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Jeff Cove
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A poet and writer from Saint Paul, Minnesota.

https://www.jeffcove.com/
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January 3, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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December 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
we are one, my love
we fuse our bodies and souls
it's the lichen way

I think if lichen could write poetry, this would be it.

(Note: A lichen is not one plant. It is a fungus and an alga living together in a relationship so close they liter... https://jeffcove.com/2025/12/13/we-are-one-my-love.html
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we are one, my love we fuse our bodies and souls it's the lichen way I think if lichen could write poetry, this would be it. (Note: A lichen is not one plant. It is a fungus and an alga living together in a relationship so close they literally cannot survive apart. It is the ultimate co-dependency.) #poetry
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December 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
My poems “Horse Thoughts” and “At The Eldritch Horror Zoo” are getting published in the December 2025 issue of Defenestration magazine!

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December 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Yesterday my poem “Sleeping On Your Side” was published in Issue 5 of Pictura Journal.

I have an interview with them as well coming out soon.

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December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is what it looks like to be actively trying to get something published.

Late nights. Weekends.
A dozen versions of the same book.

I love that you can see the file sizes change across submissions as I add and remove things.

It’s th... https://jeffcove.com/2025/12/04/this-is-what-it-looks.html
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I drove 10 hours over the last 2 days and had some time to listen to Billy Collins’ Masterclass on writing poetry.

It was good.

There were things I disagreed with: a title as a doormat, the goal of poetry is to “make readers fall in lo... https://jeffcove.com/2025/11/26/i-drove-hours-over-the.html
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Over the weekend this post became something longer.

I’m pretty happy with it. It’s one of the handful of things I’ve written that did not start off as haiku/senryu and when I read it, I can tell. It’s strange though because I’m skep... https://jeffcove.com/2025/11/24/over-the-weekend-this-post.html
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
How many times did I say the book was done?

Like, a thousand.

sound of keyboard clacking

Make that a thousand and one.
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
One of the greatest things is just going to dinner with someone and being fully present.

Joking. Talking.

There is darkness in my poetry, but it’s in my pocket. I pull it out when I need to have a chat with it, but it’s not a hat.

That’s about as much metaphor as I have in me right now.
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Closing out an amazing four-day weekend. Ridiculously productive. The feeling, all around and within, is simply gratitude.

There is no fickle muse. No angels of inspiration.

There is, however, rare alignment in the machinery of... https://jeffcove.com/2025/11/17/closing-out-an-amazing-fourday.html
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Hey I got a scholarship.

insert Borat very nice meme here
November 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
One further thing I want to talk about as it pertains to the Poetry Playground project I mentioned earlier.

Many, well… actually most… of my ideas for interesting transformations came from reading thousands (really) of Reddit haiku. T... https://jeffcove.com/2025/11/10/one-further-thing-i-want.html
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