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

· Kelly Gray (@k-gray.bsky.social) · Peter Milne Greiner · Daniel Hales · Jake Hargrove · Alec Hershman · D.J. Huppatz · Stephen K. Kim (@skimperil.bsky.social) · J.I. Kleinberg · Christopher Klingbeil (@cklingbe.bsky.social)

Dreaming of Greece and the Beatles with Julián Martinez’s dream story, “Be at Leso”. 🎶 🏝️ Only on Afterimages. open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...

Putting out a radar ping to authors from ELJ to see if any wish to submit their manuscript to us for 2026/2027. No promises but willing to try.

James Tate #smallpoemsunday

Poem by Sean Thomas Dougherty.

Welcome @cklingbe.bsky.social to TW with a poetry collection, LANDSCAPE, DAD! Christopher Klingbeil is the author of the chapbook, Evaporatus. His writing has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Painted Bride Quarterly, & Salt Hill. He worked as a government lumberjack in the Western United States.

Boy, these last eight days feel like a good reminder why democracies generally avoid letting people who attempt a coup come back to power….

not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff

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hey there fella, got a lil sumpin sumpin over at @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social today. give it a readski, huh? a widdle minute for a story? pweez daddyyyyyy?? fr fr thanks to @troyjamesweaver.bsky.social and @wadrewhawkins.bsky.social for helpful notes here. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2024/12/29/s...

RIP

Emmanuel Hocquard, trs. Waldrop & McGrath

This is good

"Your list of responsibilities includes fantastical paradoxes such as 'removing all barriers to admission while significantly increasing retention and graduation rates.' This would strike a lesser administrator as an impossible task, but I love paradoxes."

YES!!!

Before anyone outsources poetry, the new report that claims algorithmically-generated texts are preferred over actual poems? It has some weaknesses. Thanks @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing my piece that points to just a few. @nature.com.web.brid.gy @pitt.bsky.social lithub.com/on-the-repor...

just found this pleasantly weird photo i took of an incoming storm from inside my old workplace

Don’t get me wrong, this one is cool, but does someone have the bears radio call?

How do you face fascism? I like Orwell's version: ground yourself in direct and immediate experience, trust your senses, find some joy, turn back to face the fascists and tell truths to combat the lies.

"If we discover that the yeti in the wilderness is only a bear, then we have discovered nothing. The yeti we imagine still evades us." #TodaysPoem #poetry The Animals We Imagine by Paul Vermeersch (2022 The /tƐmz/ Review) https://tinyurl.com/bdfmtm9m

This is an essay on my poem "Ballad," Keats's notion of Negative Capability, and Lorca's Duende, with a prompt and a link to the original poem. I'm happy to share it with you.

If this gets 45,000 reposts, I’ll post tomorrow’s data dump on this app.

“Sure, the complete destruction of Alderaan wasn’t great, but can you really blame people for being a little nostalgic for the first Death Star? Some folks don’t care about billions of souls crying out in unison as long as the interstellar transports run on time.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/her...