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Jory Mickelson

@poetryphone.bsky.social
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poet | author of PICTURING | End of the Line Press ALL THIS DIVIDE | Spuyten Duyvil Press WILDERNESS//KINGDOM | Floating Bridge Press t.co/gcu0NORJ2h they/them 🌈 | All opinions are my own.

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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Poets: what's one line — yours or someone else's — you can't stop turning over in your head this week? For me it is the final words of the final lines of Richard Hugo's "Degrees of Grey in Phillipsburg" ...her red hair lights the wall. #poets #poetrycommunity #finallines #lastlines #lifechanging
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A broadside of mine is in the artwork stage at Bear Scratch Press, printing next month. Nothing like watching a poem become a physical art object. 🎨
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thrilled to share that my poem "Still Learning" will appear in @lilacperil.bsky.social IDOLS issue. More when it's out in the world. 🌿
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title is “Cats living together”.
The first panel shows a black cat and orange cat cuddling with their eyes closed. The orange cat says “I love you”. The black cat says “I love you too”.
The second panel zooms in on them. 
The third panel shows the orange cat opening its eyes.
The fourth panel shows the orange cat raising its paw to punch the black cat. It says, “Actually you know what”.
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Happy to have three new poems in Hobart this month from my manuscript about Andy Warhol! www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
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ballast journal @ballastjournal.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨ Here’s Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social with “[Sometimes a hotel room]” Read the full poem here! www.ballastjournal.com/jory-mickels... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #JoryMickelson
Digital broadside of a poem by Jory Mickelson in ballast issue 3.4. Black text on light pink background with black curly line on right side.

Text of poem reads 
“So maybe a hotel room's
really a pastoral. It's all there
right on the surface. So, pastoral with comforter
& pillow. Pastoral with telephone on the nightstand. Pastoral
with stranger's pubic hair
on the gleaming toilet seat.”
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Thanks to the editors of Branches literary journal for featuring my poem "True" in their fall issue.
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I am stoked to have THREE poems in the new issue of @quarternotesmag.bsky.social Better yet, you can hear me read the poems to you! quarternotesmag.com/mickelson/?f...
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Three Poems by Jory Mickelson
Three Poems by Jory Mickelson [No matter how often & how far] No matter how often& how far you digress,no matter how manyclever improvisations you make, so long as you patientlybring yourse…
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I am thrilled to talk to @theoceanisgay.bsky.social about their new book LET THE MOON WOBBLE for @adroitjournal.bsky.social Check it out at the link below: theadroitjournal.org/2025/11/10/a...
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A Conversation with Ally Ang
Ally Ang is a gaysian poet & editor based in Seattle. Their work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, The Seattle Met, and elsewhere. Ally is a National…
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: @poetryphone.bsky.social interviews @theoceanisgay.bsky.social about their new book just out from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, LET THE MOON WOBBLE. theadroitjournal.org/2025/11/10/a...
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A Conversation with Ally Ang
Ally Ang is a gaysian poet & editor based in Seattle. Their work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, The Seattle Met, and elsewhere. Ally is a National…
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I was asked to write about Kelly R. Samuels poem in the new issue of @ballastjournal.bsky.social and they wrote about my poem. You can check out our dialogue, and our poems here: www.ballastjournal.com/dialogue-sam....
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
What a great day to have a new poem in the world. Thank you to @ballastjournal.bsky.social for publishing my poem "Sometimes a hotel room" from the new book I am currently working on. You can read it here! www.ballastjournal.com/jory-mickels...
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Jory Mickelson — ballast
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Super excited to be in the new issue of @ballastjournal.bsky.social !
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ballast journal @ballastjournal.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
2/2 and Jason Labbe, Andrew Maxwell, Jory Mickelson (@poetryphone.bsky.social), Pete Miller, Matthew Murrey (@mytwords.bsky.social), Tom Phillips translating Tzatcho Boyajiev, Caroline Picker, @megpokrass.bsky.social, RL Powell, @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social, @hannahazar.bsky.social, Misha Tentser 2/…
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Thank you to @tupelopress.bsky.social for publishing a conversation with me about my new book PICTURING in Tupelo Quarterly! Check it out at the link: www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-feat...
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"Picturing: A conversation with Jory Mickelson" – curated by Esteban Rodríguez
Jory Mickelson talks with Esteban Rodríguez about his poetry collection Picturing and more.
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Happy to see my poem in print over at broadkill review in their summer issue, just in time for Warhol's birthday. Warhol's first Pop Art paintings appeared in 1961 in the department store windows of Bonwit Teller. Warhol's paintings served as a backdrop to mannequins dressed in the latest fashions.
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I've been pretty quiet here as the world has been so loud lately. How are you caring for yourself right now?
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I have two poems in the new Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology. Thank you to Arianne True the former WA State Poet Laureate for putting this project together. Here is one of my poems! waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/8
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Self-Portrait of a Boy Pretending to Be a Boy · WA Queer Anth
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 04/01/2025
The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"Collecting Little Found Things": A Conversation Between Jory Mickelson & Stacy Boe Miller psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/13/c...
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“Collecting Little Found Things”: A Conversation Between Jory Mickelson and Stacy Boe Miller
Stacy Boe Miller and Jory Mickelson
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Shout out to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social and Stacy Boe Miller for our coversation about poetry and life. Read it here! psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/13/c...
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“Collecting Little Found Things”: A Conversation Between Jory Mickelson and Stacy Boe Miller
Stacy Boe Miller and Jory Mickelson
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Hi folks, this Sunday June 15th at 1pm Pacific, I will be giving a reading and offering some writing prompts from my new book Picturing with the folks over at Lordship House on zoom. I hope you can come! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Something from an ongoing dream of mine...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 04/06/2025
Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, memoirs and novels, has died at 85.
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Edmund White, a groundbreaking gay author, dies at 85
Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, memoirs and novels, has died. He was 85.
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
It’s always sad when an old friend passes, back in the day we used to write to each other weekly. I loved getting his free-flowing & reminiscing dispatches from Paris. Good night Edmund ❤️ Edmund White (1940-2025) Gift article from NYT
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Edmund White, Novelist and Pioneer of Gay Literature, Dies at 85
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TEX DAW’S MOBY DICK: “Bathed in an undeniable, homoerotic glow.” @texdaw.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Novelist Edmund White, RIP. #edmundwhite
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
RIP
Edmund White, legend
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/06/2025
Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85
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Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85
The American essayist, playwrightauthor of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man, has died
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Thank you to @newwordspress.bsky.social for publishing a poem of mine in their new issue!
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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Happy Birthday to Siouxsie Sioux, you beautiful creature, you. Oh, do I adore you. Here's me pretending there's any chance whatsoever that she's lurking on Bluesky. Who else would sell their soul for Siouxsie and the Banshees to announce a world tour?
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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
blackberries wild currants desiccate on the vine O Lady Miriam Lady Mary mare mer Mère remember Your aspect as sea-mother not only of tears, not only salt-bitter but basin bringer --Jennifer Bullis
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I like big rhodies and I cannot lie...
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Enjoying part of my day with a chapbook by @mahreensohail.bsky.social published by @sundresspub.bsky.social
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I have a new poem up over at @pacificalit.bsky.social called, "I've always loved to dance" At last & who doesn’t want to rehearse the body until it becomes an easy glamour. Check it out ! www.pacificareview.com/ive-always-l...
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[i've always loved to dance] - Pacifica Literary Review
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pacificalit.bsky.social @pacificalit.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
New issue is LIVE and IN FULL EFFECT. Feat. Miriam Akervall, @daynabateman.bsky.social, @ebenbein.bsky.social , @danielbrennanreads.bsky.social, Karan Kapoor, JP Kemmick, @poetryphone.bsky.social, Megan Snyder-Camp, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social, & Virginia Watts Be astonished: www.pacificareview.com
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Pacifica Literary Review
Publishing online and in print since 2012. Based in the great northwest.
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pacificalit.bsky.social @pacificalit.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Issue 21.2 will drop in next couple days, feat. the full unmitigated power of: Jory Mickelson Eben Bein Megan Snyder-Camp JP Kemmick Miriam Akervall Daniel Brennan Dayna Bateman Karan Kapoor Virginia Watts Sarp Sozdinler Visual representation of everything in issue below
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a cartoon of a man with a lightning bolt coming out of his mouth and the words " aceelestic " on the bottom
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
My friend @jenniferbullis.bsky.social has an amazing poem up over at Bracken Magazine. Check it out! "Each crimson globe shining with its burden of sweetness and regret." www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xii/se...
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Self-Portrait as Eve by Jennifer Bullis — Bracken
I heard the tree groan under the weight. Each crimson globe shining with its burden of sweetness and regret.
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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I like this one a lot @erikkennedy.com Strong Dobby Gibson vibes. sweetmammalian.squarespace.com/issue-eleven...
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Erik Kennedy — Sweet Mammalian
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
How is everyone doing? Are you hanging in there?
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Proud to be part of a press that "always and will always work to expand the definition of what literature is, what it can do, and to whom it belongs"🌠 Yes, support @coffeehousepress.bsky.social by donating now, or by pre-ordering your favorite books, including my next novel, TERRY DACTYL💜💕
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Went to @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social today in Dallas and they said if I bought 10 books I would get 1 book free. I already had 7 in hand so...
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Ages of Aeon @iancaton.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Church be like #RecoveryPosse
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I am never going to master my mute list to avoid most political content on Bluesky. 😑
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A Letter is a joy of Earth— It is denied the Gods— —Emily Dickinson
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Write like a ghoul, revise like a banshee.
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Amie Souza Reilly @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Today's the *official* pub day for Human/Animal: a bestiary in essays @wlupress.bsky.social I will lean into the joy—Celebrate with me! The brilliant @carolinehagood.bsky.social interviewed me: open.substack.com/pub/caroline... AND It was excerpted in @msmagazine.com! msmagazine.com/2025/04/21/w...
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What It’s Like to Be Stalked by Your Neighbors—And How Gender Shapes Who Gets Believed
An excerpt from Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays (out April 22 from Wilfrid Laurier University Press), Chapter 5: 'On Catching and Being Caught.' 'I knew enough stories of violence to know that if I...
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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Well, I finally said goodbye to Twitter today. I put it off for far too long.
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Aarik Danielsen (he/him) @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"I was listening to The Cure a lot when I wrote this" —Adam Sandler in "The Wedding Singer" and me, writing an article about The Cure
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