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Tethered Sky

@tetheredsky.bsky.social
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Poet | current manuscript: Mélusine 🐍 | she/her

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Listen, I know this is not the friendliest user experience but you can now stream the entire Kenneth Koch 100 celebration we held at The New School on March 17 youtu.be/3kWnWuKuPPA
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Kenneth Koch at 100: A Celebration at the New School, March 17, 2025
YouTube video by Kenneth Koch At 100
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Justine @justysnail.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Small town quick sketch Ink on paper 💙
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The unbroken prairie & the vastness of its cloud formations feel psychoactive to me
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I live in a house on the edge of the ocean
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Miggy Angel @miggyangel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
from Grime Kerbstone Psalms pbd 2013 Celandor Books
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
My house hunting search criteria is to find little house on the edge of something Anything, really Most affordable edge out there seems to be the edge of civic civilization Where roads pipes sewers power lines simultaneously dead end into prairie
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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
She’s actually a little shep, also black, also ungrateful.
Me, a clown, working hard so my cat can have a good life
My cat, ungrateful
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funnyfrogget.bsky.social @funnyfrogget.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Klaus Høeck (translated by John Irons) from 1001 poems
and the birds flew to
wards me from all the four cor
ners of the globe they
flew at me direct
ly from god forming a spon
taneous flock just
outside my very
kitchen window and i felt
great affection for
those paltry mites as
if they’d been the children i’d
never had myself
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Mayu Kanamori @mayukanamori.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
いつになく心やすませ山霞む Unusual as it may be slow your heart mountain mist *mist / mountain mist is a spring #kigo #haiku #俳句
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
the open window and the rope.
like
a trap!
You get out of
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Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Do you keep a journal or diary? Would you like to? I invite you try out the ancient and contemporary form of tanka (as transformed by poet Harryette Mullen) as a way of documenting something of your own intimate experience of these extraordinary times. salrandolph.substack.com/p/ways-of-se...
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Ways of Seeing: Diary
Keeping a record of the present moment
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Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
My thanks to P.L. Henderson for discussing the brilliant @womensartbluesky.bsky.social project with me to celebrate Women’s History Month 🤩👇👀 www.ocasa.org.uk/post/women-s...
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Women's History Month: Julia Biggs in conversation with PL Henderson.
Author and art historian PL Henderson has generously taken time out to answer some questions about her work focused on women artists.
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
something passing up from the toes
an impulse to run
spin around-
make curious mistakes

anything
can be

capsized
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Silby @silby.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
orbital judo; low-albedo sucker punch out of the oort cloud
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Shanna Compton @shannacompton.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
(SCREECHING, FLAPPING WINGS) from Deep Whoosh, my artist book of 50 closed-caption collages, coming from @blacksquareeditions My clients are headed to AWP today, so I’m using the lull to work on my own book. New themes revealing themselves as I work & finish up the essay. #collage #visualpoetry
A collage of a woman in three-quarter bust view on gray newsprint. She has her hair in an old-fashioned up do and wears a dress with wide neckline. In front of her dance some narrow pink flames, while behind her head a large yellow semicircle and an incongruent green cabbage float against the neutral taupe background. A closed-caption sound effect that serves as the piece’s title sits below her in a dark gray box, reading (SCREECHING, FLAPPING WINGS). © Shanna Compton, 2025, from the artist book Deep Whoosh.
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Last night’s dream-house was nothing but roofs
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"The vulnerability of the poem is the vulnerability of the body. The vulnerability of the poem is a form of sacrifice ..." Quod umbra est: Pasolini’s ‘David’ and the vulnerability of desire — @ericracher.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/03/25/q...
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Quod umbra est: Pasolini’s ‘David’ and the vulnerability of desire — Eric T. Racher
Une manière d’ange était assis sur le bord d’une fontaine. Il s’y mirait, et se voyait Homme, et en larmes, et il s’étonnait à l’extrême de s’apparaître dans l’onde nue cette proie d’une tristesse …
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Michael Earl Craig @fencebooks.bsky.social
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Shanna Compton @shannacompton.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
And here’s some sea #foliage for #printpromptmonday, in the form of a linocut bookcover I did a while back. Each seaweed is its own block so the pattern is different on each book.
Two copies of a small poetry chapbook with linocut covers in a multicolored seaweed pattern. The title is “three tides” by Pattie McCarthy. Design © Shanna Compton for Bloof Books, 2022.Process shot of trimmed covers for “three tides” by Pattie McCarthy alongside some folded and trimmed inner booklets, binding thread and tools. The cover features a multiblock linocut pattern of seaweeds and hand-carved lettering. Design © Shanna Compton for Bloof Books, 2022.
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Last night,
The
moon
got
in my
house
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Mayu Kanamori @mayukanamori.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
引くことは逃げではないと鳥帰る Say, withdrawing is not escaping when birds return *birds return is a spring #kigo #haiku #俳句
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Snow-Blind
hands to her
eyes
she was
enveloped
so to speak
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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
. "I have only you have comma..." —Joseph Rocco (1929) #ForgottenPoets #poetry #poem
PARADIGM

I have only
You have
Comma
Dream
I had often
You had
Stop
Wish
I love
You love
Apostrophe
Sleep
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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
My review of ‘furia’ a book of poetry by ire’ne lara silva, 2021 (review is a 3 min read) #poetry www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Eve Castle's review of Furia
5/5: I give furia 5 stars for its raw and brutal honesty and for the poet’s ability to entrap and digest the powerful language of loss, grief and sorrow. Ink is spilled, spent and smeared into a gift ...
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
we
wept
in
surrender
weeping like silver

beautiful masses of

Weeping like silver
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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“i will give you more flowers than you can eat push them into your mouth with my mouth lick them into you thrust them into the hollow of your chest curl them beneath your eyelids whisper them over your skin until they dissolve into you” Ire'ne Lara Silva, the eaters of flowers #quote
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental, that is only half of it. Your poems probably need to be even more sentimental. Don’t be less of a flower, but could you be more of a stone at the same time? —Mary Ruefle, from "On Sentimentality"
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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Electric Blossom Textile artist Louise Gardiner (embroidery, paint, appliqué)
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hobothumb @hobothumb.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
4 views of an unimportant tree acrylic mixed media on bristol 7x11"
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
some distance
from the shore
the ice was thick enough.
She

clamped
skates
on

her shoes, and

began to run.
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
her
sanctuary
penetrated

as
clouds
uncover—

sky which sleeps
beside the moon.
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
thus
Invisible
thoughts
were
shone
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
send me a box of
-nothing but
skirts.
I rely upon you to distance yourselves,
Do not pursue me. I will
disappear in a cloud of dust
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
wear
on
unsuspecting
flower
That I did
not
down
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Mayu Kanamori @mayukanamori.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
水星も逆行するとは花の夢 If Mercury is to retrograde dream of flowers 🪷dream of flowers is a spring #kigo #haiku #俳句
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A flash
signal
A own
a stealth
far better than my
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
flowers
drip
of delirium
some
bird
came, worshipping
the
rose
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
are
walking
through
beetles
Sounds
made
Crush
crack
crick
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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
St Gertrude of Nivelles, patron Saint of cats, gardeners, and the mentally ill. Overlooked because of the coincidence that her feast day coincides with Saint Patrick's day. #StGertrude #SaintGertrude
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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I finally took a proper photo of my summer-themed mitosis sampler (2024). I’m writing a pattern for this one in four season colourways so watch for that in a few months! #SciArt #embroidery #MedSky 🧶🧪🐡
Two reproductive cells dividing embroidered on off-white linen. The edges of the dividing egg cells and the nucleus membranes are in bright acid green split stitch. A circle of dark green stem stitch is started for the cell membrane. The corona radiata is in sage green zig zag chain stitch. The nucleolus of each cell is in sage green bullion stitch. The polar bodies are stitched in purple single strand back stitch. The cytoplasm is in variegated dark to bright green thread in a mix of seed stitch and French knots. Lia’s initials are stitched in off white whipped back stitch on the lower right.
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
1.
Shelter of the forest
to entertain the
discovery o
warmth
seek
the
accidental
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
2.
Be
Silent
and
touch
the lighted end
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
from Persephone, book of the fall
air, swept thought it was
snowing
blossoms
snowflakes
and
everything between
them.
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

a whole verse
along the road,

The weather

came
life.

such a catastrophe

Of arrival
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
proceeding
like a cat
in the starlight,
poised
survive the fall
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
little
night journey
going
over and over the
same ground
By-and-by
I struck
a
match
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