moon-sliced fingers

[nepenthenet]

Hey guys! We’re happy to announce the release of our second group project: Vanitas ($0 USD), which includes project debuts from our newest members.

Vanitas are best understood as still life paintings, popular in the Netherlands, which contain collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience & vanity of earthly achievements & pleasures.

In this work are 10 poems, contributed by members relating to this theme. Reblog to spread the word and we hope you enjoy what we have to offer.

Love, the Nepenthe Network

[lifeinpoetry]

i mean, who          asks                                           this life of me                                                 if not to make dying a gift?

Claire, from “nature morte,” published in Vanitas

[painterliest]

internecine is a chapbook of 19 poems that explore God, ghosts, grief, and all the gentle things that are hard to come to terms with. buy here for 5AUD (depending on exchange rate, it’s approximately 3.7USD) or read a preview of two poems from the collection for free here. 

[painterliest]

SALE: use the code RS0LTKW3PK to get the full version of internecine 25% off! only available to the first 7 people who purchase the chapbook! 

[myth-boy]

can you recommend any poetry books or chapbooks please (nothing too expensive !) 😌

Sure!

Full poetry collections

Crush / Richard Siken

Prelude to Light / Venetta Octavia / @medeae

Every Dark Waning / A. Davida Jane / @daisvbuchanan

Faithful and Virtuous Night / Louise Gluck

Meditations in an Emergency / Frank O’Hara

Survive Like the Water / Lydia Havens / @heartmagician

Brawl & Jag / April Bernard

4:41 / Sean Glatch / @7-weeks

Crybaby / Cailyn Siehl / @alonesomes

My, My, My, My, My / Tara Hardy

The Crown Ain’t Worth Much / Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

Our Bodies and Other Fine Machines / Natalie Wee / @natalieweepoetry

Nox / Anne Carson

An Ode to Dead Fish / Angela Lowes / @wildfairy

Chapbooks

Taurogarchy / Maddie C. / @mythaelogy

Heaven or This / Topaz Winters / @siraens

Heda / Lydia Eileen / @lesbiqns

Bloodsport / Yves Olade / @yvesolade

Cross My Heart / Arlen C. / @illuminosity

Pomegranate Seeds / T. E. / @prcserpina

All Summer Longing /  Reyna N. A. / @porchbirds

Letters for Lucifer / Patricia Camille Antony / @maelinoe

Eleven Twelve / Laetitia K. / @softstained

Internecine / Claire Na / @painterliest

Ambulance Watcher / V. Liath / @goldplains

Frostbitten / Sophia Anderson / @jailsongs

I’m sure I’ve forgotten a lot of books/chapbooks & also I haven’t read everything so please feel free to add to this list. It’s 5am & I’m exhausted, thank you!

[beholdingslut]

can you tell me who the coyote prays to? in this church of big sky and unloved sun. where the only singing comes in howls and the only songs are of the hunt. who, then, is Coyote God?

— Claire Na, “Desert Hymn” from Internecine  

[painterliest]

concept: you and i buy a new bedspread together and i teach you how to fold a fitted sheet like my mama showed me. we have a couch that’s perfectly large. in the mornings when it’s raining you sit at the window and trace the droplets down the glass with your fingers and i try not to burn the toast. one time a bird pair built a nest in our balcony and we watched their babies.

[painterliest]

is vanitas still available?

hey yeah it is, you can find it here ! !

[painterliest]

magnetic poetry

[painterliest]

Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures.

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

[nepenthenet]

March Prompts

1. angelica 2. blood money 3. polished gold 4. burnished bronze 5. marble arch 6. cecilia 7. brass knuckles

[painterliest]

@nepenthenet february prompts

1. the forest

we buried our bones where even the trees couldn’t find them, 

hid our hearts in the darkest sap wounds, 

let the slow sticky blood seep down ancient trucks, 

we tucked our dreams in the careful curls of root systems, through their tangled stretching thirst,

we thought we could hide our bodies in hollow logs, to be comforted by

their slow musty rot, to take their advice

we gave ourselves songbird wings and we stripped away all things heavy

and left them behind to feed the undergrowth. 

we thought then, -then! lighter than the golden pollen buoyed by no more than a breath, lighter than ourselves, our selves,

we thought we could get away. 

but our souls got caught in the branches.

- claire na

[nepenthenet]

February Prompts

1. the forest 2. other than you are 3. charged silence 4. driven snow 5. glaciers 6. the secret at the bottom of the mountain 7. ascension

[painterliest]

the coldest winter will cleanse our souls and when our hearts thaw spring will be glorious

[lifeinpoetry]

i can’t swallow the flames, but i kneel where the world can watch me burn.

Claire Na, from “self-immolation,” internecine (via lifeinpoetry)

[beholdingslut]

coyote has no time for prayer, even if he wants to. the world wants him dead more than any God wants to keep him alive.

Claire Na, “Desert Hymn” from Internecine (via mythaelogy)

[painterliest]

every time i see someone has downloaded internecine, it brings joy to my heart and a smile to my face. even those of you who have simply downloaded the free preview, and those who have the paid version - wow. you’re all lovely angels and i hope you enjoy what you read. i hope i can touch some place soft in your soul and that i have given you something meaningful.

[painterliest]

internecine is a chapbook of 19 poems that explore God, ghosts, grief, and all the gentle things that are hard to come to terms with. buy here for 5AUD (depending on exchange rate, it’s approximately 3.7USD) or read a preview of two poems from the collection for free here. 

[painterliest]

SALE: use the code RS0LTKW3PK to get the full version of internecine 25% off! only available to the first 7 people who purchase the chapbook!