I am not an illustrator but my poetry is very visual & tied to visual art. Here’s a poem/illustration inspired by ancient Iranian vases (~4000 BC, more info in alt text) about nature & our forgetfulness. I am a YA author & poet rep’d by Michelle Witte. #kidlitartpostcard #imageandverse

chasing kitchen-gold: oil & pepper on water two bowls in the sink #stunday #ImageAndVerse #haiku

Cats and tigers share 96% of their genes and I never had trouble believing it with Boreas … #caturday

Seen today in Paris on the Simone de Beauvoir bridge in the 13th arrondissement. The mother duck was very determined and knew exactly where she was going (the bridge leads to a park). The resourcefulness of animals always amazes me (and gives me hope too)... #stunday

Sorry for ruining the cuteness of #caturday but how is it that, when the world is literally burning, some, instead of extinguishing the flames, use cats (????) to spread fires? Blackberry is deeply concerned and telling everyone to respect water (and cats, and nature) and stay hydrated…

Sometimes the cat weighs less than 6 pounds and still takes more space than any other human in the household …

a butterfly landed in your hair & did not want to leave. I said it was your lotus-coconut shampoo you said it felt like a fragile miracle. #smallpoemsunday (thanks @tomsnarsky.bsky.social !) with the picture of the butterfly that inspired it. #stunday #imageandverse

Here's a slightly weird (maybe not weird enough?) poem for #WeirdPoemWednesday about being small (thanks @tomsnarsky.bsky.social !)

We found this baby bird in the garden today (there was a lot of wind and we couldn’t find the nest) so we’ve put him in a cardboard box and have been feeding him with a syringe… We think it’s a goldfinch (and hope we’ll manage to keep him alive) #birdoftheday

Despite her love of travel — she took the boat again this week — Blackberry also loves to stay in bed all day long to nap. During her morning naps (whose rules are very different from afternoon ones), she often disappears under the covers — and often scares me because I can’t find her… #caturday

I’m (clearly) not an illustrator but my poetry is very visual (& visualizing poems often gives me inspiration), so here’s a tree/poem about falling down. #kidlitartpostcard I’m a YA author and poet, rep’d by Michelle Witte. #ImageandVerse

After a week of literally living in an oven (turning on the fan felt like putting on the convection mode), it finally cooled down in Paris yesterday night with the storms. I managed to get some lightning bolts with the Eiffel Tower (perk of a hellish studio under the roofs) #STUNday #photography

Happy #caturday! Blackberry the multimodal cat (thanks @actfortransit.bsky.social for calling her that) loves the train, because she can chill on the seats and eat whenever she’s hungry. (She also really prefers low-carbon modes of transportation when it’s possible)

For health reasons Blackberry cannot stay alone for more than 6 hours so she goes wherever we go! As an island dweller, she often takes the boat (also the plane, car, bus, train, metro)… She’s a great traveling companion (napped on my knees most of the way in the ferry today)! #caturday

Not quite sure what it means about humanity that The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest literary works written ~ 2000BC, is literally about a tyrannical king who abuses men and women for fun and whose main goals in life are to destroy the world's forests and become immortal...

I usually have a lot of ideas while on walks/jogs or in bed before falling asleep, and those four are a great writing/troublemaking crew!!

It's usually quite fun to be on an island with wild goats...but it's much less fun when the dogs decide to chase after the goats and I have to chase after the dogs chasing after the goats. (In the second blurry picture, the dogs are the two dots ahead of me and the goats are near the rocks)

I'm not an illustrator (as you can obviously see), but my poetry is very visual & plays with space & shape, so I thought I'd post a little drawing of how I pictured a poem. #KidLitArtPostcard I'm a YA author and poet, rep'd by Michelle Witte.

What better way to work on a (dead) manuscript than with a tiny & very live monster? #KidlitZombieWeek Literary sacrifice/murder is often my way of reviving stories (as in literally chopping off the head & the limbs of the story to get back to its heart)

Did you know that there already were petroleum wars in the 18th century BC in Mesopotamia? You can learn all about it (and a lot of other things) in the exhibit Primordial Water and its associated trail, on which I've been working for 3 years, and that just opened in the Louvre Museum!