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Jared Beloff

@readinstead.bsky.social
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teacher, poet, father, husband | WHO WILL CRADLE YOUR HEAD (ELJ 2023) | Ed. POETS OF QUEENS 2 | EIC of @porcupinelit.bksy.social | Co-Founder of monthly reading series and poetry community get togethers, @notatawp.bsky.social linktr.ee/jbeloff

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 17h
When you step back and realize that the political message that worked is "your stuff is too expensive and the pollution dinosaur juice is too expensive" and not "we have concentration camps and a gestapo" it is pretty wild...
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Am I quiet quitting poetry? An autobiography of Tuesday evenings
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
✨COVER REVEAL✨ for my new chap, SENTENCE, out with Nine Syllables Press on December 1st! If you love my brother poems, you will love these as well! PRE-ORDER at the link: www.ninesyllablespress.com/shop/p/sente... And learn more in the replies! Graphics: 9SP IG
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Do I start Book 5 of Dungeon Crawler Carl or do I take a moment and read the book that is obviously going to win all the literary prizes this year?
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Not me signing my daughter up to college tours when just yesterday she was riding on my shoulders and eating raisins singing Tangled songs....
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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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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Better to sub to an award or the general subs for a press? Namely Red Hen Press...
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is anyone else sucked into the fun of Dungeon Crawler Carl?
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is a good day when you can read a @mitchnobis.bsky.social poem. www.porcupineliterary.com/post/these-a...
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These Are the Dreams Now
Mitchell Nobis is a writer and K-12 public school teacher in Metro Detroit where he lives with his family and dog. He is the author of The Size of the Horizon, or, / Explained Everything to the Trees ...
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is a good day when you can read a @mitchnobis.bsky.social poem. www.porcupineliterary.com/post/these-a...
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These Are the Dreams Now
Mitchell Nobis is a writer and K-12 public school teacher in Metro Detroit where he lives with his family and dog. He is the author of The Size of the Horizon, or, / Explained Everything to the Trees ...
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wait, I am not old just balding in Trump's economy / late stage capitalism
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sure signs that I am getting old beside my growing bald spot: 1. Clothes are too expensive. But I am not ready to just go to Kohls or some equivalent to shop. 2. Shopping at grocery stores and especially outlet malls makes me inordinately angry at how everything is price gouged...
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is anyone else sucked into the fun of Dungeon Crawler Carl?
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So the rule is standardized tests don't matter at all unless your 9yo gets a perfect score and then they mean everything. That's their only function. Yes, my 9yo got a perfect score.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Assuming that after a slew of MS rejections from 6+ months ago means the two or three left in my submittable are clearly in a bidding war over my MS. Love this for me.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
all this dumb, terrible shit is happening. and nobody does anything about it. they dont even SAY anything about it.
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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-m...
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I’m Talking to the Man Wearing a T-Shirt That Says Everything Hurts because I Need to Tell You Something about My Marriage by Mitchell Nobis
You're holding a baby in the grocery store which suggests you have found some degree of love in this world which means you also already know that there are ways to mitigate the hurt, t...
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Justin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hello if you send your poetry to @identitytheory.bsky.social today I will sit here with my Diet Dr. Pepper and give you a reply today 🤲
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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Annie Dillard has not only informed my writing as one of the first and best (nature) writers I've encountered but also her arguments for attention inform how I view life and what it means to be human.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just looked up a press to submit to and one of their editors is openly thinking about how to combine AI with creative writing (like for their career as an academic)...soooo, I won't be subbing there...
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Poem prompt
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wrote a Spock poem...not my first.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Why is it that completing/surviving a new home improvement task makes you feel a grander sense of achievement than most other things you do?
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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Accent autocorrects to accident, which isn’t one, even though the word is latin, not yiddish, to move towards a fall. I find comfort whenever I hear you in yiddish accidents, a balding man with glasses looking over the mess he made at the dinner table.” ♥️
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"​​​All the deaths have taken on new forms, / suspended in air, shapes never touching but in / motion. Maybe this is beauty. Maybe derailed beauty is still beauty." 3 poems by @victoriachang.bsky.social in Amsterdam Rev www.amsterdamreview.org/three-by-victoria-chang.html #poetry #poetrycommunity
Hemlock, 1956
​A wooden door in front of everything. A door 
on my country. A door on the lake. My poems 

prefer wooden hunting dogs. If I say there is a 
door on my heart in the poem, then there is. 

Now I can open this door. The door is a short 
door though. I must kneel down to crawl in, drag 

my body through with my wooden elbows. I bump
into my wooden mother who is also crawling

in my heart. She smiles so large at me that her
suffering lights up the tunnel. I can now see my
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ICYMI
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ICYMI
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Silo is so good. Just finished ssn 3.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My poem on lineage, (mis)translation and memory, "In my phone yichus autocorrects to yiddish" was published today in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Big thanks to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social. www.whaleroadreview.com/beloff-2/
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In my phone yichus autocorrects to yiddish
which makes sense because I had to look upthe word on Google, yiddish for lineage. My phone knows what I’m looking for,listens to fragments of conversations, is definitely reading my emailsto Eddy …
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My poem on lineage, (mis)translation and memory, "In my phone yichus autocorrects to yiddish" was published today in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Big thanks to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social. www.whaleroadreview.com/beloff-2/
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In my phone yichus autocorrects to yiddish
which makes sense because I had to look upthe word on Google, yiddish for lineage. My phone knows what I’m looking for,listens to fragments of conversations, is definitely reading my emailsto Eddy …
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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate... www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-44-fal...
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Issue 44 / Fall 2026
This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate. Although the writing contains many common poetic images and topics (the moon, birds, fear, loss, love, and language itself all make appearances), …
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fascinating to me that Glenn Powell who wants to be the next Tom Cruise has been type-cast into the role of "guy who wears disguises but always looks exactly the same but wearing a bad disguise"
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My latest MS was just a semifinalist for a press I like. Top 10% of submissions. Pretty cool. I mean, I'd love to be selected for publication but this is a nice consolation.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Love that all the headlines are like "Republicans will give 5k to everyone if elected" instead of "Trump attempts to bribe voters with empty promises at his sham convention rally"
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Are you a teacher? Are you a writer? Do you write about the classroom experience? Submit your work to Porcupine Literary! Definitely looking for everything but very low on CNF at the moment. Submissions always open. Send as a word doc to porcupinesubmissions at gmail.com
The cutest little porcupine wants you to find out more at www.porcupineliterary.com/submissions
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Help please (for a poet who has lost touch with who is doing what and where): 1. Where should I send experimental and traditional ecopoems? 2. Where should I send an manuscript of them that interrogates our relationship to technology and nature?
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Majda Gama @majda.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“We’ve got parks and we’ve got reserves, but we are headed towards a sixth extinction event, because those are too small, they’re too isolated and there’s too few of them. And the way we landscape in between the parks and reserves does not sustain biodiversity.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How one American couple ditched their lawn and created a wildlife haven – and you could too
Novice gardeners James Reed McGuire and Crystal Fritz wanted to try something new when they moved out to the suburbs. Little did they know they were joining a nationwide movement
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Help please (for a poet who has lost touch with who is doing what and where): 1. Where should I send experimental and traditional ecopoems? 2. Where should I send an manuscript of them that interrogates our relationship to technology and nature?
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
two ancient entities older than all this grass and pavement and even this darkening sky, its hollow core full of air and light quietly humming. —Sarah Etlinger Poem by @drsaephd.bsky.social I just read to my beloved in the kitchen as they cook dinner…
Hanukkah Dinosaur

Judaism is trending again, my friend Jared tells me, so I wonder if I should buy Dinokkah, the inflatable Hanukkah Dinosaur,
who is bright green with a blue T-shirt, cartoon menorah blazing on the front, and a big blue dreidel lying on its side. He wears a white yarmulke, which you can only see from the back.
Everything is lit from the bottom.
Imagine, I respond, you too
can have a Hanukkah dinosaur in your front window or yard.
I want him the way adults want things to remind themselves they were once children.
I do not buy him.
Lately people are asking me
if I've noticed how anti-Semitism is getting worse or if I think people aren't afraid of anything anymore.
Bob asks me quietly, and is very concerned.
Last week I told him do not read any of the tweets or the headline in the NYT calling a blatant attack on Jews purported anti-semitism—instead of what it actually was, actual anti-semitism. Do not, I said, think harder about the Jewish Space Lasers or the LA bridge protesters or Adidas.
Another friend texts me about Kanye West and says he's a fucking asshole looking for more power, and I say Yeah, but we took down our mezuzah this week for the first time ever. She is silent for several minutes before she tells me about the football game. She doesnt know what to do or say about any of this.
They all want something different
for me, and when someone asks what they can do,I want to tell them to buy this dinosaur, so I can rig him up on my small unruly yard
for everyone to see as they pass by, on their way to elsewhere, as they whiz past warm glowing plastic faces of the tiny wan Jesus and Mary and Joseph, dingy lambs weary at the end of the shepherd's crook, the molded shepherd's face hidden by his modest plastic cloak—
the dinosaur bright and garishly green, proud and smiling instead of somber—a wholly joyful amalgam:
two ancient entities older than all this grass and pavement and even this darkening sky, its hollow core full of air and light quietly humming.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Victoria Chang's poetry amazes me. To say she has range isnt quite right, it is more an openness to evolution. The elements and preoccupation remain but the branch and expand. Read her new book The Tree of Knowledge.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Are you a teacher? Are you a writer? Do you write about the classroom experience? Submit your work to Porcupine Literary! Definitely looking for everything but very low on CNF at the moment. Submissions always open. Send as a word doc to porcupinesubmissions at gmail.com
The cutest little porcupine wants you to find out more at www.porcupineliterary.com/submissions
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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🔥NEW at AGNI Online🔥 If war is a film it’s not necessarily horror. In my case it’s a road movie (what’s your favorite road movie?) ~from "If war" by Maksym Kryvtsov (Trans. from the Ukrainian by Larissa Babij)
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"If war"
If war is a film it’s not necessarily horror. In my case it’s a road movie (what’s your favorite road movie?) speeding across the deserted steppe past ranges of slag heaps and canyons of defense…
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So I am just going to write books and shelve them forever, I guess.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So I am just going to write books and shelve them forever, I guess.
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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Maybe you want to read a #poem about this Franz West sculpture @massmoca.bsky.social? #likeafield www.likeafield.com/2026/summer/...
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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I post more here about basketball & whatnot than my writing, so here's a new pinned post about my writing. A second poetry collection is on the way, so I updated mitchnobis.com, which I *know* you've all been clamoring for.
mitchnobis.com
Mitchell Nobis
Visit the post for more.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So I had a chance to read poems with some amazing writers in the NYC subway. Unpictured: the cops who tried to break up the set as I read about Peter Parker.
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