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poetry, publishing, and miscellany. editorial director of The Headlight Review.
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A Dream About Being by David Wojciechowski
A dream about being (after the painting school by walaerian bormozçyk, 1958). We can copy film and loop a scene and in this way live forever in a single moment. It has to be brief. An infinite walk across a street. An infinite note on a trumpet. An infinite glance behind you. We drop down, we get up, we drop down again. We're at a brick wall and I have a sinking feeling we're never going to see what's behind it. Before we do, we'll look away and we'll do that forever.
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Crossroads by April Bernard. A lovely dream.
I meet a devil at the crossroads. We struck no bargain but walked, arm in arm, westward, for slow miles as starlings flocked. It steadied me, and little by little into that warmth I spilled my soul. That was some time ago, and now when I try to remember how I got away the story blurs. Maybe this is the dream, and I will wake with my hand still lightly riding in the rough comfort of that will l wool coat.
November 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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In my thrift store copy of Ashbery's April Galleons
A note handwritten in lovely handwritten on the colophon page of a book: Dear Anne, an intersection point of poetry is an intense one. I do not predict that you'll have an affinity for Ashbery, as I do, but wouldn't that just be rich! Here's to the word, and the spirit that moves it. Tim
November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Third time's a charm
screenshot of job listings from the chronicle of higher education listing positions available at the University of Soiuth Carolina, the university of Soith Carolina, and the University of South Carolina.
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Post a pic from your camera roll that no one has seen but you
Blue sidewalk chalk graffiti reading Trump did 911 with a white chalk plane approaching the 11
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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victory is mine
October 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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pretty fucked up thing for a robot to tell a suicidal teen
excerpt from the NYT article reading "And at one critical moment, ChatGPT discouraged Adam from cluing his family in. "I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me," Adam wrote at the end of March. "Please don't leave the noose out," ChatGPT responded. "Let's make this space the first place where someone actually sees you."
August 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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tfw when you discover an app feature that automates a tedious process and realize you've wasted hundreds of hours of your life
a white woman in a sport coat trapped in an office void covered with post-it notes sporting a bemused smirk
August 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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If you see this, quote this post with a title screen that's iconic to you
the loading screen for EverQuest (1999) features the title in gold letters before a star spangled sky and a variety of images of scenes from the game including a dragon breathing fire, a mage casting spells, a troll holding a torch, and a variety of very 90s computer game landscapes.
August 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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please yes oh thank god i can print only the even pages of this document
screenshot of printer setting showing the option to print "all," "odd pages only," "even pages only," and "custom"
August 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Star Bristle sent this to our whole department. What's happening to the university!?
a spam email reading, "Glad to hear that you're on the bristle market for items. I am coming from HuaiAn star bristle in China. We specialized in bristle industry for 20 years, hope to find a way to cooperate with you! An customer from your area purchased our products in BIG quantity last year. I would like to know now, if it's suitable for your needs. FREE SAMPLES can be sent on request. Call me, let's talk more.
July 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Another Troy Jollimore from his great book Syllabus of Errors
Troy Jollimore's poem "Possession": Is there anything anywhere in this world / that is free from possession, that is not owned / by anyone? If there is, I want it. // I have cleared a space for it / in the corner of my bedroom. I will put it / there, and let everyone know that I have it, // and envy will fill them as poured tea fills / a cup. Why did I not think to make / it mine? they will ask themselves, and they // will receive no answer. So they will come / to admire it, bringing their envy with them / like an offering. And it will feel as if there // is light inside me, I will feel the way / the gods feel, for the envy of others makes us / divine. I just need to figure out what // this thing is and where I might find it. The things / I have found thus far are already labeled / and claimed. Tell me, where is the unattached thing?
June 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Troy Jollimore
Troy Jollimore's poem "On Beauty": Beauty, some have ventured is proportional: / the right relative ratio of the actual // against the actual. Others hypothesize / that beauty's roots lie buried in the sexual, // insisting that aesthetics are relational: / the eye of the beholder is the noumenal // perceiving core, where spores of the phenomenal / sprout into lit-screen images. The visual // is permeated, down to the foundational, / with lust, with longing. Say it: we are animals, // which does not mean that we must all be criminals, / but only that desire is constitutional, // that we are fixed to perpetrate the species-- / I meant perpetuate--as if our duty // were coupled with our terror. As if beauty / itself were but a syllabus of errors
June 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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incandescent rage when i saw this until i remembered crossword editors are giant dorks
screen grab of the NYT's mini crossword with the note "solving today's puzzle requires the use of A.I."
June 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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If only the confederates had written some sort of document that explained what powers they imaged for the confederate states of america on the question of slavery
(3) The Confederate States may acquire new territory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several Sates; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected be Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.
June 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Mr. Chief just sent me the opportunity of a lifetime
Screenshot of an junk email displayed in Outlook. The text of the email is a poorly spelled invitation to join the illuminati "a secret society that strives to promote spiritual and moral values"
May 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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it's amazing how good art can speak to your soul
May 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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April 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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be more concise by saying something other than what you mean
Screenshot of MS word suggesting the user replace "libraries of books" with the word "bookshops"
April 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Check out the Georgia Writers LGBTQIA+ Literary Success Grants! www.georgiawriters.org/literarysucc...
Flyer for the Georgia Writers Association 2025 LGBTQIA+ Literary Success Grants. Grant Recipients receive: $500, full scholarship to the 2025 Red Clay Writers Conference, local and national promotion. Must be 18-24 and a Georgia resident/student to apply. Deadline is March 10, 2025 @ 11:59. Scan QR code or access https://www.georgiawriters.org/literarysuccess to apply.
March 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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The tennis court oath
March 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Spent some time this week finishing up the chapbook version of The Headlight Review's latest Grooms Prize winning story, The Wounded Stork by Samantha Keller www.theheadlightreview.com/pieces/volum...
Stacks of A5 size printer paper with the body of the short story "The Wounded Stork" on an office countertop. An A5 chapbook handsewn with red thread on the left binding and the image of a stork stretching its wings before a red sun. The title reads "The Wounded Stork" by Samantha Keller. Stacks of an A5 chapbook on an office desk.
February 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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February 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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you're telling me the line's going down?
image of google search result asking the question "exclamation point and question mark or question mark and exclamation point" answered by AI with "both question mark and exclamation point and question mark and exclamation point and question mark" are ways to write the interrobang, a punctuation mark that combines a question mark and an exclamation point.
January 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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From a good one from The Headlight Review archive. "Beggar's Ocean" by Jen Currin: www.theheadlightreview.com/20192022/two...
Excerpt of the poem "Beggar's Ocean" by Jen Currin: Some are lonesome and sneak out of class early. Some are loathsome and why can't we forget their names. A few of us are glass, just glass. Death comes even in comical forms, the crow strutting the balcony balustrade, stopping to give you a stare-down.
January 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM