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Mike Bagwell

@lowghost.bsky.social
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Writer + software engineer in Philly. Host of Ghost Harmonics reading series. Writing a novel full of O's, other sun vowels and debris languages. Work in Action Spectacle, ITERANT, Sprung Formal, Heavy Feather, HAD, Okay Donkey, Annulet. mikebagwell.me

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 23/07/2026
Up on Afterimages, @joshdale.co interviews @lowghost.bsky.social about his new chapbook POEM OF THANKS: SWORDS & THE DEVIL and other processes of his poetry lately. Take a read and learn something new! open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...
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An Interview with Mike Bagwell
Mike Bagwell and Josh Dale. See how a veteran chapbook author picks his projects, ways of allowing creativity to enter the mind, and a slew of items to bring on an island retreat.
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
the recording of last night’s Night Light reading is now live!! it was such a joy to hear @lowghost.bsky.social, Dorsía Smith Silva, & @foreverasheley.bsky.social read their work — check it out at the 🔗 below :)
A screenshot of Dorsía Smith Silva from the July 2026 Night Light reading
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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 24/04/2026
Happy Pub Day, Mallory, Esénia, Mike, and Liz! The first 4 chapbooks of this chapbook imprint. @lowghost.bsky.social @mallorysmart.bsky.social @lizdebeerwriter.bsky.social
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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 17/04/2026
Proof of publication: POEM OF THANKS: SWORDS AND THE DEVIL by @lowghost.bsky.social Out on 4/24 Bonus pic with another spring chapbook
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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 29/03/2026
@lowghost.bsky.social POEM OF THANKS: SWORDS AND THE DEVIL follows previous occult & tarot chapbooks (A Court of Wands; The High Priestess). Stark imagery, existential questions, and mysticism flow from the page and into your eyes at a breakneck speed. A fierce, experimental poetic musing.
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Reuben Gelley Newman @joustingsnail.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
So delighted to have the closing poem from DEAR DEAR in this brilliant journal alongside friends with stunning web design. Except below after Bach's MUSICAL OFFERING and Oliveros's concept of deep listening
[minor triad

leaping down a drastic seventh curving chromatic descent

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courtly listening velvet viol and prettified flute the way classical sound becomes deep in terms of age in slippage of culture the chapel hall the riddle of how to play the fugue

Let the King's fortunes grow with the lengthening notes

4. Or so live

Like you listen deeply to whatever and however I'm all in favor of ambience say what does deep listening at this point I'm just riffing is a kind of improv even mean listening a riff on the river Pauline I'm trying to walk with the song into a new place
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Issue 01 is live!! An absolutely stacked lineup with astounding poetry, fiction, and hybrid expanded field poetics. I'm still in awe. Give this a read! www.ghostharmonics.com/magazine/issue-01 Cover featuring artwork by S.H. Yan Featuring Paige Taggart, @danikastegeman.bsky.social ...
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Huge news! New chapbook with Thirty West coming this spring! Couldn't be more psyched for this to be coming out with an amazing press and with this fantastic cohort of writers
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Ghost Harmonics has a new magazine Oscillations and submissions for the first issue are closing Feb 28th! Only 5 days! Send work to ghostharmonicssubmissions@gmail.com and see more details at www.ghostharmonics.com/submit #WritingCommunity #LitMag #Submissions #MotionGraphics #KineticTypography
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Next Ghost Harmonics! Olivia Meunz @oliviamuenz.bsky.social, PJ Lombardo @unicazurnfan1997.bsky.social, Kimberly Ann Southwick @kimannjosouth.bsky.social, Moondog: Harp Songs ft Julian Calv @julian-trimba.bsky.social Gian Torrano Jacobs @gian-tj.bsky.social, Sungrazer, Mike Alfieri, Wherever You Are
Ghost Harmonics flyer for Nov 8th 7pm at The Perch in Philly featuring Olivia Meunz, PJ Lombardo, Kimberly Ann Southwick, Moondog: Harp Songs ft. Julian Calv and Gian Torrano Jacobs, Sungrazer, Mike Alfieri, and Wherever You Are. Hosted by Mike Bagwell
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Amy Saul-Zerby @amysz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
from the mouths of babes ✨ from @lowghost.bsky.social's lovely “POEM OF THANKS: A Court of Wands” (@metatronpress.bsky.social)
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William Hazard @williamhazard.co · 27/03/2025
this event is tonight, and you should come
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Next Ghost Harmonics April 26th!! readings: Anna Moschovakis, Christine Kelly @sea-spray.bsky.social, Kristin Lueke @klooky.bsky.social and Cameron Walker @applepieandink.bsky.social music: Upholstery @upholstery.bsky.social and Donnie CoCo @donniecoco.bsky.social and dance: Inna Krasnoper
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Ghost Harmonics! Featuring Joe Hall, Reuben Gelley Newman, Michael Joseph Walsh, and Sam Heaps, music by Tangent Universes, and a short film by Fern Poppy. Going to be one hell of a night! Suggested $5-10 at door or handstamp.com/e/ghost-harmonics-macfkqgv though not a barrier to entry
Ghost Harmonics flyer for March 8th at 7pm at the Perch
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
New selections from Poem of Thanks up on the amazing JMWW!
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Philly and everywhere
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Cogito poems have always meant a lot to me, put a Cogito Kid character in my own persona poems as homage. Been revisiting Herbert's Collected lately
cover of Zbigniew Herbert's Collected PoemsThe Envoy of Mr. CogitoThe Envoy of Mr. Cogito (cont)To Marcus Aurelius
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Full highlight reel! Fantastic night boiled down to 35 minutes. Worth a watch! youtu.be/_b3QqJ0kE5E?...
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Ghost Harmonics, The Second Show
YouTube video by Ghost Harmonics
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
trailer for the second Ghost Harmonics show, full thing dropping soon! youtu.be/vClK4LBMpGY?...
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Ghost Harmonics, The Second Show Trailer
YouTube video by Ghost Harmonics
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William Hazard @williamhazard.co · 27/01/2025
[small works] from When We Look at Things We Steal their Color and Grow Heavy Under their Weght by Mike Bagwell
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
First Neon Night Mic of 2025 is one week from today! Curated by Black Ocean & celebrating a poetry reissue by Bill Knott (1940-2014) feat. @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social / Nathan Hoks / Carrie Olivia Adams / @evansquilliams.bsky.social / @yoadrianididit.bsky.social / Brian Foley
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This Saturday in Philly! Ghost Harmonics series second show with readings by Ryan Eckes, Alexis Almeida, and Warren C. Longmire, and music by Bhob Rainey, Huston West, and Oarsman. Going to be a hell of a show!
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Buffalo (x8) | submissions closed @buffalomag.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Volume four of Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, guest edited by Réka Nyitrai, is live! A huge thank you to all the talented writers who trusted us with their work and thank YOU for reading! buffalojournal.tumblr.com #litmag #poetry #poetrycommunity
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grammatically correct sentence & literary journal
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Thrilled to have a pair of poems in the amazing new issue of @coupletpoetry.bsky.social!! Read em at coupletpoetry.com/mike-bagwell
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Mike Bagwell – Couplet Poetry
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Not My Style @notmystyle.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
yall, issue 1 is free!! (when is bluesky getting video?) ch3ck out @tomsnarsky.bsky.social, TR Brady, @stonespiral.bsky.social, @lizkellebrew.com, Caleb Bouchard, Réka Nyitrai, Christine Shan Shan Hou, @rorty.bsky.social, @transputation.bsky.social, @lowghost.bsky.social, and Tyler Barton!!!!!!!!
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Eunoia Review @eunoiareview.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
Unidirectional eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2023/12/28/u...
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
First piece from my novel in flash Baboon Moon is out! This is my favorite writing of mine, wild and unhinged, anarchist and Deleuzian, drenched in tarot and TV. Give it a read! BULL is such an amazing mag w/ first class fiction like @chelseastickle.bsky.social and @itsaaronjacobs.bsky.social
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
New book!! bottlecap.press/products/collision So thrilled to announce that my chapbook is out from Bottlecap Press. And a new poem in @trampset from that new collection trampset.org/light-3d4ce9... an all-time fav lit mag!
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Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Me: can you put on your socks? Toddler: they're not socks, they're peanut butter marshmallows Me: ok, can you put the peanut butter marshmallows on your feet, we've got to go! Lol, the things I say these days with mild annoyance while also suppressing a laugh
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