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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Steve Castro x Christopher Citro x Dustin Pearson @christophercitro.bsky.social / @dustinkpearson.bsky.social

Smoke Moving Out of the Way as It Rises

Flamenco Sanchez owned a racehorse. The horse would die once a year by catching on fire and turning in bones & ashes before reappearing a week later good as new insight Flamenco's stable. Flamenco did not know what to do, whom to tell and trust with such a heavy secret. The horse loved to race locomotives and dream about his political ambitions. The horse once dreamt it was the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It stood like men stand for speeches. Rearing on its hind legs, ascending to 12 feet and to the awe of everyone who gathered to hear, but for all its climbing it was not granted words to move men. Its power remained in the realm of beasts, and so when it moved toward its calling to lead, it could only do as much through fear. Its wild stomps, its pained neighing drove everyone away from it, the upset and excitement forming first a matrix of crystals in its heart, then a palace to glow blue in sunlight and purple-gold in night. Only to awaken again to a wet slap of skin and muscle, the hardness of bone beneath.

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 10/04/2026

"Reality and fantasy are refraction mirrors which shape endless images and experiences between both." @dustinkpearson.bsky.social interviews Jonah Mixon-Webster about Promise/Threat (@aaknopf.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/9hr3qH8

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

therumpus.net/2026/04/09/p... I had a conversation with Jonah Mixon-Webster in March about his new collection Promise/Threat, out from Alfred A. Knopf. We talked about hopes, dreams, and the precarity of the imagination, among other things. You can read that conversation today at The Rumpus.

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I haven't let anyone cut my hair since 2017. I was talking with my brother and he said he pays $55 to get his hair cut. Does that sound about right to you all?

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Another cat named Luna is my favorite artist

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Pump of syrup is my favorite artist

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

JUST RELEASED! ✨ Now Flourish Northern Cardinal: Selected Poems 2005–2025 by Darren C. Demaree gathers two decades of extraordinary work from one of today’s most prolific Ohioan poets. Order your copy today: 👉 smallharborpublishing.com/books/now-flourish-northern-cardinal-by-darren-c-demaree

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Department of English at Arizona State University @asuenglish.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

"They rush past the periphery / in sunlight. What was that, / a friend asks, as if briefly / my torso had begun to slip / from my legs..." From "A Scurry" by ASU English alum @dustinkpearson.bsky.social Read the poem in Waxwing: ow.ly/5fhj50XpBUJ #ASUHumanities

Image of ASU alum Dustin Pearson, who wears a hooded sweater and stands in a park.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Jumpin' jubilation! I just got my cream city review, with the poem "On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls" Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, & I wrote together. Thank you to all at CCR for the beautiful things that you do! @creamcityreview.bsky.social @dustinkpearson.bsky.social

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The University of Toledo is hiring an Assistant Lecturer to teach in the Composition Program. This position has a start date of Fall 2026. Please see this link for the complete job listing, which I learned was posted yesterday: careers.utoledo.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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Assistant Lecturer, Composition

The University of Toledo Department of English invites applications for an instructional position in the Composition Program at the rank of Assistant Lecturer to begin in Fall 2026. The position is a ...

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I have two poems in the new Waxwing. I so much love the art by Dora Ilce. I've included screens of one poem and of the issue art, but here's a link to the full issue: waxwingmag.org/index.php#top

A screen of Dora Ilce's piece entitled At the Party. It shows a fantastical animal creature in a bathroom sitting on a toilet reading a red book with a bottle of wine and a glass of wine.

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The magic of oven cooking in conjunction with food ya hafta flip at half time. Ya grab the oven mitt and reach in to get the food and that wave of heat feels like it singes all the hair off yr arm but it remains there if ya have it in the first place and that's not even the half of what can happen.

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Had it in my mind to get a dirty chai in a coffee shop yesterday. It rung up as $8.50. Decided to get some dinner at home instead.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Friends!! Today I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST, a micro e-chapbook of collaborative prose poetry I wrote with Dustin Nightingale (@dustinnightingale.bsky.social ) has been released by Ghost City Press!!! It's free or pay whatever you want! HUGE thanks to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Love that finally replaced all the lightbulbs in the fixture brightness and feeling.

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

My glasses are some of the best company I can keep. My glasses get on my last fkn nerve.

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A new poem in the latest issue of Sixth Finch. Here’s a link to the entire issue: sixthfinch.com

Dustin Pearson’s poem “A Wash after Entering” as it appears in the spring 2025 issue of Sixth Finch.

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I asked my students to tell me one of their staple foods. This eventually became them telling me one of their favorite foods. One student said "dippy eggs." I said: What's that?!? 💀

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

It’s officially socially acceptable to cry for the rest of the year.

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Was playing Fortnite the other day with folk and said: I really look forward to the supermarket scenes and when folk eat cans of beans in post apocalyptic movies.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Wow! Laurel Review accepted 3 of the collaborative poems Dustin Pearson, Steve Castro, and I wrote: "We End and the World Begins, Where?" "A Change of Occupation" and "Three Deaths near a Body of Water." HUGE thank you to Editor John Gallaher! @dustinkpearson.bsky.social @laurelreview.bsky.social

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The Inflectionist Review just published 2 collaborative prose poems Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. This is one of them. Please visit inflectionismDOTcom to read the other one! Huge thanks to Editors Anatoly Molotkov & John Sibley Williams! @dustinkpearson.bsky.social

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Even as grown as I am, I still sleep like a baby in comparison at my mother's house.

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Two new poems written with Christopher Citro and Steve Castro in The Inflectionist Review this afternoon. www.inflectionism.com/19-steve-cas...

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The Inflectionist Review - Steve Castro, Christopher Citro & Dustin Pearson, Forgotten Village

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

My student was awarded honors for his thesis this afternoon. I don’t think he knows this, but he’s the first student I chose to mentor in this capacity. It’s something I intend to remember.

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I've entered the stage of my life where people who love me want to play matchmaker. It's funny. It's kind of fun.

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Aldo Amparán @skygoneout.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Thrilled to share the stunning poem I curated for Zócalo Public Square, written by the incredible @dustinkpearson.bsky.social. Immense gratitude to Connie Voisine for the opportunity to highlight such inspirational voices, & to Dustin for trusting me with his work!

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Graceless and Gaslit by Dustin Pearson | Poetry

I had an argument with my friend a while ago. Last night, I let my hand into a grater. I watched the skin peel from my fingers and from the bones like the

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Booked a hotel for an event late last month for April 2025. Got a confirmation and everything. Today, that hotel sent me a new confirmation saying they discovered an event that weekend that entitles them to raise my rate close to double. I'm still able to type. Stress supplements work well.

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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Heading to the post office on Saturday with signed copies of So Much More. Let me know if you'd like one. They're hardcover and they're $24.

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

please call your reps, you can find your rep’s contact info here: www.house.gov/representati...

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’ve spent this semester teaching a course focused exclusively on the works of Charles Chesnutt. It’s been the best time. My students seemingly apply this final sentence of his novel The Marrow of Tradition to all their hopes and aspirations. They’ve made me keep it close too.

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

One of my students shared her birthday donuts with me today. 🥹

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

2 acceptances in 1 day!!, of poems written collaboratively w/ Steve Castro & Dustin Pearson! Heavy Feather Review accepted "Placatory Congregation" (thanks Bill Lessard!) & The Boiler accepted "Smoke Moving Out of the Way as It Rises" (thanks Diana Cao & Todd Dillard)! @dustinkpearson.bsky.social

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I’m not teaching in the fall of 2025. Send me a note if you’d like me to be your magical writer in residence.

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Dustin Pearson @dustinkpearson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

In addition to everything else you need to heal, get yourself a great friend you can text at any time to let them know you hurt your back / your back is hurting. Their world will slow just as much as yours for feeling for you.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/11/2024

🚨 Republicans are scheduling another vote on H.R. 9495, the bill that would give Trump new powers to unilaterally go after his political opponents. We need everyone reading this to contact their representatives and tell them to vote no on H.R. 9495: indivisible.org/resource/tel...

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House GOP Moves to Ram Through Bill That Gives Trump Unilateral Power to Kill Nonprofits

A bill to give Donald Trump power to kill nonprofits is still supported by dozens of Democrats — giving the GOP plenty of breathing room.

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Paraselene @paraselenemag.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

See these fine folks' work in our inaugural issue coming out this Thursday, November 21st!! Mark your calendars, set phone reminders, write on the palm of your hand. You don't want to miss this issue.

A graphic listing the contributors for Issue #1 of Paraselene: Ken Cathers, Savannah Cooper, Lindsay D'Andrea, Christiana Doucette, Caleb Edmondson, Maëlle Keita, Lindsey J. Medina, J. L. Moultrie, Kira Rosemarie, Sameen Shakya, Alina Stefanescu, and Rowan Tate.

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