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David Biespiel

@davidbiespiel.bsky.social

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Poet, novelist, painter. Texas expat. Contributor to the New Yorker, New Republic, Orion, Poetry, APR, NYT. Thirteen books, including the forthcoming BEAUTIFUL IS THE WORLD: NEW & SELECTED POEMS.

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David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Back at it in Portland. Surprised the Feds didn’t bust it up. They hate us.

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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 · 12/12/2024

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

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

Winter window (sketchbook, acrylic, 4x5 inches)

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

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

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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

"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.

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

Morning sketchbook. (Gouache on paper)

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

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

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

Morning sketchbook. (Gouache on paper.)

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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.

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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)

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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