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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A handful of poems I've written over the years make my all-time favorites list. "The Ins and Outs of Weird" is one of them. Thanks to Ruslan Garrey and Dustin King for giving it a home in their excellent publication, Sublunary Review. www.sublunaryreview.com/home/ins-and...

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here’s a poem from Issue 10 of Impossible Archetype with a bit of the back story.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I arrived on the Coast Starlight train, sick as a dog from weeks on the road. After getting settled in Seattle, I'd tell people I thought the train must have crashed and I'd died and gone to heaven.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thirty-three years ago tonight, I arrived in Seattle, fresh off a bout of homelessness and traveling the West Coast with friends. My first night here was in the Green Tortoise Hostel (in Queen Anne). I went the next day to live with a friend at the swanky Kahala Apts in Capitol Hill.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A stroll through the arboretum on a balmy early October evening.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thx. It's a favorite of mine. And I dig the magazine.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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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

Just received a rejection notice for my poems 363 days after the submission.

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kind of. Freeway Park, actually. 😁

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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.

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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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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 · 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 trail

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My pleasure. I headed immediately to Open Books, Seattle's all-poetry bookstore, to find your books.

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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

Mine was in Impossible Archetype, @dogwithoutlegs.bsky.social's awesome LGBTQ+ poetry mag out of Dublin. They published five more of my poems over the years. Sadly, they closed earlier this year, but every issues remains archived online. impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com

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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 · 19/08/2026

It already happens here in Seattle, at the wonderful Twice Sold Tales. Reduced prices, that is, but no drinks. That's would be nice!

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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Click the link above the image to go directly to the poem, but do check out the entire issue.

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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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Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Said the man who wrote under approximately seventy-five other names.

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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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