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Jessica Q. Stark

@jezzbah.bsky.social
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Poet/Editor/Buffalo Girl | BUFFALO GIRL, BOA Editions (2023) | SAVAGE PAGEANT, Birds, LLC (2020) | Poetry Editor, AGNI | Asst Professor of Creative Writing, University of North Florida 🌊

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Jessica Q. Stark @jezzbah.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Reading tonight in Orlando 📢💋
Red banner with cherry blossoms in background
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Wild & Precious Life Series @wplseries.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
WPLS picks for National Poetry Month! Today’s spotlight: @diannelyantigua.bsky.social, Allison Blevins, @jezzbah.bsky.social, & Marina Carreira. #Books #NationalPoetryMonth #BookRecommendation #poets #poetry @yesyesbooks.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social @boa-editions.bsky.social
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Jessica Q. Stark @jezzbah.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
If you don't have a copy of my book BUFFALO GIRL I'll forgive you if you purchase one from this cute, local bookstore: www.bookmarkbeach.com
Buffalo Girl featured on store website featuring a bookstore storefront with a pergola and books in a window
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Like the terrestrial crust of the earth which is proportionately ten times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul is a miracle of mutual pressures. -Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red #everynightapoem #earthday “Earthset” April 6, 2026 “Earthrise” December 24,1968
[“Earthset” by Artemis II crew as they flew around the moon 4/6/2026, and “Earthrise” from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders 12/24/1968][“Earthset” by Artemis II crew as they flew around the moon 4/6/2026, and “Earthrise” from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders 12/24/1968]
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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I have a mini Q&A feature up at Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social today alongside my poem "Portrait of the Heart In Love, At World's End" which appears in the current Anniversary Issue 5.1 ❤️ You can read the feature here: www.instagram.com/p/DXeZhzVFCI... Thank you to EIC Erin Bedford 🙏
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Garrison @garrisongondek.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The farther out I get from my own undergrad, the more I realize that what I really learned wasn't any particular fact or even subject area. What I learned was how to learn. How to find information on any subject, how to begin to tell bad information from good, how to test an idea, etc.
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Я @gertiewentworth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Central Park, NY 1954 • Vivian Maier
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Jessica Q. Stark @jezzbah.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
What a beautiful birthday gift to me 🥹
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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We had a blast at tonight’s Boathouse Extravaganza! Pictured below: Readers Athena Nassar and @rika99.bsky.social with Poetry Editor @jezzbah.bsky.social and Senior Editor @saraswat-s.bsky.social 📸
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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of Asa Drake and her book Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026).🌟 @tinhouse.bsky.social @asaldrake.bsky.social
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Yoon Kim @yoonkim.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“The mind has no edge, but the folds of the brain afford both the maximum surface for touch and the possibility to fall between them inexorably like the sequence of seasons.” — Friederike Mayröcker (quoted in Waldrop, Dissonance)
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Jessica Q. Stark @jezzbah.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I'll be reading in Gainesville this week on Friday and interviewing @asaldrake.bsky.social on her new book MAYBE THE BODY for her book launch. Come on out if you're close!!
Advertisement with Asa's book that features a rabbit and snake among flowers and a hot pink background.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Gang. GANG. LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS. STOP USING THEM.
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
i'm so excited to have a poem in the latest issue of Radar Poetry. if you head to the website you can hear me read it, and the issue is a beauty--AND there's a stunning poem by @wordperv.bsky.social there, too! www.radarpoetry.com/privilege
WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS TO BE SO INSIGNIFICANT (part one)
by Emma Bolden


Last night I woke a fever, 2 a.m., I worried how 
to tell you what I can and can’t consume. 
My stomach turns me. If I write for forty days 

and forty nights, will I get to the bottom of me, 
a lake drained of its drink, a fish white-lipped 
there, gasping? Outside of my window and even 

at nighttide the azaleas slouch, indecent, fawning off 
their fuchsia threads against a broad swath of gray. 
In the dark I am invisible like a loom of stripped wires 

sparking behind a wall. I have nothing more to say 
to you because I have no you to say a thing to. A warped 
reel of birdsong whirls up my throat. By this age I wanted 


to know the body as an object exquisite, jewel-cut 
and gold-set, a beautiful treasure beneath smooth hair. 
Now I am a table saw trying to be elegant, trying to know 

the world by dividing it, piece by piece. At night I lay down 
in the long bed and shiver up to the wild profusion 
of my own hair. Into the dark I set loose a flock

of syllables. I watch every word’s winging, bright-
beaked, luminous. I should’ve clipped them gone.
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Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
What exactly do you think I meant by “the shell universe”? (Still inventing possible meanings myself) The idea of splicing sentences came from a Mei Mei Berssenbrugge interview with now Poet Laureate Arthur Sze. #poetry
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Mei Mei Berssenbrugge with Arthur Sze, 1 April 1999
YouTube video by Lannan Foundation
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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Mini journals www.ethelzine.com/shop/scrap-p... :)
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I tell you there are rooftops on which the moon stops being a cold jewel And one by one the mountains begin their descent from the chambers of a lost book -John Yau
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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Celebrate Kathryn Cowles’s THE STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS OF ELEANOR ELEANOR, winner of the 2025 Fence Modern Poets Series Book Prize, in combination with Geoffrey Babbitt’s A GRAIN OF SAND IN LAMBETH this Thursday, February 5th at 7 PM! 💌 @kathryncowles.bsky.social @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 25/09/2019
WS Merwin wrote “Presidents” in 1970. In 1971, he declined a Pulitzer, citing the Vietnam War —“too conscious of being an American to accept public congratulation with good grace, or to welcome it except as an occasion for expressing openly a shame which many Americans feel."
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Michael G. O'Connell @mocando.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Hoarding Disorder. A poem by Jessica Q. Stark theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-... @jezzbah.bsky.social @adroitjournal.bsky.social
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way. Simone de Beauvoir
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Lorine Niedecker
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Jessica Q. Stark @jezzbah.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
New poem drop today over at @adroitjournal.bsky.social on hoarding, holding, holding, holding. Thankful to the editors and the heart workers rn. 🩵 theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
A little bit late to sharing this, but Adi is so proud to have nominated the following wonderful writers for a Pushcart Prize earlier this month. Congrats to Rania Mamoun, Alaa Alqaisi, Sharon Aruparayil, Tarfa Benson, @jezzbah.bsky.social, and Malak Hijazi!
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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Books made this weekend for subscribers @poetalukah.bsky.social @jezzbah.bsky.social
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Wild & Precious Life Series @wplseries.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Save the date for 9/24!! @taylorbyas.bsky.social, Ashley Jones, & @djvorreyer.bsky.social read for the WPLS. #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry @sundresspub.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social
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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Robert Glück, pictured here, says "the history of arts organizations is so ephemeral." The new archive at Small Press Traffic, arranged for public access in the Mission, materializes the literary organization's history in Bay Area small press publishing. www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/arch...
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BOA Editions @boa-editions.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
📣 NEW RELEASE ALERT! 📣 Boa Editions is thrilled to announce that Aracelis Girmay's new collection of poetry GREEN OF ALL HEADS is out now! We have signed paperbacks and hardcovers for sale on our store in limited supply! Purchase yourself a copy today at boaeditions.org. Spread the word🍃
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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I was stumble drunk, bent into the ramshackle dawn, the sun glazed with its own sick, traipsing along the cracked flagstones toward an apartment I’d all but abandoned, its contents strewn across the tile floors ~from "The Wolf" by David Joez Villaverde 🔥AGNI 101🔥
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The Wolf
I was stumble drunk, bent into the ramshackle dawn, the sun glazed with its own sick, traipsing along the cracked flagstones toward an apartment I’d all but abandoned, its contents strewn across the…
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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
90s computer desk with shelves for speakers, tower, printer, pull-out mouse and keyboard drawer etc
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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Unraveling of federal arts funding infrastructure continues. Hard to describe the decades of debates & advocacy invested in sustaining the CW fellowships at the NEA. Now, wiped out.
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Jessica Q. Stark @jezzbah.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Aw visited by my own scholarly ghosts is a particular feeling. I do sometimes miss that particular beast of writing...
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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
What does it mean to write under the aura of another poet one admires, to write in celebration of another? What happens to language when you do? Don't miss today's conversation with Laynie Browne Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/layn... @omnidawn.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
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Laynie Browne : Apprentice to a Breathing Hand - Tin House
What does it mean to write toward or under the aura of another poet one admires, to write in homage, as a celebration of another? What happens to language when it hovers between two writers, between h...
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Randall Mann @randallmann.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Today’s Poem-a-Day @poetsorg.bsky.social is by the inimitable @theferocity.bsky.social, allusive, incantatory, and moving. @benningtonwriting.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social ❤️🔥
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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Hala Alyan
so many, too many, things in this world are awful or beautiful, depending on
the time of day, the year in your life,
the angle you are tilting your head.
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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 05/08/2025
Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Summer 2025 Reading Period Report & Finalists newsletter is here! 🎉🎉🎉
riverriverbooks.beehiiv.com
Summer 2025 Open Reading Period Report & Finalists!
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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · 05/08/2025
She’s here! Order from your favorite bookseller! Leave a review, tag me in your photos! Reserve a copy at the library! I’ve got her in the woods today and reading tonight. Raise a cup of tea (or a shot of whisky) for us 💙🩵💜 www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/khadi...
Khadijah‘s brown hand is holding her hardcover copy of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veterans memoir. There is a backdrop of a forest. On her wrist are three bracelets: two of pearl and one labradoriteTurquoise, dark blue and lilac hardcover of Between the devil and the deep blue sea: A Veterans Memoir by Khadijah Queen, stood up on stone steps with greenery
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The Abduction of Proserpina, by Gregorio Lazzarini, late 17th century, 📸 via @brwalkoff.bsky.social
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mike @staykinduniverse.swifties.social · 19/06/2025
let's fast forward to the part where only the gentle survive
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 19/06/2025
"Brenda Shaughnessy and CAConrad redefine resilience and identity in their powerful poetry collections." 📖 Explore the reviews: thebrokenspine.co.uk... #PrideMonth #PoetryOfIdentity
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Pride Month Poetry by Brenda Shaughnessy & CAConrad - A Review - The Broken Spine
The idea that Pride celebrations can inspire ambivalence rather than celebration or contempt is unexpected. CAConrad’s ‘Glitter in My Wounds’ dissects the
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Jessica Q. Stark @jezzbah.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Check out my latest THE FLEA, out now with @the-ethelzine.bsky.social.
Hand-sewn poetry zine stitched with white thread. Cover features a large flea. Jess kissing a USPS box full of chapbooks in a hammock on a porch
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Jessica Q. Stark @jezzbah.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Read some poems, witnessed some flowers during my birthday week.
Jess reading in a blue and yelllow kaftanPurple mums in dense foliage
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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Go off
A massively blooming pink peony
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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Some really fancy flea stuff happening over here…making Jessica Q. Stark’s THE FLEA (link to shop in bio). @jezzbah.bsky.social
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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I loved this portrait from the Wayne Thiebaud retrospective at the Legion of Honor and it pretty much sums up my mood today (and most of this year if I’m being honest)
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