I think about this poem so often that I’m slightly embarrassed about it.

The Spring issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse is live at alliteration.net/current-issue/ on the theme Mythic Tales and Sacred Truths. It features 32 poems by 24 poets on topics ranging from faith to doubt, Ariadne to Odin, & banshees to seraphs

Jesse Keith Butler has a new poem in Traces Journal, "Undigested Jonah." Check it out! tracesjournal.ca/p/undigested-j…

I'm in here too!

New poem!

#poems by Jesse Keith Butler in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse (more) #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #alliterativeverse

Immersion, with allusions to T.S. Elliott: alliteration.net/poetry/immersi…

Beneath the Buzzing of My Brainstem alliteration.net/poetry/beneath…

Excerpt from "The Lawgiver": alliteration.net/poetry/the-law…

As it happens, these are reprints -- from The Chained Muse, Ekstasis Magazine, and his collection, The Living Law. Jesse Keith Butler is not a poet to miss.

My call is out for the Summer issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. I'm looking for "Protests, Opinions, Prophetic Voices, Flytings, and Poetic Battles". I'm opening the door to anyone who wants to go full on polemical. #poetrycommunity #submisions #poets alliteration.net/call-for-submi…

One of my two poems in the new Blue Unicorn.

Jesse Keith Butler You had me from line 2, but the final couplet should be chiseled in marble (or bedrock) somewhere.

The draft of our New Lyre Magazine - Spring/Summer 2025 issue has been sent for final proof reading. It's going to be an epic showing, with Egypt making a major poetry comeback!

"The Whole Shebang"--a #villanelle by Boris Dralyuk The New Republic: newrepublic.com/article/194826… via The New Republic

I've been selected as one of 6 writers in residence at the historic Berton House in Dawson City! I'll be living and writing in the Yukon in March and April 2026.

Congratulations to this year's #BertonHouse writers-in-residence! ◢ Jesse Keith Butler ◢ @cody_caetano ◢ Krista Foss ◢ Helen Knott ◢ Angela Long ◢ Rebecca Thomas Learn more about this year’s residents here: bit.ly/44q5YSM #CanLit #PierreBerton

I've been selected as one of 6 writers in residence at the historic Berton House in Dawson City! I'll be living and writing in the Yukon in March and April 2026.