Kio Stark

@kiostark

I talk to strangers. I write stuff. Wallet full of library cards. Here to help. Books: WHEN STRANGERS MEET (about why you should), FOLLOW ME DOWN, a novel. New novel underway about theater people. Also writing some fucked up folktales.

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Kio Stark@kiostark· Jun 14

Historic use of an exclamation point in a municipal alert email.

Screenshot of a Notify NYC email “notification issued 06-13-2026 at 11:46 PM. For the first time since 1973, the Knicks have won the 2026 NBA Championships!” It goes on to describe expected traffic delays.

Kio Stark@kiostark· May 6

Lilacs in the public right of way are fair game for cutting. Right? Because I can’t just keep standing here smelling them.

View down a sidewalk with lilac flowers hanging over it.

Kio Stark@kiostark· May 4

Jackpot.

Kio Stark@kiostark· May 4

You witch, I am now stuck looking at this entire collection for the rest of the night. archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/18...

A court reporter's drawing of a defendant punching a security official. The judge is shown in the background, along with several court officers drawn as if yelling. A man is seated next to the defendant, presumably his lawyer. Caption: "Courtroom scene in which defendant Willie Bosket punches a courtroom security official. Attorney Alton Maddox also appears in sketch."

Kio Stark@kiostark· Apr 28

My cat Jane has great taste in books.

Cat on spotted rug looking at a propped-up book called “How to Die (And Other Stories) by Mike Monteiro. The book is black with a pink outline of an ice cream cone on it, and a mostly eaten cone next to that.

Kio Stark@kiostark· Feb 12

You know it’s a good day when the mail brings a brilliant book by @monteiro.bsky.social and great merch from @dansinker.com

Person wearing green sweater and green hat with orange patch that says trying, and holding a black hardcover book by Mike Monteiro called How to Die. The lettering is pink and features an ice cream cone plus the bottom of another cone that has been bitten down.

Kio Stark@kiostark· Nov 8

Good mail day, @monteiro.bsky.social and Amos Paul Kennedy yay!

IMAGE: Small letterpress sign that says GENERAL STRIKE and a zine with a skull on green background and the title in white on black DON’T BUILD THE TORMENT NEXUS

Kio Stark@kiostark· Oct 26

Good bookstore special order day, yay @mlobelart.bsky.social

Photograph of a book with a Van Gogh landscape of a town on its cover. Title “Van Gogh and the End of Nature” by Michael Lobel.

Kio Stark@kiostark· Oct 18

Little snippet of electric guitar Star Spangled Banner at the Ossining NY #nokings Several hundred folks showed up to cheer and shout together.

Kio Stark@kiostark· Jul 15

This from the brilliant @sachajudd.com (my favorite expert on fan culture) is also a great way to think about organizing. "Your onramp doesn't matter."

Kio Stark@kiostark· Jul 11

More in the series of bonkers snake related dioramas

Kio Stark@kiostark· Jul 11

Step 3

Kio Stark@kiostark· Jul 11

Step 2 of “How to get a snake bite”

Kio Stark@kiostark· Jul 11

I found the best diorama in the American Museum of Natural History. “How to get a snake bite” (3 part series)

Kio Stark@kiostark· Jun 25

Good mail day from @queenesther.bsky.social

Kio Stark@kiostark· Jun 16

Good mail day! Zine by @monteiro.bsky.social

Zine opened face down, one side in English, the other in Portuguese. Title is “My People Were In Shipping.” Historical diagram in black and white of a ship’s hold showing black bodies packed in tightly. By M Monteiro, 2021.

Kio Stark@kiostark· May 10

My @erikahall.bsky.social chicken, Bellamy, has taken up residence.

Kio Stark@kiostark· May 1

Happy May Day! Thank you, labor movement.

Black and white engraving with three panels and the words “8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, 8 hours for what we will. Left panel shows a woman doing factory work. The middle panel shows the feet of a sleeping person. The right panel shows a woman and man reading newspapers.

Kio Stark@kiostark· Apr 19

Best mail day from Chicken Town / @erikahall.bsky.social

Kio Stark@kiostark· Feb 5

Good mail day. Little zine care package from @jpb.bsky.social

Four small zines arranged on a flowered tablecloth

Kio Stark@kiostark· Jan 23

It can be daunting to find the right people in your community to share info & solidarity with, and to be findable. Here's a start: Look people in the eye. Say hello. Ask how their day is going. Hold their gaze and listen to their answer. @dansinker.com reminds us that 1:1 is what we've got.

Kio Stark@kiostark· Nov 21

Got this friendly PSA while submitting health insurance claims. Tell people not to be poor without telling them not to be poor.

Image of woman driving car with head down on wheel and eyes closed, with text reading "Consistently sleeping 6 hours will leave you as impaired as someone who hasn't slept for 24 hours. Get more rest!"

Kio Stark@kiostark· Nov 15

Great mail day @swordsjew.bsky.social and @monteiro.bsky.social !

Books. Wild Faith by Talia Lavin and Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro

Kio Stark@kiostark· Nov 15

Post a pic YOU took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

Red brick building covered in ivy with blue car in front

Kio Stark@kiostark· Aug 8

Here you go!

Pink card with words “Tim Walz hugged you when you came out and said “I love you so much””

Kio Stark@kiostark· Feb 19

This goes from devastating to devastating to devastating and is so beautiful it about stopped my heart.

Image of the cover or Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch.

Kio Stark@kiostark· Dec 22

Bizarre and unnerving secret Santa gift I received. 12yo said it was too horrible to look at long enough to retake the photo with Tom right side up.

Person draped in blanket with collage of Tom Hiddleston’s face

Kio Stark@kiostark· Sep 27

When I think about nazis, I think about Wonder Woman punching them www.hilobrow.com/2022/06/03/k...

Wonder Woman making "come at me" gesture

Kio Stark@kiostark· Sep 2

That time I made up a generative writing process, you're welcome.

Week 1: Gathering games
10 Propp classifications (requires his book) or ATU tale types (online)
30 random words from a page of Ovid
10 objects from the house or surrounding woods that seem plausibly magical.
5 memories involving feeling a slippage of time
Talk with Genya about a piece of writing we both hate. Don’t take any notes on this.
From random Jenny Erpenbeck pages, find 30 words I don’t respond to as “Kio words.”
6 fragments from remembered dreams, no peeking at notebooks
10 cruel characters from fiction off the top of my head.

Week 2: Accordion
Step 1--Write 3 or 4 brief stories using the Propp classifications and words images feelings from the gathering games.
Step 2--Choose one, expand to add 3 rogue elements. (May need a bit of gathering for these if they don’t come right to mind).

Week 3: Shuffle
Take the story, or a piece of it, and write each sentence on an index card. Shuffle them around in as random orders as possible, see what happens to sense-making. Or could shuff

Kio Stark@kiostark· Aug 5

I have a faculty library card at NYU which means they will send me books in the mail. Sometimes I forget I did it and then things show up. It’s like drunk-texting the library.