Jesse DeLong
@jessemdelong
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Poet, Lecturer. Louisiana transplant. The Amateur Scientist’s Notebook: Baobab Press. he/him.
Joined July 2014
Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1 Reason #4: We promote our authors long past publication! Check out past contrib @jessemdelong's new book of poetry The Vinegar in our Hearts, on sale now at https://t.co/Zub0cSUTlp And send us your best! https://t.co/kzWyuoXXO5
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Finally got around to reading _A Reading from the Book of Panic_ and wishing I had sooner, so I could be rereading it now.
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I'm grateful to Justin for writing this thoughtful review of my forthcoming collection, The Vinegar in Our Hearts. The review does a great job of laying out the different sections of the book.
Please check out a review of The Vinegar in Our Hearts by @jessemdelong forthcoming from Cornerstone Press.
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Happy butt fumble day to all who celebrate!
11 years ago today, the Jets gave us one of the most memorable plays in football history The butt fumble.
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We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation. https://t.co/NkRV1ZdPuC
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Let us enjoy the great victory Lit Twitter's own JCO has brought us today in relative peace now. On this, we are a unified front.
What has she ever done? Has she ever made the Hyperloop? You did. Has she ever invented self-driving cars? You did that. Has she ever taken humanity to Mars? That is an accomplishment you have pulled off, that she never will.
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Zohran Mamdani saying in his victory speech “While you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme” and the crowd letting out a muted, slightly baffled cheer is so funny. It spoke to me, at least.
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I'm excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book, out in late January from Cornerstone Press! I have a few ARCs if anyone is seriously interested in writing a review. Message me if interested!
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Sylvia Plath's 93d birthday today. the first 2 poets i found when i began my obsession was her and Anne Sexton
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The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the third, authoritative edition of Frank Stanford’s The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You. https://t.co/mVgg6mNaDN
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I don't like the Carson poem, but it's obviously better than the AI poem. Carson's poem takes risks (and probably fails). The AI poem does what, unfortunately, a lot of poems do nowadays--just imitates moves they've seen in other poems. Comparing them is pretty insulting.
If we don’t call out the bad published poems we’re aiding the devolution of poetry. Who wrote it better:
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Have you ever seen a big like this? It was like the bark looking thing was its shell.
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Our HOA, which last week sent us a letter saying they’re out of money so no longer cutting grass in the common areas, had the nerve to send us a letter and say we needed to cut our grass 😂
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Readers have long been frustrated by Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken". Thanks to AI, it is now possible to explore BOTH of the paths described by the speaker
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Is this a moth with a bug eating it, or a moth with a tail to mimic a bug?
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My first book is out of print, and that is probably a good thing. There are, however, a few poems in it I still kind of like. This one about a peculiar kind of fishing is one of them.
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When did the mega million become $5? Trump’s incompetence even caused inflation on the lottery!
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