Jessica Q. Stark

Save the date for 9/24!!

@taylorbyas.bsky.social, Ashley Jones, & @djvorreyer.bsky.social read for the WPLS.

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry

@sundresspub.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social

Robert Glück, pictured here, says "the history of arts organizations is so ephemeral."

The new archive at Small Press Traffic, arranged for public access in the Mission, materializes the literary organization's history in Bay Area small press publishing.

www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/arch...

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The Wolf I was stumble drunk, bent into the ramshackle dawn, the sun glazed with its own sick, traipsing along the cracked flagstones toward an apartment I’d all but abandoned, its contents strewn across the…

I was stumble drunk, bent into the ramshackle dawn,
the sun glazed with its own sick, traipsing along
the cracked flagstones toward an apartment
I’d all but abandoned, its contents
strewn across the tile floors

~from "The Wolf"
by David Joez Villaverde
🔥AGNI 101🔥

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Unraveling of federal arts funding infrastructure continues. Hard to describe the decades of debates & advocacy invested in sustaining the CW fellowships at the NEA. Now, wiped out.

Aw visited by my own scholarly ghosts is a particular feeling. I do sometimes miss that particular beast of writing...

Aw thank you!! That means so much to me. ❤️ I stepped away from scholarly work for the most part to embrace writing my own poetry (a scholarly endeavor, nonetheless). Maybe one day I'll pursue publishing the dissertation that that essay is housed in. Thank you again for reading!

Laynie Browne : Apprentice to a Breathing Hand - Tin House What does it mean to write toward or under the aura of another poet one admires, to write in homage, as a celebration of another? What happens to language when it hovers between two writers, between h...

What does it mean to write under the aura of another poet one admires, to write in celebration of another? What happens to language when you do? Don't miss today's conversation with Laynie Browne
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/layn...
@omnidawn.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social

Today’s Poem-a-Day @poetsorg.bsky.social is by the inimitable @theferocity.bsky.social, allusive, incantatory, and moving. @benningtonwriting.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social ❤️🔥

so many, too many, things in this world are awful or beautiful, depending on the time of day, the year in your life, the angle you are tilting your head.

Hala Alyan

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

Summer 2025 Open Reading Period Report & Finalists!

Summer 2025 Reading Period Report & Finalists newsletter is here! 🎉🎉🎉

Khadijah‘s brown hand is holding her hardcover copy of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veterans memoir. There is a backdrop of a forest. On her wrist are three bracelets: two of pearl and one labradorite

Turquoise, dark blue and lilac hardcover of Between the devil and the deep blue sea: A Veterans Memoir by Khadijah Queen, stood up on stone steps with greenery

She’s here! Order from your favorite bookseller! Leave a review, tag me in your photos! Reserve a copy at the library! I’ve got her in the woods today and reading tonight. Raise a cup of tea (or a shot of whisky) for us 💙🩵💜

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/khadi...

The Abduction of Proserpina, by Gregorio Lazzarini, late 17th century, 📸 via @brwalkoff.bsky.social

let's fast forward to the part where only the gentle survive

Pride Month Poetry by Brenda Shaughnessy & CAConrad - A Review - The Broken Spine The idea that Pride celebrations can inspire ambivalence rather than celebration or contempt is unexpected. CAConrad’s ‘Glitter in My Wounds’ dissects the

"Brenda Shaughnessy and CAConrad redefine resilience and identity in their powerful poetry collections."

📖 Explore the reviews:
thebrokenspine.co.uk...

#PrideMonth #PoetryOfIdentity

Hand-sewn poetry zine stitched with white thread. Cover features a large flea.

Jess kissing a USPS box full of chapbooks in a hammock on a porch

Check out my latest THE FLEA, out now with @the-ethelzine.bsky.social.

I love you!!!!! No one makes me laugh like you in a quiet yoga class. 😘😂💓 TY so much

Two really hot people—John (JPS)and Jess (JQS)—stand in front of the Cummer Art Museum’s famous oak tree, which under no circumstances may you climb.

Happy birthday to my sister from a different mister! Remember, you are not glass, @jezzbah.bsky.social, and my flower hadn’t seen a drop of rain in a week! RNR! Love you!

Jess reading in a blue and yelllow kaftan

Purple mums in dense foliage

Read some poems, witnessed some flowers during my birthday week.

my book (dukeupress.edu/as-if) has official cover art now and yes I am looking at a picture of it on my phone every five minutes for my mental health thank you for asking

A massively blooming pink peony

Go off

Some really fancy flea stuff happening over here…making Jessica Q. Stark’s THE FLEA (link to shop in bio). @jezzbah.bsky.social

I loved this portrait from the Wayne Thiebaud retrospective at the Legion of Honor and it pretty much sums up my mood today (and most of this year if I’m being honest)

Binaural Sound Study - Fig Tree Cove 1, 2017

Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen, Japanese ink and acrylic ink on Arches paper

cyzchen.com/drawings

#art #paintings

BOMB Magazine | Samiya Bashir and Douglas Kearney Unruly spells: poetry that builds expansive portals for a world that needs truth and love.

“The ever and the always. Every motherf*cking thing.”
A conversation for @bombmag.bsky.social with my brother in brilliance, Douglas Kearney.
We talk survival. Spectacle. Specters. And the work of making anyway.
👇🏾
bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

US Proxy War Displaced My Family 50 Years Ago. We Still Live in the Wreckage. As the daughter of Hmong refugees, I know the traumatic consequences of American foreign policy.

"I will keep haunting the war and I will keep digging into its wound..."

@truthout.org published my essay on the 50th anniversary to the end of the US wars in Southeast Asia. Here's to remembrance of May 1975 and all that preceded it and that followed.

truthout.org/articles/us-...

HAIKU come windless invader i am a carnival of stars a poem of blood.

Sonia Sanchez