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

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s Jake Hargrove with “I Was There When the Heart Fell Out of It” www.ballastjournal.com/jake-hargrove #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #JakeHargrove

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s Alec Hershman with “River” www.ballastjournal.com/alec-hershman #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #AlecHershman

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s A Hua’s “Winds Blow Through This Floating World,” translated by Xuelan Su www.ballastjournal.com/a-hua-trans-... #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #AHua #XuelanSu

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s D.J. Huppatz with “Build a Network” @djhuppatz.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/dj-huppatz #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #DJHuppatz

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

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s J.I. Kleinberg with “Recalibrating” www.ballastjournal.com/ji-kleinberg #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #JIKleinberg

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Next up: Christopher Klingbeil with “Western sugar cooperative” @cklingbe.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/christopher-... #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #ChristopherKlingbeil

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Next up: BEE LB with “dualities” www.ballastjournal.com/bee-lb-2 #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #BEELB

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Next up: Cecille Marcato with “Modern Cartography” www.ballastjournal.com/cecille-marc... #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #CecilleMarcato

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Next up: Austin Miles with “08/22” www.ballastjournal.com/austin-miles #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #AustinMiles

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Next up: David Moolten, from “The Essay” @davidmoolten.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/david-moolten #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #DavidMoolten

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Next up: Rachel Lauren Myers and “Spring” www.ballastjournal.com/rachel-laure... #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #RachelLaurenMyers

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Next up: Damon Pham and “Landscape” www.ballastjournal.com/damon-pham #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #DamonPham

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Next up: Anthony Ramstetter, Jr. and “oscillation” www.ballastjournal.com/anthony-rams... #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #AnthonyRamstetterJr

Many grateful thanks to the staff of @ballastjournal.bsky.social for finding a home for this weird little poem! www.ballastjournal.com/cassandra-wh...

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Next up: Laura Sackton and “Impossible Architecture” www.ballastjournal.com/laura-sackton #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #LauraSackton

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Next up: Katherine Schmidt and “Above all else” @ktonbsky.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/katherine-sc... #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #KatherineSchmidt

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Next up: Catherine Theis and “Transfusion” Pssst: be sure to catch this poem in Catherine’s upcoming book “By a Roman” from @antiphonyjournal.bsky.social later this year www.ballastjournal.com/catherine-th... #poetry #ballast #CatherineTheis

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s Lily Tobias and “Thirty Lines on a Lighthouse” www.ballastjournal.com/lily-tobias #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #LilyTobias

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s Cassandra Whitaker’s “Brides In The Winter Of The Wolves” @casswhit.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/cassandra-wh... #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #CassandraWhitaker

Our Contributor Features from ballast 3.3 kick off today! Here’s Allegra Wilson’s “victory ballad of sacred queers & perverts” www.ballastjournal.com/allegra-wilson #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #AllegraWilson

‼️ NOW OPEN: Special Submissions Call for “REMARKS” ‼️ Visit www.ballastjournal.com/special-calls for more info

The folks @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social published three more snippets ✂️✂️✂️ from #Vasectomajestic today. www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/schep...

OUT NOW: ballast 3.3 (Summer 2025). www.ballastjournal.com/issue-33-tab...

Now hiring: Franco Institute Graduate Intern at The University of Notre Dame! Support student programs, review grants, and help elevate liberal arts research. Ideal for current Arts & Letters PhD students. 🔗 Info: bit.ly/44C4Dqh #NDJobs #GradLife #FrancoInstitute #LiberalArts #Humanities

Ballast 3.3 cover reveal! Issue dropping soon………… Stay tuned.

Contributor copies of Swing 2.2 have arrived! I riff on Skyrim and rip off epic poetry, myths, the hero’s journey, and Whitman. Love this journal and what they do, so I’m glad to have a piece in it with great company to boot. Thanks to editor Leigh Ann Couch. #Vasectomajestic

The last of our Contributor Features from ballast 3.2 today Here’s He Yuemin translating an untitled piece by Zhang Zhihao www.ballastjournal.com/zhang-zhihao... #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #ZhangZhihao #HeYuemin

Winding down our Contributor Features from ballast 3.2 but we’ve got a few more to share! Here’s Elena Zhang with “Streetcar Funeral” @ezhang77.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/elena-zhang #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #ElenaZhang

Winding down our Contributor Features from ballast 3.2 but we’ve got a few more to share! Here’s Carmen Vascones’ “A Mirror of Salt” translated by Alexis Levitin www.ballastjournal.com/carmen-vasco... #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #CarmenVascones #AlexisLevitin

Winding down our Contributor Features from ballast 3.2 but we’ve got a few more to share! Here’s jp thorn’s “re: sand” @jpthorn.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/jp-thorn #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #jpthorn

A teaser of A Contributor Feature from ballast 3.2 Here’s Glenn Taylor’s “Editor’s Note” (read or listen to Glenn read on our site) www.ballastjournal.com/glenn-taylor #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #GlennTaylor

A Contributor Feature from ballast 3.2 Here’s Joshua St. Claire’s “It’s Pronounced Forsythia!” www.ballastjournal.com/joshua-st-cl... #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #JoshuaStClaire

A Contributor Feature from ballast 3.2 Here’s Miguel Otero Silva’s “The choir’s sixth voice is that of the lake,” translated from Spanish by Chris Holdaway www.ballastjournal.com/miguel-otero... #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #MiguelOteroSilva #ChrisHoldaway

Contributor Feature from ballast 3.2 Here’s an excerpt of Eric T. Racher’s gloriously titled, “In which the author zimzumishly attempts […]” @ericracher.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/eric-t-rache... #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #EricTRacher

A Contributor Feature from ballast 3.2 Here’s an excerpt of “Bareback on the Ox” by Amanda W. Powell @amandawpowell.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/amanda-powell #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #AmandaWPowell

A Contributor Feature from ballast 3.2! Here’s an excerpt of “Obelisk” by Harry Edgar Palacio @harryedgarpalacio.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/harry-palacio #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #HarryEdgarPalacio

A Contributor Feature from ballast 3.2 Here’s one of JG Orudjev’s three great visual pieces in this issue www.ballastjournal.com/j-g-orudjev #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #JGOrudjev

A Contributor Feature from ballast 3.2 Here’s Nadia López García’s “Sacred Woman” translated by Coline Ferrant www.ballastjournal.com/nadia-lopez-... #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #NadiaLopezGarcia #ColineFerrant

A Contributor Feature from ballast 3.2 Here’s Caroline Lazarova with “Ekphrasis for Red Gladioli, 1906” Read (or hear the poet read!) here www.ballastjournal.com/caroline-laz... #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #CarolineLazarova

Contributor Features from ballast 3.2 continue! Here’s Robert Krut with “Writing the Bible’s Footnotes” @robertkrut.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/robert-krut #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #RobertKrut

Contributor Features from ballast 3.2 continue! Here’s Dustin King with “Foibles” www.ballastjournal.com/dustin-king #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #DustinKing

This is so cool! 😎 Ty @jacobschepers.bsky.social & @ballastjournal.bsky.social

Contributor Features from ballast 3.2 continue! Here’s Robert Frede Kenter “X-Ray (Berlin Hologram)” @rfredekenter.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/robert-frede... #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #RobertFredeKenter

Delighted to share my poem 'X-Ray (Berlin Hologram)' from the latest @ballastjournal.bsky.social One of two pieces I have in the journal; the other a poem dialogue with Venya Gushchin '...Night. A drawn & quartered revery.' (c) 2025. www.ballastjournal.com/robert-frede...

Contributor Features from ballast 3.2 crash onward Here’s Lee Johnson’s “hell is laced” www.ballastjournal.com/lee-johnson #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #LeeJohnson