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Stephen Jackson
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PNW: Seattle, Portland, Eugene | Working-class, poet, photographer, 🌱 | Allium, The Hare's Paw, fourteen poems, Impossible Archetype, Prairie Fire, WA State Queer Poetry Anthology | the no-man (Ghost City Press) https://stephen-jackson.com
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So honored and excited to be a part of this excellent issue of Prairie Fire. www.prairiefire.ca/current-issue/
Got to see Julian Brave NoiseCat read on Saturday and can’t wait now to read his book. The cover art is by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
January 26, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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Charles Simic 🖤
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 AM
You can watch Julian Brave NoiseCat’s documentary Sugarcane for free on Saturday, Jan 24, at 2 pm at the Seattle Art Museum. youtu.be/Cq8eWsXtP60
Sugarcane by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie — Official UK Trailer
YouTube video by Native Spirit UK
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January 23, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Excellent article on worker exploitation. www.thedriftmag.com/all-in-the-f...
All in the Family
Santa Rosa, California is exactly the kind of place where you’d expect to find the heart of a natural foods empire…
www.thedriftmag.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Here is a new poem. Already revised, alas. But for what it’s worth: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Many thanks to Jeff Shotts and Kevin Young.
January 20, 2026 at 2:32 AM
“Economic activity exists to ensure that all people can live a good and meaningful life, in a just society, and within the ecological limits of the planet. Neoliberal capitalism does not deliver that for us.” www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...
In Davos, the rich talk about ‘global threats’. Here’s why they’re silent about the biggest of them all | Ingrid Robeyns
Economic inequality is at the heart of all humanity’s major problems, but the wealthiest refuse to confront a system that benefits them, says economist and historian Ingrid Robeyns
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:42 PM
My poem “Trinity” appears in the January issue of Hare's Paw Literary Journal. Click on my name in the bios to go directly to the poem.
Issue 26 Home | Harespawlitjournal
Hare's Paw Literary Journal, Issue #26 January 2026
www.harespawlitjournal.com
January 18, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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Campaign to reinstate “drat.”
“Oh drat,” said Toad. “Not only do my feet hurt, but I have lost one of the buttons on my jacket.”
January 18, 2026 at 10:20 PM
After thirty years, this film still leaves me shaken. So good to see it again on the big screen this evening.
January 14, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Seattle, WA | Jan 13, 2026
January 13, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Mine was the Tuscarawas.
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.

Mine is the Patuxent.
January 13, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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Three micro poems out today with Tiny Prophecies @mercurialsilver.com They are curating a really great collection over there, and I'm enjoying reading through their hearth, ruin, & whimsy.

#blueskypoetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
January 13, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Bat flower.
January 7, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Guns, Greens, and an Egret by Virginia Boudreau
www.fahmidan.net/guns-greens-...
Guns, Greens, and an Egret | Fahmidan Journal
Read world-class poetry in every issue of Fahmidan Journal. Always free, Always global!
www.fahmidan.net
January 4, 2026 at 7:49 PM
“Today we swear in a mayor, a mayor who did not come from the loudest rooms or the richest donors, but from the long work of organizing, listening and standing with people who are usually told to wait their turn.” —South End and Central District advocate Cynthia Green
January 4, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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"A city that values the pursuits that create beauty and community, whether or not they ever turn into careers. A city that thinks you should have time to read a book and lay on the grass looking up at the clouds." -Katie Wilson
January 2, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Got my copy of the Walrus @thewalrus.ca in the mail this bright morning at the very end of 2025, that features this poem. Honoured to be alongside poems by Tom Wayman, Molly Peacock, and @katerilanthier.bsky.social 😍
December 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Subscribe to Ethel for 2026! www.ethelzine.com/shop/ethel-2...
December 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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This Friday, January 2, at 10am at Seattle City Hall, Katie Wilson will be sworn in as the 58th Mayor of Seattle.
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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i wrote a 100 word short story about saints for my friend's substack which publishes only 100 word short stories veryshort.substack.com/p/return
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Sufjan Stevens - Sister Winter [OFFICIAL AUDIO]
YouTube video by Sufjan Stevens
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December 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Annual December 25th trip to Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory.
December 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM