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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 35m

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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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 58m

"Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.” Just an absolute A+ of a quote. Bartleby the Scrivener-level work by Wemby here.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 5h

Water Shrew at Pebble Creek

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 16h

Listening to Jason Benetti call New York v. Boston instead of entertaining Tigers fans by, say, pontificating about why we say Bad Axe is in the Thumb but don't say Mackinac is in "the bird" is just sad, man.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 18h

In honor of tonight's rec league basketball game, I ask, are there any good poems about hooping and mortality and coming to terms with senescence? Because boyyy

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 20h

I started my first teaching job the same week it came out, so I never really knew Pearl Jam's album No Code. (I was busy, okay?) Did you know it has a song by Stone Goddard and he sings it?! And it's awesome?! I thought it was some Mission of Burma cover or something. It rules! youtu.be/54nPK_f-IYw

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Pearl Jam - Mankind (Official Audio)

YouTube video by PearljamVEVO

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thinking about starting a new affect where I pronounce "personal" with a long o like "persona" so it sounds kinda like "tonal." Y/N?

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That "where we have the Gophers" was a helluva closer.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ford Pintos went rogue. Lawn jarts went rogue. Lead paint went rogue. Dan Ackroyd's SNL Bag o' Glass went rogue.

Dan Ackroyd in the old Saturday Night Live skit where he plays a slimy toy company executive explaining that recalls aren't their fault and pushing their new product, bag of glass.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also won the G League dunk contest last year! High flier, lotta fun.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Got a t-shirt quote here, Pistons fans.

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ok, post links of your favorite long poems! Mitch (and Jared) needs to get cultured.

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 27/09/2026

That’s how people describe me sometimes

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Please wear the Olde English D on your Hall plaque, my man.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The first time I saw an analysis of Nielsen ratings that included actual number of TVs changed my life. It was something like "smash hit Friends ranked first again this week with 33,000 viewers," and my brain immediately shouted "SO 1% OF AMERICANS? 1%?!?!"

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One must imagine Sisyphus enjoying writing his umpteenth sh*tty poem outside the gym waiting for his kid's practice to end.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And Harvard refused to hold him accountable. strong Title IX enforcement could have stopped Zuck/Facebook from ruining the world. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Me, reading: A four-page poem? I'm sorry or congrats but who has time to read all that? Me, writing: Every word of this five-page poem is necessary to building the whole, and this is my masterpiece that everyone will love.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As quite possibly the Bluesky user who has been to the most Motor City Cruise games, allow me to answer what you're probably wondering: He's a shooter.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good dad & husband moment gets a hell yeah, too.

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The Detroiter @detroiter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Someone cutting onions?

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Shout-out to the kid whistling the Jeopardy! song during the other team's mound visit.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Exhibit A was insanely pretty, but you know I bought a sack of Exhibit B.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ultimately I think I'm waiting for the one email that offers a boffo book deal for my 🏀 novel along with courtside season tickets and maybe the news that Charles Schulz & Jack Kirby have actually been in hiding working together on a magnum opus all this time or something.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A bunch of sleepy guys stretching and pitting up shots in the high school gym before sunrise. A radio plays old hits. We form teams. RIGHT as we finally start the game, "Heaven is a Place on Earth" tears out of the radio. Shout-out to the universe for that one. Well done, amigo.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

[Watching a game. It goes to an ad break. A PSA comes on. It shows a series of tweets by techlord AI dorks. A voiceover begins...] Have you seen these f*&%in' guys? The ones who said we don't need humanities? You want to be like them? I didn't think so. The Humanities: Grow a Soul™.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Non-parents would be stunned to find out how many of my poems start as drafts in a car while waiting for a kid (or as voice-text while commuting). Parent-writers...would not be surprised at all.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Methinks maybe we got here because the people with power apparently think knowing your street address is "fine intellectual dexterity" as opposed to, say, being able to analyze King Lear (or anything really).

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

[searches up "is stress eating tortilla chips at bedtime healthy?"]

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Lansing Facts @lansingmifacts.com · 24/09/2026

half car, half motorcycle, 100% Lansing

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Got a work email with the subject line "What do you want to buy?" and without opening it, knowing what it's about, or an ounce of irony, I immediately muttered "TIME" aloud with the weariness of a thousand ghosts.

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Keith Langlois @kml7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Pistons went from 14 wins to 44 to 60. In year three under the Langdon-Bickerstaff regime, they'll use another barometer to measure growth. And that's what drove their off-season tweaks. www.nba.com/pistons/news...

nba.com

Pistons Roster Recast Sets Up Better Answers When Playoffs Matter

After 60 wins last season, Detroit made strategic moves over the summer, adding John Collins, Isaiah Joe, Kevin Huerter and others to create more half-court ...

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Carter Lowe @whitesoxx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jason Benetti gets roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. #DNMW #Tigers

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In hindsight, I might've buried the lead that this ends up a thread about Muppets & their afterparty drink orders.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Found an old file of poem drafts I'd called "Work on these next," read a couple, and let's just say I quickly changed that name to "Work on these maybe."

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Bryan Harvey @bryanharvey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Got a Sunday football poem up about Nick Chubb, tornadoes, and American folklore somewords.boards.net/thread/24/br...

somewords.boards.net

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Whoa Nelly this Russell Brakefield book is great. There are number of poems worth shouting out, but this one really grabbed me earlier.

Cover of Irregular Heartbeats at the Park West by Russell Brakefield

James Tate's Bookshelf
How does the tiger feel about his needle teeth?
And how about his stripes? He stalks at twilight between the dusty hardcovers.
What tooth-shaped piece of me is missing that I would steal this snarling, plastic figurine?
That I can't face the after party-tea candles
in the yard, cloves and small talk, white tablecloths, an old-fashioned weeping in my fist? No ideas
but in things, and the hunter in my pocket brings me closer, I suppose, to an idea of myself
I can stand. In the living room, I run my fingers down its back and think what power
it might bring me. The power to birth a menagerie, word by word,
and spiral each species until the world is reflected-the flaws and tricks, drool
dripping down the jowls, stomach flayed open and everything there exposed.
Astonishing, what we will do to be the maker and not the made,
what we will tell ourselves about ourselves to feel alive. A poem I read years ago
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comes back to me in a flash—a tiger
has the same number of bones in it as a monkey—
long lines stalking me in the open grass.
My poems are like stones, by contrast,
dropped to the bottom of a clear pond, the water's surface left untouched.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The intricate life between highway and suburbs groans at its borders.

A photo of a belt of wildness along I-696, the expressway north of Detroit. This stretch of nature, left alone between subdivisions and the road, is about 50 yards wide and includes trees, grasses, sumac, other bushes, and more. It is, simply put, gorgeous.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today, like every day, be like Dusti!

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

He's not mad, he's just disappointed.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Guys I'm starting to think today's doubleheader might not happen.

Photo from the driver's seat showing the rain-covered windshield. It's actually supposed to rain harder instead of letting up. I would say something like "couldn't it have done this yesterday instead of today?" except it rained some yesterday also.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hi #AskDV, any suggestions for querying a novel that doesn't exactly fit the kinda standard publishing genres? E.g., many agents specify SFF or such, but I have a literary sports (🏀) novel not seeming to fit well in any categorical "bucket," so to speak. How limiting is that to my querying?

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