Monte Merrick

@montemerrick

You know me. Just a regular old poet and wildlife care provider And by the way, trans rights are human rights. @bird-ally-x-hwcc.bsky.social

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Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Apr 29

Mailboxes make strange bedfellows @bencollins.bsky.social

Picture shows Uline catalogue and latest edition of satirical newspaper, The Onion

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Apr 29

#NowDigging #vinyl #AvaMendoza

Album cover of Ava Mendoza’s new solo record The Circular Train- featuring a photograph of Mendoza playing her Nova guitar

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Apr 27

The problem with fusion.

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Apr 26

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Apr 24

@fetterman.senate.gov this why people think you’re a cowardly piece of shit.

Pic of senator Fetterman with the words John Fetterman has voted against all five Senate resolutions to stop Iran war.

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Apr 9

Helium’s Pirate Prude - the first record review I had published - a small Seattle magazine called Bored (for skate punk and other board sports enthusiasts) - lost my copy along the way, very happy to replace it. In the mail today!

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Apr 4

that's terrific. now if you'll permit me to defend St Emily. This is her punctuation and capitalization of this poem. We can't let the regulators re-write her..

“Hope” is the thing with feathers
By Emily Dickinson
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Mar 7

#NowSpinning #jazz #jazzsky @bluenoterecords.bsky.social #BillFrisell

Album cover Bill Frisell- In My Dreams, with blue vinyl spinning on turntable

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Feb 15

lower manhattan two nights ago.

skyline photo of manhattan from the roof of the Ridge Hotel on E Houston.

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Feb 5

qwant says all kinds of galleries are art galleries.

screen shot of internet serach page for "kinds of galleries" every hit is a kind of art gallery.

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Jan 28

editorial cartoon depicting an ICE thug shouting "Stop Calling us Fascists" while beating a fallen women protester who had been carrying a sign saying 1st Amendment

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Jan 23

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Jan 17

The Most Absolute Abolition Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism Jesse Olsavsky (2022) this book is downright necessary in 2026

Book cover for The Most Absolute Abolition
Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism
Jesse Olsavsky (2022)
Showing a Henry Lousis Stephens drawing from 1863 of a slave triumphing over his master and finding freedom.

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Jan 2

okay.

screen shot of the word "based" from merriam-webster

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Jan 1

Came in the mail today! Thrilling! What a great way to take this bullshit year out! #musicsky #newmusic #jazzsky #vinyl

Big Money album cover by Jon Batiste, sitting on top of the turntable it's spinning on!

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Dec 17

the books I've read in 2025. A pitifully small collection, it's true. mais aussi j'apprends français depuis cette année.

11 books displayed: Survival Is a Promise by Alexis Pauline Gumbs; Black Surrealist by Steven Belletto; Last Night At The Disco by Lisa Borders; Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba; Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson; There Is a Dragon in My Bed by Sesyle Joslin and Irene Haas, Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami; Viper's Dream by Jake Lamar; Sozabiy by Ken Saro-Wiwa.

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Dec 5

Only 20 pages left to read in this deeply imagined biography of poet Audre Lorde #Poetry #PoetryIsNecessary #AudreLorde #SurvivalIsAPromise

the cover of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' biography of Audre Lorde, Survival Is A Promise, featuring a photograph of Audre Lorde in her later years.

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Nov 18

Monte Merrick@montemerrick· Sep 5

i swear to you that i nearly replied this song to your last #MotherNatureSong post. but i didnt. and now I'm chagrined. as if Emerson hadn't warned me of that very likelihood, too!