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Sue Barry-Schulz
@susanbarryschulz.com
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poetry, collage, disability, Crohn’s Disease, Covid Informed, very sad, Buffalo Sabres fan, #LGM, ModPo alum, IC grad, she/hers, physical therapist in another life 🇪🇪
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Pretty pumped about the fortune I got from tonight’s take-out.
Only 9 more months!
Photo of a fortune cookie fortune reading “Your energy will be high in September.”
January 11, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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A little thaw on the lake today
Photo of a small lake winter. Bright blue skies with dramatic white and gray clouds are reflected in a layer of melted water that covers the ice below. Bare trees on the far shore. A few boats are piled on the left edge of the frame.
January 7, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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#morningwalk (in the afternoon)
Vertically oriented photo of a small snow/covered lake. A snow-covered dock sits on a snow-covered beach in the foreground. Bare trees on the far side and left shoreline. Gray clouds above.
January 6, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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For #smallpoemsunday

a poem from Margaret Galey (found in Laurel Review issue 58):
Photo of a page from the journal with the following poem by Margaret Galey: true story I met a girl once at a party with Important Art People who told us how she spent her residency carving the likeness of her cellphone first from soap, then from wood & so on because they took hers away & she missed it terribly.
January 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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First book of 2026. The kind of book you want to finish in one sitting.
Photo of the cover of Moran Toews’ new book “A Truce That Is Not Peace.” Cover design includes the muted image of gray puffy clouds over a red dirt landscape. Title in yellow and authors name in white.
January 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Ice skaters on the lake today
Photo of a snow-covered lake near sunset. A dozen silhouetted figures ice skating and playing hockey on a space cleared of snow. Dark bare trees on the far shore. Gray clouds with a bit of peach above.
January 2, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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Happy New Year!

(7 degrees windchill version)
Vertically oriented photo of a snow-covered lake under vibrant blue skies with puffy white clouds in bright sunshine.
January 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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well this could have gone better
Screen shot of the personal word of the year from Merriam-Webster. Mine reads “enfeebled”.
January 1, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Beautiful pink skies tonight
Photo of a sky just before sunset in the Hudson Valley on a winter day. Blue skies and puffy blue and pink clouds. Tips of bare trees visible on the bottom edge of the frame.
December 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Birthday bonfire in the snow with family & 107.1 the Peak.
Not bad.
December 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Read this little book in one sitting by the fire this morning as a birthday gift to myself.
Plus m&ms. In the morning!
Cried in a good way.
Photo of the book "Grief is the Thing with Feathers", Max Porter's 2015 novel. Cover design features three vertical white trimmed windows (shades open, half-closed and fully closed) on the left side and a strip of yellow on the right with title and author's name in dark gray text. A black crow lifts off on the upper right corner.
December 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Weekly poetry collection number 52 for 2025:
Going out with a bang with this one!
Photo of Amie Whittemore’s 2025 chapbook “hesitation waltz “. Cover design includes cyanotype image of dried flowers . Title and authors name in white font at upper left.
December 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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you are missing this!
or maybe not!
Snow covered lake and tree branches on a winter morning. Gray skies above.
December 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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#morningwalk
Photo of a scene at the edge of a lake after a fresh snowfall. Snow covers the lake and shore and bare branches. Gray skies above.
December 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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“Brenna’s next adventure”

4”x 6” #collage on canvas
#ArtAdventCalendar day 24

originally published in @harpyhybrid.bsky.social
Photo of a vertically oriented collage assembled from papers torn or cut from magazines and catalogues in hues of bright blue, orange and red. Text elements are included as well as images of blue skies and flowers. A hot air balloon hovers on the upper right.
December 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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cat walk
Photo taken from a window of a cat walking across a snow covered lawn. Snow covers the old cherry tree and the forsythia bushes on the edges of the frame. Gray skies above.
December 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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“Two orange threads”

9” x 12” #collage on canvas

#ArtAdventCalendar day 23
Photo of a 9" x 12" collage on canvas assembled from vintage book pages, vintage National Geographic pages, magazine and catalogue scraps, and an instruction manual from a recently purchased frying pan in hues of ivory, orange and teal. Images include water, sky , two orange threads, and features a black and white photo of the artist Ellsworth Kelly on a rooftop with friends. Note: original photograph of Ellsworth Kelly by Hans Namuth taken from August 2023 New Yorker magazine
December 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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#morningwalk
Photo of a yellow grassy path in sunlight on a winter day. Bare trees and shrubs frame the edges. Blue skies above
December 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 22

“vine-al-ly”
6” x 6” collage on paper
Collage constructed of papers cut or torn from magazines and catalogues in hues of green pink yellow and blue. Repeated images of vines and leaves. Also features (clockwise from top left) a candlestick holder, a wall lantern, a mushroom, a stone bridge, and a white flower.
December 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Look at this little 13 1/2 year old cutie.
(She is pretending to not be interested in the candy canes on the tree but we know better.)
Photo of a cute border collie mix dog curled up in a bed under a Christmas tree. Sun dapples the lawn outside the window behind her. A candy cane is visible high in the Christmas tree’s branches.
December 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Week 51 poetry collection for 2025:
Photo of the cover of Susan Hiwe’s 2010 collection “That This”. Cover design is minimalistic black text on white with a block image of an indigo dress fragment from the 1700s.
December 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 21

“neighborhood”
6”x 6” #collage on paper
Square collage made from magazine and catalog scraps with images of houses and buildings in hues of pink and brown on vintage book pages. An imagine of a fox looks back from the lower right corner.
December 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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#Morningwalk
Photo of a small lake on a sunny morning in winter. Long grasses in the foreground. Ice on the lake and blue skies with puffy clouds above.
December 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 20

A little piece from my ongoing found poetry project using my college Gray's Anatomy text book as the source text.
A block of text from a Gray's Anatomy textbook in the Neurology section where the text has been mostly obscured by bright teal colored pencil and gray ink revealing the following short found "poem": an abundance of/failure/ for the most part.”
December 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 19

“heavy” with a line from Phillip Levine

6” x 6” #collage on paper
Photo of a collage assembled from elements cut or torn from magazines in hues of green, rust and gold including a newspaper headline reading "A New Physics", a vintage post card from Atlantic City NJ. other images include a heavy rust colored sweater, a painted green wall with a framed painting, yellow tulips and a dark embroidered coat edge, giving the effect of a figure walking away. The text from a line of Phillip Levine's poem "You can have it" appears typed out on a vintage book page and reads "I can hear the bed groan and his shoes drop"
December 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM