Sam Rasnake
@samrasnake.bsky.social
Scribbler of words... Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, forthcoming), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press), World within the World (Cyberwit), Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).
Influential books:
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre of pyre-
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
#poetry
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre of pyre-
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
#poetry
January 23, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Influential books:
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre of pyre-
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
#poetry
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre of pyre-
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
#poetry
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The Bent Branch, Walter Launt Palmer.
January 23, 2026 at 11:56 AM
The Bent Branch, Walter Launt Palmer.
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‘Nite, peeps. Closing the day with Handel, but in a softer, duskier, beautifully unmoored jazz version from Efrat Alony.
Aria from Handel’s Alexander Balus: “Convey me to some peaceful shore”
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#ClassicalMusic #Handel #jazz
Aria from Handel’s Alexander Balus: “Convey me to some peaceful shore”
youtu.be/HCv4RQp6BZ0?...
#ClassicalMusic #Handel #jazz
Convey Me To Some Peaceful Shore
YouTube video by Efrat Alony - Topic
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January 23, 2026 at 4:27 AM
‘Nite, peeps. Closing the day with Handel, but in a softer, duskier, beautifully unmoored jazz version from Efrat Alony.
Aria from Handel’s Alexander Balus: “Convey me to some peaceful shore”
youtu.be/HCv4RQp6BZ0?...
#ClassicalMusic #Handel #jazz
Aria from Handel’s Alexander Balus: “Convey me to some peaceful shore”
youtu.be/HCv4RQp6BZ0?...
#ClassicalMusic #Handel #jazz
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ex. of a US school district that has planned ahead extensively & trained faculty and staff. They've been able to help recover some detained students but the damage to families is accruing.
Wilbur Cross was in my old neighborhood. Angry doesn't begin to cover how I feel.
Wilbur Cross was in my old neighborhood. Angry doesn't begin to cover how I feel.
Fear, arrests and know-your-rights: How one school district is grappling with ICE coming to town
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “They took her, they took her, they took her.” Those were some of the words Assistant Principal Cora Muñoz could discern while on the phone with the guardian of one of her students.…
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “They took her, they took her, they took her.” Those were some of the words Assistant Principal Cora Muñoz could discern while on the phone with the guardian of one of her students.…
Fear, arrests and know-your-rights: How one school district is grappling with ICE coming to town
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “They took her, they took her, they took her.” Those were some of the words Assistant Principal Cora Muñoz could discern while on the phone with the guardian of one of her students. As the caller sobbed and struggled to speak, Muñoz realized that immigration enforcement agents had detained a kid from Wilbur Cross, the high school she helps lead. Again. There was a reason why Muñoz was a go-to contact for the student and her guardian: She — and New Haven public schools more broadly — have worked hard to earn the trust of immigrant families in their diverse district, even as the second Trump administration has made it easier for immigration officers to enter schools and launched a mass deportation campaign.
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January 23, 2026 at 1:02 PM
ex. of a US school district that has planned ahead extensively & trained faculty and staff. They've been able to help recover some detained students but the damage to families is accruing.
Wilbur Cross was in my old neighborhood. Angry doesn't begin to cover how I feel.
Wilbur Cross was in my old neighborhood. Angry doesn't begin to cover how I feel.
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i think gen x (black gen x, specifically) was the last historical extension to the boomer generation and the gens prior. we have this convo often with our 4 adult children, who are extensions of US as their parents but dont exceptionally feel connected to blackness historically, except anecdotally.
there are so many levels to this tho - adults were our google as kids, even when not talking directly to us; we sat in adjacent rooms eavesdropping on adult conversations & picking up context clues — but now, us adults dont talk like that anymore AND our kids dont listen as intently.
January 23, 2026 at 1:19 AM
i think gen x (black gen x, specifically) was the last historical extension to the boomer generation and the gens prior. we have this convo often with our 4 adult children, who are extensions of US as their parents but dont exceptionally feel connected to blackness historically, except anecdotally.
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"I asked if we would come back. She said nothing, only held my wrist tighter."
Wow, this extraordinary piece of writing by Shofiqure Rahman in @welkinprize.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Wow, this extraordinary piece of writing by Shofiqure Rahman in @welkinprize.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Today's shortlisted story is "That Day" by Shofiqure Rahman. A powerful exploration of refugee life:
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January 22, 2026 at 3:47 PM
"I asked if we would come back. She said nothing, only held my wrist tighter."
Wow, this extraordinary piece of writing by Shofiqure Rahman in @welkinprize.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Wow, this extraordinary piece of writing by Shofiqure Rahman in @welkinprize.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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“The skillet memorized the outline of her palm. The pan would have waxed lyrical about the warmth of her touch.”
“She cooked four hundred thousand omelettes and then …”
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/01/22/g...
“She cooked four hundred thousand omelettes and then …”
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/01/22/g...
Golden Hour ~ by Sarp Sozdinler
One morning, she cooked an omelette for herself. It was perfect. Golden at the edges, soft around the middle. The smell hung in the air: butter, heat, a little salt. She cooked another one, this ti…
milkcandyreview.home.blog
January 23, 2026 at 3:35 AM
“The skillet memorized the outline of her palm. The pan would have waxed lyrical about the warmth of her touch.”
“She cooked four hundred thousand omelettes and then …”
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/01/22/g...
“She cooked four hundred thousand omelettes and then …”
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/01/22/g...
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One of the stories we'll be looking at in Saturday's workshop is "The Hole in the Center of Everything" by Cathy Ulrich. Amazing writer. threadcountmag.com/issue-12-spr...
cathy ulrich
The Hole in the Center of Everything This is one of those stories where someone drowns. It’s actually eleven someones in this story, eleven of us crossing the frozen-over river in our stocking caps…
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January 22, 2026 at 6:24 PM
One of the stories we'll be looking at in Saturday's workshop is "The Hole in the Center of Everything" by Cathy Ulrich. Amazing writer. threadcountmag.com/issue-12-spr...
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Lovely to receive an acceptance from TIMBER Journal, run by MFA candidates out of the University of Colorado-Boulder, publishing innovative works that "confront the rules and voices of the canon".
My thanks to EIC Hannah Olsson and team for selecting my poem "Grace Periodic" for the Feb issue 🩵
My thanks to EIC Hannah Olsson and team for selecting my poem "Grace Periodic" for the Feb issue 🩵
January 21, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Lovely to receive an acceptance from TIMBER Journal, run by MFA candidates out of the University of Colorado-Boulder, publishing innovative works that "confront the rules and voices of the canon".
My thanks to EIC Hannah Olsson and team for selecting my poem "Grace Periodic" for the Feb issue 🩵
My thanks to EIC Hannah Olsson and team for selecting my poem "Grace Periodic" for the Feb issue 🩵
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"We dream in a series of still frames / but it's the artist who animates."
Today, at PROCESS @icefloepress.bsky.social features Ohio poet Christen Lee with a luminous poem and image:
'On The Naming Of Things'
Family, renewal, creating as an act of affirmation✨️
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
Today, at PROCESS @icefloepress.bsky.social features Ohio poet Christen Lee with a luminous poem and image:
'On The Naming Of Things'
Family, renewal, creating as an act of affirmation✨️
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
At PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)(D)(S) a lovingly meditative new #poem & #image by U.S. poet Christen Lee on #writing, #art, #parenting, #hope and regenerative energy.
"We dream in a series of still frames,"
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"We dream in a series of still frames,"
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On the Naming of Things – A Poem by Christen Lee
ON THE NAMING OF THINGS or, writing through a creative impasse What’s in a name? Origin. Aspiration. Virtue. We dream in a series of still frames, but it’s the artist who animates. On the seventh d…
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January 22, 2026 at 3:32 PM
"We dream in a series of still frames / but it's the artist who animates."
Today, at PROCESS @icefloepress.bsky.social features Ohio poet Christen Lee with a luminous poem and image:
'On The Naming Of Things'
Family, renewal, creating as an act of affirmation✨️
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
Today, at PROCESS @icefloepress.bsky.social features Ohio poet Christen Lee with a luminous poem and image:
'On The Naming Of Things'
Family, renewal, creating as an act of affirmation✨️
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
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January 22, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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Ecstatic Nonbinary Lady in Yellow Drapery by Rose Knapp
#art #digitalart #abstractart #nonbinaryart #queerart
#art #digitalart #abstractart #nonbinaryart #queerart
January 21, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Ecstatic Nonbinary Lady in Yellow Drapery by Rose Knapp
#art #digitalart #abstractart #nonbinaryart #queerart
#art #digitalart #abstractart #nonbinaryart #queerart
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January 22, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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”I am not a clockmaker. I am interested in getting to time in its unstructured existence. [...] I am interested in how time exists before we put our paws on it - our minds, our imaginations, into it."
- Morton Feldman 🖤
- Morton Feldman 🖤
January 15, 2026 at 12:30 AM
”I am not a clockmaker. I am interested in getting to time in its unstructured existence. [...] I am interested in how time exists before we put our paws on it - our minds, our imaginations, into it."
- Morton Feldman 🖤
- Morton Feldman 🖤
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A new year brings us new work to admire 💫 Help us welcome our JANUARY ISSUE: buff.ly/xnuvf6J
Major thanks to our contributors!
WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass
ART Audrey Holmes
PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social
Major thanks to our contributors!
WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass
ART Audrey Holmes
PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 2:45 PM
A new year brings us new work to admire 💫 Help us welcome our JANUARY ISSUE: buff.ly/xnuvf6J
Major thanks to our contributors!
WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass
ART Audrey Holmes
PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social
Major thanks to our contributors!
WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass
ART Audrey Holmes
PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social
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Pentimento (1)
What can be stated: I vividly recall the first time I flew. The plane tipped up backward, and my chair wanted to break free from its boltings and fall into the tail. I thought I wouldn't survive until we leveled out. I was six; they gave me a plastic pilot's badge with an adhesive…
What can be stated: I vividly recall the first time I flew. The plane tipped up backward, and my chair wanted to break free from its boltings and fall into the tail. I thought I wouldn't survive until we leveled out. I was six; they gave me a plastic pilot's badge with an adhesive…
Pentimento (1)
What can be stated: I vividly recall the first time I flew. The plane tipped up backward, and my chair wanted to break free from its boltings and fall into the tail. I thought I wouldn't survive until we leveled out. I was six; they gave me a plastic pilot's badge with an adhesive back to stick on my chest. I loved it, still have it.
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January 22, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Pentimento (1)
What can be stated: I vividly recall the first time I flew. The plane tipped up backward, and my chair wanted to break free from its boltings and fall into the tail. I thought I wouldn't survive until we leveled out. I was six; they gave me a plastic pilot's badge with an adhesive…
What can be stated: I vividly recall the first time I flew. The plane tipped up backward, and my chair wanted to break free from its boltings and fall into the tail. I thought I wouldn't survive until we leveled out. I was six; they gave me a plastic pilot's badge with an adhesive…
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Jean Valentine
January 23, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Jean Valentine
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“Even the humblest of things contain great significance—provided we are attentive enough to feel it.”
-- Marci Kwon
-- Marci Kwon
January 22, 2026 at 2:05 PM
“Even the humblest of things contain great significance—provided we are attentive enough to feel it.”
-- Marci Kwon
-- Marci Kwon
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Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "The Confession" by Eleanor Ball (@eleanorball.bsky.social) #tbt
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The Confession
by Eleanor Ball
I roll my hope down the Mount. Robe my heart
in pleasure. I sink to my knees,
swallow the blessing like honeyed wine.
Unthread my body. The eye of the needle is near.
I show my brot...
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January 22, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "The Confession" by Eleanor Ball (@eleanorball.bsky.social) #tbt
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My list of influential books:
The Tunnel by Russel Edson
“On the other side of the mirror there’s an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love.”
The Tunnel by Russel Edson
“On the other side of the mirror there’s an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love.”
January 22, 2026 at 2:35 PM
My list of influential books:
The Tunnel by Russel Edson
“On the other side of the mirror there’s an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love.”
The Tunnel by Russel Edson
“On the other side of the mirror there’s an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love.”
Great for winter reading... More Flowers, Susan L Leary...
"At last, paradise or otherwise. At last,
the meanwhile has fled & the clouds are becoming
clouds once more."
"At last, paradise or otherwise. At last,
the meanwhile has fled & the clouds are becoming
clouds once more."
January 22, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Great for winter reading... More Flowers, Susan L Leary...
"At last, paradise or otherwise. At last,
the meanwhile has fled & the clouds are becoming
clouds once more."
"At last, paradise or otherwise. At last,
the meanwhile has fled & the clouds are becoming
clouds once more."