Ricardo D. Velásquez
@velasquez.bsky.social
—Author once. Poet; traditional illustrator. He / Him.
18+
ig: 𝚛𝚍.𝚟𝚌 tw: ridvec
➡ https://savepalestine.carrd.co/
🔗 https://linktr.ee/rdvc/
🔗 https://instagram.com/rd.vc/
18+
ig: 𝚛𝚍.𝚟𝚌 tw: ridvec
➡ https://savepalestine.carrd.co/
🔗 https://linktr.ee/rdvc/
🔗 https://instagram.com/rd.vc/
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First post! I write poems and draw traditional medium illustrations.
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Réka
Prismacolor pencil on Canson paper, 15"x11"
email me at daniel at danielmaidman dot com to purchase original or prints
Prismacolor pencil on Canson paper, 15"x11"
email me at daniel at danielmaidman dot com to purchase original or prints
March 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Réka
Prismacolor pencil on Canson paper, 15"x11"
email me at daniel at danielmaidman dot com to purchase original or prints
Prismacolor pencil on Canson paper, 15"x11"
email me at daniel at danielmaidman dot com to purchase original or prints
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I started my own press!! Piżama (Polish for 'pajamas') is dedicated to showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better.
Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi.
neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi.
neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
January 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I started my own press!! Piżama (Polish for 'pajamas') is dedicated to showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better.
Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi.
neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi.
neonpajamas.com/pizamapress
Happy New Year!!
January 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Happy New Year!!
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This is tomorrow! Last chance to sign up for a workshop with @lenakt.bsky.social ❤️ www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/pas...
Past Continuous — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Othman here (suggested donation $60 USD). Step 2: Register for “Past Continuous” here . In this workshop led by award-winning poet Lena Tuffaha, participants will rea...
www.workshops4gaza.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:21 PM
This is tomorrow! Last chance to sign up for a workshop with @lenakt.bsky.social ❤️ www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/pas...
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An incredibly special opportunity to discuss the work of one of the historic and all-time giants of poetry, Mahmoud Darwish, with a present-day legend, the great Lena Khalaf Tuffaha ✨
This is tomorrow! Last chance to sign up for a workshop with @lenakt.bsky.social ❤️ www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/pas...
Past Continuous — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Othman here (suggested donation $60 USD). Step 2: Register for “Past Continuous” here . In this workshop led by award-winning poet Lena Tuffaha, participants will rea...
www.workshops4gaza.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:17 PM
An incredibly special opportunity to discuss the work of one of the historic and all-time giants of poetry, Mahmoud Darwish, with a present-day legend, the great Lena Khalaf Tuffaha ✨
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Jean Cocteau on the angel named Erik Satie.
December 3, 2024 at 4:13 AM
Jean Cocteau on the angel named Erik Satie.
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Dear humans,
Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
My Heresies, Alina Stefanescu — SARABANDE BOOKS
Pre-order only. Available April 2025. Behold My Heresies : the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, b...
www.sarabandebooks.org
November 23, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Dear humans,
Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
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Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!
#litmags #writer #writingcommunity
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
#litmags #writer #writingcommunity
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
November 17, 2024 at 3:56 AM
Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!
#litmags #writer #writingcommunity
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
#litmags #writer #writingcommunity
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
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I'm still very lost on here. The poets have organized and gathered, but with my weird threads and random interests on twitter. This starter pack is an attempt to include some of those names, though many are missing. Just a messy attempt.🙏
We need a book twitter list too?
go.bsky.app/Feh35s1
We need a book twitter list too?
go.bsky.app/Feh35s1
November 15, 2024 at 6:58 PM
I'm still very lost on here. The poets have organized and gathered, but with my weird threads and random interests on twitter. This starter pack is an attempt to include some of those names, though many are missing. Just a messy attempt.🙏
We need a book twitter list too?
go.bsky.app/Feh35s1
We need a book twitter list too?
go.bsky.app/Feh35s1
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A few poems that were published earlier this year in Iterant— for those who like Beckett, Canetti, or asterisks. 🖤
iterant.org/issue13/alin...
iterant.org/issue13/alin...
Issue #13 - Alina Stefanescu - Iterant
Poem with a Line from an Asterisk on page 15 of Marguerite Yourcenar’s Dark Brain of Piranesi We hang this morning over a twine line like laundry betweenthe seesaw and the pendulum. Smoke a few wo...
iterant.org
November 14, 2024 at 9:24 PM
A few poems that were published earlier this year in Iterant— for those who like Beckett, Canetti, or asterisks. 🖤
iterant.org/issue13/alin...
iterant.org/issue13/alin...
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We have a starter pack for lit mags and small presses on bsky—check it out! go.bsky.app/Syyu1ZT
November 13, 2024 at 2:05 PM
We have a starter pack for lit mags and small presses on bsky—check it out! go.bsky.app/Syyu1ZT
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Looking for poets, poems, and so on? Here's a place to start. No promises that it includes everyone but I tried to get a lot of y'all in here. Some room to add a few more as people show up. go.bsky.app/5oLR4YJ
November 10, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Looking for poets, poems, and so on? Here's a place to start. No promises that it includes everyone but I tried to get a lot of y'all in here. Some room to add a few more as people show up. go.bsky.app/5oLR4YJ
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Another Poem Dedicated to the Billionaires
Security guards their
sleep. Safety loads the
shots of their hired
guns. May we grow the
cajones required to become
their worst nightmares
and then, sum.
Security guards their
sleep. Safety loads the
shots of their hired
guns. May we grow the
cajones required to become
their worst nightmares
and then, sum.
November 14, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Another Poem Dedicated to the Billionaires
Security guards their
sleep. Safety loads the
shots of their hired
guns. May we grow the
cajones required to become
their worst nightmares
and then, sum.
Security guards their
sleep. Safety loads the
shots of their hired
guns. May we grow the
cajones required to become
their worst nightmares
and then, sum.
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this love poem by Gale Nelson!!!!
October 19, 2024 at 11:30 PM
this love poem by Gale Nelson!!!!
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NEW POEM #173: "After the Slum Clearances" by Hannah Linden
"We watched ourselves, snow-clocked tidal
floes in a melting landscape. We were
crystals held together by the cold, our home
disintegrating around us."
stonecirclereview.com/after-the-sl...
#Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem
"We watched ourselves, snow-clocked tidal
floes in a melting landscape. We were
crystals held together by the cold, our home
disintegrating around us."
stonecirclereview.com/after-the-sl...
#Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem
October 19, 2024 at 2:08 PM
NEW POEM #173: "After the Slum Clearances" by Hannah Linden
"We watched ourselves, snow-clocked tidal
floes in a melting landscape. We were
crystals held together by the cold, our home
disintegrating around us."
stonecirclereview.com/after-the-sl...
#Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem
"We watched ourselves, snow-clocked tidal
floes in a melting landscape. We were
crystals held together by the cold, our home
disintegrating around us."
stonecirclereview.com/after-the-sl...
#Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem
Σ( ノ｡ •̀ ᴖ •́ ｡)ノ︵ ┻━┻
April 18, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Σ( ノ｡ •̀ ᴖ •́ ｡)ノ︵ ┻━┻
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鵼(ぬえ) 2023年
鳥山石燕-今昔画図続百鬼-
鵼は深山にすめる化鳥なり。
源三位頼政、頭は猿、足手は虎、尾はくちなはのごとき異物を射おとせしに、なく声の鵼に似たればとて、ぬえと名づけしならん。
京極夏彦氏の｢鵼の碑｣を読んで鵼やー！ってなって描いた絵
鳥山石燕-今昔画図続百鬼-
鵼は深山にすめる化鳥なり。
源三位頼政、頭は猿、足手は虎、尾はくちなはのごとき異物を射おとせしに、なく声の鵼に似たればとて、ぬえと名づけしならん。
京極夏彦氏の｢鵼の碑｣を読んで鵼やー！ってなって描いた絵
March 27, 2024 at 11:19 PM
鵼(ぬえ) 2023年
鳥山石燕-今昔画図続百鬼-
鵼は深山にすめる化鳥なり。
源三位頼政、頭は猿、足手は虎、尾はくちなはのごとき異物を射おとせしに、なく声の鵼に似たればとて、ぬえと名づけしならん。
京極夏彦氏の｢鵼の碑｣を読んで鵼やー！ってなって描いた絵
鳥山石燕-今昔画図続百鬼-
鵼は深山にすめる化鳥なり。
源三位頼政、頭は猿、足手は虎、尾はくちなはのごとき異物を射おとせしに、なく声の鵼に似たればとて、ぬえと名づけしならん。
京極夏彦氏の｢鵼の碑｣を読んで鵼やー！ってなって描いた絵
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Seems to be working just fine.
March 11, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Seems to be working just fine.
ReBirth. Pencil over paper.
Ricardo Velásquez on Instagram: "ReBirth, 2021.
Pencil over paper.
Wake up, this is the other morning.
_
Today, yet another massacre took place.
#freepalestine #sketch #illustration #drawing #artwo...
rd.vc on February 29, 2024: "ReBirth, 2021.
Pencil over paper.
Wake up, this is the other morning.
_
Today, yet another mass..."
www.instagram.com
February 29, 2024 at 10:29 PM
ReBirth. Pencil over paper.
Doodles to drawing.
#illustration
#illustration
Ricardo Velásquez on Instagram: "Some incident at night, 2024.
Markers over paper.
Different doodles parts on the same paper joined to conform a figure. Tweaked. FIxes.
B
#drawing #illustration #tra...
rd.vc on February 21, 2024: "Some incident at night, 2024.
Markers over paper.
Different doodles parts on the same paper joi..."
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February 21, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Doodles to drawing.
#illustration
#illustration