Justin Marks
@justinmarkspb
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If This Should Reach You in Time available @barrelhouse, co-founder & editor @BirdsLLC he/him/his
New York City
Joined April 2010
Holding my new book for the first time & I honestly could not be happier with the way it turned out. Thank you @barrelhouse for believing in it & @BloofBooks @Shanna_Compton for the beautiful design work!
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The guilty feeling of loving conversations with poets (podcasts, interviews, irl) as much as if not more than reading their books…
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Meanwhile, the Greek Coast Guard is straight up letting migrants drown. Imagine mustering these resources to help people fleeing from war and persecution instead techno-narcissistic billionaires.
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“Sister stopped beating the cutting board and felt my forehead with her wet hand”—Lee Young - Ju, translation by Jae Kim
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Timeless
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He’s got my vote
I am running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the People’s Party to reintroduce America to the best of itself - fighting to end poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, health care, education and living wages for
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Having one of those all-my-writing-is-crap-and-a-failure kind of days.
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Thank you Heavy Feather Review for this thoughtful take on my book.
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If This Should Reach You in Time, by Justin Marks, is a collection of poems related by feelings of isolation and by the perception of failure in the systems we depend on, natural and political. If …
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Gonna write a book called Words Too and pitch as a sequel to Creeley’s Words.
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“Somebody blew up our freedom school and sent / us to the school of the free so we could learn to / want what we don’t want”—Fred Moten
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“Skipping through the daisy patch, sucking on a lollipop” is a phrase I just heard and my life will never be the same.
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Today's Featured Poem: "Great Things from the Department of Transportation" by Sommer Browning (@vagtalk), from Good Actors, published by @Birdsllc. Read here: https://t.co/MhyWIzOje5
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My mother prays for children every night. I bet you never thought you'd marry, have a baby, and get divorced before you're 40, she tells me. My mother expects great things from the Department of...
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Just saw Bob Odenkirk in the park. Did not yell out “better call Saul!”
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This evening~6-8pm~ come thru! I’ll be helping out with tabling @Birdsllc would love to see familiar faces! So many wonderful small presses in a beautiful gallery space.💕❤️📚
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Do you read forewards to books before or after you read the book?
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Surrounded by people taking calls over speaker phone and who have all the sounds on on their phones so everyone can hear every text sent and received 🤬
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