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Ben Blench
@benblench.bsky.social
Magical person. Actual published poet. Freelance copywriter.
Happy birthday to me! I just heard I got a poem accepted by a cute poetry site. Gonna be published next year :)

No it's not the one about frangipane (bsky.app/profile/benb...)
New Saturday afternoon murder poem by me:

Behold my fucking frangipane
I got the recipe from my friend Diane
Gonna bake it in my Bakewell tart
And feed it to Donald, he’s got heart
DISEASE
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Now playing: The Velvet Underground - Beginning To See The Light

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Beginning To See The Light
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November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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I do this all the time, no AI or even computer needed. It's called mind-mapping, or marginal comments, or Talmud, or Tumblr, or Post-its, or scholia, or Emily Dickinson's writing practice, or drafts, or revises, or amends, or "expand this," or highlighting, or developing an idea, or ...
November 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
All-time banger, this one
❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this.

A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
October 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
October 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Sharing this little beauty by Jo Matthews from her debut poetry collection "Sunlight Later" on Cathexis Northwest Press: www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/product-page... - ten years of love and loneliness, birth and motherhood, grief and grace, and the search for the sacred in the natural world
October 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Now playing: Alienbaby Collective - Waves II
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Waves II
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October 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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And YES! Another submission opportunity!
We've opened up for our new anthology - Poetry for Protest.
Check out the website for submission details...
roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/
Submissions
We are open for submissions for Poems for Protest and The Rough Diamond Poetry Prize We are open for poetry submissions for our next poetry anthology “Poems for Protest” Send us 1-5 poe…
roughdiamondpoetry.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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We have opened for our very first poetry prize!
Check out our website for full submission details
roughdiamondpoetry.com/the-rough-di...
October 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Now playing: Can x MF DOOM

Incredible track from the Tom Caruana Inner Space remix album.

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MF DOOM, by Tom Caruana
from the album Inner Space
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October 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
On #NationalPoetryDay I’m super happy to share that my poem “Wasting time on the internet again” has been included in the latest anthology from @rough-diamond1.bsky.social :)

Wanna read the poem? Go buy the book! It's called “100 poems for the 21st century”. and you can get it on Amazon.
100 Poems for the 21st Century
Buy 100 Poems for the 21st Century by Cosgrove, Miss Charlotte (ISBN: 9798267508162) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
www.amazon.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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EXCITING NEWS!
Our newest print anthology - 100 poems for the 21st Century - will be available from Amazon within the next 72 hours!

Thank you so much to our amazing poets who have really brought this book to life😍💎😍
September 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.
You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual
The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies
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September 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Don't miss this, poets – the new wave, AND your chance to appear in a future one. I have two years' worth of spaces to fill. Help a publisher out? 🥹😉
Fewer than two days now till wave twenty-three of @iambapoet.com arrives on screens large and small.

There's also only a week left until YOU can audition for your place in the journal in either 2026 or 2027.

Find out what you need to do, and be ready to submit next week. 🤞🏻

iambapoet.com/audition
Audition for poetry journal iamb in Sept 2025
Audition to be part of quarterly poetry journal iamb between the 20th and 27th of September 2025.
www.iambapoet.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Now playing: Wu-Tang & Jimi Hendrix - Wind Cries.

A straight up banger from the Tom Caruana Black Gold remix album.

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Wu-Tang & Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary
YouTube video by 🎶Psy-Op Music🎶
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September 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"...what the computer people don't realize..."

#dancinganimals #vonnegut #fart
September 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Obviously fuck what Twitter has become but thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for doing the TopTweetTuesday thing on Bluesky.

Here’s one of mine.

#writing #poetrycommunity #writers #poet #poetic #poetrylovers #writingcommunity
September 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Now playing: Can - Mother Sky

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Incredible track! One for the big speakers.
Mother Sky
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August 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Now playing: Lee “Scratch” Perry - White Belly Rat 🐀

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White Belly Rat
Lee "Scratch" Perry · The Best of Lee "Scratch" Perry · Song · 2016
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August 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I regret to inform you that I am back in an office, writing corporate hate poems again.
August 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Now playing: The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field

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Expert In A Dying Field
The Beths · Expert In A Dying Field (Deluxe) · Song · 2023
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August 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Micro-targeting at its finest
August 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Now playing: Aphex Twin - Milkman: open.spotify.com/track/08h9f9...
Milk Man
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July 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM