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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Went to Death Faire at The Plant in Pittsboro this weekend. Paperhand Puppet Intervention led a drum circle. Cool event showing how important it is to make space for communal grief and joy.

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

At the artist reception for Death Faire at the Plant w/ @dangerwood.bsky.social and other artists selected for the exhibition. Fun event and great art on display. Current favorite (other than Sarah’s) is Millicent Gomez’s magical broom piece Threshold of the Ancestors www.theplantnc.com/deathfaire

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Sarah "Dangerwood" Rose @dangerwood.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Part almanac, part devotional manual, part field guide, The Hungry Forest 2026 Breviary bridges Catholic ritual, folk magic, and ecological fieldwork. Our 1st installment is now on Patreon for subscribers, and a physical compendium will be published quarterly through next year:

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Excited to share The Hungry Forest Gallery & Press, an independent art and publishing project rooted in the Haw River watershed. If you’ve enjoyed the work we make, you can support us by joining us on Patreon. www.patreon.com/TheHungryFor...

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Art and storytelling

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Feeling grateful for the landscape. @dangerwood.bsky.social got our first deer of the year and we’re trying to be more deliberate about connecting to the forest through our stomachs. Deer bone broth. Hickory nuts for banana bread. Muscadine grapes. Chicken of the woods. Beech nuts. Goldenrod tea.

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Paperhand Puppet is the best www.paperhandpuppet.org

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Megan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas: NYC Philly Durham, NC All of Massachusetts I will add more as I get them done. Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Me and @dangerwood.bsky.social are scouting for remote public land in the Appalachian Mountains to hunt black bear. We’re experimenting with paddleboards for access and packing out. Hunting WNC without dogs is difficult post-Helene climate disaster, but it seems very rewarding.

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Five years ago. Peak pandemic, I tried linocut printing. The ideas behind these images still feel like characters in my my life.

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Today @dangerwood.bsky.social talked about art’s ability to bring people into relationship with the landscape. I spoke about the nature writer’s role through history and the challenge of defining nature writing, when everything is ‘Nature’ . blueridgebartram.org/bartram250/

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We are here! Sarah and I are both on panels to talk about the purpose and the practice of art, writing and natural history. Super excited to be in this place with so much biodiversity and beauty to mark William Bartram’s 250th anniversary of trekking across the southern Appalachians.

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Trail Camera Strategies for Daimonic Encounters: Wildlife artist Sarah Rose and I discuss how trail cameras play a role in her art. She offers insight for folks who would like to use them to have relationships with their more-than-human neighbors. thecampfiresedge.com/2025/06/01/s...

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S2/Ep6 Trail Camera Strategies for Daimonic Encounters

Episode Art: Turkey 2025, North Carolina – Ink on Paper by Sarah C. Rose. In this episode, Sarah and I give updates on our creative projects, including speaking at the 250th anniversary celebration…

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

My partner @dangerwood.bsky.social is speaking and has art on exhibit next weekend at a symposium celebrating naturalist William Bartram’s trek across the Southeast. This is in the exhibit, Contact 2, colored pencil and ink on paper. Check out Bartram and the event blueridgebartram.org/bartram250/

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

New writing about Eastern Phoebes, directed-biodiversity, fatherhood and landscape spirits. Art by @dangerwood.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theriant...

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Orion Dies a Villain

Directing the Day King's power to support biodiversity

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Haw River Ballroom @hawriverballroom.com · 03/05/2025

TODAY (5/3): At the Haywagon Stage from 4-8PM: Haw River Fest to benefit Haw River Assembly At Haw River Ballroom: @johnmoreland.bsky.social with Ramsey Thornton, presented by @catscradlenc.bsky.social - This is a seated show! 7PM Doors, 8PM Show, $27 Admission bit.ly/JohnMoreland...

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

New episode: Fairies, land spirits. Co-creation and relationship. Episode art by @dangerwood.bsky.social thecampfiresedge.com/2025/03/25/s...

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

See us live, as Sarah and I interview Dr. Robert Pyle about butterflies, Bigfoot and his band with Nirvana's Kris Novoselic. You can join our Zoom meeting at 6pm ET here us06web.zoom.us/j/5670542004?p…

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Truly epic finds washing up on our urban creek’s sandbars these past couple weeks.

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Haw River Ballroom @hawriverballroom.com · 01/03/2025

The Paddling Film Festival returns to Haw River Ballroom, presented by @HawRiverKAyak in March 29! The day will be full of hikes, a opening gathering and screenings of all the short films! Going to be a great day, get your tickets: tinyurl.com/HRCKFilmFest...

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Sarah "Dangerwood" Rose @dangerwood.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Synovium. Ink and ballpoint on paper

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Nature writer Lyanda Fern Lynn Haupt joins us to talk about bird synchronicities, the communion of saints, and love for Earthsea, etymology and corvid culture. Lyanda is the author of six incredible books. thecampfiresedge.com/2025/02/22/s... Raven art by @dangerwood.bsky.social

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Sarah "Dangerwood" Rose @dangerwood.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Contact. Ink and mixed-media on gray paper

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Plantin onions and watchin wrastlin. It’s been a day.

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I’m excited that my 2018 book Rust Belt Arcana is available again in print with @beltpublishing.bsky.social I’m offering some free Zoom tarot readings in the next week to get back in practice of reading for other people. Hit me up or reply if you want one and we’ll get it scheduled.

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Mar Cromwell 🌹 > BLFC @marandart.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

who cares if it's good. just paint.

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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I’m inspired by Brent Martin’s poems in our last episode. Our mutual friend, John Lane introduced us. I went back to John’s poems and they are so good. John was on the podcast as well, here thecampfiresedge.com/2024/09/11/e... Love that we to get to combine poetry, paranormal experience and nature

A possum prowls thick rows
of pines near the ridge of the next hill.
Then, stopped in my flashlight beam it haunches up in a small country of trees.
I click off the light and the possum, given night back like a room to enter, scuttles through the pines.
I follow into its darkness.
For miles I hear the song of its feet through dry pine, cut-over fields, a last still stream, into the first tentative lights of houses.
Then finally I stand at the edge of yards and listen as the possum rifles cans-this night and all it accommodates its only vision, and mine, as the world around us sleeps.

The first shot kicks hardest.
The gun bites air, then shatters, out-fall bits of fur, small teeth, and the sun as if it was hiding there.

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Last winter, walking here at Edisto I dug half a skullcap from the tidal sand— the frontal bone, eye-ridges intact.
The bleached whole of it brown from tannin stain, buried years under water of cypress swamps.
I placed it over my ear— wanting a song in the dead long months before spring-that curve of bone held a soft roar, like a tightly cupped hand or the dull slap of sea on a turtle-haunted shore or a winter wind rattling dry palmetto fronds gathered for kindling.
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Matt Stansberry @mattstansberry.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hi. We have a podcast about spirit, landscape and anomalous experiences. It’s called The Campfire’s Edge. Our new episode features Appalachian poems, UAPs and missing time with river guides Angela and Brent. Episode art by @dangerwood.bsky.social thecampfiresedge.com/2025/02/10/s...

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S2/Ep2: Corpse Lights of the Cowee Mountains

Art by Sarah, ink on tinted paper. In this Episode, we visit Little Tennessee River guides Brent Martin and Angela Faye Martin of Alarka Expeditions in Cowee, North Carolina. Brent is the Director …

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