Poetose

07/08/2025

"You have to cut through your own nonsense." In case you missed it, here's a fantastic interview with Poetose author Miguel Eichelberger on poetry, grief, and everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvYCNYzC47k

Thank you, Mitch Hampton of Journey of an Aesthete Podcast, for hosting!

07/08/2025

"Flirt," by James Ducat, considers an amorous beetle: https://www.poetose.com/pub/flirt-james-ducat #/

James Ducat’s poetry has appeared in Penn Review, Carve, CutBank, and Gordon Square Review, has been featured on Verse Daily, and is anthologized by The Inflectionist Review and others. His chapbook, A Field of Nopes, was published by Bamboo Dart Press. He can be found on Instagram , Bluesky ([email protected]), and Linktr.ee/jamesducat

06/22/2025

Mother & Child by GGattem Venkatesh https://www.poetose.com/pub/mother-child-gattem-venkatesh #/

Born in Chinadoddigallu village in Andhra Pradesh, self-taught artist Gattem Venkatesh specializes in carving miniature sculptures on tips of pencils, chalk pieces, crayons, bamboo, matchsticks, etc. and making architectural models using waste materials. He holds a Bachelors of Architecture (2019) degree and completed his Masters in Urban Planning in 2021; he was awarded an honorable Doctorate (Arts) from the International Peace University, Germany, 2019. Winner of the Limca Book of Records (2014), he also won the Guinness World Record, 2017, for his unique art. His works have been exhibited in various parts of the world and he regularly conducts workshops for students to introduce them to his unique miniature art.

06/08/2025

"My favorite way to work is cackling to myself at my desk while I draw something peculiar or silly."

Poetose has worked with tremendously talented artist Sara Zieve Miller on many projects. Here's a peek inside her singular world! https://www.poetose.com/pub/creators-on-creating-sara-zieve-miller #/

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06/06/2025

06/06/2025

"In Our Shadows" by Jack Bordnick: https://www.poetose.com/pub/in-our-shadows-jack-bordnick #/

Jack Bordnick has over twenty years experience in design, fabrication, and installation of numerous and diverse projects. He is an Industrial Design/Sculptor graduate of Pratt Institute in New York, where he had his own professional design business and was a design director for numerous companies and local government projects, including a major children's museum for the city of New York and Board of Education.

06/03/2025

A Reading List for Pride Month 2025 — thank you for including TRANSLATING BLUE by Sherre Vernon CLMP! https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-pride-month-2025/

For Pride Month, observed annually during the month of June, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature by authors identifying as LGBTQ+ that they recommend reading in celebration.   Fiction   Who Killed Buster S...

05/25/2025

"I make work to satisfy my search for compelling beauty in the natural world. Life is so difficult sometimes, I find I want to create my little corner of it surrounded by creativity and beauty. I guess I see art making and being in the studio as a kind of sanctuary. I want the work I make to have a certain level of luminosity."

A wonderful Creators on Creating interview with artist Susan Murie 💙🪶🩵: https://www.poetose.com/pub/creators-on-creating-susan-murie

05/24/2025

05/24/2025

Miguel Eichelberger wrote for two years after his father's death. His debut poetry collection explores loss and coming to terms with grief.

05/24/2025

“For me, to get through things, I need to try and give it language,” he explains. “If I can give it language, that’s a lever that I can hold onto, or that I can pull, or I can even carry for a little bit until I’ve understood it fully, and then I can put it down.” ~Miguel Eichelberger on writing EVERYTHING IS in an interview with Montecristo Magazine