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edits ++ codes ++ designs @new-sinews.bsky.social // https://letterboxd.com/illepitaph // PLANE OF CONSUMMATE FINITUDE out now
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{ 11 / 14 / 2024 ~ 11:22 pm }
bro your fresco looks as crisp as the day it was finished some 500 years ago.. i can just smell the mountain air; the wefts & warps of fog ... the moss the streams.. & the divinities craggily frolicking ... time & space are all but bleh-formalities :)
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Our latest issue finds us rushing through time and space courtesy of new work from @geoliminal.bsky.social Elisabeth Sheffield, @israelbonilla.bsky.social Roberto Ontiveros, @supernaturalfeat.com @juliaevem.bsky.social Stephen Cicirelli, Jaryd Porter, Joyce Meggett, @addisonzeller.bsky.social
Issue 33 | Fall 2025 | Your Impossible Voice
Our latest issue includes new work from Eric Williams, Elisabeth Sheffield, Israel Bonilla, Roberto Ontiveros, Dan Weaver, Julia Meinwald, Stephen Cicirelli, Jaryd Porter, Joyce Meggett, Addison Zelle...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
not a tangential but an essential text—you know you're special when disparate poems from your supposedly fallow period amounts to such an accidentally substantial collection.. you could do way worse for Rilke in English than just reading all of Snow's translations
November 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Artista ignoto di scuola tedesca
Le cascate di Tivoli
Seconda metà del XVIII secolo
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Duct Head
September 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
some of you.......
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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boatyard
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
tfw the absence of acknowledgment is but the seed of contention that can't but bloom into a fullblown vegetable of estrangement—or, um, whatever!
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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wrote an article on Peter Weiss' The Aesthetics of Resistance cos I wasn't seeing much criticism that knew the history analoguehumanist.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/p...
Peter Weiss’ The Aesthetics of Resistance
‘When things are beyond rational comprehension…that’s the very time we must apply our reason. It’s our only weapon’. —Trotsky in Exile The Pergamon Altar is the occasion for the unnamed narrator of…
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October 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"Every child knows from fairy tales that one must run off guilelessly and should turn one's attention to everything without prejudice, in a friendly manner."
October 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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✴️ TOTAL ART ✴️ A book against violence ✴️ Available this November from @lavink-dialogos.bsky.social ✴️ “All Harm Is Self Harm” ✴️
October 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
address change !!! please see the new address reflecting on the flier below ... 1019 E. Washington St Iowa City.. & yet the event remains ... 6 days from today 👀 ✏️ 🎤
September 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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rat hotel, vic-20 (1983) archive.org/details/elec...
June 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
check it out: flyer i made for an Iowa City reading in which i am partaking.. 2 weeks from today—book launch for
@vikhinao.bsky.social's MY ARDENT LOVE FOR THE PENCIL ... out today from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social.. w/bluesky escapee @laura-n-paul.bsky.social!! be there or be all-too-geometrical ✏️👀🎤
September 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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My Ardent Love for the Pencil by @vikhinao.bsky.social is out today. A gorgeous collection of poems and photos, it’s available from Asterism, Bookshop, B&N, Amazon, and more. Order direct from us and you get a free sticker and zines and 20% off w/ LOVEFORTHEPENCIL

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My Ardent Love for the Pencil — Malarkey
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September 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
ruminating on the uncanny efficiency of how just about all of the uniquely annoying & even sketchy things about the united states "indie lit" world are uniquely embodied in 1 single individual ... who i happen to know! if only from a distance.. a refreshingly necessary distance :)
September 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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September 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
bro you've guessed in the space of a single instant that everything is @ end between us; & in the space of yet 1 more instant, the precise reason why ... the person who stands in front of me is simply not the person i've seen hitherto but a rather different personage indeed......
September 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Very excited to share the official announcement of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!

Official Double--Negative announcement here: www.instagram.com/p/DOIx9MGkWxg

Add it on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Order it on Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
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September 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
dunno who needs to hear this but ... "glitch-garlicky anchovy-parsley pappardelle"
September 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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A dialogue on Luigi Pirandello's The Late Mattia Pascal: israelabonilla.wixsite.com/website/post...
August 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
for all of Ferrante's exposure i still believe this is quite an "underrated" "craft" book.. plenty of insight into the "writing process" but more urgently: there's an overarching critique of the median mediasphere.. oddly sustaining mix of the thorny & the formal
August 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM