Joseph Massey is the author of At the Point (Shearsman, 2011) and Areas of Fog (Shearsman, 2009), as well as numerous chapbooks. Contact him at tongbliss(at)gmail(dot)com. Tumblr (3.0; @slantedshanty)http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/af84f6b67b089cea9fc729e129998a91/tumblr_mojbrybZoF1r8qvt5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://brightpinkmosquito.tumblr.com/post/53188776955/jonathan-williams-polaroid-of-john-ashbery" target="_blank">brightpinkmosquito</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3578110" target="_blank">Jonathan Williams Polaroid of John Ashbery</a></p> </blockquote>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53288409128http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53288409128Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:28:46 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fc755e2b4c158405e218b6a4d9c955f9/tumblr_mok9dyT80l1qghk7bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.cavetocanvas.com/post/53284202573/grace-hartigan-east-side-sunday-1956" target="_blank">cavetocanvas</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1152/East_Side_Sunday" target="_blank">Grace Hartigan</a>, <em>East Side Sunday</em>, 1956</p> </blockquote>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53287040081http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53287040081Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:07:39 -0400<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://goingattractions.tumblr.com/post/53285170287/for-sale" target="_blank">goingattractions</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://bravemenpress.com/books.html" target="_blank">2 new books available from BRAVE MEN PRESS - THIS ALWAYS HAPPENS by Emily Hunt &amp; AFFECTIONATELY WE CALL THIS THE HOUSE by Sara Renee Marshall</a></p> </blockquote>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53285450626http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53285450626Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:42:39 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/84c12e66f1880418f8b6cde948c0beae/tumblr_mojuljftVD1qced37o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/post/53209627066/manuscript-page-of-an-unpublished-allen-ginsberg" target="_blank">theparisreview</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/back-issues/37" target="_blank">Manuscript page</a> of an unpublished Allen Ginsberg poem.</p> </blockquote>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53267699171http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53267699171Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:50:27 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/99bfd01045bc1e6f6724de550d7ecb0d/tumblr_mol0be67nz1r5n5hso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/james-schuyler#about" target="_blank"><em>James Schuyler</em></a></p>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53266615758http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53266615758Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:14:02 -0400poetryJames Schuyler<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/80e72259e88162a9c826330a9997b77c/tumblr_mokahvo1Z21r5n5hso1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.versedaily.org/2013/aboutannececeliaholmes.shtml" target="_blank"><em>Anne Cecelia Holmes</em></a></p>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53234544858http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53234544858Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:56:19 -0400poetryAnne Cecelia Holmes<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/921c91354528c889cf6538a2ba0a1432/tumblr_moifvnlaTK1r5n5hso1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.andymister.com/" target="_blank">Andy Mister</a>, “It’s All Right”</p> <p>2012, light box, 48 x 30 x 3 in.</p>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53151974721http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53151974721Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:57:23 -0400Andy MisterArt<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/cd563119181c4713b51bb3466706d869/tumblr_mohvc65vzT1r5n5hso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53120392985http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/53120392985Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:33:42 -0400Father's Day<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2fe371d15b39e9b467402120277f4496/tumblr_moe9kpdhni1r5n5hso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=w7OfzuyOKT0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>John Wieners</em></a></p>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52958991069http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52958991069Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:50:49 -0400poetryJohn Wieners<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/130158bad5ccdfda07e656495f6878cd/tumblr_modzdtpaCf1qz92xho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://donshare.tumblr.com/post/52946723524/the-room-in-which-john-keats-died-in-rome" target="_blank">donshare</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The room in which John Keats died in Rome.</p> </blockquote>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52953607627http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52953607627Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:21:06 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0aee2709387975410a03298fb31633a7/tumblr_mocp3wYcBJ1r5n5hso1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0beeefb77998658f41f8316304e10c45/tumblr_mocp3wYcBJ1r5n5hso2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3ec556afbabf49f91ec805f6c9184598/tumblr_mocp3wYcBJ1r5n5hso3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52895644534http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52895644534Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:31:08 -0400poetrylunesrain<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8e99edd1bed32f0dd3ec9823271d35d2/tumblr_mob4bmKqnw1qghk7bo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.cavetocanvas.com/post/52889073865/john-ruskin-full-face-of-cobra-1871" target="_blank">cavetocanvas</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Full_Face_of_Cobra_Ruskin.jpg" target="_blank">John Ruskin</a>, <em>Full Face of Cobra</em>, 1871</p> </blockquote>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52890428825http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52890428825Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:19:49 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/791380f8714331dcb0a6a0b8b04f9b0d/tumblr_mob3mtb4VK1qghk7bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.cavetocanvas.com/post/52886138801/john-ruskin-the-head-of-a-common-golden-eagle" target="_blank">cavetocanvas</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://ruskin.ashmolean.org/collection/8990/9165/9195/all/per_page/25/offset/0/sort_by/cabinets/object/14068" target="_blank">John Ruskin</a>, <span><em>The Head of a common Golden Eagle, from Life</em>, 1870</span></p> </blockquote>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52886341174http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52886341174Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:23:19 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/18286e4aa247424efc6e50233115bd28/tumblr_mo8vtwsZOr1r5n5hso1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=w7OfzuyOKT0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>John Wieners</em></a></p>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52729801954http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52729801954Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:05:56 -0400poetryJohn Wieners“I say the possibility now exists to make such poetry as can stand the world on its human feet. I will speak my piece. Let those who can and who care do likewise.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/Word_for_word.html?id=ZQ8kAAAAMAAJ" target="_blank">Cid Corman</a></em>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52680154247http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52680154247Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:15:45 -0400poetryCid Corman“I am just water and earth transformed and combined, I’m just perception under restraint, I have no individuality in the matter, my True Mind of Intuition of the Universe is my True Mind…”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/Some_of_the_Dharma.html?id=668KAAAAYAAJ" target="_blank">Jack Kerouac</a></em>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52664927334http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52664927334Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:47:25 -0400Jack Kerouac<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3a9ff8931c9db4702594a9077f30408f/tumblr_mo72j6KJ4j1r5n5hso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>An erasure made from page 208 of John Muir’s <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=JsAUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><em>The Mountains of California</em></a>. </p>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52650994564http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52650994564Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:35:30 -0400poetryerasureCalifornia<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c196d1687286cdcf6d84fc8d2d0e1486/tumblr_mo1fjmb27F1r5n5hso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>According to <a href="http://pressboardpress.com/contributors/j-l/joseph-massey/" target="_blank">PressBoardPress</a>, who snapped the above photo, over 30 copies of <a href="http://pressboardpress.com/contributors/j-l/joseph-massey/" target="_blank"><em>Thaw Compass</em></a> have been ordered since yesterday. </p> <p>Only 100 were made. The run won’t last long.</p>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52398394047http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52398394047Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:15:00 -0400poetrysmall press publishingchapbooks<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e581e0d85d70dcb32f41d61120ffbb23/tumblr_mo2zrnIJ3d1r5n5hso1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/cdbe636989f05b26696dcd02a64dadc8/tumblr_mo2zrnIJ3d1r5n5hso2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>John Ashbery’s “The Skaters”: <a href="http://www.text-works.org/Texts/Ashbery/JA-Sk_data/JA-Sk_EdN.html" target="_blank">digital edition and archive</a>.</p>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52466212901http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52466212901Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:45:23 -0400John AshberyThe Skaterspoetry<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b4534be948d3927c3d64ad1d517ab798/tumblr_mo22okAamo1r5n5hso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gerard-manley-hopkins" target="_blank">Gerard Manley Hopkins</a></em></p>http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52433720502http://slantedshanty.tumblr.com/post/52433720502Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:50:44 -0400poetryGerard Manley Hopkins