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Stephen K. Kim
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doting cat dad 🐈‍⬛ aspiring plant dad 🪴 husband to my husband 🌈
word enthusiast | he/him | opinions my own
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October 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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We're closing out the day, the week, the sneak peek at issue number 89 with a poetry party. A kind of end-of-the-world type poetry party. Seems fitting these days. This is from "Supplication" by Stephen K. Kim @skimperil.bsky.social and you need to read it on Sunday!
The sky’s lurid vermillion tells of faraway wildfires.
September 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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A Gay Hammer Poem | Stephen Kim <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rtlp37e455j3e3jamojrddoy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@skimperil.bsky.social | Frozen Sea - Issue Nine
September 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Contributor features from ballast 3.3!

Here’s Stephen K. Kim with “Notification” @skimperil.bsky.social

www.ballastjournal.com/stephen-k-kim

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August 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Thrilled to have a poem in this volume! Many thanks to the editors @ballastjournal.bsky.social!
July 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Thank you @cilloyd.bsky.social, Jack Westmore, and Luís Costa for my first poet interview in the Seaford Review! www.seafordreview.com/p/meet-the-p...

#queerpoet #newpoet
Meet the Poets: Stephen K. Kim
Stephen talks to us about his Issue Two poem, "Elegy for Joe", his writing practice and community.
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June 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Business lunch. This is from a negative in my collection, ca. 1970s. When I posted this to Bluesky previously, a sharp-eyed follower identified the likely location as the dock in front of the Lightship Ambrose in NYC!
Color photo of a white man in a dark suit, sitting on a bench on a boardwalk or other outdoor wooden space. He's eating lunch on top of a briefcase and has a sandwich in one hand, but hold up a little tin in his other hand for a shorthaired brown tabby cat that is stretching up to reach the bench next to him. It looks like it could have been a sardine tin or something similar. Overall it looks like this man is on his lunch break from work but also giving a treat to a friendly stray. It looks like there is a large red boat in the background.
May 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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May 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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April 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
skimperil.bsky.social
Are prose poems allowed for #smallpoemsunday? Posting one of mine published earlier this year with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

CW: grief

#poetsofbluesky #poetry #newpoet #chappellroan #mathclass
April 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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But I was hungry! From The Adventures of Nip and Tuck: Just Cats. By Elizabeth Francis and illustrated by Barbara Roe Hicklin, 1959.
Black ink illustration of a shorthaired cat standing on its hind legs to looking into an overflowing trash can. Text at the bottom left reads "But I was hungry!"
April 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
skimperil.bsky.social
Many thanks to @narioli.bsky.social and Thimble Lit Mag for publishing "When Ruth Recounted How" in Volume 7.4 -- this will be the first time I'll see one of my poems in print!

#queerpoem #aapiwriting #newpoet
April 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Thank you to editors @cilloyd.bsky.social, Jack Westmore, and Luís Costa for publishing my poem "Elegy for Joe" in Vol 2 of the Seaford Review! Thrilled my work is included alongside such incredible poems.

www.seafordreview.com/p/issue-two

#poetry #queerpoem #elegy #newpoet
March 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Sun roasted potato. 🥔 Photo from my collection, 1954.
A pretty shorthaired calico cat reclining on her side and back in a strong window sunbeam that is baking across a carpeted surface. She is positively glowing in the light and it’s a gorgeous contrast to the stark edge of the sun where the carpet appears to become almost completely black. She’s in a rectangular island of light.
March 8, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Thank you @neologismpoetry.bsky.social for publishing my poem this weekend!

www.neologismpoetry.com/February-202...

#poem #poetry #newpoet #writers #thundercloud #catpoem
March 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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“Go outside” they said. “You’ll enjoy the fresh air” they said. Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.
A shorthaired white cat with tabby patches, looking disgusted while walking on what seems to be a stony beach.
February 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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increasingly i like to describe the writing i love most as “soulful.” full of seeking. full of reaching for another’s hand. techniques of verbal restraint or seeming coldness serve always an underlying vulnerability and warmth and tenderness (or a deep longing for these)
March 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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3 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT!! SUMMER SERIES SUBMISSION GUIDELINES HERE: ghostcitypress.com/microchap-su...
February 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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to hold, to gentle, to warm, to carry, to tend, to hold and hold
February 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
skimperil.bsky.social
new piece out on in the palisades review! first attempt at flash creative nonfiction (or is it supposed to be called flash memoir?)
Postcard to dan — By Stephen Kim — The Palisades Review
I thought of you at the top of Haleakala, the dormant volcano in east Maui, summit towering above the clouds. It’s so otherworldly inside the crater. Some hills the color of rust, others gray speckled...
www.thepalisadesreview.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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new poem out in ghost city review! thank you @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

ghostcitypress.com/poetry0125/2...
Stephen K. Kim — Ghost City Press
“I’m calling about your daughter”
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January 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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January 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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January 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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2024 was the year I started writing in earnest, and my only new year's resolution for 2025 is to continue writing. Grateful to have work forthcoming in a few places, including @ghostcitypress.bsky.social!
January 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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January 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM