Marthine Satris

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Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB. www.heydaybooks.com www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org https://bit.ly/MDShomepage

CATS: cycling across time and space: 11 definitely science fiction and fantasy stories about bicycling and cats edited by Elly Blue
Everyone being sad about the tall people ball sport
How flowers made our world and Thirteen ways to smell a tree by David George Haskell
A yellow Mariposa lily and info about the upcoming ORB happy hour in Oakland
bookscan is down?
A page from flat Earth highlighted where I laughed out loud on the train three times.
Elmer Jones, Man of God
Publishers weekly review of Dillon Osleger Trail Work from Heyday
Here's a technology that genuinely gives us back more time than it takes!
blewit, a globular purple mushroom
Gabrielle Calvocoressi's "Every Day But Sunday"
Kelly Gray, Climacteric, poem in the new issue of Zyzzyva
Alley Poems, March 3, last of the sunshine, North Beach
The most best Chicano truck I've ever seen
caps for sale, or alexis madrigal's inbox
sky behind horizon blur ocean, breathe for us labored and wringing These men, your age and talking like they aren’t going to die, the ocean tossing— in its overwhelm, you wrote, you were nothing and so free. They take you away duck diving and swimming, ashes held to one friend’s heart, petals from another man’s garden garland your final return. incense an ember reed, releasing a curl in seaweed and rocks
Wrack line elegy by Marthine Satris published in Ballast
Yiyun Li on grief and memory
Mothering is done always from an uncrossable distance
Why I hold onto things, they are where the memories live
Quote from Yiyun Li
Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
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Pink magnolias during an Oakland sunset
mysterious underground Oakland seen through a sidewalk grate
No animals allowed in a food facility
Jade plant in Berkeley
Surviva
My favorite passage
Beware philosophy groups
Nikki Giovanni The New Book: Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things
Pen and ink drawing of triskele design on a bronze brooch found in Ireland
Any Winehouse Back to Black
A Deer is Not Always a Deer by Kelle Groom in Antiphony
Children and their 21st century cameras
Fleetwood Mac and Fleetwood Mac-Up the Back-Up
Paul Simon, still crazy after all these years album cover, channeling 2026 in tight jeans, a tucked in shirt, and a snazzy hat
Two deer laying down next to a storm-torn playhouse
We will rebuild
Blewit
A castle for Christmas, a terrible, terrible movie starring the wonderful Cary Elwes and Brooke Shields, why hit every predictable trope and are not funny.
An image of a tent revival in Oakland in the 19th century
LARB quarterly
The cover of Recenter Press Poetry Journal issue 6
Beaver observations in Florida
Inaturalist map of beaver observations in Asia.
Coppersmith barbet description
Brugmansia in the rainforest in Karnataka
Children's books for sale at Champaca Books in Bangalore
Tag saying made in India
Black Friday sale sign at Gas at the Mall of Asia in Bangalore, with a very strapped male model showing all you men how to wear jeans.
Chanterelles and endive
Stáróg Staring, gawking woman. Brazen girl.
Due to the national penny shortage, we ask that all cash purchases be exact change
Marthine Satris, Jacques J. Rancourt, and Laura Figa ready in the Tritone poetry series Friday November 14 at Tamarack in Oakland
Baby ferns
Hello Stranger by Manuel Betancourt