Jacob Siefring
@jsief.bsky.social
public library worker. editor @ the empyrean series. translator of some books (FR->EN). ottawa, ontario. | jsief.com
Reposted by Jacob Siefring
baby it's cold outside... in the vacuum of space. and i have the only remaining plasma rifle
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
baby it's cold outside... in the vacuum of space. and i have the only remaining plasma rifle
the old grey mare literary review™️
November 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
the old grey mare literary review™️
one isn’t really supposed to be awake at this hour, and yet
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
one isn’t really supposed to be awake at this hour, and yet
Reposted by Jacob Siefring
So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.
Reposted by Jacob Siefring
Heller Altarpiece (detail) https://www.wikiart.org/en/matthias-grunewald/heller-altarpiece-detail-1511-2
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Heller Altarpiece (detail) https://www.wikiart.org/en/matthias-grunewald/heller-altarpiece-detail-1511-2
we can partake of a little self-inflicted melodrama… as a treat
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
we can partake of a little self-inflicted melodrama… as a treat
Reposted by Jacob Siefring
Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age
Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age
OTTAWA, ON ― An alarming new study out of the University of Ottawa suggests that years of recommendations to learn a new language in order to stave off cognitive decline may in fact have the opposite ...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age
i am not a male mouse so i am sure there is nothing to worry abt here
« Microplastics Intensify Plaque Formation in Male Mice » etc
via @sciencedaily.com.web.brid.gy
« Microplastics Intensify Plaque Formation in Male Mice » etc
via @sciencedaily.com.web.brid.gy
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
i am not a male mouse so i am sure there is nothing to worry abt here
« Microplastics Intensify Plaque Formation in Male Mice » etc
via @sciencedaily.com.web.brid.gy
« Microplastics Intensify Plaque Formation in Male Mice » etc
via @sciencedaily.com.web.brid.gy
a great essay on life, music, relationships
This is an essay I wrote about music and grief and sunsets and water and grief and brothers and grief. It’d mean a hell of a lot if you set aside a little time to read it.
The Consolations of Waterloo Sunsets
mcblogs.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacrevie...
The Consolations of Waterloo Sunsets
mcblogs.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacrevie...
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
a great essay on life, music, relationships
Reposted by Jacob Siefring
Reposted by Jacob Siefring
How magical to be a voice in a far away forest on the day ghosts walk the earth…
Clare’s project is very dear to me and I am honored to be a part of it.
Clare’s project is very dear to me and I am honored to be a part of it.
On 30th November audio of 141 women (inclusive) first heard in 2021 in Galloway Forest, Scotland will play in the Jardín Botánico, Trujillo, Perú, building dialogue and community beyond borders and language with new audio from those living in Perú as part of the Munanqui Festival de Mujeres Artistas
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
How magical to be a voice in a far away forest on the day ghosts walk the earth…
Clare’s project is very dear to me and I am honored to be a part of it.
Clare’s project is very dear to me and I am honored to be a part of it.
Reposted by Jacob Siefring
On 30th November audio of 141 women (inclusive) first heard in 2021 in Galloway Forest, Scotland will play in the Jardín Botánico, Trujillo, Perú, building dialogue and community beyond borders and language with new audio from those living in Perú as part of the Munanqui Festival de Mujeres Artistas
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
On 30th November audio of 141 women (inclusive) first heard in 2021 in Galloway Forest, Scotland will play in the Jardín Botánico, Trujillo, Perú, building dialogue and community beyond borders and language with new audio from those living in Perú as part of the Munanqui Festival de Mujeres Artistas
one time in 7th grade (1997) my english teacher (ms. bruns, an epic character) gave us an excerpt of f. scott fitzgerald’s essay on his process of alcoholic collapse (« the crack-up ») to scrutinize, & i wonder what she was thinking
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
one time in 7th grade (1997) my english teacher (ms. bruns, an epic character) gave us an excerpt of f. scott fitzgerald’s essay on his process of alcoholic collapse (« the crack-up ») to scrutinize, & i wonder what she was thinking
Reposted by Jacob Siefring
Eating genoa cake and thinking of ol' Paul Metcalf
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Eating genoa cake and thinking of ol' Paul Metcalf
Reposted by Jacob Siefring
"an ideot whose whole amusement consisted in looking at, & talking to a clock – which he supposed to be alive – "
(ST Coleridge, Notebooks, 1796/7?)
(ST Coleridge, Notebooks, 1796/7?)
![An ideot whose whole amusement consisted in looking at, & talking to a clock – which he supposed to be alive – / the Clock was removed – / he supposed that it had walked off – & he went away to seek it – – was absent nine days – at last, they found [him], almost famished in a field. – He asked where it was buried – for he was sure it was dead – / he was brought home & the clock [put] in its place – his Joy – &c. He used to put part of every thing, he liked, into the clock-case.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4ipimtycqe4ygljjb5tnw3it/bafkreihodhovleoj2gc3xz3sti4cx24fya5kxgpiwatitlumudzrjr3upi@jpeg)
September 1, 2024 at 11:59 AM
"an ideot whose whole amusement consisted in looking at, & talking to a clock – which he supposed to be alive – "
(ST Coleridge, Notebooks, 1796/7?)
(ST Coleridge, Notebooks, 1796/7?)
The latest three titles in the Empyrean Series arrived in Seattle from the printer this past week!
Learn more abt these new books from Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa, & the rest of the series catalogue, here: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
Learn more abt these new books from Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa, & the rest of the series catalogue, here: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The latest three titles in the Empyrean Series arrived in Seattle from the printer this past week!
Learn more abt these new books from Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa, & the rest of the series catalogue, here: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
Learn more abt these new books from Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa, & the rest of the series catalogue, here: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
now a few lucky people are going to read a weird book about a fish
‘Sturly’ (1923) by the French writer Pierre Custot has been republished, in the translation of Richard Aldington. A mutant book of mystical Eastern dialogues crossed with scientific rigor & oceanic observation
Empyrean no. 47
‘Sturly’ (1923) by the French writer Pierre Custot has been republished, in the translation of Richard Aldington. A mutant book of mystical Eastern dialogues crossed with scientific rigor & oceanic observation
Empyrean no. 47
November 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
now a few lucky people are going to read a weird book about a fish
‘Sturly’ (1923) by the French writer Pierre Custot has been republished, in the translation of Richard Aldington. A mutant book of mystical Eastern dialogues crossed with scientific rigor & oceanic observation
Empyrean no. 47
‘Sturly’ (1923) by the French writer Pierre Custot has been republished, in the translation of Richard Aldington. A mutant book of mystical Eastern dialogues crossed with scientific rigor & oceanic observation
Empyrean no. 47
a thick & luscious fog of melancholy has enveloped the neighborhood today. probably nothing to worry abt
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
a thick & luscious fog of melancholy has enveloped the neighborhood today. probably nothing to worry abt
Lou Rowan, editor of the Golden Handcuffs Review, died in March of this year, and his friends & collaborators on the review have recently brought out a final issue of GHR. They chose to reprint an interview I conducted with Joseph McElroy (pub’d 2014) & many other pieces. Honored to receive this.
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Lou Rowan, editor of the Golden Handcuffs Review, died in March of this year, and his friends & collaborators on the review have recently brought out a final issue of GHR. They chose to reprint an interview I conducted with Joseph McElroy (pub’d 2014) & many other pieces. Honored to receive this.
Reposted by Jacob Siefring
I got to talk with everyone's favorite independent literature podcaster again, now almost a year out from the release of MASSIVE, we talked about Joe's insights and the general response to the book.
www.noisemakerjoe.com/wtr/2025/11/...
www.noisemakerjoe.com/wtr/2025/11/...
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I got to talk with everyone's favorite independent literature podcaster again, now almost a year out from the release of MASSIVE, we talked about Joe's insights and the general response to the book.
www.noisemakerjoe.com/wtr/2025/11/...
www.noisemakerjoe.com/wtr/2025/11/...
i was recently pleased & startled to see that the Collected Poems of Marguerite Young (eds. Phil Bevis, Joshua Rothes, & myself, Sublunary/Chatwin) is listed & briefly discussed in the pages of the NYRB.
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
i was recently pleased & startled to see that the Collected Poems of Marguerite Young (eds. Phil Bevis, Joshua Rothes, & myself, Sublunary/Chatwin) is listed & briefly discussed in the pages of the NYRB.
to judge (for a point of comparison) from the engagement stats i got last week from congratulating my sister on her performance at the cheese awards in bern, books & literature really cannot compete with delicious objects you can slice infinitesimally, savor, & swallow
November 20, 2025 at 3:59 AM
to judge (for a point of comparison) from the engagement stats i got last week from congratulating my sister on her performance at the cheese awards in bern, books & literature really cannot compete with delicious objects you can slice infinitesimally, savor, & swallow
listening to genesis… has anyone ever listened to this band? i’m not recommending it, but what in the hell
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
listening to genesis… has anyone ever listened to this band? i’m not recommending it, but what in the hell