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Alexander Booth. Poetry. Translation (Mayröcker, Kluge, Penna, Wittgenstein et al). Analog collage. Existential Analysis / Logotherapy. Epigrams unto emptiness. Tread the path with care. wordkunst@gmail.com / IG: @wordkunst

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Monthly Dispatch #38 — ft. everything we published in September — is now up ... read here: minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...
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Monthly Dispatch #38 — September 2026
Letter from the editor[s]
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 8h
b/w repro of medieval memento-mori woodcut showing Death as a drummer in the form of a skeleton next to a finely dressed couple; in a vertical red bar to the bottom left white script says, "Keep on drumming"
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James Reeves @jamesreeves.co · 02/10/2026
My goal was to make a simple episode about vaporwave and mannequins. But thankfully my plans usually go awry and follow their own screwy logic. www.jamesreeves.co/55 Featuring moody hits from M83, Lusine, James Murray, John Maus, Fohn, 2814, Burial, and a dead-eyed cover of California Dreamin’.
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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 20h
. Friday We are capable of so much So many possibilities A handful of stupid, foolish, and bad men care only about money and domination .
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 22h
Evensong (back after 25+ years--!) perfumetree.bandcamp.com/album/dark-g...
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dark gift, by perfume tree
7 track album
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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The First 21 Bird Dreams.
21 Bird Dream collages on a staircase. The collages are made from found images, ink, charcoal, pastel, crayon and turmeric
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Andrew Wittkop @awestfell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Friends if you find yourself near Northfield on Thursday November 5 and would like to see me read and discuss my book details are below.
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September's End #analogcollage #collage
b/w + color newsprint analog postcard collage : faceless man holding space / pale gold wave of eye
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And all the next day Toad played music for his seeds.
Toad, an accomplished musician, plays violin for his seeds.

From "The Garden"
In *Frog and Toad Together*
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Snapshot of an old photographic film-canister box, consisting of five rows, alternating between 9 & 8 round holders
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Berlin weekender ... 16th & 17th October ... details here: minorliteratures.com/minor-incide...
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flowerville @flowerville.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Brown lavender. Stillness.
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DAPPER DON DHARSHI @dapperdondharshi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A marine biologist films this octopus changing colors while dreaming and it’s spectacular
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Man do I miss being around theatre co-directing Finale di partita (Endgame) in Rome in 2011 with a close friend was an incredible experience cannot wait to see André Gregory (90 y.o.!) & friends working on theirs here 👇 youtu.be/ehRxL-WBOZs?...
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One More Time | Trailer | NYFF64
YouTube video by Film at Lincoln Center
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a fun book & smart. Thanks to Des Barry @farsouthproject.bsky.social for tracking down a copy for me #BookSky
Far South by David Enrique Spellman, published by Serpent's Tail (cover : collage of a MISSING photo, a notebook, some files, s smudged thumb print, the penciled note "Where is Gerardo Fischer?")
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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 21/09/2026
Just added to my store: Power Lines Drawing #48 (Detroit, Southwest) 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...
Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“ORG-ART is close to DADA, but it is more systematic. DADA is revolt; ORG-ART is method. The Dadaist tears down; the ORG-artist organises the ruins. Dada destroys the sentence; ORG-ART arranges the fragments into a new syntax.” Orgart — Dragan Aleksić [tr. David Vichnar]
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Orgart — Dragan Aleksić [tr. David Vichnar]
Introduction — David Vichnar Dragan Aleksić’s year in Prague (1920–21) is one of those compressed episodes in avantgarde history where several circuits suddenly touch & spark.† Arriving in Octo…
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
September's End 2026 #analogcollage #collage
b/w newsprint + orange construction paper analog postcard collage : sculpted heads eyeless of white marble an upthrust of abstract black and white
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Latchkey, the latest book by Jeff Young, @wildtwin.bsky.social, one of my favorite living writers hands down, arrived today in the post, published by Berlin's @sacredparasite.bsky.social
Latchkey by Jeff Young, published by Sacred Parasite, 2026 (b/w cover photo of a sandy haired, hollow-eyed & haunted young boy in a rough sweater, bandage over his right eye, staring into the lens, by Gerard Fieret)
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Black Herald Press @blackheraldpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Black Herald welcomes submissions by email www.blackheraldpress.com/magazine
The work you submit should not have been previously published elsewhere.
Published works remain the copyright of their author/translator.
We cannot respond to every submission we receive, but if you have not heard from us within two months, please feel free to submit elsewhere.
Please do not send us any review copies.

Merci de noter que les textes envoyés doivent être des inédits (ou du moins leur traduction). Les auteurs conservent les droits des textes publiés.
Nous ne pouvons répondre à toutes les propositions que nous recevons, mais si vous n’avez pas eu de nos nouvelles dans les deux mois qui suivent, n’hésitez pas à proposer vos textes ailleurs.
Merci de ne pas nous faire parvenir d’ouvrages en service de presse.
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James Reeves @jamesreeves.co · 16/09/2026
Meanwhile on a stage in 1916, Hugo Ball's words echo into our time: “This humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect."
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Latchkey, the latest book by Jeff Young, @wildtwin.bsky.social, one of my favorite living writers hands down, arrived today in the post, published by Berlin's @sacredparasite.bsky.social
Latchkey by Jeff Young, published by Sacred Parasite, 2026 (b/w cover photo of a sandy haired, hollow-eyed & haunted young boy in a rough sweater, bandage over his right eye, staring into the lens, by Gerard Fieret)
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b_and_threads @b-and-threads.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
lomito la kuniklo manga foliojn de la arbro, kaj faras lian siesto apud la fenestro. La tago estas varma kaj hella, la suno brillas! #tagolibro #esperanto #komencanto #kunikloj
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"We don’t want more homework from visionary know-it-alls to drill us in how to think, we want more beautiful eternal underdogs to remind us how we feel." Hear, hear
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"The trouble with you, Harder, is that you'd rather have the beginnings of a story than the beginnings of a home" - Jörg Fauser (1944-1987) #BookSky #currentlyreading
Cover of Das Schlangenmaul (The Mouth of the Snake) by Jörg Fauser. Published by Diogenes Verlag. 

[Image: Polaroid of two wine stems with the reflection of their cups on a white surface]
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Daily reminder, courtesy of Dale Cooper youtu.be/_JLnC0e5dUU?...
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A Little Secret From Agent Cooper
YouTube video by Dale Cooper
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
found in an old notebook from 2005, translator unnoted: As you set about tending the wounds which others have dealt, heal the wounds you have yourself inflicted - Heloise to Abelard
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farsouthproject @farsouthproject.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Herakleitos - a Greek koan - trans. after Charles H Khan. From Jan Zwicky's Wisdom and Metaphor.
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
February 2026
b/w + color newsprint analog postcard collage of a dangling hand coming from a sleeve of faded blurry black-and-white & word
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
February 2026
b/w + color newsprint analog postcard collage a shiver of words slivered red a hand a question mark
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
If a man can keep alert & imaginative, an error is a possibility, a chance at something new. - William Least Heat-Moon
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
March 2026
b/w + color newsprint analog postcard collage with the word "type" in horizontal the word "script" in vertical an arrow a green flicker shadow
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
March's End 2026
blue + grey newsprint analog postcard collage of abstracted building forms & windows wedged vertical + horizontal
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
March's End 2026
Black ink drawing of overlapping  squares, some colored grey with a felt-tip pen
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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🔥👇
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“You must have been tired,” said Toad. “I was tired,” said Frog, “and it started to rain.”
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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I heard a story that after an opening at a Soho gallery in the mid-70s he was giving people piggybacks up and down the street.
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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My last sight of him that evening: he was still in his habit and large wooden pectoral cross, rolling amorously on the floor with a young guy in leathers, watched by one of the biggest cats I've ever seen, to the sound of the Sex Pistols' "Never Mind the Bollocks". [2/2]
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Andrew Brewerton @ajbrewerton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/... www.estorickcollection.com/shop/breakin...
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Breaking Lines - Estorick Collection
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
September 2026 #analog #collage
color newsprint analog postcard collage : a Botticelli profile staring out from two aquamarine & black-lined fans
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On the art & concrete poetry of the monk Dom Sylvester Houédard hyperallergic.com/dom-sylveste...
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The Clever Concrete Poetry of a Benedictine Monk
Dom Sylvester Houédard, friends with the beatniks, littered his texts with references to god and prayer, and had a peculiar sense of humor.
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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Many thanks to @flakphoto.news for snapping this pic and sending it to me this past weekend. My book Jazz Loft Project on display in City Lights in San Francisco. Thank you, Andy.
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Der Bruno (an occasional series) youtu.be/2HzKrBd3BR8?...
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Stroszek Bruno S playing glockenspiel accordion
YouTube video by discowitch
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
September 2026 #analog #collage
color newsprint analog postcard collage : a Botticelli profile staring out from two aquamarine & black-lined fans
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The efficient individual is the one whose performance is an action only insofar as it is the proper reaction to the objective requirements of the apparatus, & his liberty is confined to the selection of the most adequate means for reaching a goal he did not set. - Herbert Marcuse
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
Self-Encounter: The 10-Episode TV Show That Introduced Existentialism to Americans in 1961 www.openculture.com/2022/05/self...
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action...this expression is unique...It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable...[but] to keep it yours clearly & directly, to keep the channel open - Martha Graham
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
When algorithms replace human judgement, there is no room for considering each individual situation on its own unique terms. The view of what is normal & what is aberrant eats its way into everything. The space for difference has shrunk. - Clara Törnvall (tr. Alice E. Olsson)
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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
what does a word sound like that has gone through kindergarten, high school, and acting lessons? - Heimrad Bäcker (tr. Patrick Greaney)
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