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NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: please thank you but why by Lysbeth Em Benkert

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please thank you but why is a collection of #poems about how we navigate sacred spaces, how we discover what’s true, and how the gods might answer our prayers, even as they whisper their own.

Lysbeth Em Benkert‘s poetry can be found in The Briar Cliff Review, Rogue Agent, Pasque Petals, and One-Sentence Poems, among other places. Her first chapbook, #girl stuff, is available from Dancing Girl Press.

PRAISE FOR please thank you but why by Lysbeth Em Benkert

Lysbeth Benkert’s Please thank you but why sings of and from the liminal spaces of the in between. Traversing a circular gyre between mythology and reality, history and the present, archetype and individual subject, absence and fullness, silence, and song, these linguistically crisp poems call and echo between plea, gratitude, and questioning with heartbreak, wit, and panache. Maybe the stasis of limbo can be recast as the fluidity of the liminal, these poems suggest. Maybe the dystopian banalities of the present tense are always/already timeless.

–Lee Ann Roripaugh, Author of Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50

Cerebral, sharp, and surprising, Lysbeth Em Benkert’s Please thank you but why traces a mind’s equilibrium as it confronts change. With spare syntax and pared-back lines, the poet needles wisdom into her work. Benkert’s is a democratic intelligence. She hails a Sumerian goddess, the Greek pantheon, a Roman poet, The Bard, the Virgin Mary, physics, and The Wizard of Oz, and yet these poems are smart without making a reader feel stupid. At once, Benkert suggests her concerns are timeless and offers us a modern take: “like you have to be…. / fucked up in order to get your second chance because repenting after sliding / through on gray mediocrity isn’t enough for redemption.” With its remixes in form deepening insight at every level, Please thank you but why will compel a pondering pleasure.

–Christine Stewart-Nuñez, South Dakota Poet Laureate 2019-2021

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"Galapagos" by John Delaney & Andrew Delaney

Trip of a lifetime #books #bookreview #reading #readerviews

Galapagos John Delaney (Poems)/Andrew Delaney (Photography)Published by Finishing Line PressISBN: 979-8888383612Reviewed by Robert Leon Davis for Reader Views (03/2024) “Galapagos,” written by author John Delaney and illustrated by photographer Andrew Delaney, is a short work showcasing the fantastic visual world of the famous and unique Galapagos Islands. The authors (father and son) not only…

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Brad Buchanan - Chimera

Brad Buchanan – Chimera

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5kd7u-12ba856 I had the pleasure to talk with Cal State Professor, Poet, Publisher, Author, and Cancer Survivor – Brad Buchanan.  We talked about his fourth book(second book on Finishing line Press), Chimera.  Plus, we discussed his previous books(The Miracle Shirker, Swimming the Mirror, and the Scars, Aligned), being a professor at Sacramento State…

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The Broken Night by Bruce Arlen Wasserman

The Broken Night by Bruce Arlen Wasserman

In The Broken Night, poet Bruce Wasserman explores touchpoints of the little known and the unknown in conversations with the dead and a roll call of the living, to squeeze out the vibrant essence found within every word. A literary critic for the New York Journal of Books, Wasserman presents a mix of long-a 20-page poem in 13 parts-and shorter format poems ranging from such topics as delivering a…

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I'm So Grateful To Be Named A Finalist in the 2022 International Book Awards in Poetry for Touch My Head Softly -Thank you.

I’m So Grateful To Be Named A Finalist in the 2022 International Book Awards in Poetry for Touch My Head Softly -Thank you.

Poetry: General FinalistA Ligature For Black Bodies by Denise MillerEyewear Publishing FinalistDeath, With Occasional Smiling by Tony MedinaIndolent Books FinalistStars in the Junkyard by Sharon BergCyberwit FinalistTouch My Head Softly by Eileen P. KennedyFinishing Line Press FinalistWarren by Karina van BerkumMadHat Press FinalistWatermelon Linguistics: New and Selected Poems by Alexis…

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My Neekeys over the last two-odd years. I was curious to see the changes 🤔

#forgive the low quality dfghfds it was just an experiment #now to do the DRAW ANYONE ELSE challenge #siggy draws #he is my blorbo. my muse. i guess #don't get me wrong. i am CRINGING and SWEATING at just the thought of uploading this. #have i been drawing almost every day my entire life? yes. does my style still change all the time? yes! #and i'm mostly self-taught so i struuuuggle a lot. i'll finally admit that reference pictures help immensely. no shit lol. #i learned a lot in the last 2 years!!! there are some really ugly ones i didn't show but i kept the cringe old ones sdfghfds help. #i mean they're still here on tumblr so i can't exactly hide them #you can kind of see when i actually started to use reference pictures. and when i got more used to using a tablet #idk digital art is so hard. it's a whole other world. but i'm in it now and haven't drawn traditionally in forever #i can also literally see how i used to CRUSH my nibs while drawing. all those really thin lines?? i pressed too hard lol #i've actually kept all my nibs since i started drawing digitally and....... it's too many fghfds #that one slightly more realistic nicky in the bottom right of the first collage lmaooo. i should finish him... maybe... it's haaard. #the top right on the first collage and bottom right on the second one are good comparisons ;_; they're both pirate!nico gifts for lily!! #i'm feeling sentimental now omg

[orbiyoo]

my half finished clown :] happy halloween

#i really like how the hat n neckpiece came out :) wanted the sleeves a lil poofier but incan always give them a lil fill or something #im gonna finish the full cosplay on my own time maybe formmarch maybe nit. #i got up at 6 this morning to sew the sleeves on USBDUFBFGFJEBHYNSH #i did start the vest i have it all sewn and lined + the collar pinned to it but i just. uhg. the gold edge. fuck that #shoutout to my awesome classmate who gave me gold fabric to do it. sorry i didnt do it yesterday. too sleepy. ONE DAAAAY #i was like NO gold on the sleeves NO red on the puffs ONE button ebcause i dont feel like sewing more #AMEN. #that red fabric. OKAY THAT RED FABRIC FUCKING HTES ME ITS SOME SYNTHETIC WOVEN SHIT THAT WANTS ME DEAD. NOT WORTH IT #sits nicely for the hat. frays like a bitch. skips stitches like a bastard. does NOT want to press or iron. #i only just learned abt the burning synthetic fabric edge to stop it from fraying umm Yesterday thanks to aforementioned awesome classmate #so umm teehee.nits fine zigzag stitch works well enough. Okay im so tired i hust wanted to show off my gay little hat goodnigit #EDIT AAAAH THE PICTURE IS FLIPPED its ok i made sure to get the colors on the proper sides. red is on the left. believe me i made sure.

[stragglewort]

"Do you want to do this the easy way or the hard way?"

"It's never easy with you people."

Taxi Driver and his crew got caught smuggling Militech property (It's Taxi, he's the property)

#WIP #I'll come back and finish this once I have Krita back (I cannot ink in procreate) #In this picture He's being pressed up against the hood of a car #imagine that as you will #this was the line that caused him to have to body half his HP's worth of damage via shotgun to the gut #cyberpunk 2047 #cyberpunk #cyberpunk red #cyberpunk 2077 #cyber punk #art #militech #Taxi Driver #Oc: Taxi Driver #TD #character art #oc art #sketch #oc #session quotes #actual quotes #whump #(?)

[fluffywhump]

waited too long and the masking fluid stained and tore the paper ;^;

#not badly thank god #canson paper holding up better than speedball's hot press paper and for half the price #buckles less too #and i had the speedball paper taped down >< #time to finish shading the cigarette box and cards before i lose my sketch lines #i'm still nervous about shading the teacup idk what design to go for <.< #probably vague floral looking designs w/ gold leaf to distract from it looking wonky

[curetapwater]

Skfnvx thinking about how in the Team Sonic Racing opening in the final chorus when he sings his final "together" it cuts to a shot of these two:

#the brainrot is real #i know it's not that deep but it just makes me really happy #like they're sharing a look of respect or solidarity before they make a break for the finish line #cause they both insist they're gonna win #but they wouldn't be so pressed about it if they thought the other wasn't a worthy opponent #and that's what makes them so happy to race against each other #the competition between equals is inherent to these two's definition of ''together'' #ok i'll shut up now #sonadow

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NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: Sisters of the Protectress—A Creation Story by Darlene St. Georges and Alexandra Fidyk

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darlene st. georges is a creation-centred artist|scholar. She is associate professor of art education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Her theoretical and practice-based research is rooted in emergent and generative knowledge and knowing that honours the inward and creative ways being and knowing––living literacies expressed through aesthetic translations of voice, breath, body, and spirit.

alexandra fidyk, award winning transdisciplinary scholar and teacher, serves as professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Canada. Through somatic, relational, poetic and creative-centred processes, her research engages with teachers and youth on issues of place, suffering, wellbeing, and love. Her writing continues to be influenced by the long sky of Saskatchewan.

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PRAISE FOR Sisters of the Protectress—A Creation Story by Darlene St. Georges and Alexandra Fidyk

Lavish here. Let wash. We wee humans need images adequate to hold us open into this earth body of ours, and here they are, written out. Spaced. Placed. Hoarse cawed. This very same body as the Crows crow, the plants plant, the air offers. Sun-drenched jaws. Bears themselves dreaming us over ambles downhill. This book brooks words. Images. Dreams. darlene’s. alex’s. mine. yours, readers. Watch out, though. These possessive cases can easily betray us. These words and their readings are co-inhabitants with the full scatters and splays of breaths, of wonders. These seeds up yesterday morning, little heralds. Listen. This book will help you smell the sun in them. Let the spaces last exactly as long as you need. Slow over them. Let them be exacting. Me. My grandson in arms. Me in his, too. Look! Crow. Bear. Seed-springings. Thank you for this gathering up. I gather up, go plant.

–David Jardine, Professor Emeritus in Retiracy, currently undergoing an Early Childhood Education

Let yourself be suspended and traverse the land and sky through this creation story, Sisters of the Proctress, marinated in the poetic and primordial. St. Georges and Fidyk invite us into dwelling in worlds between the interior, imaginal, primal, and sacred where the reader inhabits the terrain where spirit and body thrive. Here, one can dream themselves alive as they say, and ruminate in layers of wisdom and insight where the ancestors’ live and hope resides. This poetic book is a journey in and of itself where an aesthetic sensibility touches the heart and reminds one that place is imbedded within mystery and keeps calling us home to awe. Beautifully and sensitively written and designed, they call forth what the bodysoul yearns for.

–Celeste Snowber, PhD. Professor/Poet/Performer, author of Embodied inquiry: Writing, living and being through the body. Simon Fraser University

In Sisters of the Protectress: A Creation Story, Darlene St. Georges and Alexandra Fidyk weave together stories of Bear Woman and Crow Mother to, as they say, “cross the celestial veil to ignite the imaginative and mythological realms.” In Crow’s return and Bear’s reawakening, imaginaries appear and disappear as exquisite voices. Evocative drawings alongside the spare poetic text create mirrored, shadowed lives—giving testimony and bearing witness. “Not everything that goes / leaves a trail” St. Georges and Fidyk write, concluding “we need more Storytellers.” In this gorgeous hybrid format, these lyrical sister-voices give shape to that process.

–Laura Apol, author of A Fine Yellow Dust, winner of the Midwest Book award for poetry

In this visual|poetic creation story, Darlene St. Georges and Alexandra Fidyk pay homage to Bear Woman and Crow Mother. This “hybridity of fur and feather” aligns with the “imperceptible rhythms / that ignite imaginaries.” Narrative and lyricism combine gracefully. This evocation deepens our connection with earth and sky, waking and dreaming, inner and outer worlds. And we emerge humbled and humane. “Calling the Ancestors—” and at once the “Ancestors are calling—” Images of Crow and Bear spaciously move with words and phrases to create a powerful sense of renewal. “Unearthing tongues between worlds,” Sisters of Protectress draws on creation-centred and Jungian insights.

Open this book to be pulled into a story from the natural and archetypal worlds which will ignite your spirit.

–Sheila Stewart, author of The Shape of a Throat, University of Toronto Mississauga

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"Remember This Day" by Linda Drattell

A five-star read for poetry lovers and anyone who loves to explore their own relationship with nature. #books #bookreview #reading #readerviews

Remember This Day Linda DrattellFinishing Line Press (2023)ISBN: 979-8888383254Reviewed by Susan Violante for Reader Views (01/2024) “Remember This Day” by Linda Drattell is a poetry collection about Nature and our relationship with her not in the macro general way but in a personal way. Readers will feel the hunt of a wolf; its hunger, exhilaration; and its resignation and resilience when the…

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Oh for the record! After using that GameCube style controller once for VLR I’ve switched over to it permanently. The joystick may not be great at going up and down all the time however it gives me a tab item function back and I can use the triggers for looking around the room so it’s WAYY better for escape sections.

I do still switch to mouse when needed for some puzzles (mainly just like. The parallelogram puzzle) but I much prefer the controller where I can use it

#void nonary play #vlr #also pressing the buttons is nice =) #and it helped me learn you can hold down a in stop mode #so that the second the voice line is finished the dialogue scrolls #which is perfect

[toestalucia]

i rly like these LOL theyre cute

#stardust speaking ! #i dont like gran w/out messy hair.............. #truly angel devil meme seeing those tho LOL djeetas hair is rly pretty in that class art tho like. rly rly pretty??? #since they did helmet-less skins of the row5 classes can we get a glasses-less version of that new rotb skin #uhhh ill rewatch the relink trailer w eng subs l8r but the gameplay demo......;_; calling outt he next persons name in the chain #is stuff #i rly rly like #wish the game would have nonstop banter........ #its why i liked ffxv so much #i love when charas interact in&out of battle #and stuff thats not 'u pressing x to dialogue' ykno #like i like stuff like type0s lines when they switch in/out of battle + their different lines at certain story points in the missions #(machina voice) grrrr #so im def into that in relink #i. nvr finished gbvs like. at all<3 but considering they threw in a holy erste empire mention. i hope #gbvs2 mentions newer msq stuff too #+ blue gran????? r we getting blue lore before then ingame. since its the Art no way its just There For Fun #excited for zegagrande in relink too...................... #hhhhhh i hope they talk about true king since. gestures. its zega! #like dont be shy if u put it in zegagrande then spoil the entire story for new ppl who cares #my dream is msq anni but if they give us 6dragons anni w/ blue lore id be fine w that #ill be dissappointed no matter what cuz no way theyd give us msq anni but i am alrdy dreaming

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Read to Write

Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com We have to read to write. It’s that simple. If you want to write a fiction, read good novels. If you want to write poetry, read good poetry. Reading serves as a form of mentorship, especially if we read as writers, and read good writing. Reading provides rich fertilizer for your own writing. Writers need to read what they like, what they find…

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[thiagodasilva]

Germany honey I’m sorry if y’all want to equalize you gotta wake up a little

#press with a better finish and that back like cannot keep doing that #*back line #it’s nerve wracking #I don’t even go here #and yet I’m stressed for both sides #weuro2022