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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

proving that it is possible and desirable to wear a necklace with a turtleneck

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

this daffodil is not dejected, it is merely overwhelmed by its multiplicity of veils—

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

my backyard conservatory, a school training the next generation of lyric sopranos

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Tonight! Zoom! City Lights! Conversation with Tausif Noor! Topic: “My Lover, the Rabbi”! citylights.com/events/wayne... @citylightsbooks.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social @tausifnoor.bsky.social

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

#nokings in Hudson gloves and hat the essential accents to demonstrate spirit’s survival

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

#nokings in Hudson chanting with the best of them in harmony or out of tune, the tune is not the point, the words are

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

in an undoctored photo, I’m waving hello or goodbye to you

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

this morning: looking out my dirty, south-facing window, through a scrim of succulents:

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

“A two-grappa boy goodbye / I insist on an ocean” — alert, terse, erotized poesy by Ryan Skrabalak, published by speCt! books in Oakland, 2024

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Double-exposure studio self-portrait, 35mm Kodak T-MAX P3200 film

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Tonight, Friday, Oct. 10, in Brooklyn, from 6-9pm, I debut 22 new cyanotype assemblages in a solo show at “B” Dry Goods, 679 Franklin Ave. Shown here: Marlene Dietrich’s Seconals.

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

“… a dream of escape, a dream of intervention, a dream of invisibility …” @wakefieldpress.bsky.social

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

My new novel, “My Lover, the Rabbi,” will be published by FSG in 2026. (And I’m signed up there for an essay collection, too.) Thank you to editor Jackson Howard and agent PJ Mark. @fsgbooks.bsky.social

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Saw Justin Vivian Bond tonight and so I feel immeasurably awake and naughty and truth-telling and mercurial and alive.

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I’m sending clear warning signals to you (new hieroglyphic painting on paper, 18x24”)

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

In 1984, reading Ashbery’s book “A Wave,” I figured out how to read him and how to love him. Here are the naive but heartfelt notes (I was 26) I wrote on the book’s endpaper, while waiting for a train.

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

new figurative painting, finished last week—of my friend Will, posing for me in my studio— acrylic, Flashe, casein, and watercolor pencil on unstretched canvas— approx. 45x31 inches

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I thought this news item might interest you (source: “The Hill”):

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

banana peel en route to compost—inverted banana peel, you are a Futurist involuted cylinder—or a Rauschenberg tire-track print—and you are an antidote to gloom

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I took this photo in the sculpture garden of the New Orleans Museum of Art—but the font and the date and the stone carving’s severity speak to me on this brutally inaugural day—

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

yesterday afternoon I finished this painting—I might call it “Event on the Horizon”—the materials are acrylic and casein and watercolor pencil on 18 x 24 canvas paper

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I’m reading Joyce Carol Oates’s short fiction to savor her ability to balance psychological vertigo with a virtuoso technique so seamless it’s almost Mozartean—her prowess as verbal artificer becomes a living presence hovering above the depicted scenes of terror, duress, thralldom, yearning—

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Ravi in his sunlit apartment— (analog 35mm photo I took last Thursday)

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

hands— my 35mm (analog) portrait of my new friend Ravi

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

boyfriend signaling yes in sculpture garden

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

harrowing commonsensical brutal lucid unpedantic stories I’m reading on this cold night near (we are always near) quotidian apocalypse

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Finished tonight this brilliant book of stories--each composed with empathy and poetic compression, each sentence a timed, urgent pulsation: the stories remind us that circumstances will rarely give us what we desire: locked in our bodies, we lack the magical ability to catapult into another's mind

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

the importance of red telephones in Italian giallo movies—of cars, of velvet curtains, of villas—this image is from Mario Bava’s 1964 “Blood and Black Lace” @criterion.bsky.social

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Here’s a linocut collage I made today. Zoom in and read the (found) text in the blue rectangle: “The incredible story of two people who believe they were ‘kidnapped’ by humanoids in a spacecraft.”

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

In an art movie (top secret project!), I’m playing a priest; tomorrow my scenes will be filmed in a public park. Here is my hieratic costume:

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Right now I’m reading “48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister,” a riveting novel that has the speed and density of a poem—I’m reminded of Dickinson’s poems—this novel has a similar distilled Gothic intensity, an epigrammatic mysticism, an obsessive tempo, and an unbridled Id—

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’m giving a poetry reading tonight (with Jamey Jones), Thursday, November 21st, 8pm, at Unnameable Books, 615 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. In this recent linocut monotype of mine, below, I’m holding a drawing pad, but it looks like an atlas or a dictionary:

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Once upon a time, drug stores had huge, nearly neoclassical signs advertising laxatives:

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

keep a place open in your history-bruised heart for Luis Barragán pink

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Here I am, reflected in a Jim Hodges sculpture, at Gladstone Gallery, NYC.

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

the notebooks of landscape painter Adrian Berg—microscript—I’m reminded of Robert Walser—also, oddly, of Glenn Gould— (on display now at Hunter Dunbar gallery, NYC)

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

acrylic on bedsheets—epic-sized paintings, casual yet rigorous, by Kim MacConnel—this one is “Dependable,” from 1982— (in an exhibition right now at Luhring Augustine, NYC)

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Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

in my studio right now: a coil of hand-painted 16mm film:

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