Jessica Coles
@prairievixen.bsky.social
(she/her) Poet, editor, finder of lost things, singer of silly songs. Poems in Moist Poetry, Stone Circle Review, CV2, The Fiddlehead & others. Lover of beings that move between worlds. Endearingly uncool. Bestselling poet on a very local level.
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About Prairie Vixen Press
Bio My home is Edmonton, AB (amiskwaciwâskahikan), on Treaty 6 territory, where I share physical and emotional space with my spouse, two children, one...
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I managed to update my About page on my website!
The chapbook webshop remains broken and therefore tells lies about product availability. If you'd like to purchase either or both of my chapbooks, please shoot me DM, and we'll make what arrangements we can.
prairievixenpress.ca/about/
The chapbook webshop remains broken and therefore tells lies about product availability. If you'd like to purchase either or both of my chapbooks, please shoot me DM, and we'll make what arrangements we can.
prairievixenpress.ca/about/
Best moment of today: as I was working on lyrics for another(!) new(!) song, a line of pretty melody appeared and I was able to repeat it and solidify it before it floated away.
December 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Best moment of today: as I was working on lyrics for another(!) new(!) song, a line of pretty melody appeared and I was able to repeat it and solidify it before it floated away.
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anyone can release a book of poetry, they can't stop you, poets have no regulating body
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
anyone can release a book of poetry, they can't stop you, poets have no regulating body
It took less time than expected! Now I'm home, fed, and about to settle into my office with a cup of coffee and a few hours to spend all cozy with my guitars.
This morning, I'm waiting to get some routine blood work done. 30 minute wait time, which isn't the worst, but I need to keep fasting, so no coffee while I wait. On the upside, they're going to text when it's my turn, so I can sit in a comfy mall chair instead of a terrible clinic chair.
December 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It took less time than expected! Now I'm home, fed, and about to settle into my office with a cup of coffee and a few hours to spend all cozy with my guitars.
This morning, I'm waiting to get some routine blood work done. 30 minute wait time, which isn't the worst, but I need to keep fasting, so no coffee while I wait. On the upside, they're going to text when it's my turn, so I can sit in a comfy mall chair instead of a terrible clinic chair.
December 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This morning, I'm waiting to get some routine blood work done. 30 minute wait time, which isn't the worst, but I need to keep fasting, so no coffee while I wait. On the upside, they're going to text when it's my turn, so I can sit in a comfy mall chair instead of a terrible clinic chair.
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Gather it. I don't care if it's spite, joy, anger, bile, defiance, loneliness, relief, sexual energy, humor, recollection, pride, confusion or infinitely reliable curiosity. Use it like a storm under your control, filled with lightning. Let bolts fly.
December 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Gather it. I don't care if it's spite, joy, anger, bile, defiance, loneliness, relief, sexual energy, humor, recollection, pride, confusion or infinitely reliable curiosity. Use it like a storm under your control, filled with lightning. Let bolts fly.
Good night, lovelies. You did wonderful work existing in all your unique glory today. I'm glad you're here.
December 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Good night, lovelies. You did wonderful work existing in all your unique glory today. I'm glad you're here.
Behave as if writing is the official thing I do, be more intentional about my creative time, and stop treating it like a weird hobby that I need to hide or apologize for and can drop whenever someone needs me.
Oh, and write more songs. :)
Oh, and write more songs. :)
My 2026 writing goal is to finally finish this novel in the first half and then write weird shit for the second half. What's your writing goal?
December 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Behave as if writing is the official thing I do, be more intentional about my creative time, and stop treating it like a weird hobby that I need to hide or apologize for and can drop whenever someone needs me.
Oh, and write more songs. :)
Oh, and write more songs. :)
New song: "Edmonton Drivers Need to Chill the Fuck Out"
I haven't written it yet, but it's going to be very popular at an extremely local level.
I haven't written it yet, but it's going to be very popular at an extremely local level.
December 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
New song: "Edmonton Drivers Need to Chill the Fuck Out"
I haven't written it yet, but it's going to be very popular at an extremely local level.
I haven't written it yet, but it's going to be very popular at an extremely local level.
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I am going to eat EIGHT WRITERS and absorb their MULTIFARIOUS TALENTS and WIDE RANGE of SKILLS using my deadly and terrible MANDIBLES
My 2026 writing goal is to finally finish this novel in the first half and then write weird shit for the second half. What's your writing goal?
December 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I am going to eat EIGHT WRITERS and absorb their MULTIFARIOUS TALENTS and WIDE RANGE of SKILLS using my deadly and terrible MANDIBLES
My hair was very cute this morning and I didn't take a pic and then my hat and large puffy jacket made it weird: one woman's tragic tale of enduring winter in Alberta
December 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
My hair was very cute this morning and I didn't take a pic and then my hat and large puffy jacket made it weird: one woman's tragic tale of enduring winter in Alberta
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two weeks left to submit ⏳ send us a poem!
we are currently accepting submissions for our WINTER 2026 issue, & we'd love to hear from you! ✨
💛 voicemailpoems.org/submit 💛
deadline january 1st
💛 voicemailpoems.org/submit 💛
deadline january 1st
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
two weeks left to submit ⏳ send us a poem!
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i love how poetry is (all at once) overthinking and overfeeling and overlanguaging
December 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
i love how poetry is (all at once) overthinking and overfeeling and overlanguaging
The local music and poetry people I want to connect with seem to be all about Instagram and I don't want to be where the people are, but I'm probably going to end up being where the people are.
December 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The local music and poetry people I want to connect with seem to be all about Instagram and I don't want to be where the people are, but I'm probably going to end up being where the people are.
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To me, Christmas isn't about perfection or consumerism. It's about family togetherness. It's about trading ghost stories with will-o'-the-wisps. It's about forming snow into giant crabs and bringing them to life. It's about running from the peppermint beasts in a torchlit cavern.
December 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
To me, Christmas isn't about perfection or consumerism. It's about family togetherness. It's about trading ghost stories with will-o'-the-wisps. It's about forming snow into giant crabs and bringing them to life. It's about running from the peppermint beasts in a torchlit cavern.
I just spent a delightful 45 minutes getting home recording tips from my beloved friend, and I am so ready to fuck around with my music now. O the digital effects—how they will be overused!
December 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I just spent a delightful 45 minutes getting home recording tips from my beloved friend, and I am so ready to fuck around with my music now. O the digital effects—how they will be overused!
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On this day in 1989, The Simpsons officially premiered as its own series so here’s a short thread of language facts relating to the show, starting with this…
In the Spanish version of The Simpsons, Bart’s “eat my shorts” catchphrase is changed to multiplícate por cero (“multiply yourself by zero”).
In the Spanish version of The Simpsons, Bart’s “eat my shorts” catchphrase is changed to multiplícate por cero (“multiply yourself by zero”).
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
On this day in 1989, The Simpsons officially premiered as its own series so here’s a short thread of language facts relating to the show, starting with this…
In the Spanish version of The Simpsons, Bart’s “eat my shorts” catchphrase is changed to multiplícate por cero (“multiply yourself by zero”).
In the Spanish version of The Simpsons, Bart’s “eat my shorts” catchphrase is changed to multiplícate por cero (“multiply yourself by zero”).
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3 days left to enter this contest!! We want your poems! ❤️
There is a cool new @oncreativewriting.bsky.social #poetry contest afoot, and I get to help judge!! Please enter and share this post to make it a tough but fun job for me. 😁
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On Creative Writing Poetry Contest | On Creative Writing
Creative writing contest. The Writer's Spark Coaching Competition. A writer will win writing coaching, Brain.fm free for a year, editing, an On Creative Writing interview.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
3 days left to enter this contest!! We want your poems! ❤️
Tonight's the night: supper shall be infused with Mannheim Steamroller Christmas!
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Tonight's the night: supper shall be infused with Mannheim Steamroller Christmas!
I brought some Christmas baking to my guitar teacher, and he let me struggle my way through blues soloing on his newly acquired vintage Epiphone Century. I didn't think I was much for gear, but I was kind of wrong about that. Old guitars and tube amps are something else.
December 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I brought some Christmas baking to my guitar teacher, and he let me struggle my way through blues soloing on his newly acquired vintage Epiphone Century. I didn't think I was much for gear, but I was kind of wrong about that. Old guitars and tube amps are something else.
I finished 2 new songs in 2025 after an 18-year hiatus from writing music. That's the thing I'm most proud of this year.
December 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I finished 2 new songs in 2025 after an 18-year hiatus from writing music. That's the thing I'm most proud of this year.
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GOOD.
BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Skate Canada to stop holding national, international events in Alberta | CBC News
Skate Canada says it will no longer host major events in Alberta following a review of the province's legislation on the participation of transgender athletes in women's sport.
www.cbc.ca
December 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
GOOD.
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You need ideas because you can't come up with any? Go ask a goddamn child! They are chock full of great, and terrible, ideas until society beats it out of them. A miniature T-Rex with an insanely high IQ that also solves mysteries? Sweet run with it
December 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
You need ideas because you can't come up with any? Go ask a goddamn child! They are chock full of great, and terrible, ideas until society beats it out of them. A miniature T-Rex with an insanely high IQ that also solves mysteries? Sweet run with it
This week, different people have compared my vocals to Emilíana Torrini and Thom Yorke, and while I can't quite agree, I love that people can hear their favourite artists in me.
December 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This week, different people have compared my vocals to Emilíana Torrini and Thom Yorke, and while I can't quite agree, I love that people can hear their favourite artists in me.
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SUBS ARE OPEN FOR ISSUE 8: COLLAGE!
But what's the deal?
Remix our works!
Mind the Off Limits List! buff.ly/xboarlD
Rules: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP
#writingprompt #writingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #collage #artistcommunity #indielit #litmag
But what's the deal?
Remix our works!
Mind the Off Limits List! buff.ly/xboarlD
Rules: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP
#writingprompt #writingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #collage #artistcommunity #indielit #litmag
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
SUBS ARE OPEN FOR ISSUE 8: COLLAGE!
But what's the deal?
Remix our works!
Mind the Off Limits List! buff.ly/xboarlD
Rules: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP
#writingprompt #writingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #collage #artistcommunity #indielit #litmag
But what's the deal?
Remix our works!
Mind the Off Limits List! buff.ly/xboarlD
Rules: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP
#writingprompt #writingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #collage #artistcommunity #indielit #litmag
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Maiden Mother Crone needs a fourth aspect between Mother and Crone that is just "Oh For Fuck's Sake."
December 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Maiden Mother Crone needs a fourth aspect between Mother and Crone that is just "Oh For Fuck's Sake."