Guillermo Parra
@venepoetics.bsky.social
🇻🇪 🇺🇸 Poet & translator. Clearwater, FL
A bridge from 1931 in Old Southeast St Pete yesterday
January 18, 2026 at 10:48 PM
A bridge from 1931 in Old Southeast St Pete yesterday
Looking across the Bay at Tampa from St. Pete
January 17, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Looking across the Bay at Tampa from St. Pete
Gabriel Payares writes a list of 9 recommended books by contemporary Venezuelan writers in English translation. He includes my English translation of Eleonora Requena’s collection of poetry, Textos por fuera / Outside Texts (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). 🇻🇪
9 Venezuelan Books That Imagine Home from Abroad - Electric Literature
These diaspora authors capture the intimate history and complex reality of Venezuela
electricliterature.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Gabriel Payares writes a list of 9 recommended books by contemporary Venezuelan writers in English translation. He includes my English translation of Eleonora Requena’s collection of poetry, Textos por fuera / Outside Texts (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). 🇻🇪
Rest in peace, Bob Weir.
January 11, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Rest in peace, Bob Weir.
Poem draft fragment of “Grateful Dead,” the third one I’ve written w/ that title, about my years seeing them play between 1988-1994.
January 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Poem draft fragment of “Grateful Dead,” the third one I’ve written w/ that title, about my years seeing them play between 1988-1994.
Intracoastal Gulf vibrations
January 9, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Intracoastal Gulf vibrations
The Smiths (poem draft, 12/15/25)
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The Smiths (poem draft, 12/15/25)
After reading the first chapter of Paul Auster’s Moon Palace, I’m already in love with this book.
December 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
After reading the first chapter of Paul Auster’s Moon Palace, I’m already in love with this book.
Hello 55 and a full moon tonight.
Hanging out with my parents in NYC c. 1973.
Hanging out with my parents in NYC c. 1973.
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Hello 55 and a full moon tonight.
Hanging out with my parents in NYC c. 1973.
Hanging out with my parents in NYC c. 1973.
I finished reading Laura van den Berg’s novel State of Paradise (2024). I especially enjoyed its focus on the I-4 corridor of Florida as part of the novel’s landscape.
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I finished reading Laura van den Berg’s novel State of Paradise (2024). I especially enjoyed its focus on the I-4 corridor of Florida as part of the novel’s landscape.
Saturday night afterglow on the Gulf of Mexico.
July 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Saturday night afterglow on the Gulf of Mexico.
Reposted by Guillermo Parra
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Last night on Stevenson Creek.
June 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Last night on Stevenson Creek.
Now I’m at chapter 61 of Moby-Dick. I took a 🚲 ride to Old Clearwater Bay tonight. Melville makes you notice the sea more closely.
May 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Now I’m at chapter 61 of Moby-Dick. I took a 🚲 ride to Old Clearwater Bay tonight. Melville makes you notice the sea more closely.
My rereading of Moby Dick continues. What a vastly entertaining & philosophically profound novel it is, Melville is like a high art soap opera writer, each chapter pulling you into the next.
May 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
My rereading of Moby Dick continues. What a vastly entertaining & philosophically profound novel it is, Melville is like a high art soap opera writer, each chapter pulling you into the next.
Gulf of Mexico moonrise on Indian Rocks Beach tonight.
April 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Gulf of Mexico moonrise on Indian Rocks Beach tonight.
Cambridge Common (poem draft, 4/17/25)
April 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Cambridge Common (poem draft, 4/17/25)
Philip Lamantia (1967/2025)
April 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Philip Lamantia (1967/2025)
In the rail yards on tonight’s ride 🚲
March 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
In the rail yards on tonight’s ride 🚲
Mourning doves connect me to old memories of hearing them as a kid in the trees in Massachusetts.
March 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Mourning doves connect me to old memories of hearing them as a kid in the trees in Massachusetts.
Afterglow sentinels
February 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Afterglow sentinels
Trump is a Russian asset.
‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Trump is a Russian asset.
It’s my patriotic duty to denounce traitors like Trump and Musk, who are working for Putin.
February 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It’s my patriotic duty to denounce traitors like Trump and Musk, who are working for Putin.
The line can sustain itself in the wind-
swept landscape of hills & valleys
where are we on this map?
I followed the route along the wood
Place holders in
Could one be put together
from memory, the Gulf air
swept landscape of hills & valleys
where are we on this map?
I followed the route along the wood
Place holders in
Could one be put together
from memory, the Gulf air
February 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The line can sustain itself in the wind-
swept landscape of hills & valleys
where are we on this map?
I followed the route along the wood
Place holders in
Could one be put together
from memory, the Gulf air
swept landscape of hills & valleys
where are we on this map?
I followed the route along the wood
Place holders in
Could one be put together
from memory, the Gulf air
Sunday night downtown
February 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Sunday night downtown