Stephen Jackson
@fortyoddcrows.bsky.social
🌱 | Pacific NW: Seattle, Portland, Eugene | Working-class poet, photographer | Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose, Prairie Fire, Impossible Archetype, WA State Queer Poetry Anthology | the no-man (Ghost City Press) | Website: https://stephen-jackson.com/
Pinned
So honored and excited to be a part of this excellent issue of Prairie Fire. www.prairiefire.ca/current-issue/
"The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without."
—Diane Seuss
—Diane Seuss
November 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
"The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without."
—Diane Seuss
—Diane Seuss
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Katie Wilson is up 91 votes in the Seattle Mayor's race as Wilson-mentum continues to pay dividends.
Wilson-mentum is real.
The gap in the Seattle Mayor's race has narrowed to just 4,300 votes, or 1.88%.
The gap in the Seattle Mayor's race has narrowed to just 4,300 votes, or 1.88%.
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Katie Wilson is up 91 votes in the Seattle Mayor's race as Wilson-mentum continues to pay dividends.
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If you could use your faith in humanity restored, if you could use taking some sheer delight in the human spirit, this is for you: www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/25/d...
Full Tilt: Dervla Murphy’s Fierce and Poetic Account of Traversing the World on Two Wheels in the 1960s
A wonder-smitten reminder “that for all the horrible chaos of the contemporary political scene this world is full of kindness.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
If you could use your faith in humanity restored, if you could use taking some sheer delight in the human spirit, this is for you: www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/25/d...
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The perfect brushstrokes of this poem by Elizabeth Willis.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The perfect brushstrokes of this poem by Elizabeth Willis.
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Reposted by Stephen Jackson
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My first post is up! The Constitutional Crisis Americans Forgot: What Trump is doing, has already been done. And not in some foreign country, but right here in the United States. Read and subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/gohini/p...
The Constitutional Crisis Americans Forgot
What Trump is doing, has already been done. And not in some foreign country, but right here in the United States.
open.substack.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My first post is up! The Constitutional Crisis Americans Forgot: What Trump is doing, has already been done. And not in some foreign country, but right here in the United States. Read and subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/gohini/p...
A gorgeous day in the PNW.
November 3, 2025 at 3:51 AM
A gorgeous day in the PNW.
We got this, Katie!
October 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We got this, Katie!
I love this idea!
"Each contributor to Public School Poetry agrees to write “a five-paragraph essay” on another contributor’s poems that we randomly and anonymously assign them. Poems and essays appear together in each issue."
www.publicschoolpoetry.com/about
"Each contributor to Public School Poetry agrees to write “a five-paragraph essay” on another contributor’s poems that we randomly and anonymously assign them. Poems and essays appear together in each issue."
www.publicschoolpoetry.com/about
ABOUT | Public School Poetry
www.publicschoolpoetry.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I love this idea!
"Each contributor to Public School Poetry agrees to write “a five-paragraph essay” on another contributor’s poems that we randomly and anonymously assign them. Poems and essays appear together in each issue."
www.publicschoolpoetry.com/about
"Each contributor to Public School Poetry agrees to write “a five-paragraph essay” on another contributor’s poems that we randomly and anonymously assign them. Poems and essays appear together in each issue."
www.publicschoolpoetry.com/about
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Philip Guston, Halloween Party, 1942
October 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Philip Guston, Halloween Party, 1942
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[RIP Swedish actor Björn Andrésen, 70, more recently seen in MIDSOMMAR (2019), famous for Visconti’s DEATH IN VENICE (1971), subject of the 2021 documentary THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD.]
October 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
[RIP Swedish actor Björn Andrésen, 70, more recently seen in MIDSOMMAR (2019), famous for Visconti’s DEATH IN VENICE (1971), subject of the 2021 documentary THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD.]
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See you next time, Bellingham.
October 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
See you next time, Bellingham.
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Marc Chagall
Ballet Daphnis et
Chloe by Ravel 1875-1937
Ballet Daphnis et
Chloe by Ravel 1875-1937
October 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Marc Chagall
Ballet Daphnis et
Chloe by Ravel 1875-1937
Ballet Daphnis et
Chloe by Ravel 1875-1937
Getting ready to leave Bellingham after our annual Autumn getaway. What a lovely place it is.
October 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Getting ready to leave Bellingham after our annual Autumn getaway. What a lovely place it is.
Are you happy now, RFK! The Pillsbury Doughboy has measles!
October 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Are you happy now, RFK! The Pillsbury Doughboy has measles!
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun”
A little Keats to get you through the afternoon.
A little Keats to get you through the afternoon.
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun”
A little Keats to get you through the afternoon.
A little Keats to get you through the afternoon.
Pennsylvania ave SE | Poetry Database | Split This Rock
www.splitthisrock.org
October 20, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Excited to share my poem Faint Drum, which received a BOTN nomination this week from The Arkansas International:
November 14, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Excited to share my poem Faint Drum, which received a BOTN nomination this week from The Arkansas International:
"My skull / felt empty which meant I lacked the words / to describe such emptiness." I can't stop reading this poem in Geist by Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social. It gets deeper and deeper every time!
www.geist.com/poetry/the-g...
www.geist.com/poetry/the-g...
The Gravedigger - Geist.com
www.geist.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"My skull / felt empty which meant I lacked the words / to describe such emptiness." I can't stop reading this poem in Geist by Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social. It gets deeper and deeper every time!
www.geist.com/poetry/the-g...
www.geist.com/poetry/the-g...
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.” ―Ludwig Wittgenstein
October 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.” ―Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Exiled among the living, I have made myself a soul to fit my dwelling.”
― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers
― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers
October 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“Exiled among the living, I have made myself a soul to fit my dwelling.”
― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers
― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers
Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Please spend a little time with these stunning images by Matika Wilbur of Project 562, accompanied by the stories of the people portrayed. www.project562.com/11397500-gal...
562 Gallery - Project 562
562 Gallery on Project 562
www.project562.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Please spend a little time with these stunning images by Matika Wilbur of Project 562, accompanied by the stories of the people portrayed. www.project562.com/11397500-gal...