. 16.
Letting the light take over: Gisela McDaniel portraits in Ogunquit
Explore Gisela McDaniel's first solo exhibition in the U.S. at OMAA, celebrating her CHamoru heritage and artistic vision.
www.amjamboafrica.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My article on Gisela McDaniel's light-embodied portraits at Ogunquit Museum of American Art through Nov. 16.
Fascinating profile of this Swiss artist.
Judith Müller – the forgotten artist from Bern
Born into an artistic milieu, Judith Müller influenced Bern’s art scene for decades. Despite producing public murals, taking part in numerous exhibitions and working to raise the profile of female art...
blog.nationalmuseum.ch
August 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Fascinating profile of this Swiss artist.
Very grateful to have a poem of mine in the summer issue of Maine Arts Journal with an introduction by Betsy Sholl: maineartsjournal.com/brian-boyd-p...
MAJ is a quarterly and free to subscribe!
MAJ is a quarterly and free to subscribe!
July 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Very grateful to have a poem of mine in the summer issue of Maine Arts Journal with an introduction by Betsy Sholl: maineartsjournal.com/brian-boyd-p...
MAJ is a quarterly and free to subscribe!
MAJ is a quarterly and free to subscribe!
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Stage hands working on The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957
June 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Stage hands working on The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957
Reposted by Brian Boyd
Update: the Trump administration has proposed cutting the National Park System by $900 million, about one third of its budget.
Please read/share if you love your national parks!
New from @pamherd.bsky.social & me: A DOGEr is now running the National Park Service.
They were already short of employees to manage record crowds. DOGE has cut 13% and wants to cut 30%.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-vs-a...
New from @pamherd.bsky.social & me: A DOGEr is now running the National Park Service.
They were already short of employees to manage record crowds. DOGE has cut 13% and wants to cut 30%.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-vs-a...
Trump vs. America's National Parks
What a sprained ankle reveals about how badly stretched park workers are
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Update: the Trump administration has proposed cutting the National Park System by $900 million, about one third of its budget.
I saw this amazing one-person play in New York- inspiring, beautifully written and performed!
It is entirely appropriate that on this Mayday our play, *The Return of Benjamin Lay*, should have its first public performance at the @quintessencephl.bsky.social in Philadelphia! Here through May 18; join us! And have a happy international workers’ day!
www.quintessencetheatre.org/thereturnofb...
www.quintessencetheatre.org/thereturnofb...
May 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I saw this amazing one-person play in New York- inspiring, beautifully written and performed!
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'The Windshield, On the Road to Villacoublay.' Henri Matisse painted this view from his Renault in the summer of 1917 while being chauffeured by his son Pierre toward an airport on the outskirts of Paris.
April 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
'The Windshield, On the Road to Villacoublay.' Henri Matisse painted this view from his Renault in the summer of 1917 while being chauffeured by his son Pierre toward an airport on the outskirts of Paris.
No two people ever experience the same event in exactly the same way… I take that back.
what did I just watch???
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
No two people ever experience the same event in exactly the same way… I take that back.
Reposted by Brian Boyd
You see that I will have to rise
And turn round and get back where
My running age will slow for a moment
To let me on. It is a colder
Stretch of water than I remember.
The curlew’s cry travelling still
Kills me fairly…
—WS Graham, “Loch Thom”
#WorldCurlewDay #poetry
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And turn round and get back where
My running age will slow for a moment
To let me on. It is a colder
Stretch of water than I remember.
The curlew’s cry travelling still
Kills me fairly…
—WS Graham, “Loch Thom”
#WorldCurlewDay #poetry
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April 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
You see that I will have to rise
And turn round and get back where
My running age will slow for a moment
To let me on. It is a colder
Stretch of water than I remember.
The curlew’s cry travelling still
Kills me fairly…
—WS Graham, “Loch Thom”
#WorldCurlewDay #poetry
1/3
And turn round and get back where
My running age will slow for a moment
To let me on. It is a colder
Stretch of water than I remember.
The curlew’s cry travelling still
Kills me fairly…
—WS Graham, “Loch Thom”
#WorldCurlewDay #poetry
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I love this novel and his music too - Farina and his wife Mimi Farina, younger sister of Joan Baez, wrote Pack up Your Sorrows.
March 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I love this novel and his music too - Farina and his wife Mimi Farina, younger sister of Joan Baez, wrote Pack up Your Sorrows.
This is not normal
NEW: The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods is (or was) an advisory committee housed within the USDA which provides outside expert advice to advance food safety across the US and across different levels of govt. It was ordered disbanded this afternoon.
March 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is not normal
One of several portraits of Jacob by Modigliani, this one painted in 1916, on the cover of Rosanna Warren’s splendid biography
March 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
One of several portraits of Jacob by Modigliani, this one painted in 1916, on the cover of Rosanna Warren’s splendid biography
“A cloud is a postman between continents/ A primer on exile that the seas,/ Doomed by hell to tearful combat,/ Will not spell out on the sheen of space.”
- from “To Mr. Modigliani to Prove I’m a Poet” by Max Jacob, translated by William Kulik
- from “To Mr. Modigliani to Prove I’m a Poet” by Max Jacob, translated by William Kulik
March 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“A cloud is a postman between continents/ A primer on exile that the seas,/ Doomed by hell to tearful combat,/ Will not spell out on the sheen of space.”
- from “To Mr. Modigliani to Prove I’m a Poet” by Max Jacob, translated by William Kulik
- from “To Mr. Modigliani to Prove I’m a Poet” by Max Jacob, translated by William Kulik
A short story of mine from 2022 - the Felliniesque candies I found in a shop in Carcassonne.
The Better for a Sleep - Litro Magazine
In today's #TuesdayTales, Brian Boyd's characters discuss unusual ice creams.
www.litromagazine.com
November 24, 2024 at 2:40 AM
A short story of mine from 2022 - the Felliniesque candies I found in a shop in Carcassonne.
What an amazing show this was at Bowdoin College Museum of Art - my review in CAA.
Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable and
“The flux of life,” wrote Mina Loy in a letter published in The Transatlantic Review in 1924, “is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears—and you ignore it because you are looking for y...
www.caareviews.org
November 24, 2024 at 2:23 AM
What an amazing show this was at Bowdoin College Museum of Art - my review in CAA.