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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Three new selections from The Surface World are up at the other bunny. theotherbunny.blog

Who shot the Alabama kid? Gunshow cock robin yields to lore. That’s not enough anymore. Chicago on the horizon. Invasions are everywhere. The mesquite trees are winning. It is time of year when the weather can’t settle – right before the assault of the histamines – painted by Nicolas Poussin. Something to look forward to at the bus stop or in the graveyard. I am told we are winning the war.

Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Three new prose poems from an in-progress sequence, the Surface World, in the new edition of Chicago's Packingtown Review. Check out this great issue. www.packingtownreview.com/issues/25/toc.html

The shadow is trying to claim someone again. No. Listen for something better, something w/ ceramic skin, even after a thousand years in the tomb. Legacies on backorder. Small Lives Distributor shuts down. Tornadoes do their awful part back home for a second week.
Please.
There’s a name on this vase.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Found at the bottom of my phone photos, from 2021.

Images of four different tweets, from 2009, 2015, 2020, and 2021, each scare mongering about Iran developing nukes.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains. (Incl. former members of Jellyfish)

Album cover for the self titled debut album of Imperial Drag (1996). A rainbow emanating from an eight pointed star on a black background.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

If you see this, post a Spider-Man.

Screenshot from the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Spider-Man is throwing his hands up looking at vials and glassware in a laboratory. The caption reads "wtf is this nerd shit."

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Apparently "Hey Jude" is in his head (in contrast to Miyazaki)

Top image: Junji Ito saying "My favorite band is the Beatles".
Bottom image: Hayao Miyazaki saying "i fucking hate the beatles."

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Doors Open Milwaukee. Got to see the Frank Lloyd Wright church.

A frosted glass figure in a medieval byzantine style, dressed in a fine robe, resting one hand on a sword. Art from the annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Milwaukee, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Without Warning." In UT, @kurtbusiek.bsky.social expanded a very minor character from Amazing Fantasy #15 into a cautionary tale about power and responsibility. The death of Sally Avril would reverberate to the end of this incredible run; it wasn't cheap. Read this aged six and it never left me.

Cover of Untold Tales of Spider-Man 13 (1996). Spider-Man is on his knees before a grave, weeping into his hands.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Contest opens September 1st. Any chap published this year by a current Wisconsin resident is eligible. This is my second year as coordinator of the contest. The final judge is my first poetry mentor, John G. Morris. www.wfop.org/chapbook-con...

Three samples of visual poetry alongside the caption: "Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Contest -- Opening Sept. 1st.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Stopping on the way home from an oil change to get a beer at Estabrook Park, since I worked so hard waiting on them to finish.

A half liter of beer in a dimpled glass on a tae outside at a beer garden because I am a brave little boy for sitting in that cold dealership for an hour.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

If that sounds completely made up, wait till you hear about how the CIA backed bananas over democracy in Guatemala

RIGHTIST CONSPIRACY THEORIES: two heads raging about antisemitic, antivax flat earth paranoias.

LEFTIST CONSPIRACY THEORIES:
Person 1: i'm pretty sure the CIA has something to do with [insert assassination/coup here.
Person 2: We know, they admitted it in 1978.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

Junior Soprano in court, looking fiercely at the sketch artist behind him.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Song for the Lady in the Radiator (after David Lynch) originally published in Grimsy no. 4, 2023.

Song for the Lady in the Radiator

Death is a star that laughs us to sleep,
sincere as a melting sundae or stumbling
on rollerskates, and right now I hear
its soft singing drums outside, a flash,
then thunder—and the tiny wet suns
that bead the window have me thinking
Plato’s outside on Maryland Avenue
waiting to tell me I’m in the Cave,
that when he climbs back up to pull
the lever, I’ll see it differently, washed
of all that these last few years have done
to make time meaningless, geometry’s ray,
begun and always forward, toward neither
somewhere nor something, but some way,
that the next time I see the laughing star
again, and she sings In Heaven, everything
is fine, it won’t be death, no, or maybe
it will be—the point’s not the long
thunder, but the brief light.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

When you hear about William Moulton Marston’s domestic situation.

A close-up of a very surprised looking pterodactyl

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Last week of class. Student gave me a “festive rock.”

A hand holding a flat, smooth stone with polka dots and slightly wavy lines painted on it.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Got my copy of the new zine from @unwashed53207.bsky.social out of Bay View, with a poem written after making a rock ‘n’ roll pilgrimage in March.

Clear Lake

Microscopically, they’re still here,
an aura of blood in the buried glacier
that settled this foundation called Iowa.
I don’t deny the soul in places like this—
a midden of sunglasses, a Modelo tallboy
left for the Son, the searing wind.
For me, a stop after a job interview,
business before pilgrimage, what they
might have called a gig, those boys all gone
before thirty, printed on the Voyager
discs that never leave, cannot leave orbit,
though I do, back down the fenceline
of this cornfield to the gravel lot
where a canvas sign warps “American
Pie” to a ribbon between t-posts.

I head back home, both older and
younger than them.

Cover of a zine, reading: Unwashed 2024, A Bay View Creative Writing and Art Journal. Cover includes a black-and-white photo of a woman outside of a hotdog vendor. In the window, a cat peaks out.

A small memorial at the edge of a cornfield, commemorating the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “Big Bopper” Richardson, at the sight where their plane crashed in 1959.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Thinking of that Batman story where Neal Adams draws Denny O as a partygoer who’s getting ridiculed for writing comics by a guy dressed like Marvel Thor (also, Spider…erm, Webslinger Lad in the background). Even while the butt of the joke, lookin’ snazzy.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

I think it’s just the guy that wrote those lyrics is this guy. (This looks like a still from Fritz Lang’s M)

Mike Love of The Beach Boys, likely singing the Monster Mash, wide-eyed, and sneering, holding a microphone.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Me in the 30 seconds between opening and closing this app.

A sculpture of Saint Matthew looking sternly at a book in his hand, with an accessory resembling eyeglasses resting on his nose.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

Awwww Shitty Gatsby blocked me for this looool

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

Avengers #1, shaming Gatsbys since 1964….

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Accidentally made a vaporwave album cover #awp #kc

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Before the Fantagraphics collection, there were two paperback volumes of his work. Both curated by Paul Karasik, who writes an intro in one and a short afterward comic abt meeting Hanks Jr in the other

Two paperback book covers, one black and one white, collecting the work of golden age comic book artist, Fletcher, Hanks. The black covered depicts the character Fantomah and the white cover Stardust the Super Wizard.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Found these sample essays in my office.

Three sample essays for freshman composition, with pop culture reference names. The first student is named fuzzy Dunlop, the second is John Snow with the professor Targaryen, and the last is by Nancy Pelosi w/ Dr. Frankenstein as the instructor.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Three haiku guys in The Bamboo Hut

Three haiku poems in a row:

orangetips lap
up crowpoison
amber dusk

a dickcissel
on barb wire
Instagram famous

year’s first snow
a young bison adrift
in tallgrass

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Outside the UWM library this morning.

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

Even these days, news can travel slow. Just learned of the passing of Hugh Tribbey, one of the first people to really show me how weird poetry could get. This is my favorite of his, from the chap Asteroid (Pudding House, 2007).

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Anthropostrophe @brushwithseth.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Work from my poetry students. We had a crafty day.

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