Jessica Q. Stark
Poet/Editor/Buffalo Girl | BUFFALO GIRL, BOA Editions (2023) | SAVAGE PAGEANT, Birds, LLC (2020) | Poetry Editor, AGNI | Asst Professor of Creative Writing, University of North Florida 🌊
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkCelebrate Kathryn Cowles’s THE STRANGE WONDROUS WORKS OF ELEANOR ELEANOR, winner of the 2025 Fence Modern Poets Series Book Prize, in combination with Geoffrey Babbitt’s A GRAIN OF SAND IN LAMBETH this Thursday, February 5th at 7 PM! 💌 @kathryncowles.bsky.social @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkWS Merwin wrote “Presidents” in 1970. In 1971, he declined a Pulitzer, citing the Vietnam War —“too conscious of being an American to accept public congratulation with good grace, or to welcome it except as an occasion for expressing openly a shame which many Americans feel."
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkHoarding Disorder. A poem by Jessica Q. Stark theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-... @jezzbah.bsky.social @adroitjournal.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkI was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way. Simone de Beauvoir
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkLorine Niedecker
- New poem drop today over at @adroitjournal.bsky.social on hoarding, holding, holding, holding. Thankful to the editors and the heart workers rn. 🩵 theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkA little bit late to sharing this, but Adi is so proud to have nominated the following wonderful writers for a Pushcart Prize earlier this month. Congrats to Rania Mamoun, Alaa Alqaisi, Sharon Aruparayil, Tarfa Benson, @jezzbah.bsky.social, and Malak Hijazi!
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkBooks made this weekend for subscribers @poetalukah.bsky.social @jezzbah.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkSave the date for 9/24!! @taylorbyas.bsky.social, Ashley Jones, & @djvorreyer.bsky.social read for the WPLS. #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry @sundresspub.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkRobert Glück, pictured here, says "the history of arts organizations is so ephemeral." The new archive at Small Press Traffic, arranged for public access in the Mission, materializes the literary organization's history in Bay Area small press publishing. www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/arch...
- Reposted by Jessica Q. Stark📣 NEW RELEASE ALERT! 📣 Boa Editions is thrilled to announce that Aracelis Girmay's new collection of poetry GREEN OF ALL HEADS is out now! We have signed paperbacks and hardcovers for sale on our store in limited supply! Purchase yourself a copy today at boaeditions.org. Spread the word🍃
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkI was stumble drunk, bent into the ramshackle dawn, the sun glazed with its own sick, traipsing along the cracked flagstones toward an apartment I’d all but abandoned, its contents strewn across the tile floors ~from "The Wolf" by David Joez Villaverde 🔥AGNI 101🔥
- Reposted by Jessica Q. Starkwe used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkUnraveling of federal arts funding infrastructure continues. Hard to describe the decades of debates & advocacy invested in sustaining the CW fellowships at the NEA. Now, wiped out.
- Aw visited by my own scholarly ghosts is a particular feeling. I do sometimes miss that particular beast of writing...
- @jezzbah.bsky.social I am rereading your essay on Nancy and the queer adorable and it’s really helping me out! Have you done more with your comics and avant-garde poetry project??? 👀
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkWhat does it mean to write under the aura of another poet one admires, to write in celebration of another? What happens to language when you do? Don't miss today's conversation with Laynie Browne Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/layn... @omnidawn.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkToday’s Poem-a-Day @poetsorg.bsky.social is by the inimitable @theferocity.bsky.social, allusive, incantatory, and moving. @benningtonwriting.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social ❤️🔥
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkHala Alyan
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkEvery rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkSummer 2025 Reading Period Report & Finalists newsletter is here! 🎉🎉🎉
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkShe’s here! Order from your favorite bookseller! Leave a review, tag me in your photos! Reserve a copy at the library! I’ve got her in the woods today and reading tonight. Raise a cup of tea (or a shot of whisky) for us 💙🩵💜 www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/khadi...
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkThe Abduction of Proserpina, by Gregorio Lazzarini, late 17th century, 📸 via @brwalkoff.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jessica Q. Starklet's fast forward to the part where only the gentle survive
- Reposted by Jessica Q. Stark"Brenda Shaughnessy and CAConrad redefine resilience and identity in their powerful poetry collections." 📖 Explore the reviews: thebrokenspine.co.uk... #PrideMonth #PoetryOfIdentity
- Check out my latest THE FLEA, out now with @the-ethelzine.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkHappy birthday to my sister from a different mister! Remember, you are not glass, @jezzbah.bsky.social, and my flower hadn’t seen a drop of rain in a week! RNR! Love you!
- Read some poems, witnessed some flowers during my birthday week.
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkGo off
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkSome really fancy flea stuff happening over here…making Jessica Q. Stark’s THE FLEA (link to shop in bio). @jezzbah.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkI loved this portrait from the Wayne Thiebaud retrospective at the Legion of Honor and it pretty much sums up my mood today (and most of this year if I’m being honest)
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkBinaural Sound Study - Fig Tree Cove 1, 2017 Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen, Japanese ink and acrylic ink on Arches paper cyzchen.com/drawings #art #paintings
- Reposted by Jessica Q. Stark“The ever and the always. Every motherf*cking thing.” A conversation for @bombmag.bsky.social with my brother in brilliance, Douglas Kearney. We talk survival. Spectacle. Specters. And the work of making anyway. 👇🏾 bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
- Reposted by Jessica Q. Stark"I will keep haunting the war and I will keep digging into its wound..." @truthout.org published my essay on the 50th anniversary to the end of the US wars in Southeast Asia. Here's to remembrance of May 1975 and all that preceded it and that followed. truthout.org/articles/us-...
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkSonia Sanchez
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkWorking on Eneida P. Alcalde’s THE WEALTH WE SURRENDERED (pictures include an excerpt from the poem “Arachnid”
- Reposted by Jessica Q. Starkit is so endearing when someone’s so worried they’re doing a poetry prompt/assignment “wrong.” like, most likely you are doing something way more interesting
- Reposted by Jessica Q. Stark“Preserving art, literature, and philosophy will require no less than the creation of an environment totally and uncompromisingly committed to abolishing the linguistic alienation created by AI and reintroducing students to the indispensability of their own voice.“
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkOh WOW. I try to pick up Notley’s smaller, pamphlet style early books whenever I run across them online but it’s a difficult, happenstance thing. This is so great.
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- I am honored to be named a South Arts State Fellow this year among several dynamo Southern poets! 🥲🩵🎉 And I am also bemused to be representing the chaos queen reign supreme herself, Florida, as I go on to compete for the Southern Prize this year. Thankful to be able to do what I do. 💓
- Reposted by Jessica Q. Starkalice notley, from "instability in poetry," me as reader choking up at how one can learn to dream without the Tyrant, but know he isn't dead in the world
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkThe first rule of poetry is honesty; the second is fuck you.--Alice Notley
- Rest in peace to a restless one 🩵💫
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkAlice Notley @weslpress.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jessica Q. Starkoh goodness, Alice Notley -- such a brilliant light, such a loss "Enter my head if you wish. No ends or purposes Prevailed fortunes. I have a destiny. My death will not complete it." www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
- Reposted by Jessica Q. Stark"Why should poetry or anyone or anything do anything? But poetry is the art closest to existing itself. We are somewhat measurable, vibrate and tremble, and are beautiful." ALICE NOTLEY 1945-2025 Thank you, Alice. Photos: Kirby
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- It's here! Order your copy below from @the-ethelzine.bsky.social. 🩵 Limited edition, reprint of my chapbook THE FLEA, which won first place in MAYDAY's microchapbook contest. www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-fle...
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkComing soon! A reprint of Jessica Q. Starks THE FLEA @jezzbah.bsky.social which won first place in Mayday Mag’s micro chapbook contest (available to read online there). Copies will be available at the upcoming DCAZ fest and at the next Dreamboat poetry reading in Jacksonville. Pre-orders soon!
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkIt has occurred to me that y'all might not know who Mayor Ras Baraka is. So I'm going to take a moment out of grading to do my duty as a Jersey girl and teach you a thing. Mayor Baraka is the 40th mayor of the Newark, NJ, the city that will forever be Jersey's heartbeat.
- Hey Jax locals, this is next month. 🩵
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkCongratulations to contributor @stevenespadaw.bsky.social whose collection of poems, LATE TO THE SEARCH PARTY, is out with @scribnerbooks.bsky.social today!
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkHey, it's my birthday!💥 I'd love it if you'd share a link to a particularly memorable conversation on the show &/or who you would most like to see in the future. For me, the conversation with Nikky Finney is forever etched in my heart. & I dream of Anne Carson tinhouse.com/podcast/nikk...
- Reposted by Jessica Q. StarkJoy Harjo is singing me into life today: “Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time.” poets.org/poem/calling...
