Stephen Eric Berry
@stephenericberry.bsky.social
Husband of Diane Aronoff, writer, musician, translator.
I create texts w/o the use of machine learning technologies.
To view my film "The Children's Holiday," go to: https://vimeo.com/807495629
Banner image by John Elkerr: https://www.johnelkerr.com/
I create texts w/o the use of machine learning technologies.
To view my film "The Children's Holiday," go to: https://vimeo.com/807495629
Banner image by John Elkerr: https://www.johnelkerr.com/
This full-page ad appeared in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. What do you think about it?
September 30, 2026 at 4:23 PM
This full-page ad appeared in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. What do you think about it?
What would Burroughs say about Trump? That he is…
- a Mugwump addict, a Reptile with a “little round disk mouth of brown gristle”;
-a black marketeer of World War III;
- a creature suffering from “unspeakable mutilations of the spirit”;
- the source of a foul smell like tainted cheese.
#NoKings
- a Mugwump addict, a Reptile with a “little round disk mouth of brown gristle”;
-a black marketeer of World War III;
- a creature suffering from “unspeakable mutilations of the spirit”;
- the source of a foul smell like tainted cheese.
#NoKings
April 6, 2026 at 5:49 PM
What would Burroughs say about Trump? That he is…
- a Mugwump addict, a Reptile with a “little round disk mouth of brown gristle”;
-a black marketeer of World War III;
- a creature suffering from “unspeakable mutilations of the spirit”;
- the source of a foul smell like tainted cheese.
#NoKings
- a Mugwump addict, a Reptile with a “little round disk mouth of brown gristle”;
-a black marketeer of World War III;
- a creature suffering from “unspeakable mutilations of the spirit”;
- the source of a foul smell like tainted cheese.
#NoKings
You mention pruning. I’m going to be pruning a grape arbor in Central Florida at my brother’s house next week. Then we’ll head north to hike the Appalachian Trail, starting in Northern Georgia. Here’s a shot from the Blood Mountain part of the trail rising to an elevation of 4,400 feet.
April 2, 2026 at 5:01 AM
You mention pruning. I’m going to be pruning a grape arbor in Central Florida at my brother’s house next week. Then we’ll head north to hike the Appalachian Trail, starting in Northern Georgia. Here’s a shot from the Blood Mountain part of the trail rising to an elevation of 4,400 feet.
Refaat Alareer’s book “If I Must Die” is available on Amazon for $16.14. Let’s empty that shelf at the Amazon warehouse right now! If you need more motivation to shuck out the cost of a croissant and coffee, then you may recall that April is National Poetry Month in the United States.
#NoKings
#NoKings
April 1, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Refaat Alareer’s book “If I Must Die” is available on Amazon for $16.14. Let’s empty that shelf at the Amazon warehouse right now! If you need more motivation to shuck out the cost of a croissant and coffee, then you may recall that April is National Poetry Month in the United States.
#NoKings
#NoKings
We remember similar comments made about South Africa in the 1980s. But strikes and protests, both within and outside of the country, combined with crippling international sanctions, brought the 46 year-old Apartheid System down in 1994. Zionism is not Judaism and hopelessness is not a plan.
April 1, 2026 at 3:01 PM
We remember similar comments made about South Africa in the 1980s. But strikes and protests, both within and outside of the country, combined with crippling international sanctions, brought the 46 year-old Apartheid System down in 1994. Zionism is not Judaism and hopelessness is not a plan.
The “lostness” you speak of is profound, a malignancy far beyond machine translation. We live in a world where soulless machines — essentially psychotic wooden dummies — are being granted faux personhood and the authority to make life and death decisions about the rest of us. This is not a comedy.
April 1, 2026 at 2:19 PM
The “lostness” you speak of is profound, a malignancy far beyond machine translation. We live in a world where soulless machines — essentially psychotic wooden dummies — are being granted faux personhood and the authority to make life and death decisions about the rest of us. This is not a comedy.
Hubris is believing that no one is shooting at your B-52s because they can’t. Hubris is like adrenalin. It feels warm and buzzy and wonderful in your bloodstream…at first. Then the spigot cranks shut and you get a new feeling: the flush of humiliation combined with a stellar cold chill.
#NoKings
#NoKings
March 31, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Hubris is believing that no one is shooting at your B-52s because they can’t. Hubris is like adrenalin. It feels warm and buzzy and wonderful in your bloodstream…at first. Then the spigot cranks shut and you get a new feeling: the flush of humiliation combined with a stellar cold chill.
#NoKings
#NoKings
Alana Holmberg
“Nerve Pathways of the Clitoris”
Photograph: Oculi for The Guardian
“Nerve Pathways of the Clitoris”
Photograph: Oculi for The Guardian
March 29, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Alana Holmberg
“Nerve Pathways of the Clitoris”
Photograph: Oculi for The Guardian
“Nerve Pathways of the Clitoris”
Photograph: Oculi for The Guardian
“We can sit like this
You and me
My baby boy
For a few seconds longer
Because what else is more
Important to do?”
—Erin O’Connor
#Instagram
#Censorship
You and me
My baby boy
For a few seconds longer
Because what else is more
Important to do?”
—Erin O’Connor
#Censorship
March 29, 2026 at 12:20 PM
“We can sit like this
You and me
My baby boy
For a few seconds longer
Because what else is more
Important to do?”
—Erin O’Connor
#Instagram
#Censorship
You and me
My baby boy
For a few seconds longer
Because what else is more
Important to do?”
—Erin O’Connor
#Censorship
Fintan O’Toole in his latest piece in the NYRB (“Signifying Absolutely Nothing”) conjures a telling portrait of Trump making war. We see The Donald engaged in pure mental masturbation. Titillated by the killing, he grows ever more weightless, a hot air balloon rising over Mar-a-Lago.
#NoKings
#NYRB
#NoKings
#NYRB
March 25, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Congratulations to Italian poet Pamela Proietti and my co-translator Donna Mancusi-Ungaro Hart! The latest issue of Denver Quarterly is out with two of our translations. Also many thanks to editor Jane Huffman!
#DenverQuarterly
#poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#poets
#DenverQuarterly
#poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#poets
March 18, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Congratulations to Italian poet Pamela Proietti and my co-translator Donna Mancusi-Ungaro Hart! The latest issue of Denver Quarterly is out with two of our translations. Also many thanks to editor Jane Huffman!
#DenverQuarterly
#poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#poets
#DenverQuarterly
#poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#poets
Omar is a fighter.
I’m so proud of her!
I knocked on 2,589 doors in four MI counties for 40 consecutive days for the Harris campaign. And Somalis? My god, they were always my favorite houses to visit. Friendly, kind, gracious, unforgettable people!
#NoKings
#SomaliDiaspora
I’m so proud of her!
I knocked on 2,589 doors in four MI counties for 40 consecutive days for the Harris campaign. And Somalis? My god, they were always my favorite houses to visit. Friendly, kind, gracious, unforgettable people!
#NoKings
#SomaliDiaspora
February 26, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Omar is a fighter.
I’m so proud of her!
I knocked on 2,589 doors in four MI counties for 40 consecutive days for the Harris campaign. And Somalis? My god, they were always my favorite houses to visit. Friendly, kind, gracious, unforgettable people!
#NoKings
#SomaliDiaspora
I’m so proud of her!
I knocked on 2,589 doors in four MI counties for 40 consecutive days for the Harris campaign. And Somalis? My god, they were always my favorite houses to visit. Friendly, kind, gracious, unforgettable people!
#NoKings
#SomaliDiaspora
“Last night I dreamed we flew down there,” Emily says. Intrigued, Reverend Wadsworth pours her a glass of red currant wine and slides it across the bar. “We crawled inside one of those toppled steeples of frozen methane. And gamboled and laughed and made love on our knees under stars I cannot name.”
February 22, 2026 at 9:29 PM
“Last night I dreamed we flew down there,” Emily says. Intrigued, Reverend Wadsworth pours her a glass of red currant wine and slides it across the bar. “We crawled inside one of those toppled steeples of frozen methane. And gamboled and laughed and made love on our knees under stars I cannot name.”
VERY excited because this arrived on my doorstep today — the brand new English translation of Inga’s book.
#AI
#GenerativeAI
#MachineLearning
#AIRegulation
#AI
#GenerativeAI
#MachineLearning
#AIRegulation
February 21, 2026 at 1:00 AM
VERY excited because this arrived on my doorstep today — the brand new English translation of Inga’s book.
#AI
#GenerativeAI
#MachineLearning
#AIRegulation
#AI
#GenerativeAI
#MachineLearning
#AIRegulation
Highly recommended! New play by Matthew Libby. Topic: AI and the surveillance state. Now playing at the Lucille Lortel Theatre at 121 Christopher Street, NY, NY.
#stochasticparrot
#NoAI
#stochasticparrot
#NoAI
February 20, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Highly recommended! New play by Matthew Libby. Topic: AI and the surveillance state. Now playing at the Lucille Lortel Theatre at 121 Christopher Street, NY, NY.
#stochasticparrot
#NoAI
#stochasticparrot
#NoAI
Stephen Eric Berry
“The Dressing Room”
(Nikon P510, f3.3, 1/13,)
“The Dressing Room”
(Nikon P510, f3.3, 1/13,)
February 17, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Stephen Eric Berry
“The Dressing Room”
(Nikon P510, f3.3, 1/13,)
“The Dressing Room”
(Nikon P510, f3.3, 1/13,)
Here is Mrinank’s letter of resignation.
February 16, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Here is Mrinank’s letter of resignation.
Excited to finally get my hands on the Russian TV series THE MASTER AND MARGUERITA. Now that we live in a police state in America and they’re shooting us in the streets, Bulgakov’s work could not be more timely!
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Excited to finally get my hands on the Russian TV series THE MASTER AND MARGUERITA. Now that we live in a police state in America and they’re shooting us in the streets, Bulgakov’s work could not be more timely!
Diane Aronoff
“Overture”
Fujicolor 35mm negative film
Nurturing flowers she grows in Michigan, Aronoff constructs surreal underwater gardens and photographs them with macro lenses. She has exhibited her work at fine art shows across the United States.
“Overture”
Fujicolor 35mm negative film
Nurturing flowers she grows in Michigan, Aronoff constructs surreal underwater gardens and photographs them with macro lenses. She has exhibited her work at fine art shows across the United States.
January 14, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Diane Aronoff
“Overture”
Fujicolor 35mm negative film
Nurturing flowers she grows in Michigan, Aronoff constructs surreal underwater gardens and photographs them with macro lenses. She has exhibited her work at fine art shows across the United States.
“Overture”
Fujicolor 35mm negative film
Nurturing flowers she grows in Michigan, Aronoff constructs surreal underwater gardens and photographs them with macro lenses. She has exhibited her work at fine art shows across the United States.
Here’s the denial…
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Here’s the denial…
Here’s an example…
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Here’s an example…
John Elkerr
"Minotaur Cabaret"
30" x 22"
Quill and ink on paper
To see more of John Elkerr’s work, please visit: JohnElkerr.com
#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
"Minotaur Cabaret"
30" x 22"
Quill and ink on paper
To see more of John Elkerr’s work, please visit: JohnElkerr.com
#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
John Elkerr
"Minotaur Cabaret"
30" x 22"
Quill and ink on paper
To see more of John Elkerr’s work, please visit: JohnElkerr.com
#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz
"Minotaur Cabaret"
30" x 22"
Quill and ink on paper
To see more of John Elkerr’s work, please visit: JohnElkerr.com
#SurrealArt #FineArt #drawing #art #ArtBrut #OutsiderArt #RawVision #Juxtapoz