Mostly Poetry and Plants

Alligator plant! #🐊🌿 #kalanchoedaigremontiana #allaprima #oilpainting #wetonwet #limitedpalette #plantsofinstagram #bowlgarden #11x14 https://www.instagram.com/billythemerrell/p/CZP68suPjKB/?utm_medium=tumblr

I’m am so honored and so proud of you, @parkersreads !!! I know how much work went into this, and I continue to be so moved and so grateful for the attention you’ve paid to my poetry. For those of you unfamiliar with his scholarship, Paravee Argasnoum is a fourth-year English Language and Literature Major at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. He has dedicated countless hours over multiple years dissecting and deeply examining my novel-in-poems, Vanilla—an endeavor he has posted about many times over the course of his research. He is without exception the most outspoken fan of Vanilla and a tireless student/warrior for queer representation in literature. At long last, he has published his insights, and I couldn’t be more moved by what he found in those poems. 😭😭😭 You can read Paravee’s paper, “Examining the Portrayals of Queer Identities through the Poetic Forms in Billy Merrell’s Vanilla” at http://onearts.net/proceedings.html. Thank you, truly, @parkersreads —It’s safe to say you know this book better than anyone, probably even me! 🤣 I very much look forward to following your career as you continue your advocacy. You have a fan in me! #queeracademic #asexuality #queeridentity #homosexuality #nonbinary #versenovel #billymerrell #researchpaper #superfan #imnotcryingyourecrying #youremyhero #thaiwriter #forevergrateful https://www.instagram.com/p/CTPsQLQLTdn/?utm_medium=tumblr

Okok Last of the cape cod paintings… & it’s meeee #selfportrait #oilpainting #greenshirt #baldhead #greeneyes #paintersofinstagram #gaysofinstagram #beardedmen #artistsoninstagram #nosmile but #smilinginside (at Wellfleet, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSLTkiGLMV8/?utm_medium=tumblr

Creepin pt 2 📚 (at Prospect Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/COitbQrB0YK/?igshid=1our5poxjpj0t

Creepin 💅 (at Prospect Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/COimX1HBr-m/?igshid=cj2bak2pc64b

Baskets are hard to paint 🤣 #oilonacrylic #winterblooms #coleus #workinprogress 🎨 🖼 🌿 https://www.instagram.com/p/CMSO0iiBCV4/?igshid=8mfa71a7ch7k

I decided to try #perceptualpainting while in #wellfleet #capecod It’s also my first time starting with an #acrylic #grisaille #underpainting #2020resolution #goingstrong (at Wellfleet, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDg6bBhB75L/?igshid=17xo5v798dfnn

Handstanding across Paris! @kristenkemp #poirier #handstand #inversion #yogalove #france🇫🇷 Next stop, Berlin! #newyearsresolution2019 (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzkRQPPhOXX/?igshid=1gzmunp28nqeq

TGIFerns, y’all. 💚 Hope everyone feels as nurtured and warm as a newly unfurled fern baby. 🌿 #terrariumlife #ferns #sprout #plantnerd #sunshine #houseplants #goldenhour #haveagoodweekend https://www.instagram.com/p/Btos4khHbL3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kt4zelmu08do

Behold! My first #closedterrarium, feat. #ferns and #mosses (& mama #panda) Did you know there are more than 12,000 species of moss? That a surgeon invented terrariums by accident when fern spores made their way into one of his specimen bottles? #trivia Message me for updates. I know you’re gonna want to see these baby ferns spring up! #terrarium #hobby #plantnerd #pandasofinstagram (at Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtPB3zWn2_L/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j65d3r7f7heu

I accept this #10yearchallenge and raise you one #johngreen @johngreenwritesbooks #2009vs2019 #ya #kidlit #yaauthorsofinstagram (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs6PjCFHGaV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17gr5d62jnih6

Lunch Poets 4ever! #gaypoets #bookhandoff #apresburger (at Midtown) https://www.instagram.com/p/BstQuF5Hwa7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7quyw6zxfo6k

Caution: Fra-GEE-lay... #leglamp #christmascookies #thechristmasstory #gingerbread #moldedcookies #royalicing #homebaker #frageelay #madewithlove (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrbHCrVHbdL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19vic98kbnlnl

If you want to destroy my sweater #weezer #marbling #wetonwettechnique #royalicing #christmascookies (at Sleepy Hollow, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrJI9MwHuO8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jsj4zfwhf3h5

Spent Saturday at Storm King with David and company! Enjoyed doing #yoga among the #sculpture, especially #wheelpose under #buddha ! Highly #recommend the Indicators exhibit, on display through #november11, which engages with #climatechange (Pictured here: Meg Webster’s “Growing Under Solar Panels,” Mary Mattingly’s Floridian tropical food forest, Maya Lin’s “Secret Life of Grasses,” and my #funnyface in front of Jenny Kendler’s “Birds Watching”) Oh, and Elaine Cameron-Weir’s #globeofdeath was particularly meditative in the #drizzle #stormking #artscenter #sculpturegarden #zhanghuan #markdisuvero #megwebster #marymattingly #tropicalfoodforest #mayalin #grasses #jennykendler #birdswatching #elainecameronweir #toothlessgrin #saturdaysintheparkwithdavid (at Storm King Art Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnjuWmrlEFW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rymhlgnhyetd

Less than a week until I get this #castoff, but couldn’t stop #liloleme from #hikingtheappalachiantrail (if only for 3.5 hours) #catselbow #harrimanstatepark #unstoppable #horribleform (at Harriman State Park)

#bookface because there is one.