Stephen Jackson
@fortyoddcrows.bsky.social
🌱 | Pacific Northwest: Seattle, Portland, Eugene | Working-class, poet, photographer | Allium, 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/
How grateful I am for the beauty of food.
November 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
How grateful I am for the beauty of food.
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When I saw Seattle treasure Nathan Vass was reading tonight at Folio, one of my favorite literary venues, I knew I had to be there. If you don't have Nathan's book yet...get on it!
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
When I saw Seattle treasure Nathan Vass was reading tonight at Folio, one of my favorite literary venues, I knew I had to be there. If you don't have Nathan's book yet...get on it!
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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We have the bill AND the bipartisan support to restore union rights for 1 million federal workers!
It’s time to get it done.
Tell your representatives: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...
It’s time to get it done.
Tell your representatives: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We have the bill AND the bipartisan support to restore union rights for 1 million federal workers!
It’s time to get it done.
Tell your representatives: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...
It’s time to get it done.
Tell your representatives: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...
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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
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Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas are standing up to corporate greed and Starbucks’ unfair labor practices and demanding the fair contract they deserve.
No contract? NO COFFEE!
No contract? NO COFFEE!
November 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas are standing up to corporate greed and Starbucks’ unfair labor practices and demanding the fair contract they deserve.
No contract? NO COFFEE!
No contract? NO COFFEE!
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40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
Enjoyed hanging out at KEXP this lovely Autumn day, especially with Cheryl Waters at the helm.
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Enjoyed hanging out at KEXP this lovely Autumn day, especially with Cheryl Waters at the helm.
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Trying to embrace the long pacific northwest winter that we're heading directly into. But it's a hard thing to embrace.
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Trying to embrace the long pacific northwest winter that we're heading directly into. But it's a hard thing to embrace.
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A poem of mine for this slow approach of Wintering. It’s called Blackthorn.
November 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A poem of mine for this slow approach of Wintering. It’s called Blackthorn.
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Fern gully green
Ferns in the Appalachian mountains.
#coloraday #greensat #eastcoastkin #ferns #forest #photography
Ferns in the Appalachian mountains.
#coloraday #greensat #eastcoastkin #ferns #forest #photography
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Fern gully green
Ferns in the Appalachian mountains.
#coloraday #greensat #eastcoastkin #ferns #forest #photography
Ferns in the Appalachian mountains.
#coloraday #greensat #eastcoastkin #ferns #forest #photography
"The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without."
—Diane Seuss
—Diane Seuss
November 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
"The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without."
—Diane Seuss
—Diane Seuss
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Katie Wilson is up 91 votes in the Seattle Mayor's race as Wilson-mentum continues to pay dividends.
Wilson-mentum is real.
The gap in the Seattle Mayor's race has narrowed to just 4,300 votes, or 1.88%.
The gap in the Seattle Mayor's race has narrowed to just 4,300 votes, or 1.88%.
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Katie Wilson is up 91 votes in the Seattle Mayor's race as Wilson-mentum continues to pay dividends.
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If you could use your faith in humanity restored, if you could use taking some sheer delight in the human spirit, this is for you: www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/25/d...
Full Tilt: Dervla Murphy’s Fierce and Poetic Account of Traversing the World on Two Wheels in the 1960s
A wonder-smitten reminder “that for all the horrible chaos of the contemporary political scene this world is full of kindness.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
If you could use your faith in humanity restored, if you could use taking some sheer delight in the human spirit, this is for you: www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/25/d...
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My first post is up! The Constitutional Crisis Americans Forgot: What Trump is doing, has already been done. And not in some foreign country, but right here in the United States. Read and subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/gohini/p...
The Constitutional Crisis Americans Forgot
What Trump is doing, has already been done. And not in some foreign country, but right here in the United States.
open.substack.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My first post is up! The Constitutional Crisis Americans Forgot: What Trump is doing, has already been done. And not in some foreign country, but right here in the United States. Read and subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/gohini/p...
A gorgeous day in the PNW.
November 3, 2025 at 3:51 AM
A gorgeous day in the PNW.
We got this, Katie!
October 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We got this, Katie!
I love this idea!
"Each contributor to Public School Poetry agrees to write “a five-paragraph essay” on another contributor’s poems that we randomly and anonymously assign them. Poems and essays appear together in each issue."
www.publicschoolpoetry.com/about
"Each contributor to Public School Poetry agrees to write “a five-paragraph essay” on another contributor’s poems that we randomly and anonymously assign them. Poems and essays appear together in each issue."
www.publicschoolpoetry.com/about
ABOUT | Public School Poetry
www.publicschoolpoetry.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I love this idea!
"Each contributor to Public School Poetry agrees to write “a five-paragraph essay” on another contributor’s poems that we randomly and anonymously assign them. Poems and essays appear together in each issue."
www.publicschoolpoetry.com/about
"Each contributor to Public School Poetry agrees to write “a five-paragraph essay” on another contributor’s poems that we randomly and anonymously assign them. Poems and essays appear together in each issue."
www.publicschoolpoetry.com/about
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Philip Guston, Halloween Party, 1942
October 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Philip Guston, Halloween Party, 1942