Isaac Fox
@isaac-k-fox.bsky.social
Reads stuff, writes stuff, takes pictures, enjoys the outside. Recently graduated from Lebanon Valley College. He/him. Stories and poems at https://isaacfox280.wixsite.com/writing.
Two miniatures in Boats Against the Current:
boatsagainstthecurrent.org/poetry/2-poe...
#smallpoemsunday
boatsagainstthecurrent.org/poetry/2-poe...
#smallpoemsunday
2 poems — boats against the current
by Isaac Fox
boatsagainstthecurrent.org
October 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Two miniatures in Boats Against the Current:
boatsagainstthecurrent.org/poetry/2-poe...
#smallpoemsunday
boatsagainstthecurrent.org/poetry/2-poe...
#smallpoemsunday
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September 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Poems accepted in upcoming print issues for:
- Fairy Tale Review
- Chicago Quarterly Review
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- Fairy Tale Review
- Chicago Quarterly Review
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July 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Poems accepted in upcoming print issues for:
- Fairy Tale Review
- Chicago Quarterly Review
! ! ! ! !
- Fairy Tale Review
- Chicago Quarterly Review
! ! ! ! !
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July 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Editor thoughts when rejecting a submission: this piece is great, but the vibes just aren’t quite right for this mag
Editor thoughts after submitting and getting a rejection: my piece must suck, nobody will ever love it, i’m doomed
Editor thoughts after submitting and getting a rejection: my piece must suck, nobody will ever love it, i’m doomed
June 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Editor thoughts when rejecting a submission: this piece is great, but the vibes just aren’t quite right for this mag
Editor thoughts after submitting and getting a rejection: my piece must suck, nobody will ever love it, i’m doomed
Editor thoughts after submitting and getting a rejection: my piece must suck, nobody will ever love it, i’m doomed
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My latest book review includes birding, fly fishing, bogs, gulls & a true Galapagos mystery.
Titles by @abbottkahler.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social, Annie Proulx & more.
Titles by @abbottkahler.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social, Annie Proulx & more.
Cool Green Summer Book Review 2025
Whether you bird or fish or love the beach or just love a good story, our summer book review has something you'll love.
blog.nature.org
June 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
My latest book review includes birding, fly fishing, bogs, gulls & a true Galapagos mystery.
Titles by @abbottkahler.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social, Annie Proulx & more.
Titles by @abbottkahler.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social, Annie Proulx & more.
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Long-toed salamander.
June 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Long-toed salamander.
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Found our wedding vows!
From the @havehashad.com archive, this poignant, genuinely beautiful Matthew Olzmann poem isn't REALLY about zombies:
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/epi...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/epi...
Epithalamium that Refuses to Ignore the Possibility of a Zombie Apocalypse by Matthew Olzmann
Let’s be honest: what each of us wants
is to never get eaten by zombies,
and the shotgun-shaped truth of the matter
is we’re less likely to be ravaged
by the ravenous appetites of the dead...
www.havehashad.com
May 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Found our wedding vows!
A few bangers I ran into this week:
@amygcb.bsky.social is inventing her own vibe in Child Craft, with Midwestern, surreal, sometimes austere hybrid work. "Tuesdays with Monkey Wards" and "Magic Mirror" both provide some good laughs and a lot to think about.
@amygcb.bsky.social is inventing her own vibe in Child Craft, with Midwestern, surreal, sometimes austere hybrid work. "Tuesdays with Monkey Wards" and "Magic Mirror" both provide some good laughs and a lot to think about.
May 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A few bangers I ran into this week:
@amygcb.bsky.social is inventing her own vibe in Child Craft, with Midwestern, surreal, sometimes austere hybrid work. "Tuesdays with Monkey Wards" and "Magic Mirror" both provide some good laughs and a lot to think about.
@amygcb.bsky.social is inventing her own vibe in Child Craft, with Midwestern, surreal, sometimes austere hybrid work. "Tuesdays with Monkey Wards" and "Magic Mirror" both provide some good laughs and a lot to think about.
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yesterday's writing prompt (doing one every Sunday all year long)
March 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
yesterday's writing prompt (doing one every Sunday all year long)
Big fan of this one on @havehashad.com by Kyla Guimaraes. It has that Neruda-ish exuberance and rhythm, along with a darkness you don't expect from an ode.
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ode...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ode...
Ode to the Texture of Grapefruit by Kyla Guimaraes
Let me bury myself
in life. Let me do every
uncomfortable thing
over and over and over
again. This is me loving myself.
This is me jumping into
the deep end of a pool
in the middl...
www.havehashad.com
February 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Big fan of this one on @havehashad.com by Kyla Guimaraes. It has that Neruda-ish exuberance and rhythm, along with a darkness you don't expect from an ode.
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ode...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ode...
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Char Trek.
Brook trout, caught in a stream with a native population in Iowa.
Dolly Varden, Kenai River, Alaska.
Arctic char, Bristol Bay, Alaska.
Lake trout, one of the few non-native species found in Bear Lake, Utah.
Brook trout, caught in a stream with a native population in Iowa.
Dolly Varden, Kenai River, Alaska.
Arctic char, Bristol Bay, Alaska.
Lake trout, one of the few non-native species found in Bear Lake, Utah.
January 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Char Trek.
Brook trout, caught in a stream with a native population in Iowa.
Dolly Varden, Kenai River, Alaska.
Arctic char, Bristol Bay, Alaska.
Lake trout, one of the few non-native species found in Bear Lake, Utah.
Brook trout, caught in a stream with a native population in Iowa.
Dolly Varden, Kenai River, Alaska.
Arctic char, Bristol Bay, Alaska.
Lake trout, one of the few non-native species found in Bear Lake, Utah.
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There's a sucker (myth) born every minute. These are not trash fish.
Suckers are native fishes found across N. America. They are essential parts of the ecosystem. They're cool fishes to pursue.
Photo by Joel Sartore, of a largescale sucker I caught for him to photograph (and release).
Suckers are native fishes found across N. America. They are essential parts of the ecosystem. They're cool fishes to pursue.
Photo by Joel Sartore, of a largescale sucker I caught for him to photograph (and release).
January 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
There's a sucker (myth) born every minute. These are not trash fish.
Suckers are native fishes found across N. America. They are essential parts of the ecosystem. They're cool fishes to pursue.
Photo by Joel Sartore, of a largescale sucker I caught for him to photograph (and release).
Suckers are native fishes found across N. America. They are essential parts of the ecosystem. They're cool fishes to pursue.
Photo by Joel Sartore, of a largescale sucker I caught for him to photograph (and release).
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Local Fisherman, at the water fall.
This Black Crowned Night Heron perches, at the side of this small falls, and bides his time. then pounces. Spend an hour and you can see how successful his day is!
#blackcrownednightheron #heron #birds #wildlifephotography #photography
This Black Crowned Night Heron perches, at the side of this small falls, and bides his time. then pounces. Spend an hour and you can see how successful his day is!
#blackcrownednightheron #heron #birds #wildlifephotography #photography
December 28, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Local Fisherman, at the water fall.
This Black Crowned Night Heron perches, at the side of this small falls, and bides his time. then pounces. Spend an hour and you can see how successful his day is!
#blackcrownednightheron #heron #birds #wildlifephotography #photography
This Black Crowned Night Heron perches, at the side of this small falls, and bides his time. then pounces. Spend an hour and you can see how successful his day is!
#blackcrownednightheron #heron #birds #wildlifephotography #photography
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Think carefully before buying a Greenland shark for the holidays. They are, after all, the world’s longest-living vertebrate.
December 14, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Think carefully before buying a Greenland shark for the holidays. They are, after all, the world’s longest-living vertebrate.
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A small section of my outdoor book collection, a lifelong passion. Tales of the chase, the more obscure, the better.
December 9, 2024 at 5:06 AM
A small section of my outdoor book collection, a lifelong passion. Tales of the chase, the more obscure, the better.
@havehashad.com's piece from yesterday is kind of stuck in my head now. So quick and vivid and precise that it makes you slow down.
"10/10" by @katherinechiemi.com:
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/10-10
"10/10" by @katherinechiemi.com:
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/10-10
10/10 by Katherine Chiemi
after sex, I want something more
intimate than kissing. open your eye,
I say,
and press yours against mine,
cornea to cornea:
blink so I can feel
it.
www.havehashad.com
December 9, 2024 at 4:49 PM
@havehashad.com's piece from yesterday is kind of stuck in my head now. So quick and vivid and precise that it makes you slow down.
"10/10" by @katherinechiemi.com:
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/10-10
"10/10" by @katherinechiemi.com:
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/10-10
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Try to make your mental illness work with you, not against you. Become a writer.
December 9, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Try to make your mental illness work with you, not against you. Become a writer.
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HI EVERYBODY!
Couldn't imagine a better innaugural skeet than to announce...
Our community favorite nominations are now OPEN!
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Couldn't imagine a better innaugural skeet than to announce...
Our community favorite nominations are now OPEN!
⬇️ Nominate your favorite lit mags through this form:
tally.so/r/mKPJ4A
and & we’ll pay the winners $200 and scream about how great they are
December 6, 2024 at 4:33 PM
HI EVERYBODY!
Couldn't imagine a better innaugural skeet than to announce...
Our community favorite nominations are now OPEN!
⬇️ Nominate your favorite lit mags through this form:
tally.so/r/mKPJ4A
and & we’ll pay the winners $200 and scream about how great they are
Couldn't imagine a better innaugural skeet than to announce...
Our community favorite nominations are now OPEN!
⬇️ Nominate your favorite lit mags through this form:
tally.so/r/mKPJ4A
and & we’ll pay the winners $200 and scream about how great they are
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When someone dies, we go searching for poetry.
But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings.
—Jenny Zhang
But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings.
—Jenny Zhang
December 4, 2024 at 3:01 AM
When someone dies, we go searching for poetry.
But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings.
—Jenny Zhang
But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings.
—Jenny Zhang
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Now that the gar puns are showing up in my feed, there is nothing left for Twitter to offer me.
December 1, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Now that the gar puns are showing up in my feed, there is nothing left for Twitter to offer me.
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HOWS YOUR BOOK GOING?! HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED WRITING SOMETHING PEOPLE READ? Good luck in the trenches out there today. And remember, all you have to do is self publish a bestseller that becomes a movie and write the newspaper about it
November 28, 2024 at 3:35 PM
HOWS YOUR BOOK GOING?! HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED WRITING SOMETHING PEOPLE READ? Good luck in the trenches out there today. And remember, all you have to do is self publish a bestseller that becomes a movie and write the newspaper about it
I have poems in two new issues of Lit Shark Magazine! "Elegy for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" (in The Shark Week Edition) is one of my favorite poems of mine--a weird, dizzy piece about a weird, dizzy place and situation.
"Driving Home Late" (in The Spooky Teeth Edition) will hopefully
"Driving Home Late" (in The Spooky Teeth Edition) will hopefully
November 23, 2024 at 11:23 PM
I have poems in two new issues of Lit Shark Magazine! "Elegy for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" (in The Shark Week Edition) is one of my favorite poems of mine--a weird, dizzy piece about a weird, dizzy place and situation.
"Driving Home Late" (in The Spooky Teeth Edition) will hopefully
"Driving Home Late" (in The Spooky Teeth Edition) will hopefully