Stephen Jackson

Stephen Jackson

@fortyoddcrows.bsky.social

Pacific Northwest: Seattle, Portland, Eugene 🌲 | Working-class, poet, photographer, vegan 🌱 | Allium, The Branches, fourteen poems, New Ohio Review, Prairie Fire, WA State Queer Poetry Anthology https://stephen-jackson.com

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Stone Circle Review
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Poetry proves again and again that any single overall theory of anything doesn't work. Poetry is always the cat concert under the window of the room in which the official version of reality is being written. -- Charles Simic

Stephen Jackson
@fortyoddcrows.bsky.social

“Everything worth doing takes time. You have to write a hundred bad songs before you write one good one. And you have to sacrifice a lot of things that you might not be prepared for. Like it or not, you are in this alone and have to follow your own star.” — Bob Dylan

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Michael Staniforth
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I have come to the conclusion, that the real existential crisis we face is not that we have taught machines to think like humans (we haven't), but that we have taught humans to think like machines.

Stephen Jackson
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Thirty-three years ago tonight, I arrived in Seattle, fresh off a bout of homelessness and traveling the West Coast with friends. My first night here was in the Green Tortoise Hostel (in Queen Anne). I went the next day to live with a friend at the swanky Kahala Apts in Capitol Hill.

Stephen Jackson
@fortyoddcrows.bsky.social

I arrived on the Coast Starlight train, sick as a dog from weeks on the road. After getting settled in Seattle, I'd tell people I thought the train must have crashed and I'd died and gone to heaven.

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jonlavieri.bsky.social
@jonlavieri.bsky.social

"The kindness of one human being to another in times of mass hatred and violence deserves more respect than the preaching of all the churches since the beginning of time." - Charles Simic

Stephen Jackson
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At least. "One of the few things most writers agree on is that we can't trust our judgment on our own freshly written work. To see its faults and virtues we need to look at it after a real interval: a day or two at least." - Ursula K. Le Guin

Stephen Jackson
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Is someone putting fake flowers out around the neighborhood. It's way too late in the season for these to look this perfect. And what's up with the crocus? They're not due for another seven months.

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Ryan Packer
@typewriteralley.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the last day of this year's Bicycle Weekends today! It was a beautiful day for a ride along the lake, and a bittersweet end to the season.

Stephen Jackson
@fortyoddcrows.bsky.social

So sad to see this wonderful magazine go!

Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine@doorisajarmag.bsky.social

Issue 40 Fall 2026 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine is now live! This will be the final issue of our publication. Thank you for 11 wonderful years. #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/fall-...

Stephen Jackson
@fortyoddcrows.bsky.social

I don't think it was intentional, it just happened to be on the playlist, but they were playing Dolly's version of Neil's After the Goldrush at the local Co-op, and it almost made me cry.

Stephen Jackson
@fortyoddcrows.bsky.social

“…your life is worth more than someone else's convenience.” —Alexis Mercedes Rinck

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social

Full coverage of the order here at @theurbanist.org. www.theurbanist.org/wilson-order...

theurbanist.orgWilson Order Tees Up Sweeping Traffic Safety Changes, Accelerating ProjectsThe five-part order directs changes across multiple City departments intended to improve safety outcomes. Most notably, SDOT will speed up work on a slate of Vision Zero projects, and start to include...