Eric T. Racher
@ericracher.bsky.social
Words in Exacting Clam, ballast, Apocalypse Confidential, minor literature[s], Socrates on the Beach, Your Impossible Voice, and elsewhere.
Today's post. With many thanks to @henryghenrik.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Today's post. With many thanks to @henryghenrik.bsky.social
Ceramic piece by Sukhburen Narankhuu (Mongolia).
From the Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
From the Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Ceramic piece by Sukhburen Narankhuu (Mongolia).
From the Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
From the Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
From Autobiography by Louis and Celia Zukofsky.
October 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
From Autobiography by Louis and Celia Zukofsky.
Many thanks to Andrew from @version9magazine.bsky.social for publishing these poems.
Here's a sonnet on the intentional fallacy and the nature of the sonnet...
Here's a sonnet on the intentional fallacy and the nature of the sonnet...
October 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Many thanks to Andrew from @version9magazine.bsky.social for publishing these poems.
Here's a sonnet on the intentional fallacy and the nature of the sonnet...
Here's a sonnet on the intentional fallacy and the nature of the sonnet...
October 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Yesterday's post...
A few from Calamari Archive and Bennett's book on Spinoza's Ethics.
A few from Calamari Archive and Bennett's book on Spinoza's Ethics.
October 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Yesterday's post...
A few from Calamari Archive and Bennett's book on Spinoza's Ethics.
A few from Calamari Archive and Bennett's book on Spinoza's Ethics.
And this one, too.
October 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
And this one, too.
From @j-tkelly.bsky.social's More of How to Read the Bible
October 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
From @j-tkelly.bsky.social's More of How to Read the Bible
Sunday afternoon reading...
October 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Sunday afternoon reading...
I have a few poems in Issue 8 of @version9magazine.bsky.social
Grateful to Andrew for putting together this issue.
Read the poem below and others, including a tenzone between ChatGPT and DeepSeek here: version9magazine.com/issues/
Grateful to Andrew for putting together this issue.
Read the poem below and others, including a tenzone between ChatGPT and DeepSeek here: version9magazine.com/issues/
September 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I have a few poems in Issue 8 of @version9magazine.bsky.social
Grateful to Andrew for putting together this issue.
Read the poem below and others, including a tenzone between ChatGPT and DeepSeek here: version9magazine.com/issues/
Grateful to Andrew for putting together this issue.
Read the poem below and others, including a tenzone between ChatGPT and DeepSeek here: version9magazine.com/issues/
I have some new work out in @rangermagazine.bsky.social . Here is a visual sonnet, and some translations into the language of thunder from Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Many thanks to editor David A. Bishop.
These and a few other pieces here: www.rangermagazine.net/racher_issue12
Many thanks to editor David A. Bishop.
These and a few other pieces here: www.rangermagazine.net/racher_issue12
September 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I have some new work out in @rangermagazine.bsky.social . Here is a visual sonnet, and some translations into the language of thunder from Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Many thanks to editor David A. Bishop.
These and a few other pieces here: www.rangermagazine.net/racher_issue12
Many thanks to editor David A. Bishop.
These and a few other pieces here: www.rangermagazine.net/racher_issue12
Many thanks to @wordkunst.bsky.social and @thearsonista.bsky.social for publishing my Seven Translations of Maffeo Barberini's Sonetto XXXII.
Here is the original text together with a more traditional translation of mine published in Better than Starbucks a few years ago.
Here is the original text together with a more traditional translation of mine published in Better than Starbucks a few years ago.
September 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Many thanks to @wordkunst.bsky.social and @thearsonista.bsky.social for publishing my Seven Translations of Maffeo Barberini's Sonetto XXXII.
Here is the original text together with a more traditional translation of mine published in Better than Starbucks a few years ago.
Here is the original text together with a more traditional translation of mine published in Better than Starbucks a few years ago.
Today's post, from @exactingclam.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Today's post, from @exactingclam.bsky.social
Today's post. From @new-sinews.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Today's post. From @new-sinews.bsky.social
Grateful to @saudaminideo.bsky.social and Philippe Charlier for publishing a poem of mine, Angelus Novus, in the latest issue of RIC journal.
Engraved in tongueless, earless days
that bleed the brackish sky,
the angel stood, a dissonance...
To read the rest, go to ricjournal.com/2025/08/27/a...
Engraved in tongueless, earless days
that bleed the brackish sky,
the angel stood, a dissonance...
To read the rest, go to ricjournal.com/2025/08/27/a...
August 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Grateful to @saudaminideo.bsky.social and Philippe Charlier for publishing a poem of mine, Angelus Novus, in the latest issue of RIC journal.
Engraved in tongueless, earless days
that bleed the brackish sky,
the angel stood, a dissonance...
To read the rest, go to ricjournal.com/2025/08/27/a...
Engraved in tongueless, earless days
that bleed the brackish sky,
the angel stood, a dissonance...
To read the rest, go to ricjournal.com/2025/08/27/a...
Today's post. Many thanks to @henryghenrik.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Today's post. Many thanks to @henryghenrik.bsky.social
Daugavpils synagogue and museum.
August 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Daugavpils synagogue and museum.
Ruins of the synagogue of Višķi. Photo of the synagogue in 1936.
August 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Ruins of the synagogue of Višķi. Photo of the synagogue in 1936.
Memorial to the Jews of Višķi and Dagda.
"In memory of the July 1941 tragedy of the Jews of Višķi and Dagda."
"In memory of the July 1941 tragedy of the Jews of Višķi and Dagda."
August 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Memorial to the Jews of Višķi and Dagda.
"In memory of the July 1941 tragedy of the Jews of Višķi and Dagda."
"In memory of the July 1941 tragedy of the Jews of Višķi and Dagda."
