Kate Beall
@katebbeall.bsky.social
Writer, baker, candlestick maker (?), / All of me out to sea | Words in Feral, HAD, and elsewhere | she/her
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Cladonia fimbriata, our Trumpet Lichen, seen Sunday at Deer Creek Canyon 🌿
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Cladonia fimbriata, our Trumpet Lichen, seen Sunday at Deer Creek Canyon 🌿
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For #smallpoemsunday Paul Celan, born on this day, translated by John Felstiner.
In German, it says "Dusk has the swimming word." "Floating" is a fair translation, more beautiful, but the translation implies that the word belongs to dusk, whereas in the German dusk only "has" it, as we read...
In German, it says "Dusk has the swimming word." "Floating" is a fair translation, more beautiful, but the translation implies that the word belongs to dusk, whereas in the German dusk only "has" it, as we read...
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
For #smallpoemsunday Paul Celan, born on this day, translated by John Felstiner.
In German, it says "Dusk has the swimming word." "Floating" is a fair translation, more beautiful, but the translation implies that the word belongs to dusk, whereas in the German dusk only "has" it, as we read...
In German, it says "Dusk has the swimming word." "Floating" is a fair translation, more beautiful, but the translation implies that the word belongs to dusk, whereas in the German dusk only "has" it, as we read...
A little Emily Dickinson for #SmallPoemSunday, one that’s been playing in my head through the bizarre news cycles of this week.
November 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
A little Emily Dickinson for #SmallPoemSunday, one that’s been playing in my head through the bizarre news cycles of this week.
Ah, speaking of memorizing poetry—
My favorite bookstore, @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social, is running a poetry memorization challenge fundraiser for the Sameer Project. I'm going to memorize @lenakt.bsky.social's "To Be Self-Evident." How about you? poets.org/poem/be-self...
To Be Self-Evident
Every empire tells its subjects a story
poets.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Ah, speaking of memorizing poetry—
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Desert mud (forbidden chocolate). #photography
November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Desert mud (forbidden chocolate). #photography
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Hey you can memorize and recite a poem even if you’re not in David’s course. And you could do it in any language!
Here’s Ana Luísa Amaral’s “A verdade histórica” (text and translation in replies)
Here’s Ana Luísa Amaral’s “A verdade histórica” (text and translation in replies)
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Hey you can memorize and recite a poem even if you’re not in David’s course. And you could do it in any language!
Here’s Ana Luísa Amaral’s “A verdade histórica” (text and translation in replies)
Here’s Ana Luísa Amaral’s “A verdade histórica” (text and translation in replies)
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Great porcine drag queen
You who grew erudite in the slaughterhouse shadow
Eyelashes like black swords teased up to challenge heaven
-"Miss Piggy," Sam Sax
You who grew erudite in the slaughterhouse shadow
Eyelashes like black swords teased up to challenge heaven
-"Miss Piggy," Sam Sax
November 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Great porcine drag queen
You who grew erudite in the slaughterhouse shadow
Eyelashes like black swords teased up to challenge heaven
-"Miss Piggy," Sam Sax
You who grew erudite in the slaughterhouse shadow
Eyelashes like black swords teased up to challenge heaven
-"Miss Piggy," Sam Sax
Hey you can memorize and recite a poem even if you’re not in David’s course. And you could do it in any language!
Here’s Ana Luísa Amaral’s “A verdade histórica” (text and translation in replies)
Here’s Ana Luísa Amaral’s “A verdade histórica” (text and translation in replies)
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Hey you can memorize and recite a poem even if you’re not in David’s course. And you could do it in any language!
Here’s Ana Luísa Amaral’s “A verdade histórica” (text and translation in replies)
Here’s Ana Luísa Amaral’s “A verdade histórica” (text and translation in replies)
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this, all day right now
(unmute, it’s a bop)
(unmute, it’s a bop)
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
this, all day right now
(unmute, it’s a bop)
(unmute, it’s a bop)
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free memorial event for Alice (Mom) Notley happening tomorrow eve. Six months from the date of her death. Which also means we just got the French tax bill. So the memorial's free, but if anyone brings a big bag of money to lend us for a spell, that's cool
www.poetryproject.org/events/at-ni...
www.poetryproject.org/events/at-ni...
At Night the States: a Memorial Celebration for Alice Notley
This will be a gathering to read perform and listen to works by and with and about Alice Notley, who passed away this past spring in Paris. Notley said St. Mark's Church was where she imagined her wor...
www.poetryproject.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
free memorial event for Alice (Mom) Notley happening tomorrow eve. Six months from the date of her death. Which also means we just got the French tax bill. So the memorial's free, but if anyone brings a big bag of money to lend us for a spell, that's cool
www.poetryproject.org/events/at-ni...
www.poetryproject.org/events/at-ni...
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keep making the pattern, keep paying attention, and make your own Sense
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
keep making the pattern, keep paying attention, and make your own Sense
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'A little world made cunningly of elements', screen print/monoprint and India ink on paper, 2025
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
'A little world made cunningly of elements', screen print/monoprint and India ink on paper, 2025
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Is anyone writing about nature and social media or ai or deep fakes?
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Is anyone writing about nature and social media or ai or deep fakes?
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Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.
“I am out with lanterns, looking for my salad,” as I believe Emily Dickinson wrote
November 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
“I am out with lanterns, looking for my salad,” as I believe Emily Dickinson wrote
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Humberto Ak'abal
(from "If Today Were Tomorrow," translation mine)
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
(from "If Today Were Tomorrow," translation mine)
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Humberto Ak'abal
(from "If Today Were Tomorrow," translation mine)
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
(from "If Today Were Tomorrow," translation mine)
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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OK, but only if she learns to recite the proper bracha.
Politics is about addition, not subtraction, which is why we should let Marjorie Taylor Greene use our space laser.
November 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
OK, but only if she learns to recite the proper bracha.
Maria Zoccola, HELEN OF TROY, 1993
#smallpoemsunday
#smallpoemsunday
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Maria Zoccola, HELEN OF TROY, 1993
#smallpoemsunday
#smallpoemsunday
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this sculpture we saw on a walk today
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
this sculpture we saw on a walk today
This linocut print by Eduardo Robledo, called “Diablos, seguimos.”
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
This linocut print by Eduardo Robledo, called “Diablos, seguimos.”
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northern lights were just one magic among many today
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
northern lights were just one magic among many today
northern lights were just one magic among many today
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
northern lights were just one magic among many today
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“I Thought I Heard Your Voice Just Then” is a new eight-page comic drawn by @jlaguff.bsky.social and written by myself. You can read it below or purchase it on a pay-what-you-want basis on Itch.io (which I recommend, Bluesky compression being what it is):
hagaipalevsky.itch.io/thoughtiheard
(1/2)
hagaipalevsky.itch.io/thoughtiheard
(1/2)
November 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“I Thought I Heard Your Voice Just Then” is a new eight-page comic drawn by @jlaguff.bsky.social and written by myself. You can read it below or purchase it on a pay-what-you-want basis on Itch.io (which I recommend, Bluesky compression being what it is):
hagaipalevsky.itch.io/thoughtiheard
(1/2)
hagaipalevsky.itch.io/thoughtiheard
(1/2)