Doc Sigerson
@docsigerson.bsky.social
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Essayist, poet, fictioneer, editor, & translator.
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The only true test of intelligence must be ethical behavior.
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@gtconway.bsky.social
Did you authorize the use of your image and voice in the AI generated commentary videos posted to Youtube by Conway Media? The content seems to be all centered on Canada. It looks like the same parent company has also hijacked David Frum for another series of videos.
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal
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Four Poems by James D. Casey IV
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal
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Four Poems by Shontay Luna
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/four-poems-by-shontay-luna.html
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In old age I deploy an arsenal of ointments. Now I live the life of a slippery character.
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Five Poems by J. J. Steinfeld
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal
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Five Poems by Sara Castaneda
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
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Blood+Honey
19 days ago
Such a kick as way to close 2025!!! Thanks,
@chillsubs.bsky.social
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal
20 days ago
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Five Poems by Sterling Warner
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal
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Three Poems by Steve Klepetar
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal
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Four Poems by Merritt Waldon
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/four-poems-by-merritt-waldon.html
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"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure." ~ Joseph Campbell
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal
about 1 month ago
We were #6 on @chillsubs Best Lit Mags of 2024. And we'd love to be on the 2025 list too. Please Nominate us if you think we have made a difference.
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Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
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Three Poems by Margaret Coombs
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/three-poems-by-margaret-coombs.html
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Blood+Honey
about 1 month ago
"Two Poems" by Mykyta Ryzhykh “When I buried you the oceans didn't move however / When I buried you it didn't rain and nothing changed / When I buried you I realized that you still hear and even breathe”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/ryzhy...
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two poems — Blood+Honey
by Mykyta Ryzhykh “When I buried you the oceans didn't move however / When I buried you it didn't rain and nothing changed / When I buried you I realized that you still hear and even breathe”
https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/ryzhykh-two-poems
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Three Poems by Anthy Strom
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/three-poems-by-anthy-strom.html
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal
about 2 months ago
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Five Poems by M. Weigel
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/five-poems-by-m-weigel.html
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal
about 2 months ago
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One Poem by Gregg Norman
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/one-poem-by-gregg-norman.html
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"I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know." ~ Epicurus
about 2 months ago
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Four Poems by John Doyle
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/four-poems-by-john-doyle.html
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Koss (she/they/Aquarian)
2 months ago
If you're on the fence about buying my hybrid collection from
@diodeeditions.bsky.social
, check out
@erinvachon.bsky.social
's fabulous review in
@moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social
. Note you can purchase on my site or thru Diode!
moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/02/25/a...
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"Without madness what is man but a healthy beast, a postponed corpse that breeds?" ~ Pessoa
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"To be understood is to prostitute oneself." Fernando Pessoa
3 months ago
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Koss (she/they/Aquarian)
3 months ago
Check out the latest issue of Midway Journal with Contest Results (my
#CW
crocodile piece placed third! woohoo!) Thank you,
@oozannesay.bsky.social
,
@artichokeheart.bsky.social
and Ralph Panell, and congrats everyone who won and is in the issue!
midwayjournal.com/how-to-avoid...
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John Burroughs
3 months ago
Ekphrastacy is a series of artist talks + poetry readings held regularly in the Heights Arts gallery, in conjunction with our special exhibitions, where Cleveland-area writers are invited by the Heights Poet Laureate respond to installed artworks with poems.
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Rolling Open Call for Poets – Heights Arts
https://www.heightsarts.org/open-calls/rolling-open-call-for-poets/
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Henri Rousseau
3 months ago
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Alison
3 months ago
What matters is precisely this: the unspoken at the edge of the spoken. ~ Virginia Woolf
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Michele McDannold
3 months ago
happy saturday! here's a fresh new poem from Tony Gloeggler
theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10...
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Admit It, Part Of You Wants To Live Forever by Tony Gloeggler - The Literary Underground
Admit It, Part Of You Wants To Live Forever No waiting. The E train pulled in as my feet hit the platform and I found an end seat, stretched out as it expressed its way through Queens to catch a Brook...
https://theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10/04/admit-it-part-of-you-wants-to-live-forever-by-tony-gloeggler/
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"The lively eyes that prod the contents of my clothes shuck me out of those and I go bare as a god." ~ Mallarme
3 months ago
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Michele McDannold
3 months ago
Happy Fuck-It Friday!! dig into this revealing essay by Lori Jakiela
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Scapegoat by Lori Jakiela - The Literary Underground
Scapegoat One day, when I was 10 and out past dark but barely, I knew my father would be furious. My father worked all day in a machine shop. He came home evenings, his skin black with graphite, his m...
https://theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/10/03/scapegoat-by-lori-jakiela/
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Koss (she/they/Aquarian)
3 months ago
What are you doing for hope these days? If you missed it, a blog post about hope, loss, and breaking from writing:
koss-works.com/instead-of-w...
#writing
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#hope
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#gardening
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#breaks
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#ageofaquarius
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I ought to toss out all the clocks and watches and various gadgets that keep time and live according to my own natural rhythms. Eat when hungry, sleep when tired, and show up at work whenever.
4 months ago
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Michele McDannold
4 months ago
Cover reveal & pre-order link! COVER ART BY Gene McCormick.
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#poetry
#art
#booksky
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"My eyes are ripe and whatever they desire approaches like a bride." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
5 months ago
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"Nothing can stay long, cogitates the dog, so maybe a life of fetch is not a wasted life." ~ Dean Young
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Amy Barnes
5 months ago
In May, I made a phone note: swarm of lavender bees. I carried the bees until Kathy Fish's summer immersive when "Lavender Bees, Dilly Dilly" was born 🐝Thank you to the
@themerseyreview.bsky.social
editors for seeing something in my purple micro fiction haze.
www.themerseyreview.com/issues/7/lav...
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"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." ~ H. L. Mencken
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"If heaven would grant me five more years ... I might become a true painter." ~ Hokusai on his death bed.
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"When I die, throw me to the wolves. I'm used to it." ~ Diogenes
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"God I am cold and want to go to sleep for a long time and only wake up when the sun shines and dogs laugh." ~ Jim Harrison
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"The writer should always serve as his own angleworm — and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better." ~ John Hawkes
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"When your life is half over, I think you have to see the face of death in order to start writing seriously." Carlos Fuentes
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"If I can't be an ugly rumor I won't be the good time had by all." ~ Bob Kaufman
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"A poet necessarily lies about everything, and the first falsehood he invents is that he is an artist." ~ Edward Dahlberg
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INTERVIEWER: Why have you chosen poetry as a medium of artistic creation? CHARLES OLSON: I think I made a hell of a mistake.
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“I think at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it.” —Umberto Eco
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The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase. ~ E. B. White
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Melissa Ostrom
8 months ago
“How many ways can we make a woman feel alone?” This excellent piece by
@amiesouzareilly.bsky.social
in
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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