Mark Scroggins
@markscroggins.bsky.social
Poet, biographer, critic—bear of very little brain, troubled by long words. Rudimentary bass player. Pre-raphaelite wannabe. Aesthete, always.
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Mark Scroggins
@markscroggins.bsky.social
· Jul 31
Mark Scroggins: obelisk absinthe
These six sections from Mark Scroggins' serial poem Zion Offramp were written between July 2023 and May 2024. They are bracketed by the two poems of Scroggins' earlier Bodily Press chapbook forage aca...
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Shameless self-promotion: new chapbook, *obelisk absinthe*, out from Eliot Cardinaux’s Bodily Press! sb0111-qr.myshopify.com/products/mar...
Today: Meredith Quartermain, Things Musing (above/ground chapbook, 2025)
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Today: Meredith Quartermain, Things Musing (above/ground chapbook, 2025)
Today: Ronald Johnson, Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses (The Song Cave, 2023)
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Today: Ronald Johnson, Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses (The Song Cave, 2023)
Today: Orchid Tierney, pedagogies for the planthroposcene (above/ground chapbook, 2025)
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Today: Orchid Tierney, pedagogies for the planthroposcene (above/ground chapbook, 2025)
Today: Eileen Myles, Teenage Whales (above/ground chapbook, 2025)
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Today: Eileen Myles, Teenage Whales (above/ground chapbook, 2025)
Today: Ronald Johnson, A Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees (Jargon Society, 1964)
November 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Today: Ronald Johnson, A Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees (Jargon Society, 1964)
Today: Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, The Deaf Forest of Cosmic Scaffolding (above/ground chapbook, 2025)
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Today: Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, The Deaf Forest of Cosmic Scaffolding (above/ground chapbook, 2025)
Today: Burt Kimmelman, A Door, A Window (Marsh Hawk Press, 2025)
November 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Today: Burt Kimmelman, A Door, A Window (Marsh Hawk Press, 2025)
Today: Norman Finkelstein, Ingathering (OLAH chapbook, 2025)
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Today: Norman Finkelstein, Ingathering (OLAH chapbook, 2025)
Today: Jed Rasula, What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern (Princeton UP, 2022)
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Today: Jed Rasula, What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern (Princeton UP, 2022)
Today: Gwen Aube, pulp necrosis (above/ground chapbook, 2025)
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Today: Gwen Aube, pulp necrosis (above/ground chapbook, 2025)
Today: Penn Kemp, Lives of Dead Poets (above/ground chapbook, 2025)
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Today: Penn Kemp, Lives of Dead Poets (above/ground chapbook, 2025)
Today: CG Jung, The Black Books, vol. 5, Ed. Sonu Shamdasani (Norton, 2020)
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Today: CG Jung, The Black Books, vol. 5, Ed. Sonu Shamdasani (Norton, 2020)
Today: CG Jung, The Undiscovered Self (Princeton UP, 2010)
November 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Today: CG Jung, The Undiscovered Self (Princeton UP, 2010)
Today: John Crowley, Love and Sleep (Bantam, 1997)
October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Today: John Crowley, Love and Sleep (Bantam, 1997)
Today: Basil Bunting, Briggflatts (Bloodaxe, 2009)
October 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Today: Basil Bunting, Briggflatts (Bloodaxe, 2009)
Today: Linda Donn: Freud and Jung: Years of Friendship, Years of Loss (Scribner’s, 1988)
October 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today: Linda Donn: Freud and Jung: Years of Friendship, Years of Loss (Scribner’s, 1988)
Today: Basil Bunting, Complete Poems (New Directions, 2000)
October 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Today: Basil Bunting, Complete Poems (New Directions, 2000)
Today: A. L. Nielsen, Hard Gospel (BlazeVox Books, 2025)
October 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Today: A. L. Nielsen, Hard Gospel (BlazeVox Books, 2025)
Today: John Peck, Collected Shorter Poem (TriQuarterly/ Northwestern UP, 2004)
October 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Today: John Peck, Collected Shorter Poem (TriQuarterly/ Northwestern UP, 2004)
Today: Lorine Niedecker, Collected Work, ed. Jenny Penberthy (U California P, 2002)
October 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Today: Lorine Niedecker, Collected Work, ed. Jenny Penberthy (U California P, 2002)
Today: Jay Sherry, Carl Gustav Jung: Avant-Garde Conservative (Palgrave, 2010)
September 27, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Today: Jay Sherry, Carl Gustav Jung: Avant-Garde Conservative (Palgrave, 2010)
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I was asked by @gqmagazine.bsky.social to write a little bit about just going bald in the age of widespread head-shaving and affordable, believable hair transplants...so I did!
Nothing Looks Cooler Than Not Caring You’re Balding
In a polarized culture that demands balding men pick a side, opting for the follicular middle ground is a refreshing act of honesty.
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September 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I was asked by @gqmagazine.bsky.social to write a little bit about just going bald in the age of widespread head-shaving and affordable, believable hair transplants...so I did!
Today: George Oppen, New Collected Poems (New Directions, 2002)
September 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Today: George Oppen, New Collected Poems (New Directions, 2002)
Today I wrote and sent off a blurb I had been agonizing over for weeks, and revised an introduction that I had agonized over for months. And both of them are okay.
September 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Today I wrote and sent off a blurb I had been agonizing over for weeks, and revised an introduction that I had agonized over for months. And both of them are okay.