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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 18h

On allowing the urgent be urgent in you, and on letting your colors roar. #watercolor #urgency #joy thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/let-your-c...

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Let your colors roar

this is your one life; live it

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How do we know when we are done? In a crowded room, among hundreds of his schoolmates, a boy reveals the truth: thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/how-do-we-...

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How do we know when we are done?

in a crowded room, ahead of a storm, a child answers the eternal question

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I never succeeded in placing my words in The Pinch. But today this arrived. My life keeps folding in on itself. I accept the journey I am on.

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

How do words and art become art and words? How do they shift our perspective and our making? A conversation about #visualpoetics #artpluswords #paperart #collage #writersasartists with the wonderful @aimeeeliu on her Substack, MFA Lore. www.mfalore.com/p/when-words...

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Do Your Words Meet the Eye? How Visual + Verbal Art Can Strengthen Each Other

A conversation with multidisciplinary artist Beth Kephart

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Announcing a new, cyanotype-illustrated book, due out from Wolfson Press in 2027. With so much gratitude. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/conversati... #cyanotypes #womeninblue #WolfsonPress

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Conversations with Women in Blue: Cyanotypic Dreams

sharing news about an illustrated book due out in 2027

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you so much, @redivider_mag, for including my work in your beautiful pages. #blurredgenres #hybridwork #visualpoetics redivider.emerson.edu/birthing-nat...

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The question becomes: What do we do with an idea? I make the case for doing nothing, at least for a little while. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/i-had-an-i...

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I had an idea for a story, so I made an apron ...

(on leaving your ideas alone)

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A small tale about a pair of neighborhood sisters, who responded to my confession of a mistake with consoling examples of their own foibles and frustrations. #mistakes #rejection #storyquilts #picturebooks thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/i-was-mist...

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Historical Novel Society Review of Mud Angels: For ages 9 and up, in this powerful collaboration Beth Kephart’s emotionally rich storytelling and Roberto Innocenti’s vivid illustrations come together seamlessly to create an engaging reading experience ... historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/mud-...

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Mud Angels - Historical Novel Society

Florence, Italy. On a bleak day in November 1966, the Arno River burst its banks after days of torrential rain across Tuscany. Fearful for their lives, people rushed to rooftops and upper floors for s...

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I write of birds in summer and of two novels—a brand new one (#ValeriaLuiselli) and a classic one (#WillaCather)—in today's post. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/unfolding-...

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News, my novel with a twist of memoir and so much love, is a finalist in the 2026 American Fiction Awards (historical fiction). I am grateful. All thanks to @tursulowepress.bsky.social and #americanfictionawards #Philadelphianovel #Philadelphiastory #historicalfiction

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/death-is-a... Remembering #GlenHansard and thinking about the lives we'll leave behind.

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The Lives We'll Leave Behind

on Glen Hansard and remembrance

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Gratefully announcing the almost release of MUD ANGELS, a picture book illustrated by the great Florentine painter #RobertoInnocenti and published by #CreativeEditions, with words by me. The story of this book's inception is here, on my Substack: thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/when-the-d...

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Thank you so much, LIT Magazine, for featuring three of my muslin monoprints in your gorgeous issue 43. www.litmagazine.org/lit-43-summe...

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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Writing arrives when you're not looking. So true. Sometimes alarming. Thank you, @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/do-we-chas... #writingcommunity #writinglife #authorlife

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Do we chase what we wish for—

or make room for it to make room for us?

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Bill and I are returning to the Winterthur craft show, July 17 - July 19. In addition to Bill's exquisite clay, Kephart Keepers, 9 x 12 paper and thread art, and one-of-a-kind cards, I'll be selling art quilts built out of my monoprinted, cyanotyped, and marbled fabric pieces. #artquilts #Winterthur

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

So very grateful to have a prose poem called "Black" featured in the gorgeous literary magazine, UNBROKEN, an @ambidexbloodhound.bsky.social Press publication. www.theunjournals.com/unbroken50

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Unbroken | Issue 50 | Summer 2026

Prose poems for y'all.

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Thoughts on beauty, age, resilience, and rain, on today's substack thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/when-in-th...

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When in the Morning—

on regret and resilience

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Tursulowe Press @tursulowepress.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Huge congratulations to @bethkephart.bsky.social for such a well-deserved award. With great thanks to #ForewordReview for recognizing Beth's work and Peggy's story.

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

So grateful to The Core Review of @forkapplepress.bsky.social, for including two pieces of my Visual Poetics in their newest wonderful issue, including Burst Pipes: \https://forkapplepress.com/the-core-review/issue-4/burst-pipes

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Burst Pipes — Fork Apple Press

BETH KEPHART

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Late last year I learned that My Life in Paper was a finalist in the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award. Last night I received this beautiful crystal piece to hold the memory of this enormously generous honor. I will treasure this. Forever.

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Sometimes the work we make is not work that is ready to be shared with the world. This week, I was chastened by that discovery. Meditations on #time in #creativepursuits. Meditations on #humility. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/time-does-...

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Time Does Tell

excruciating, liberating truths

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This coming Sunday, Bill and I will be setting up our Bind Arts booth for the first time this year in the heart of Bryn Mawr, PA, with the Clover Market, selling framed fabric squares and handmade books and Kephart Keepers and Bill’s amazing clay. #craftshow #bindarts @clovermarket.bsky.social

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Blessed to be in community with #SuleikaJaouad and #JenniferGarner on the remarkably wholesome and whole-making #TheIsolationJournals on #Mother’sDay, with a piece I wrote about my mother and the giving of gifts. theisolationjournals.substack.com/p/mama-was-r...

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Mama Was Right

On gifts that reveal themselves over time

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Old drafts return us to ourselves, and especially so when we are in some ways feeling empty. #writing #olddrafts #revision #picturebooks thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/there-i-wa...

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There I was, alive in me

old drafts are old friends

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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

'Old drafts remind us what is in us.' When we no longer feel like ourselves, how we might find our way back. @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/there-i-wa... #creativity #writinglife #authorlife #writingtips

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There I was, alive in me

old drafts are old friends

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

So very grateful to be a featured artist in Spring 2026 issue of The Indianapolis Review. theindianapolisreview.com

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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This is something I used to do as a child. Why is that word what it is? I would concentrate on its sound qualities, as though it were a tune. Who decided its tone and shape? This is a grown-up version @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/amateur-ne... #writinglife #authorlife

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Our Books of Words

in which my son and I define ourselves as we define our words (and Kory Stamper!)

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Celebrating #indiebookstores and #korystamper and #truecolor, and celebrating, too, a new word-centric tradition I have begun with my son: thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/amateur-ne...

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Our Books of Words

in which my son and I define ourselves as we define our words (and Kory Stamper!)

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Thoughts on procrastination, weeding, and art. Because it's spring. And there are gardens ... and neighbors. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-fine-a...

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The fine art of procrastination

in a manicured neighborhood, I remain the apologetic outlier

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A song for the simple and regenerative broom. A hope for a renewal, coming. #huskbroom #broom #sweeping #renewal thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/i-stand-he...

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I Stand Here Sweeping

Imagining a world swept clean

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Bill is at work (as he will be for quite a while now) on the illustrations that will accompany our upcoming Juncture Workshop Series. I love this one. I love them all. We hope you will consider joining us. junctureworkshops.com/shop-6/#shop

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

An IMAGE intensive with in-depth manuscript reviews, upcoming. #creativenonfiction #memoir #writingworkshop

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

"Lightning Strikes" is a finalist in the Cleaver Magazine visual poetics contest. More about all the finalists here: www.cleavermagazine.com/poetry/ #visualpoetics #CleaverMagazine

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

An exquisite learning opportunity for writers seeking to connect language and love for our environment. It's free. It's all part of the Buried Creek Collective initiative . Learn more here: buriedcreekcollective.com @buriedcreek @stephanie.feldman

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Buried Creek Collective

Fostering creative climate resilience for Greater Philadelphia

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Does insomnia reveal or shield our truest self? I wonder about that, here. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/insomnia

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Insomnia

when exhaustion reveals the person you might be

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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This is what we all need today. There is so much difficulty in the world. We're each trying to stay afloat in forces that are overwhelming. We need this art that restores our deep inner spaces @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/when-nobil...

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This is what art does

When nobility suggests itself within a broken world

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My husband illustrates the presentations I give. Here is the first of many illustrations that will support the first in the workshop series, which focuses on seeking and writing beauty. junctureworkshops.com/shop-6/#shop

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

To quit means to rest. And so, after struggling to do something I am not good at, I rest. At last. And return to me. Thoughts on modern quitting, and new art. #quitting #quilting @andibuchanan.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/modern-qui...

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Modern Quitting

is quitting proof of failure or an act of self-care?

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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

We want to get noticed for what we create because that's how artists get on in the world, especially as we're all supposed to 'brand' ourselves. But also, we'll make the work anyway because creativity is life. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-proble... @bethkephart.bsky.social

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The problem, Beth, is that you want credit.

thoughts on anonymity in the wake of Tantra Song

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Tursulowe Press @tursulowepress.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

@bethkephart.bsky.social always beats me to the post! I am so incredibly happy that Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News is a finalist for this award. A huge thank you to #ForewordReviews. Brava, dear Beth!

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

So grateful to #ForewordReviews for this honor. So grateful to @tursulowepress.bsky.social for saying yes, and to Jessie for becoming one of my dearest friends in the world. www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final...

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

On wanting more of knowing and more of time and more of the infinite that Japanese names for color describe. #monoJapan thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/in-a-house...

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In a house of few mirrors, I tell myself I am young

when you see difference, the world becomes infinite

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

"Every book is, at first, an unproven thing, an improbable fit, an act of heroics set against historical odds. Every book is nothing at all. Until we come along and write (or draw)." ~ Beth Kephart / @bethkephart.bsky.social

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