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Jack Bedell

@jackbedell.bsky.social
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Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-19. Books from Mercer University Press. Work included in Best Microfiction and Best Spiritual Lit. EIC: @louisianalit.bsky.social www.jackbbedell.com

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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You’re the best, Pat! Thank you so much for giving this poem a boost.
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks for checking this one out, Pat!
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"It would’ve been nice to ring in the new year on the curb staring down my lampless street into an emptiness so black even the idea of a horizon disappeared ..." @jackbedell.bsky.social in Plague Circus plaguecircuspress.com/im-sad-by-ja...
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I’m Sad the World Didn’t End by Jack B. Bedell
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"... it's all home to me." Pointe Noire by @jackbedell.bsky.social in Tanasi Review see page 9) tanasiriverreview.neocities.org/Tanasi_River...
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Circle is always open. The poems I’m looking for return, in Charles Simic’s words, “that which is familiar to its original strangeness” No fee. Four-week turnaround. Full guidelines at stonecirclereview.com/submissions-... #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@judemarr.bsky.social Thanks for tuning in to the Dodo reading tonight! It was wonderful to see your face and hear your voice!
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you so much for checking this one out!
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V.C. Myers @vcmyers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love this lil ode to PJ Harvey & the 90s...
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Very grateful to have a little nostalgia-for-the-before-times piece up at Plague Circus this morning. 👇🏻 plaguecircuspress.com/im-sad-by-ja...
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I’m Sad the World Didn’t End by Jack B. Bedell
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The new issue of Tanasi Review is out today. The PDF is available now with a print edition to follow next month. Very grateful to have a poem about Pat Mire’s latest movie in the issue’s lead-off spot! 🙌🏻👇🏻 tanasiriverreview.neocities.org/Tanasi_River...
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
❤️
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thank you!
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m very grateful to have this one in the @stonecirclereview.bsky.social archive!
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thanks, Pat! I hope you liked those.
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The mystery is not always a whodunit. Sometimes, like this time, that part is ..." "Some scenes can’t help themselves." "Sometimes murder scenes hold no truth at all." @jackbedell.bsky.social with four nutshell studies in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Nutshell-Stu...
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Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Deaths, by Jack B. Bedell — The Bulb Region
Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Deaths — Jack B. Bedell I. Barn, 1939 The...
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s w i f t s: a literary magazine @swiftslitmag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Poetry Nominations: @mollyakin.bsky.social, "Of Fatigue" @jackbedell.bsky.social, "Dusk, Chackbay" @amorak.bsky.social, "Lament with Waning Crescent" @fklein907.bsky.social, "Landslide II"
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thank you!
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I love spending time in the world of those dioramas. If I ever made it to the crime bureau where they’re housed now, I think they’d have to drag me out!
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For my evening friends. (Still stoked!) 👇🏻
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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Some scenes can’t help themselves. Their order of events conforms naturally into one or two reasonable chronologies. One act simply leads to the next until the final outcome declares itself." The amazing @jackbedell.bsky.social enters four crime-scene dioramas in The Bulb Region today. 🔗👇
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Absolutely stoked to have four Nutshell Studies based on Frances Glessner Lee’s dioramas up at @bulbregion.bsky.social today! Huge gratitude to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for inspiring these, and for giving them a perfect home! bulbregion.com/Nutshell-Stu...
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Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Deaths, by Jack B. Bedell — The Bulb Region
Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Deaths — Jack B. Bedell I. Barn, 1939 The...
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thank you, Kyla!
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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.neologismpoetry.com/August-2026/ smokin' hot issue. Love @jackbedell.bsky.social's piece in here:
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Issue #111 Amira Sain Rival Male Hummers* with Forgotten Tree (after Greg Williamson’s Double Exposures) These tiny Anna’s hummingbirds alight On sapling grown too tall for its cramped case both ti…
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You’re the best, Pat Thank you!
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“… No stares, no pain, no names even in this here, this now …” @jackbedell.bsky.social in @neologismpoetry.bsky.social www.neologismpoetry.com/August-2026/
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thank you so much for checking these out, and for spreading the word, Pat. Much love!
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“The WHY of it, though, is a quiet song you’ll sing to yourself …” Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death + 2 by @jackbedell.bsky.social in @bruisermag.com www.bruisermag.com/Bedell_Three...
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Three prose poems by Jack B. Bedell - BRUISER
MEMORY, K&B, LÂCHE PAS LA PATATE & NUTSHELL STUDIES OF UNEXPLAINED DEATH
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“There are days when the last shadow in this swamp steps to the edge of the clearing and howls. …” @jackbedell.bsky.social in Odd Lobster oddlobster.com#jack-b-bedell
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Storms and songs have shown this river for what it is a hundred years now” @jackbedell.bsky.social in Hollow and Sky hollowandsky.org/triptych-not...
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Triptych, Notes from the River Jack Bedell - Hollow and Sky
Triptych, Notes from the River 1. A line of saltwater creepsupriver dailycloser to oyster bedsand groundwaterwe all need to live 2. Storms and songs have shownthis river for what it isa hundred years ...
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Even the oldest alligators floating in this water hold her as kin whenever they brush near" Brilliant evocation of place and character from @jackbedell.bsky.social www.neologismpoetry.com/August-2026/
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August 2026
Issue #111 Amira Sain Rival Male Hummers* with Forgotten Tree (after Greg Williamson’s Double Exposures) These tiny Anna’s hummingbirds alight On sapling grown too tall for its cramped case both ti…
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thank you, Matt!
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Fantastic new issue of @neologismpoetry.bsky.social posted yesterday, and I’m stoked to have a poem included. www.neologismpoetry.com/August-2026/
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August 2026
Issue #111 Amira Sain Rival Male Hummers* with Forgotten Tree (after Greg Williamson’s Double Exposures) These tiny Anna’s hummingbirds alight On sapling grown too tall for its cramped case both ti…
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Very grateful to have a swamplore piece in the new issue of @neologismpoetry.bsky.social alongside so many ✨! 👇🏻
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Neologism Poetry Journal @neologismpoetry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Issue #111 out now! Featured Poet Amira Sain, supported by @jackbedell.bsky.social, Eva Hadjiyani, Patrick Deeley, Obiotika Wilfred Toochukwu, @tracyroyce.bsky.social, Juno Steele Gray, James F. Wurtz, @yoda-olinyk.bsky.social, and Ella Betz. www.neologismpoetry.com/August-2026/
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Also stoked to have a poem in the beautiful new issue of Dirt Freckles today! 🙌🏻👇🏻 dirtfreckleslitmag.wixsite.com/dirt-freckle...
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Purpling | Dirt Freckles 1
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
For my afternoon friends!
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Very grateful to have three prose micros up @bruisermag.com today! Thanks to Josh Shepard and everyone on staff for giving the perfect home to memories of Stan Hansen and my dad. There’s also the 1st in my series of Nutshell murder scene mysteries. 👇🏻 www.bruisermag.com/bedell_three...
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Three prose poems by Jack B. Bedell - BRUISER
MEMORY, K&B, LÂCHE PAS LA PATATE & NUTSHELL STUDIES OF UNEXPLAINED DEATH
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
So stoked to have work up at @bruisermag.com !
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Very grateful to everyone at Odd Lobster for giving my Honey Island monster poem a great home! 🐊👇🏻 oddlobster.com#jack-b-bedell
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Issue 2 of Hollow and Sky is out now. It’s beautiful, and I’m really blessed to have a brand new poem included. hollowandsky.org/triptych-not...
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Triptych, Notes from the River Jack Bedell - Hollow and Sky
Triptych, Notes from the River 1. A line of saltwater creepsupriver dailycloser to oyster bedsand groundwaterwe all need to live 2. Storms and songs have shownthis river for what it isa hundred years ...
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Beyond that, for her it’s all high score after high score, the purity of her shot’s arc, and ..." @jackbedell.bsky.social & World B. Free in Coming Up Short www.comingupshortmag.com/p/swish
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Thank you, Pat. I hope you’re finding some peace, man. Much love to you.
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It’s great to be back on the board at Some Words today with a new micro from my PI series! Big thanks to Justin Carter for giving this one a home! 🙌🏻 somewords.boards.net/thread/32/ja...
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Call the band back together. Let’s do it again!!!
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Knocked out to have a poem up at Badlands today! Thanks to Trevor for giving this one a fantastic home! 👇🏻 badlandspoetry.com/about/poems/
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Really stoked to have a new micro up at Coming Up Short/Aperture today. 🙏🏻 www.comingupshortmag.com/p/swish
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Swish
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Thank you, Pat. Much love, man!
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"We both pass life like this, enjoying whatever warmth we can find, fully aware winter is going to ease in one day soon and ..." In Water by @jackbedell.bsky.social in Gorko thegorkogazette.com/2026/07/18/i...
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feet / dangling towards silt
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Very grateful to have a little poem up today at Gorko. Huge thanks to Colin Gee for giving that one a great home! 👇🏻 thegorkogazette.com/2026/07/18/i...
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