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Jessica Q. Stark
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Poet/Editor/Buffalo Girl | BUFFALO GIRL, BOA Editions (2023) | SAVAGE PAGEANT, Birds, LLC (2020) | Poetry Editor, AGNI | Asst Professor of Creative Writing, University of North Florida 🌊
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Books made this weekend for subscribers @poetalukah.bsky.social @jezzbah.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Save the date for 9/24!!

@taylorbyas.bsky.social, Ashley Jones, & @djvorreyer.bsky.social read for the WPLS.

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry

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September 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Robert Glück, pictured here, says "the history of arts organizations is so ephemeral."

The new archive at Small Press Traffic, arranged for public access in the Mission, materializes the literary organization's history in Bay Area small press publishing.

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September 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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📣 NEW RELEASE ALERT! 📣 Boa Editions is thrilled to announce that Aracelis Girmay's new collection of poetry GREEN OF ALL HEADS is out now! We have signed paperbacks and hardcovers for sale on our store in limited supply! Purchase yourself a copy today at boaeditions.org. Spread the word🍃
September 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I was stumble drunk, bent into the ramshackle dawn,
the sun glazed with its own sick, traipsing along
the cracked flagstones toward an apartment
I’d all but abandoned, its contents
strewn across the tile floors

~from "The Wolf"
by David Joez Villaverde
🔥AGNI 101🔥
The Wolf
I was stumble drunk, bent into the ramshackle dawn, the sun glazed with its own sick, traipsing along the cracked flagstones toward an apartment I’d all but abandoned, its contents strewn across the…
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June 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
90s computer desk with shelves for speakers, tower, printer, pull-out mouse and keyboard drawer etc
August 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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nicksturm.bsky.social
Unraveling of federal arts funding infrastructure continues. Hard to describe the decades of debates & advocacy invested in sustaining the CW fellowships at the NEA. Now, wiped out.
kirstenbakis.com Kirsten Bakis @kirstenbakis.com · Aug 22
This seems not good!
Screenshot of an email that read: Dear Kirsten Bakis: This is in reference to your recent application to the National Endowment for the Arts' FY 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships. The NEA has cancelled the FY 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships program. The Creative Writing category has been Withdrawn by the Agency and will not be reviewed. We recognize that receiving this news can be disappointing, especially after all the hard work and dedication you put into your application. The NEA is updating its grantmaking policy priorities to focus funding on projects that reflect the nation's rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the Administration Consequently, we are cancelling
August 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
jezzbah.bsky.social
Aw visited by my own scholarly ghosts is a particular feeling. I do sometimes miss that particular beast of writing...
emmywaldman.bsky.social Emmy Waldman @emmywaldman.bsky.social · Aug 22
@jezzbah.bsky.social I am rereading your essay on Nancy and the queer adorable and it’s really helping me out! Have you done more with your comics and avant-garde poetry project??? 👀
August 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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What does it mean to write under the aura of another poet one admires, to write in celebration of another? What happens to language when you do? Don't miss today's conversation with Laynie Browne
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Laynie Browne : Apprentice to a Breathing Hand - Tin House
What does it mean to write toward or under the aura of another poet one admires, to write in homage, as a celebration of another? What happens to language when it hovers between two writers, between h...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Today’s Poem-a-Day @poetsorg.bsky.social is by the inimitable @theferocity.bsky.social, allusive, incantatory, and moving. @benningtonwriting.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social ❤️🔥
August 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Hala Alyan
so many, too many, things in this world are awful or beautiful, depending on the time of day, the year in your life, the angle you are tilting your head.
August 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Aug 5
I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.
August 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Summer 2025 Reading Period Report & Finalists newsletter is here! 🎉🎉🎉
Summer 2025 Open Reading Period Report & Finalists!
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August 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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She’s here! Order from your favorite bookseller! Leave a review, tag me in your photos! Reserve a copy at the library! I’ve got her in the woods today and reading tonight. Raise a cup of tea (or a shot of whisky) for us 💙🩵💜

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Khadijah‘s brown hand is holding her hardcover copy of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veterans memoir. There is a backdrop of a forest. On her wrist are three bracelets: two of pearl and one labradorite Turquoise, dark blue and lilac hardcover of Between the devil and the deep blue sea: A Veterans Memoir by Khadijah Queen, stood up on stone steps with greenery
August 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The Abduction of Proserpina, by Gregorio Lazzarini, late 17th century, 📸 via @brwalkoff.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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let's fast forward to the part where only the gentle survive
June 19, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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"Brenda Shaughnessy and CAConrad redefine resilience and identity in their powerful poetry collections."

📖 Explore the reviews:
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#PrideMonth #PoetryOfIdentity
Pride Month Poetry by Brenda Shaughnessy & CAConrad - A Review - The Broken Spine
The idea that Pride celebrations can inspire ambivalence rather than celebration or contempt is unexpected. CAConrad’s ‘Glitter in My Wounds’ dissects the
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June 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
jezzbah.bsky.social
Check out my latest THE FLEA, out now with @the-ethelzine.bsky.social.
Hand-sewn poetry zine stitched with white thread. Cover features a large flea. Jess kissing a USPS box full of chapbooks in a hammock on a porch
June 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Happy birthday to my sister from a different mister! Remember, you are not glass, @jezzbah.bsky.social, and my flower hadn’t seen a drop of rain in a week! RNR! Love you!
Two really hot people—John (JPS)and Jess (JQS)—stand in front of the Cummer Art Museum’s famous oak tree, which under no circumstances may you climb.
June 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Read some poems, witnessed some flowers during my birthday week.
Jess reading in a blue and yelllow kaftan Purple mums in dense foliage
June 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Go off
A massively blooming pink peony
June 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Some really fancy flea stuff happening over here…making Jessica Q. Stark’s THE FLEA (link to shop in bio). @jezzbah.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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I loved this portrait from the Wayne Thiebaud retrospective at the Legion of Honor and it pretty much sums up my mood today (and most of this year if I’m being honest)
May 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM