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[s-hodne]

Back to Tarkovsky

Starting something new, an experiment, a voyage into unknown territory, guided by Vera Iliatova. There is nothing more to share yet, except for this: I’m revisiting the great Andrey Tarkovsky, rediscovering things seen a long time ago and discovering things hitherto unknown. In my search I even found a former me, hidden on the beautiful pages of Gwarlingo. I believed I was starting something…

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[julesofnature]

The hummingbirds have arrived, beating their invisible wings beyond the window where buds are beginning to break. They come bearing the light of Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, the red fire of the tropics, here, to this mountain, still spotted in snow. I go out among them, in my red coat, hoping they will mistake me for a flower. They buzz close, hovering before my face. If only one of them would touch me, I would sprout feathers and take to the air, my wings tracing infinity, my throat turning to rubies.

by José A. Alcántara in ‘The Bitten World’ https://gwarlingo.com/2022/archilochus-colubris-by-jose-a-alcantara/

[literaryartifacts]

Mary Ruefle’s “Melody,” an erasure (via Gwarlingo)

[baltimorecityamerica]

Gwarlingo – Kill Me Now Abs & Conversation Lashes with Artist ...

For the opening, Rachelle designed custom Conversation Lashes for female friends in attendance. Each set of lashes was meant to express some deeper truth about the woman wearing them. Rachelle agreed to create a set …

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[unmannedpress]

Poetry

'Poetry is about time running out, to some extent. You can think of that purely formally — the line ends, the stanza ends and the poem itself ends.' 

—Dean Young at Gwarlingo

[welhouse]

If you’re happy with a mess and feel vital, go forth and be merry.

author Howard Mansfield on clutter

[superstitionrev]

What, you might ask, does Gwarlingo mean?

[christineshanshanhou]

Gwarlingo's the sunday poem : christine shan shan hou & audra wolowiec’s concrete sound

(photo courtesy Audra Wolowiec)

Last year Gwarlingo readers responded enthusiastically to Mary Ruefle and Jen Bervin’s erasure poems. Today’s Sunday Poem features another unique project that defies categorization—a collaboration between interdisciplinary artist Audra Wolowiec and poet, critic, and artist Christine Shan Shan Hou...

  CONCRETE SOUND (2011) is profiled in Gwarlingo's Sunday Poem series.