“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.” - Zizek
August 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.” - Zizek
“Backward I see…where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders. I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait.”
-Whitman
-Whitman
August 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“Backward I see…where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders. I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait.”
-Whitman
-Whitman
“The unconscious is structured like a poem.” -Lacan
July 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“The unconscious is structured like a poem.” -Lacan
“The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom” -Lacan
May 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
“The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom” -Lacan
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"Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war."
-Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
-Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
April 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war."
-Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
-Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
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congrats to marie fuckin howe winner of the 2025 pulitzer for poetry! her words have been burned into my heart for 16 years, they come with me everywhere i go
May 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
congrats to marie fuckin howe winner of the 2025 pulitzer for poetry! her words have been burned into my heart for 16 years, they come with me everywhere i go
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New newsletter out this week with shout outs to Julia Kolchinsky & her new book, SLAC sabbaticals, art about Appalachia, & more
May 2025
"He wants simple math. / Breath that outlasts / violence."
jeremymichaelreed.beehiiv.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
New newsletter out this week with shout outs to Julia Kolchinsky & her new book, SLAC sabbaticals, art about Appalachia, & more
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No, seriously, you want this book.
here's the first poem from the new chapbook. (very, very strange to be sharing it. It took me a while to get used to writing like this, let alone publishing, etc.)
May 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
No, seriously, you want this book.
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The full poem, which I read to my love last night, and they sighed at the end ❤️
Poem by Martha Silano: "Everything Ends"
Martha Silano is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Gravity Assist (Saturnalia Books, 2019). She teaches at Bellevue College ...
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May 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The full poem, which I read to my love last night, and they sighed at the end ❤️
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A good poem to read before bedtime. This is by Ryler Dustin from a Green Linden Press chapbook entitled "Something Bright."
May 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
A good poem to read before bedtime. This is by Ryler Dustin from a Green Linden Press chapbook entitled "Something Bright."
Found Poem #2: From Sea to Shining Sea
April 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Found Poem #2: From Sea to Shining Sea
Found Poem #1: Alive
I can only say that
I love that
I am alive
Read into that in
the ways you desire.
All of them are true.
I say this in
a 4 x 8 cell
enclosed by 13 bars.
I can only say that
I love that
I am alive
Read into that in
the ways you desire.
All of them are true.
I say this in
a 4 x 8 cell
enclosed by 13 bars.
April 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Found Poem #1: Alive
I can only say that
I love that
I am alive
Read into that in
the ways you desire.
All of them are true.
I say this in
a 4 x 8 cell
enclosed by 13 bars.
I can only say that
I love that
I am alive
Read into that in
the ways you desire.
All of them are true.
I say this in
a 4 x 8 cell
enclosed by 13 bars.