Jay Besemer

i can see it in their faces even if they can’t. yes.

i’m so glad i know you now—know the now-you, too.

It is a monumental victory to hold the unwavering conviction that all people are deserving of safety, dignity, health, and community. It is a *triumph* that your heart is tuned to react to suffering, injustice, and violence. So much power has been exerted to prevent you from meeting this moment.

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i thought i had imagined a lot of it—inwas just a toddler—but then i found a newspaper cutting in my mom’s stuff & found i remembered pretty well. the sound!

or you tell them about the big tornado that hit frankfort. i was in that. it embellishes itself!

oh hell yeah! they carry some of mine too. ordering forthwith!

since the mayhem went down. wish it wasn’t so hard to support authors & presses in/publishing from the uk now, myself included. 🫤

is there a way to get this book w/o ordering from the evil place? before tariffpalooza i ordered direct from presses but now…i don’t mind paying uk post if it helps the press offset costs but i have yet to receive any book sent from the uk (including my own author copies, as you prolly saw me say)

i used to have a flip phone like that

i love the Phainopepla. i mean of course i do, it’s like a goth jay!

it’s just awesome to see the birds you’re finding AND your excitement at finding them! i feel a lot of vicarious joy & the birds are so cool

i love your birding posts💚💚

b/w newsprint jumble of German words at the center of a hand drawn square one black bar

February 2026

all love to my beautiful friend mathias! 💚💚

quantum enanglement, man...it's everywhere!

Twin Cities Zine Fest Illustration by Mergo Petrichor featuring her delightful Bug Girl cozily reading a zine in a nest CHARMING CHATTER AND PRINTED MATTER AT MINNEAPOLIS CENTRAL HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY SATURDAY FEB. 7 2026 TCZINEFEST.ORG

Black and white graphic TWIN CITIES ZINE FEST 2026 INTRODUCTION TO COLLAGE with allison anne Saturday, February 7th 11am to noon Minneapolis Central Library Free to attend! Materials supplied! No pre-registration - seating is first-come, first-served!

happy to share that i'll not only be tabling at this year's Twin Cities Zine Fest, i'll also be teaching a workshop ✂️

join me at the Minneapolis Central Library from 11am-noon on Saturday, February 7th to learn some introductory approaches to collage!

free! seating is limited, no pre-registration!

(& none of them have any kind of singular communicative meaning or function or interpretation to decode. they simply exist, as themselves, in the same ways i exist as myself. ok, maybe not the same same ways—they don’t require coffee…)

when i was organizing my archives the other week i found a chapbook-length batch of poems i remember writing around 2010…they are in the cadence i used with the poems in my trilogy, yet formatted like the poems in THE HORSE—& there is a horse poem. just goes to show all my books are one GIANT BOOK

very true. maybe that’s also what sonny’s doing in these pictures!

it’s not even the dedicated photo printer… but it is all cleared out & nice now. maybe i’ll try the other, but i don’t think we have inks for it at the mo…

sonny beside the printer and slightly behind it looking alarmed and alerted by the noises the machine is making

now in front of the printer, sonny hunkers down and attempts to put his face into the dark cavern of the printer’s workings, from which the paper issues

what is that creature doing inside the printer? why is it so noisy? i’ll find out…it’s INK FLUSH!

[snerk] aaaaaah i see what you did there!😹😹

i am full of trees today. my inner landscape is fully sylvan.

you’re not a liar! you just didn’t fully remember! there’s no need to conflate memory lapse with deceit. pet peeve of mine.

fun fact: my silly “sherwood forest” ringtone is the only one i can use because it is not in a pitch that immediately catapults me into fight-or-flight. 📯🫂

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all the late winter stink bugs! we had one visit that was missing a leg. i hope it got to safety.

I love talking to @durassisterspod.bsky.social; always a fantastic discussion, so generous in their readings and responses. Thank you so much, guys!

i wish i was etc.! dreamed i was, more or less, so there’s that.

they saw you coming!