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felix lecocq
@felixlecocq.bsky.social
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writer with a weird heart
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love thinking alongside my students about the narrator’s “proximity” to a character… proximal to what? their articulated thoughts? their unarticulated feelings? their heart? their skin? how close is the “close third person” really?!
white board drawing of a misshapen body labeled “FEELINGS” within a larger body shape labeled “THOUGHTS” within a square labeled “ENVIRONMENT” within a cube labeled “HISTORY?”
April 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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today my students and i read poems by @ivertownandcountry.bsky.social, patricia smith & kaveh akbar, talking abt imagery + how our favorite images engage multiple of our senses!
picture of a classroom whiteboard with text that reads “Intro to Creative Writing: Image” and various quotations from poems, such as “cool then in the broken earth,” “sip new breath from a mason jar,” “rip bitter greens,” “my lover pushes all their weight on me,” “a hawk lets me stroke her midflight,” “this cold is an orchid,” and “the clouds are all orchids. They are raining orchids.”
January 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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doing research for a short story & finding poems
wikipedia subheading that says “chronology of notable loss events”
January 8, 2024 at 5:02 AM
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why do all these grad school application portals speak in riddles 😭 i just want to attend an mfa, not conquer thebes
an online funding application form with a highlighted sentence that reads: Responses to items marked optional are required.
November 19, 2023 at 4:12 PM
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i love this stupid city :,)
photograph of a pink orange sunset over lake michigan with the chicago skyline on the horizon. there is what looks like a lighthouse on the water, and two ducks swimming.
November 2, 2023 at 11:52 PM
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happy halloween! this year, i dressed up as my new biggest fear—heart failure! here’s my costume & two of the poems/games i’ve published about my weird heart this year 🫀
mirror selfie in which i am wearing a white t-shirt with a big red letter F on it, black shorts, and a lot of heart-shaped jewelry. i also have hearts painted on my cheeks and arms. my room is embarrassingly messy. another mirror selfie but i’m sticking my tongue out to be goofy ODE TO MY HEART MONITOR you're like an angel on my chest -bruce springsteen i never had a god like you before how delicately you perch on my ribs how diligently you listen in bed we talk for hours we even talk in dreams my dear companion my sticky sweet machine nothing between us is sacred but let's pretend we are alone when we are alone my voyeur my confidante my prophet my muse my scribe my closest friend my mandated reporter my warden my twin my womb my lover if i die, oh how they'd have to tear us apart screenshot of a video game showing a red and black echocardiogram image, with the text “a blue flash of light”
October 31, 2023 at 10:21 PM
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i created a video game about my heart for @anmlymag.bsky.social’s video game folio. you can play it at anmly.org/ap37/felix-l...

thank you @summ.bsky.social for the beautiful introduction & the opportunity to design a video game for one of my favorite lit mags!
ARTIST'S STATEMENT While undergoing echocardiogram testing, I was struck by how much those grainy, black-and-white looping images resembled the pixelated video games of my youth. My body, which I had known so well for 25 years, became on the screen a grainy, unfamiliar landscape requiring new tools of navigation. The subsequent diagnosis of a congenital heart defect, too, was a moment of profound defamiliarization for me. I experienced the defect as a glitch not just a malfunction of my heart, which fails to efficiently pump blood in the correct direction, but a disruption to my relationship with my body, to the expectations I had of my life, to my orientation to time itself. screenshot of the game: a pixelated echocardiogram image, with the text “Blood swirls in my heart like a tropical storm.” screenshot of the game: a pixelated representation of a desktop screen with multiple windows open, filled with illegible pixels. text reads “What would it mean to lose to a poem?” screenshot of the game: a black and white pixelated image of a heart, with an EKG heartbeat reading. text reads: “God is shining through the hole in my heart.”
October 31, 2023 at 5:44 PM
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wrote a little grief poem that made its way to the lickety~split on ye olde twitter
screenshot of a tweet poem by lickety split The last time I saw you was through my phone screen and the cell signal from your hospital bed was so bad your face kept stuttering in my hand so by the time I saw you you were someone else and you continued to be someone else until it was over.
October 6, 2023 at 1:44 AM
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had the supreme joy of meeting one of my favorite writers today & hearing her talk about craft 🥰
the title page of Florida by Lauren Groff, signed with a dedication to Felix (that’s me!)
October 5, 2023 at 1:15 AM
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some marginalia from the novel drafting this week
will desire save them? (in all caps) do not use speech tags I don’t want to know who’s talking I only dream of things that have already happened
September 21, 2023 at 6:25 PM