Jeffrey Hecker
@heckheck03.bsky.social
Poet, Teen Writers Fellowship Poetry Teacher (The Muse Writers Center), Poetry Staff Reader for Quarterly West
Extended metaphor
October 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Extended metaphor
War ravaged Portland? Quickly, seek cover in The Knot Store!!
September 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
War ravaged Portland? Quickly, seek cover in The Knot Store!!
Pretty sure I watched every first season episode of Cagney & Lacey while trying to find things to talk to my Kindergarten classmates about.
July 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Pretty sure I watched every first season episode of Cagney & Lacey while trying to find things to talk to my Kindergarten classmates about.
These two are also to blame for all 85% of our current woes if not more.
July 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
These two are also to blame for all 85% of our current woes if not more.
Fanny Howe for the win. RIP.
July 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Fanny Howe for the win. RIP.
Not going to lie, this cover makes me want to light a Camel, but I quit twenty years ago when I started a fitness plan for apparently no reason.
July 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Not going to lie, this cover makes me want to light a Camel, but I quit twenty years ago when I started a fitness plan for apparently no reason.
The only thing I know for certain anymore is for the last 158 years all identities should have been searching to find every piece of the exact outfit Baudelaire was working in this photo and wearing it on second dates and that lack of style awareness is a large reason humans are in trouble.
June 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The only thing I know for certain anymore is for the last 158 years all identities should have been searching to find every piece of the exact outfit Baudelaire was working in this photo and wearing it on second dates and that lack of style awareness is a large reason humans are in trouble.
New work in Exacting Clam. Thanks so much to the editors @exactingclam.bsky.social
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-17...
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-17...
June 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
New work in Exacting Clam. Thanks so much to the editors @exactingclam.bsky.social
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-17...
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-17...
Happy to align some new work with writers taking trampoline leaps in the latest Sprung Formal. Such a rad mag. Shout out to @jordanstempleman.bsky.social for leading a team of tacticians in Kansas City.
May 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy to align some new work with writers taking trampoline leaps in the latest Sprung Formal. Such a rad mag. Shout out to @jordanstempleman.bsky.social for leading a team of tacticians in Kansas City.
I think I have found both the problem and the solution though I am pretty sure this chart has been the same since the beginning of time.
May 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I think I have found both the problem and the solution though I am pretty sure this chart has been the same since the beginning of time.
Thank you @littlemissbleah.bsky.social for curating such a gorgeous anthology of Surrealists getting their freak on. Honored to be in this hot tub with Epsom salt.
May 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Thank you @littlemissbleah.bsky.social for curating such a gorgeous anthology of Surrealists getting their freak on. Honored to be in this hot tub with Epsom salt.
Poet Steven Leyva graced Norfolk VA's Prince Books with a performance with legend Tim Seibles last evening. Both provided the entire audience personal psychic readings free of charge.
April 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Poet Steven Leyva graced Norfolk VA's Prince Books with a performance with legend Tim Seibles last evening. Both provided the entire audience personal psychic readings free of charge.
Not quite sure context of this (just saw it in my feed) though it seems while I try to decide how many paper towel rolls I can afford the rest of April, writers in Canada are winning giant Price is Right checks. Anyway, nice job Susan.
April 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Not quite sure context of this (just saw it in my feed) though it seems while I try to decide how many paper towel rolls I can afford the rest of April, writers in Canada are winning giant Price is Right checks. Anyway, nice job Susan.
Going to need this as a bumper sticker too this year.
March 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Going to need this as a bumper sticker too this year.
This is Palo Alto Post Office and I swear if they turn this shit into a lululemon next month, I am going to lose my ability to participate in society.
March 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is Palo Alto Post Office and I swear if they turn this shit into a lululemon next month, I am going to lose my ability to participate in society.
Thanks so much @robmclennan.bsky.social for the heads up regarding this wonderful artifact now in my possession.
February 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Thanks so much @robmclennan.bsky.social for the heads up regarding this wonderful artifact now in my possession.
Again, this person was in a 1995 Pizza Hut ad. He was in an ad for stuffed crust pizza. He was eating a pizza in a television ad.
February 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Again, this person was in a 1995 Pizza Hut ad. He was in an ad for stuffed crust pizza. He was eating a pizza in a television ad.
Found Stephen Miller's cryogenic form.
February 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Found Stephen Miller's cryogenic form.
Contributor copies of Laurel Review 57.1 arrived. I have three pieces based on the actual versions of Monopoly properties -- and pre-Luigi. The editors always create such a gorgeous artifact.
December 28, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Contributor copies of Laurel Review 57.1 arrived. I have three pieces based on the actual versions of Monopoly properties -- and pre-Luigi. The editors always create such a gorgeous artifact.
Joyce Mansour dropping knowledge
November 26, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Joyce Mansour dropping knowledge
