“War does not determine who is right. Only who is left.” - Bertrand Russell
‘Static Life with Lusitania’ - collage made from photograph of the parking lot at Art of Elysium, advertising art, holidays cards, and an unattributed painting of the RMS Lusitania.
“Only the mice found holes in the narrative and could make a sort of home there.” - Joanna Fuhrman, from ‘The Future Leaks into the Past’ in her collection ‘Data Mind.’ - Inadvertent collage made from a cut-out of a black duiker (Cephalophorus niger) and a classroom desktop.
“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...” - John Keats, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
Collage made from detail of ‘Sleeping woman with headscarf’ by Malcom T. Liepke, ‘View of the Magdalena River’ by Frederic Edwin Church 1857, and hands, flowers, a chair, and a ladder clipped from unattributed commercial art.
“There’s a storm coming in, clouds massing / over the Calico Hills, not yet challenging / the sky’s pure blue but preparing to. ‘I could watch / this story unspool for hours…’” - Molly Fisk, from ‘Late Morning June,’ as contained in her beautiful new collection of poems ‘Walking Wheel.’
Collage made from stock images of clouds (reversed and tinted), tumbleweed, a wagon wheel (for sale at EBay), and an unattributed painting of a woman, possibly by Gil Elvgren, 1940’s
‘Unreal City’- TS Eliot
Collage made from Woman in Yellow Dress by Max Kurzweil (1899), Crashing Wave by Eve Thompson (2015) and an original photograph of a sticker covered public sign in Downtown Los Angeles, February 2026.
💫🍃“Brendan Constantine is a poet of enormous charm, mystification, and élan.”💫🍃
A world turned on its head and interpreted by a singular, controlled voice. Keep an eye out for THE OPPOSITES GAME by Brendan Constantine out on March 3rd!
In his fifth collection of verse, THE OPPOSITES GAME, poet Brendan Constantine inspires us to revel in the abundance of life by reckoning its many astonishments (and antonyms). Through a simple yet profound framework of odes, lists, memoirs, and classroom assignments, Constantine asks us to think critically about how we define and understand each other, urging us to look beyond simplistic binaries and engage with the deeper nuances of meaning.
Preorder now in the link in bio ↗️
AMAZED AND HONORED to announce preorders are now open for my next book, ‘The Opposites Game,’ available this spring from Red Hen Press! It’s been a LONG time coming! Huge thanks to artist Anna Madruga for this stunning cover. And thank you to everyone who helped me get to this point - especially this last year. I’m the luckiest man I know! PRE-ORDER LINK IN BIO!
Untitled collage made from Rafael’s Madonna del Granduca 1505, anonymous photograph of a skull from a medical supply catalogue, a daisy, a halo, the American flag.
