LM Myers 🌻🌻🌻
@lenimo.bsky.social
Author of Regards to Balthus (Seven Kitchens Press, 2023) and Afterimages (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2026).
AFTERIMAGES is Sixteen Rivers poet Lenore Myers' debut collection, & we are BIG fans. (Yeah, we're biased!) 😄 An innovative, philosophical call & response to the art world—its paintings, artists, models, theorists, & casualties—Myers' poem sequence is sure to haunt & enthrall. Come listen! #poetry
Thanks to SWIMMEveryDay for publishing my Balthus poem
SWWIM@swwim.bsky.social · 2mo agoFrom “Thérèse Dreaming” by Lenore Myers @lenimo.bsky.social #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #Poem #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #WomenSupportingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #ThérèseDreaming #LenoreMyers #ThursdayPoem
My son and I have been listening to a podcast about the Islamic Revolution in Iran (The Rest is History), and I had started re-reading Persepolis just yesterday :'-( www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/w...
Marjane Satrapi, Artist and Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56
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@mollyfisk.bsky.social Check out this Substack post & Enjoy substack.com/@shermanalex...
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Four times today, the car in front of me hit their turn signal as they were turning. I don’t road rage. I road sigh. So, four times today, I sighed and said to myself, “You’re supposed to signal at le...
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My son and I saw Elim Chan guest conduct SF Symphony playing Holst's The Planets and it was exhilarating! I can't wait to see more wonderful performances under her direction www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/a...
A First for the San Francisco Symphony: A Woman Will Lead the Orchestra
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Here's a visual article about a newly (but also not-so-newly) discovered bodily system for circulating fluids: the interstitium. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Inside the Interstitium, the Human Body’s Hidden Pathways (Gift Article)
The detection of another circulatory system in the human body could have enormous scientific implications.
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Bay Area people: come to Berkeley this Saturday to hear Van Jordan and Julia Levine read from their newest books of poetry. It'll be super. Where: Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda in Berkeley, CA When: Saturday, April 25, 3-5pm sixteenrivers.org/readings-eve...
Sixteen Rivers Presents: Van Jordan & Julia Levine at Northbrae Community Church on Sat, April 25, 2026, 3pm – Sixteen Rivers Press
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"You’re not up to the task of being in power if you do not think about the cost of violence. If that’s not at the front of your mind, then I don’t think you are morally in the right place to be in positions of power.” Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/o...
Opinion | Graham Platner Went to Hell and Back. He Has a Simple Message for Democrats.
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Just a very cool article about a parrot. Gift link. Enjoy. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/s...
How Bruce the Parrot Landed Atop the Pecking Order, Without a Beak
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Bay Area people: I'm reading with Dane Cervine and Carolyn Miller from our new books at Corte Madera's Book Passage this Sunday, April 19, at 1pm. Join us! www.bookpassage.com/event/sixtee...
Sixteen Rivers Press - North Bay Book Launch 2026 (Corte Madera Store)
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My book of poetry, Afterimages, is now available at shop.sixteenrivers.org/products/aft.... Click the link to purchase or view sample poems. Vera's painting captures the many perspectives explored in the book: artist, subject, bystander, viewer, critic, thinker, experiencing subject of a life...
Afterimages by Lenore Myers
Publication date: April 21, 2026ISBN: 978-1-939639-45-5Paperback / 124 pages
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April Fools Day well-attended and solidly living up to its name
Poems up at the Art House Gallery, this Sunday, March 29! Sixteen Rivers poets Dane Cervine, Carolyn Miller, & Lenore Myers will be reading from their hot-off-the-press books! Thank you, Poetry Flash, for hosting. You come too! 3:00 pm. 2905 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley. #poetry #poetrycommunity
"Our garden is forlorn Our garden is forlorn" "I Pity the Garden" by Persian poet Forugh Farrokhzad (1934-1967) wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
I Pity the Garden by Forugh Farrokhzad - Words Without Borders
From "Iran's Sylvia Plath," Forugh Farrokhzad, comes a poem about change.
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Proof! With Vera Iliatova's wonderful painting, "Subterfuge," on the cover
Who are these amazing donkey-women and where can I find them???
In case you're in the mood to revisit how your NEA grant was yoinked by kids in backpacks working for establishment conservatives. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
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The Toyota War of 1987 is called that because Chad defended itself from Libya using hundreds of Toyota pickups supplied by France (some with missile launchers, which are not factory standard). The 2025 model year now has air conditioning, a backing camera, CarPlay, and surround sound.
Ask me any question. My response will be, "Your Security is Our Happiness"
Ok my husbeast and his Ukrainian cousin and her family have finally exited Abu Dhabi. They were getting very uneasy with things there. They'll sleep better tonight (and so will I and my son).
If I were a billionaire I think I’d buy an abandoned suburban mall and let people turn all the old stores into weird art spaces and galleries. The only rule is you’d have to keep some % of the original store’s design elements/aesthetic. Also the food court would reopen.
