Makyla
@makyla.bsky.social
Literature, Language & Letterpress.
Poet, artist, printer. Scots Pākehā, she/her, bisexual, T1 Diabetic.
MA English & MVA. PGDip Museum Studies
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ
Poet, artist, printer. Scots Pākehā, she/her, bisexual, T1 Diabetic.
MA English & MVA. PGDip Museum Studies
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ
The latest issue of my newsletter is out today
Threefold Letter
Issue 02
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December 15, 2023 at 10:56 PM
The latest issue of my newsletter is out today
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I don’t have sufficient words to express how much Renée has shaped me as a writer and teacher and (I hope) as a person. She mentored me during my first draft of my first novel and she was incisive, witty and had high expectations of me. Moe mai rā, Renée xxx 💔
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Author and playwright Renée dies, aged 94
Renée only started writing seriously after she turned 50 - using her first name as "the only one she felt was hers".
www.rnz.co.nz
December 11, 2023 at 9:54 AM
I don’t have sufficient words to express how much Renée has shaped me as a writer and teacher and (I hope) as a person. She mentored me during my first draft of my first novel and she was incisive, witty and had high expectations of me. Moe mai rā, Renée xxx 💔
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Freak out your family and friends this Christmas by serving drinks on the murder mushroom coasters!
November 22, 2023 at 2:46 AM
Freak out your family and friends this Christmas by serving drinks on the murder mushroom coasters!
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Anne Boyer has resigned as the poetry editor of the New York Times magazine: “Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse.”
November 16, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Anne Boyer has resigned as the poetry editor of the New York Times magazine: “Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse.”
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Smitten big time with this breathtaking, lifegiving beautiful little poem by @ired0mi.bsky.social. Thank you essa 🙏🏽
November 13, 2023 at 2:05 AM
Smitten big time with this breathtaking, lifegiving beautiful little poem by @ired0mi.bsky.social. Thank you essa 🙏🏽
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"In order for me to write poetry that is not political, I must listen to the birds & in order to hear the birds, the war planes must be silent."
~ Marwan Makhoul, Palestinian poet
~ Marwan Makhoul, Palestinian poet
October 18, 2023 at 4:44 AM
"In order for me to write poetry that is not political, I must listen to the birds & in order to hear the birds, the war planes must be silent."
~ Marwan Makhoul, Palestinian poet
~ Marwan Makhoul, Palestinian poet
I've started a new monthly newsletter. You might like to subscribe!
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ThreeFold Letter
Issue 01
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November 11, 2023 at 7:21 AM
I've started a new monthly newsletter. You might like to subscribe!
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Native skink colony! Many of our lizard species are endangered. Awesome to see a young herpetologist in the making doing such awesome conservation work!
Rare native skink colony discovered by nine-year-old
A rustle in the grass led an observant nine-year-old to discover a rare colony of Hawke's Bay skinks, which were previously thought to have only survived in one fenced area.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 6, 2023 at 4:12 PM
Native skink colony! Many of our lizard species are endangered. Awesome to see a young herpetologist in the making doing such awesome conservation work!
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Aotearoa artist files are magic portals for research + inspiration: exhibition catalogues, reviews, CVs, pricelists... I wrote a blog about them here: bitly.ws/ZhCf #aotearoabooks
November 3, 2023 at 11:47 PM
Aotearoa artist files are magic portals for research + inspiration: exhibition catalogues, reviews, CVs, pricelists... I wrote a blog about them here: bitly.ws/ZhCf #aotearoabooks
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Nobody is killing art in America quite like landlords
November 3, 2023 at 4:14 PM
Nobody is killing art in America quite like landlords
Look, your fireworks suck. They're noisy, stressful, annoying and absolutely underwhelming. Pack it in.
November 2, 2023 at 7:42 AM
Look, your fireworks suck. They're noisy, stressful, annoying and absolutely underwhelming. Pack it in.
My first print using handmade botanical pigments. A fern printed using Tanekaha pigment.
November 1, 2023 at 5:40 AM
My first print using handmade botanical pigments. A fern printed using Tanekaha pigment.
Yahoo! 6 times jabbed!
October 26, 2023 at 1:02 AM
Yahoo! 6 times jabbed!
Hey, maybe Helen White just can't win an electorate.
October 14, 2023 at 8:47 AM
Hey, maybe Helen White just can't win an electorate.
Don't really understand why the pharmacist thinks I suddenly need less insulin? As it happens, being sick, I need twice as much. Have thus far only ever found pharmacists to be a barrier to good care.
September 26, 2023 at 1:48 AM
Don't really understand why the pharmacist thinks I suddenly need less insulin? As it happens, being sick, I need twice as much. Have thus far only ever found pharmacists to be a barrier to good care.
Video Ezy retail staff
Children's party host
Publishing production assistant
Human Resources analyst
Research and teaching assistant
Children's party host
Publishing production assistant
Human Resources analyst
Research and teaching assistant
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
•Lifeguard
•Freelance writer (small business websites)
•Nonprofit director
•Fitness instructor
•Graduate assistant
•Lifeguard
•Freelance writer (small business websites)
•Nonprofit director
•Fitness instructor
•Graduate assistant
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
Computer programmer/analyst
Bookseller in indie children's bkstore
Page for Toronto Public Library
Columnist for Writer's Market (Writer's Digest Books)
Piano & flute teacher
Computer technician
Online community manager
Computer programmer/analyst
Bookseller in indie children's bkstore
Page for Toronto Public Library
Columnist for Writer's Market (Writer's Digest Books)
Piano & flute teacher
Computer technician
Online community manager
September 25, 2023 at 12:45 AM
Video Ezy retail staff
Children's party host
Publishing production assistant
Human Resources analyst
Research and teaching assistant
Children's party host
Publishing production assistant
Human Resources analyst
Research and teaching assistant
I've been at a family funeral and around lots of family for three days without masking and now I'm sick. As an avid mask wearer usually, this is my first respiratory illness in almost 4 years. Feeling especially pro mask right now and also feeling like absolute shit
September 23, 2023 at 11:08 PM
I've been at a family funeral and around lots of family for three days without masking and now I'm sick. As an avid mask wearer usually, this is my first respiratory illness in almost 4 years. Feeling especially pro mask right now and also feeling like absolute shit
I have a big project due so of course my kitchen is spotless.
September 10, 2023 at 11:29 PM
I have a big project due so of course my kitchen is spotless.
Supposed to be writing a report so of course I've spent the last hour making a pretty diagram.
September 6, 2023 at 2:45 AM
Supposed to be writing a report so of course I've spent the last hour making a pretty diagram.
Making tanekaha dye and pigment today. The smell is heavenly.
August 29, 2023 at 2:57 AM
Making tanekaha dye and pigment today. The smell is heavenly.
This is my first ever lake pigment. Working towards the goal of making my own printing ink. Learning as I go.
August 26, 2023 at 3:49 AM
This is my first ever lake pigment. Working towards the goal of making my own printing ink. Learning as I go.
Last week's printing of a poem excerpt which I gave away at a poetry reading on Tuesday. Edition of 35.
August 24, 2023 at 3:55 AM
Last week's printing of a poem excerpt which I gave away at a poetry reading on Tuesday. Edition of 35.