Jesse Keith Butler
@jessekbutler
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Award-winning poet. Book: The Living Law (Darkly Bright Press, 2024). Poems in @arcpoetry, @newversereview, @DappledThings1, @pulpliterature, @TheBrazenHead1 &c
Ottawa, Ontario
Joined May 2015
I wrote a book of poems. @amjuster called them "thoughtful, well-crafted, and a pleasure to read." An amazon reviewer called them "musical, attentive, witty, and at times heartbreaking." @marlyyoumans called them "ambitious." See what you think! Available wherever books are sold.
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RT @DemocritusSr: A. E. Housman, "White in the Moon the Long Road Lies" ("A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI") #poetry
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RT @MayaVenters: I’m pleased to have three poems in the latest issue of @LM_ALSCW. Here’s my favourite of the three. I’m very grateful to t….
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RT @newversereview: Here's Daniel Patrick Sheehan (@DanSheehan2423) with maybe the best groundhog poem since "After Apple-Picking" https://….
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RT @etherealcolburn: Just got the proofs of the new issue of THINK Journal, and it looks great, with excellent new poems from @jessekbutler….
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RT @jessekbutler: My book The Living Law is the Saturday book feature today at Autumn Sky Poetry. It includes the first online printing of….
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My book The Living Law is the Saturday book feature today at Autumn Sky Poetry. It includes the first online printing of my poem "The Life We Chose," first published in THINK. Link in comment.
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RT @gosselin_b: I had a good chat with three excellent poets, including Canada's very own @jessekbutler. From Jacob's Ladder to Dinosaur me….
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RT @bruce_lambert: Here are @tedgioia’s key principles for a new indie movement in music and the arts, to free us from the algorithms, meme….
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RT @newversereview: The July links round-up is now live at NVR—pastoral vs. bucolic, clodhopping Americans, the French sublime, and more. F….
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The Onion: Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies
theonion.com
WASHINGTON—A crippling idiom shortage that has left millions of Americans struggling to express themselves spread like tugboat hens throughout the U.S. mainland Tuesday in an unparalleled lingual...
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RT @jessekbutler: I woke up this morning to discover my poem "The Archive of Readerless Books" is the daily poem at Autumn Sky Poetry! Edit….
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Editor’s Note: Dystopian sci-fi meets present day meets rhyme (but often slant) in this poem’s narrative of persistence against futility.
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