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a journal of poetry and more poetry and more poetry | editors @jacobschepers.bsky.social & Sara Judy | submissions always open | issue 3.1 out now | ballastjournal.com
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Made a pack of ballast contributors!
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Dazzling!
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Here’s Miharu Yano and “Three Paintings; Redux” to round out ballast 3.4’s contributor features

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January 24, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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Here’s Rebecca Valley and “January in the Japanese Garden” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features

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January 21, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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Here’s Misha Tentser and “Sacred Heart” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features

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January 19, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Here’s Hannah Azar Strauss and “Warner’s Lolly” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features

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December 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Here’s Kelly R. Samuels and “Re: Talking of Wallpaper” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features w/ @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social

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December 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Here’s · R L · powell and “Polaroids I didn’t take only to leave in Basque” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features

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December 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Pretty good hummingbird-eye scene #birds
an annas hummingbird with a pink gorget and you can see the skyline reflection in their eye
December 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Here’s Meg Pokrass and “The Stranger Likes Soup” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features @megpokrass.bsky.social

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December 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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"Homing" - @identitytheory.bsky.social www.identitytheory.com/homing/

"Streetcar Funeral" - @ballastjournal.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/elena-zhang

"Three Poems" - @bruisermag.com www.bruisermag.com/zhang_threep...
December 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Here’s Caroline Picker for ballast 3.4’s contributor features

Content Warning: grief, loss of child

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December 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Look for a new collection coming next year from ballast co-editor @jacobschepers.bsky.social 🫰🫰
jacobschepers.bsky.social Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · Dec 19
A rolling stone gathers no moss? Well, good thing I’ve let this project have a few years of growth to accumulate ALL THE MOSS.

My second full-length, *Ugly Ground Swell Moss*, is heading out into the world sometime soon with Carbonation Press.
December 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨

Here’s Matthew Murrey with “L” @mytwords.bsky.social

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December 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨

Here’s Pete Miller with “Ethanol”

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December 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨

Here’s Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social with “[Sometimes a hotel room]”

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Digital broadside of a poem by Jory Mickelson in ballast issue 3.4. Black text on light pink background with black curly line on right side. Text of poem reads “So maybe a hotel room's really a pastoral. It's all there right on the surface. So, pastoral with comforter & pillow. Pastoral with telephone on the nightstand. Pastoral with stranger's pubic hair on the gleaming toilet seat.”
December 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨

Here’s Andrew Maxwell with “nunc dimittis”

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December 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨

Here’s Jason Labbe with “Everybody”

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December 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨

Here’s David Koehn with “Horse in Field Under Power Lines Quatern”

Read (or listen to David read) the full poem here!

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Yellow graphic featuring poet David Koehn with a poem excerpt from “Horse in Field Under Power Lines Quatern.” The poem reads: “I’ve been told everything is in transition today / Storm cloud diminishing, optimisms, your death arrives today / Rutabagas, parsnips, deviled eggs, a gun appeared in the mirror today.” Below the text are illustrations of two deviled eggs. The bottom right corner shows “ballast 3.4” and “ballastjournal.com.”
December 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Here’s Ted Jean with “Ecclesiastes”

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Text from Ted Jean’s poem “Ecclesiastes” from ballast issue 3.4. Black text in green background with silhouette of a frog in bottom left corner. Poem’s text reads as follows: you become aware of frog song on every hand the pond you know and those you don’t, the ditches the chorus seems to celebrate
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨ @jennajaco.bsky.social

Here’s Jenna Jaco with “That Couple”

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Excerpt from Jenna Jaco’s poem “That Couple.” Black text on red background with black image of two chairs and a table in bottom left corner.
December 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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One of our editors zhuzhing up their own site 👀
jacobschepers.bsky.social Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · Dec 6
I was overdue to update and refresh my website. Added a bunch of pics and links to poems and projects and all the things. Check it out, yeah?

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Jacob Schepers | PhD and MFA
The personal website of Jacob Schepers, PhD and MFA: Poet, Poetry Editor, and Educator.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨

Here’s Vivian Ia with “[camaraderie with the inevitable]” which is also one of our Pushcart nominees this awards season!

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December 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Here’s G Timothy Gordon with “Daliesque”

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December 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Here’s J. Freeborn with “After the Wake”

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December 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Hey #ballast is a nonprofit journal, and if you support what we’re doing and would like to consider financially supporting us with a #givingtuesday donation, we hope you do. Every little bit helps us keep the lights on and the web hosting happy. Our donate link is at ballastjournal.com/donate.
December 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM