Mathias Svalina. linktr.ee/MathiasSvalinahttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3llhbseedik2fThe Dream Delivery Service crew (pictured here) will begin delivering dreams in Philadelphia Tuesday, 4/1, delivering until the 14th. If you’d like to subscribe to dreams for you or a friend, by bike in philly or by mail in not-philly, break on through to the bio for more info.28 Mar 2025 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3llhbseedik2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3ll5dfdvjjc2nEn route the slow & oceany way to Philadelphia to deliver dreams to the people. Click through to subscribe to dream delivery for you or a friend. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Mar 2025 17:57 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll5dfdvjjc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3lkqtrmr45c25A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt 1. Plant words in the abandoned lot. 2. Among broken plates & rotting drywall. 3. Watch the words stretch to the light. 4. Listen to the wind & write what it says. 5. Hold your blank page out to the falling rain. 6. Write until the words unearth the poem.19 Mar 2025 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkqtrmr45c25https://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3lkbmhvkbsk27Dream Delivery Service is super duper excited to be delivering dreams in Philadelphia in April: 4/1-4/14. DDS is a DIY art&poetry-project, writing & delivering daily dreams to subscribers, to your door by bike in the city it’s in, by mail in the cities it’s not in.13 Mar 2025 17:25 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkbmhvkbsk27https://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3lk26ixgyu222I am hosting a reading at Little Wish Toys this Friday. If you’re in Richmond & you like words &/or toys, please come out! @littlewishtoys.bsky.social10 Mar 2025 18:26 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk26ixgyu222https://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3ljnhpfwhos22A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt05 Mar 2025 17:06 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljnhpfwhos22https://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3lj6g6q3omc2uThe first batch of Fifty Dream Beasts is headed out in the mail tomorrow. Still time to subscribe to a very beasty March from the Dream Delivery Service. More info & subscribe-y stuff here: https://www.mathiassvalina.com/work/dream-beastes27 Feb 2025 17:29 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj6g6q3omc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3likjuu3byk2zWant to receive some beasts in the mail? Or to send some beasts to a friend? Dream Delivery Service is delivery Dream Beasts through March. More info here: https://www.mathiassvalina.com/work/dream-beastes19 Feb 2025 19:42 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3likjuu3byk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3li3mmx26mk2kA Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt 1. Write a poem in the form of a leaf 2. Use only what a leaf needs for words, punctuation, syntax, sunlight, despair, etc 3. Nourish the shape of the leaf, after the leaf has fallen, & rot has had its way, eaten & shatted & formed anew & eaten & rotted again13 Feb 2025 21:21 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3li3mmx26mk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3ldylxun6zk2zI’ll be leading a six-week online writing workshop in Jan & Feb. let me know if you’re interested. I’ll cap the workshop at eight participants.23 Dec 2024 18:51 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldylxun6zk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3lcl6qgumok26If you’d like to send a gift of dreams for a coming holiday, you can do that. The recipient will receive a one-month bundle of 31dreams, a unique set in 31 pink envelopes. Sliding scale of $30-75.05 Dec 2024 17:24 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcl6qgumok26https://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3lcfx6cxm3c2zHello Richmond, VA folks! I’ll be leading the last of four Dream History Tours in Brookland Park on Saturday. (Or the last for now…) If you’d like to join, bundle up & meet at North Central Park / 3301 Fendall. Come learn about some histories that could’ve never happened!03 Dec 2024 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcfx6cxm3c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3kocab75uwx2cMy new book, Thank You Terror, is now available from Big Lucks. I started this book in 2013 in Denver & finished it in 2023 in Richmond. It is as close as I have been able to get in my life to prayer. https://www.biglucks.com/store/thank-you-terror22 Mar 2024 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kocab75uwx2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3kno7tal3js2gSeattle friends! I’m doing three things at Hugo House April 4th & 5th: 4/4, 7pm: a reading, followed by conversation w/ the amazing & brilliant Serena Chopra 4/5, 11am: a workshop on dream-logic & writing the self 4/5, 1:30pm: a Dream History tour of Capitol Hill, starts at HH Hope to see you!14 Mar 2024 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kno7tal3js2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3kmgcgx2yqx2pMade these two zines & they’re heading out to folks supporting Dream Delivery Service on Patreon. Immense & deep thanks to them! Also made some extras. If you’d like one, send me your mailing address. Sliding scale: 0-10 Pypal: MathiasSvalina Vnmo: Mathias-Svalina27 Feb 2024 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kmgcgx2yqx2phttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3kmcytrc4bh2lA Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt26 Feb 2024 12:03 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kmcytrc4bh2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3klazhvv2dt2sA Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt Write a poem nine words long & live in the poem until you are nine words, each word one you long.12 Feb 2024 23:44 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3klazhvv2dt2shttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3ki6bsvwkf32vA Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt04 Jan 2024 17:20 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ki6bsvwkf32vhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3khowcfqgo62fTrends of rhabdomancy29 Dec 2023 14:44 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3khowcfqgo62fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3khowbntrvv25Trends of writhe29 Dec 2023 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3khowbntrvv25https://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3kgytrjp4hv24My Let’s Read Gerard Manley Hopkins Together workshop starts in two weeks. Join with a group of passionate & smart weirdos in a non-academic setting to discuss the ecstatic & visionary poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins for six weeks. https://www.mathiassvalina.com/work/circuit-j4ft420 Dec 2023 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kgytrjp4hv24https://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3kgbw5d2n7k2b11 Dec 2023 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kgbw5d2n7k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3kg2yzvaqyt2jA Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt Plant some nothing in an empty grave which you dug yourself & let your own unique nothing grow into walls so permeable they can only be poems, could only understand how a poem understands.08 Dec 2023 23:14 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kg2yzvaqyt2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3kfh3hkbclm2mMary Ruefle01 Dec 2023 01:04 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kfh3hkbclm2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3kf7pgvvrfq2tLarry Levis28 Nov 2023 02:41 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kf7pgvvrfq2thttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3kf6x4fglfr2iI’m running two reading workshops this winter. A one-day workshop to discuss & puzzle out John Donne’s “A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day,” & a two-month workshop to discuss the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.27 Nov 2023 19:25 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kf6x4fglfr2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3kezp5vqdpe2mA Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt 1. Write a hole through your own heart. 2. Slip a thread through the hole. 3. The poem is the way you wear your heart. 4. The poem is the fact that you can 5. wear your own heart like a pendant 6. until the thread breaks.25 Nov 2023 17:20 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kezp5vqdpe2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathiassvalina.bsky.social/post/3kdmjdtctsj2dStarting November 15, Dream Delivery Service will be in New Orleans, delivering dreams, nightmares, & dreams about Tony Barker, mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. I’ll be delivering dreams by bike in New Orleans, by mail elsewhere. Linkisinthebio!07 Nov 2023 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:idnsbitk5kbsephvgaadidw2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kdmjdtctsj2d