Jen Jabaily-Blackburn
@jenjblackburn.bsky.social
poet, author of Girl in a Bear Suit (Elixir Press 2024) and Disambiguation (Salamander/Suffolk U 2024). Program and Outreach Coordinator at Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College #binders
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So the rapture is the opposite of it’s raining men
September 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
So the rapture is the opposite of it’s raining men
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. This movie understood America so fucking well it’s insane
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. This movie understood America so fucking well it’s insane
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feel like pure shit just want him back
September 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
feel like pure shit just want him back
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Our board member Jen Jabaily-Blackburn is reading TOMORROW with Sara Eddy at My Health Matters community space in Hadley, MA at 7:00. Check out the awesomeness if you can! 🐻🎉🐇 @jenjblackburn.bsky.social @saraeddy66.bsky.social @mhmfitwell.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Our board member Jen Jabaily-Blackburn is reading TOMORROW with Sara Eddy at My Health Matters community space in Hadley, MA at 7:00. Check out the awesomeness if you can! 🐻🎉🐇 @jenjblackburn.bsky.social @saraeddy66.bsky.social @mhmfitwell.bsky.social
Is the implication that cis women don’t have this “underlying level of aggressiveness” because actually fuck you, Ronny, all girls are family and we’re all mad at you
Rep. Ronny Jackson calls to forcefully mass institutionalize trans people and calls them a cancer.
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September 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Is the implication that cis women don’t have this “underlying level of aggressiveness” because actually fuck you, Ronny, all girls are family and we’re all mad at you
Yesterday I lost it a little when I saw a car with the vanity plate MRSCAR because there’s no way that’s her married name
September 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Yesterday I lost it a little when I saw a car with the vanity plate MRSCAR because there’s no way that’s her married name
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SARAH PALIN: "There are going to be death panels!"
RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."
RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."
August 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
SARAH PALIN: "There are going to be death panels!"
RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."
RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."
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nobody has seen the president in three days
[burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] that’s crazy
[burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] that’s crazy
August 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
nobody has seen the president in three days
[burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] that’s crazy
[burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] that’s crazy
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found this poem in a 2018 file in my notes app
August 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
found this poem in a 2018 file in my notes app
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I loved listening to this, and it made me want to go back and pay deeper attention to Blake (& swim in the ocean) (& befriend an orca)
June 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I loved listening to this, and it made me want to go back and pay deeper attention to Blake (& swim in the ocean) (& befriend an orca)
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trader joe’s has put out a bounty on ICE
June 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
trader joe’s has put out a bounty on ICE
The hawks are nesting in my neighborhood again, which means what I thought was early cottonwood raining down out the bay window was actually squirrel tail (currently being eaten atop a light post.) 🫤
May 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The hawks are nesting in my neighborhood again, which means what I thought was early cottonwood raining down out the bay window was actually squirrel tail (currently being eaten atop a light post.) 🫤
I overheard two students chatting the other day about the most overlooked of meals, & heard one ask “so, what’s a good lunch?”
So, what’s a good lunch?
(My answer: A mineral-y glass of white and very crispy, salty fries that are soft on the inside.)
So, what’s a good lunch?
(My answer: A mineral-y glass of white and very crispy, salty fries that are soft on the inside.)
May 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I overheard two students chatting the other day about the most overlooked of meals, & heard one ask “so, what’s a good lunch?”
So, what’s a good lunch?
(My answer: A mineral-y glass of white and very crispy, salty fries that are soft on the inside.)
So, what’s a good lunch?
(My answer: A mineral-y glass of white and very crispy, salty fries that are soft on the inside.)
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I have drunk
the milkshakes
that were in
the yard
and which
you were probably
saving
for all the boys
the milkshakes
that were in
the yard
and which
you were probably
saving
for all the boys
May 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I have drunk
the milkshakes
that were in
the yard
and which
you were probably
saving
for all the boys
the milkshakes
that were in
the yard
and which
you were probably
saving
for all the boys
As soon as I heard @rachzuck.bsky.social say this about Mary Ruefle’s work, I knew I feel this too:
“I'm stepping into this temporal field in which I am reading your book that was written in a different time across time about embodied experiences that occurred across time. (1/4)
“I'm stepping into this temporal field in which I am reading your book that was written in a different time across time about embodied experiences that occurred across time. (1/4)
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May 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
As soon as I heard @rachzuck.bsky.social say this about Mary Ruefle’s work, I knew I feel this too:
“I'm stepping into this temporal field in which I am reading your book that was written in a different time across time about embodied experiences that occurred across time. (1/4)
“I'm stepping into this temporal field in which I am reading your book that was written in a different time across time about embodied experiences that occurred across time. (1/4)
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How are things with me? Not bad! I mean, the island that appeared on the lake does seem to be moving closer, closer each day, a dark form taking shape in the mist. But work's good and I'm feeling OK except when I find myself gazing at that accursed island, drawing ever nearer. How are you?
April 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
How are things with me? Not bad! I mean, the island that appeared on the lake does seem to be moving closer, closer each day, a dark form taking shape in the mist. But work's good and I'm feeling OK except when I find myself gazing at that accursed island, drawing ever nearer. How are you?
Strictly Ballroom, or how I became a fancy girl
April 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Strictly Ballroom, or how I became a fancy girl
Fuck yes to tending our bears forever
"Six black wings crisscross on my back. I fold and unfold like a tesseract,
a bear emerging from a bear. I rise from my seat."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Sometimes when I Am Seated in a Darkened Theater by @PaulVermeersch.bsky.social (2025 @amsterdamreview.bsky.social)
a bear emerging from a bear. I rise from my seat."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Sometimes when I Am Seated in a Darkened Theater by @PaulVermeersch.bsky.social (2025 @amsterdamreview.bsky.social)
Sometimes when I Am Seated in a Darkened Theater by Paul Vermeersch | Amsterdam Review
Read "Sometimes when I Am Seated in a Darkened Theater" by Paul Vermeersch
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April 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Fuck yes to tending our bears forever
A friend at the gym brought up James Tate and I was delighted to share this too appropriate poem.
How the Pope is Chosen
By James Tate
Any poodle under ten inches high is a toy.
Almost always a toy is an imitation
of something grown-ups use.
Popes with unclipped hair are called “corded popes.”
If a Pope’s hair is...
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April 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A friend at the gym brought up James Tate and I was delighted to share this too appropriate poem.
This fucking sociopath is our president
Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”
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April 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This fucking sociopath is our president
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This is my mantra every time I’m cooking in the kitchen:
sauces add flavor and texture to dishes, while dressings are used to protect wounds
sauces add flavor and texture to dishes, while dressings are used to protect wounds
April 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is my mantra every time I’m cooking in the kitchen:
sauces add flavor and texture to dishes, while dressings are used to protect wounds
sauces add flavor and texture to dishes, while dressings are used to protect wounds
Some days I’m in mourning for the book I can’t write, the one that has things I need to uncover in places far from me that I can’t afford to get to, in money or time. I work within the borders of my life, & it’s good work. I’m truly sorry to that other book.
April 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Some days I’m in mourning for the book I can’t write, the one that has things I need to uncover in places far from me that I can’t afford to get to, in money or time. I work within the borders of my life, & it’s good work. I’m truly sorry to that other book.
I watched all of Severance S1 during a period of isolation with respiratory illness (which was maybe an unhinged idea, but I am glad) & S2 in real time, but I *finally* convinced my husband to watch it too, & I love watching the pieces click into place for him. What a brilliant, gorgeous show.
a man in a suit and tie holds a bouquet of flowers
Alt: Tramell Tillman as Seth Milchick on Severance wears a suit and tie holds a bouquet of flowers
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April 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I watched all of Severance S1 during a period of isolation with respiratory illness (which was maybe an unhinged idea, but I am glad) & S2 in real time, but I *finally* convinced my husband to watch it too, & I love watching the pieces click into place for him. What a brilliant, gorgeous show.
Girl in a Bear Suit is available on Amazon now, so feel free to get a wee bit too high and put it in your cart at midnight along with that bucket hat you’re convinced is retro now & a bulk bag of yogurt covered raisins 💖🥲🐻
Girl in A Bear Suit
Amazon.com: Girl in A Bear Suit: 9781932418842: Jabaily-Blackburn, Jen: Books
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April 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Girl in a Bear Suit is available on Amazon now, so feel free to get a wee bit too high and put it in your cart at midnight along with that bucket hat you’re convinced is retro now & a bulk bag of yogurt covered raisins 💖🥲🐻