Hope all's well with you!

Thanks Karen! I'm glad you liked it!

Glad you liked the essays! And good to hear from another Long Island Sound swimmer!

A few thoughts on Pynchon's Shadow Ticket, which I read slowly over the past few weeks -

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Come to the Institute for Sacred Music next Th-Fri in New Haven for Water Cosmology! I'll be talking about (what else?) ocean swimming as ecological meditation in the Anthropocene -
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A treat to hear how this podcast on shipwreck from the Canadian Broadcasting Company turned out! With thanks to all the good people from Canada who were involved, and also to Stan Rogers for the music -

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008: A Letter to the Sea In May, I sent out an invitation to sea communities all around the world: Write a letter to the sea. The eighth letter (in a form of a postcard) arrived on July 28, 2025 – written by Steve Mentz fr…

in May, I published an invitation: Write a letter to the sea. the eighth letter (in a form of a postcard) is written by @stevementz.bsky.social from Branford, Connecticut, USA. Steve is a longtime friend of the Sea Library and a godfather of the Blue Humanities: sea-library.com/2025/08/20/0...

Support Steve Mentz - Swim Across the Sound 2025 I'm excited to join the 2025 Swim Across the Sound! This mission is very important to me and I'm proud to help make a difference. Please join me in supporting cancer patients by making a donation toda...

On Sat Aug 2, I'll be part of a six person relay swimming across Long Island Sound to raise money for St Vincent's hospital in Bridgeport. Link to donate if you'd like to!

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Art in Context | “Swimming with Turner” J. M. W. Turner's seascapes demonstrate how his engagements with water—as subject, substance, and perhaps even collaborator—explore how humans coexist with one of the most alien features of our enviro...

Come join me in New Haven at the Yale British Art Center for “Swimming with Turner” at their amazing J. M. W. Turner show! 12:30 britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-...

I do like those DBTs…

A fun Wild West Romeo and Juliet at the Globe - with more dancing that you might expect!

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It's pretty great - I need to get to Stratford to see it!

A new oceanic Shakespeare bust, in the Guildhall at Stratford-upon-Avon! #bluehumanities #atthebottomofshakespearesocean

www.stratfordobserver.co.uk/news/the-lat...

If this Book were Ocean, how would it feel between your fingers? Wet & slippery, just a bit warmer or colder than the air around it, since the Ocean is our planet’s greatest reservoir of heat.

READ @stevementz.bsky.social & co's OCEANIC NEW YORK: book + ocean + city.

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Reimagining the Poetry Collection: Morgan Võ and Steve Mentz in Conversation (Online) Join poets Morgan Võ, author of The Selkie, and Steve Mentz, author of Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels, for an online reading and discussion of their work.

Tomorrow night, online courtesy of the NY Public LIbrary - in conversation with Morgan Vo about The Selkie and Sailing without Ahab - register here

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Some thoughts on the Denzel Washington / Jake Gyllenhaal Othello, now on Broadway - stevementz.com/othello-on-b...

Here's the snippet about my book -

Best New Poetry Books for Adults NYPL's expert librarians and staff read over 250 poetry books to select the 25 picks presented here. These titles demonstrate poetry's ability to shepherd readers through an awesome array of spiritual...

I'm very happy to see *Sailing without Ahab* on the NY Public Library's list of Best Poetry titles!

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And a closer view

@greenleejw.bsky.social A view of the Cow & Calf at low tide

Its the Cow & Calf that I went back to in the poems themselves - a kind of recentering via the margins

It’s gloriously disorienting, which is what the book tries to do also -

I especially love the central place of the Cow and Calf Rocks in this image. I see those rocks almost every day, but when I look out from the shore they are pretty much on the horizon. This map helps remind me that they are also a hinge between my local waters and global flows -

That's the larger fantasy of the whole book, and the map crystallizes it so amazingly. I still remember looking at the draft image - after a few false starts - and feeling that it was so exactly, strangely, disorientingly right!

What I love most about this map is its vision of putting two differently sized worlds - the global voyage of the Pequod from Moby-Dick and my own swimming haunts in coastal CT - inside of each other

I’ve got a framed copy of the book’s cover + the map + a line from one poem about dreaming of a “bigger place” in my home office

So amazing to have this map by @greenleejw.bsky.social in my book!

So great!

Looking forward to it!