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Jennifer Bullis

@jenniferbullis.bsky.social

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Poet, essayist, recovering academic in Bellingham, WA. Work in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Iron Horse, Potomac Review, RHINO Poetry, Terrain.org, Whale Road Review. Chapbook: IMPOSSIBLE LESSONS (MoonPath Press). jenniferbullis.wordpress.com

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bracken is thrilled to announce our nominees for 2027 Best of the Net: poetry and artwork from Issues XIV and XV!

Poems by Rachel Becker, Pam Crow, Anya Kirshbaum, Mary Buchinger, Joseph Powell, and Bethany Reid nominated for 2027 BOTN

Graphite drawings by Iskra Johnson nominated for 2027 BOTN

Photography by Claudio Cambon nominated for 2027 BOTN

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"We pushed off and floated out into the stillness, as evening started to darken the woods and grain the light on the water." Enjoy Michael Hettich's poem "Forgiveness," plus "The Gloaming," in Issue XV of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xv/two...

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Two Poems by Michael Hettich — Bracken

On my walk to town, I came across the body of an animal mangled so badly I couldn’t tell what it was…

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bracken is open for submissions! Send us your poems, poetry translations, and visual art October 1 - November 30. See our guidelines here: www.brackenmagazine.com/submit.

Wetland with dry-grass meadow and gold-orange cottonwoods in the background

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"No more boots sliding on ferns and underbrush, the exhale of breath rising in the fog and scent of pine needles." Enjoy "Mushroom Hunting Elegy" by Sharon Hashimoto in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xv/mus...

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Mushroom Hunting Elegy by Sharon Hashimoto — Bracken

No dripping rain tickles trails inside the arms of our Gore-tex jackets, knuckles growing frosted as rounded stones, clutching burlap bags…

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Lilac. Dogwood. Bridal wreath. Lupin. Unidentified yellow songs I want to call tallulahs. Whatever we pick we name. In a collection, all the broken things become beautiful." Enjoy Sierra Golden's poem "Black Canyon" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xv/bla...

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Black Canyon by Sierra Golden — Bracken

Between the apple picker’s cabin and the house a rabbit the size of a teacup trembles.

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Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This poem by Bethany Reid in @brackenmagazine.bsky.social is pure music: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xv/her...

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Her Honeyed Mask by Bethany Reid — Bracken

Her mask was made of bees and belled with song, honeyed all the heavy noons.

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"It’s difficult for snow to be beautiful in March." From "Flurry" by Robbie Gamble @robbiegamblewriter.bsky.social in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xv/flu...

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Flurry by Robbie Gamble — Bracken

It’s difficult for snow to be beautiful in March.

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Gray herringbone had become bark of a black oak, had tattered and taken the shape of volve, of turn..." Enjoy @bkfischer.bsky.social B.K. Fischer's poem "The Lichen Coat" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xv/the...

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The Lichen Coat by B.K. Fischer — Bracken

The darkness came down hard that November, and when I took the coat out of the closet…

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"...when reflections of the orange-roofed boathouse and bare trees at the edge of the island sharpen and still, we take it as a kind of peace..." From David Edelman's poem "Small Sun" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xv/sma...

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Small Sun by David Edelman — Bracken

When the drizzle finally thins out, when the wind dies down and the channel smooths, when reflections of the orange-roofed boathouse and bare trees at the edge of the island…

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"And the geese that fly overhead in October, how they sing each other home ... " From "October Geese" by Geoff Collins in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xv/oct...

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October Geese by Geoff Collins — Bracken

On our street, an elderly couple walks together each evening and it is easy to see how they cling to one another so tightly…

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"he jabs his beak into a nugget of mouse jeweling his talon" From "Cooper's Hawk" by Mary Buchinger @mebuchinger.bsky.social in the new issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xv/coo...

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Cooper's Hawk by Mary Buchinger — Bracken

Cooper’s Hawk stands in the sun on a stout branch in the pine grove and barks ‍ ‍ cak-cak-cak

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"I clamber out and bend to see a shadow draped over the dark line..." Read Rebecca Bagget's poem "The Mouse" in the new issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xv/the...

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The Mouse by Rebecca Baggett — Bracken

I am about to climb into the bed in this borrowed cabin, to burrow under the quilt

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Here's an appetizer from @jbaibel.bsky.social's poem "Forsythia Pavilion" in the new issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xv/for... "My father wanted to cut the overgrown all wild. I begged."

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Forsythia Pavilion by Jonathan B. Aibel — Bracken

My father wanted to cut the overgrown all wild. I begged...

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Issue XV of Bracken is here! Enjoy reading www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xv/main

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Issue XV — Bracken

We’re not very good at holding the truth of our fragility. Even when our bones are strong, our muscles thick with power, and our minds resolute with purpose, still, we are naked before the world’s bat...

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"Don’t think you can trespass in my garden & slip away clean No one walks out of a fairytale unscathed" Enjoy Diana Whitney's poem "Nightshade" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/ni...

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Nightshade by Diana Whitney — Bracken

When the potato turns green it’s poison Behold my glossy peppers

Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'm very excited to have my poem "Thinking of Leanna" published in the new issue of The Shore! Many thanks to the editors @theshorepoetry.bsky.social for including my work: www.theshorepoetry.org/jennifer-bul...

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Jennifer Bullis "Thinking of Leanna" — THE SHORE

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Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Lovely review of my pressmate Maya Jewell Zeller's book, by Nancy Lord: “Raised by Ferns” is a welcome addition both to thought about lower-income rural life and to the expansion of what we may consider as essay collections and memoir." www.adn.com/arts/books/2...

Book review: A memoir in essays interrogates the forces that shape identity

“Raised by Ferns” is a welcome addition both to thought about lower-income rural life and to the expansion of what we may consider as essay collections and memoir.

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"Sunlight reaches in, a hand that won’t commit." Enjoy "Houseplant" by Gordan Struić in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/ho...

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Houseplant by Gordan Struić — Bracken

I water it the way I once spoke to you – too little, then too much.

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

"if we are light then we must . . . return to the opaque objects, offer them our apologies . . ." Check out Erin Slomski-Pritz's poem "lineage" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/li...

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lineage by Erin Slomski-Pritz — Bracken

if we are light then we must travel by way of the line…

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"I was post and beam, mortise and tenon, tongue and groove. I was the whole construction built on friction’s bite." Enjoy "I Was the House," along with "Autumn Work Song," by @haydensaunier.bsky.social in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/tw...

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Two Poems by Hayden Saunier — Bracken

I saw the storm come on. I held each window’s shiny eye in place. I rattled.

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"... I would watch the world unfold like the pattering steps of a pregnant cloud." Enjoy CP Nwankwo's "April, If I Could Flee" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/ap...

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April, If I Could Flee by CP Nwankwo — Bracken

April, if I could flee, I would. I would unbutton this body, peel it like the soft rind of an udara fruit

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"... an awe that’s part fear—the sharp blue shadows of cliffs bleaching us to smallness, to silence. " Check out Theresa Monteiro's "Dear Fernando, November" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/de...

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Dear Fernando, November by Theresa Monteiro — Bracken

Define the sublime? In the books we’re told to read here, poets say: guava skies, mountains of paradox

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

"The inlet’s waves bare their teeth, seethe to shore. The grasses tremble, shark-colored clouds cruise the sky." Enjoy Jennifer Stewart Miller's "Gull and Mollusk," plus "To the Young Baltimore Oriole," in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/tw...

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Two Poems by Jennifer Stewart Miller — Bracken

You should have been sipping nectar all winter in some green, voluptuous place far south of here. But October turned to November turned to December

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Compelling photography of India's stepwells by Claudio Cambon in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/cl...

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Claudio Cambon — Bracken

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Enjoy landscape photography by Michael Miller in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/mi...

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Michael Miller — Bracken

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Beautiful aquatic artwork by Charles B. Bowers in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/ch...

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Charles B. Bowers — Bracken

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"... clocks became unreliable, their minutes spilling like old coins using the last currency of hours." Enjoy Jane Medved's "In the time before," as well as "follow the river and you will get to the sea," in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/tw...

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Two Poems by Jane Medved — Bracken

Follow the river and you will get to the sea says the proverb but today is not flowing any which way and if you've traveled the Mississippi you'd know there are tree stumps logs hazardous debris…

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"bivalves cracked at the spine plucked from seabed stripped for pearl’s iridescent light" Enjoy Leusa Lloyd's poem "I am oyster" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/i-...

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I am oyster by Leusa Lloyd — Bracken

pried open, shucked bivalves cracked at the spine

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"We know you have collected rainstorms in soup bowls, coaxed hummingbirds to your bed-pillow." From @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social's "Forgetting the Constellations," one of two gorgeous poems featured in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/tw...

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Two Poems by Anya Kirshbaum — Bracken

Something in you breaks, then it breaks down. Night someplace —you comb the engine of stars, aching

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"...my mother’s mother’s china cups exactingly formed from clay and bone dust—" Check out @abbiekiefer.bsky.social's poem "Prayer with Dust" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/pr...

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Prayer with Dust by Abbie Kiefer — Bracken

that laces my weeping fig the base- board’s jut

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Bracken is open for submissions until April 30th. Send us your best poems and visual art! Guidelines at www.brackenmagazine.com/submit

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

From Judy Kaber's poem "Feast" in the current issue of Bracken: " ...she walked among the poplar and budded shrubs. Foolish. The word rippled through my head like a stream." Enjoy the poem here: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/fe...

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Feast by Judy Kaber — Bracken

Last week I saw a doe standing still and staring at me in the middle of the road…

Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

So lovely, Jill!

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

From Robert Fillman's poem "Holiday Gift Guide": "...how those glossy pages suddenly feel like the shiny black coat of a magnificent bear now motionless...." Enjoy the full poem plus "I tell myself I will learn" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/tw...

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Two Poems by Robert Fillman — Bracken

It’s the red and black checked wool in the Penney’s catalog that has me seeing the men in my life…

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"I wondered what made him decide to ride the hot black asphalt of the empty road." Check out "Like Boys" by Jean Anne Feldeisen in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/li...

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Like Boys by Jean Anne Feldeisen — Bracken

Angry and hard the heat that day when I drove the empty road past wild blueberry fields lined with goldenrod.

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

"O chainsaw father, unhappy engine, you loved that spot near railroad tracks, next to the water’s edge." Check out Pam Crow's moving poem "Military Cemetery" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/mi...

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Military Cemetery by Pam Crow — Bracken

I found you here, Father, a decade after you died. Your tombstone is identical to hundreds growing like bleached teeth from the buzz-cut grass…

Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

For those still on the fence about the ethics of AI

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

That's a wrap on AWP 2026! Thanks to all who attended and participated in Bracken's offsite with Passager and stopped by our Bookfair table. Pictured (left to right) are Bracken editors Morgan Brajkovich, @medjyers.bsky.social, @katedeimling.bsky.social, Ted McMahon, and Linda Hillman Chayes.

Bracken editors Morgan Brajkovich, Jed Myers, Kate Deimling, Ted McMahon, and Linda Hillman Chayes at Pratt Street Ale House

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

More photos from Bracken's AWP offsite reading with Passager on 3/6 at Pratt Street Ale House: @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social, Diana Whitney, Julie Choffel, and Julia Lisella

Anya Kirshbaum reading at Pratt Street Ale House

Diana Whitney reading at Pratt Street Ale House

Julie Choffel reading at Pratt Street Ale House

Julia Lisella reading at Pratt Street Ale House

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Photos from Bracken's AWP offsite on March 6 with Passager at Pratt Street Ale House! Pictured reading here are @karigunterseymour.bsky.social, @robbiegamblewriter.bsky.social, and Sarah Browning

Pratt Street Ale House: a little bit of old Baltimore right across the street from the Convention Center

Kari Gunter-Seymour reading at Pratt Street Ale House

Robbie Gamble reading at Pratt Street Ale House

Sarah Browning reading at Pratt Street Ale House

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It's so nice to connect in person! Hello from Bracken, at Table 526 in the AWP Bookfair.

(From left) Jed Meyers, Kate Deimling, Linda Hillman Chayes, and Ted McMahon greeting AWP attendees at the Bracken table

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Greetings from AWP! Come say hello to Bracken's editors at Table 526 in the Bookfair.

Jed Meyers and Ted McMahon enthusiastically welcoming visitors to Bracken's Bookfair table at AWP Baltimore

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Bracken opens for submissions of poetry and visual art on March 1st! See our guidelines at www.brackenmagazine.com/submit.

Pond reflects a late-winter landscape of marsh reeds, bare willows, and cottonwoods.

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Going to AWP? Visit Bracken at AWP Bookfair Table 526! And please join us for our offsite reading with Passager at Pratt Street Ale House (Across from Baltimore Convention Center), Friday March 6, 5:00-7:00 p.m. We hope to see you there!

Cattail-lined waterway reflects a textured sky.

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

From the new issue of Bracken: "six sharp points and broad-chested // like a king’s stag from the old country." Check out @grantclauser.bsky.social's poem "Deer Morning"!

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Deer Morning by Grant Clauser — Bracken

It cleared the boxwood hedge and landed feet from my hound dog frozen at the sight of the rut-crazed buck—

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Going to AWP? Please join Bracken for our offsite reading with Passager on Friday, 3/6, 5:00-7:00 p.m. at Pratt Street Ale House across from the Convention Center. Readers: Sarah Browning, Julie Choffel, Julia Lisella, Diana Whitney, @karigunterseymour.bsky.social, and @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social.

Lake at dusk surrounded by dried reeds and cattails. The water reflects a wintry sky and bare cottonwood trees. Photo by Jed Meyers.

Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Beautiful poem by @rebecker79.bsky.social in the new issue of @brackenmagazine.bsky.social: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/fi...

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Field by Rachel Becker — Bracken

You were the stage on which my friends and I played lotus eaters, sucked down wine from stolen jugs…

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Check out the new issue of Bracken! Issue XIV's cover features this image by Claudio Cambon: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/main. See more of his step well photos within the issue: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/cl...

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Issue XIV — Bracken

Bracken has been around for ten years now, and our magazine is maturing.

Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The new issue of Bracken is live! www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/main

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Issue XIV — Bracken

Bracken has been around for ten years now, and our magazine is maturing.

Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Very grateful to the editors of UCity Review for publishing TWELVE of my poems in the new issue. An entire portfolio! I'm thrilled to have my poems in such excellent company: ucityreview.com/index.html

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