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upfromsumdirt
@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
poet & nyeusiphile.

poetry collections: Deifying A Total Darkness; To Emit Teal; The Second Stop Is Jupiter; & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife
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L I E S !!!! — all lies!!
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
this gif probably just uploads as a regular jpg...
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
the disney+ black prince storyboard blues
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
from idaltus 1 & 2
(the shoes of the fisherman's wife)
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
certainly screams in frustration... i dont know if he beats in anything while doing it...
November 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
was there ever a better name than Pearl Primus?
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
bernald's (dont call him 'bernie'!) good people! kentucky's next wendell berry the way he represents rural living (tho, like me, originally from louisville) - it was an honor to have my art grace his debut collection, English Lit.
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
im not doing it; no dms it is.

im upfromsumdirt on gmail for anyone needing to reach me...
November 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
post your favorite star trek character. wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
today @ Books By The Banks in Cincinnati: this travel-weary couple... 10am to 4pm

yall can even catch me on a poetry panel, moderated by Zinnia Stewart, alongside Artress White and Alissa Sammarco.

the shoes of the fisherman's wife
praisesong for the kitchen ghosts
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
what light BEYOND yonder window?
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
dionne brand on catastrophe, acknowledgement, & surviving it.
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
L's UP!
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
well, well, well... what have we here?

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November 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
upfromsumdirt's
GAUNT SHADOW
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
oooh, wanda... ❤️❤️❤️

...yes!
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
some of the poems in my Fayre Gabbro suite are ekphrastic, based on wyeth, manet, hopper, etc.

"in the orchard" is based on wyeth's Christina's World (below) & other paintings where white women lay or lounge in fields/rivers/sofas in softened romanticisms; black women rarely appear delicate in art-
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
😂
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
certainly!

im still wanting to write a collection of gibran & neruda inspired love poems...
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
the 4 collections that have inspired my writing the most over the past three years, especially for my current work in progress:

mina loy*
wisława szymborska
ishmael reed
aime césaire

(*not myrna loy as ive typo-idly have written before)
November 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"Everything is coda in a never-ending world,' writes Tolu.... spiralling through a myriad of histories, experiences, & dictions, the language's momentum is modulated by Oloruntoba's deft control of line and syntax."

- eduardo c. corral speaking on tolu's collection, unravel.
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"Oloruntoba draws on a wide frame of references, from Norse mythology to modern gaming and the work of contemporary artist Wangechi Mutu, creating a thoroughly modern and unique ecopoetics."

- poetry foundation for each one a furnace.
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
some mighty wonderful poetry; tolu is an amazing writer, yall...
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 AM
the only time ive ever cried at the end of a graphic novel... that decaying hand in the grass? just the hand of some dead child out in the forest now serving as the apartment complex for a host of fairies.
November 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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MAGMA OPUS
November 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM