Please check out this new Fate of the Arts podcast episode in which I was interviewed by my brilliant friend, poet and palindromist Anthony Etherin!

I'm so pleased to have a new article published in the latest issue of The Journal of Wordplay, titled "Oronym Brace, or an Embrace: Simultaneous Text Construction with Sound." Check it out here, February 2026 issue. #wordplay #oronym #TheJournalOfWordplay
www.journalofwordplay.com

Green with envy
We rest in repose
Bereft of color
Our wrath arose

What are we?

Haha, you are too kind!! 💜

Word of the Day: unequivocal

😂😂😂 yes, that’s me being cited for definition of unequivocal

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/l...

CURRENCIES, a triolet
(Open sound pattern repetitions with meanings circumscribed by visual transcription)

A current’s ease,
Form into mist.
Occurrence sees
a current’s ease.
A currency’s
for men too missed—
A current’s ease,
form into mist.

#triolet #anguishlanguish

Still very low…just barely enough water to launch a kayak from the Antelope marina. Mostly dry land on both sides of the causeway. A sailboat would be impossible, although they can get through the south marina by Saltair

🦩 with Pink Floyd

A great Great Salt Lake adventure 🧂🌊

The Haikube (2006), an ebony cube that produces an almost endless series of poems, by Matt Donovan, Hallie Siegal, and me. Each word is carved in negative relief into the ebony, moveable cube, such that, when pressed into ink, the Haikube serves as a letterpress.

“Now the Sirens have a weapon even more terrible than their song, namely, their silence.”
—Kafka

“Listen to a lonely anesthesia wave. Nepenthe mirrors nothing whenever I embrace her.”
—Me
#anagram #pairable

“TRAGEDY AND COMEDY COME FROM THE SAME LETTERS.”
—Aristotle

“MY DAYDREAMS TETHER FARCES TO CEMENTED GLOOM.”
—Me
#anagram

This sonnet, Pharmakon, is composed entirely of titles from Agatha Christie’s novels and short stories. The color alternates with each title used.
(pharmakon: remedy, poison, scapegoat)

PROSE OF THE TRANSCANADA, which @garybarwin.bsky.social called "an epic inscribed scroll, a graphemic saga as Odyssean & graphic a roadtrip as traveling the eponymous Trans-Canada highway" (jacket2.org/commentary/d...). Order your copy from @bookhugpress.bsky.social : bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/p...

Great Salt Lake kaleidoscope

Isendoffelon

“How is a temporal meaning to be found in the pallid lack of mood that dominates the ‘gray everyday?’”

Atomic Masquerade - Clara Etherin — Penteract Press Full Colour, Paperback, 210 x 148mm, 40pp Atomic Masquerade presents a collection of visual poems, including 2D and 3D calligrams, glyphic poems, palimpsests, and collages. Many of the pieces are rei...

Today is the official launch day of my visual poetry book "Atomic Masquerade". I am so proud of how it turned out - you need to see it for yourself!
penteractpress.com/store/atomic...

Moan with a Movie Camera
Dread Poets Society
Wag the Doge

Download this! Anthony’s work is—as always—remarkable!

Written ages ago, but thanks!

In solidarity with Utah Educators at the Veto HB 267 rally today at the Utah State Capitol. #UnionStrong #VetoHB267

So much strife! Thank goodness for Enid (no foe of Ondine)

Dropquote puzzle!
#PuzzlePoetry #Dropquote

NIGHTCAP

Night apogee, so periodic, it arrests.
Erratic, I do, I re-pose ego path:
Gin.
🍸

#palindrome

I am delighted for you and your giddy aunt! 👏

I was able to see this when I was in London a few weeks ago—fabulous work! 👏

Thank you, Marian! 😊