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Erin C Alexander @erinalexander.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I was craving some great poetry today and ended up devouring @brendanconstantine.bsky.social latest volume in a single sitting. Loved every word!

A large ginger cat naps on a white bedspread next to a paperback copy of The Opposites Game by Brendan Constantine

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Holy shit! I actually DID promise you a rose garden. Sorry. I’m on it.

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

You know, it just occurred to me - like right now while I’m drinking coffee - that statistically there has to be at least one perfectly innocent man who drives a white van and has way too much candy.

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Just asked the lady at Starbucks for a plastic knife, then added my intent to "commit a plastic crime." She didn't bat an eye.

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I've been caring for mom at home, and doing so well in fact, hospice says she's too healthy for them. Now we're scrambling to afford supplies and daycare so I can keep working. Were you her fan on Deep Space Nine, Starship Troopers, or her years on Young & Restless? Please share! gofund.me/42ba9606

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

“I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.” - Conrad Collage made from a 1947 portrait of Peter Ustinov by Irving Penn, NASA image of the planet Jupiter (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS) and stock photographs of cars, Ca. 1959

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

"The answer is Yes until it's No." - Collage made from an etching of a rhinoceros by David Barthold, an unattributed illustration of a child with a balloon from Collier's magazine, 1940, and a portable television from an issue of the Radio Shack catalogue. (Quote from my mother.)

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Working with young writers this summer. As usual, I am the student and they the teachers. Today’s lesson comes from a boy named Bodhi who has just turned 10. When asked about ‘writer’s block,’ he responds thus - “Whenever I don’t know what to write, I write the prologue.” You’re welcome.

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I think my inner child is alway a little car-sick.

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This is the afternoon jam: Young Jessie’s ‘Rabbit on a Log.’ If you don’t know him, get his album ‘I’m Gone,’ on Ace Records. This disc was a revelation - got me thru covid! Think you know about rock in the 50’s? Think again! Thanks to ‘Detroit Deb’ Ingalls for hipping me to the gravy.

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Rabbit On A Log

YouTube video by Young Jessie - Topic

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

‘The Weather’ - Collage made from original photos of objects at my workplace, laid into John Constable’s ‘Cloud Study’ of 1822. It’s the second time I’ve used Constable’s beautiful work. If you don’t know it, go look it up without my silly meddling!

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Julia Ingalls @juliaingalls.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

In the beautiful things still happening department, here’s genius Al Green covering R.E.M.: m.youtube.com/watch?v=UEwP...

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Al Green - Everybody Hurts (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Al Green

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Fascinated by this 1750 effort to portray multiple universes. It appears in ‘An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe’ by Thomas Wright (1711-1786), currently on display at LACMA as part of ‘Mapping the Infinite’. I’ll be doing an in-gallery writing class there in Feb! More info soon!

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

“who is invisible enough to see you?” - Paul Celan, from ‘ Show-fringes, sense-fringes’ Collage of ‘Foxes and their young in a clearing in the forest,’ an etching by J.E. Ridinger (1698–1767), a 1948 illustration by Gil Elvgren, and ‘journal text’ from Autumn Clark at Sew Paper Paint.

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

“I couldn’t save a poem to write my life…” - Arash Saedinia, from the poem ‘M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I’

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

I think my Auto Correct is having an emotional crisis. Here are just a few words it has suggested in the last days- Moan Apoplectic Starsh Thag Booning Chasm Skrig Torsh and Rodents (in place of Students)

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

More revelations from my Creative Writing students. The infinitely quotable Lexi (12th grader) spoke for many of us - “When I was a kid, I thought quicksand was gonna’ be a much bigger problem than it’s been.”

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

“Only the future knows art.” - Julianna McCarthy - Unfinished collage made from detail of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s Inmaculada Concepción de los Venerables 1660-1665) and microscopic image of a cancer cell during division, (National Institutes of Health).

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Brendan Constantine @brendanconstantine.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Overheard in my Creative Writing class the other day - "If it rained more, I'd be a better writer." - Lexi, twelfth grader

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