Jessica Ballen
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Jessica Ballen
@jessicaballen.bsky.social
Slightly funny, slightly poet; @_j___esus on Instagram
I like my solitude most of all, & this is why I’m a poet & not a journalist.
April 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
See picture (of my husband) for an accurate representation of my moon and mars in Aries season
March 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hi should I post here or no
March 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Just me and my GERD against the world
March 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Fuckkkkk how are poets so hot?
February 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Submit to Lunch Ticket! lunchticket.submittable.com/submit
February 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Shout out to the writers for accepting my brand of weird
February 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Nerds
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Crying bc the writing muses blessed upon me an epiphany to restructure my entire poetry manuscript, and all I want is sweet surrender!
January 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic: Poems
January 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Reposted by Jessica Ballen
Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI

Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart

Support who supports you ✨✊
January 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
One of these days I’ll butter my bread and think
“I’m good enough for this life”
January 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Reposted by Jessica Ballen
Mary Ruefle:
January 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Looking at my old community college transcripts and I got a B+ in The Holocaust.
January 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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haven’t worn jeans in years but i bought a pair yesterday. i feel like i’m wearing some kind of medieval torture device. i’m like if the man in the iron mask was a 21st-century woman. i feel like i’m living the premise of every Abramović endurance piece. this is me sitting in my jeans
January 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“I saw the refrigerator glow” — the Jessica Ballen story
January 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Dreamlight Valley’s a nightmare for someone with executive dysfunction 🙃
January 9, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Love in the time of ozempic
January 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Ahhh yes, the two genders:
January 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
From john compton’s “Melancholy Arcadia”
December 30, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Reposted by Jessica Ballen
just learned of Michael's passing. he was my favorite teacher at Syracuse. i’m heartbroken.

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I do not want to belabor invisibility,
but if it isn’t there in the spaces
among the people as a spiritual thread
then I do not want to be there either.

—Michael Burkard, from "The Summer After Last"
December 24, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Fantastic!! Thank you for my book gifts @steventurrill.bsky.social
December 24, 2024 at 9:14 PM
From Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s “Something about Living”
December 23, 2024 at 9:54 PM
From Cathy Linh Che’s “Split”
December 23, 2024 at 6:52 AM