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Ian C. Williams

@iancwilliamspoet

Poet | EVERY WRECKAGE available from Fernwood Press | Editor for Jarfly Magazine | Teacher | Type-1 Diabetic

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Every time Mr. Rogers or Daniel Tiger say, “It’s you I like,” I pretty much melt.

19.09.2024 13:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well, my 4-year-old told me I was squishy this morning, so it’s probably time to stop putting off working out.

03.08.2024 16:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Had a dream that Sam Reich invited me to join DropOut, which is hilarious, because I am not very funny.

18.07.2024 14:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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17.06.2024 16:08 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

It has been an absolute honor to be included in @ballastjournal.bsky.social! Thanks for believing in this weirdo cryptid poem!

18.06.2024 00:44 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Quality of AI generative content aside, I am just SO thoroughly uninterested in things that are not made by people. All my favorite media is the stuff where you can tell that a person made specific decisions while making it. I want to feel a different person's personality present in it

16.06.2024 22:18 👍 641 🔁 160 💬 13 📌 4

I have a four-year-old boy so we watch a lot of Cars, and I can safely say the best part of Cars 2 was casting Bruce Campbell as a spy.

10.06.2024 12:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Friday Links: Your Life Matters Because You're Living It Edition “You know very well that the earth is filled with angels and djinn, partying like teenagers, spinning around like waterwheels. Come listen.” - Kaveh Akbar, 'Martyr!'

Friday Links is UP! Featuring @iancwilliamspoet.bsky.social @barryp.bsky.social @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social and MORE!

shipwreckedsailor.substack.com/p/friday-lin...

03.05.2024 14:14 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of Church Ladies by Renee Emerson. "Book Review, Megan McDermott" "Psaltery & Lyre"

Cover of Church Ladies by Renee Emerson. "Book Review, Megan McDermott" "Psaltery & Lyre"

"Church Ladies by Renee Emerson digs itself out of the dirt of church history by uplifting the varied women in that history..." "Book Review, Megan McDermott"

"Church Ladies by Renee Emerson digs itself out of the dirt of church history by uplifting the varied women in that history..." "Book Review, Megan McDermott"

"Church Ladies by Renee Emerson digs itself out of the dirt of church history by uplifting the varied women in that history..."

@megmcdermott92.bsky.social's book review of "Church Ladies" by Renee Emerson

psalteryandlyre.org/2024/04/26/b...

26.04.2024 17:30 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A Poem by Ian Williams | Superstition Review

"But the problem of picking between necessary evils/is that we’re always wrist deep in the oleaginous slick of evil."

Grateful to have a poem, "Make Sure to Smile and Greet Students as You Guide Them Through the Weapons Detection Checkpoint" in the new Superstition Review!

01.05.2024 20:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A overflowing handful of morel mushrooms of decent so. 6 mushrooms are visible.

A overflowing handful of morel mushrooms of decent so. 6 mushrooms are visible.

Behold! (And in my own backyard)

30.04.2024 01:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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My debut collection of poems is available now wherever books are sold!

23.04.2024 18:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My debut full-length collection of poetry, EVERY WRECKAGE, has a cover! It releases next month from
Fernwood Press and will be available from Fernwood, Amazon, and other places! It has been a dream to see this book take shape, and I’m excited to share it with you!

27.02.2024 20:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

there is no ethical use at all for ai “art”

01.02.2024 02:47 👍 467 🔁 109 💬 3 📌 0

I read through and proofed my forthcoming poetry collection - Every Wreckage - which I hadn’t read completely since submitting the final draft, and I kept coming back pleasantly surprised with the decisions I made in writing it. I’m really excited to share this with everyone!

24.01.2024 01:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I’M NOT SAYING YOUR GARDEN IS FULL OF SNAKES, BUT I’M ALSO NOT SAYING IT ISN’T by Ian C. Willi... After the move, I inherited a garden— every bed overgrowing its edging stones with weed and tangling vine, withered tendrils and twisted thorns. So I tear out their coil and suffocation, break up an...

My poem, "I'm Not Saying Your Garden Is Full of Snakes, But I'm Also Not Saying It Isn't," was published in Gastropoda! If you're into gardening conceits, plants, and complicated relationships, then maybe this is for you!

18.12.2023 17:57 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

I love this platform but for me it has the lowest (almost zero) interaction with my content. I feel like I'm yelling into a dark hole. But I sure am happy to read and interact with what y'all are posting.

12.12.2023 05:15 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0

I'm going to need y'all to stop calling background information of any given thing "lore."

08.12.2023 17:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Issue 6, the Winter 2023 issue, is almost done and slated for a mid-December release in time for holiday reading! Stay tuned!

06.12.2023 13:02 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I want to write about the emo millennial teenager to professional poet pipeline, and I'm going to need more of you emo kids to out your MySpace-coding, MyChem listening former selves.

01.12.2023 17:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why is it that boxed pasta instructions always call for way more water than necessary to boil noodles?

28.11.2023 22:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This, and also, bring an appetizer or a side or any number of other things. Let us, as friends and as community, share the joy of taking care of each other.

15.11.2023 12:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fight the good fight

15.11.2023 11:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The culture doesn’t care. The bell must ring! It must riiiiing!

14.11.2023 23:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I guess it’s time for The Polar Express to guilt me into believing in Santa again.

14.11.2023 22:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Sellout Poet Made Over $150 In 2023 Alone CHICAGO—Blasting the writer for clearly abandoning his artistic ideals in pursuit of commercial success, sources confirmed Monday that sellout poet Cullen Quinn Roberts had earned over $150 in 2023 ...

www.theonion.com/sellout-poet...

13.11.2023 23:39 👍 89 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 4

Why do I bother writing poems when one seven-minute episode of Bluey can cause more emotional devastation than I could ever hope to achieve?

07.11.2023 19:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve set an alarm, so here’s hoping that helps!

02.11.2023 20:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She knows.

02.11.2023 13:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Just realized I accidentally dressed up as Ned Flanders for Halloween. Whelp.

31.10.2023 15:19 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0