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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New issue of @ballastjournal.bsky.social dropped today! Check it out www.ballastjournal.com/issue-42-tab...

Cover image of ballast issue 4.2. A lake at twilight seen through trees in the foreground. Transparent overlay of fabric pattern over whole image. White text with names of contributors and journal details.

Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

year-end review because it’s vital to share how art and creativity not only happen in spite of difficulties and dumpster fires but as a refusal to accept the dumpster fires Grateful to the editors, collaborators, contributors, journal neighbors, press mates, & readers: Community > gloating

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

A rolling stone gathers no moss? Well, good thing I’ve let this project have a few years of growth to accumulate ALL THE MOSS. My second full-length, *Ugly Ground Swell Moss*, is heading out into the world sometime soon with Carbonation Press.

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Contributor copies of Swing 2.2 have arrived! I riff on Skyrim and rip off epic poetry, myths, the hero’s journey, and Whitman. Love this journal and what they do, so I’m glad to have a piece in it with great company to boot. Thanks to editor Leigh Ann Couch. #Vasectomajestic

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A treat to share this news and to share this list with my name on it! Next April, folks. Calvin University Festival of Faith & Writing 2026 Ross Gay! Robin Wall Kimmerer! (My kids are pretty stoked my name appears next to Neal Shusterman especially, who’s been an obsession lately.)

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Got a new one—thematically central—from the manuscript out in @wildroofjournal.bsky.social today, and it’s an ekphrastic one to boot. Thanks in abundance to editor @aaronlelito.bsky.social for picking it up.

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

New work arriving from North Dakota Quarterly in an upcoming issue 👾👾👾

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Taking on this new project with urgency these days. Ever grateful to @annpedone.bsky.social and the team at antiphony for seeing the promise in this for their third issue (online and now available in print) and for the boost to keep pushing it. Look for more to come in the next while 📢 #poetry

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Reading some stuff, including my piece “A Game of Telephone Is All I’m After Here, Honest” in the new issue of @soflopojo.bsky.social tomorrow. A company of creative folk is a good company to keep this week.

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

My latest underworld ramblings: many thanks to @soflopojo.bsky.social for including it in their #35, and a real treat to appear alongside so many folks, including some I’ve had the privilege to know via @ballastjournal.bsky.social

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

It’s Earth Day, and I’m feeding my face to the algorithm to share that I’ve got a new poem in the latest issue of Greensboro Review called “Prime Rib Resting” that you should check out some time. Mine is a poem that frets over the usual table manners and climate anxiety.

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

SAY WHAT?! 🎉🎉 The amazing Bottlecap Press & I have been burning the midnight oil to bring into being Connections & Choreography. And *best news* the book is available for you to purchase right this very second! Just visit bottlecap.press/products/con... to see what we’ve been up to!

Cover image of Jacob Schepers' chapbook Connections & Choreography, out now from Bottlecap Press. Geometric Abstract squares, art in the style of Piet Mondrian in shades of tan, brown, chartreuse, teal, with black text.

Text from Jacob Schepers' Connections & Choreography: From "Scene Setting": This is the emptiest I'll ever be. The land is driest at harvest's end. Closest to your figure is where I am most lost. So much for a simple thank you. A little beauty goes a long way. This is written proof. Your signature is binding.

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Honored to be in the brand-new @HarpurPalate. Here's my prose-poem id-raving hoopla that the editors took a chance on to let me fly my freak flag. Full issue--a treasure trove--here: harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/issue-22-2/

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Grateful to editors Adam Stutz and Heather Watson for taking a gamble on my two pieces. Here’s one of ‘em: “Advertising Campaign Underwritten by Begonias” (Link to poem here: www.brokenlensjournal.com/advertising-...)

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

New issue of The Mantle is out since a few days ago and I'm very happy to have a spot in it. Thanks to editor James Croal Jackson for including me in the party. themantlepoetry.com/issue-21

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Sharing one from the latest issue of Lakeshore Review, with gratitude to the editors. “How to Talk of the Future Perfect” plays around with grammar and some kind of strange grief—an unexpected pairing that I’ve increasingly come to admire.

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Thank you, FRiGG magazine, for giving me the space to share three poems in Issue 62, including this one which has long been dear. www.friggmagazine.com for the whole issue, including two other pieces of mine.

Jacob Schepers' poem In Transit, On Hold

There is, on highways, tacit agreement
that the transit, begrudgingly shared, be
of little to no consequence to our
getting there. For the most part, we drive to
drive, not to make friends or memories or
headlines. There are, however, exceptions,
as there almost always are: when we pass
the inevitable abandoned car
on the side of the road, we cannot help
speculating its story nor stop flickers
of relief that at least the congestion
of traffic has abated, if only
by one. The suddenness of it all, no
matter the frequency, is why we fear
the worst. A car’s front end smashed, carrion
mangled, a child gathering, like a wasted
dandelion, a burned fuse: we can try
to shake the feeling there is disordered
supervenience to it all, that perhaps
had we not just passed by, the accident
would not have been, but really there’s no use.
There is a contingency in all things
to which we too lay claim... (rest of poem available at Frigg's website).

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Jacob Schepers @jacobschepers.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Wireworm was kind enough to publish my piece “Antithesis to Stork” in its zany, punky, imaginative debut. My gratitude to the editors, and long live the Worm! You can get a closer look at the piece at wirewormmagazine.wixsite.com/wirewormmaga...

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