trinity herr

Me, trying to get through life.

Not reading Lindy West’s memoir but reading every single post, thread and substack about her memoir

Crushes me every time.

recently I saw an art exhibition that truly made me both laugh and cry: a retrospective of a painter I had never heard of before, Mexican surrealist Alfredo Castañeda (1938-2010). Every painting felt like an "instant classic," as if it had always been part of the canon 1/

Frankly I think more books should have index listings like “eels, roused by thunder” and “eggs, witches sail in”

—Vievee Francis

"the ruin of our garden / in the early dark of November" Jack Gilbert

Louise Glück, ‘I think now it is better to love no one / than to love you’ — what a line.

"When I was married and could not work to my full capacity, I got abscesses and sciatica. My blood boiled as though on a stove. . . If you have talent and don't use it, it makes you neurotic and you die." – Louise Nevelson, speaking truth to the void in 1973

The @onlypoemsmag poem of the day today is one of my favorite poems of all time

Les Murray, born on this day in 1938

In my head is a circle farm. Selma Asotić

Writing kinda feels like hunting to me in the sense u are catching something that is eluding you but you know it exists and you can see it

Joseph Brodsky's "October Tune"

—Major Jackson

“You renounced the world so it wouldn’t leave first.” A poem by Richard Siken.

The Swan, 1915, by Hilma Af Klint

“You were wasted on this world.” A poem by Natalie Shapero.

This ad fails miserably, they look tuff as hell

Love that lasts a minute like a filter - John Ashbery, from Flow Chart