Jacob Siefring
@jsief.bsky.social
public library worker. editor @ the empyrean series. translator of some books (FR->EN). ottawa, ontario. | jsief.com
the Amok publications were encylopedias of extreme cultural phenomenon. peeled my eyes open
November 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
the Amok publications were encylopedias of extreme cultural phenomenon. peeled my eyes open
majestic & elusive, the wild turkey. i have been stalking them around these precincts for years
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
majestic & elusive, the wild turkey. i have been stalking them around these precincts for years
sad to lose our neighborhood's home hardware at the end of this month. rent hikes
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
sad to lose our neighborhood's home hardware at the end of this month. rent hikes
i am kind of sick of building, finishing, installing shelving but at least we now have more shelves. am aware the finish needs retouching, soon to come. (some, not all, shelves pictured.) live in a little house with lots of studf, you’ll need lots of shelving
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
i am kind of sick of building, finishing, installing shelving but at least we now have more shelves. am aware the finish needs retouching, soon to come. (some, not all, shelves pictured.) live in a little house with lots of studf, you’ll need lots of shelving
from the editor’s note to this new edition, a couple comments from the published letter from 1955
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
from the editor’s note to this new edition, a couple comments from the published letter from 1955
thanks for this article. here in ottawa, i have found some areas along the escarpment where i hike where the wild turkeys evidently shelter alongside the rock faces, leaving ample layers of scat. at least i’m pretty sure this is turkey scat
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
thanks for this article. here in ottawa, i have found some areas along the escarpment where i hike where the wild turkeys evidently shelter alongside the rock faces, leaving ample layers of scat. at least i’m pretty sure this is turkey scat
i am not a male mouse so i am sure there is nothing to worry abt here
« Microplastics Intensify Plaque Formation in Male Mice » etc
via @sciencedaily.com.web.brid.gy
« Microplastics Intensify Plaque Formation in Male Mice » etc
via @sciencedaily.com.web.brid.gy
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
i am not a male mouse so i am sure there is nothing to worry abt here
« Microplastics Intensify Plaque Formation in Male Mice » etc
via @sciencedaily.com.web.brid.gy
« Microplastics Intensify Plaque Formation in Male Mice » etc
via @sciencedaily.com.web.brid.gy
The latest three titles in the Empyrean Series arrived in Seattle from the printer this past week!
Learn more abt these new books from Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa, & the rest of the series catalogue, here: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
Learn more abt these new books from Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa, & the rest of the series catalogue, here: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The latest three titles in the Empyrean Series arrived in Seattle from the printer this past week!
Learn more abt these new books from Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa, & the rest of the series catalogue, here: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
Learn more abt these new books from Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa, & the rest of the series catalogue, here: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
Lou Rowan, editor of the Golden Handcuffs Review, died in March of this year, and his friends & collaborators on the review have recently brought out a final issue of GHR. They chose to reprint an interview I conducted with Joseph McElroy (pub’d 2014) & many other pieces. Honored to receive this.
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Lou Rowan, editor of the Golden Handcuffs Review, died in March of this year, and his friends & collaborators on the review have recently brought out a final issue of GHR. They chose to reprint an interview I conducted with Joseph McElroy (pub’d 2014) & many other pieces. Honored to receive this.
i was recently pleased & startled to see that the Collected Poems of Marguerite Young (eds. Phil Bevis, Joshua Rothes, & myself, Sublunary/Chatwin) is listed & briefly discussed in the pages of the NYRB.
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
i was recently pleased & startled to see that the Collected Poems of Marguerite Young (eds. Phil Bevis, Joshua Rothes, & myself, Sublunary/Chatwin) is listed & briefly discussed in the pages of the NYRB.
the life of man is brief... as short as the flight of a sparrow thru a mead hall, as quick as the leaping of a white stallion over a stone crevasse
(the latter metaphor for passage of time via the footnotes of Max Massa's translation of ‘An Account of Marvels and of Beasts’ from 9th century China)
(the latter metaphor for passage of time via the footnotes of Max Massa's translation of ‘An Account of Marvels and of Beasts’ from 9th century China)
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
the life of man is brief... as short as the flight of a sparrow thru a mead hall, as quick as the leaping of a white stallion over a stone crevasse
(the latter metaphor for passage of time via the footnotes of Max Massa's translation of ‘An Account of Marvels and of Beasts’ from 9th century China)
(the latter metaphor for passage of time via the footnotes of Max Massa's translation of ‘An Account of Marvels and of Beasts’ from 9th century China)
will the volume ever exist in EN? one wonders
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
will the volume ever exist in EN? one wonders
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social was right abt this bk by Dan Elkind (Dr. Chizhevsky’s Chandelier’, Repeater, 2025): it is worth the detour. my life is a scatterbrained mess & for weeks i have not been able to exit the 2nd chapter, which reads like a funnier ‘Ragtime’ set piece, but that is all on me
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social was right abt this bk by Dan Elkind (Dr. Chizhevsky’s Chandelier’, Repeater, 2025): it is worth the detour. my life is a scatterbrained mess & for weeks i have not been able to exit the 2nd chapter, which reads like a funnier ‘Ragtime’ set piece, but that is all on me
never seen temps so stable
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
never seen temps so stable
since the British 19C poet Amy Levy is in the news (a trove of letters was recently discovered & made available for research), I will share a link to the volume of her collected poems that we pub’d in the Empyrean Series (no. 30) a couple years ago asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
since the British 19C poet Amy Levy is in the news (a trove of letters was recently discovered & made available for research), I will share a link to the volume of her collected poems that we pub’d in the Empyrean Series (no. 30) a couple years ago asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
cool! fyi, they do a lot of catering cheese+charcuterie+fruit boards too!
www.urbansteadcheese.com/catering-menu
www.urbansteadcheese.com/catering-menu
November 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
cool! fyi, they do a lot of catering cheese+charcuterie+fruit boards too!
www.urbansteadcheese.com/catering-menu
www.urbansteadcheese.com/catering-menu
we’re getting towards the most magical time of the year: don delillo’s ‘americana’ season
“Then we came to the end of another dull and lurid year.”
“Then we came to the end of another dull and lurid year.”
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
we’re getting towards the most magical time of the year: don delillo’s ‘americana’ season
“Then we came to the end of another dull and lurid year.”
“Then we came to the end of another dull and lurid year.”
pictures of my daughter at the stables that thru the falling snow look like paintings
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 AM
pictures of my daughter at the stables that thru the falling snow look like paintings
imagine the wild turkey, his size, his majesty… unthinkable
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
imagine the wild turkey, his size, his majesty… unthinkable
the stables at gloaming
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
the stables at gloaming
i am reading ‘the weather fifteen years ago’, an idiosyncratic & oblique book consisting of an author & book reviewer discussing the author’s book. (the book exists only in the imaginary world of the novel). i think i discovered it via m.a. orthofer’s praise for it some yrs back. pretty good!
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
i am reading ‘the weather fifteen years ago’, an idiosyncratic & oblique book consisting of an author & book reviewer discussing the author’s book. (the book exists only in the imaginary world of the novel). i think i discovered it via m.a. orthofer’s praise for it some yrs back. pretty good!
this book looks awesome, almost irresistible. and i don’t even fish
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
this book looks awesome, almost irresistible. and i don’t even fish
in the courtyard of the biosciences bldg earlier today.
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
in the courtyard of the biosciences bldg earlier today.