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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 06/03/2025

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Alas, poor country, Almost afraid to know itself!

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David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This literary society is passionate and full of care for Larkin’s life and writing. Really great group. Lyn Lockwood is the best.

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David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Does the name Robert Moses ring a bell for you?

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

How it was going (11 years ago). How it's still going (this morning).

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David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Hey, @bookcritics.bsky.social, great idea, the longlist. Those NBCC meetings where # 6-10 really do have a shot for top five but got cut = disheartening. Now at least they'll get some sunshine.

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I love this opening stanza of Joseph Brodsky's "The end of a Beautiful Era."

Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

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Madame Cézanne by Paul Cézanne, 1885 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

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Thannhauser Collection, Gift, Justin K. Thannhauser, 1978

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/12/2024

[Drum afar off.]

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David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Winter window (sketchbook, acrylic, 4x5 inches)

Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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Today’s Featured Poet: C.D. Wright (1949–2016), one of her generation’s most popular, formally restless, and influential poets, was recognized with scores of major awards. She published sixteen collections of poetry and prose and served on the faculty at Brown University for decades.

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David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Paris cafe. (Morning sketchbook. Acrylic on paper. 5x7 in.)

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Morning sketchbook. (Gouache on paper)

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David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Look at this beauty. A previously unpublished poem by my friend, the late LARRY LEVIS, in this week's New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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“Homage to Willie Mays”

“I didn’t like or dislike baseball, I simply / Didn’t understand it.”

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David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"I watch the clouds as I see them in pomp advancing, pursuing the fallen sun." ~ Denise Levertov My morning sketchbook (gouache, on paper).

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David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I like to think that, if I were alive on this day in 1942 (and obviously not drafted already and serving in the US military, that is), then I'd have been in a movie theatre to see the premiere of this gem.

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Morning sketchbook. (Gouache on paper)

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

So many 'Blsky is good because...' posts. May I try? Blsky has fewer humblebrags so far. "I may never get through all these blurbs I have to write." Or: "The problem with my fully-funded residencies in the south of France is I have to revise so many poems for publication." Humility, I seek thee.

Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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I am keeper of the post-MFA tumblr (crowdsourced) which has tons of info on post-MFA fellowships, BUT it also has info on residencies—with a whole section of shorter residencies for caregivers! Pass it on! #writers #writingcommunity post-mfa.tumblr.com/residencies

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Post-MFA Resources

Fellowships, Residencies, and other resources for people with MFAs in Creative Writing...

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David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Name a poem by a poet that's the one poem in which all their others fit. Amalgam of personality+formal acumen. Take Robert Lowell: steely, umpteenth ambiguity, ungainly. One poem? "For the Union Dead." Joins patrician view of existence w subversive politics. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57035/...

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For the Union Dead

Once my nose crawled like a snail on the glass; my hand tingled to burst the bubbles drifting from the noses of the cowed, compliant fish. Parking spaces luxuriate like civic sandpiles in the heart of...

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This poem of Seamus Heaney's is so delicate. "The Haw Lantern."

Shining Science @shiningscience.com · 21/11/2024

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The Helix Nebula captured by NASA'S Hubble space telescope

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David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Morning sketchbook. (Gouache on paper.)

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Good press to be watching very closely. Give ‘em a follow.

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

From the Department of Sometimes the Q/A at Readings Are Contentious. I was trying to find something in an email from four years back for a dear friend. No luck. But I came across this impossible exchange from a reading q/a when A PLACE OF EXODUS came out, must have been 2020. Tough crowd.

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A two-line beauty of a poem entire by dear Thom Gunn. JAMESIAN Their relationship consisted In discussing if it existed.

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Rockin! Here’s my son on tour last week somehere in the USA (check him out wherever you listen to music: Lightnin’ Luke): www.instagram.com/stories/thel...

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David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Not sure what this is. But it looks cool.

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

When I say I miss Texas, I don’t mean the misogyny and the guns. I mean this. My sky. (Houston, 2023)

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The passage before this, about forms and archetypes, is essential—but what passage of poetry have so guided how poets in English work for 250 years (whether they know it or not) more than these?

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David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

How’s the weather? Been so gray here, woolen. Here’s a splash of light from my sketchbook.

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Lines from Elizabeth Bishop “Roosters”: A rooster gloats over our beds from rusty iron sheds and fences made from old bedsteads, over our churches where the tin rooster perches, over our little wooden northern houses, making sallies from all the muddy alleys, marking out maps like Rand McNally’s

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David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Coffee shop revisions of new mss. A novel. A novel?!

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Such a darling poem by Edna Millay. Lovely to memorize. “…for the apples and pears”

David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I like this poem a lot. "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain" by Wallace Stevens.