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ballast journal@ballastjournal.bsky.social · yesterday

Contributor features from ballast 4.2: Here’s Jeffrey Hecker from "Jane Byrne Interchange (Chicago, Illinois)" @heckheck03.bsky.social Read more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/jeffrey-heck... #contributorfeature #poetry #poems #ballast #JeffreyHecker

Contributor features from ballast 4.2: Here’s Jeffrey Hecker from "Jane Byrne Interchange (Chicago, Illinois)" @heckheck03.bsky.social Read more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/jeffrey-heck... #contributorfeature #poetry #poems #ballast #JeffreyHecker

Contributor features from ballast 4.2: Here’s Seth Copeland with “Someone Told Me to Download an App Today” @petrichorlit.bsky.social See it in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/seth-copeland #contributorfeature #poetry #poems #ballast #SethCopeland

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ballast journal@ballastjournal.bsky.social · 4w ago

Contributor features from ballast 4.2: Here’s Rocío Cerón,translated by Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social See more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/ceron-rocio-... #contributorfeature #poetry #poems #ballast #RocíoCerón #DanaDelibovi

Contributor features from ballast 4.2: Here’s Rocío Cerón,translated by Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social See more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/ceron-rocio-... #contributorfeature #poetry #poems #ballast #RocíoCerón #DanaDelibovi

Contributor features from ballast 4.2: Here’s vincent a celluci and “once upon a time in security” See more in the issue (and hear the poet read!) www.ballastjournal.com/vincent-a-ce... #contributorfeature #poetry #poems #ballast #VincentACellucci

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Sarabande Books@sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

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Contributor features from ballast 4.2: Here’s Sam Calhoun (@weatherman_sam on IG) and “Stewart’s Point” See more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/sam-calhoun #contributorfeature #poetry #poems #ballast #SamCalhoun

My translation of Rocío Cerón's poem, "Omens, Stone Upon Stone" just came out in the ever-elegant Ballast Journal @ballastjournal.bsky.social—thank you editors Sara Judy and @jacobschepers.bsky.social for including our work in this graceful issue of excellent writing 💙 #poetry #translation

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pleased (& honoured!) to have a poem in the new issue of @ballastjournal.bsky.social along with so many other brilliant poets I admire! thanks to editors sara and jacob for taking my poem, & for the effort of curating & amplifying literary work!

ballast journal@ballastjournal.bsky.social · last mo.

Ballast 4.2 is LIVE! www.ballastjournal.com/issue-42-tab... Featuring: Denver Butson Sam Calhoun @weathermansam.bsky.social vincent a cellucci Rocío Cerón translated by Dana Delibovi Seth Copeland @brushwithseth.bsky.social Emily Corwin AJ Dehan Connor Fisher Egan Garr Anne Gerard 1/2

Check out this great issue! Excited to be a part of it w/ my little eco poem

ballast journal@ballastjournal.bsky.social · last mo.

Ballast 4.2 is LIVE! www.ballastjournal.com/issue-42-tab... Featuring: Denver Butson Sam Calhoun @weathermansam.bsky.social vincent a cellucci Rocío Cerón translated by Dana Delibovi Seth Copeland @brushwithseth.bsky.social Emily Corwin AJ Dehan Connor Fisher Egan Garr Anne Gerard 1/2

New issue of @ballastjournal.bsky.social dropped today! Check it out www.ballastjournal.com/issue-42-tab...

I’ve got new poetry up in this issue of Ballast! Check it out!

ballast journal@ballastjournal.bsky.social · last mo.

Ballast 4.2 is LIVE! www.ballastjournal.com/issue-42-tab... Featuring: Denver Butson Sam Calhoun @weathermansam.bsky.social vincent a cellucci Rocío Cerón translated by Dana Delibovi Seth Copeland @brushwithseth.bsky.social Emily Corwin AJ Dehan Connor Fisher Egan Garr Anne Gerard 1/2

Ballast 4.2 is LIVE! www.ballastjournal.com/issue-42-tab... Featuring: Denver Butson Sam Calhoun @weathermansam.bsky.social vincent a cellucci Rocío Cerón translated by Dana Delibovi Seth Copeland @brushwithseth.bsky.social Emily Corwin AJ Dehan Connor Fisher Egan Garr Anne Gerard 1/2

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I have two new poems up at ballast today! Thanks to editors Sara Judy and @jacobschepers.bsky.social for such hard work each issue. www.ballastjournal.com/jeffrey-heck...

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ballast co-editor @jacobschepers.bsky.social has a new book out!

Jacob Schepers@jacobschepers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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Contributor features from ballast 4.1: Here’s Alicia Potee with “Hermitage” @apotee.bsky.social See more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/alicia-potee #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #AliciaPotee

Contributor features from ballast 4.1: Here’s Chelsey Keith Ignacio with “Reality TV set in the rain” See more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/chelsey-keit... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #ChelseyKeithIgnacio

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Tom Snarsky@tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 4mo ago

next week!! more like “coolest month” imo, featuring @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @travisshosa.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, & Stephanie Anderson — register below!💡

Contributor features from ballast 4.1: Here’s nat raum with “grief as a blistered shishito” See more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/nat-raum-1 #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #natraum

Contributor features from ballast 4.1: Here’s Dennis Hinrichsen with “drip-dry buffalo” See more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/dennis-hinri... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #DennisHinrichsen

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Contributor features from ballast 4.1: Here’s Ben Egerton with “Currency” See more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/ben-egerton #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #BenEgerton

Contributor features from ballast 4.1: Here’s Marthine Satris with “Wrack Line Elegy” @msatris.bsky.social See more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/marthine-sat... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #MarthineSatris

Contributor features from ballast 4.1: Here’s Maia Sauer with “Risk” See more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/maia-june-sa... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #MaiaSauer

Contributor features from ballast 4.1: Here’s Peach Delphine with “wasn’t barter but trade-“ See more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/peach-delphi... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #PeachDelphine

Contributor features from ballast 4.1: Here’s Maurizio Brancaleoni’s translation of Scipione with “I Hear the Screeches of the Engels” See more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/scipione-tra... #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #Scipione #MaurizioBrancaleoni

Contributor features from ballast 4.1: Here’s Wes Civilz with “Accident” See more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/wes-civilz #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #WesCivilz

Contributor features from ballast 4.1: Here’s Matt Turner from 6AMING And don’t miss the full collection coming later this year from @antiphonyjournal.bsky.social See more in the issue www.ballastjournal.com/matt-turner #contributorfeature #poem #poems #ballast #MattTurner