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poet. radio host. day jobber.

@asquarehouse.bsky.social

https://linktr.ee/dderkson
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POETRY FREAXXX:
available for purchase now. my first chapbook in like 10 years.

HOTCOUNTRY98 is a collection of poems that deal w/ loneliness, love & regret. all via the lyrics of #1 country tracks from 1998.

order now: discordiareview.substack.com/p/tune-in-to...
Tune in to HOTCOUNTRY98
dalton derkson sings the top country hits of 1998 from memory.
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periodically i still release my little newsletter out into the world, pressure valve style. this month's leftover drafts is a love letter to my husband, and to intimacy & identity thru grief

🦎 read/subscribe:
lizard draft.
do you ever feel so intensely known that you realize you’ve been walking around blissful, on the other side somehow of the violence of being perceived, like wandering into a neighbourhood you’ve ne…
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December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
j'accuse...!
CFL = WFL (western football league)

They (the CFL) need to play to their fan base. Cheating and all!
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
if u were followed by a little acct with a house for a pfp today, now you know why!
dalton & i started a little poetry press + distro! we’re hosting our first reading series and open mic in january (details to come) 🐒

follow us!

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November 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Hi to our 500+ followers. Do literally any of you want to buy CanLit trading cards?
October 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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wrote a love letter to saskatchewan (my latest post on leftover drafts):
prairie pieces.
i caught a cold in saskatchewan. there’s something mystifying about the prairies. maybe in the way the fields roll so flat, the way they chase themselves endlessly like they’re this close to catchi…
jesslyndelia.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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i wrote about wanting a front porch, and how much that feeling sucks sometimes. my latest leftover draft, on wanting or not to say hello:
saying hello.
i’m doing that thing again where i keep the fan on low when it should really be on high. which of my delicate senses is better kept protected, which feeling do i love the most today? it takes up to…
jesslyndelia.com
July 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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DIY > AI
July 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
on dirait un anglicisme:
June 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
i used to regularly serve tea to margaret atwood at a cafe in toronto except she always made the person she came with pay, order, and carry her drink to the table for her.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Elite matchup to kickoff the CFL season tonight
June 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
BREAKING: Philadelphia Phillies are trading RHP Jordan Romano to the absolute nearest Pizza Nova franchise for a slice of stale Hawaiian & a Bud Prohibition Brew. #RingTheBell
June 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Lowkey really enjoy this logo. Just give me a happy bird. This bird isn’t smug, he isn’t condescending, he just loves the game.
May 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
imagine voluntarily tuning in to a cable program every saturday night just to wholeheartedly fill your diaper about it to an audience of none lol.
May 18, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

if you’re so inclined, feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote +/or small poems you love by someone else :)

here’s one by my friend Jo Ianni (@wtfisapoet on other platforms), from his startlingly good new chapbook FAT LUCK AND FUZZY SONG (Apt 9 Press) 🌎
May 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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the collections agency spins
'if i had 1 million dollars'
on their hold line radio & i mean,
talk about your SALTED KNIFE.
talk about your
CAUTERIZED BURN.

get savvy with @dd6669.bsky.social
bird doggin' classic / savvy
Two poems about being broke and shooting skeet from dalton derkson
discordiareview.substack.com
May 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
two new poems out today!
they among great company on Discordia Review's Fellow Travelers feature.

get weird here:
discordiareview.substack.com/p/bird-doggi...
discordiareview.substack.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
POETRY FREAXXX:
available for purchase now. my first chapbook in like 10 years.

HOTCOUNTRY98 is a collection of poems that deal w/ loneliness, love & regret. all via the lyrics of #1 country tracks from 1998.

order now: discordiareview.substack.com/p/tune-in-to...
Tune in to HOTCOUNTRY98
dalton derkson sings the top country hits of 1998 from memory.
discordiareview.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
big trouble in little pope
Midnight in the Vatican of Good and Evil
April 23, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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We’re just innocent men
April 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Go get rejected! The momentary violent compression of hope into more flattening numbness when you could have had the one thing you truly fucking want in life. Nope! Not today! Maybe not ever! Become a writer! It's so life affirming
April 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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It's Friday which means it's finally time to c̸r̵a̴c̷k̸ ̶o̷p̷e̵n̷
a bo̴̠͑̓y̵̗̹̿͗ with the C̷ò̼̮l̟̫͎̃̈́d̷̆̌ O̷̬̙̒̍̾ͅn̠͛ͅe̖̟͋͜s̶͍͑͜
April 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
🔮🔮🔮
Very pleased to have a new series of "horoscopes" at The Discordia Review. I know where you sleep.

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April 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
day 1: already on the wall.
#ringthebell
March 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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One more sleep until baseball. The eternal sleep. Death. Baseball is Hell. War is Hell. Baseball is War.
March 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM