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Brett Stuckel

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Neurocabin (Spuyten Duyvil, forthcoming)
www.brettstuckel.com
Chap: https://ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-series/limber-days
Latest: Magnets and Ladders
Bethlehem, PA / he / AKA VH / ?-scar club

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Brett Stuckel @brettstuckel.com · Jun 30

Thanks for sharing this, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social!

Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Jun 29

The publications just keep coming for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY! Contributor @brettstuckel.com published a summer micro chapbook with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social. Check it out: buff.ly/XHKRxKI

Brett Stuckel

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"As disabled oracles, we continue to build and create on the knowledge and dreams of our ancestors. They left their mark on the planet as will we...Know that we are in this together collectively and that our brilliance as oracles will not be denied."
by Alice Wong in "The Last Disabled Oracle"
RIP

The Last Disabled Oracle – Assembly for the Future – BLEED 2020

In this Assembly for the Future, First Speaker Alice Wong offers a tale from 2029 in which the Last Disabled Oracle shares the wisdom of her ancestors.

2020.bleedonline.net

November 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM

Brett Stuckel

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The prior post's quote is by Ellen Samuels ehlastigirl.bsky.social in "Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time." Apologies, new post pending. Link to Samuels' essay is below. dsq-sds.org/article/id/1...

Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time

In this creative nonfiction essay, the author reflects on how 'crip time' has operated in their life, not only as a form of liberation, but also as a site of loss and alienation.

dsq-sds.org

November 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM

Brett Stuckel

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“Crip time is time travel. Disability and illness have the power to extract us from linear, progressive time…Some of us contend with the impairments of old age while still young; some of us are treated like children no matter how old we get.” Alice Wong RIP disabilityvisibilityproject.com/about/?amp

About

The Disability Visibility Project is an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture. What does the DVP do? Believes that disabled narratives matter …

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November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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Todd Dillard

@toddedillard.bsky.social

NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)

The Lampshade
At the gates of heaven they said
let's review: six snails eaten, but
no burning buildings entered
to save a child, a puppy, a mother's music box.
You splashed into a dozen rivers, but many more
you saw and never touched, never thought to touch.
And yet, you spent most of your life working
on this one species of looking.
You'd see a wooden door and make a face
from its knots and whorls. You'd find
a dead cardinal and would wonder
if the dead forget the color red first.
Mostly we were impressed with this hat
you made one night out of a lampshade.
Your toddler laughed so hard he nearly lost
his voice. After finishing his bedtime,
you turned to go, and he told you to stay.
We liked how he pulled an imaginary
string dangling out of your nose.
How you shut your eyes afterwards
and lay perfectly motionless beside him.
For years your son believed
light is something you become.
It's waiting, there, under your skin.

November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM

Brett Stuckel

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Solid lineup, see you there:

Molly Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · 2d

Very much looking forward to reading with @janehuffman.bsky.social and Patrick Donnelly virtually on 11/20, 7pm EST. Hosted by the wonderful @poetmercurio.bsky.social: bit.ly/HospiceBookL...

November 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM

Brett Stuckel

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Thankful to be published again in Magnets and Ladders.
This edition has work by Joan McNerney, @rriekki.bsky.social, and so many more. Here's "Late Reflection" from my upcoming poetry book Neurocabin:
www.magnetsandladders.org/wp/?p=278#la...

MAGNETS AND LADDERS / Fall/Winter 2025-2026 edition of Magnets and Ladders

www.magnetsandladders.org

October 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM

Brett Stuckel

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Just ordered, looking forward to it!

Georgia San Li @georgia2newengland.bsky.social · Jun 30

I am thrilled to have Periodic Elements launch in Aug '25! Special thanks to @https://ozhardwick.co.uk/,
@davekingwriter.bsky.social, @amandaquaid.bsky.social @markwunderlich.bsky.social for their support of this manuscript! gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/period...
#benningtonwritingseminars

October 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM

Brett Stuckel

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No Kings march in Bethlehem, PA, filling blocks to the horizon.

Photo of No Kings march in Bethlehem, PA. A crowd of people with costumes and signs march toward us. They fill the wide road, heading toward the downtown. The oncoming crowd stretches many blocks west to the horizon.

October 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM

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Split Lip Magazine

@splitlipthemag.bsky.social

☀️ We may have taken some time off this summer, but the Split Lip FAM never stops producing work! Check out the Summer/Early Fall Roundup of FAM accomplishments!🍁

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Sun filters through a clearing of fall foliage

October 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM

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Clutch:

Triage Cancer @triagecancer.org · Oct 16

Medicare open enrollment is here! Use our Medicare Comparison Calculator & Worksheet to find the best plan for you: https://loom.ly/BSMFlVc
#cansky #oncsky #medicare

October 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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Essential:

Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · Oct 2

Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets (ed. @rachaelboast.bsky.social) is a @poetrydayuk.bsky.social Book Group recommendation for #NationalPoetryDay this year.
forwardartsfoundation.org/national-poe...

This National Poetry Day panel shows the cover of Rachael Boast's anthology Versus Versus surrounded by a pink circle and set on a cream background.

The text reads 'Profoud, Urgent, and incredibly timely', and 'A celebration of diversity - from poetic forms to experiences'.

October 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM

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Rachael Boast

@rachaelboast.bsky.social

Coming soon, a celebration of Versus Versus, published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social, at the Southbank Centre. Visit the SBC website for in person and livestream ticket options:

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/glo...

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/glo...

August 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM

Brett Stuckel

@brettstuckel.com

Thank you to Knee Brace Press for publishing my new poem, "38, No Coffee"!
kneebracepress.com/38-no-coffee/

38, No Coffee – Knee Brace Press

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September 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM

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Split Lip Magazine

@splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Happy first day of autumn, fam! 🍁 If you're looking for a cozy fall read, we've got you covered. Our SEPTEMBER ISSUE is out now and we're obsessed with every piece. buff.ly/YsISzCT

September 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other – to disturb, even – is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.

As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to – painful as it may be at times – is the freeing agreement to disagree.

Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.

The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

September 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM

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ONE ART: a journal of poetry

@oneart.bsky.social

September 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM

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Molly Akin

@mollyakin.bsky.social

Today's the last day to preorder "Hospice" before 9/26 pub date. Preorders are 15% off the list price.

Molly Akin @mollyakin.bsky.social · Jul 23

“In these poems, the reader sojourns across a defamiliarized world, acutely described with a Dickinsonian economy and cataloged, freshly, by Akin’s fine-toothed aesthetic.” Such generous words about "Hospice" from @janehuffman.bsky.social.

Preorder: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/hosp...

Hospice by Molly Akin – NWVS #186 – Finishing Line Press

www.finishinglinepress.com

August 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM

Brett Stuckel

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Thanks for the share, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social!

Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Aug 28

"was it a Siberian gulag / inquiry table, / a year trapped on one of those / feisty islands?"

Contributor @brettstuckel.com's poem "What the Guy Sitting Next to Me at the Bar Said to the Cancerous Side of my Head" was published in @rogueagent.bsky.social! Read it here: buff.ly/pPvdJSV

Photograph of two half-empty pint glasses on a bar

August 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM

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Ghost City Press

@ghostcitypress.bsky.social

THE TENTH FALL OF MOSES by Obinna Okwesili is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

August 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM

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ONE ART: a journal of poetry

@oneart.bsky.social

ONE ART’s August 2025 Reading

We’re pleased to announce ONE ART’s August 2025 Reading!

Sunday, August 17 at 2pm Eastern

Featured Poets: Julia Caroline Knowlton, Michelle Bitting, Heather Kays, Sonia Greenfield

oneartpoetry.com/2025/07/31/o...

ONE ART’s August 2025 Reading

We’re pleased to announce ONE ART’s August 2025 Reading! >>> Tickets Available <<< (Free! Donations appreciated.) The reading will be held on Sunday, August 17 at 2pm Eastern. The…

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July 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM

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Free e:

kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Jul 30

Sealey Challenge reminder: all kith books have eBooks (kithbooks.com/digital) and all kith eBooks can be free books if that's something you need. DM or email, no reason required.

kith digital kith

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July 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM

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Jason O’Toole

@operationriskyou.bsky.social

The #SealeyChallenge starts August 1st. Reading a #poetry book every day of the month is daunting. Why not make it easier with a Ghost City Press micro #chapbook? They're free to read, pay the #poet if you wish.
#booksky #poetlaureate #indie #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetrybook