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mk is ok
@stonespiral.bsky.social
🏰 poet, artist
🕯️'to light a candle' poetry workshop
🚪brentwood' - chapbook
🖊️ writing in: eunoia review, anti heroin chic, broken antler



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MIRACLE - @karenmsteiger.bsky.social
PERMISSION - Melinda Farrar
PROLIX - Meesh Montoya
REGENT - @stonespiral.bsky.social
SIMULTANEOUS - @norbaikin.bsky.social
SIPHON - @gendeguzman.bsky.social SYMPHONIC - Patrick Dorsey
TIDE - @krislindbeck.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
it's movie november. the month where we go to the movies a lot
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
an artist i really admire floated the idea of collaborating to me and i basically panicked and said "that sounds cool!"
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
secured tickets for Frankenstein!!!
October 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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sneak peek at “cobble” — a new micro publication launching at @smallpublishers.bsky.social next weekend. very much a rock paper scissors situation. thank you @essencepress.bsky.social for cutting these paper stone poèmes. 2nd image is a cobble of coral fossil from the River Ribble in North Yorkshire
October 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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still looking for reviewers/interviewers/other-forms-of-coverage for my debut poetry collection THE HUNGERING YEARS 💜🍃 please reach out (summerfarah.com) ‼️
Summer Farah
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September 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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still looking for reviewers/interviewers/other-forms-of-coverage for my debut poetry collection THE HUNGERING YEARS 💜🍃 please reach out (summerfarah.com) ‼️
Summer Farah
summerfarah.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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OH MY GOD—best gift to myself!!! I totally forgot I had preordered Donika Kelly’s new book from @prairielights.com ❤️❤️❤️

Amazing surprise. Hurrah, hurrah for me!!!
October 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"To Light a Candle" is an asynchronous poetry workshop by mail.

registration (in thread) for the eighth session is open 10/12 thru 10/26!

Optional donation of $5-10

🕯️
October 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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previously, on jay's bluesky:

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dear father, safe at present by Jay Besemer - Steel Incisors
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August 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
'to light a candle' is a poetry workshop by mail 💌 the EIGHTH session is opening tomorrow! registration closes October 26 (maybe earlier if it fills up quickly.)

this session includes one of my favorite poets ever (can you guess who?)

plz share <3
October 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Hey hey hey!

We're accepting chapbook submissions during the entire month of October.

Submissions are always FEE-FREE so polish up those manuscripts and send them in!

www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....
a woman is singing into a microphone with the words let 's go written below her
Alt: Tori Amos singing into a microphone with the words let 's go written below her
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October 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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"Ya know what? FUCK YOU."

*unMuds your Kip*
October 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
October 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
set a boundary with a coworker please clap
October 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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I once read a fairytale pedagogy advising against writing about wolves & candles, because they were cliché & overdone. I then proceeded to write a long sequence about a wolf full of candles.

Here are 3 from that sequence, thanks to @havehadhavehad 🐺🕯️

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amazing new triptych from Benjamin Niespodziany today!!

The wolf full of old candles is melting in the parking lot. Parked at the waxing wolf, the melting wolf sees a permanent time of fire. Last night was the weather. Tonight's still unsure."

https://www.havehashad.com/jytay
Candlewolf by Benjamin Niespodziany
[1] Two area residents found a wolf full of old candles while on a walk yesterday evening. Authorities are trying to uncover the culprit, be it monster or nomad or youth. The mauled wolf is being&hellip;
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October 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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amazing new triptych from Benjamin Niespodziany today!!

The wolf full of old candles is melting in the parking lot. Parked at the waxing wolf, the melting wolf sees a permanent time of fire. Last night was the weather. Tonight's still unsure."

https://www.havehashad.com/jytay
Candlewolf by Benjamin Niespodziany
[1] Two area residents found a wolf full of old candles while on a walk yesterday evening. Authorities are trying to uncover the culprit, be it monster or nomad or youth. The mauled wolf is being&hellip;
www.havehashad.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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really if we were all about our business we'd every one of us be over on neocities being cool

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October 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
ok i finished the first draft of the session 8 workshop :) time for proofreading!
October 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
called out for talking too much about Leila Chatti today..
September 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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"But it’s hard. I am not a spokesperson. Every trauma is different, but we must realize, also, there are commonalities. You are never in [total] solitude." The incomprable Neige Sinno breaks down her process today in the @thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...
Writer and translator Neige Sinno on understanding the power of your creative work – The Creative Independent
Writer and translator Neige Sinno discusses the narrative form as an act of resistance, unexpected turns in a creative career, and believing in what you've built
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August 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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If you dream about work they should have to pay you
September 17, 2025 at 4:59 AM
i got a poem accepted for something really cool :)
September 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM