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Jessica Q. Stark
@jezzbah.bsky.social
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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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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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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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I am honored to be named a South Arts State Fellow this year among several dynamo Southern poets! 🥲🩵🎉 And I am also bemused to be representing the chaos queen reign supreme herself, Florida, as I go on to compete for the Southern Prize this year. Thankful to be able to do what I do. 💓
List of South Arts Fellows, including Ashley Jones, Aurielle Marie Lucier, Julie Hensley, Karisma Price, CT Salazar, Meg Day, Shakeema Smalls, and Marcus Wicker Jess standing outside in the sun with a black jacket and a leopard button down shirt. She is smiling and standing on dying grass.
May 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Rest in peace to a restless one 🩵💫
Alice Notley standing in an undeveloped field near a house
May 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Hey Jax locals, this is next month. 🩵
Dreamboat presents a chapbook and reading party with BROOKS DECKER, NICOLAS HOLT AND JESSICA Q. STARK at The Greenhouse Bar on June 12, 7pm. Black and white hibiscus with a pink frame. Jess in black overalls, with messy hair, sitting on a couch with a red walls in the background.
May 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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New Orleans Poetry Fest this year was reinvigorating 💘🩵
Picture of a backyard pool crowded by poets Follow the yellow brick road sign on a makeshift doll mannequin outside a clothing consignment store Small colorful conference room with a panel of poets
April 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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So lucky to spend time with @hanvanderhart.bsky.social's brilliant newest book LARKS.
Han Vanderhart's black and white cover of their book LARKS featuring cameras stacked on a table and a sheer white curtain blowing beside the table. Jess holds the book in her office next to pink velvet curtains Page that reads "... My sisters tell me I am a bird."
March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I'll be reading at UCF in Orlando tomorrow on campus. With thanks to the organizers of the Writers in the Sun Series! Come on out if you're close and able. ☀️
Flyer for JQS featuring two book covers with a tapir on a yellow background and a Vietnamese woman on a Vespa against a red background Jess on a bridge in an Aaliyah shirt and gray sweatpants on a sunny day.
March 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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The best thing about being a poet is other poets. LY @dorothykchan.bsky.social.
Jess and Dorothy Chan in a dark alleyway in the back of a bar in front of a graffitied wall. Dorothy is sucking a cocktail from a large straw. Dorothy leaning into Jess on an outside bar patio in front of a graffitied wall
March 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Jacksonville locals! Come on out for this 🔥 reading this week.
Red poster featuring Dorothy Chan's newest book, Reign Supreme, and Avni Vyas
March 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Post-Tết triptych hangover. 🐍🎉✨
Lucky money tree lego set Black and white photo of Jess' mom which is also the cover of Buffalo Girl. Young woman in an ao dai on a vespa next to the highway. Bright green book called Sister Snake on a gray bedspread
January 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Good mail day with @kimannjosouth.bsky.social 🩷
Orchid Alpha by Kimberly Ann Southwick book on a white table. A candle and decorative pots behind it as well as a cow-printed dining chair.
December 31, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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View outside with a clear night sky and a big bright full moon over a neighbor's roof
December 16, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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Tender creature 💚
Giraffe over a beam of wood looking onto a platform.
November 30, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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November 17, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my maximalism
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.
Porch covered in trees with a checkered pattern, yellow chairs, and a purple table. A cat sleeps on a wicker basket.
November 16, 2024 at 7:23 PM