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Hubble by Kent Kosack Hubble I need a Hubble telescope to take majestic pictures of your heart. Galaxies drifting away. Dying suns. A screensaver for when we’re frozen and there’s nothing left to say. * Kent Kosack is a…

Hubble by Kent Kosack in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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Thank you!

04.02.2026 18:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2 poems by Kent Kosack March Indulge yourself in a final thought as the year ends: If you leave her, the road ahead opens into a midlife reckoning. No money for the cliched convertible. The trip to Japan. Holiday shrine …

Let's keep the momentum going, shall we?

Here are 2 poems by @kentkosack.bsky.social live at @thearsonista.bsky.social

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Reading Rilke’s Book of Hours during the commercial break

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and in the month to come ...

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“A Wish for Unconsciousness” — Thomas Hardy “A Wish for Unconsciousness” by Thomas Hardy If I could but abide As a tablet on a wall, Or a hillock daisy-pied, Or a picture in a hall, And as nothing else at all, I should feel no do…

"A Wish for Unconsciousness" -- Thomas Hardy biblioklept.org/2025/12/28/a...

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What’s the holidays w/o a surprise? We’ve been cooking this secret project for a while. Three great writers—Max Halper, @kentkosack.bsky.social, and @johnrcpotter.bsky.social—bring you 300+ engaging pages of top-shelf storytelling w/ considerable thematic depth. Check the press website for details!

23.12.2025 19:02 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Excited to be a part of this project. The novella might be my favorite form and I’ve got one in here

23.12.2025 21:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Read “Markheim,” a dark Christmas tale by Robert Louis Stevenson “Markheim” by Robert Louis Stevenson “Yes,” said the dealer, “our windfalls are of various kinds. Some customers are ignorant, and then I touch a dividend on my superior knowledge. Some are dishone…

Read "Markheim," a dark Christmas tale by Robert Louis Stevenson biblioklept.org/2025/12/20/r...

21.12.2025 02:13 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Back on the writing wagon again. Got some stories and essays popping up soon

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Bookshop Find merchandise for Indirect Books and L’Esprit Literary Review–collectively, 1882 Literary–here, along with back issues of L’Esprit and forthcoming titles from Indirect. 1…

Our brand new Bookshop site is now live! Help support fearless writing by purchasing back issues in print!

L’Esprit merch is also available—shirts, mugs, candles, totes!

Find everything over at the Indirect Press bookshop:

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Merci!

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Oleada - A Submission Platform A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

AND!!!

we open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts for a month starting Monday* ...

*in addition to rolling subs for reviews, interviews, extracts, textos en español & more

all info here:

oleada.io/publication/...

30.11.2025 09:24 — 👍 8    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

Ordered a new vacuum hose and a couple of NYRB books. Doing my duty as a consumer

20.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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00:00:00 on the International Date Line — Gabriela Denise Frank I want to be ruined by the thing I already knew in the new desiring.—Alina Ștefănescu How many times have I pursued Love across this membrane of Death?Flight En-Zed-Three departs El-Ay-Ex at Eight-…

00:00:00 on the International Date Line — Gabriela Denise Frank

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Pulled off the information superhighway to write a short story but can’t merge back in. The rules of the road have changed. The engine sputters. My blinker is on

19.11.2025 16:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It Was His Sayings One Remembered: Mrs Woolf and Mrs Dalloway The Cordelivres Criticism Club begins the Dalloway series

The latest episode of our podcast is up!

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Check out all our episodes—and show notes—over at our Substack, @indirectbooks

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16.11.2025 17:27 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Once more unto the social media breach

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