Ricardo D. Velásquez ✍️💀

—Author once. Poet; traditional illustrator.
He/Him.
18+

[The Bulb Region @BulbRegion]

Submissions close tomorrow, July 10th. Don’t forget to send your work through before it’s late!

[Isidro Li @isidro_li]

V. R. Lang

[Ricardo D. Velásquez ✍️💀 @ridvec]

@anikauwu Nice!

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

and a little Lispector.

“When I say ‘think’ I’m referring to the way I dream words. But thought needs to be a feeling.”

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Dear humans, I’m doing a little writing experiment over the next 3 weeks. If you DM your mailing address to me, you might receive a postcard with a story?!

[RobertAllenPoet @RobertAllenPoet]

"Straw for the Fire" is a collection from Theodore Roethke's notebooks. All praises to David Wagoner for figuring out Roethke's handwriting. His notebooks are full of poems, half poems half thoughts, and aphorisms. It's shows a poet thinking and creating. I LOVE this book.

[Ricardo D. Velásquez ✍️💀 @ridvec]

@_puppi O—Hi!— 💜

[Stone Circle Review @stonecirclerev]

⭕️The Circle is always open. Send your best poem. I'm looking for work that reminds the reader not everything can be measured or explained.

No fee. Four-week turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio.

#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

what I love about the world is its shape

Edwin Morgan

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

https://t.co/gMO91QD6t0

[Isidro Li @isidro_li]

Tomas Tranströmer (translated by Robert Bly)

[Yoshitaka Amano @YoshitakaAmanoO]

Fragments.

#yoshitakaamano

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

Reality precedes the voice that seeks it, but as the earth precedes the tree, but as the world precedes the man, but as the sea precedes the vision of the sea, life precedes love […] and in turn language one day will have preceded the possession of silence.

— Clarice Lispector

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“If you love me, said body, / turn and exist.”

— Anne Stevenson

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This poem appeared in Poems 1955-2005 by Anne Stevenson, published by Bloodaxe Books, 2005. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[リポ・トウ @riposhima]

スケッチ 風通し良く寝る犬

[misato. @misato08280]

★彡

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“On the bridge, people are carried / in the body of a train, nodding like peonies.”

— Kuhu Joshi

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This poem appeared in Four Way Review Issue 27, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[Miranda Holmqvist @MirandaHqv]

Wisława Szymborska

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

Robert Creeley, from “The Language”

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Both count:
the touched and the untouched.
Both speak with guilt about love,
both want to be and to die.

- Paul Celan, "At Mouth Level" - circling Cologne, Munich, and Vienna with Ingeborg Bachmann