Jack Bedell

Stoked to have a new one from my Nutshell series up today. Huge thanks to the Hawkeye for giving this one the perfect home! 🙌🏻 hawkeyemag.com/stories/bede...

Stoked to have two new poems up at @apehousemagazine.bsky.social today! The first is based on a photo by @frankrelle.bsky.social apehousemagazine.substack.com/p/two-poems-...

"even the decision to do nothing for 50 years while salt water eased its way into the roots" I love this powerful poem by @jackbedell.bsky.social! Thanks so much for sharing @pdforan.bsky.social 💙💙💙

“No need to go inside to be sanctified.” @jackbedell.bsky.social in @tinywrenlit.bsky.social www.tinywrenlit.com/11/gouffre

“It always starts with a single decision …” @jackbedell.bsky.social in @bloominonionlit.bsky.social www.thebloominonion.com/diatribe-jac...

Stoked to have a poem in the new mini issue of @bloominonionlit.bsky.social alongside five fantastic writers! 👇🏻 www.thebloominonion.com/diatribe-jac...

"It would’ve been nice to ring in the new year on the curb staring down my lampless street into an emptiness so black even the idea of a horizon disappeared ..." @jackbedell.bsky.social in Plague Circus plaguecircuspress.com/im-sad-by-ja...

"... it's all home to me." Pointe Noire by @jackbedell.bsky.social in Tanasi Review see page 9) tanasiriverreview.neocities.org/Tanasi_River...

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@judemarr.bsky.social Thanks for tuning in to the Dodo reading tonight! It was wonderful to see your face and hear your voice!

Very grateful to have a little nostalgia-for-the-before-times piece up at Plague Circus this morning. 👇🏻 plaguecircuspress.com/im-sad-by-ja...

The new issue of Tanasi Review is out today. The PDF is available now with a print edition to follow next month. Very grateful to have a poem about Pat Mire’s latest movie in the issue’s lead-off spot! 🙌🏻👇🏻 tanasiriverreview.neocities.org/Tanasi_River...

I’m very grateful to have this one in the @stonecirclereview.bsky.social archive!

"The mystery is not always a whodunit. Sometimes, like this time, that part is ..." "Some scenes can’t help themselves." "Sometimes murder scenes hold no truth at all." @jackbedell.bsky.social with four nutshell studies in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Nutshell-Stu...

Poetry Nominations: @mollyakin.bsky.social, "Of Fatigue" @jackbedell.bsky.social, "Dusk, Chackbay" @amorak.bsky.social, "Lament with Waning Crescent" @fklein907.bsky.social, "Landslide II"

For my evening friends. (Still stoked!) 👇🏻

"Some scenes can’t help themselves. Their order of events conforms naturally into one or two reasonable chronologies. One act simply leads to the next until the final outcome declares itself." The amazing @jackbedell.bsky.social enters four crime-scene dioramas in The Bulb Region today. 🔗👇

Absolutely stoked to have four Nutshell Studies based on Frances Glessner Lee’s dioramas up at @bulbregion.bsky.social today! Huge gratitude to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for inspiring these, and for giving them a perfect home! bulbregion.com/Nutshell-Stu...

www.neologismpoetry.com/August-2026/ smokin' hot issue. Love @jackbedell.bsky.social's piece in here:

“… No stares, no pain, no names even in this here, this now …” @jackbedell.bsky.social in @neologismpoetry.bsky.social www.neologismpoetry.com/August-2026/

“The WHY of it, though, is a quiet song you’ll sing to yourself …” Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death + 2 by @jackbedell.bsky.social in @bruisermag.com www.bruisermag.com/Bedell_Three...

“There are days when the last shadow in this swamp steps to the edge of the clearing and howls. …” @jackbedell.bsky.social in Odd Lobster oddlobster.com#jack-b-bedell

“Storms and songs have shown this river for what it is a hundred years now” @jackbedell.bsky.social in Hollow and Sky hollowandsky.org/triptych-not...

"Even the oldest alligators floating in this water hold her as kin whenever they brush near" Brilliant evocation of place and character from @jackbedell.bsky.social www.neologismpoetry.com/August-2026/

Fantastic new issue of @neologismpoetry.bsky.social posted yesterday, and I’m stoked to have a poem included. www.neologismpoetry.com/August-2026/

Very grateful to have a swamplore piece in the new issue of @neologismpoetry.bsky.social alongside so many ✨! 👇🏻

Also stoked to have a poem in the beautiful new issue of Dirt Freckles today! 🙌🏻👇🏻 dirtfreckleslitmag.wixsite.com/dirt-freckle...

For my afternoon friends!

Very grateful to have three prose micros up @bruisermag.com today! Thanks to Josh Shepard and everyone on staff for giving the perfect home to memories of Stan Hansen and my dad. There’s also the 1st in my series of Nutshell murder scene mysteries. 👇🏻 www.bruisermag.com/bedell_three...

So stoked to have work up at @bruisermag.com !

Very grateful to everyone at Odd Lobster for giving my Honey Island monster poem a great home! 🐊👇🏻 oddlobster.com#jack-b-bedell

Issue 2 of Hollow and Sky is out now. It’s beautiful, and I’m really blessed to have a brand new poem included. hollowandsky.org/triptych-not...

"Beyond that, for her it’s all high score after high score, the purity of her shot’s arc, and ..." @jackbedell.bsky.social & World B. Free in Coming Up Short www.comingupshortmag.com/p/swish

It’s great to be back on the board at Some Words today with a new micro from my PI series! Big thanks to Justin Carter for giving this one a home! 🙌🏻 somewords.boards.net/thread/32/ja...

Knocked out to have a poem up at Badlands today! Thanks to Trevor for giving this one a fantastic home! 👇🏻 badlandspoetry.com/about/poems/

Really stoked to have a new micro up at Coming Up Short/Aperture today. 🙏🏻 www.comingupshortmag.com/p/swish

"We both pass life like this, enjoying whatever warmth we can find, fully aware winter is going to ease in one day soon and ..." In Water by @jackbedell.bsky.social in Gorko thegorkogazette.com/2026/07/18/i...

Very grateful to have a little poem up today at Gorko. Huge thanks to Colin Gee for giving that one a great home! 👇🏻 thegorkogazette.com/2026/07/18/i...

It's Best of the Net season! The Flight Crew nominated five killer poets:

Absolutely love spending time with this new collection from @pdforan.bsky.social! I’ve learned something from every page, but I think I found a favorite…

@miagabb.bsky.social @angelines.bsky.social @kellyesparza.bsky.social @cherylskorysuma.bsky.social @sofiaxaguilar.bsky.social‬ @jackbedell.bsky.social @lmariharris.bsky.social

Our Flash 405: 2022 Issue features writings themed: ROUTINE & RITUAL, ESCAPE, INHERITANCE, & BURN: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash22. @miagabb.bsky.social @angelines.bsky.social @kellyesparza.bsky.social @cherylskorysuma.bsky.social @sofiaxaguilar.bsky.social‬ @jackbedell.bsky.social @lmariharris.bsky.social

This is a book I can’t wait to read! @pdforan.bsky.social is the absolute best. Please give this one a look if you can.

The meditative “Sillage” from @jackbedell.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-...

“… if there was a lesson in any of it, for her or for the subject, it’s floated away into the sky ...” @jackbedell.bsky.social in The Itch Lit www.theitchlit.com/fiction/blog...

"And now she’s followed a subject 500 miles to Austin where he’s unloading a moving truck into a faux-Roman mansion." Big love for this brilliant micro by @jackbedell.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Very grateful to have a new micro from my PI series up at The Itch today! Huge thanks to the journal for giving this one a perfect home. 🙏🏻👇🏻 www.theitchlit.com/fiction/blog...

Thrilled to have a prose poem in the latest issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! pitheadchapel.com/wonton-gone-...