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Matt Jakubowski (he/him)

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Multi-genre writer. Forthcoming: Gone Lawn, elsewhere magazine, scaffold lit. Flash fiction: Your Impossible Voice, Variant Lit, JAKE, Best Microfiction 2024, Milk Candy Review. www.mattjakubowski.com/fiction/

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 13m

Congratulations!

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Center for the Art of Translation @catranslation.org · 3h

We're hiring a full-time Engagement Editor—a new full time staff position in CAT's Communications Department. For more information, visit our site and apply by Oct. 31. www.catranslation.org/about/opport...

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 4h

So if you’ve been a soy bean farmer your whole life to sell your crops to China, you’re fine, Trump is bailing you out. But if you’ve spent your whole life working for the American people in a US government role, Trump is putting you on furlough and cutting your back pay. Is that where we are now?

Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 20h

I’ve been slowly getting a bunch of tiny stories together to submit to a chapbook competition by the end of the month. It’s been a puzzle to choose and arrange them. But I think I might have 12 that belong together in one little book.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Five Israeli communities on the Gaza border bore the brunt of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacres, and surviving residents face wrenching choices about whether and when to return.

Two years later, some Israelis who fled Hamas attack have yet to go home

Five communities on the Gaza border bore the brunt of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacres, and surviving residents face wrenching choices about if and when to return.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 1d

sun’s not up but the moon is setting and wowww

Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 1d

Welcomed home a new fern friend ✨🌿❤️

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The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social · 2d

The submission window will close on October 27th!

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 2d

love a dog who loves to read

Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 3d

Still one of my favorite stanzas
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44900/...

Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 3d

Me and my son had a very West Philly sort of day. Bagels and apple things from Cleo in the morning. Popsicles from Little Pop Shop in the afternoon while we shopped at an artists’ sale and bought Gritty pins

Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 4d

A year ago this would have been kooky satirical clickbait. Today it’s a list of plain facts. Trump is paying these people to terrorize their fellow citizens for profit.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

Yesterday, Kristi Noem’s and Greg Bovino’s masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 4d

I am delighted to announce Stone Circle's 2026 Best of the Net nominees. Please take a moment to enjoy their wonderful poems again (links are below).

And please join me in congratulating them and wishing them the best of luck.

#BotN #BestOfTheNet

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 4d

Long live Gone Lawn! ✨

Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social · 4d

We've been at this for a little more than 15 years, now, as a niche within a niche, and slow going. Perseverence is the key, but we're still a niche within a niche. Please visit us! And we love every submission.

gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Gone Lawn 61 : corn moon

gonelawn.net

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 5d

One week left to pop in our inbox and say you want to join us!

ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 9d

ANMLY is looking to add some new members to our all-volunteer team! Come make cool stuff with us! All roles are 1-3 hours/week.

- Comics Editor
- 2 Fiction Readers
- 2 CNF Readers
- Features & Reviews Co-Editor

Email [email protected] w/ a brief statement of interest & a CV/resume to apply

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely horrific news.

Live Updates: 2 Killed in Attack at British Synagogue on Yom Kippur www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: 2 Killed in Attack at British Synagogue on Yom Kippur

www.nytimes.com

Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve heard about this essay, “Who Goes Nazi?”, many times, never read it until today, and it’s not what I expected.
harpers.org/archive/1941...

And this article about Dorothy Thompson is also worth reading.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations, Tom!

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks! It’s been a while since I had one published so I am as well 🙂

Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 6d

That’s awesome—have fun working on it! Can’t wait to read the essay.

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, I’ve never understood writers who oppose all edits. Boggles my mind!

Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 7d

An editor sent me a proposed edit to a forthcoming prose poem—and it was brilliant. I was so happy they suggested it. Getting the chance to collaborate with thoughtful, talented people is a such a joy.

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations!

Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 7d

went for groceries tonight and noticed the sunset behind me was ba-lazing

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 8d

It's pub day! We couldn't be happier about helping to put these two beauties into the world. Please help us spread the word!

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin
THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi

The front covers of The Endless Week and The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam held up side by side in front of a tree whose leaves are beginning to turn from green to brown.

This picture shows the spines for The Endless Week and The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam stacked on top of each other and held up in front of a small tree on a sunny day.

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