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mikebenchcapon.bsky.social
It's funnier doing the second as a reveal, the fact that the unchanged lines still read differently in the two poems has more impact this way round, and the second shows what the imagists liberated us from. But I did consider it the other way
September 25, 2026 at 9:51 AM
mikebenchcapon.bsky.social
Achievement unlocked: I have written two poems intended to be read together
Des Imagistes I In the old days You might write a poem In traditional style And give it to an imagist. They would cross out two thirds Of your words And give it back With a smile, saying "Isn't that better?" And you would have to agree If you were bold, you might appeal "It has no meter And rarely rhymes So could you tell me precisely how Is this a poem now?" The imagists had considered this And had their answer ready: "Cadence, my friend." And again You would have to agree It was a humiliation And imagism did not last But they were onto something They liberated us From something Des Imagistes II In days of old, when poets were poets You'd write a piece of lyric verse Which scanned, as is traditional And give it to an imagist Who'd then cross out about two thirds Of your (you thought) well chosen words And then they'd give them back to you With an enthusiastic smile "It's better now, right?" they would say And naturally you would agree If you were bold, you might appeal "It has no meter anymore And even rhymes less than before Could you explain precisely how Is what we have a poem now?" The imagists considered this And had this party-line reply "The cadence is the thing, my friend" And sheepishly you'd find again That you had to agree with them These interactions were no fun And imagism did not last But one must say they had a point And even liberated us From chains we did not know we had
September 25, 2026 at 9:06 AM
bwolo.bsky.social
Yeah maybe more of a '60s vibe, it also kind of looks like the Chicago Imagists or Yellow Submarine style
August 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM
gerge-lemons.bsky.social
Found out about the "Chicago Imagists", "Hairy Who" art group from chicago in 1960s - imgs 3, 4. "roger brown"? - imgs 2, 5. "Friedrich Schroder Sonnenstern - crazy guy from around ww2 - imgs 1, 6"
August 3, 2026 at 7:08 PM
newsjennifer.bsky.social
Chicago Public Media has two non-profit news outlets-
@wbez.org & @chicago.suntimes.com Credit to the Sun-Times for reporting (& putting on the homepage!) a story about how CPM's ex- CEO got a $1MILLION payout while demanding staff cuts at both news outlets. WBEZ needs to do the same.
Chicago Sun Times Logo Log In Donate Gladys Nilsson is one of the six members of Hairy Who, the most famous subset of the Imagists. Art As the 60th anniversary of the Chicago Imagists approaches, the artists have never enjoyed more success By Kyle MacMillan 6m read Chicago Public Media's offices at Navy Pier. Work Ex-CEO of Chicago Public Media saw $900,000 payout in 2024, IRS filings show By David Roeder 4m read Patrick Smith gestures to Mary Dixon, his co-host on "Say More," a new talk show on WBEZ that airs from a Chicago Public Media studio at Navy Pier. Media Why I decided to leave my dream job to help launch a new show By Patrick Smith | WBEZ 4m read A federal immigration enforcement agent takes back a protester after detainment at the intersection of East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. Protesters gathered as federal immigration enforcement awaited the removal of its vehicle after it crashed during a pursuit. News A look back at Chicago's top news stories of 2025 Hordes of federal immigration agents came into the city, and a new pope came out of it. Sun-Times and WBEZ journalists had their work cut out for them in 2025. By Mitchell Armentrout 8m read BEARS-112425-58.jpg Bears What you should know about 2025 Chicago Bears if you're a new fan By Ari Soglin 5m read
December 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
robertloerzel.bsky.social
Chicago Imagists will be a key part of the “Sixties Surreal" exhibition at New York's the Whitney Museum of American Art, according to NYT, which highlights the art of Chicagoan Christina Ramberg. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...
Roll Over, Warhol: Taking the ’60s Beyond Pop Art
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September 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
dalemcfarlandart.bsky.social
ode to the imagists (1974)

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

same as above
except

mounts forward or
reversed

large air intake
L-type

twenty nine ninety
five
March 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
wolftwinthomas.bsky.social
Thank you. That's high praise. The work of Pound, Amy Lowell, H.D., and other Imagists guides me.
November 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
andrewgillis.bsky.social
I'm not sure what possessed me to do this, but I decided to write a poem for every district, in a poetic style that was current in the 1920s (the imagists). I imagined a fictional poet, who was commissioned to write poems for a civic art project celebrating the city
January 18, 2026 at 12:36 AM
kirstensb.bsky.social
So much depends upon... an image!
open.substack.com/pub/lithits/...
So much depends upon... an image!
Imagists used stark, unadorned, and direct language to represent the objects of their poetry
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February 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
sharpeslass.bsky.social
I'm not terribly familiar with the imagists. "So much depends on a red wheelbarrow" is what springs first to mind. I don't even know who wrote it. They do strike me as a lot easier to memorize than Eliot, however (if I'm thinking of the right poems). I need more emotional resonance in my poetry.
April 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
dawphin.bsky.social
Ed Flood #chicago imagists
February 28, 2026 at 7:15 AM
dawphin.bsky.social
Jim Nutt
Classic Jim Nutt portrait of a brunette wearing prickly top. One of more notable Chicago Imagists.
January 11, 2026 at 9:11 AM
dawphin.bsky.social
Ramberg a personal favorite. These are basic icons she uses over and over and I think it’s hair. This article may be TMI for ye, but provides info on Chicago Imagists. I knew a few (my avatar here is by Jim Nutt, another fave.

www.artforum.com/features/dan...
HOW WOULD A COMB THAT CANNOT UNTANGLE HAIR LOOK?
DAN NADEL ON THE ART OF CHRISTINA RAMBERG
www.artforum.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:55 AM
kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
*IMAGISTS FTW*
tcparker.bsky.social T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · Jul 12
Completely forgot Eliot, HD, Williams, Pound, etc.

I really struggle with the Imagists, because so many of them were so abhorrent and (certainly in the case of Eliot and, obviously, Pound) it bleeds into the text

But they could certainly string a(n elliptical) sentence together
July 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
ahughtown.bsky.social
I love Stevens and Crane, but like many Imagists, it's clear how difficult their poetry is to write (let alone read). Then I read Romantics like Wordsworth or Keats and they make it look so easy--it's incredibly impressive.
October 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
oddthisday.bsky.social
Pound’s response was either to laugh, or (according to Fletcher) “to retire in disgust”. Either way, the duel did not take place, but Pound remained as tetchy and humourless as you would expect from a horrid little goose-stepper. Matthew Hollis says:
Extract from Matthew Hollis’ book about Edward Thomas, Now All Roads Lead to France@ Abercrombie, once respectable in Pound’s eyes, was singled out for ridicule as one of the ‘literary hen-coops’, and the Georgians ‘the stupidest set of Blockheads to be found in any country’. Thomas had once praised the potential of Abercrombie and Pound evenly, but he no longer felt need to be impartial. ‘What imbeciles the Imagists are,’ he said.
June 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
briannicholson.bsky.social
When I was in Chicago I visited this gallert Hoofprint that sold prints, ceramics, and some zines. In addition to Liz Born, who was working that day, I like this lady Talya Modlin's work. Because of the Imagists/Hairy Who, Chicago has all this work that's cartoony and figurative but not comics
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November 30, 2024 at 6:03 AM
j-tkelly.bsky.social
I got to spend some time with it. What a poem! It's got that Wordsworth nature-is-the-image-of-the-interior-life going on. Plus some of the Imagists' insistence on the thing itself. But at every turn it is surprising! As if holding strict attention through all the seasons. Emotion hanging taut.
January 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
benjaminlong-art.bsky.social
The show was a nice revelation as I was unfamiliar with her. I do like a lot of the Chicago Imagists. Thanks for the repost.
March 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
aarthivadde.bsky.social
Happy Bloomsday to all who celebrate! And a gift from the archive: the first time James Joyce appeared in the New York Times (1914), it was for his poetry 😂 archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
1914: James Joyce Hears an Army
On May 24, 1914, The New York Times reported on the publication of a new poetry anthology, “The Imagists,” that featured the works of James Joyce.
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June 16, 2026 at 11:56 AM
blkreparations.bsky.social
Or read them the shortened bios of Vorticists / Imagists on the end of Norton’s Anthology of Poetry, 6th ed.

I think it’s 6th ed.
April 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
cmgiulini.bsky.social
Kyle MacMillan for the Sun-Times looks at the everfresh Chicago imagists on their 60th anniversary, with Gladys Nilsson adding a mural to the Art Institute's Modern Wing just this past June.
chicago.suntimes.com/art/2025/12/...
December 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
wikiuntamed.bsky.social
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February 7, 2026 at 3:33 PM