Sign in

Jack Preston King

@jackprestonking.bsky.social
1.9K followers 4K following 3.3K posts

Author, poet, philosopher. Courter, creator and curator of wonder. I write for people who intuit that there is more to reality than meets the eye. JackPrestonKing.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Jim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 18h
011
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature, because we are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve. - #MaxPlanck
0133
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Jim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My October newsletter, a couple of days early. eomail5.com/web-version?...
eomail5.com
It's almost October! Giving Credit Where Credit is Due!
I know you've seen the cover of The Lion Communique a lot, but I don't think I've let you guys in on who did it.
021
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reality is not a substitute for the world
1365
Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Isn’t this how everybody sees themselves or wants to be seen? Who wouldn’t find this list self-evidently positive? buff.ly/8q4ExWp
buff.ly
Are You Creative? Or a Troublemaker?
To stay creative, refuse to choose
000
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is there experience too small for the world?
0255
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Jim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
021
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Researchers already say humans are likely to reshape themselves to be better understood by chatbots, service robots, etc in a sort of existential drift... nautil.us/are-you-in-d...
Drawing of one child on laptop in shadow of AI chat, another child reading a book with an imaginative shadow of landscape, animals, planets, rocket. 

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."  Sydney J. Harris
165
Reposted by Jack Preston King
FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“The bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans — as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides.” – Philip K. Dick
041
Reposted by Jack Preston King
hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Let us walk the woods as feral possibility space. Let us walk the woods in hope of strange sights, fantastical encounters. Stories we can tell to those we love as an intimate folklore of hope that wonder is still abroad. That we still have places of constant magic. – #DAKilroy
541270
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Jim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
032
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Jim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The price of everything is going or gone up. You know what hasn't gone up? The price of The Lion Communique! So, get yourself a copy, go to a park, stay at home & read The Lion Communique! tinyurl.com/Tiny-Amazon #booksky
071
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is in ourselves and only in ourselves that we can touch the interior of being, because it is only there that we discover a being which has an interior and which is nothing but this interior. - #MerleauPonty
053
Reposted by Jack Preston King
SunnyandSheryl @commgal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#poetryjoke
1116
Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I loved this book. Actually, I loved it, then I hated it, then I loved it again... #BookReview buff.ly/JblZRow
buff.ly
Why Fish Don't Exist: Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
When Lulu Miller was seven years old, she asked her atheist, biochemist father, “What’s the meaning of life?”
010
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm having trouble talking myself into the feeling this whole thing ain't broken... but I have a new poem called "Hickory Hill," published in Oyster River Pages' glorious annual issue, and I'd be thrilled if you read it (or listened to me read it) www.oysterriverpages.com/edie-meade
oysterriverpages.com
"Hickory Hill," Poetry by Edie Meade — Oyster River Pages
“Hickory Hill” by Edie Meade is a haunting, visceral prose poem that confronts a devastating tragedy while questioning poetry’s ability to hold, witness, or make meaning from it.
3115
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was trying to figure out if they were starlings or redwings when the two on the left pretended to be an owl just to wind me up.
3 birds on a tv aerial, two on left have heads together facing left and right so their beaks look like owl ears.
072
Reposted by Jack Preston King
~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Poem for Thursday 9.24.26 Nothing ~ Margaret Atwood -Nothing like love to put blood back in the language/The sky's not vacant/ What touches you —is what you touch.
NOTHING
Nothing like love to put blood back in the language,
the difference between the beach and its discrete rocks & shards, a hard cuneiform, and the tender cursive of waves; bone & liquid fishegg, desert & saltmarsh, a green push out of death. The vowels plump
again like lips or soaked fingers, and the fingers themselves move around these
softening pebbles as around skin. The sky's not vacant and over there but close against your eyes, molten, so near you can taste it. It tastes of salt. What touches you is what you touch.
0101
Reposted by Jack Preston King
FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." ~ Charles Darwin.
022
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A word of regret for the end of feelings
1266
Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A book about passion and purpose. A book about following your dreams. #BookReview buff.ly/3lfQV9C
buff.ly
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
Sarah Stewart Johnson’s The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World is a marvelous blend of science history and personal memoir that I fully expected to like, but wound up falling…
010
Reposted by Jack Preston King
FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Inside the emerging world of anesthesia “dream therapy” bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p/inside-the...
bigthinkmedia.substack.com
Inside the emerging world of anesthesia “dream therapy”
"The amount of interest is enormous," says anesthesiologist Boris Heifets. "People are dropping in and coming out of the woodwork, trying to understand how to do this."
132
Reposted by Jack Preston King
FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
043
Reposted by Jack Preston King
FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Most of us tend to see what we wish to see, and to think that it is reality in its unadorned essence. Materialists believe that absolutely everything, even the formal structures of culture and the intentional structures of consciousness, can be reduced without remainder -->
121
Reposted by Jack Preston King
FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think.” – Alfred Austin
061
Reposted by Jack Preston King
alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
hear me out here - you know how with cookies it's so very very satisfying to be able to hit "REJECT ALL"? just put that choice on every site but for AI. maybe the EU can get the ball rolling
142
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mary Oliver ♥️ “It has saved my life to know this.”
LONELINESS

I too have known loneliness.
I too have known what it is to feel
misunderstood,
rejected, and suddenly
not at all beautiful.
Oh, mother earth,
your comfort is great, your arms never withhold.
It has saved my life to know this.
Your rivers flowing, your roses opening in the morning.
Oh, motions of tenderness!
49425
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
DIANE DI PRIMA reading her poetry in 1976. A brief one line poem from the 50's Revolutionary Letter Number 4 from the 60's The Fire Guardian from the 70's #DianeDiPrima #beatpoets 👇🏻🎧▶️ youtu.be/xO7YzZb7AwM?...
351
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We have always become impossible
0224
Reposted by Jack Preston King
phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why do you worry so, / when none of us is spared? Jill Bialosky
ANOTHER LOSS TO STOP FOR

Against such cold and mercurial mornings, 
watch the wind whirl one leaf
across the landscape,
then, in a breath, let it go. 
The color in the opaque sky 
seems almost not to exist.

Put on a wool sweater. 
Wander in the leaves, 
underneath healthy elms. 
Hold your child in your arms.

After the dishes are washed, 
a kiss still warm at your neck,
put down your pen. Turn out the light.

I know how difficult it is, 
always balancing and weighing,
it takes years and many transformations; 
and always another loss to stop for,

to send you backwards.

Why do you worry so,
when none of us is spared?

                                        --JILL BIALOSKY
0116
Reposted by Jack Preston King
phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Donald Hall, born on this day in 1928
Where the poet stops, the poem
begins. The poem asks only
that the poet get out of the way.
04011
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The first six (of 22) fake acknowledgments in @yoadrianididit.bsky.social new poem. This poem rules. neonpajamas.substack.com/p/090-poem-p...
“Acknowledgements”


“An Uncertain Valley” appeared in The Ticonderoga Railroader.

*

“Which Went That Way” appeared in Cemetery Bracket.

*

“Locking Picking in Somerset” was first issued in an undertaker’s brochure.

*

“Untitled Sonnet (The Wet in a Speaker)” was sewn into your husband’s jacket, where it stayed, draped across the back of a bar stool.

*

“Hat on a Hard-on” was published as an insert in the July issue of Erotica for the Sophisticates of Kenosha Wisconsin.

*

“Weekender” appeared in a dream. It remained there, a red fog ominous atop a slow photogenic hill.
095
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tiny poem from our collaborative chap, BRINK WAS THE WORD I WAS LOOKING FOR: diodepoetry.com/leary_susan_... Love poem-ing with Jarrett Moseley! Happy #smallpoemsunday! @darkwebtofu.bsky.social @diodeeditions.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Lost Couplet

When I die, let my body be donated to silence.
The final noise: when I'm clothed in ground.

Sparrows asleep inside a glass violin.
Bells with their throats cut.

The song went: plenty, plenty. I've plenty of bones.
54120
Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work." - Jacques Cousteau jackprestonking.com/f/the-kind-o...
jackprestonking.com
The Kind of Person Who Saves the World
How to Be That Person. Hurry, the World Needs You.
010
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Occult Sylvia Plath

The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet

JULIA GORDON-BRAMER
4214
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Gary Lachman @garylachman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Are we living through what the philosopher Jean Gebser called the "breakdown of the mental-rational consciousness structure?" Find out Sundays this October on my course in the secret history of consciousness hosted by the PRS: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-secret-h...
eventbrite.com
A Secret History of Consciousness - Online Class Series with Gary Lachman
Join Gary Lachman in 4 classes looking at different but related philosophies of consciousness that lie outside the materialist mainstream.
062
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Taz Rahman @tazrahman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This essay has been brewing for years! 'Yeats, Joyce and the Problem of Irish Independence' is this week's 'Sunday Editorial' for Lawnewsindex: lawnewsindex.blogspot.com/2026/09/20th...
022
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Spooky Little Book Nerd @spookylilbooknerd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I went down a VERY weird Halloween book rabbit hole. 🎃📚 Every book in this video is actually set on Halloween…trick-or-treating, haunted houses, creepy attractions, and some seriously WTF stuff. 😂 New video is up! 👻 #booksky #books #horrorbooks 📚🩸💙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysj7...
youtube.com
I Went Looking for the Creepiest Halloween Books Nobody Talks About 🎃 | Weird Halloween Book Hunt
YouTube video by Spooky Little Book Nerd
0112
Reposted by Jack Preston King
AP Strange @apstrange.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
On this week's episode of The AP Strange Show, I had a wonderful chat with Jo Hickey-Hall from The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast! We covered a lot of ground, discussing largely unseen forces and their relationship to nature and human spirit, as well as how... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com
Entering the Fairy Realm with Jo Hickey-Hall
Podcast Episode · The AP Strange Show · September 20 · 1h 4m
165
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Jim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wow! Congratulations!
021
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is there anything to the mind?
32711
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s possible everything unfinished will be pieced together
2265
Reposted by Jack Preston King
FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
042
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Jim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
011
Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
His own complete occult system... jackprestonking.com/f/w-b-yeats%...
jackprestonking.com
W. B. Yeats’s A Vision Explications and Contexts
W. B. Yeats's A Vision: Explications and Contexts is an extremely niche book, one whose ideal reader is someone who:
021
Reposted by Jack Preston King
FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
021
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Okay it's this, from "Say Fire" by Selma Asotić. Holy hell.
Text of the poem "Landscape with footprints in ash" from "Say Fire" by Selma Asotić
143
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Jim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Halloween is approaching The Lion Communique has stories for the season. The Captured Dead, ghosts of the Civil War haunt Gen. Sherman, Judgement Night, a swampy southern gothic noir, As Good a Name as Any what haunts the trenches of WWI. #booksky tinyurl.com/Tiny-Amazon
041
Reposted by Jack Preston King
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the very essence of #poetry there is something indecent: a thing is brought forth which we didn’t know we had in us. - #CzesławMiłosz
021
Reposted by Jack Preston King
FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture-bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant. ~ Terence McKenna
031