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Alfredo Richner
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Design/Illustration/Music🇵🇷

My designs here: instagram.com/quenitido

You might know me as editor of Puerto Rico Indie (2009-2019). Still write about music from my country from time to time over at: beehy.pe/author/alfredo_richner/
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King Sorrow destroyed me and built me back up, oftentimes on the same page. Thank you, @joe-hill.bsky.social, for this fantastic novel.
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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You gotta check the "history" book being sold back here... Here's the cover. It's fucking insane book sellers are carrying this. Zoom in and revel in the insanity.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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This guy here???
July 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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I'm all for congratulating @wired.com on their great reporting this year, but also...

Pay artists instead of using junk AI generated images. Or maybe DON'T any images at all if you can't pay them. This looks like shit and it signals that the article is not worth a read.
An AI generated image of two decks of cards used by WIRED at the top of today's newsletter. It is yellowish as a lot of the digital puke AI is generating these days is and could lead people to cancel their subscriptions.
July 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Messy.
July 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Hat's off to the @play.date team. Season 2 is well worth it. Completed Dig! Dig! Dino! and loved the bonkers ending. Fulcrum is great! Blippo+ is bananas! About to try out the next two...
June 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Sí, los sonidos de la ciudad pueden molestarte. Pero de eso a saltar a su propuesta… (igual aquí no te alquilan en un montón de lugares si tienes mascotas).
June 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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This made me chuckle. From back when I finally caved in and purchased "Go to Heaven" – I did it for "Althea", and at the perfect price.
April 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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TONIGHT!

Poetry & The Creative Mind, the annual fundraising livestream for the Academy of American Poets!

With guest readers: Stephen King, Tony Kushner, Danielle Deadwyler, Morgan Spector, Christine Baranski, and more!

Sign up for free, tell your friends ––and enJOY!!! #NationalPoetryMonth
Front of invite to Poetry and the Creative Mind - a National Poetry Month Gala Fundraiser for the Academy of American Poets. Event date is: Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 7:30 pm ET. The invite reads: Join us! This virtual celebration is free and open to all. Donations encouraged in support of our vital poetry educational programs. Register at poets.org/gala/2025 or scan the QR code below. The event honors Patricia H. Grodd & Terrance Hayes, the 2025 Academy Leadership Award recipients. Back side of invite to Poetry and The Creative Mind event. Hosted by Ada Limón. Featuring Christine Baranski, Danielle Deadwyler, Terrance Hayes, Rashid Johnson, Stephen King, Tony Kushner, Fran Lebowitz, Lawrence O'Donnel, Morgan Specter and more! The invite includes the names of individual sponsors as well as logos of corporate ones.
April 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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La serie concluye con la postal para diciembre, cuya cita fue tomada de “Before” por Khaled Mattawa. Originalmente planeaba hacer un homenaje a “Love In Us All” de Pharoah Sanders pero mi perrito Kamal (QEPD) pidió salir a pasear, convirtiendo la postal en otro tipo de homenaje. #NationalPoetryMonth
The image shows a design for a postcard which includes an excerpt from the poem "Before" by Khaled Mattawa. It reads: "Somewhere beyond faith and grace there is the footprint of logic lost in the purest light". The illustration shows a golden retriever out on a walk in a snowy landscape with his tongue sticking out in playful anticipation, its paw prints leading up to it in the foreground. The image shows a design for a postcard which includes an excerpt from the poem "Before" by Khaled Mattawa. It reads: "Somewhere beyond faith and grace there is the footprint of logic lost in the purest light". The illustration shows a golden retriever out on a walk in a snowy landscape with his tongue sticking out in playful anticipation, its paw prints leading up to it in the foreground.
April 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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La penúltima postal, para noviembre, incluye una cita de “Gown Sonnet” por Tacey Atsitty. Aunque probablemente el diseño más distante a mi trabajo usual, me disfruté tanto el proceso de empujarme a hacer algo menos “flat” que terminó entre mis postales favoritas de esta serie #nationalpoetrymonth
The image shows the design for a postcard. It includes the lines: "Somewhere in some town there lies a bride, in a house–– in an attic–– in a trunk, in a tangled mess of lace and limbs" taken from Tacey Atsitty's poem "Gown Sonnet". There is a wooden trunk in the background, open to reveal a white wedding gown laid on top of it and overflowing out into the ground like the spread of some spilt liquid. The foreground shows a mannequin torso with a loose tape measure wrapped around its neck, shoulders, and torso. La penúltima postal, para el mes de noviembre, incluye una cita tomada del poema “Gown Sonnet” por Tacey Atsitty. Aunque probablemente el diseño más distante a mi trabajo usual, me disfruté tanto el proceso de empujarme a hacer algo menos “flat” que terminó entre mis postales favoritas de esta serie.
April 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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La postal del mes de octubre incluye una cita tomada del poema “Adjacent, Against, Upon” por Rick Barot. This, I feel, is the keystone to the project. And I think I’ll leave it at that here 🙂 #NationalPoetryMonth.
A postcard design including the following lines from the poem "Adjacent, Against, Upon" by Rick Barot: "Surely there will always be new language to tell you who I am, imagination rousing out of idleness into urgency, reaching now towards you." The design includes three sets of geometrical shapes to the right of the poem excerpt, one on top of the other. On top, two rectangles, a magenta one below a cyan one. In the middle, the cyan rectangle is tipped downwards, one of its corners overlaid atop the magenta one - where they intersect forming a purple triangle. And on the bottom, the two rectangular shapes have formed a purple cross, as if finishing the transformation begun by the two rectangles pictured above. These shapes are inspired ––as is the poem–– by the 1976 sculpture by Michael Heizer, installed in Seattle's Myrtle Edwards Park, in the U.S. state of Washington. A postcard design including the following lines from the poem "Adjacent, Against, Upon" by Rick Barot: "Surely there will always be new language to tell you who I am, imagination rousing out of idleness into urgency, reaching now towards you." The design includes three sets of geometrical shapes to the right of the poem excerpt, one on top of the other. On top, two rectangles, a magenta one below a cyan one. In the middle, the cyan rectangle is tipped downwards, one of its corners overlaid atop the magenta one - where they intersect forming a purple triangle. And on the bottom, the two rectangular shapes have formed a purple cross, as if finishing the transformation begun by the two rectangles pictured above. These shapes are inspired ––as is the poem–– by the 1976 sculpture by Michael Heizer, installed in Seattle's Myrtle Edwards Park, in the U.S. state of Washington.
April 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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La postal de septiembre incluye una cita del poema “The City” por Nathalie Handal. Me dispuse a recrear una vista desde la colina de Gianicolo que sirvió de inspiración a la autora al escribir su contestación al poema “The City” del poeta griego Constantine P. Cavafy. #NationalPoetryMonth
Postcard design of a view from Gianicolo Hill in the city of Rome. It includes the following excerpt from the poem “The City” by Nathalie Handal: "I tell you: you won't find a new country, new city, new body. You'll return to roam the same ruins, same streets" Postcard design of a view from Gianicolo Hill in the city of Rome. It includes the following excerpt from the poem “The City” by Nathalie Handal: "I tell you: you won't find a new country, new city, new body. You'll return to roam the same ruins, same streets"
April 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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I just read your post a minute ago. Checked my email. Saw I had 1 email in my Spam folder and... I got my forty bucks too!
April 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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La postal del mes de agosto incluye una cita tomada del poema “The Lion’s Mouth” por Randall Mann. Amo los patrones geométricos –ésta fue la primera que diseñé para esta colección, aunque de las últimas en terminar por lo mucho que jugué con los colores.
Postcard design with argyle pattern. It includes an excerpt from Randall Mann's poem, "The Lion's Mouth": "Who says that love isn't sartorial? Every pull of an argyle, every loop reminds me, a little bit, of you." Postcard design with argyle pattern. It includes an excerpt from Randall Mann's poem, "The Lion's Mouth": "Who says that love isn't sartorial? Every pull of an argyle, every loop reminds me, a little bit, of you."
April 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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La postal del mes de julio incluye una cita tomada del poema “Undoing” por Khadijah Queen. A veces no hace falta más que unas líneas para llegar a donde queremos ir –en este caso una carretera paralela a la de Lynch y los Magnetic Fields.
#NationalPoetryMonth.
April 9, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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The postcard for June features an excerpt from "Pier 52" by Omotara James. As is the poem, the image was inspired by one of Alvin Baltrop's "Pier Photographs", which documented clandestine gay culture in NYC during the 70s and 80s.
A drawing of a raised red hand, with glittering yellow light sparkling from each fingertip against a dark plum background. It includes an excerpt from the poem "Pier 52" by Omotara James which reads: "Look. We discovered day like it was fire. Flesh, like empire. Touch like bloodlight." A drawing of a raised red hand, with glittering yellow light sparkling from each fingertip against a dark plum background. It includes an excerpt from the poem "Pier 52" by Omotara James which reads: "Look. We discovered day like it was fire. Flesh, like empire. Touch like bloodlight."
April 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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If you've ever visited El Morro in Old San Juan during the windiest months, you know the inspiration for this one :-)

May's postcard features an excerpt from "I Got Heaven..." by Garrett Hongo. #nationalpoetrymonth
A postcard design featuring the following excerpt from the poem "I Got Heaven..." by Garrett Hongo: "There are souls that twirl like kites lashed to the wrists of the living". The design features three kites against a sunny blue sky background. A postcard design featuring the following excerpt from the poem "I Got Heaven..." by Garrett Hongo: "There are souls that twirl like kites lashed to the wrists of the living". The design features three kites against a sunny blue sky background.
April 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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April's next! This postcard features an excerpt from "On Sundays" by Willie Perdomo. #nationalpoetrymonth
A postcard design featuring the following excerpt from the poem "On Sundays" by Willie Perdomo: "Sundays were for sonnets and aunties, bonnets and Bibles, a mourning dove nesting near your window guard". The design features a grey dove perched on a black window guard against a sky blue background. A postcard design featuring the following excerpt from the poem "On Sundays" by Willie Perdomo: "Sundays were for sonnets and aunties, bonnets and Bibles, a mourning dove nesting near your window guard". The design features a grey dove perched on a black window guard against a sky blue background.
April 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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And here's the postcard design for the month of March, which features an excerpt from “Here” by Kim Addonizio.

"Go ahead and eat this poem please it will help." #nationalpoetrymonth
April 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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February’s postcard design features an excerpt from “Dearth-light” by Saretta Morgan #nationalpoetrymonth
April 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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To celebrate #NationalPoetryMonth I want to share here with you a set of 12 postcard designs I made for @poetsorg.bsky.social inspired by the work of this year’s Poem-a-Day Newsletter guest editors.

January’s postcard design features an excerpt from “Stories” by Campbell McGrath
April 3, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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<3
Val Kilmer dancing in a tux in the movie Top Secret (1984)
April 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Finishing my second read of The Angel of Indian Lake... and no, I'm not crying, YOU are crying!
March 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Me in the national security team group chat
March 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM