Brian Tierney

Something fitting about all of this being relegated to being indoors. It feels so claustrophobic and also like a funeral

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Brian Tierney: "Teletherapy" A poem by Brian Tierney: "The light of that / jet, overhead, is my mind I’m seeing so scintillant, unreachable. / I am never where my body is."

'If I’m dead inside

how would I know, how
would a bulb
check its own filament.'

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where
are we living now
on which side which side
and will you be there

Merwin

I saw you, and poems came back to me.

--Yannis Ritsos

the response to one murdered CEO compared to the average person in New York who gets clipped

The Hourglass Nebula seen by Hubble

I read a book of poems with legs crossed for like an hour and now my left leg’s tv static I can’t get up I love #poetry

Pete Hegseth's Mom Calls Him 'Abuser of Women' in Released Email — Rolling Stone Penelope Hegseth wrote that Donald Trump’s selection for secretary of defense “belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego”

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tonight’s mood

This Close to Dark | Narrative Magazine This Close to Dark by Brian Tierney — In Every Sto...

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The Antennae Galaxies - Hubble

Tonight!! I have the pleasure of reading poems with Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social and Richie Hofmann! 7pm EST / 4pm PST. Online and free through the Hudson Valley Writers Center, link to register below. Join us! #poetrycommunity

title is borrowed from the great Anne Carson

first new poems in a minute live over @narrativemag.bsky.social

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This Close to Dark | Narrative Magazine This Close to Dark by Brian Tierney — In Every Sto...

"That blue / ladder leaned against the wall out there /
is a shortcut to summer."

Loving these new ones from @briantierneypoet.bsky.social in Narrative today.

A lovely bit of warmth in a cold time to see COACHELLA ELEGY included in this poets.org Featured Fall Books list along with fellow @triohousepress.bsky.social poet @susanlleary.bsky.social and so many poets I admire. And if we’re just meeting on here, glad to be connected.

I Know You Know: Diane Seuss On “Ballad,” Negative Capability, and the Duende Christ was laid out in a glass coffin, like Snow White. I visited and re-visited him. He looked so much like my father on his deathbed.

This is an essay on my poem "Ballad," Keats's notion of Negative Capability, and Lorca's Duende, with a prompt and a link to the original poem. I'm happy to share it with you.

the fracture and forlorn jagged madness and music of Berryman’s dream songs seems shall we say apt for our moment