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Michael Beard

@themichaelbeard.bsky.social

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Poet | Educator | Editor-in-Chief of @paraselenemag.bsky.social | he/they linktr.ee/michaelbeardpoet

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Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I didn’t know how to write this poem for years until one day, I did.

Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

(Redivider #22.2)

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Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Added some more designs to my Redbubble shop if anyone is interested :) www.redbubble.com/people/MAB-S...

Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Adding my Redbubble link and a couple designs here in case anyone is interested in what I'm doing? Still figuring things out with the whole Shop thing over there. I'm having fun doing these little things :) mab-stickers.redbubble.com

Bubble reflecting colorful windows; a section of ice skaters pasted across.

Colorful moth; labyrinthine design covering only one wing.

Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

(Yalobusha Review #40)

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Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

(Yalobusha Review #40)

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Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"Love Poem" (Lucky Jefferson)

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Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

(Gone Lawn #58)

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Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

(Gone Lawn #58)

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Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

(Gone Lawn #58)

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Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

(Baltimore Review)

Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

(BOOTH)

Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

(Puerto Del Sol)

Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

(Puerto Del Sol)

Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

(Salamander)

Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

(West Trade Review)

Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

(current version, originally in Pine Hills Review)

Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

"Where Things Belong" (trampset)

Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

(previously published in Pine Hills Review, this is the current version)

Self-Portrait

And here is the place I thought all endings happened, at the edge of a pomegranate seed taped to drywall. In the sky I see only in my dreams, it’s partly sunny with a chance of disaster. I have several questions about everything and I don’t know how to begin asking. The road is long but the waiting is infinitely longer. I discovered a theorem that disproves the need for loneliness and of course I began to notice my ears. Who wouldn’t? The Earth spins to the tune of Happy Birthday—Oh, forgive me. I got ahead of myself. Let me start over:

A steady breeze of skin.

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Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Chris Abani, from his book Smoking the Bible

Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Front cover of issue #58 of Salamander.

Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Late to the party on sharing this, but my poem “Understanding” was published in the latest issue of Salamander. Huge thanks to the editors for believing in it!

My poem “Understanding”

Michael Beard @themichaelbeard.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

One of my favorite poems by Joseph Lease.

The poem “I Can No Longer Live by Thinking” by Joseph Lease.