# artist statement — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover artist statement. Page: Feed: --- ## [All the Question Marks Began Singing: An Interview with John Skoyles](https://pshares.org/ps/all-the-question-marks-begin-sining-an-interview-with-john-skoyles/) _2026-08-17 · Jenny Molberg · Ploughshares_ In this interview, Editor-in-Chief Jenny Molberg speaks with former Ploughshares Poetry Editor and Interim Editor-in-Chief John Skoyles about balancing editing and writing, championing emerging writers, and navigating the challenges of writing from personal experience. The conversation concludes with a reading of one of Skoyles’s poems. Since 2007, John Skoyles served as Ploughshares’ Poetry… ## The Five Solas - Christ Alone _2026-08-16 · Summit Crossing Community Church_ [Listen](https://t.subsplash.com/r/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uc3Vic3BsYXNoLmNvbS9hdWRpb3MvSzdXU1BCLzIzNjRkN2JlLWFmYmYtNGUyYi05NTFmLTFkZTJiMzFjNzVjNi9hdWRpby5tcDM.mp3?k=K7WSPB&s=3&sapid=4chkyj7) ## The Five Solas - Faith Alone _2026-08-09 · Summit Crossing Community Church_ [Listen](https://t.subsplash.com/r/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uc3Vic3BsYXNoLmNvbS9hdWRpb3MvSzdXU1BCLzM0YTJjMjVmLTVjZjQtNGI0NS05MDEzLWNkNDk0YzZlOWRlMS9hdWRpby5tcDM.mp3?k=K7WSPB&s=3&sapid=kmwthzj) ## The Five Solas - Grace Alone _2026-08-02 · Summit Crossing Community Church_ [Listen](https://t.subsplash.com/r/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uc3Vic3BsYXNoLmNvbS9hdWRpb3MvSzdXU1BCLzFkNDIyMDczLWNhNTktNGIzYy04YjhiLWRiOWZhY2ZmMzA4Ni9hdWRpby5tcDM.mp3?k=K7WSPB&s=3&sapid=nwssncy) ## Psalm 86 _2026-07-26 · Summit Crossing Community Church_ [Listen](https://t.subsplash.com/r/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uc3Vic3BsYXNoLmNvbS9hdWRpb3MvSzdXU1BCL2UyYmZiZDNhLWVlY2YtNDNlMy1iMmQ3LTg5YzdhMGVkOWQ5OC9hdWRpby5tcDM.mp3?k=K7WSPB&s=3&sapid=xsfyt62) ## Psalm 95 _2026-07-19 · Summit Crossing Community Church_ [Listen](https://t.subsplash.com/r/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uc3Vic3BsYXNoLmNvbS9hdWRpb3MvSzdXU1BCLzFkYjgxODgwLTgwZmEtNDhiMS05ZTA1LWQzNzg3NzQ5OGRmOC9hdWRpby5tcDM.mp3?k=K7WSPB&s=3&sapid=4tg3nxr) ## [A Celebration of Love Poetry Reading](https://pshares.org/ps/a-celebration-of-love-poetry-reading/) _2026-07-17 · Ploughshares Staff · Ploughshares_ On June 26, 2026, Ploughshares hosted a reading and celebration of LGBTQIA+ love poems published in the journal, featuring readings from Kelli Russell Agodon, Chen Chen, Eileen Myles, Jacques J. Rancourt, Jaz Sufi, and Mark Wunderlich. The event was co-hosted by Ploughshares’ Editor-in-chief Jenny Molberg and Senior Reader Kit Freeman. The post A Celebration of Love Poetry Reading appeared first… ## [The Archive is Queer: A Ploughshares Retrospective](https://pshares.org/ps/the-archive-is-queer-a-ploughshares-retrospective/) _2026-07-17 · Kit Freeman · Ploughshares_ The academy often advocates for historically canonical poets—poetic landmarks of sorts, like Eliot, Pound, or Milton—but queer writers have been known to build their own landmarks. In contemporary poetry, for example, Jericho Brown’s Duplex subverts traditional received forms like the pantoum and the sonnet, which, in his words, builds “a gesture towards home.” Other poets might... The post The… ## Psalm 63 _2026-07-12 · Summit Crossing Community Church_ [Listen](https://t.subsplash.com/r/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uc3Vic3BsYXNoLmNvbS9hdWRpb3MvSzdXU1BCLzhjMzJlMzhhLTcwYjQtNDEyNy1hYmEyLWUyMmFhNzdlN2NhNi9hdWRpby5tcDM.mp3?k=K7WSPB&s=3&sapid=jsz6mkp) ## Psalm 141 _2026-07-05 · Summit Crossing Community Church_ [Listen](https://t.subsplash.com/r/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uc3Vic3BsYXNoLmNvbS9hdWRpb3MvSzdXU1BCLzNmYTBkMjg3LTFiYzktNGFkYi05ZjY5LTIxMGRiNzVjZjBlMy9hdWRpby5tcDM.mp3?k=K7WSPB&s=3&sapid=mg9wkgj) ## [Brisk AI News Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/JNRaT4pMSn6n) _2026-07-05 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to audio briefings for top stories. ## Psalm 125 _2026-06-28 · Summit Crossing Community Church_ [Listen](https://t.subsplash.com/r/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uc3Vic3BsYXNoLmNvbS9hdWRpb3MvSzdXU1BCL2RhN2Q2NGEwLTZjNTUtNGExNy1hMTRiLTAwZDY2MjkwZDMwOS9hdWRpby5tcDM.mp3?k=K7WSPB&s=3&sapid=vxvkkxv) ## Psalm 78 _2026-06-21 · Summit Crossing Community Church_ [Listen](https://t.subsplash.com/r/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uc3Vic3BsYXNoLmNvbS9hdWRpb3MvSzdXU1BCLzc5NDJiZTAzLTJjYTctNDUyMi04NGIyLWI3ODRlM2M4MzY0YS9hdWRpby5tcDM.mp3?k=K7WSPB&s=3&sapid=qm36jxk) ## [“The Context of Us”: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado](https://pshares.org/ps/the-context-of-us-an-interview-with-carmen-maria-machado/) _2026-06-15 · Hayley Pisciotti · Ploughshares_ As readers, we pride ourselves on curating our personal libraries because they visually represent the collection of genres, forms, and authors we admire most. My bookshelf is a disorganized rainbow of dark-spined British literature anthologies, vibrant blue-green-white contemporary paperbacks, and yellowing copies of my favorites, including Little Women, The Secret History, and The Handmaid’s… ## Psalm 68 _2026-06-14 · Summit Crossing Community Church_ [Listen](https://t.subsplash.com/r/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uc3Vic3BsYXNoLmNvbS9hdWRpb3MvSzdXU1BCLzI2MDk4ZWJhLTg2NTgtNDNmMC1iMzNlLTc3ZWY5YTJhN2FjOC9hdWRpby5tcDM.mp3?k=K7WSPB&s=3&sapid=ndky6m4) ## [Spring 2026 Issue Launch Party](https://pshares.org/ps/spring-2026-issue-launch-party/) _2026-05-14 · Ploughshares Staff · Ploughshares_ In April 2026, we hosted Gabrielle Bates, Jane Huffman, Jenna Le, Karen Winn, and Annie Finch for a reading at Trident Booksellers in celebration of our Spring 2026 launch. Filming and editing by Jonny Ulasien. The post Spring 2026 Issue Launch Party appeared first on Ploughshares . ## [Blurrist](https://wendywei2000.substack.com/p/blurrist) _2026-04-26 · Wendy Wei · Wendy’s Substack_ Against Clarity ## [Recovery as Resistance: Rolando Cárdenas, Shreela Ray, and Peter Huchel](https://pshares.org/ps/recovery-as-resistance/) _2026-04-15 · Martin Rock · Ploughshares_ Ploughshares is excited to announce our new partnership with The Unsung Masters Series. The Unsung Masters Series, supported by The University of Houston, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel, and Pleiades, publishes and distributes one book a year that showcases an important writer who has been unjustly neglected and/or whose work is currently out of print. Each... The post Recovery as Resistance: Rolando… ## [Good Mourning](https://bifocalbunny.substack.com/p/good-mourning) _2026-04-06 · Katelynn Bennett · bifocal bunny_ what Horace and Jonathan Lear can teach us about loss ## [Alice Hoffman on Reading and Writing about St. Teresa of Ávila](https://pshares.org/ps/alice-hoffman-on-reading-and-writing-about-st-teresa/) _2026-03-25 · Alice Hoffman · Ploughshares_ I went to the Divinity School because I have no faith. I didn’t lose it. I never had it. I don’t believe in politics or in religion, in God or angels. I don’t believe in families or in friendship. I don’t believe in unconditional love. I don’t believe in love at all. That is, as... The post Alice Hoffman on Reading and Writing about St. Teresa of Ávila appeared first on Ploughshares . ## [Losing My Maps](https://pshares.org/ps/ps-losing-my-maps/) _2026-03-15 · Bonnie Friedman · Ploughshares_ “You are too nice,” Kathryn Harrison once said to me. Or perhaps what she said was, “You are very nice!” but to me it sounded like the same thing. I admired and admire Kathryn. She is an astonishing writer and an astonishing soul. Several years ago, she guest-edited an issue of Ploughshares, and she devoted it... The post Losing My Maps appeared first on Ploughshares . ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/m1fa4h0jf950) _2026-03-15 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [Artist Statement](https://www.threadings.io/artist-statement/) _2026-02-21 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Thread (n.) Fine cord of a fibrous material; used in needlework a thin seam, vein, or fissure filled with ore \[natural rock or sediment containing one or more valuable minerals\] something continuous or drawn out a method of styling hair indigenous to the African continent Thread (v.) intransitive verb: ## [The Uses of Insanity (an Overture)](https://www.threadings.io/the-uses-of-insanity-an-overture/) _2026-02-16 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Peace Britney Spears, I’m writing this to you because I really don’t want to talk about what happened, but I can tell you what happened. You would get it. Like: you would not "get it" as in you know exactly how I feel. You ## [Poets’ Journals and the Essayists Who Wrote Them](https://pshares.org/ps/poets-journals-and-the-essayists-who-wrote-them/) _2026-02-14 · Ploughshares Staff · Ploughshares_ For our inaugural PS post, please enjoy this conversation with Kathryn Nuernberger, Heidi Czerwiec, and Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh about the evolution of lyric essays as seen in the writing of Maxine Kumin, Annie Dillard, and Toi Derricotte, originally published in Ploughshares and linked below. The post Poets’ Journals and the Essayists Who Wrote Them appeared first on Ploughshares . ## [Re: Being Detained in the United States](https://www.threadings.io/detained/) _2025-12-29 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ SYLLABUS: The AI workspace that works for you. | Notion A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace. TRANSCRIPT BELOW: \[00:08.6\] This reminds me a lot of ## [Transparent Summer (trigger warning: SA)](https://wendywei2000.substack.com/p/transparent-summer-trigger-warning) _2025-11-21 · Wendy Wei · Wendy’s Substack_ After The Spring of My Life by Kobayashi Issa ## [Does Playing Games Make Us All Liars?](https://bifocalbunny.substack.com/p/does-playing-games-make-us-all-liars) _2025-11-17 · Katelynn Bennett · bifocal bunny_ why following Game Law does not violate duty to Moral Law ## [Aristotle for Dogs](https://bifocalbunny.substack.com/p/aristotle-for-dogs) _2025-11-03 · Katelynn Bennett · bifocal bunny_ a canine introduction to the Nicomachean Ethics ## [Eight\* dead in seven weeks.](https://www.threadings.io/eight-dead-in-seven-weeks/) _2025-10-31 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ \*This essay discusses the nature of active, acute grief in my life by the title, “Seven dead in seven weeks.” At the time of writing, I did not know one of my grandmothers had passed away; she died on the sixth of October and I only found out ## [A Philosopher’s Witch Trial](https://bifocalbunny.substack.com/p/a-philosophers-witch-trial) _2025-10-20 · Katelynn Bennett · bifocal bunny_ Apuleius’ Apologia as a defense against my own “witch" allegations ## [Ancient Animal Advocacy](https://bifocalbunny.substack.com/p/ancient-animal-advocacy) _2025-10-06 · Katelynn Bennett · bifocal bunny_ a look at Porphyry's De Abstinentia… and a Latin elegiac couplet for shrimp ## [Generate Viral Hot Takes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/44iwtN3x9Eau) _2025-10-06 · **Sponsored**_ Get platform-optimized hot takes and rebuttals to spark debate and engagement ## [Imagining Philosophy as a Woman](https://bifocalbunny.substack.com/p/imagining-philosophy-as-a-woman) _2025-09-22 · Katelynn Bennett · bifocal bunny_ a brief exploration of Lady Philosophy’s womanhood in Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy ## [Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, I.M2](https://bifocalbunny.substack.com/p/boethius-consolation-of-philosophy) _2025-09-08 · Katelynn Bennett · bifocal bunny_ my own metrical translation of Book I. Metrum 2 ## [A letter on Metacognition \[ft. a social experiment\]](https://www.threadings.io/a-letter-on-metacognition-ft-a-social-experiment/) _2025-08-27 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Central inquiry: how do we use online apparatuses to organize? from 2023; when a child called Lela made their Black History Month trifold on me. Also: the day I realized the scope of the work is far, far bigger than me. METACOGNITION = THINKING ABOUT THINKING. Purpose in writing upfront: this ## [ὁ ἰχθὐς // The Ichthys](https://bifocalbunny.substack.com/p/the-ichthys) _2025-08-25 · Katelynn Bennett · bifocal bunny_ an artist’s statement on animal metaphors, language, and Christology ## [The strip club did indeed make me bonkers!](https://www.threadings.io/the-strip-club-did-indeed-make-me-bonkers/) _2025-08-13 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Peace. I’m here to talk about money. This essay originally appeared in Former Stripper, Part-Time Visionary, a fundraiser text circulated in order to build a library in the author’s homeplace. The essay has been narrated in full below, edited for an internet-based ## [Post Trolley Problem](https://bifocalbunny.substack.com/p/post-trolley-problem) _2025-08-11 · Katelynn Bennett · bifocal bunny_ alternatively titled, "a poem likely to annoy Utilitarians and Kantians alike" ## [On Practice by Mao, Blueprints, and the limits of the conscious mind](https://www.threadings.io/on-practice-by-mao-blueprints-and-the-limits-of-the-conscious-mind/) _2025-08-08 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Peace. In the (crucial) process of review, I’ve seen the evolution of my thought. It galvanized me!! Building systems is not just hard work, it is where instant gratification goes to die. I’ve tasked myself in 2025 with building internal and external systems that are capable ## [Catullus LXXXV.](https://bifocalbunny.substack.com/p/catullus-lxxxv) _2025-07-28 · Katelynn Bennett · bifocal bunny_ a modernized, animated translation of one of the many love poems written by Catullus to his lover, Lesbia ## [大学の生活](https://wendywei2000.substack.com/p/d60) _2025-07-26 · Wendy Wei · Wendy’s Substack_ Posting my emo Japanese essay here, which was an assignment for my undergrad Japanese class. ## [Successful Projects Inevitably Result in Increased Dangers.](https://www.threadings.io/the-financial-transparency-meeting-but-i-yell-instead-of-show-graphs/) _2025-07-16 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Listen to this essay right here! I have not been enraged enough to weep since I started working for free. JULY 2023 JULY 2025 Let it be known that I wrote this little tidbit after I recorded the second video (circulating on Tuesday, July 15 2025) because I already knew ## [RESCHEDULE: Financial Transparency Meetings](https://www.threadings.io/financial-transparency-meetings-today/) _2025-07-14 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Peace all— Yeah, my laptop is busted. All the local files I was working on to analyze data for this meeting, I cannot currently see! I am bummed about this. My sincerest apologies. I was hoping to get things fixed over the weekend but it’s looking like ## [the Symposium retold](https://bifocalbunny.substack.com/p/the-symposium-retold) _2025-07-14 · Katelynn Bennett · bifocal bunny_ a poem for my friend, ro chanchall ## [Project Feasibility: on Becoming an “algorithmically elected official."](https://www.threadings.io/aqotp-yes-i-do-mean-algorithmically-elected-official/) _2025-07-12 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ I (usually) write about what steals my sleep. Someone on TikTok asked me in a comment: How do you decide what to write about, especially in the United States when something happens every day? And my answer is: I write about what keeps me up at night. I try ## [les faux amis du traducteur](https://bifocalbunny.substack.com/p/les-faux-amis-du-traducteur) _2025-06-30 · Katelynn Bennett · bifocal bunny_ an artist's statement ## [The Making of a Cyberspace Gift Economy](https://www.threadings.io/the-ismatu-gwendolyn-experiment-risk-love-conduction/) _2025-06-23 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ introductions I have never told this story from beginning to… middle (because here I am, in the thick of things). What a failing that is. Recently, I’ve understood that many of you all thought of my existence as a radical public scholar to be… inevitable? ## [Horace, Odes II.20](https://bifocalbunny.substack.com/p/horace-odes-ii20) _2025-06-16 · Katelynn Bennett · bifocal bunny_ the epilogue to Book 2 of Horace's Odes ## [when am I compelled to speak? (ft. Madleen flotilla, Booker, and necessary reorientation)](https://www.threadings.io/when-am-i-compelled-to-speak-ft-madleen-flotilla-booker-and-necessary-reorientation/) _2025-06-11 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ I generally do not take requests. I haven’t felt compelled to write down my thoughts in a very long time. That’s because I was writing (finishing, editing, living amongst, drowning in) this book called small prophecies . It’s out now to humble beginnings& ## [Catullus XLI.](https://bifocalbunny.substack.com/p/catullus-xli) _2025-06-02 · Katelynn Bennett · bifocal bunny_ a poem from the original slut-shamer ## [THE WAR IS NOT A METAPHOR: The Capitalist, the Defector, the Traitor, and the Revolutionary](https://www.threadings.io/the-war-is-not-a-metaphor-the-capitalist-the-defector-the-traitor-and-the-revolutionary/) _2025-05-18 · ismatu gwendolyn · Threadings._ Disclaimer: This was my first live essay, meaning that I taught it with a diagram I drew out for a live audience. If you are one that typically reads or listen to the essays, I would actually recommend giving this one a watch! While screenshots are included throughout the text, ## [再别2024——活在多伦多](https://wendywei2000.substack.com/p/2024) _2025-04-21 · Wendy Wei · Wendy’s Substack_ 我这篇文章发出的时候，2024年其实已经过了四个月了，也就是三分之一的时光。真的没有人能比我更拖延了(笑