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
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
Achievement unlocked: I have written two poems intended to be read together
September 25, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Achievement unlocked: I have written two poems intended to be read together
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
Yeah maybe more of a '60s vibe, it also kind of looks like the Chicago Imagists or Yellow Submarine style
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
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"
If you have time and have never been there, I highly recommend a visit to the library at Elmhurst University to see the excellent collection of art by Chicago Imagists.
July 7, 2026 at 8:56 PM
If you have time and have never been there, I highly recommend a visit to the library at Elmhurst University to see the excellent collection of art by Chicago Imagists.
Today's #PickoftheDay is a little gem - although it's not a lettuce. No, it is a succinct poem with so much packed into very few words.
Marandina's Rhapsody in G Major is reminiscent of some of the work of the Imagists.
Do please share if you like it too
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Marandina's Rhapsody in G Major is reminiscent of some of the work of the Imagists.
Do please share if you like it too
www.abctales.com/story/marand...
#Poem
July 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Today's #PickoftheDay is a little gem - although it's not a lettuce. No, it is a succinct poem with so much packed into very few words.
Marandina's Rhapsody in G Major is reminiscent of some of the work of the Imagists.
Do please share if you like it too
www.abctales.com/story/marand...
#Poem
Marandina's Rhapsody in G Major is reminiscent of some of the work of the Imagists.
Do please share if you like it too
www.abctales.com/story/marand...
#Poem
Du Fu, Leonora Carrington, Imagists—I’m jealous, but then my TBR pile shames me
June 22, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Du Fu, Leonora Carrington, Imagists—I’m jealous, but then my TBR pile shames me
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
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....
Florida Hemingway Society invites attendance at a one-day virtual conference on 30th May, exploring Hemingway, the Lost Generation, & their connections to the Imagists & other contemporaries.
Modernist Crossroads: Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Beyond - British Association for American Studies
The Florida Hemingway Society invites scholars and enthusiasts to its inaugural virtual conference, a one-day event dedicated to Ernest Hemingway and his literary circle. The program will feature…
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May 19, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Florida Hemingway Society invites attendance at a one-day virtual conference on 30th May, exploring Hemingway, the Lost Generation, & their connections to the Imagists & other contemporaries.
Chicago painter Karl Wirsum, born 1939,
a mainstay of the Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists.
Further info in the alt texts 👇
a mainstay of the Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists.
Further info in the alt texts 👇
May 7, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Chicago painter Karl Wirsum, born 1939,
a mainstay of the Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists.
Further info in the alt texts 👇
a mainstay of the Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists.
Further info in the alt texts 👇
Gladys Nilsson (b.1940) is an American artist, and one of the original Hairy Who Chicago Imagists, a group of representational artists active during the 1960s and 1970s. Gladys Nilsson was born to Swedish immigrant parents. via W #PalianSHOW
Gladys Nilsson (b.1940)
Gladys Nilsson (b.1940) is an American artist, and one of the original Hairy Who Chicago Imagists, a group of representational artists active during the 1960s and 1970s. Gladys Nilsson was born to Swedish immigrant parents. via W #PalianSHOW
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May 6, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Gladys Nilsson (b.1940) is an American artist, and one of the original Hairy Who Chicago Imagists, a group of representational artists active during the 1960s and 1970s. Gladys Nilsson was born to Swedish immigrant parents. via W #PalianSHOW
when i first read 'this is just to say' in my undergrad theory class, i absolutely hated it, but the memes i've seen pop up in subsequent years have given it a new life. i find the legacy of the meme format far more meaningful than the poem. sorry to the imagists but long live the shitpost poets
April 21, 2026 at 1:56 AM
when i first read 'this is just to say' in my undergrad theory class, i absolutely hated it, but the memes i've seen pop up in subsequent years have given it a new life. i find the legacy of the meme format far more meaningful than the poem. sorry to the imagists but long live the shitpost poets
it’s really good but it seems like organizing it is a pain in the ass and so every year i worry they’ll stop putting it on—you should go
April 17, 2026 at 5:36 PM
it’s really good but it seems like organizing it is a pain in the ass and so every year i worry they’ll stop putting it on—you should go
Parallel Manipulation https://www.artic.edu/artworks/97403/
March 7, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Parallel Manipulation https://www.artic.edu/artworks/97403/
Paul La Mantia (1974-1975)
!["Laughter from a Tomb, No Wonder the Neighbors Complain" mixed media and collage on paper
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Paul Christopher Lamantia (born 1938) is an American visual artist, known for paintings and drawings that explore dark psychosexual imagery.
He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and emerged in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the larger group of artists known as the Chicago Imagists.
Lamantia often depicts surreal, distorted figures in transgressive scenarios, rendered in a formally structured, dizzying patterns, line and high-key color; he has been influenced by Expressionism, High Renaissance and Baroque art, and psychoanalytic theory.
Art historian Robert Cozzolino suggests his work implies imply multiple levels of meaning: allegories of lust, confessional hallucinations about sexual anxiety, visions from an altered state. Critic Dennis Adrian called him "a Chicago maverick" whose work "challenges and wrenches" the limits of acceptability and taste, while Franz Schulze described him as one of the city's "most brutal and coldly expressionist" figurative artists.
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Lamantia first gained notoriety in the 1960s for his unfiltered, high-energy drawings. [...] In monumental works, he depicted surreal, ambiguously-sexed figures and groups—sirens, buxom temptresses, leather-clad dominatrixes, voyeurs, and mutant beasts—undergoing dizzying transformations into giant insects, plant-like forms and horrific organic conglomerations, while engaged in discomfiting, sometimes predatory sexual dramas.
In these paintings, faces, skin, sinuous legs, torpedo breasts, muscles and organs blend or morph into invented anatomies of snapping jaws, sprouting eyes, bird beaks, claws, tentacles and machine, while skin, makeup, masking, tattooing, scarring and costuming become indistinguishable, rendering interpretation compellingly ambiguous, for many critics.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ewb37o2ftablnrgx3ma45l3b/bafkreieog6onodmo5ve5bdrywzjs422uezh2bj7m75ca4fl6p25urvwqoe)
February 24, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Paul La Mantia (1974-1975)
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Chicago Art Ephemera: Jim Nutt (b.1938) exhibition advertisement for a show at Phyllis Kind Gallery, which ran April 12-May 11, 1985. Nutt was a founding member of the Chicago surrealist art movement known as the Chicago Imagists, aka the Hairy Who.
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February 1, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Chicago Art Ephemera: Jim Nutt (b.1938) exhibition advertisement for a show at Phyllis Kind Gallery, which ran April 12-May 11, 1985. Nutt was a founding member of the Chicago surrealist art movement known as the Chicago Imagists, aka the Hairy Who.
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Oh, she was one of the original Chicago Imagists. Ok, the more you know, the less strange something becomes. Now this feels completely normal. I feel a little jerky for making the original post.
January 27, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Oh, she was one of the original Chicago Imagists. Ok, the more you know, the less strange something becomes. Now this feels completely normal. I feel a little jerky for making the original post.
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
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
@dawphin.bsky.social In case you hadn't seen this
As the 60th anniversary of the Chicago Imagists approaches, the artists have never enjoyed more success
But in part because of the dominance of the New York art scene and biases about so-called regional art, the group has faced headwinds despite the considerable recognition they have achieved.
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January 10, 2026 at 10:38 PM
@dawphin.bsky.social In case you hadn't seen this