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Brendan Constantine

@brendanconstantine.bsky.social
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LA poet and educator. Author of several collections. Work has appeared in Poetry, The Nation, Best American Poetry, among other journals. Currently teaches at The Windward School. Since 2017, I’ve been developing workshops for writers with Aphasia.

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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 · 06/12/2024
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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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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 · 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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