Mike Bagwell

from the mouths of babes ✨

from @lowghost.bsky.social's lovely “POEM OF THANKS: A Court of Wands” (@metatronpress.bsky.social)

this event is tonight, and you should come

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Next Ghost Harmonics April 26th!!

readings: Anna Moschovakis, Christine Kelly @sea-spray.bsky.social, Kristin Lueke @klooky.bsky.social and Cameron Walker @applepieandink.bsky.social

music: Upholstery @upholstery.bsky.social and Donnie CoCo @donniecoco.bsky.social

and dance: Inna Krasnoper

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Thanks so much!

Thanks so much, both of you!

@joehalljoehall.bsky.social, @joustingsnail.bsky.social, @samheaps.bsky.social, @tangentuniverses.bsky.social

Ghost Harmonics flyer for March 8th at 7pm at the Perch

Ghost Harmonics! Featuring Joe Hall, Reuben Gelley Newman, Michael Joseph Walsh, and Sam Heaps, music by Tangent Universes, and a short film by Fern Poppy. Going to be one hell of a night!

Suggested $5-10 at door or handstamp.com/e/ghost-harmonics-macfkqgv though not a barrier to entry

New selections from Poem of Thanks up on the amazing JMWW!

Philly and everywhere

cover of Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems

The Envoy of Mr. Cogito

The Envoy of Mr. Cogito (cont)

To Marcus Aurelius

The Cogito poems have always meant a lot to me, put a Cogito Kid character in my own persona poems as homage. Been revisiting Herbert's Collected lately

Full highlight reel! Fantastic night boiled down to 35 minutes. Worth a watch! youtu.be/_b3QqJ0kE5E?...

YouTube video by Ghost Harmonics Ghost Harmonics, The Second Show Trailer

trailer for the second Ghost Harmonics show, full thing dropping soon! youtu.be/vClK4LBMpGY?...

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[small works]

from When We Look at Things We Steal their Color and Grow Heavy Under
their Weght by Mike Bagwell

POEM OF THANKS: A COURT OF WANDS MIKE BAGWELL

Poem of Thanks: A Court of Wands by @lowghost.bsky.social is now live on our website 🪽

Digi-Pub submissions are open until February 25th!

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First Neon Night Mic of 2025 is one week from today! Curated by Black Ocean & celebrating a poetry reissue by Bill Knott (1940-2014)

feat. @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social / Nathan Hoks / Carrie Olivia Adams / @evansquilliams.bsky.social / @yoadrianididit.bsky.social / Brian Foley

This Saturday in Philly!

Ghost Harmonics series second show with readings by Ryan Eckes, Alexis Almeida, and Warren C. Longmire, and music by Bhob Rainey, Huston West, and Oarsman. Going to be a hell of a show!

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Volume four of Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, guest edited by Réka Nyitrai, is live! A huge thank you to all the talented writers who trusted us with their work and thank YOU for reading!

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#litmag #poetry #poetrycommunity

You might love the "3-em dash" or it's shorter sister, the "2-em dash". A real, single Unicode character⸻with an incredibly narrow citation purpose because it so obviously represents fear deeper than comprehension, joy that rends the horizon and creates it again in its own image.

How do you end a brush stroke?

Hey all

working on a Gilgamesh translation. Graphic novel + etymological/cuneiform study + typographical experiment + sumi ink painting + poetry + Derrida + circuit diagram + anything else that finds its way in. Here's a new painting for the word "īmuru" meaning "seen", and some spreads

#concretepoetry

Thrilled to have a pair of poems in the amazing new issue of @coupletpoetry.bsky.social!! Read em at coupletpoetry.com/mike-bagwell

yall, issue 1 is free!! (when is bluesky getting video?)

ch3ck out @tomsnarsky.bsky.social, TR Brady, @stonespiral.bsky.social, @lizkellebrew.com, Caleb Bouchard, Réka Nyitrai, Christine Shan Shan Hou, @rorty.bsky.social, @transputation.bsky.social, @lowghost.bsky.social, and Tyler Barton!!!!!!!!

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First piece from my novel in flash Baboon Moon is out! This is my favorite writing of mine, wild and unhinged, anarchist and Deleuzian, drenched in tarot and TV. Give it a read!

BULL is such an amazing mag w/ first class fiction like @chelseastickle.bsky.social and @itsaaronjacobs.bsky.social

New book!! bottlecap.press/products/collision So thrilled to announce that my chapbook is out from Bottlecap Press. And a new poem in @trampset from that new collection trampset.org/light-3d4ce9... an all-time fav lit mag!

Me: can you put on your socks?
Toddler: they're not socks, they're peanut butter marshmallows
Me: ok, can you put the peanut butter marshmallows on your feet, we've got to go!

Lol, the things I say these days with mild annoyance while also suppressing a laugh