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Stephan Delbos

@sdelbos.bsky.social

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Poet Laureate of Plymouth, MA (2020—2024): (bit.ly/3d7iGNY). Translator from Czech: (bit.ly/42z0SlZ). US Poetry & Nationalism: (bit.ly/3xgEAVL). Light Reading: (bit.ly/4hzbIwP). Small Talk: (bit.ly/3qvfPkS).

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. Mantis From The Matrix is digitized paranoia wrapped in chitin and code; a glitch-soaked hymn where analog instinct claws its way through data. www.youtube.com/shorts/eZ_IR...

Mantis Cadre: Mantis From The Matrix

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Mantis Wedding" is open bar and an altercation, a dervish of deviance, lost cufflinks, and orchid boutonnières trampled under high heels. www.youtube.com/shorts/9g4r6...

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Charlie's Fixins" is a based board waxed w/ blood agent orange. We think he should in the morning. youtube.com/shorts/7mIbN...

Mantis Cadre: Charlie's Fixins

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "I Listen At U" is a castle made of sand in Stockholm. 2 voices. 4 ears. www.youtube.com/shorts/p1TCv...

Mantis Cadre: I Listen At U

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Patriotic Clouds" cannot tell a lie the next day: streets and streamers, vacant crowds, tricolor trinkets and disillusion. www.youtube.com/shorts/FUFpE...

Mantis Cadre: Patriotic Clouds

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Sawdust Whisky" reconnoiters the rims in tassel loafers in slow motion, nothing but a graceful way to fall. www.youtube.com/shorts/X4iD4...

Mantis Cadre: Sawdust Whisky

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Blue Bubblegum" is a Sunday on the edge of nothing, soft edges and gentle letdowns. youtube.com/shorts/oiw4c... via @YouTube

Mantis Cadre: Blue Bubblegum

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Red Right Returning" barges toward rotting docks like a king tide in a salt-stained peacoat. youtu.be/Dy6cnhllSYU?...

Mantis Cadre: Red Right Returning

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Red Right Returning" barges toward rotting docks like a king tide in a salt-stained peacoat. youtu.be/Dy6cnhllSYU?...

Mantis Cadre: Red Right Returning

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

listen to this song I wrote while you row across the moat see this little bird I caught wings I have though I should not

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

"brown-leafed vertigo" ± Glenn Danzig

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

RIP Czech novelist Ivan Klíma (1931 - 2025). Back in 2016 I interviewed him for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social "Each of my books opposes death because I have written about life. My books insist on life and therefore they defy death." lareviewofbooks.org/article/defy...

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Defying Death in Absurdistan: An Interview with Ivan Klíma | Los Angeles Review of Books

Stephan Delbos interviews the great Czech author and dissident Ivan Klíma.

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Write the Docs @writethedocs.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Uniting technical documentation and training is a game-changer. At Write the Docs Berlin Stephan Delbos explains how his team broke down silos, aligning on outcomes and goals. This mental shift turns "how it works" into "how to use it well” and drives adoption while empowering users buff.ly/k1fqh2m

Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Still one of the best autumn poems. yalereview.org/article/robe...

Robert Lowell: “The Public Garden”

A poem by Robert Lowell: “Burnished, burned-out, still burning as the year”

Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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Mel Nicols Responds

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

better than coffee www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGzA...

BAD BRAINS - BANNED IN DC - CBGB 1982 - HC WORLDWIDE (OFFICIAL VERSION HCWW)

YouTube video by HARDCORE WORLDWIDE

Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Angular Circle Shuriken Comma" is a whispered glyph in the sonic dojo. youtu.be/-chsn05D0KY?...

Mantis Cadre: Angular Circle Shuriken Comma

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Just Like A Joke" is a hat-trick from the hand of God. youtube.com/shorts/Dm9-S...

Mantis Cadre: Just Like A Joke

YouTube video by Stephan Delbos

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

i kept asking it to tell me

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Low Water www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/lo…

Low Water

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Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com · 05/07/2025

Reinhard Döhl, et ce cette terra, 1966

Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I was pleased to recently read a new batch of poems from one of my favorite contemporary Czech poets, Tereza Riedlbauchová, and see how her style is evolving. Here's my translation of one of her poems in the Spring 2025 issue of @bodylit. www.bodyliterature.com/2025/07/01/t...

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B O D Y | Tereza Riedlbauchová, translated by Stephan Delbos

Tereza Riedlbauchová (b. 1977) is a Czech poet whose work has been translated into fourteen languages.

Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Stairs, Duchamp" is a cryptic picture that enacts all we are to hearsay. www.youtube.com/shorts/7A7xk...

Mantis Cadre: Stairs, Duchamp

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

summer goals www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zxi...

1980 Adolfo blazers commercial

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

"My father particularly impressed me with the information that a friend of his had once repelled a home invader by descending the staircase in the dark carrying a single lighted candle and intoning a sulphurous passage from Book One of Paradise Lost." www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

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English literature’s last stand

Stefan Collini’s new book explores why such a prestigious academic discipline finds itself on the margins of modern society.

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Crystal Lake" is four-to-the-floor Voorhees on a Gretsch, finally finding his groove on Friday the 13th. www.youtube.com/shorts/Kb8aj...

Mantis Cadre: Crystal Lake

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Marquee Sun" is CBGC's at noon on a Tuesday, 1977. Flip the script and get optimistic. www.youtube.com/shorts/EiDYx...

Mantis Cadre: Marquee Sun

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Marquee Sun" is CBGC's at noon on a Tuesday, 1977. Flip the script and get optimistic. www.youtube.com/shorts/EiDYx...

Mantis Cadre: Marquee Sun

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I was happy to have the chance to translate this poem from an excellent contemporary Czech poet, Ondřej Macl. It's a poem of brotherly love. Check it out in the summer issue of B O D Y! www.bodyliterature.com/2025/06/05/o...

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B O D Y | A poem by Ondřej Macl, translated by Stephan Delbos

Ondřej Macl (b. 1989) is a Czech writer, performer, literary critic, and social worker.

Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Wax Your Skis" is shaking with anticipation for the quick white glide, from Blue Hills to Obergurgl-Hochgurgl. youtube.com/shorts/ban8_...

Mantis Cadre: Wax Your Skis

YouTube video by Stephan Delbos

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Working on something fun.

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Happy that these 3 poems have found a home in Prague's BODY journal . . . thank you @sdelbos.bsky.social www.bodyliterature.com/2025/05/27/a...

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B O D Y | Berlin Variations by Alexander Booth

Alexander Booth is a poet and translator who lives in Berlin. His collection of poems Triptych was published in 2021 and Kantor in 2023.

Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Chet Baker: style

Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

"'Relaxin' at Camarillo' is a composition by jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. It is inspired by his six-month stay in Camarillo State Hospital in Ventura County, California, after serving a prison term for arson and resisting arrest." www.youtube.com/watch?v=F22y...

charlie parker relaxin at the Camarillo

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Good news coming!

Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Conclave" is a thread afire along a spiral staircase, decisions to be made, transactions and desires. youtube.com/shorts/Pwkiq...

Mantis Cadre: Conclave

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Chreasters" rises again on the third day and eats men like air. www.youtube.com/shorts/2ZvsM...

Mantis Cadre: Chreasters

YouTube video by Stephan Delbos

Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

late style www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbsY...

Eddie Van Halen Guitar Solo at Hollywood Bowl 10/2/2015

YouTube video by DWTH

Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Any Eggs?" is determinedly nonplussed; a shell on a wall, experimentally sophisticated, curiously liminal. www.youtube.com/shorts/GzaDi...

Mantis Cadre: Any Eggs?

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "The Alligator We Didn't See Later" is a wistful elegy of swampy energy, all mud, grit and stoic regret. www.youtube.com/shorts/6Mcmo...

Mantis Cadre: The Alligator We Didn't See Later

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Breadfruit Toast" is high-noon shore-side wedding ceremony w/ Honey Rockwell and Mr. Zog. No prenup needed. www.youtube.com/shorts/Xxe2Z...

Mantis Cadre: Breadfruit Toast

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Breadfruit Toast" is high-noon shore-side wedding ceremony w/ Honey Rockwell and Mr. Zog. No prenup needed. www.youtube.com/shorts/Xxe2Z...

Mantis Cadre: Breadfruit Toast

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Twisted Spoon Press @twistedspoon.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Thanks to Rupert Loydell for his perceptive review of Ceilings in International Times: " ‘No matter what, it’s going to be one hell of a trip’ declares our narrator, and it is." internationaltimes.it/the-dark-scar/ Available for order here: www.twistedspoon.com/ceilings.html

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The Dark Scar | IT

Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Trade War Blues" is a dead-blood dirge trading you hours for a handful of dimes as you trip on the starting-line of financial independence. www.youtube.com/shorts/2-gZK...

Mantis Cadre: Trade War Blues

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Fellaheenology" wanders shifting dunes sheltered under skies online; sweet mint tea and clove upperdeckies. www.youtube.com/shorts/gus2A...

Mantis Cadre: Fellaheenology

YouTube video by Stephan Delbos

Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Mantis Cadre is an enigmatic, avant-garde band that fuses cybernetic aesthetics with organic mystery. "Highway 13" splashes across high-tide airwaves: uncertain yet collected, cooly keen to know yourself more truly and more strange. www.youtube.com/shorts/jk1PW...

Mantis Cadre: Hanging 13

YouTube video by Stephan Delbos

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Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

time spends us

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ballast journal @ballastjournal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Contributor features from ballast 3.1! Here’s Stephan Delbos and “DISTANCE & DESTINATION” @sdelbos.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/stephan-delbos #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #StephanDelbos

Stephan Delbos @sdelbos.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"What was unexpected and possibly shocking about V... was the use of iambic pentameter quatrains, at a time when closely patterned, regular verse was regarded as outmoded, an unfitting vehicle for modern concerns." www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

Tony Harrison's V: Why a poem outraged 1980s Britain

Forty years ago, Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds.