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Stephen Jackson

@fortyoddcrows.bsky.social
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Pacific Northwest: Seattle, Portland, Eugene 🌲 | Working-class, poet, photographer, vegan 🌱 | Allium, The Branches, fourteen poems, New Ohio Review, Prairie Fire, Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology stephen-jackson.com

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 8h
white tie, black labrador, a beautiful woman in a turban a hue of green you’ve no word for, perhaps the colour of pine My poem "diego" appears in Vancouver, BC's Bitter Magazine today. Excited to be included in their 2nd issue! Check it out. bittermag.com/diego/
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Twenty years ago today I left Illinois for a city I had never actually set foot in, Seattle. I think that ended up being a good call.
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Flowers from today...
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just received a rejection notice for my poems 363 days after the submission.
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Welcome, Autumn!
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jonlavieri.bsky.social @jonlavieri.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"The kindness of one human being to another in times of mass hatred and violence deserves more respect than the preaching of all the churches since the beginning of time." - Charles Simic
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 19/09/2026
So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to’t.
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This really was a special evening, and Ryan really carried it. Seattle,I really hope you appreciate what you have
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Rae Armantrout from her excellent new book, safe rooms.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Had a pretty awful day so I went and touched grass at Streissguth Garden. Do recommend.
View from Streissguth of Lake Union Hollyhock in the gardenAutumn crocus opening in the gardenAster flowers with a bee
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At least. "One of the few things most writers agree on is that we can't trust our judgment on our own freshly written work. To see its faults and virtues we need to look at it after a real interval: a day or two at least." - Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Unreal.
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very excited to be at Town Hall for The Urbanist / CityNerd event this evening.
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm sorry, I'm just not ready.
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Seattle's Ravenna Park CW: Spider
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is just a little over half an hour long but it is riveting. I've heard a lot of stories about 9/11 and watched a lot of documentaries, but more than any of the others, it made me really feel what so many people lived through on that day www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxGG...
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I was on the 84th floor of the South Tower - this is how I survived 9/11
YouTube video by ITV News
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Is someone putting fake flowers out around the neighborhood. It's way too late in the season for these to look this perfect. And what's up with the crocus? They're not due for another seven months.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the last day of this year's Bicycle Weekends today! It was a beautiful day for a ride along the lake, and a bittersweet end to the season.
A group of cyclists on Lake Washington Boulevard A group of cyclists heading around a curve on Lake Washington Boulevard Seflie with cyclists behind on I-90 trailGroup photo at Seward Park
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This poem by @russellbrakefield.bsky.social from Tar River Poetry, is stunning. tarriverpoetry.com/spring-2026/...
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Russell Brakefield - Tar River Poetry
When There Was Beauty When there was beauty there was enoughto fill the entire valley with floating golden lilies.Evening drives to the river like a purifying ritual—cassette deck and a shield of swee...
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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
❤️❤️❤️
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So sad to see this wonderful magazine go!
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4ok...
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ANOHNI: I WILL SURVIVE
YouTube video by ANOHNI
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I don't think it was intentional, it just happened to be on the playlist, but they were playing Dolly's version of Neil's After the Goldrush at the local Co-op, and it almost made me cry.
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“…your life is worth more than someone else's convenience.” —Alexis Mercedes Rinck
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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I think so many writers identify with gardening because the average stranger won't read your garden either.
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
My poem "Sleepovers" came out today in issue thirty-four of the brilliant Stone of Madness Press. Thanks to L & Olivia for including me once again [I have two poems in issue three, as well]. Please stop by. stoneofmadnesspress.com/stephen-jack...
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Stone of Madness Press
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Here's a direct link to "David On the Bus" from the Spring 2026 STYLE Issue of Branches: A Journal of Literature and Philosophy. Enjoy! thebranchesjournal.substack.com/i/199547149/...
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Style Poetry Anthology
Poetry from the contributors to the Spring 2026 issue of The Branches
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It's interesting (and nice) to get a response from a submission sent at the end of April in which the editor apologizes for taking so long to get back to me, while I have submissions that were sent in May of last year that I have yet to hear back from.
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Today was a trip out to Magnuson Park! At 350 acres it is the second-largest park in Seattle. It's also blackberry heaven!
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
rattle.com/all-these-br...
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All These Bright Things by Jacob Herrera Spears - Rattle: Poetry
Fourth grade. I always liked the drive home from school with my mother— our storytime.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This should be very fun. Come join me and @nerd4cities.bsky.social!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/08/2026
Libraries are good. Nice work Seattle.
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
veganfta.com
European Court Confirms Ethical Veganism Is a Protected Philosophical Belief in Europe
On 16th July 2026, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Switzerland violated the fundamental rights of two vegans who were not consistently provided with vegan meals while held in…
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
First peek at Seattle's Volunteer Park Dahlia Garden yesterday!
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Had a visit from this beautiful creature today!
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"The Spoonmaker's Children" by Gary Glauber from the Summer 2026 Issue of Superpresent.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is very sad news. I loved this lit mag, and they've published both my poetry and my photography.
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Friday flowers and ferns with trees from recent wanderings.
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Deer in the Forest by German painter Eugen Krüger (1832-1876)
Oil painting depicting a deer in a dark forest on a full moon night.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Under yond yew-trees lay thee all along"
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Seattle Aquarium
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I love Douglas Stuart's novels, and I've been waiting months for this to come in at the library! Yay!
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Good day for a stroll in the Washington Park Arboretum.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is my urbanist origin story.
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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Much of my Summer is spent rotating through Seattle's various wooded areas. It was back to Interlaken today.
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