Jon Cone

My chapbook THE MENDICANT FELL BY THE STONE FENCE AT THE HERMITAGE CALLED AURORA is now available for preorder at Ethel Zine. This is a beautiful handmade book. Please help support this wonderful press. ethelzine.com/shop/the-mendi…

Samuel Beckett

I am enjoying this

@frede_kenter @SamRasnake @VWC_Writes @HRMsuzuki @zclauterbach @omahaglenn @deuxiemepeau @RegineEbner @EverySongIveEve @aliner @susiecampbell @Rhona_Greene @GBClarkson @PaulDragonwolf1 @hool415 @JulianD86666247 @PaulWritesPoems This is an album of perfect poetry.

@SamRasnake @VWC_Writes @HRMsuzuki @zclauterbach @omahaglenn @deuxiemepeau @RegineEbner @EverySongIveEve @JonCone @aliner @susiecampbell @Rhona_Greene @GBClarkson @PaulDragonwolf1 @hool415 @JulianD86666247 @PaulWritesPoems i know -- such a shame what happened w/him -- over time.... but this early album.... sigh... perfection.

y' know ya gotta go @VWC_Writes @HRMsuzuki @zclauterbach @omahaglenn @deuxiemepeau @RegineEbner @EverySongIveEve @SamRasnake @JonCone @aliner @susiecampbell @Rhona_Greene @GBClarkson @PaulDragonwolf1 @hool415 @JulianD86666247 @PaulWritesPoems @SamRasnake @ youtube.com/watch?v=ByJo2X…

@biancastone I really enjoy F. Wright's translations.

Is that still me burned beyond recognition? I cannot gather my memories around me anymore. Oh life, life: being outside. And I in flames. No one recognizes me. Rilke (translation Franz Wright) * (these are not my markings, I would never underline a poem in pen)

Page manuscrite des Mémoires d'Hadrien, Marguerite Yourcenar (1951).

My poor tiny Addy isn’t doing well. I fear she won’t make it to spring. She’s barely eating and now she’s unsteady on her legs. O my little friend!

Outside my bathroom window last night.

@aliner I always pictured Raskolnikov as gaunt, having a deeply lined face.

I am enjoying the being barely-noticed by the algorithm on here. It is a relief and a gift of scale somehow, a calibration that is more comfortable to me. On that note, Dostoevsky’s sketches of Raskolnikov surprised me. :)

Blizzard warning for Southeastern Iowa. Ah the joys of Midwestern weather!

corner of the sky @VWC_Writes @HRMsuzuki @JonCone @EverySongIveEve @Blood_Honey_Lit @seangmeggeson @JulianD86666247 @GJGreenlea @omahaglenn @heavycloudhaze @FeversOf @susiecampbell @ModerTim @hool415 @MJSEyesOpened @LauraKerrArt @omahaglenn @aliner youtube.com/watch?v=1o91jK…

@goodreads Snow White by Donald Barthelme; In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky.

It's Friday! What are you reading this weekend?

From the front of The Great Tradition.

I have not made lists, which include shopping lists, lists of thoughts to remember, to do lists, not to do lists, lists of what one can do except doing […]"

Baudelaire forever

@gregorymconway I have that same chessboard or one very similar and am a huge fan of the NYRB imprint. This combination is a perfect afternoon to me.

guy I’m about to play chess against brought a NYRB book I’ve never heard of… if I lose on the board & also get bookmogged I’m gonna do something really bad

@BretVDB Has an almost Edward Lear-like quality.

Some outrageous, pure absurdity from Stevens:

Tonight’s diversion from Archipelago, @archipelagobks, a Pavese that’s not a novel about fascism but something strange, deeply antiquarian, whimsical. Exactly what I needed. I just order their back catalogue blind because they have such good taste and make beautiful books.

@JohnMcCullough_ This is so good it makes me want to give up writing poetry and to begin writing poetry all over again forever.

Vijay Seshadri. From: A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker, 1925-2025, ed. Kevin Young (Knopf, 2025).