Here is a glimpse at my spooky little personal essay in @prairieschooner.bsky.social featuring a ghost, and a sometimes sociopathic homeschooler... #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting #writesky #writers #poetry #booksky
Ben Perkins
@longdistancecaller.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/benstagram81 new dad, memoirist, essayist, occasional journalist, birder, herper, artist's spouse, baker of cinnamon rolls, already in-recovery from whatever this is
Here I am in the Fall '26 Prairie Schooner! 📚❤️ #author #authors #WIP #writingcommunity #amwriting In this essay, I plunge myself into what, in hindsight, looks more and more like homelessness, then move to NYC and take a job at this place in the 2000s:
Prairie Schooner@prairie-schooner.bsky.social · 4w agoOur Fall 2026 issue is now available! In this issue, we're excited to share a portfolio of Latinx Flash Memoir edited by Joy Castro. See the full table of contents, read excerpts, and order now: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/fall-2...
key biscayne again. you hear more of them than you can see... 🌿🐊 #florida #nature #photography
last tuesday was walking around the southern end of Key Biscayne and saw this Spotted Eagle Ray cruising toward the lighthouse 🌿🦑🌊🐠🐙🦀 #florida #nature #photography
you would not believe how fast I jumped off the tram and ran away from the tour group to see, up close, this american crocodile (correct me if I'm wrong?) 12 ft long, living wild and free in the brakish waters of Fairchild Botanical Garden in Miami, FL #photography #nature #florida #crocodile 🌿🦑🐊
A photo to go with my 1980s South Florida pilot whale essay. My dad paid $55k for that house. Pretty close to Lion Country Safari. If I remember right, it lacked a staircase to the second floor... #filmphotography #writingcommunity #writing #florida #amwriting #writesky #writers #poetry #booksky
Chicago Quarterly Review@chicagoqreview.bsky.social · 7mo agoFrom "The Mind Cure" by Ben Perkins, CQR #42: "After my parents learned from the neighbors that I might’ve been molested by their son, and after my parents took that news with a grain of salt, and after they covered it all back up by turning mum, my parents started taking me to church more often."
big, bright fog bank on a sunny day made St Joseph Peninsula feel like the literal end of the earth #florida #nature #gulfofmexico 🦑
i never do selfies, heres a selfie in Naples which is a community i feel deeply ambivalent about except for those who give all their $ to local wildlife. more golf courses per capita than anywhere, it is, like so much of FL, two places at once: also the gateway to Corkscrew, big cypress, 10k islands
Hurricanes Should Be Named After Fossil Fuel Firms: Mikaela Loach, Jamaican British Climate Activist
Climate Activist Mikaela Loach: Name Hurricanes After Fossil Fuel Firms
Jamaica remains in a state of emergency after being battered by Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic cyclones in history. The Category 5 storm slammed into Jamaica on Tuesday with 185-mile-per-hour winds, and the extent of the damage is not ...
democracynow.org
I feel like a lot of people must know this specific strangler fig in SWFL... 🌿 #florida #photography #nature
Australia's humpback whales are doing so well that their population is expected to reach carrying capacity and plateau in the near future--they have not just reached but exceeded pre-whaling numbers. For this to happen with such a long-lived, slow-reproducing species is near miraculous. #goodnews
These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them
Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.
abc.net.au
here I am in @chicagoqreview.bsky.social over on fb if you like spending your online time swimming in the hellmoutb of AI slop (I do sometimes, I'm not judging!) #author #WIP #amwriting #whales #florida 🦑🌿 📚❤️ www.facebook.com/ChicagoQuart...
I'm pretty sure the people that illustrated "The Triassic" in my dinosaur encyclopedias from the 1980s were just drawing the nature coast of Florida... 🐊🦑 #photography #nature
here I am in @chicagoqreview.bsky.social the owl hooteth! the serpent hisseth! and I remember passive aggressively scalding someone at a new age church 😹 CQR: www.chicagoquarterlyreview.com/2025/10/02/a... buy: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTM7N3DK 📚❤️ #author #authors #WIP #writingcommunity #amwriting
some juicy self promotion--here's a glimpse of my coming essay for @chicagoqreview.bsky.social in which feature jacarandas, pilot whales, the Florida intracoastal, positive thinking as self-erasure, dance moves from 1989, and the Kantian sublime 📚❤️ #author #authors #WIP #writingcommunity #amwriting
rescued by-catch from the northern gulf of mexico at the Gulf Specimen Aquarium 🌿🦑🐡🌎 #photography #nature
manatees behind the scenes at Zoo Tampa; the largest nonprofit (re NOT SeaWorld) manatee critical care facility in the country FYI more pics and vids of all sorts over at IG @benstagram81 🌿🦑🐡🌎 #nature #photography #addme
very normal jogging experience 🪶🌿 #nature #photography