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).
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Ballerini Book PressSlender. Never Spineless.FALLEN LEAVES by Sam Rasnake
We are thrilled to announce the release of Sam’s new poetry collection FALLEN LEAVES, as well as his signing a long term, author contract with Ballerini Book Press. Our long literary collabor…
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Pleased to announce the release of Fallen Leaves, my new poetry collection (Ballerini Book Press). Preorders available. Thanks for the kind words, Suzanne Frischkorn & James Owens. Excited that future works will have a home at BBP.
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“Mankind needs more empathy.”
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Still: Blade Runner / Ridley Scott, dir., 1982
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Still: Blade Runner / Ridley Scott, dir., 1982
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“Mankind needs more empathy.”
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Still: Blade Runner / Ridley Scott, dir., 1982
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Still: Blade Runner / Ridley Scott, dir., 1982
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - "Nothin'"
YouTube video by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
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November 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Au hasard Balthazar / Robert Bresson, dir., 1966
There’s no filmmaker quite like, Bresson – and no film like this one.
📽️🎬
There’s no filmmaker quite like, Bresson – and no film like this one.
📽️🎬
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Au hasard Balthazar / Robert Bresson, dir., 1966
There’s no filmmaker quite like, Bresson – and no film like this one.
📽️🎬
There’s no filmmaker quite like, Bresson – and no film like this one.
📽️🎬
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Book of Hours
Netherlands, Haarlem, 1445-1460
MS M.1031 fol. 52v.
Netherlands, Haarlem, 1445-1460
MS M.1031 fol. 52v.
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Book of Hours
Netherlands, Haarlem, 1445-1460
MS M.1031 fol. 52v.
Netherlands, Haarlem, 1445-1460
MS M.1031 fol. 52v.
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#STL BBC Music Mag has named former SLSO Principal Trumpet Susan Slaughter one of the *10 best trumpeters of all time*—placing her alongside musical legends like Miles Davis & Louis Armstrong.
A towering honor for a trailblazer who shaped our sound for more than four decades.
Full list at link:
A towering honor for a trailblazer who shaped our sound for more than four decades.
Full list at link:
These are the 10 best trumpeters of all time | Classical Music
Matilda Lloyd traces the history of her instrument through the ten best trumpeters, from the Tudor era to the present day
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November 25, 2025 at 6:49 AM
#STL BBC Music Mag has named former SLSO Principal Trumpet Susan Slaughter one of the *10 best trumpeters of all time*—placing her alongside musical legends like Miles Davis & Louis Armstrong.
A towering honor for a trailblazer who shaped our sound for more than four decades.
Full list at link:
A towering honor for a trailblazer who shaped our sound for more than four decades.
Full list at link:
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“The night is the night.”
Paul Celan; tr. Michael Hamburger
Paul Celan; tr. Michael Hamburger
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“The night is the night.”
Paul Celan; tr. Michael Hamburger
Paul Celan; tr. Michael Hamburger
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🎉🎉🎉
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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A DIRT SALE.
starting December 1st, the pdf for my first collection, Deifying A Total Darkness, will be available for FREE (or, yaknow, "paywhutchalike") through gumroad.com/upfromsumdirt ... the paperback will be a slender $10.
discount will end on my birthday, January 21st, 2026.
starting December 1st, the pdf for my first collection, Deifying A Total Darkness, will be available for FREE (or, yaknow, "paywhutchalike") through gumroad.com/upfromsumdirt ... the paperback will be a slender $10.
discount will end on my birthday, January 21st, 2026.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
A DIRT SALE.
starting December 1st, the pdf for my first collection, Deifying A Total Darkness, will be available for FREE (or, yaknow, "paywhutchalike") through gumroad.com/upfromsumdirt ... the paperback will be a slender $10.
discount will end on my birthday, January 21st, 2026.
starting December 1st, the pdf for my first collection, Deifying A Total Darkness, will be available for FREE (or, yaknow, "paywhutchalike") through gumroad.com/upfromsumdirt ... the paperback will be a slender $10.
discount will end on my birthday, January 21st, 2026.
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“ / I hate the word *savvy*, I told him /“
“where were all the people? / where were the cars and the birds? / where were the shops, the cafes, the restaurants? / who made the music and the art? / where were all the feral cats? /“
this by @kathyfish.bsky.social in Brink
“where were all the people? / where were the cars and the birds? / where were the shops, the cafes, the restaurants? / who made the music and the art? / where were all the feral cats? /“
this by @kathyfish.bsky.social in Brink
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
“ / I hate the word *savvy*, I told him /“
“where were all the people? / where were the cars and the birds? / where were the shops, the cafes, the restaurants? / who made the music and the art? / where were all the feral cats? /“
this by @kathyfish.bsky.social in Brink
“where were all the people? / where were the cars and the birds? / where were the shops, the cafes, the restaurants? / who made the music and the art? / where were all the feral cats? /“
this by @kathyfish.bsky.social in Brink
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A few songs from Africa ...
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open.substack.com/pub/literary...
Poems from a debut collection
a little vintage
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November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A few songs from Africa ...
open.substack.com/pub/literary...
open.substack.com/pub/literary...
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"..its language teaching us to kiss through a war."
'Diaspora' from IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS.
Poems by Vikki C. in dialogue with stunning artwork by Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social
Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social Link below 💙
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#poetrycommunity
'Diaspora' from IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS.
Poems by Vikki C. in dialogue with stunning artwork by Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social
Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social Link below 💙
(Alt text included)
#poetrycommunity
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"..its language teaching us to kiss through a war."
'Diaspora' from IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS.
Poems by Vikki C. in dialogue with stunning artwork by Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social
Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social Link below 💙
(Alt text included)
#poetrycommunity
'Diaspora' from IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS.
Poems by Vikki C. in dialogue with stunning artwork by Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social
Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social Link below 💙
(Alt text included)
#poetrycommunity
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The hand of day opens
Three clouds
And these few words
-Octavio Paz
(tr. Muriel Rukeyser)
Three clouds
And these few words
-Octavio Paz
(tr. Muriel Rukeyser)
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 AM
The hand of day opens
Three clouds
And these few words
-Octavio Paz
(tr. Muriel Rukeyser)
Three clouds
And these few words
-Octavio Paz
(tr. Muriel Rukeyser)
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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today is my birthday, and I couldn’t imagine a better way to celebrate than having a new poem out in Burial Magazine! infinite gratitude to Z. H. Gill for giving this one a beautiful home :) 🙏
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
today is my birthday, and I couldn’t imagine a better way to celebrate than having a new poem out in Burial Magazine! infinite gratitude to Z. H. Gill for giving this one a beautiful home :) 🙏
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This time last year, we published Zhuo Xiong's dramatic piece LIKE ASH, LIKE SHADOW NO. 1. Find it in the archives! 🧡 buff.ly/bwXLRzz
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This time last year, we published Zhuo Xiong's dramatic piece LIKE ASH, LIKE SHADOW NO. 1. Find it in the archives! 🧡 buff.ly/bwXLRzz
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“She knows she is surrounded by people pleasers who cringe as they watch her wrinkle her expression on Zoom then work to move her face muscles back to neutral smooth.” @shemurph.bsky.social
Bittering Up - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Manuel bonadeo on Unsplash by Sheila E. Murphy Hilda wields a curious power with her ritually unhappy face. She knows she is surrounded by people pleasers who cringe as they watch her wrinkle...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“She knows she is surrounded by people pleasers who cringe as they watch her wrinkle her expression on Zoom then work to move her face muscles back to neutral smooth.” @shemurph.bsky.social
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Alyssum
For a flicker I handled the trowel dipped my fingers to their second taper of soil Wriggled an aroma from buds unprepared as I was for Prana's musk come from such diminuent mouths, aporias with tongues Alyssum tocsin light on the neck of my mid- night nurse The vernal moon I awoke with…
For a flicker I handled the trowel dipped my fingers to their second taper of soil Wriggled an aroma from buds unprepared as I was for Prana's musk come from such diminuent mouths, aporias with tongues Alyssum tocsin light on the neck of my mid- night nurse The vernal moon I awoke with…
Alyssum
For a flicker I handled the trowel dipped my fingers to their second taper of soil Wriggled an aroma from buds unprepared as I was for Prana's musk come from such diminuent mouths, aporias with tongues Alyssum tocsin light on the neck of my mid- night nurse The vernal moon I awoke with arms full of ice meltwater at my…
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November 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Alyssum
For a flicker I handled the trowel dipped my fingers to their second taper of soil Wriggled an aroma from buds unprepared as I was for Prana's musk come from such diminuent mouths, aporias with tongues Alyssum tocsin light on the neck of my mid- night nurse The vernal moon I awoke with…
For a flicker I handled the trowel dipped my fingers to their second taper of soil Wriggled an aroma from buds unprepared as I was for Prana's musk come from such diminuent mouths, aporias with tongues Alyssum tocsin light on the neck of my mid- night nurse The vernal moon I awoke with…
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Reasons to Stay Alive When the World Burns
by Oladosu Michael Emerald
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November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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It's our Pushcart Prize nominations! Please help us congratulate Claire Guo, Ulrik Andersen, @glennorgias.bsky.social @mollymemine.bsky.social Oladosu Michael Emerald, & kanda zinguri.
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It's our Pushcart Prize nominations! Please help us congratulate Claire Guo, Ulrik Andersen, @glennorgias.bsky.social @mollymemine.bsky.social Oladosu Michael Emerald, & kanda zinguri.
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So pleased to have come home to @burgi.bsky.social’s White Door in the mail today! ❤️📚
“Simone Weil wrote that unmixed attention is prayer, and this collection streams with the light of attention and language that feels to me holy.”
—Han VanderHart, author of Larks
Find your copy here:
“Simone Weil wrote that unmixed attention is prayer, and this collection streams with the light of attention and language that feels to me holy.”
—Han VanderHart, author of Larks
Find your copy here:
018: White Door by Burgi Zenhaeusern — Carbonation Press
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November 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
So pleased to have come home to @burgi.bsky.social’s White Door in the mail today! ❤️📚
“Simone Weil wrote that unmixed attention is prayer, and this collection streams with the light of attention and language that feels to me holy.”
—Han VanderHart, author of Larks
Find your copy here:
“Simone Weil wrote that unmixed attention is prayer, and this collection streams with the light of attention and language that feels to me holy.”
—Han VanderHart, author of Larks
Find your copy here:
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November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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“Words owe their very existence to distance, although their deepest purpose is to overcome it; this is the truest in instances like homesick, a word I have always loved -- but never thought I'd feel, until today.”
-- Jennifer Croft
-- Jennifer Croft
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Words owe their very existence to distance, although their deepest purpose is to overcome it; this is the truest in instances like homesick, a word I have always loved -- but never thought I'd feel, until today.”
-- Jennifer Croft
-- Jennifer Croft
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Grateful to receive my first Pushcart nomination from Forgotten Ground Regained! Many thanks to @rhunedhel.bsky.social
Forgotten Ground Regained's first Pushcart nomination for 2025: @stevensearcy.bsky.social's poem "Emblem":
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Emblem by Steven Searcy
The evening sky is emblazoned / with authority, with blatant / mastery. A breeze blows ...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Grateful to receive my first Pushcart nomination from Forgotten Ground Regained! Many thanks to @rhunedhel.bsky.social