Anna Cza
@globalpoetics.bsky.social
Global Poetics podcast (looking for a new home)
Art, books, poetry, boiling twigs in a pot of citrus rinds purely for divination purposes
Art, books, poetry, boiling twigs in a pot of citrus rinds purely for divination purposes
Reposted by Anna Cza
I like this glorious list poem from Martin Stannard’s forthcoming Collected Poems.
January 24, 2026 at 11:05 AM
I like this glorious list poem from Martin Stannard’s forthcoming Collected Poems.
We each spoke a spell of stone
and in her gloom heard prayers turn poems.
Ask her, Bríd, what will be
come of us?
Listen. Liquid, the syllables;
the echo, luminous.
-Doireann Ní Ghríofa
#imbolc #JohnDuncan #Goddess #IrishMythology #brigid #brigit #TuathaDeDanann #birch #prechristian #pagan #poem
and in her gloom heard prayers turn poems.
Ask her, Bríd, what will be
come of us?
Listen. Liquid, the syllables;
the echo, luminous.
-Doireann Ní Ghríofa
#imbolc #JohnDuncan #Goddess #IrishMythology #brigid #brigit #TuathaDeDanann #birch #prechristian #pagan #poem
January 24, 2026 at 3:25 PM
We each spoke a spell of stone
and in her gloom heard prayers turn poems.
Ask her, Bríd, what will be
come of us?
Listen. Liquid, the syllables;
the echo, luminous.
-Doireann Ní Ghríofa
#imbolc #JohnDuncan #Goddess #IrishMythology #brigid #brigit #TuathaDeDanann #birch #prechristian #pagan #poem
and in her gloom heard prayers turn poems.
Ask her, Bríd, what will be
come of us?
Listen. Liquid, the syllables;
the echo, luminous.
-Doireann Ní Ghríofa
#imbolc #JohnDuncan #Goddess #IrishMythology #brigid #brigit #TuathaDeDanann #birch #prechristian #pagan #poem
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are they not monsters?
January 22, 2026 at 12:08 AM
are they not monsters?
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you don't own a poem; if you're lucky, you can catch one, like a firefly, a cold. it's an act of fixed transience. the words in print don't change. you do.
January 10, 2026 at 6:50 AM
you don't own a poem; if you're lucky, you can catch one, like a firefly, a cold. it's an act of fixed transience. the words in print don't change. you do.
nothing will fix the dying world, but I’m hoping this Elliot Smith cover will help the new one be born
Fleet Foxes - Angel In The Snow (from the “Oh. What. Fun.” Soundtrack)
YouTube video by Fleet Foxes
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 7:23 PM
nothing will fix the dying world, but I’m hoping this Elliot Smith cover will help the new one be born
now I can’t believe—
that the bible & qur’an & bhagavad gita … exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”—
all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as:
life is merely
to ovum and sperm
and where those two meet
and how often and how well
and what dies there
that the bible & qur’an & bhagavad gita … exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”—
all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as:
life is merely
to ovum and sperm
and where those two meet
and how often and how well
and what dies there
2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
poets.org
January 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
now I can’t believe—
that the bible & qur’an & bhagavad gita … exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”—
all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as:
life is merely
to ovum and sperm
and where those two meet
and how often and how well
and what dies there
that the bible & qur’an & bhagavad gita … exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”—
all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as:
life is merely
to ovum and sperm
and where those two meet
and how often and how well
and what dies there
Someone once said "Happy Throuple Day!" and I can't unsee it.
Blessings to all who celebrate.
Salzburg Missal, C15, Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 15708, f. 63v.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay #Theophany #LoveWillWin #Jan6 #DayOfLights #GreekOrthodox #ηΗμέρατωνΦώτων #Bogoyavlenie #DíaDeLosReyes
Blessings to all who celebrate.
Salzburg Missal, C15, Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 15708, f. 63v.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay #Theophany #LoveWillWin #Jan6 #DayOfLights #GreekOrthodox #ηΗμέρατωνΦώτων #Bogoyavlenie #DíaDeLosReyes
January 6, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Someone once said "Happy Throuple Day!" and I can't unsee it.
Blessings to all who celebrate.
Salzburg Missal, C15, Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 15708, f. 63v.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay #Theophany #LoveWillWin #Jan6 #DayOfLights #GreekOrthodox #ηΗμέρατωνΦώτων #Bogoyavlenie #DíaDeLosReyes
Blessings to all who celebrate.
Salzburg Missal, C15, Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 15708, f. 63v.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay #Theophany #LoveWillWin #Jan6 #DayOfLights #GreekOrthodox #ηΗμέρατωνΦώτων #Bogoyavlenie #DíaDeLosReyes
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William Blake's depiction of the Circle of Traitors in Hell from Dante's Inferno, 1827 www.artic.edu/artworks/233...
January 6, 2026 at 1:18 PM
William Blake's depiction of the Circle of Traitors in Hell from Dante's Inferno, 1827 www.artic.edu/artworks/233...
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Sometimes I open a new poetry manuscript and Adobe asks me if I’d like an “AI” summary of the document.
I wish there was a way to make it clear that I’d rather have plague-carrying squirrels gnaw off my thumbs.
I wish there was a way to make it clear that I’d rather have plague-carrying squirrels gnaw off my thumbs.
January 4, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Sometimes I open a new poetry manuscript and Adobe asks me if I’d like an “AI” summary of the document.
I wish there was a way to make it clear that I’d rather have plague-carrying squirrels gnaw off my thumbs.
I wish there was a way to make it clear that I’d rather have plague-carrying squirrels gnaw off my thumbs.
Come, Revealer of the hero-path.
We shall no longer cast thee away.
May our entire life become a ceaseless worship...all our acts a continuous service to the Mother, full of love, full of energy.
#Durga Stotra (1909), Sri Aurobindo
trans. Nolini Kanta Gupta
#GoddessPoetry #YearOfTheMother #poem
We shall no longer cast thee away.
May our entire life become a ceaseless worship...all our acts a continuous service to the Mother, full of love, full of energy.
#Durga Stotra (1909), Sri Aurobindo
trans. Nolini Kanta Gupta
#GoddessPoetry #YearOfTheMother #poem
January 2, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Come, Revealer of the hero-path.
We shall no longer cast thee away.
May our entire life become a ceaseless worship...all our acts a continuous service to the Mother, full of love, full of energy.
#Durga Stotra (1909), Sri Aurobindo
trans. Nolini Kanta Gupta
#GoddessPoetry #YearOfTheMother #poem
We shall no longer cast thee away.
May our entire life become a ceaseless worship...all our acts a continuous service to the Mother, full of love, full of energy.
#Durga Stotra (1909), Sri Aurobindo
trans. Nolini Kanta Gupta
#GoddessPoetry #YearOfTheMother #poem
“Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate/That Time will come and take my love away.”
…but blessèd New Year, one and all!
🫖 🪩 📖
#Bard #Shakespeare #sonnet #HelenVendler #vintage #tealeaves #teacup #NYE #NewYearsEve #chronos #kairos #TempusEdaxRerum #AuldLangSyne #countown #poetrysky
…but blessèd New Year, one and all!
🫖 🪩 📖
#Bard #Shakespeare #sonnet #HelenVendler #vintage #tealeaves #teacup #NYE #NewYearsEve #chronos #kairos #TempusEdaxRerum #AuldLangSyne #countown #poetrysky
December 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate/That Time will come and take my love away.”
…but blessèd New Year, one and all!
🫖 🪩 📖
#Bard #Shakespeare #sonnet #HelenVendler #vintage #tealeaves #teacup #NYE #NewYearsEve #chronos #kairos #TempusEdaxRerum #AuldLangSyne #countown #poetrysky
…but blessèd New Year, one and all!
🫖 🪩 📖
#Bard #Shakespeare #sonnet #HelenVendler #vintage #tealeaves #teacup #NYE #NewYearsEve #chronos #kairos #TempusEdaxRerum #AuldLangSyne #countown #poetrysky
synaloepha: the merging of two syllables into one
Los cabellos que-al oro-oscurecían.
[The hair that endarkened the gold.]
-Garcilaso de la Vega d.1536
Not quite the same, but I thought this lady's name was "Anna Rundell" (d.1649) for a long time
#hendecasyllable #hendecasyllabic #poetrysky
Los cabellos que-al oro-oscurecían.
[The hair that endarkened the gold.]
-Garcilaso de la Vega d.1536
Not quite the same, but I thought this lady's name was "Anna Rundell" (d.1649) for a long time
#hendecasyllable #hendecasyllabic #poetrysky
December 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
synaloepha: the merging of two syllables into one
Los cabellos que-al oro-oscurecían.
[The hair that endarkened the gold.]
-Garcilaso de la Vega d.1536
Not quite the same, but I thought this lady's name was "Anna Rundell" (d.1649) for a long time
#hendecasyllable #hendecasyllabic #poetrysky
Los cabellos que-al oro-oscurecían.
[The hair that endarkened the gold.]
-Garcilaso de la Vega d.1536
Not quite the same, but I thought this lady's name was "Anna Rundell" (d.1649) for a long time
#hendecasyllable #hendecasyllabic #poetrysky
Hanging up all the season's #Krampusnacht cards on the wall.
"Then he’ll bind them in chains, throw them in his dank sack,
Take them deep in to hell, and they’ll never get back" - Ann Hart
🖤 Anapestic Tetrameter 🖤
#poetry #poetrysky
rattle.com/krampusnacht...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
"Then he’ll bind them in chains, throw them in his dank sack,
Take them deep in to hell, and they’ll never get back" - Ann Hart
🖤 Anapestic Tetrameter 🖤
#poetry #poetrysky
rattle.com/krampusnacht...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Arnold Nechansky - Krampus Card - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
www.metmuseum.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Hanging up all the season's #Krampusnacht cards on the wall.
"Then he’ll bind them in chains, throw them in his dank sack,
Take them deep in to hell, and they’ll never get back" - Ann Hart
🖤 Anapestic Tetrameter 🖤
#poetry #poetrysky
rattle.com/krampusnacht...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
"Then he’ll bind them in chains, throw them in his dank sack,
Take them deep in to hell, and they’ll never get back" - Ann Hart
🖤 Anapestic Tetrameter 🖤
#poetry #poetrysky
rattle.com/krampusnacht...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Do we all agree that there's an implicit badass ranking amongst letters? And that these are remarkably similar across alphabet systems?
Roman
1. Z
2. X
3. Q
Arabic
1. ق
2. ظ
3. ك
Purely here to ruffle feathers on this #SnowDay
#alphabet #alphabets #writingsystems #language #phonemes #poetry
Roman
1. Z
2. X
3. Q
Arabic
1. ق
2. ظ
3. ك
Purely here to ruffle feathers on this #SnowDay
#alphabet #alphabets #writingsystems #language #phonemes #poetry
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Do we all agree that there's an implicit badass ranking amongst letters? And that these are remarkably similar across alphabet systems?
Roman
1. Z
2. X
3. Q
Arabic
1. ق
2. ظ
3. ك
Purely here to ruffle feathers on this #SnowDay
#alphabet #alphabets #writingsystems #language #phonemes #poetry
Roman
1. Z
2. X
3. Q
Arabic
1. ق
2. ظ
3. ك
Purely here to ruffle feathers on this #SnowDay
#alphabet #alphabets #writingsystems #language #phonemes #poetry
palinode: i take it back!
Confess(ion): I’m starting to think I have an attraction to
impossibility – tonight, the sky is a punched-out molar,
& here I imagine a desire vast enough to bleed & float for –
when you text me i love you, i drift to sleep & leave you on seen
- @intifadabatata.bsky.social
Confess(ion): I’m starting to think I have an attraction to
impossibility – tonight, the sky is a punched-out molar,
& here I imagine a desire vast enough to bleed & float for –
when you text me i love you, i drift to sleep & leave you on seen
- @intifadabatata.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
palinode: i take it back!
Confess(ion): I’m starting to think I have an attraction to
impossibility – tonight, the sky is a punched-out molar,
& here I imagine a desire vast enough to bleed & float for –
when you text me i love you, i drift to sleep & leave you on seen
- @intifadabatata.bsky.social
Confess(ion): I’m starting to think I have an attraction to
impossibility – tonight, the sky is a punched-out molar,
& here I imagine a desire vast enough to bleed & float for –
when you text me i love you, i drift to sleep & leave you on seen
- @intifadabatata.bsky.social
#anamorphosis in poetry? a matter of looking
To'our bodies turn we then, that so
Weak men on love reveal'd may look;
Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
-The Ecstasy, J. Donne
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Anamorphic art by Thomas Quinn.
To'our bodies turn we then, that so
Weak men on love reveal'd may look;
Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
-The Ecstasy, J. Donne
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Anamorphic art by Thomas Quinn.
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
#anamorphosis in poetry? a matter of looking
To'our bodies turn we then, that so
Weak men on love reveal'd may look;
Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
-The Ecstasy, J. Donne
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Anamorphic art by Thomas Quinn.
To'our bodies turn we then, that so
Weak men on love reveal'd may look;
Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
-The Ecstasy, J. Donne
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Anamorphic art by Thomas Quinn.
Reposted by Anna Cza
happy #smallpoemsunday
this is invite by melita matsinhe, translated by beth hickling-moore from mozambican portuguese :0 i think it's so beautiful and vital and mysterious and a real celebration of life on earth!
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
this is invite by melita matsinhe, translated by beth hickling-moore from mozambican portuguese :0 i think it's so beautiful and vital and mysterious and a real celebration of life on earth!
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
happy #smallpoemsunday
this is invite by melita matsinhe, translated by beth hickling-moore from mozambican portuguese :0 i think it's so beautiful and vital and mysterious and a real celebration of life on earth!
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
this is invite by melita matsinhe, translated by beth hickling-moore from mozambican portuguese :0 i think it's so beautiful and vital and mysterious and a real celebration of life on earth!
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Don't catch a leopard by the tail, but if you do, don't let it go.
#Ethiopian proverb
sem-ena-werq
#Amharic: ሰምና ወርቅ
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/08...
#Ethiopian proverb
sem-ena-werq
#Amharic: ሰምና ወርቅ
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/08...
Wax and Gold and Gold by Mihret Sibhat
August 3, 2023 – “‘Remember the prostitute I was ministering to?’ I said.”
www.theparisreview.org
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Don't catch a leopard by the tail, but if you do, don't let it go.
#Ethiopian proverb
sem-ena-werq
#Amharic: ሰምና ወርቅ
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/08...
#Ethiopian proverb
sem-ena-werq
#Amharic: ሰምና ወርቅ
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/08...
quipu / khipu : knot-writing, record keeping by knots
#inca #fabricpoetry #textilepoetry #knotwork #writingsystem #datasystem #poetry #poetrysky
Larco Museum, Lima, Peru
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/158...
#inca #fabricpoetry #textilepoetry #knotwork #writingsystem #datasystem #poetry #poetrysky
Larco Museum, Lima, Peru
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/158...
November 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
quipu / khipu : knot-writing, record keeping by knots
#inca #fabricpoetry #textilepoetry #knotwork #writingsystem #datasystem #poetry #poetrysky
Larco Museum, Lima, Peru
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/158...
#inca #fabricpoetry #textilepoetry #knotwork #writingsystem #datasystem #poetry #poetrysky
Larco Museum, Lima, Peru
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/158...
Reposted by Anna Cza
Am I the first law professor wanting to assign parts of this book to law students, esp. the Introduction by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Am I the first law professor wanting to assign parts of this book to law students, esp. the Introduction by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
Waiting for this to show up in one of those “If you can identify these people, you’re as old as the hills!” buzzfeed clickbait quizzes.
#IDidntInhale #usedbooks #secondstorybooks #smallbookshops #smallbookstores #shopsmall #shoplocal #bookgifts #givebooks #resellbooks #bookresale #independentbooks
#IDidntInhale #usedbooks #secondstorybooks #smallbookshops #smallbookstores #shopsmall #shoplocal #bookgifts #givebooks #resellbooks #bookresale #independentbooks
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Waiting for this to show up in one of those “If you can identify these people, you’re as old as the hills!” buzzfeed clickbait quizzes.
#IDidntInhale #usedbooks #secondstorybooks #smallbookshops #smallbookstores #shopsmall #shoplocal #bookgifts #givebooks #resellbooks #bookresale #independentbooks
#IDidntInhale #usedbooks #secondstorybooks #smallbookshops #smallbookstores #shopsmall #shoplocal #bookgifts #givebooks #resellbooks #bookresale #independentbooks
As the clocks turn again, the old debate rears its stubborn head:
Should we abolish time?
#daylightsavings
Should we abolish time?
#daylightsavings
November 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
As the clocks turn again, the old debate rears its stubborn head:
Should we abolish time?
#daylightsavings
Should we abolish time?
#daylightsavings
October 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Limerence has become a demon in mental health chat in the last decade. Yes, limerence removes one from the wheel of capitalism & the social bonds deemed acceptable therein, oh no.
#Limerence also gives us humanity’s best art & a lens through which to view the most tangled aspects of the self.
#Limerence also gives us humanity’s best art & a lens through which to view the most tangled aspects of the self.
A neuroscientist explains how to break free from romantic infatuation — NPR
Academic and author Tom Bellamy, author of the book Smitten, explains how to recognize the signs of limerence, a romantic obsession characterized by extreme emotional highs and lows.
apple.news
September 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Limerence has become a demon in mental health chat in the last decade. Yes, limerence removes one from the wheel of capitalism & the social bonds deemed acceptable therein, oh no.
#Limerence also gives us humanity’s best art & a lens through which to view the most tangled aspects of the self.
#Limerence also gives us humanity’s best art & a lens through which to view the most tangled aspects of the self.
If there's not eye liner and caviar sticks all mixed up with the highlighters in your desk organizer or pen cup, are you even alive? I ask.
September 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
If there's not eye liner and caviar sticks all mixed up with the highlighters in your desk organizer or pen cup, are you even alive? I ask.