Michael Martínez
@mmartinez.bsky.social
‘Verse’ (three short ‘collections’) dealing with movement, migration, remembering & forgetting. Born & live England. Into photography,films & unusual spaces.
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https://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/michaelmartinez
Pinned
Reposted by Michael Martínez
Reposted by Michael Martínez
‘Whatever lost ghosts flare,
Damned, howling in their shrouds across the moor
Rave on the leash of the starving mind
Which peoples the bare room, the blank, untenanted air.’
📕 Sylvia Plath, November Graveyard
🖼️ Leonora Carrington, Samain
#BookWormSat #ghosts #poetry
Damned, howling in their shrouds across the moor
Rave on the leash of the starving mind
Which peoples the bare room, the blank, untenanted air.’
📕 Sylvia Plath, November Graveyard
🖼️ Leonora Carrington, Samain
#BookWormSat #ghosts #poetry
October 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
‘Whatever lost ghosts flare,
Damned, howling in their shrouds across the moor
Rave on the leash of the starving mind
Which peoples the bare room, the blank, untenanted air.’
📕 Sylvia Plath, November Graveyard
🖼️ Leonora Carrington, Samain
#BookWormSat #ghosts #poetry
Damned, howling in their shrouds across the moor
Rave on the leash of the starving mind
Which peoples the bare room, the blank, untenanted air.’
📕 Sylvia Plath, November Graveyard
🖼️ Leonora Carrington, Samain
#BookWormSat #ghosts #poetry
Time and surveillance
We cannot have one without the other apparently
We cannot have one without the other apparently
October 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Time and surveillance
We cannot have one without the other apparently
We cannot have one without the other apparently
States of mind and upside down worlds.
August 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
States of mind and upside down worlds.
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Comienzo
a perder instantes.
A perderme.
Una décima de segundo.
Un milésimo de silencio.
Nada me despoja.
Todo me desnuda.
Es lo infinito que regresa.
Aprendo
a habitar el esplendor
de la sombra.
Ana Emilia Lahittea, argentina, 1921-2013
Photo by Lynn Skordal
a perder instantes.
A perderme.
Una décima de segundo.
Un milésimo de silencio.
Nada me despoja.
Todo me desnuda.
Es lo infinito que regresa.
Aprendo
a habitar el esplendor
de la sombra.
Ana Emilia Lahittea, argentina, 1921-2013
Photo by Lynn Skordal
July 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Comienzo
a perder instantes.
A perderme.
Una décima de segundo.
Un milésimo de silencio.
Nada me despoja.
Todo me desnuda.
Es lo infinito que regresa.
Aprendo
a habitar el esplendor
de la sombra.
Ana Emilia Lahittea, argentina, 1921-2013
Photo by Lynn Skordal
a perder instantes.
A perderme.
Una décima de segundo.
Un milésimo de silencio.
Nada me despoja.
Todo me desnuda.
Es lo infinito que regresa.
Aprendo
a habitar el esplendor
de la sombra.
Ana Emilia Lahittea, argentina, 1921-2013
Photo by Lynn Skordal
Great book and whilst experimental is very nuanced
July 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Great book and whilst experimental is very nuanced
Conde writes about class and degradation in a way that combines an explicit political agenda and quite subtle literary framing. It is not crass or partisan in a crude sense but is committed and delicately presented.
June 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Conde writes about class and degradation in a way that combines an explicit political agenda and quite subtle literary framing. It is not crass or partisan in a crude sense but is committed and delicately presented.
A part of my new collection.
My fourth endeavour coming out of some common concerns and inspiration by others.
Just closing off the four collection soon.
My fourth endeavour coming out of some common concerns and inspiration by others.
Just closing off the four collection soon.
February 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A part of my new collection.
My fourth endeavour coming out of some common concerns and inspiration by others.
Just closing off the four collection soon.
My fourth endeavour coming out of some common concerns and inspiration by others.
Just closing off the four collection soon.
Southern English coasts and the piers that reach out under the moon
Deal Kent tonight
Deal Kent tonight
January 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Southern English coasts and the piers that reach out under the moon
Deal Kent tonight
Deal Kent tonight
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Shut it down
close the door
on the word for a bus station
leave the door swinging
and the pigeon pecking
on damp concrete
and edit out the
‘sun rays’ and
replace it with
‘grey Anglican clouds’
so your
protagonist is
forever stuck waiting
for the tired coaches
whose wheels
you punctured
close the door
on the word for a bus station
leave the door swinging
and the pigeon pecking
on damp concrete
and edit out the
‘sun rays’ and
replace it with
‘grey Anglican clouds’
so your
protagonist is
forever stuck waiting
for the tired coaches
whose wheels
you punctured
January 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Shut it down
close the door
on the word for a bus station
leave the door swinging
and the pigeon pecking
on damp concrete
and edit out the
‘sun rays’ and
replace it with
‘grey Anglican clouds’
so your
protagonist is
forever stuck waiting
for the tired coaches
whose wheels
you punctured
close the door
on the word for a bus station
leave the door swinging
and the pigeon pecking
on damp concrete
and edit out the
‘sun rays’ and
replace it with
‘grey Anglican clouds’
so your
protagonist is
forever stuck waiting
for the tired coaches
whose wheels
you punctured
The back of Bayswater
Smiley’s land from long ago
Smiley’s land from long ago
January 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The back of Bayswater
Smiley’s land from long ago
Smiley’s land from long ago
When you are stuck in a writing rut but it’s due to the challenge of proofing and rereading and dreading the moment of closure. That is to say there are no more u turns or sidetracking or revising a word over and over. The violence of closure.
January 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
When you are stuck in a writing rut but it’s due to the challenge of proofing and rereading and dreading the moment of closure. That is to say there are no more u turns or sidetracking or revising a word over and over. The violence of closure.
Reposted by Michael Martínez
A poem about working class frustrations.
My submission for #PoemsAbout #WildWind
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry.bsky.social
#poetry #poetsofbluesky
My submission for #PoemsAbout #WildWind
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry.bsky.social
#poetry #poetsofbluesky
December 20, 2024 at 12:49 PM
A poem about working class frustrations.
My submission for #PoemsAbout #WildWind
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry.bsky.social
#poetry #poetsofbluesky
My submission for #PoemsAbout #WildWind
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry.bsky.social
#poetry #poetsofbluesky
Reposted by Michael Martínez
A companion to our history lists, here's a list of books, chapters, and articles published in 2024 in lit studies by scholars working off the tenure track. Compiled by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social.
2024 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List
A companion list for lit studies scholars.
contingentmagazine.org
December 8, 2024 at 5:33 PM
A companion to our history lists, here's a list of books, chapters, and articles published in 2024 in lit studies by scholars working off the tenure track. Compiled by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social.
Contemporary poetry is very outputs driven: hit targets, get the turnover, go big on the journals, etc. It’s sometimes about publishing but not being read or not bothering to explain what your trajectory is.
You get a sense of this.
You get a sense of this.
December 9, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Contemporary poetry is very outputs driven: hit targets, get the turnover, go big on the journals, etc. It’s sometimes about publishing but not being read or not bothering to explain what your trajectory is.
You get a sense of this.
You get a sense of this.
Serra at the Guggenheim
I feel a poem coming on
I feel a poem coming on
November 30, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Serra at the Guggenheim
I feel a poem coming on
I feel a poem coming on
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In the end some AI may be better and there may be AI authors with their own personality - a virtual Paul Auster for example. Who knows? But like theatre and cinema before we want the contingency or risky performance, and the limitations of humanity and experience that made the likes of Bukowski.
November 25, 2024 at 9:13 PM
In the end some AI may be better and there may be AI authors with their own personality - a virtual Paul Auster for example. Who knows? But like theatre and cinema before we want the contingency or risky performance, and the limitations of humanity and experience that made the likes of Bukowski.