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Jacob Schepers
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Poet, Co-Editor of @ballastjournal.bsky.social

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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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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

The Franco Institute invites the community to join us March 3 at Stockroom East for an Evening with N. K. Jemisin.

This is a free but ticketed event with limited seating availability. Visit our event page for our Eventbrite link.

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January 20, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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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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year-end review

because it’s vital to share how art and creativity not only happen in spite of difficulties and dumpster fires but as a refusal to accept the dumpster fires

Grateful to the editors, collaborators, contributors, journal neighbors, press mates, & readers:

Community > gloating
December 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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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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Judging your own poetry is like holding your hand to your own forehead to check for a fever.
December 29, 2025 at 1:25 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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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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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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✨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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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 19, 2025 at 9:08 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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To Be, Continued by Vernon Frazer out now from C22 Press @c22press.bsky.social! Vernon Frazer’s latest foray into the liminal space between image and language, playing between text and pure image to create a poetics all his own. Read for free. Print coming!

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To Be, Continued by Vernon Frazer out now!
We here at C22 are proud to bring to you To Be, Continued by Vernon Frazer, our latest full length release. To Be, Continued is Vernon Frazer’s latest foray into the liminal space between ima…
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December 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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I'm reading tomorrow!
5-6:45 PM ET Saturday Dec 13th

A fantastic lineup that includes @monostich.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social and @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social @barlowadams.bsky.social and @dmurphy.bsky.social

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December 13, 2025 2:00-3:45 pst/4:00-5:45 cst/5:00-6:45 est Register for Zoom link here Featuring: Jared Beloff Barlow Adams Dan Murphy upfromsumdirt Gregory Crosby J-T Kelly Hosted by: David...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:21 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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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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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 12:47 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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✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨

Here’s G Timothy Gordon with “Daliesque”

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December 4, 2025 at 11:20 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