Jack Bedell
@jackbedell.bsky.social
Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-19. Books from Mercer University Press. Work included in Best Microfiction and Best Spiritual Lit. EIC: @louisianalit.bsky.social
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The Flight 2 poetry selection comes from @jackbedell.bsky.social who weaves highway hypnosis in his poem “sillage”
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December 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The Flight 2 poetry selection comes from @jackbedell.bsky.social who weaves highway hypnosis in his poem “sillage”
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Very stoked to have a new poem up at @somewordslit.bsky.social today. It’s such a cool project. I hope y’all give it a look. Big thanks to editor @juscarts.com for giving this one a home! somewords.boards.net/thread/32/ja...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Very stoked to have a new poem up at @somewordslit.bsky.social today. It’s such a cool project. I hope y’all give it a look. Big thanks to editor @juscarts.com for giving this one a home! somewords.boards.net/thread/32/ja...
Very stoked to have a new poem up at @somewordslit.bsky.social today. It’s such a cool project. I hope y’all give it a look. Big thanks to editor @juscarts.com for giving this one a home! https://somewords.boards.net/thread/32/jack-bedell
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Very stoked to have a new poem up at @somewordslit.bsky.social today. It’s such a cool project. I hope y’all give it a look. Big thanks to editor @juscarts.com for giving this one a home! https://somewords.boards.net/thread/32/jack-bedell
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Y’all, I was absolutely thrilled when @stonecirclereview.bsky.social accepted my poem “heart as double-paned window”—a golden shovel based on a Joni Mitchell song—and I’m elated they nominated it for a Pushcart. Check out this great journal, which rn features “Bidden” by @jackbedell.bsky.social
"heart as double-paned window" by Lynne Jensen Lampe (@ljensenlampe.bsky.social)
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heart as double-paned window
by Lynne Jensen Lampe
golden shovel after joni mitchell’s down to you
words can’t paint everything
this side of the glass :: blood comes
with its own poetry &
each line leaks iron & loneliness :: ...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Y’all, I was absolutely thrilled when @stonecirclereview.bsky.social accepted my poem “heart as double-paned window”—a golden shovel based on a Joni Mitchell song—and I’m elated they nominated it for a Pushcart. Check out this great journal, which rn features “Bidden” by @jackbedell.bsky.social
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Congratulations and best of luck to @ritamookerjee.bsky.social @jackbedell.bsky.social and @mehpoeting.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Congratulations and best of luck to @ritamookerjee.bsky.social @jackbedell.bsky.social and @mehpoeting.bsky.social
Really stoked to have a poem in the 2nd issue of @flightlit.bsky.social ! It’s such a cool journal run by excellent folks! Please check it out if you have a second. https://flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-poetry/
Jack Bedell- Poetry
Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. His latest collection is Ghost Forest (...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Really stoked to have a poem in the 2nd issue of @flightlit.bsky.social ! It’s such a cool journal run by excellent folks! Please check it out if you have a second. https://flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-poetry/
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"The stench/seeps through the city,/all the way to the river"
"Sillage" from @jackbedell.bsky.social asking us to consider what we would rather ignore, in Flight 2
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"Sillage" from @jackbedell.bsky.social asking us to consider what we would rather ignore, in Flight 2
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December 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"The stench/seeps through the city,/all the way to the river"
"Sillage" from @jackbedell.bsky.social asking us to consider what we would rather ignore, in Flight 2
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"Sillage" from @jackbedell.bsky.social asking us to consider what we would rather ignore, in Flight 2
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This is a great poem - captures the passion of Baushch. Marvelous writing, Jack.👏👏👏
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is a great poem - captures the passion of Baushch. Marvelous writing, Jack.👏👏👏
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“… Morning / fog, chemical haze, interstate, / and cars stacked on top / each other, as oblivious to it all, / to what part of it is already / inside us, as can be.”
@jackbedell.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-...
@jackbedell.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-...
Jack Bedell- Poetry
Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. His latest collection is Ghost Forest (...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“… Morning / fog, chemical haze, interstate, / and cars stacked on top / each other, as oblivious to it all, / to what part of it is already / inside us, as can be.”
@jackbedell.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-...
@jackbedell.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-...
Really excited to have a poem up at @flightlit.bsky.social today!
Flight 2 has landed! Spend your Sunday drinking in new work from @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @beansbaker5.bsky.social @carmalynnpark.bsky.social and @jackbedell.bsky.social
Read our editor's note here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-2-2/
And the issue here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-2/
Read our editor's note here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-2-2/
And the issue here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-2/
Flight 2 Now Live!
Editor's Intro
Flight 2 is landing in times that are, we are constantly reminded, unprecedented. We are surrounded–in the news, on social media–by reminders that things are bad, and unlikely to get b...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Really excited to have a poem up at @flightlit.bsky.social today!
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TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!!
Just look at that lineup!!!!
Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
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Just look at that lineup!!!!
Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
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November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!!
Just look at that lineup!!!!
Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
Just look at that lineup!!!!
Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org
It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!
Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
I love Pina Bausch’s muscle and dirt choreography and I love @stonecirclereview.bsky.social so I’m hugely grateful to @leepottspoet.bsky.social for giving this one the perfect home! 🙏🏻 https://stonecirclereview.com/bidden/
Bidden
by Jack B. Bedell
after Pina Bausch’s Das Frühlingsopfer
The dancers pull themselves through space,
across a stage covered in loose soil,
primitive, fecund, pagan, virginal, decomposed.
They fight...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I love Pina Bausch’s muscle and dirt choreography and I love @stonecirclereview.bsky.social so I’m hugely grateful to @leepottspoet.bsky.social for giving this one the perfect home! 🙏🏻 https://stonecirclereview.com/bidden/
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POEM 288: "Bidden " by Jack B. Bedell (@jackbedell.bsky.social)
"... every
leap, every fall, every spin and twist
that much closer to a death they are
bidden to face so spring can bloom
along the horizon line"
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"... every
leap, every fall, every spin and twist
that much closer to a death they are
bidden to face so spring can bloom
along the horizon line"
stonecirclereview.com/bidden/
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
November 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
POEM 288: "Bidden " by Jack B. Bedell (@jackbedell.bsky.social)
"... every
leap, every fall, every spin and twist
that much closer to a death they are
bidden to face so spring can bloom
along the horizon line"
stonecirclereview.com/bidden/
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
"... every
leap, every fall, every spin and twist
that much closer to a death they are
bidden to face so spring can bloom
along the horizon line"
stonecirclereview.com/bidden/
#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
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“And frozen in that one memory is the inevitable flow of air into space, the carnage I’ve lived since.”
@jackbedell.bsky.social for @hexliterary.bsky.social
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Swamp Thing Sits on the Bank Examining His Life Through the Lens of Bernoulli’s Principle by Jack Bedell
Let’s just say the Book was correct, and it all started with a single breath. Inspiration—>Expiration. All the seconds in between these two. A breath into the void. A breath before saying “I love you....
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November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
“And frozen in that one memory is the inevitable flow of air into space, the carnage I’ve lived since.”
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@jackbedell.bsky.social for @hexliterary.bsky.social
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Tough to match the joy of an author’s copies mail day! So cool to hold months of work in your hand like that! Huge thanks to Jeff and Tobi Alfier at Blue Horse Press for bringing this one into the world. 🥊 (Please check it out at Amazon.com if you can.)
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Tough to match the joy of an author’s copies mail day! So cool to hold months of work in your hand like that! Huge thanks to Jeff and Tobi Alfier at Blue Horse Press for bringing this one into the world. 🥊 (Please check it out at Amazon.com if you can.)
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"He had no doubt the mountain range
along the horizon held a message"
"Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation" by @jackbedell.bsky.social
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along the horizon held a message"
"Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation" by @jackbedell.bsky.social
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Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation
by Jack B. Bedell
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November 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"He had no doubt the mountain range
along the horizon held a message"
"Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation" by @jackbedell.bsky.social
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along the horizon held a message"
"Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation" by @jackbedell.bsky.social
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Very grateful to have a new poem from my Ruskin series up at @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social this morning. Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation https://psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/03/ruskin-and-the-struggle-of-revelation/
Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation
by Jack B. Bedell
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November 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Very grateful to have a new poem from my Ruskin series up at @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social this morning. Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation https://psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/03/ruskin-and-the-struggle-of-revelation/
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For John Sullivan’s "The Book of Rougarou: Sorcery and Songs of the Wolf":
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Dr. Jack Bedell, Poet Laureate of Louisiana (2017-2019), aptly describes the story as:
"All energy and muscle, drama, and blunt force."
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Dr. Jack Bedell, Poet Laureate of Louisiana (2017-2019), aptly describes the story as:
"All energy and muscle, drama, and blunt force."
@jackbedell.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
For John Sullivan’s "The Book of Rougarou: Sorcery and Songs of the Wolf":
ogre.red/press/books/...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPM93JDJ
Dr. Jack Bedell, Poet Laureate of Louisiana (2017-2019), aptly describes the story as:
"All energy and muscle, drama, and blunt force."
@jackbedell.bsky.social
ogre.red/press/books/...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPM93JDJ
Dr. Jack Bedell, Poet Laureate of Louisiana (2017-2019), aptly describes the story as:
"All energy and muscle, drama, and blunt force."
@jackbedell.bsky.social
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Looking for a fast-paced online workshop? I'm bringing back Flash Royale where you choose your fighter after a weekend of writing! More info and sign up at link:
Flash Royale November Edition
If you’ve ever played video games, you may have heard the term Battle Royale. It refers to a type of game that features a large number of players who play with the goal of being the last player standi...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Looking for a fast-paced online workshop? I'm bringing back Flash Royale where you choose your fighter after a weekend of writing! More info and sign up at link:
Very lucky to have another flash CNF from my Fight Nights series in the new issue of The Spit Bucket. Huge thanks to @writersonboxing.bsky.social for including my work in their fine journal! Download the issue at https://writersonboxing.com/the-spit-bucket-a-boxing-fanzine/
The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine
The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…
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October 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Very lucky to have another flash CNF from my Fight Nights series in the new issue of The Spit Bucket. Huge thanks to @writersonboxing.bsky.social for including my work in their fine journal! Download the issue at https://writersonboxing.com/the-spit-bucket-a-boxing-fanzine/
Knocked out to have a boxing/wrestling flash CNF piece from my Fight Nights series up at The Sportscribe today. Thanks to everyone at the journal for giving this one a perfect home! https://thesportscribe.com/the-strangest-thing/
The Strangest Thing - The SportScribe
Over the decades that I’ve watched fights with my dad, then by myself and with my own kids, I’ve seen some very strange things happen in the ring. I mean, I’ve seen a parachutist land on the ring apro...
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October 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Knocked out to have a boxing/wrestling flash CNF piece from my Fight Nights series up at The Sportscribe today. Thanks to everyone at the journal for giving this one a perfect home! https://thesportscribe.com/the-strangest-thing/
Psyched to have a poem up in the new issue of @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social! Thanks to everyone at the journal for including me alongside so many ✨s! https://farewelltransmission.net/2025/10/erosion/
EROSION - Farewell Transmission
By Jack B. Bedell Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Lit...
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October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Psyched to have a poem up in the new issue of @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social! Thanks to everyone at the journal for including me alongside so many ✨s! https://farewelltransmission.net/2025/10/erosion/
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Congrats to the nominees! Love seeing @janezwart.bsky.social and @jackbedell.bsky.social on this list (psst their poems are beautiful read them!) 🌻
We are so excited to share our BEST OF THE NET @sundresspub.bsky.social Nominees!
September 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Congrats to the nominees! Love seeing @janezwart.bsky.social and @jackbedell.bsky.social on this list (psst their poems are beautiful read them!) 🌻
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Issue One of Rawhead is live!
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September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Issue One of Rawhead is live!
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