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Kay Ryan, The First of Never
March 12, 2026 at 10:06 PM
deborahjshore.bsky.social
#KayRyan #poetry

She’s the best kind of clever.
November 17, 2023 at 9:59 PM
bearinroses.bsky.social
the best of it indeed.

my 3 earth angels in august 2025

#caturday #catbirdday #kayryan #poetry
a brown tabby cat sleeps on a cozy chair, on the back of which are pearched 2 pigeons. in front of the cat is a book of poetry by kay ryan called "the best of it".
November 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
bearinroses.bsky.social
today i finished The Best of It by Kay Ryan for the #sealeychallenge . @sealeychallenge.bsky.social @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social #poetry #kayryan #pigeonsky #catsky 🪶
two pigeons standing on the back of a cozy chair in which a brown tabby cat is sleeping. propped up in front of the cat is a copy of the poetry book "the best of it" by kay ryan.
August 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
mistercorzi.bsky.social
"The water bead
pretends it’s the leaf’s
idea—
a perfect
round thought
the plant
never had." Kay Ryan (2005)
#photography #bead #water #leaf #drop #water #lupine #palmate #plant #NaturePhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #poetry #KayRyan
July 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
"The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt
from resurrection."

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kay-ryan

✒ #KayRyan, American poet and educator, is 81 today. #Poetry #Literature
September 21, 2026 at 4:37 AM
mistercorzi.bsky.social
"The pink daisy’s
seed-head is a locked
treasure chest—
only the wind
knows the combination
to its golden spiral." Kay Ryan (2005)
#photography #daisy #PinkDaisy #tricolor #flower #spiral #fibonacci #mathematics #beauty #symmetry #NaturePhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #poetry #KayRyan
July 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
jestabrick.bsky.social
Certain Kind of Eden, Kay Ryan
Kitty Inkpot - Malt and Ginger Cookies at the Markets
Yamamoto canopus note
Kaweco 579 <14k B> (browned) ebonite

While googling Kay Ryan (1945- ), a suggested search was "why must we struggle Kay Ryan"

Gave me a bit of a giggle.

#poetry #kayryan #fountainpensandink
May 8, 2026 at 2:17 AM
deborahjshore.bsky.social
#poetry #KayRyan Lighthouse Keeping

It’s uncanny how often I see my own thought patterns and select writing obsessions in Ryan’s work. Apparently I should have picked her up long ago.

voetica.com/poem/8094
December 4, 2023 at 12:29 AM
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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Two Years and Two Months by Chris Reed
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Two Years and Two Months is a contemplation of the complex and many stranded love the author shares with her mother.#poetry #motherlove #love #pandemic #kayryan #milton
July 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
ysl.bsky.social
"A certain kind of perhaps rather unwholesome-looking distortion or lopsidedness is necessary to the writer’s mind, but I never wanted to add to the grief of being human, the burden of it, or have my work do that."

#KayRyan

#booksky
March 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
deborahjshore.bsky.social
#poetry

So far this is the only #KayRyan poem I’ve looked up where she’d made book edits to the original journal publication—wise ones, I’d add, as the allusion to the Genesis account has become uncluttered and more compelling. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
November 26, 2023 at 12:12 AM
jestabrick.bsky.social
"Tenderness and Rot", "In Case of Complete Reversal", Kay Ryan
"First Fig", Edna St Vincent Millay
Kitty Inkpot-A Certain Forest
Midori MD (grid), CRENA spark (white)
BlueDew

Showing max vs slight flex

#poetry #kayryan #ednastvincentmillay #americanliterature #fountainpensandink
August 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
jestabrick.bsky.social
"Slant", Kay Ryan
Colorverse - Butterfly Nebula
Leuchtturm A5 standard
Kaweco Sport ocean blue (Singapore and Malaysia exclusive)

#poetry #kayryan #americanliterature #fountainpensandink #30inks30days #fountainpensaustralia
September 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
maxiecon5.bsky.social
"Failure, the renewable resource" @kayryan
December 5, 2024 at 4:00 PM
maxiecon5.bsky.social
"I don't like to be assaulted with new knowledge" @kayryan
December 5, 2024 at 4:00 PM
ysl.bsky.social
‘I don’t have to think my #books are getting better.

I just want to keep going back to the same well to have another little drink.’

#KayRyan
March 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
ysl.bsky.social
"Be dull and ordinary in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work."

#Flaubert

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“I think extravagance in your life takes energy from the possible extravagances of your mind.”

#KayRyan
February 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM