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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Me, sending my second poetry ms. to the press’ first book contest which rejected my first poetry ms. last year:

Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This is absolutely ridiculous, NFTs use vastly more energy and water than crypto. Unnecessary and pitiable to the authors and artists whose work is being entrusted.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

One of the reasons why I rarely speak of my plots, my mappings, my achievements and dreams and goals, is because oftentimes it becomes too much. My craft is intensity.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Today’s the day! Come out if you’re in the greater seattle area! ❤️🩵❤️

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

My poem “The Door” out today w/ @pinchjournal.bsky.social — alongside art by Jason Stout! Thought about doors and the destruction of structure and how it’s all so very heartbreaking. Check out the issue with writers Courtney Zanoski, Abi Pollokoff (pre-order Night Myths!), Dabin Jeong, & more!

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

? I just got back from a bike but put me in this weekend coach

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Thanks for catching up with me, enjoy these dives and recommendations! More readers and celebrations of reading forthcoming as our year's readings progress.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I'm currently working through pancreatitis! Which is an odd and specific ailment to be hospitalized for. The journey to this diagnosis has been the subject of much of my ongoing chronicle of laughter in recent weeks. If you're interested, read here: riantly.substack.com/p/this-weeks...

The masked Cody Stetzel in an emergency room waiting room.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Because it's been a little longer than I anticipated taking between posts, I'll double-head this with Luther Hughes' as well! Enjoy these bountiful recommendations!

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Next up is Rachel Edelman! Check these out if you haven't read these recommendations previously -

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

@gabriellebates.bsky.social Recommendation: Song and The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly ( BOA Editions ) @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/this-long-wi... and from Plume - plumepoetry.com/uncovering-w...

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This Week’s Laughter is up on Riantly! Some headiness, but trying to chat earnestly about the laugh as a bodily experience and the body as a center of rebellion. Our breath as the source for pushing away suffering. Not in abandonment of responsibility but in resilience. Also are you #Bun4bun ?

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

My January reads! Just put them all into @thestorygraph.com - really jazzed to be using this over the cesspit of goodreads. Honestly a thrilling month of reads for me, I'd gladly recommend all. Favorites: The Unquiet Country, The Moon That Turns You Back, Moving the Bones, and Black Pastoral

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Found this at @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social! Love saying the name Gary Lemons. Who are some of your favorite names?

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is the balance I strive for

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

What I love about a consistent tarot practice is it allows me to exercise the latent potential of connectivity regularly. Where are you, lovers? And where is your puddle?

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Another round-up of laughter is up on my substack! Please feel free to read, share what has made you laugh recently, or just share my own writings. I offer this less as escapism and more to stress how vital it is to document your happiness especially in times of turmoil and strife. Linkinbio!!!

The poet Cody and one of their cats Hazelnut striking such cunty poses in their luscious fits of calico fur and orange crochet hat + neon frog cardigan.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Trying to keep the gamers in check with reality

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I’ve got three poems forthcoming in @pinchjournal.bsky.social , @hootreview.bsky.social , and Vagabond city in the next few months. Feeling beyond grateful. It’s been almost five years since my last poem publication, and I am glad these are finding resonance. Mostly I want to continue weirdly.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Always “How are you doing lately?” Or “I love you, I miss you,” and never “Let me hold your prodigious sex in my arms like the Christ child while reading.”

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Our readers for Other People’s Poems this last weekend round-robin-ed their readings. So beautiful to hear the balance and waves between Jane Wong’s, Yanyi’s, and, as heard in this video, Quenton Baker’s selected poems. Truly so grateful to be able to host this with @theoceanisgay.bsky.social

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This one! I sing it in the shower ahaha

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A photo of yourself from December last year!

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I think I played this album for y’all on the way to pumpykins, but loved this Foxing album!!

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Was truly nervous about my streak for Carly

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This week’s (month’s) laughter is up on my substack! Enjoy meanderings through being seen and withdrawing from visibility, fruity little gay drinks, and the percentage of vegetative fertility one is. Hope you enjoy! Link in bio!

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

After extensive thought and research, here is 2025. This is exhaustive and prescriptive.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Getting caught up on my laughter archive! Check out my latest post for a short election diatribe and some laughter from Halloweentime. Link in bio (link in line, link of log, link in chain)

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you have not yet been introduced to Frederike Mayröcker may I — this from études translated by Donna Stonecipher

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Today’s Yanyi’s Dream of the Divided Field & glorious Etel Adnan’s In The Heart of The Heart of Another Country “Does pain, therefore, resemble love? The temptation to equate them would be great, as they so often bring each other about. But it is not because they’re inseparable that they’re alike.”

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

No thoughts, just jelly vibes from when we visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Jellyfish upside down in a cerulean blue water, she is pink, she is cunty, she is brat.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hey everybody 🐻 I’m Cody, I host a poetry reading with darling friend Ally Ang in Seattle. I’ve finished writing a book of poems and a fantasy novel this year. And I have a substack where I write essays on laughter and poetry. If you have any recent publications to highlight please share!

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #353,645!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #353,645, Cody Stetzel ‪@bearable.bsky.social‬, joined on Jul 24, 2023"

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

And from the Serbian, Zvonko Karanović's collected poems titled - It was easy to set the snow on fire translated by Ana Božičević and published by Phoneme Media.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Then this Green Integer book by Reina María Rodríguez and translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates-Madsen

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

The second from Zephyr Press by Liliana Ursu and translator Sean Cotter (and this poem specifically originally in AGNI )

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

One of the highlighted works: From Entre Rios Books and the prolific translator @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social by Fabián O. Iriarte, The Confessions.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

New post up for archive of laughter! Check it out and let me know your own laughs of the week. Link in bio!

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

This week’s laughter is up! The seventh installment featuring: spicy coffee, interrogations, music, and diners. Hope you enjoy! Also included are a few additional pieces that I’ve enjoyed lately! open.substack.com/pub/riantly/...

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

Hey folks, I'll be trying to post more here. But if you missed it, I started a daily dose of my writing. It's free to subscribe to, and I'll be talking about... just about everything under the sun. But certainly about poetry, translated poetry, and going-ons. open.substack.com/pub/riantly/...

A green background share of Cody's post "Ramblings #10" with a quote on it saying, "A falling rock, for instance - although, is the rock that is 317 feet in the air the same as the rock that is 316 feet in the air?"

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Last night’s Entre Rios reading at Folio Aetheneum in Seattle. Celebrating the launch of Carolina Essas and Allison A. deFreese’s collaboration/ translation Winter Season!

Carolina Essas and Allison A. deFreese reading from Winter Season!

Roundtable discussion, joviality, friendship.

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

From Donika Kelly’s The Renunciations “Who put the river in my arm said don't let the water? Maybe the knife got a hard kiss and a sweet bite. Maybe the knife only metal and wood and a bit of brass but maybe it know how to love the inside of me.”

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

How did they know my puppy kink I thought I kept it well leashed???

Screenshot of a spam instagram comment tag notification looking for dog models for dog gear

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Instead of discourse, we can post screenshots of screenshots of screenshots of the various social medias left before this. Whoever gets the most platforms in one image wins a hug or like a muffin idk

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

This is the best I can do for a first post.

Cricket the lays blissfully across the green couch, back paws tucked and front paws lopping. He lays on a soft, grqy blanket, one of his favorites, and keeps his tongue lightly out because of a (suspected) deviated septum he received when he was an alley cat.

The boy has certainly grown into his domestic life. From barely tolerating a human in the same room as him, let alone a pet, to now dutifully following us around the house, chirping when we talk to him. He will lay on anything remotely seeming like a bed, and will play with anything that rolls on the floor. His new favorite game is to bring his toys to the top of the stairs and swat them down, satisfied by listening to the pliant smack of plastic against wooden floors drop after drop.

Do his dreams convey the world of love that surrounds him? I could only hope. All possible realities ones of joy.

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