really hate a "i don't write political poems, i just write about nature" writer... like you think NATURE is not political???

Thx, all, for spreading the word about issue 2.4 making its way into the world! And thx too for 1200 followers (here’s to the next 1200 and more)!

One week after we released issue 2.4, and we’re feeling the love. Get misty with us by (re)visiting the issue’s editorial from Sara Judy. ballastjournal.com/issue-24-edito…

Contributor feature! Kicking off from Issue 2.4 🎉 First up is Eleanor Ball and “Every month for forty years” Eleanor ballastjournal.com/eleanor-ball

a good word from a true poet? we are BLESSED🙌 🪽⚔️

Contributor feature! Debmalya Bandyopadhyay (Debmalya Bandyopadhyay) and “Self-portrait as an abandoned water bottle” Read (or listen to Debmalya reading!) in ballast 2.4 ballastjournal.com/debmalya-bandy…

Contributor feature! Evelyn Berry and “Tease” (Evelyn, Your Girlfriend's Favorite Poet) Read (or listen to Evelyn’s reading!) in ballast 2.4 ballastjournal.com/evelyn-berry

Thrilled to have a new prose poem “The Woman and the Man” included in the new issue of SoFloPoJo ✨ Many thanks to minwpb and all the editorial team for selecting it! You can read the issue 35 here: southfloridapoetryjournal.com

Submit to the Fall 2025 Issue of The Greensboro Review! Our reading period is open now until January 1st!

Chicago folks! 📢

I voted. You should too.

A difficult & dark day. World-changing for all, likely world-ending for some. Dropping my kids off at school, I urged them, simply & impossibly, to feel their despair but not to give in to it. Holding space for you today; if no one’s told you they love you today, I love you.

Contributor feature! 🍖🥩🍖🥩 Paul Cunningham (Paul Cunningham @p-cunning.bsky.social) from “BRILLO” Read the poem in ballast issue 2.4 ballastjournal.com/paul-cunningham

Reading some stuff, including my piece “A Game of Telephone Is All I’m After Here, Honest” in the new issue of SoFloPoJo tomorrow. A company of creative folks is a good company to keep this week.

FRIDAY NOV 8TH AT 7:30 PM Eastern us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Bowing out here ➡️ catch me over at the other place @jacobschepers.bsky.social and on the pic site Jacob Schepers Let’s meet again, yes?