It’s great to be back on the board at Some Words today with a new micro from my PI series! Big thanks to Justin Carter for giving this one a home! 🙌🏻 somewords.boards.net/thread/32/ja...
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Jack Bedell
@jackbedell.bsky.social
Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-19. Books from Mercer University Press. Work included in Best Microfiction and Best Spiritual Lit. EIC: @louisianalit.bsky.social www.jackbbedell.com
Knocked out to have a poem up at Badlands today! Thanks to Trevor for giving this one a fantastic home! 👇🏻 badlandspoetry.com/about/poems/
Really stoked to have a new micro up at Coming Up Short/Aperture today. 🙏🏻 www.comingupshortmag.com/p/swish
Swish
by Jack B. Bedell
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"We both pass life like this, enjoying whatever warmth we can find, fully aware winter is going to ease in one day soon and ..." In Water by @jackbedell.bsky.social in Gorko thegorkogazette.com/2026/07/18/i...
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feet / dangling towards silt
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Very grateful to have a little poem up today at Gorko. Huge thanks to Colin Gee for giving that one a great home! 👇🏻 thegorkogazette.com/2026/07/18/i...
New content every morning!
feet / dangling towards silt
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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…
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
Flash 405: 2022 Issue - Exposition Review
Flash 405 is Exposition Review’s multi-genre flash competition, awarding prizes and online publication to the winners. To celebrate these award-winning works, we’ve collected them together in our Flas...
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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.
Pat Foran@pdforan.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt’s pub day for my (mostly) flash fiction collection Songs from the Blimp Ruins. Thank you @alkratz.bsky.social & Silverbacked Punk for bringing it to life. It's available here: qgyjj4z.s.gy/sTuEPy Signed copies also available (message me) My heart is cheered here www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf22...
The meditative “Sillage” from @jackbedell.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-...
Jack Bedell- Poetry
Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. His latest collection is Ghost Forest (...
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“… 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...
Lessons — The Itch Lit
It All Begins Here
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"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 💙💙💙
Jack Bedell@jackbedell.bsky.social · 2mo agoVery 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...
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...
Lessons — The Itch Lit
It All Begins Here
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Thrilled to have a prose poem in the latest issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! pitheadchapel.com/wonton-gone-...
Wonton Gone Mad
Elena Zhang I stepped into the wolf’s jaws, slipped down the gullet. A birth in reverse. I was there for the beginning. In the beginning there was confusion. Wonton gone mad. I was shapeless but no…
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“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
Slow it Down | dishsoap quarterly
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Always a fantastic day to have stuff up at HAWKEYE! 🙌🏻🕵🏻👇🏻 hawkeyemag.com/stories/bede...
Two P.I. Micros
Post-Katrina Ghost Story The private investigator never forgot a set up. She even remembered her parking spots on the cases she worked while she was still in college. That’s why the address she was he...
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“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.
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...
And the Day Rolls Downhill
I’ve been doing my best to practice gratitude each morning. I try to be thankful for something new each time my thumb slides across a bead on my mom’s Rosary— thankful for hot coffee, f…
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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.
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
Slow it Down | dishsoap quarterly
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Very grateful to have this one up at @dishsoapquart.bsky.social ! 👇🏻
Dishsoap Quarterly@dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 4mo agoPoem up this week that's fresh like a breath of outdoor air. Take a moment and read "Slow it Down" from @jackbedell.bsky.social Find it on our site: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-31-26
Thanks for including me in your first issue with so many other writers I love to read.
s w i f t s: a literary magazine@swiftslitmag.bsky.social · 4mo ago“Here in the buzzing dim… the outside world disappears, the timeline slips.” Our final featured writer from our inaugural issue is the fantastic @djvorreyer.bsky.social! swiftslitmag.com/donna-vorreyer
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...
Ecstasy, Suite
—after Ron Hansen’s Mariette in Ecstasy I. “Sh…
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