Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 2hMy youngest daughter is now 10 and I honesy think in some ways my poetry suffers the further she is from toddler age... 020
Reposted by Jared BeloffJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 114107732653
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When 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... 1110
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Am I quiet quitting poetry? An autobiography of Tuesday evenings 030
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That's ok. That means two things for all of us to look forward to... 110
Reposted by Jared BeloffSusan 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 106321
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Me and Mitch poet screaming into the voidstatic.klipy.comMarmot Yelling LoudlyALT: Marmot Yelling Loudly 120
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Do 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? 040
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Not me signing my daughter up to college tours when just yesterday she was riding on my shoulders and eating raisins singing Tangled songs.... 230
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ok, post links of your favorite long poems! Mitch (and Jared) needs to get cultured. 141
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026also, I miss when this type of post would have garnered 20 other poets to weigh in, provide examples and counter examples. The BSKY poetry world is a snoozer mostly. 120
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I do sigh when I get to one bc it means I need to reorient my brain from what I was expecting. If I know what I'm getting into then I'm all in. Be Holding by Ross Gay? Reading a Larry Levis poem? Yes please. Turning the page of a print journal to a 4 pager...oof, sure, ok, fine. 210
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026That is the only way this should go. Unless the teacher is a jerk using dyslexia as a pejorative instead of a diagnosis, this is the process: identify the issue, advocate around and address the issue with an evaluation process, codify diagnosis and accomodations with an IEP. 030
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026No but not working with unlimited funding here. 010
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Better to sub to an award or the general subs for a press? Namely Red Hen Press... 100
Reposted by Jared BeloffJared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Is anyone else sucked into the fun of Dungeon Crawler Carl? 011
Reposted by Jared BeloffJared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It is a good day when you can read a @mitchnobis.bsky.social poem. www.porcupineliterary.com/post/these-a...porcupineliterary.comThese Are the Dreams NowMitchell 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 ... 296
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It is a good day when you can read a @mitchnobis.bsky.social poem. www.porcupineliterary.com/post/these-a...porcupineliterary.comThese Are the Dreams NowMitchell 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 ... 296
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Wait, I am not old just balding in Trump's economy / late stage capitalism 010
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sure 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... 011
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Is anyone else sucked into the fun of Dungeon Crawler Carl? 011
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So 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. 080
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Assuming 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. 080
Reposted by Jared BeloffOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026all this dumb, terrible shit is happening. and nobody does anything about it. they dont even SAY anything about it. 57512
Reposted by Jared BeloffMitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-m...havehashad.comI’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 NobisYou'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... 2123
Reposted by Jared BeloffJustin Aoba @justinaoba.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Hello 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 🤲 0159
Reposted by Jared BeloffXero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Still 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. 2116773289
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Annie 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. 0121
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Just 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... 1140
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I think it is bc you think you will mess it up so badly and then it works out. 030
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Why is it that completing/surviving a new home improvement task makes you feel a grander sense of achievement than most other things you do? 150
Reposted by Jared BeloffEll 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.” ♥️ 031
Reposted by Jared BeloffAmsterdam 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 0145
Reposted by Jared BeloffJared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026My 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/whaleroadreview.comIn my phone yichus autocorrects to yiddishwhich 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 … 0209
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026My 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/whaleroadreview.comIn my phone yichus autocorrects to yiddishwhich 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 … 0209
Reposted by Jared BeloffWhale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate... www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-44-fal...whaleroadreview.comIssue 44 / Fall 2026This 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), … 22915
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Fascinating 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" 020
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My 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. 0151
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Love 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" 090
Reposted by Jared BeloffJared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Are 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 097