Marly Youmans 🌿☦️✍️
@marlyyoumans
Glow-in-the-dark gryphon by night, bard by day. Seren of the Wildwood,Charis in the World of Wonders,Book of the Red King,Camellia Orphanage,Thaliad etc. Hild
Unusual modes of shaping a formal series of poems: David Russell Mosley @elflandletters, The Sun That Moves the Sun and Other Stars (@resourcepubs), journey through The Divine Comedy; Jakob Ziguras, Venetian Mirrors (@AngelicoPress), poems partnered w/"canal" reflections.
from the inimitable Jane Greer-- Things are ending, or have ended, or will end. The pearls are strung with care, it is quite clear. There is no nothingness—but she can almost, some days, picture the world without her in it. newversereview.com/2-1-jane-greer Eternal memory.
I am deeply saddened by the news of Jane’s death. I never met her, but she was a boisterous, provocative, funny online penpal, and, most importantly, a poet of rare lyric grace. It was an honor to publish the poem below earlier this summer.
Some lit journals pay nothing. Today, appreciatively, I received a modest check from @utulsa for this poem, which appeared in @NimrodJournal last month. Editor-in-chief @BorisDralyuk and his excellent young staff put out a first-class journal that respects the folks it publishes.
Jane's book Love Like a Conflagration is my favorite collection by a contemporary Catholic poet. If you are not familiar with her, listen to my first interview with her in 2020: catholicculture.org/commentary/ep-…
I am very sad to report that the wonderful Catholic poet Jane Greer @NorthDakotaJane has died. Please keep her soul, her family and her husband Jim in your prayers.
I am devastated to hear this. Jane was just about my favourite person on this site, a lovely woman inside and out. Her death is a loss to her family, the world of poetry, and anyone who enjoyed sharp wit. Going to buy her books to remember her by. Requiem aeternam, Mrs. Greer.
I am very sad to report that the wonderful Catholic poet Jane Greer @NorthDakotaJane has died. Please keep her soul, her family and her husband Jim in your prayers.
I am very sad to report that the wonderful Catholic poet Jane Greer @NorthDakotaJane has died. Please keep her soul, her family and her husband Jim in your prayers.
Very sad to hear about the death of the wonderful poet Jane Greer. Here was one of my favorite poems of hers:
I am very sad to report that the wonderful Catholic poet Jane Greer @NorthDakotaJane has died. Please keep her soul, her family and her husband Jim in your prayers.
"Child and Ancient Mask" and "A Painter of the Eleventh Century" are up at Mezzo Cammin--small things but mine own to give away as I like.... Here you go: mezzocammin.com/iambic.php?vol…
from Bibi Hayati (19thC, translator ?) Before there was a trace of this world of men, I carried the memory of a lock of your hair, A stray end gathered within me, though unknown. Inside that invisible realm
Off to hang out with Philllis Wheatley's peaceful "sons of vegetation," the trees, who have mastered the dream of perfect expression.
BREAKING: Reports that the death of Druze and Christians in Syria has risen to 2,000. For nearly a week, Islamists have raped, beheaded, tortured and slaughtered thousands—not a single word from the media.
The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch has voiced deep concern over the ongoing violence in Suwayda, Syria, describing the situation as “a disgrace to humanity” #orthodox_times orthodoxtimes.com/patriarchate-o…
"a war of annihilation... The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports over 594 deaths in recent days, with civilians, including women and children, among the victims of extrajudicial killings and abuses." greekcitytimes.com/2025/07/20/gre…
It is a sometimes sad, sometime joyful truth that human beings come to be what they are in great part as a result of the things upon which their minds are set.
The genocide of Christians and Druze seems not to interest the West. It is physically sickening
BREAKING NEWS: Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in Suwayda, Syria, Issues Urgent Plea Amid Massacres of Druze and Christians greekcitytimes.com/2025/07/20/gre…
My heart is just breaking.
Khaled Mazhar, head of the Evangelical Good Shepherd Church in Sweida, was executed along with 12 family members including children, his brother, and elderly parents. A total of 20 people were murdered. They had lived peacefully in Sweida for years. May their memory be blessed.
“The Lark Ascending,” from @DAustinRoses, a rose named after a song named after a poem named after a bird. Glorious!
This should be worth hearing. Clive Hicks-Jenkins on visual storytelling, in conversation with Alistair Laurence at The Chapel, Abergavenny, 18 September. artshopandgallery.co.uk/events/convers…
I post on makers and making, especially poets and novelists and visual artists. But some makers, responsible for honest news--#journalists and #media mavens and #government officials--neglect what must be known. Do your job right! #Syria #Nigeria #India ntd.com/christians-und…
Costume designed by Gabriella Pescucci for Michelle Pfeiffer in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)