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).
La Pointe-Courte / Agnès Varda, dir. (1955)
January 21, 2026 at 6:46 PM
La Pointe-Courte / Agnès Varda, dir. (1955)
My list of influential books:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky was heavily influenced by Poe, especially in this book. A good sign I think.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky was heavily influenced by Poe, especially in this book. A good sign I think.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
January 21, 2026 at 6:33 PM
My list of influential books:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky was heavily influenced by Poe, especially in this book. A good sign I think.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky was heavily influenced by Poe, especially in this book. A good sign I think.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
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Crocuses, Mary Vaux Walcott, 1874.
January 21, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Crocuses, Mary Vaux Walcott, 1874.
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😬 Holding nerves at bay— a stressful day is ahead. Insomnia (of course) and a bit rattled.
🎻 Georg Muffat matches the mood with Somata No 2 in G minor. The opening ‘Grave’ is an impassioned near-train wreck of emotion, barely held together by form.
💁🏻♀️ I feel seen.
#ClassicalMusic #insomnia
🎻 Georg Muffat matches the mood with Somata No 2 in G minor. The opening ‘Grave’ is an impassioned near-train wreck of emotion, barely held together by form.
💁🏻♀️ I feel seen.
#ClassicalMusic #insomnia
Armonico Tributo: Sonata No. 2 in G minor: Sonata
YouTube video by Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (Freiburger Barockorchester) - Topic
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January 21, 2026 at 6:31 AM
😬 Holding nerves at bay— a stressful day is ahead. Insomnia (of course) and a bit rattled.
🎻 Georg Muffat matches the mood with Somata No 2 in G minor. The opening ‘Grave’ is an impassioned near-train wreck of emotion, barely held together by form.
💁🏻♀️ I feel seen.
#ClassicalMusic #insomnia
🎻 Georg Muffat matches the mood with Somata No 2 in G minor. The opening ‘Grave’ is an impassioned near-train wreck of emotion, barely held together by form.
💁🏻♀️ I feel seen.
#ClassicalMusic #insomnia
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Didn't know I needed this book until I read it. A dream?... A nightmare. (Thank you @liamsprod.bsky.social for "recommending" it; I saw it in one of your posts)
January 21, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Didn't know I needed this book until I read it. A dream?... A nightmare. (Thank you @liamsprod.bsky.social for "recommending" it; I saw it in one of your posts)
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"Angel sings when she’s happy. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it almost sounds like light breaking through."
Wow, this phenomenal piece of writing by @fadingbetty.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Wow, this phenomenal piece of writing by @fadingbetty.bsky.social 💙💙💙
New (old) flash piece in Flash the Court today flashthecourt.com/2026/01/09/c...
#writingcommunity #amwriting
#writingcommunity #amwriting
“Christmas” by Betty Stanton
We can name a day, even a holiday, but can’t know what it holds for those other than ourselves. In “Christmas” by Betty Stanton, “the calendar doesn’t mean much anymore,” but a new name, “something…
flashthecourt.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:21 PM
"Angel sings when she’s happy. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it almost sounds like light breaking through."
Wow, this phenomenal piece of writing by @fadingbetty.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Wow, this phenomenal piece of writing by @fadingbetty.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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"Grace often wonders about the act of dressing in a dead man’s clothing. If this is how Ellen forgets Thomas. By folding him into the everyday ..."
@eileentomarchio.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
@eileentomarchio.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Gone Lawn 63 : Eileen Frankel Tomarchio
gonelawn.net
January 21, 2026 at 4:56 AM
"Grace often wonders about the act of dressing in a dead man’s clothing. If this is how Ellen forgets Thomas. By folding him into the everyday ..."
@eileentomarchio.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
@eileentomarchio.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Cuba, 1962 by Ai
"I raise the machete —
what I take from the earth, I give back —
and cut off her feet."
"I raise the machete —
what I take from the earth, I give back —
and cut off her feet."
January 21, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Cuba, 1962 by Ai
"I raise the machete —
what I take from the earth, I give back —
and cut off her feet."
"I raise the machete —
what I take from the earth, I give back —
and cut off her feet."
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Steven Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social is a favorite of mine! Inspiring, complex, erudite work, always!
Welcoming him back to @icefloepress.bsky.social PROCESS project is a delight. Also look forward to more info on a future Ice Floe Press book by Stephen.
icefloepress.net/2026/01/19/p...
Welcoming him back to @icefloepress.bsky.social PROCESS project is a delight. Also look forward to more info on a future Ice Floe Press book by Stephen.
icefloepress.net/2026/01/19/p...
PENUMBRA/Margins (An Assemblage) – Stephen Sunderland
Margins PENUMBRA PenumbraDownload Stephen Sunderland is the author of film-novel The Cinema Beneath the Lake (Orbis Tertius, 2025), and visual poetry collections Eye Movement (Steel Incisors, 2022)…
icefloepress.net
January 19, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Steven Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social is a favorite of mine! Inspiring, complex, erudite work, always!
Welcoming him back to @icefloepress.bsky.social PROCESS project is a delight. Also look forward to more info on a future Ice Floe Press book by Stephen.
icefloepress.net/2026/01/19/p...
Welcoming him back to @icefloepress.bsky.social PROCESS project is a delight. Also look forward to more info on a future Ice Floe Press book by Stephen.
icefloepress.net/2026/01/19/p...
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Today at PROCESS @icefloepress.bsky.social is proud to present UK poet–artist @stephensunderland.bsky.social with a striking text-photo assemblage 'PENUMBRA/ Margins'– drawing on the French Surrealists, with inspiration from André Breton's seminal work L'Amour fou 🔥
icefloepress.net/2026/01/19/p...
icefloepress.net/2026/01/19/p...
January 19, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Today at PROCESS @icefloepress.bsky.social is proud to present UK poet–artist @stephensunderland.bsky.social with a striking text-photo assemblage 'PENUMBRA/ Margins'– drawing on the French Surrealists, with inspiration from André Breton's seminal work L'Amour fou 🔥
icefloepress.net/2026/01/19/p...
icefloepress.net/2026/01/19/p...
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Reminder, this is coming up. Hope to see you there with a poem for Open Mic! Register here:
January 20, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Reminder, this is coming up. Hope to see you there with a poem for Open Mic! Register here:
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Ego ep by Aural Chrome on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 7 Songs
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January 21, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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Like reciting “Goodnight Moon” your mother’s dead body
Like Rene Char pledging “the poem lays us down in pain adjourned without separating the cold from the ardent”
Like listening to Smashing Pumpkins’ “Luna” and imagining the person you will love
Like Rene Char pledging “the poem lays us down in pain adjourned without separating the cold from the ardent”
Like listening to Smashing Pumpkins’ “Luna” and imagining the person you will love
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Like reciting “Goodnight Moon” your mother’s dead body
Like Rene Char pledging “the poem lays us down in pain adjourned without separating the cold from the ardent”
Like listening to Smashing Pumpkins’ “Luna” and imagining the person you will love
Like Rene Char pledging “the poem lays us down in pain adjourned without separating the cold from the ardent”
Like listening to Smashing Pumpkins’ “Luna” and imagining the person you will love
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the campfire girl in me
Jamie MacInnis
Jamie MacInnis
January 21, 2026 at 2:45 PM
the campfire girl in me
Jamie MacInnis
Jamie MacInnis
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On a Cold Autumn Day
After last night's frost, autumn's leaves die fast, then blow away to a place, from which there's no return. We have no name for it. It's simply nothingness, where all lives eventually reside. Pedants are absorbed in looking at the cosmos with mathematical certainty. Does it…
After last night's frost, autumn's leaves die fast, then blow away to a place, from which there's no return. We have no name for it. It's simply nothingness, where all lives eventually reside. Pedants are absorbed in looking at the cosmos with mathematical certainty. Does it…
On a Cold Autumn Day
After last night's frost, autumn's leaves die fast, then blow away to a place, from which there's no return. We have no name for it. It's simply nothingness, where all lives eventually reside. Pedants are absorbed in looking at the cosmos with mathematical certainty. Does it give them clarity? I feel no reassurance looking at that unfriendly sky. It awakens my sense of grief.
eunoiareview.wordpress.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 AM
On a Cold Autumn Day
After last night's frost, autumn's leaves die fast, then blow away to a place, from which there's no return. We have no name for it. It's simply nothingness, where all lives eventually reside. Pedants are absorbed in looking at the cosmos with mathematical certainty. Does it…
After last night's frost, autumn's leaves die fast, then blow away to a place, from which there's no return. We have no name for it. It's simply nothingness, where all lives eventually reside. Pedants are absorbed in looking at the cosmos with mathematical certainty. Does it…
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The imagination is not only holy, it is precise
it is not only fierce, it is practical
men die every day for the lack of it,
it is vast & elegant
Diane di Prima
it is not only fierce, it is practical
men die every day for the lack of it,
it is vast & elegant
Diane di Prima
June 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The imagination is not only holy, it is precise
it is not only fierce, it is practical
men die every day for the lack of it,
it is vast & elegant
Diane di Prima
it is not only fierce, it is practical
men die every day for the lack of it,
it is vast & elegant
Diane di Prima
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Preorder your copy of Antibody by Elane Kim today! 👉 📚💙 riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
January 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Preorder your copy of Antibody by Elane Kim today! 👉 📚💙 riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
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“Memory alone arrogates to itself the right to excerpt from dreams, to ignore the transitions, and to depict for us rather a series of dreams than the dream itself.”
-- André Breton
-- André Breton
January 21, 2026 at 2:05 PM
“Memory alone arrogates to itself the right to excerpt from dreams, to ignore the transitions, and to depict for us rather a series of dreams than the dream itself.”
-- André Breton
-- André Breton
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"When Daniel vanished, he left two women behind. Mae, our elderly landlady in 4A, and me, his wife."
🎉 Check out Former Editorial Fiction Assistant @anniejowrites.bsky.social's story in @doricliterary.bsky.social! buff.ly/BFDkwxe
🎉 Check out Former Editorial Fiction Assistant @anniejowrites.bsky.social's story in @doricliterary.bsky.social! buff.ly/BFDkwxe
January 21, 2026 at 6:15 PM
"When Daniel vanished, he left two women behind. Mae, our elderly landlady in 4A, and me, his wife."
🎉 Check out Former Editorial Fiction Assistant @anniejowrites.bsky.social's story in @doricliterary.bsky.social! buff.ly/BFDkwxe
🎉 Check out Former Editorial Fiction Assistant @anniejowrites.bsky.social's story in @doricliterary.bsky.social! buff.ly/BFDkwxe
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I just took inventory for @riverriverbooks.bsky.social in anticipation of our spring titles and who made this mess?!
Everything will be clean and ordered soon. Under Frida’s eye, y’all
Everything will be clean and ordered soon. Under Frida’s eye, y’all
January 18, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I just took inventory for @riverriverbooks.bsky.social in anticipation of our spring titles and who made this mess?!
Everything will be clean and ordered soon. Under Frida’s eye, y’all
Everything will be clean and ordered soon. Under Frida’s eye, y’all
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I’m very glad to have new poetry at E•ratio!
eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/Knapp11826.h...
#poetry #experimentalpoetry #queerpoetry #nonbinarypoetry #avantgarde
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#poetry #experimentalpoetry #queerpoetry #nonbinarypoetry #avantgarde
Rose Knapp
E·ratio is edited by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino. Poetic discourse idioms. E·ratio publishes poetry in the postmodern idioms with an emphasis on the intransitive.
eratiopostmodernpoetry.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:45 PM
I’m very glad to have new poetry at E•ratio!
eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/Knapp11826.h...
#poetry #experimentalpoetry #queerpoetry #nonbinarypoetry #avantgarde
eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/Knapp11826.h...
#poetry #experimentalpoetry #queerpoetry #nonbinarypoetry #avantgarde
My list of influential books:
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima
These are transitional years and the dues
will be heavy.
Change is quick but revolution
will take a while.
America has not even begun as yet.
This continent is seed.
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima
These are transitional years and the dues
will be heavy.
Change is quick but revolution
will take a while.
America has not even begun as yet.
This continent is seed.
January 20, 2026 at 8:54 PM
My list of influential books:
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima
These are transitional years and the dues
will be heavy.
Change is quick but revolution
will take a while.
America has not even begun as yet.
This continent is seed.
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima
These are transitional years and the dues
will be heavy.
Change is quick but revolution
will take a while.
America has not even begun as yet.
This continent is seed.
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come (2023 Stereo Remaster)
YouTube video by Stereo Classics
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Favorite films:
21. Apocalypse Now / Francis Ford Coppola, dir. (1979)
A million feet of film. Sixteen months of principal photography. Two years of editing.
“Never get out of the boat.”
21. Apocalypse Now / Francis Ford Coppola, dir. (1979)
A million feet of film. Sixteen months of principal photography. Two years of editing.
“Never get out of the boat.”
January 19, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Favorite films:
21. Apocalypse Now / Francis Ford Coppola, dir. (1979)
A million feet of film. Sixteen months of principal photography. Two years of editing.
“Never get out of the boat.”
21. Apocalypse Now / Francis Ford Coppola, dir. (1979)
A million feet of film. Sixteen months of principal photography. Two years of editing.
“Never get out of the boat.”