It's Best of the Net season! The Flight Crew nominated five killer poets:

Absolutely love spending time with this new collection from @pdforan.bsky.social! I’ve learned something from every page, but I think I found a favorite…

@miagabb.bsky.social @angelines.bsky.social @kellyesparza.bsky.social @cherylskorysuma.bsky.social @sofiaxaguilar.bsky.social‬ @jackbedell.bsky.social @lmariharris.bsky.social

Our Flash 405: 2022 Issue features writings themed: ROUTINE & RITUAL, ESCAPE, INHERITANCE, & BURN: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash22. @miagabb.bsky.social @angelines.bsky.social @kellyesparza.bsky.social @cherylskorysuma.bsky.social @sofiaxaguilar.bsky.social‬ @jackbedell.bsky.social @lmariharris.bsky.social

This is a book I can’t wait to read! @pdforan.bsky.social is the absolute best. Please give this one a look if you can.

The meditative “Sillage” from @jackbedell.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-...

“… if there was a lesson in any of it, for her or for the subject, it’s floated away into the sky ...” @jackbedell.bsky.social in The Itch Lit www.theitchlit.com/fiction/blog...

"And now she’s followed a subject 500 miles to Austin where he’s unloading a moving truck into a faux-Roman mansion." Big love for this brilliant micro by @jackbedell.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Very grateful to have a new micro from my PI series up at The Itch today! Huge thanks to the journal for giving this one a perfect home. 🙏🏻👇🏻 www.theitchlit.com/fiction/blog...

Thrilled to have a prose poem in the latest issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! pitheadchapel.com/wonton-gone-...

“The sky burls all pink along the horizon, / then purple, then deep blue to black, and / a nighthawk chases mayflies across open space” (Slow it Down // @jackbedell.bsky.social) Read more: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-31-26

Always a fantastic day to have stuff up at HAWKEYE! 🙌🏻🕵🏻👇🏻 hawkeyemag.com/stories/bede...

Check out this giant new issue!

“for living so close to open water, for my mother’s tea cake recipe, for the chance to listen to old Frankie Laine 78s with my dad after Mom passed…” @jackbedell.bsky.social in @eunoiareview.bsky.social @eunoiareview.bsky.social

Spending a blessed morning with this new book from @millietullis.bsky.social The language is beautiful and lean on every page.

For my evening friends! 👇🏻

Really can’t think of a better day for this one to come out! Thanks to Eunoia Review for giving this one a home! 👇🏻 eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/a...

Revisiting my two poetry collections from @animalheartpress.bsky.social and @icefloepress.bsky.social! Still so thankful they believed in these poems! 🩷🩵🩵

Spending a blessed morning with this new book from @millietullis.bsky.social The language is beautiful and lean on every page.

“That's what I keep telling myself.” @jackbedell.bsky.social in @dishsoapquart.bsky.social dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-31-26

somehow. That's what I keep telling myself. And then the sky burls all pink along the horizon, - @jackbedell.bsky.social, "Slow It Down" dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-31-26

Very grateful to have this one up at @dishsoapquart.bsky.social ! 👇🏻

Thanks for including me in your first issue with so many other writers I love to read.

Glad to be back with 2 nanos!

Truly grateful to have this long(ish) poem based on Ron Hansen’s novel Mariette in Ecstasy up at Dodo Eraser. Huge thanks to Travis Shosa for giving this one a spot in the new issue! 🙏🏻👇🏻 dodoeraser.org/2026/03/25/e...

✂️e(i 8: Collage is live!✂️ Our #spotlight is on Sarah Watkins' "Purpose." Check out their work at buff.ly/E6d26Y2! Blackout of Jack B. Bedell’s @jackbedell.bsky.social “But Lately I Find a Sliver of Mirror Is Simply to Slice an Eyelid” (Issue 2): buff.ly/SrlYnyJ "i/find what i can/in hell" ⬇️

from Jack B. Beddell's ( @jackbedell.bsky.social ) : Burst, Henderson Lake "Light holds an urgency at marsh’s edge only a photographer could understand..." See it in our Winter 2026 issue at LampLit.net Submissions for our Spring 2026 are open!!! #poetry #prose #art #lamplitmag

“The sky purpling over high / cane would be enough” A phenomenal new poem from @jackbedell.bsky.social in the first issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social: swiftslitmag.com/jack-b-bedell

Extraordinary new work from Joan Naviyuk Kane. I always learn something from her poems, always. No matter how many times I read the lines. So dense, so intelligent, so kinetic.

"Maybe it’s a trick of light or perspective, or the pull of night with all its stillness and heavy want. ..." @jackbedell.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/bedell-3/

Very grateful to have a poem in the new issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social! www.whaleroadreview.com/bedell-3/

Super stoked to have a poem in this stellar issue! Thanks to everyone at @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, especially @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for giving my poem a perfect home!

Very stoked to have a poem in this issue. 🙏🏻👇🏻

Had a blast doing this! Really grateful I had the chance!

"As a child I’d stand for days at water’s edge casting and reeling." Big love for this tiny gem by @jackbedell.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Really grateful to have a new micro up at 50-Word stories today. Be thanks to everyone at the journal for giving my work a home! fiftywordstories.com/2026/02/18/j...

Loved this piece by @jackbedell.bsky.social at 50-Word Stories today: fiftywordstories.com/2026/02/18/j...

“At first, the kids worried about him whenever they heard him, but after a few weeks the sound became a Sinatra tune lulling all of us …” Memory, Sound Device + 1 by @jackbedell.bsky.social in HAWKEYE hawkeyemag.com/stories/bede...

💫Gorgeous poems by @jackbedell.bsky.social hawkeyemag.com/stories/bede...

Big thanks to everyone over at HAWKEYE for giving my poems a perfect home! 🙌🏻👇🏻 https://hawkeyemag.com/stories/bedell-two-poems/

Today in Tokyo, my wife and I witnessed the infancy of Spring's rebirth & sat on a bench together, and I read her poetry ("Praxis" by @jackbedell.bsky.social & Satya Dash's "Almost an Aubade with Foliage and Light" from Issue 21, and Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese"). It was as perfect as it sounds.

Cannot be more excited for Issue One to be out for everyone to read! Incredible, incredible work here from @mollyakin.bsky.social @jackbedell.bsky.social @amorak.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social & more!

Really grateful to have a poem in the debut issue of @swiftslitmag.bsky.social ! Big thanks to @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social for including me! 👇🏻

Here's a glimpse into the making of Issue 8: Collage. Popular sources: @jackbedell.bsky.social, BEE LB, @hubbsd.bsky.social What we'd love to see more of: EKPHRASIS, buckwild interpretations, hybrids. Challenge: can someone make a constrained/formal piece? engineidling.net/submissionguidelines

Prepping myself for whatever 2026 has in store with these passages from @jackbedell.bsky.social

Be safe out there tonight, everyone, wherever you might be. Let’s finish this year with all the love and hope we can muster, and then carry it all with us into the world next year. Wishing blessings and peace to everyone. ❤️🙏🏻🙌🏻

Departures 6 comes from @jackbedell.bsky.social and his poem “sillage” in Flight 2 as the year departs flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-...

The Flight 2 poetry selection comes from @jackbedell.bsky.social who weaves highway hypnosis in his poem “sillage” flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-...

Very stoked to have a new poem up at @somewordslit.bsky.social today. It’s such a cool project. I hope y’all give it a look. Big thanks to editor @juscarts.com for giving this one a home! somewords.boards.net/thread/32/ja...