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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What’s the secret to getting engagement on this app?

Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So…I see there’s some poets upset by the NBA longlist…like, really upset lol Here’s some unsolicited advice, pull up your britches and get on over it. If poetry is so important to you, then write poetry, not snide paragraph length comments under posts meant to congratulate others. Hope this helps.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just finished reading My year of rest and relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. The ending was basically perfect…definitely an unforgettable main character…kinda wish she had a name tho…2000s cinema was peak…I now know the names of way too many pharmaceuticals…I hope to write such a unique novel someday.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Black people singing Sondheim, this needs to happen more often.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Idk who needs to hear this but WASH YOUR WATER BOTTLE!!

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

How do I convince my brother that he don’t need to send me no more conspiratorial Facebook videos featuring folks who fear monger and use fallacies to support their unverified claims?

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Instead of 31 books for #theSealeyChallenge I’m reading 1 big one—Amiri Baraka’s “SOS Poems 1961-2013” I’ve long been aware of his name and importance to Black folks, but I’ve never read his work. Now feels as good a time as any to introduce myself.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If you’re prepping for #thesealeychallenege then perhaps you might consider adding my debut to your list

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My son and I were returning books to the library earlier today, about 12 in total, and a (white) lady walked up behind me and attempted to hand me her books to drop in the slot. She noticed my confused expression and laughed then said “Oh, I thought you were the book return person”.

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Bruh Reaction Meme

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

One of my homies is adamant that I need to try using chatGPT and I keep telling him that I can hallucinate and spout random bullshit without the help of a computer program.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🙃🥴😬 = that feeling when your about halfway through a 500+ page novel written by a poet you adore & the story still feels like it hasn’t started yet.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Just saw a guy in Subway Takes say “In a world full of Tamaras, be a Tia” and I couldn’t agree more.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hey, yall remember back in the day when you could eat leafy greens and breathe outside? What a time.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Okay so I finished reading Martyr! about an hour ago and I am still sitting here lowkey gobsmacked at the beauty of the writing. I know it’s not a hot take at this point, but Kaveh Akbar put his foot in that book.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’m bout halfway through reading Martyr!, here are a few of my thoughts thus far. -Cyrus is a mess & I love it. -Orkideh is my fave character. -It’s not fair that Kaveh Akbar is so good at everything. -Lisa and Roya’s scene should’ve been longer. -Poets make the best novelists. -“Earth Martyrs” 🤯

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If I as a Black man start working with Spanish-speaking folks, am I wrong if I don’t tell them I also speak Spanish? One of my old chefs called me a slur while gossiping with another cook, when I mentioned I could understand them, he got mad at me for not being honest. #AITA

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

35 was a blast. Can’t wait to see what this next year has in store for me. Shoutouts to 36. Happy Birthday to me.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

At least twice a month I think about the fact that Aretha Franklin would demand to be paid in cash for performing then carry her purse on stage with her & sing the til the rafters trembled.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Taylor said we dropping drafts today, so here we go. Here’s a sonnet inspired by the (long, long) road to the election & our nation’s habitually short memory.

A screenshot of a poem draft titled “they really almost had me. The poem is unpunctuated and reads as such:

She didn’t just fall out of a coconut tree though her ads would have you
believe something new is brewing she too exists within the context of all
that came before the shock & awe the upheavals & oustings the mother of
all bombs & all her babies the babies blown to bits the bits of shrapnel in
a refugee’s eye I swear the orange alternative being so bad I almost thought
it was 08 when press & curl took the reigns almost got fishhooked into smiling
till the good homie say we mustn’t forget the point of the role the work of the job
the aim of the sights: most lethal fighting force in the world a healthcare system
that kills us slower qualified immunity gentrified communities yes this tea is cold
i know the news is old the song long & bloody & on repeat but sometimes I need
to be reminded how they do & don’t who they will & won’t let pursue happiness
I can’t believe I almost got caught up in the glee again became again what I was
then gullible & giddy & rapping like Jeezy revving my hooptie’s engine like a
Lamborghini its sad really all it takes is a lesser devil to make us sigh with relief

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Update: We pushed publication to Feb. 2027. While you wait, I recommend the new books from @ralpheeboi.bsky.social, @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social, @janezwart.bsky.social, @clairemtaylor.com, @mrdecember.bsky.social, and soooo many more but those 5 are in a stack right in front of me.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Writing fiction is crazy cuz you really just have to SAY that shit. The whole shit. As a poet, I’m more practiced at alluding to that shit through metaphors involving various types of birds, but I love learning a new skill 😂

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Am I gonna regret not outlining this short story before I began writing it? Probably. Am I currently having a great time despite having almost no idea where this thing is going? Definitely.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Finally got out of my head about it and started writing a short story. Got about 1500 words on the page today.

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Maxwell Suzuki (He/Him) @papasuzuki.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I’ll be doing a reading at Beyond Baroque on June 12th at 7:30pm to launch my friend Mitchell Jacobs’ debut poetry collection! So excited to read new stuff (only seen by one other person)! Here’s the link to get tickets! www.eventbrite.com/e/la-book-la...

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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 28/05/2026

my goal was to have the new collection finished by end of summer, but i think i'll have it done within a week or two... so to that end im having a giveaway, four drawings: one for each of my three available books and one grand drawing for all three. dm your name & interest for which drawings.

photo of my 3 available books of poetry, Deifying A Total Darkness, The Second Stop Is Jupiter, and The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It’s almost like the pistons have no interest in going to the finals.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I am reaching for the part of myself that is full of gratitude but often I am really very disgusted by my life.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Good news in the sh*%storm: I have a new poetry collection coming later this year! Beginning to Sense, @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social, October 2026. (That's not the cover. I just mocked up a title page for this announcement.)

I mocked up a title page for what will soon be my forthcoming second poetry collection, Beginning to Sense, to be published by Match Factory Editions, 2026.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

People with big gums always have the most vibrant smiles.

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Yall remember back in the day when the hot takes folks shared online were actually hot and not just _____ist/____phobic rage bait?

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Archie & Edith Bunker Sing 'Those Were The Days'

ALT: Archie & Edith Bunker Sing 'Those Were The Days'

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I would love some hummus and tabouli and falafel and toum and pickles. Right now.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Buy these books: www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/chil... graysonbooks.com/products/gho... riverriverbooks.org/store/Scythe... sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri... matchfactoryeditions.com/books/Its-Ea... www.orisonbooks.com/product-page... matchfactoryeditions.com/the-size-of-...

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

If you read my 2023 collection of poetry, Who Will Cradle Your Head, you know that I was slightly ahead of this trend. If you want a more recent poem check out this one from Issue 3 of @asteralesjournal.bsky.social: www.asteralesjournal.com/1-3-beloff-w...

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1.3 Beloff-Wilcoxon — Asterales: A Journal of Arts and Letters

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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Today I’m making my visual arts debut with @universityoflou.bsky.social’s own @miraclemonocle.bsky.social Magazine! You can check out my collages “Food for Thought,” “Harmony with the Natural World,” and my artist’s statement here: miraclemonocle.com/articles/foo...

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Collages - Miracle Monocle

Food for Thought Harmony with the Natural World Artist's Statement: These two works were birthed out of Februllage 2026, a month-long exercise for

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Working on line breaks is by far my favorite part of revision because nothing will point out lazy language like breaking big stanzas into couplets.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A prose poem for April 15th: "Golden Hour" from the INCREDIBLE new book, Paper Pistol by @ralpheeboi.bsky.social. No joke—get yourself a copy of this book.

Copy of the poetry collection Paper Pistol by Raphael Jenkins

Golden hour

In lieu of a burial ground, I pray my son's hands will be a birthing place.
May his now tiny fists grow to know no face to call home. May dapping up his homies be the only tyranny his knuckles knock into this world —that is, of course, unless a motherfucker needs to have the lights knocked out across their entire country because their native tongue is one that speaks of my son's as a dead one. I come from a place where no one flashes a fist unless they intend to throw the thing, & so I tell him how many blocks we chased them boys to make good
on our promises, & I hope by this he knows I mean: violence is a commitment that will make you run 'til your lungs ache, & then keep going, ergo, he who commits to violence will always be running.
My boy has two dogs whom he loves to taunt, so I know he knows a useful dummy will chase whatever it feels is going too fast, bearing teeth instinctively, even though it knows you're perfectly harmless.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

goooooooodbyeeee $376 and hellllo 3 collector's copies of books i already own & 2 new notebooks to accompany the 3 existing notebooks i haven't finished (featuring a NEW PEN!)

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I wanna make more connections in the literary space. How do you all land those cool reading opportunities?

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

My homies still text like there’s a character limit. Spell out the damn words!!! Add commas when necessary!!! We got full keyboards now, fam!!

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Here's something I haven't said in a while: New Mitch poem! I've sent out very little work over the last couple of years*, but here's one in the Winter '26 Inscape Journal: inscape.byu.edu/2026/04/09/u...

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Until We Said Okay – Inscape

By Mitchell Nobis – In the blazing sunrise, the plastic bag in the intersection of Metro and Detroit ascended like a roadkill dove...

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

My new poem "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" is now published at the gorgeous Spring issue of @sixthfinch.bsky.social sixthfinch.com

A Japanese government worker stands in a bear mask.

A digital lumberjack cuts down the woods. An aurora of polar bears wait within the trees to attack.

The book cover of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 23/03/2026

you really gotta click through for the whole thing, but here's a sneak peek to show off today's amazing timeline-as-poem from JeFF Stumpo www.havehashad.com/zer2y

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Just went to the local bookstore to holler at the owner and she agreed to carry my book. Gonna list me on the local writers wall after national poetry month is over. My work is gonna be in a bookstore!!

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Ralph Jenkins @ralpheeboi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I think it’s time for me to quit poetry.

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