Event notice: a lunch talk on February 5, 2025. Prof. David Chiang from the Department of Computer Science will give a talk titled “What Is a Language Model?” The talk is open to the public, and a Zoom link will also be provided.

🚨 Registration now open for the 2026 Day | Merton Symposium 📍 Downes Ballroom, 7th floor Corbett Family Hall, University of Notre Dame 🗓️ April 10, 2026 | 3:30-6:30 PM (A poster session for "attention" theme research begins an hour prior) Details & registration here: franco.nd.edu/events/dorot...

🌸🌸🌸 Here’s Rebecca Valley and “January in the Japanese Garden” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features Read the full poem here www.ballastjournal.com/rebecca-valley #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #RebeccaValley

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! The Franco Institute invites the community to join us March 3 at Stockroom East for an Evening with N. K. Jemisin. This is a free but ticketed event with limited seating availability. Visit our event page for our Eventbrite link. franco.nd.edu/events/2026/...

Here’s Misha Tentser and “Sacred Heart” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features Read the full poem here www.ballastjournal.com/misha-tentser #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #MishaTentser

year-end review because it’s vital to share how art and creativity not only happen in spite of difficulties and dumpster fires but as a refusal to accept the dumpster fires Grateful to the editors, collaborators, contributors, journal neighbors, press mates, & readers: Community > gloating

Here’s Hannah Azar Strauss and “Warner’s Lolly” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features Read the full poem here www.ballastjournal.com/hannah-azar-... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #HannahAzarStrauss

Here’s Kelly R. Samuels and “Re: Talking of Wallpaper” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features w/ @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social Read the full poem here www.ballastjournal.com/kelly-r-samu... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #KellyRSamuels

Judging your own poetry is like holding your hand to your own forehead to check for a fever.

Here’s · R L · powell and “Polaroids I didn’t take only to leave in Basque” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features Read the full poem here www.ballastjournal.com/rl-powell #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #RLPowell

Here’s Meg Pokrass and “The Stranger Likes Soup” for ballast 3.4’s contributor features @megpokrass.bsky.social Read the full poem here www.ballastjournal.com/meg-pokrass #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #MegPokrass

Here’s Caroline Picker for ballast 3.4’s contributor features Content Warning: grief, loss of child Read the full poem here www.ballastjournal.com/caroline-pic... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #CarolinePicker

✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨ Here’s Matthew Murrey with “L” @mytwords.bsky.social Read the full poem here! www.ballastjournal.com/matthew-murr... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #MatthewMurrey

A rolling stone gathers no moss? Well, good thing I’ve let this project have a few years of growth to accumulate ALL THE MOSS. My second full-length, *Ugly Ground Swell Moss*, is heading out into the world sometime soon with Carbonation Press.

✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨ Here’s Pete Miller with “Ethanol” Read the full poem here: www.ballastjournal.com/pete-miller #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #PeteMiller

✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨ Here’s Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social with “[Sometimes a hotel room]” Read the full poem here! www.ballastjournal.com/jory-mickels... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #JoryMickelson

✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨ Here’s Andrew Maxwell with “nunc dimittis” Read the full poem here! www.ballastjournal.com/andrew-maxwell #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #AndrewMaxwell

✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨ Here’s Jason Labbe with “Everybody” Read the full poem here! www.ballastjournal.com/jason-labbe #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #JasonLabbe

To Be, Continued by Vernon Frazer out now from C22 Press @c22press.bsky.social! Vernon Frazer’s latest foray into the liminal space between image and language, playing between text and pure image to create a poetics all his own. Read for free. Print coming! c22press.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/t...

I'm reading tomorrow! 5-6:45 PM ET Saturday Dec 13th A fantastic lineup that includes @monostich.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social and @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social @barlowadams.bsky.social and @dmurphy.bsky.social beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com/dec-13.html

✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨ Here’s David Koehn with “Horse in Field Under Power Lines Quatern” Read (or listen to David read) the full poem here! www.ballastjournal.com/david-koehn #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #DavidKoehn

✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨ Here’s Ted Jean with “Ecclesiastes” www.ballastjournal.com/ted-jean #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #TedJean

✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨ @jennajaco.bsky.social Here’s Jenna Jaco with “That Couple” www.ballastjournal.com/jenna-jaco #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #JennaJaco

I was overdue to update and refresh my website. Added a bunch of pics and links to poems and projects and all the things. Check it out, yeah? jacobschepers.com

✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨ Here’s Vivian Ia with “[camaraderie with the inevitable]” which is also one of our Pushcart nominees this awards season! www.ballastjournal.com/vivian-ia #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #VivianIa

✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨ Here’s G Timothy Gordon with “Daliesque” www.ballastjournal.com/g-timothy-go... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #GTimothyGordon

Hey #ballast is a nonprofit journal, and if you support what we’re doing and would like to consider financially supporting us with a #givingtuesday donation, we hope you do. Every little bit helps us keep the lights on and the web hosting happy. Our donate link is at ballastjournal.com/donate.

✨Contributor Features from ballast 3.4✨ Here’s Connor Fisher with “The Contaminated Tongue” www.ballastjournal.com/connor-fishe... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #ConnorFisher

Contributor Features from ballast 3.4! Here’s Geoffrey Detrani’s “Profanity’s Weight” @geoffreydetrani.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/geoffrey-det... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #GeoffreyDetrani

Contributor Features from ballast 3.4! Here’s Michael Daley, from “Lowering My Standards” www.ballastjournal.com/michael-daley #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #MichaelDaley

First dish prepped for Thanksgiving: cranberry relish. Holiday shopping all done for my partner: check!

Contributor Features from ballast 3.4! Here’s Joel Chace, from “[Egress glitch]” www.ballastjournal.com/joel-chace #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #JoelChace

Contributor Features from ballast 3.4 are rolling out! Here’s Tom Phillips’ translation from the Bulgarian of Tzotcho Boyajiev’s poem “[and when the cart stops for me, drawn]” www.ballastjournal.com/tzotcho-boya... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #TzotchoBoyajiev #TomPhillips

Contributor Features from ballast 3.4 are rolling out! Here’s Jerome Berglund with one of this three text/visual pieces from the issue www.ballastjournal.com/jerome-bergl... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #JeromeBerglund

Shameless ask incoming: If you’re a fan of us, wanna show ballast some love and consider voting for us for @chillsubs.bsky.social ✨Best Lit Mag Awards✨?? Be sure to show all your other faves some love too 🤘🤘 www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

Co-editor Sara Judy introducing ballast 3.4 and our special “Remarks” feature on modernism www.ballastjournal.com/issue-34-edi...

On Nov 12, the Franco Institute hosts editors from three leading university presses for an afternoon panel on academic publishing 2–3:30 p.m. | McKenna Hall Auditorium No registration required—open to faculty, postdocs, and grad students.

ballast issue 3.4 (our last of 2025) is officially unleashed 🛸 www.ballastjournal.com/issue-34-tab... With Daniel Barbiero, Jerome Berglund, Joel Chace, Michael Daley, @geoffreydetrani.bsky.social, Connor Fisher, J. Freeborn, G Timothy Gordon, Vivian Ia, Jenna Jaco, Ted Jean, David Koehn…1/2

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s “Milorad Pavić, Landscape Painted with Tea” by Stephen Bett www.ballastjournal.com/stephen-bett #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #StephenBett

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s Carol Barrett with “Russian Knapweed” www.ballastjournal.com/carol-barrett #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #CarolBarrett

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s Mary Beth Becker with “Comet” www.ballastjournal.com/mary-beth-be... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #MaryBethBecker

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s “Grace” by Kameryn Alexa Carter www.ballastjournal.com/kameryn-alex... #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #KamerynAlexaCarter

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s “Impossible Princess” by Zack Carson www.ballastjournal.com/zack-carson #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #ZackCarson

Thanks @ballastjournal.bsky.social—so happy to have our work in your beautiful, thoughtful publication. ❤️✍️

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s “Five Movements on a Gesture Traced in Air” by Rocío Cerón & Dana Delibovi (translator) @danadelibovi.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/rocio-ceron-... #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #RocíoCerón #DanaDelibovi

Pleased AF to get my first #bestofthenet nom from the fantabulous @memezine.bsky.social for the snippet from #vasectomajestic I published with them earlier this year!! ✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️✂️

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s Viviane Fae-Moss with “Butch Vagabonds of Indecipherable Origin” www.ballastjournal.com/viviane-fae-... #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #VivianeFaeMoss

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s Kelly Gray with “West Country” www.ballastjournal.com/kelly-gray #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #KellyGray

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s Daniel Hales with “Mist” www.ballastjournal.com/daniel-hales #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #DanielHales

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s Peter Milne Greiner with “The Way Science Fiction Loves” www.ballastjournal.com/peter-milne-... #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #PeterMilneGreiner