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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦

@jempoetry.bsky.social

Poet & visual artist Creative practice•word & image DE House Poet Laureate•‘24 DDOA poetry Fellowship Social justice advocate•Survivor(Plain-dressing community)•Autism-rooted family life ND brain•Forest-rooted🌲 she/her 🌊🇺🇦 www.jempoetry.com

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 7h ago

Mechanics of Mystery #ArtYear #ECK

A square abstract geometric artwork titled Mechanics of Mystery rests on dark navy fabric, with a black pen lying diagonally beneath it. Intersecting circles, sweeping arcs, and sharp angular lines create a contrast between celestial forms and industrial precision. Metallic gold and silver accents mingle with deep red, black, and white.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 15h ago

What an honor to have one’s poetry received in such a meaningful and contemplative way. I’m deeply touched.💛💛💛

Matt Nightingale@mattnightingale.bsky.social · yesterday

And then for our lectio divina practice, we read “The Cost of Compliance” by @jempoetry.bsky.social. Thank you to @uncertainweather.bsky.social for choosing the song and the text, and for reading so beautifully for us tonight. 🙏🏼❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hoping to stream it live today on Delaware Poets Almanac FB, but it will also be recorded.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 4d ago

Some lucky person will go home from Sunday’s poetry reading with one of these fall bouquets from Flowers by Jake Mackey over on FB

Four lush autumn floral arrangements in rustic glass jars sit atop a weathered antique trunk. Burgundy, crimson, orange, and golden-yellow flowers mingle with dried grasses, berries, seedpods, and fall foliage. A small display of business cards and a “Flowers By Jake” sign rests beside the arrangements. A wooden staircase rises in the background.

MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺@mblue.bsky.social · 5d ago

Yes!

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 6d ago

Next up in our Mountain Voices memories is Linda Blaskey, a Delaware Masters Fellow in Poetry I’m fortunate to call a mentor and friend. I love the family stories rural folks carry into their poems. Here’s Linda reading at the Biggs. Join us Sunday, Oct. 18, at the DE Ag Museum!

Linda Blaskey’s Reading at the Biggs in 2024

YouTube video by Joyce Enzor Maust

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · last wk.

If I seem absent, please understand it’s because I’m busy, busy! #Cyanotype bookmarks. Just one of the things you can take home from our poetry reading on Sunday! I didn’t realize I had different types, so the day was filled with wind, experimenting, and getting drenched. 🙃

Collage showing the process of making botanical cyanotype bookmarks outdoors. Dried flowers, ferns, and leaves are arranged on paper beneath glass in sunlight. Finished exposures reveal delicate plant silhouettes.

ollage of handmade cyanotype bookmarks arranged in rows on patterned fabrics. Deep blue and turquoise backgrounds feature white and pale blue silhouettes of flowers, leaves, ferns, and stems. Each bookmark has a small punched hole for a ribbon or tassel.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · last wk.

A few years ago, four poets gathered at the Biggs Museum for Mountain Voices. I’ll be sharing recordings, starting with my dear friend Jim Bourey, the only one of us to return to our beloved mountains. Jack will read Jim’s poetry Sunday at the Ag Museum. Come sit a spell! 😊 RSVP link 1st comment.

Jim Bourney’s reading at the first Mountain Voices reading on Sept. 29, 2024 at the Biggs Museum.

YouTube video by Joyce Enzor Maust

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · last wk.

Working on cyanotype bookmarks today for people to take home from the upcoming poetry reading!

A Gathering of Mountain Voices: Poetry on the Front Porch

Mountain Voices brings together three poets for an immersive front porch gathering of poetry, photographs, stories, and memories.

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Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · last wk.

A four-photo collage against a black background featuring golden-yellow, dark-centered wildflowers. The top photograph shows flowers framing a shadowy patch of woodland, overlaid with the words “So lost… i’m fading” in yellow lettering. Below, three vertical photographs capture close-ups of individual blossoms and a dense cluster of flowers in various stages of bloom and fading.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · last wk.

The Bookplate in Chestertown, MD knows what’s at stake! My favorite bookstore where old and new books mingle. www.thebookplate.net

Wooden bookstore shelves display a collection of banned and challenged books, including works by Wendell Berry, Stephen King, and Sarah J. Maas. Bright red tape printed with “CENSORED” stretches diagonally across the shelves. A handwritten “BANNED BOOKS” sign explains the display, while a navy “BOOK PLATE” cap and other literary merchandise sit on an adjacent shelf.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · last wk.

If the sky had a bellybutton…. Tonight’s sky doesn’t look like the rain they predict. My sincerest apologies to #BlueSkyArtShow #Weather I seriously thought yesterday was Saturday! Sorry for showing up to the party early 💛

A dramatic evening sky filled with layers of blue-gray clouds. Soft golden sunlight filters through breaks in the clouds, illuminating their edges and casting warm streaks of light near the horizon. A dark tree line silhouettes the landscape below.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Fairy Fest!

Close-up portrait of a woman with silver-gray hair dressed as a woodland fairy. She wears a crown of white flowers and golden leaves, with trailing vines and blossoms woven through her hair and draped over a shimmering forest-green cloak. Delicate green leaves decorate her cheek and neck, while tiny white freckles resembling stardust scatter across her nose and cheeks. She smiles softly against a sunlit white curtain.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 2w ago

One last #Weather. This was the view from the farm where I spent my first 21 years. You can watch the shadows from clouds move across land and forest. If you ever visit it, say hello to my heart that still wanders the hills. #BlueSkyArtShow #ECK #Pennsylvannia

Rolling green pastures stretch toward distant blue hills, with scattered trees, wooded ridges, and patchwork fields along the horizon. Above, enormous white and gray cumulus clouds billow across a bright blue sky, casting soft shadows over the countryside.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 2w ago

I can feel and smell this picture. I’m not sure how to describe the smell, but IYKYK.

M. Defarge@mdefarge.bsky.social · 2w ago

#weather #BlueSkyArtShow #walk #storm #Winter

Walking the dog in the early moments of a winter storm.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 2w ago

This was the nor’easter in the southern part of the state before it flooded, closed roads, and moved the beaches. #BlueSkyArtShow #Weather #ImageandVerse #clouds #ECK

John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 2w ago

A winter's day in the Peak District. #BlueSkyArtShow #Weather #Snow #Photography #AlmostMonochrome #Castleton #Ducks #StoneWall

In the village of Castleton, snow remains on a stone wall, ducks swim on a small back-lit stream next to the wall, both running top left to bttom right, with houses and a green hill behind. Sky is white.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 2w ago

When the nor’easter rolled into town. The clouds reminded me of waves. Like the water couldn’t decide if it belonged to the sky or ground. #BlueSkyArtShow #Weather #ECK

Dark, turbulent storm clouds fill the sky, with sweeping layers of slate gray and blue-black clouds twisting into dramatic, billowing formations. Pale light filters through breaks in the clouds above.

Linda van Schaik @dalliancer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Weather coming in on a November evening. Lamington National Park, Queensland. #BlueSkyArtShow #Weather #PhonePhotography #EastCoastKin #ECK

A mountain range under a stormy sky. Rain is falling while the sun is shining through an opening in the cloud.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2w ago

If Trump loses West Virginia, it’s really over. “Right now, we’re broke. We don’t even have money for gas.” “I love Donald Trump. He shouldn’t promise people things that he ain’t going to do, though, you know?”

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 2w ago

So…I finished it today! Tanglewood, home of Tanzy the woodland fae who builds her dwelling from treasures the forest has shed. Finding art in the oft overlooked things, she reminds us that beauty doesn’t require perfection.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧚Fairyfest Time!!🧚

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 2w ago

The fairy house so far. An abode for the feral ADHD fae…. I did add a ladder, filled the nest, swing, chandelier. #nature #Fairy

Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social · 2w ago

A tiny poem about a mighty tree, published in the lovely @apricotpress.bsky.social 🌳

Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 2w ago

A new gold statue showing Donald Trump, naked and balanced atop the back of a meek man, has been unveiled today in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg. The eight-foot installation, titled The Orange Plague, is attributed to "The King of Injustice."

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 2w ago

“We grew from the same ground, but not every seed is made for flying.” jempoetry.substack.com/p/touch-me-n... #ECK #ImageAndVerse #Bloomscrolling

Close-up of an orange jewelweed (touch-me-not) flower hanging from a green stem. Its delicate, curved petals are speckled with reddish-brown spots, with a tiny water droplet near the flower’s upper opening. Soft green woodland foliage blurs in the background.

Extreme close-up of an orange jewelweed flower, revealing translucent petals, reddish-brown speckles, delicate folds, and tiny droplets of moisture along the petal edges. The background fades into soft green and gray tones.

Joyce EM 🌊🇺🇦@jempoetry.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'll be curating a poetic response to the work of Philadelphia artist Peter Paone, whose exhibition opens at the Biggs this weekend. 💛 The reading will take place in February. www.thebiggsmuseum.org/event/before...

BEFORE WORDS: The Art of Peter Paone

3rd Floor BEFORE WORDS: The Art of Peter Paone October 8, 2026 – April 25, 2027 A celebrated painter and printmaker, Paone established and chaired the printmaking department at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he taught for more than 30 years. His work has been featured in recent exhibitions at the

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Redstarman @redstarman.bsky.social · 2w ago

For #BlueSkyMonday Detailed leaf structure Network of manys colours Lit by autumn sun #haiku #photography #mobilephotography #artyear #nature #ArtYear #onlybeautifulthings #thelittlethings #photooftheday #cambridgeshire #autumn #leaves

Autumn leave illuminated from behind by autumn sunshine by Redstarman

Ali Atmaca @aliatmaca.bsky.social · 2w ago

Held together with hope. #photography #nature #landscape #scape #sky #clouds #hiking #travel #rocks #rockintuesday #coloraday #bluetue #artyear #eck

A large cracked boulder is wedged between two jagged rock formations under blue sky with soft clouds. Beneath the suspended boulder rests another blocky rock with red-brown tones, supported by a vertical wall built from small fieldstones. The natural rock faces on either side are weathered with scattered fissures and sparse dried vegetation clinging to the crevices.