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Stephen K. Kim @skimperil.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Thank you @oneart.bsky.social again for giving my poems a home among many other incredible poems!

Stephen K. Kim @skimperil.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Thank you @markdanowsky.bsky.social and @eboninthehedges.bsky.social for giving my poems "Purpose" and "Vivisection" such an amazing home in @oneart.bsky.social!

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Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

We're closing out the day, the week, the sneak peek at issue number 89 with a poetry party. A kind of end-of-the-world type poetry party. Seems fitting these days. This is from "Supplication" by Stephen K. Kim @skimperil.bsky.social and you need to read it on Sunday!

The sky’s lurid vermillion
tells of faraway wildfires.

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Frozen Sea @frozenseapoetry.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

A Gay Hammer Poem | Stephen Kim @skimperil.bsky.social | Frozen Sea - Issue Nine

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ballast journal @ballastjournal.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Contributor features from ballast 3.3! Here’s Stephen K. Kim with “Notification” @skimperil.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/stephen-k-kim #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #StephenKKim

The image is a screenshot of a quote from the poem "Notification" by Stephen K. Kim, presented in a visually appealing format. The quote is displayed on a white background with rounded corners, resembling a card or a pop-up window.

- *Title and Author*
- The title "Stephen K. Kim" is prominently displayed at the top of the white background in large black text.
- Below the title, the phrase "from 'Notification'" is written in smaller black text, indicating the source of the quote.
- *Quote*
- The quote itself is presented in gray text and reads: "it had nothing to do with how I would just be a means to scratch his itch, it only mattered that my reverie of a clandestine liaison with this dapper, chiseled stranger was attainable, which propelled me onto his doorstep."
- The quote is centered within the white background, making it the focal point of the image.
- *Buttons*
- Below the quote, two buttons are visible: "SNOOZE" and "OKAY."
- These buttons are not interactive elements, but appear to allow the user to respond to the quote or notification in some way.
- *Background and Footer*
- The background of the image features a pastel-colored gradient, transitioning from pink to green.
- In the bottom-right corner, the text "ballast 3.3" and "ballastjournal.com" is displayed in small black font, providing information about the source or context of the quote.

In summary, the image presents a quote from "Notification" by Stephen K. Kim in a clean and modern design, accompanied by non-interactive buttons and contextual information about the source.

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Stephen K. Kim @skimperil.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Thrilled to have a poem in this volume! Many thanks to the editors @ballastjournal.bsky.social!

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Business lunch. This is from a negative in my collection, ca. 1970s. When I posted this to Bluesky previously, a sharp-eyed follower identified the likely location as the dock in front of the Lightship Ambrose in NYC!

Color photo of a white man in a dark suit, sitting on a bench on a boardwalk or other outdoor wooden space. He's eating lunch on top of a briefcase and has a sandwich in one hand, but hold up a little tin in his other hand for a shorthaired brown tabby cat that is stretching up to reach the bench next to him. It looks like it could have been a sardine tin or something similar. Overall it looks like this man is on his lunch break from work but also giving a treat to a friendly stray. It looks like there is a large red boat in the background.

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Stephen K. Kim @skimperil.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Are prose poems allowed for #smallpoemsunday? Posting one of mine published earlier this year with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social CW: grief #poetsofbluesky #poetry #newpoet #chappellroan #mathclass

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

But I was hungry! From The Adventures of Nip and Tuck: Just Cats. By Elizabeth Francis and illustrated by Barbara Roe Hicklin, 1959.

Black ink illustration of a shorthaired cat standing on its hind legs to looking into an overflowing trash can. Text at the bottom left reads "But I was hungry!"

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Stephen K. Kim @skimperil.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Many thanks to @narioli.bsky.social and Thimble Lit Mag for publishing "When Ruth Recounted How" in Volume 7.4 -- this will be the first time I'll see one of my poems in print! #queerpoem #aapiwriting #newpoet

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Stephen K. Kim @skimperil.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Thank you to editors @cilloyd.bsky.social, Jack Westmore, and Luís Costa for publishing my poem "Elegy for Joe" in Vol 2 of the Seaford Review! Thrilled my work is included alongside such incredible poems. www.seafordreview.com/p/issue-two #poetry #queerpoem #elegy #newpoet

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Sun roasted potato. 🥔 Photo from my collection, 1954.

A pretty shorthaired calico cat reclining on her side and back in a strong window sunbeam that is baking across a carpeted surface. She is positively glowing in the light and it’s a gorgeous contrast to the stark edge of the sun where the carpet appears to become almost completely black. She’s in a rectangular island of light.

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Stephen K. Kim @skimperil.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thank you @neologismpoetry.bsky.social for publishing my poem this weekend! www.neologismpoetry.com/February-202... #poem #poetry #newpoet #writers #thundercloud #catpoem

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

“Go outside” they said. “You’ll enjoy the fresh air” they said. Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.

A shorthaired white cat with tabby patches, looking disgusted while walking on what seems to be a stony beach.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

increasingly i like to describe the writing i love most as “soulful.” full of seeking. full of reaching for another’s hand. techniques of verbal restraint or seeming coldness serve always an underlying vulnerability and warmth and tenderness (or a deep longing for these)

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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

3 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT!! SUMMER SERIES SUBMISSION GUIDELINES HERE: ghostcitypress.com/microchap-su...

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

to hold, to gentle, to warm, to carry, to tend, to hold and hold

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Stephen K. Kim @skimperil.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

2024 was the year I started writing in earnest, and my only new year's resolution for 2025 is to continue writing. Grateful to have work forthcoming in a few places, including @ghostcitypress.bsky.social!

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

What matters to me even more than the shapeliness and the dance of language is what the poem discovers deeper down… I respond most to what is found out about the heart and spirit, what we can hear through the language. —Linda Gregg, from “The Art of Finding”

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Stephen K. Kim @skimperil.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

My first published microfiction! Thank you so much @acdclitmag.bsky.social

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