Stephen Jackson
@fortyoddcrows.bsky.social
PNW: Seattle, Portland, Eugene 🌲 | Working-class, poet, photographer, 🌱 | Allium, The Branches, Cathexis Northwest Press, A Curious Moon, Dolomite Review, fourteen poems, Prairie Fire, Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology | https://stephen-jackson.com
First peek at Seattle's Volunteer Park Dahlia Garden yesterday!
Had a visit from this beautiful creature today!
"The Spoonmaker's Children" by Gary Glauber from the Summer 2026 Issue of Superpresent.
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
This is very sad news. I loved this lit mag, and they've published both my poetry and my photography.
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine@doorisajarmag.bsky.social · 4d agoIssue 40 Fall 2026 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine Official Release Date: Tues, Sept. 1st, 2026 Please visit our website to read samples and pre-order a copy www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/fall-... This will be the final issue of our publication. Thank you for eleven years of creativity.
Friday flowers and ferns with trees from recent wanderings.
Deer in the Forest by German painter Eugen Krüger (1832-1876)
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
I love Douglas Stuart's novels, and I've been waiting months for this to come in at the library! Yay!
Good day for a stroll in the Washington Park Arboretum.
Much of my Summer is spent rotating through Seattle's various wooded areas. It was back to Interlaken today.
Walked to Streissguth Gardens this evening to check up on the Hollyhocks. Didn't expect to be eating Blackberries off of the bush this soon.
Sixty-seven years ago today, also a Friday, "a NEW YORK POST with her face on it". www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42657/...
The Day Lady Died
It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton …
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Visited Portland this week, as I do each year, to celebrate my birthday!
It's humbling to visit a graveyard on your birthday. Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland, OR.
Saddened by the news of Louise Lasser's death, and sickened by this vile headline.
This may be my favorite photograph of the United States. 'Remain We Shall' photo by Robert Charloe, Kalispel Tribe of Indians The Kalispel Indian Reservation is located in the northeast corner of Washington State. Charloe was born in Newport, WA (pop. 2,100) twenty miles west of the reservation.
Every 3rd of July since I got the record in 1972.
Almost Independence Day
YouTube video by Van Morrison - Topic
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45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...
RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS (Published 1981)
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My poem "The Coast Guard Captain" appeared today in The Fig Tree, an excellent webzine that publishes out of the North of England. Thanks to Tim Fellows for including my work. Please stop by. figtreepoetry.substack.com/p/the-fig-tr...
The Fig Tree - Issue 15
with Featured Poet Laura Strickland
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