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L.J. Sysko

@ljsysko.bsky.social
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Poet • Books: THE DAUGHTER OF MAN (UAP, Miller Williams Poetry Series, 2023), BATTLEDORE (FLP, 2017) • Contrib. Editor, Tupelo Quarterly • Faculty, writers.com ljsysko.com

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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm teaching a new writers.com poetry workshop soon! “Surprise! In Poetry: Building OOMPH into Your Practice” begins 9/23 and runs for 4 Wednesdays on Zoom, 7-9pm. Course description & enrollment info here. Join me! writers.com/course/surpr...
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In this BKR interview, poet Erin Belieu & I discuss resisting: the "wisecracking gal" label, workshop groupthink, & saying yes when you really mean no. Check out our interview & pick up a copy: @erinwriter.bsky.social COCKLEBUR: NEW & SELECTED POEMS! www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-feat...
interview logoBelieu quote on RegretsBelieu quote on FormBelieu on Happiness
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In this BKR interview, poet Jessica L. Walsh & I talk about sobbing in a McDonald's parking lot post-book launch, ancestral jump scares, & selecting both responsibility & realism. Check out our interview & @jessicawalsh.bsky.social latest book: BLOWDOWN. www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-feat...
logo of interview seriesquote from Walsh on Processquote from Walsh on Advicequote from Walsh on Truth
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I've got a new poem in RHINO! "Middle age has a branding problem" is the first poem to blink into the light from my new collection about menopause and mid-life. Thank you to @rhinopoetry.bsky.social for selecting my poem for publication! #menopause #menopausepoetry #midlife #teachers
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Join me Sundays in February for my new writers.com poetry workshop! I’m excited to launch this generative workshop full of personality and play! Enrolling now!
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
LIT YOUNGSTOWN, look out! 😎😍👀 @lityoungstown.bsky.social @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social @benkline.bsky.social @ninandrews.bsky.social
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
In TQ36, Donna Stonecipher munches the madeleine and spills the tea on prose poems, her 6th grade haiku habit, and resisting the urge to make poems "capital 'P' poetic." Check out our chat, online now.
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
It was my honor to assemble a 100th birthday tribute to great American poet Gerald Stern with contributions by Derricotte, Gay, Hirsch, Macari, McGrath, Montilla, Moscaliuc, Ras, Salerno, Stern, Waters, and me! In Tupelo Quarterly TQ36. Online now.
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
What a damn joy to be interviewed about fashion by @charlesjensen.bsky.social! Thank you for the FUN, Charles! (My mailman is still a little dubious about the sequins at noon, but he’ll recover, I think.)
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I'm bowled over by this story--every paragraph in this article is food for deep thought... www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
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Seattle author who won a Pulitzer for her first book says she’s ‘one and done’
After spending 10 years working on her first book, “Feeding Ghosts” — and winning, to her astonishment, a Pulitzer Prize — Tessa Hulls says she’s never writing another book.
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
@lityoungstown.bsky.social here we come! Very excited to join @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social & @benkline.bsky.social & Nin Andrews in October in Ohio!
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Please read this. Decide what you really believe, and write it down. Then hold yourself to it.
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Happy 212th birthday to Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice 🎉 Shall we take a turn about the room to celebrate?
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Shakespeare's 12th Night is five acts of Failing Dry January.
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Smirk.
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Please join me for a solo poetry reading. Thanks to CallingAllPoets.net for inviting me. See you Thursday, 1/16/25 @ 7pm? (Zoom link on my website's News page.) I'm not sure which new poems I'm reading yet, but I know this...if you're there and wearing a fleece onesie, I'll ship you a free book.
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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49 Contemporary Poets on the Best Poems they Read in 2024
In the sea of endless year-end lists, poetry often seems to get sidelined, or forgotten—or maybe the critics and listmakers just aren’t reading enough poetry in the first place. Which made me…
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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Two starter packs of mostly poets & poet-adjacent people and journals to follow. Remember that any starter pack is just that: a place to start. Won't include everyone. Seek out your people. go.bsky.app/5oLR4YJ go.bsky.app/ThphD9V
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
…our country’s founding Karens…from my book The Daughter of Man.
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
Chicago friends, we would love to see you!
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
What a fun and warm space to read poetry is @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Night Light reading series❣️ We had a great time, and I feel like it shook me out of a spell of poetic vertigo, too. Brb--off to write my "Carp and Clitoris" British pub grand opening poem 😎
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
How fun is this? Pie Lady Books turned THE DAUGHTER OF MAN into pie!
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 28/04/2024
Next Tuesday! Jump on! I'm thinking of spilling tea about best / worst workshop advice between poems. 😎😁
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
A little poem snippet from me to you on this Monday. Kintsugi + trauma from THE DAUGHTER OF MAN.
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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series @hphseries.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Oops. Posted this from my personal account instead of the series. Sorry! Register at the link for @ljsysko.bsky.social on Nov. 16!
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
This book review! 👀🔥 Thanks to Ellie Black and Colorado Review! coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/the-...
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The Daughter of Man - Center for Literary Publishing
$13.46 Buy Book About the Book Author: L. J. SyskoReviewed By: Ellie BlackGenre: PoetryPublisher: University of Arkansas PressPublished: 2023Pages: 124 Book ReviewForgive me the spoiler, but L. J. Sys...
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Here we go @hphseries.bsky.social!
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L.J. Sysko @ljsysko.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Did I mention that my book is cooler than me? It was There and I was Home and, well, here’s the dang photo.
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
If you’re a poet coming in from Twitter reply here and tag the poets who’ve also joined, let’s rebuild!
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