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Five years since Suitable made its way into the world. Grateful to everyone who has read it.

Suitable for All Methods of Communication by Jacquelyn Bengfort

published by Ghost City Press, can be found here

Read while sitting in bed listening to AM Joy

Author’s note explains the method of communication and I already know I’m gonna like this book

First poem, “Prayer,” and I’m blown away

BRAVO KILO DELTA VICTOR UNAONE

                 You are overhead                  I am adrift

I want to get a line from this poem tattooed on the inside of my wrist

Of course the trouble is KILO looks so random without context but it means something important you know?

“Love Song” has a refrain & I think someone could sing this, though I realize singing the “UNIFORM SIERRA UNAONE” part will defeat the purpose of communicating in signal

WWI was, I think, called “the writers’ war” and “Lament” fits it perfectly

Do you think the soldiers who fought in WWI would be disappointed if they saw us now

I think everyone in history would be disappointed if they saw us now tbh

“Ode” is, if I could be forgiven some Gen Z talk, a big mood. The ocean is so amazing and we all should be grateful we have it

I looked up the NATO alphabet to see if I could write a message in it. All I could come up with was this:

BRAVO ZULU TANGO YANKEE

             Wonderfully done              Thank you

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My first book baby is six years old!

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“Sometimes You Are A Bird,” by Jacquelyn Bengfort

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Suitable for All Methods of Communication by Jacquelyn Bengfort

published by Ghost City Press, can be found here

Read while sitting in bed listening to AM Joy

Author’s note explains the method of communication and I already know I’m gonna like this book

First poem, “Prayer,” and I’m blown away

BRAVO KILO DELTA VICTOR UNAONE

                 You are overhead                  I am adrift

I want to get a line from this poem tattooed on the inside of my wrist

Of course the trouble is KILO looks so random without context but it means something important you know?

“Love Song” has a refrain & I think someone could sing this, though I realize singing the “UNIFORM SIERRA UNAONE” part will defeat the purpose of communicating in signal

WWI was, I think, called “the writers’ war” and “Lament” fits it perfectly

Do you think the soldiers who fought in WWI would be disappointed if they saw us now

I think everyone in history would be disappointed if they saw us now tbh

“Ode” is, if I could be forgiven some Gen Z talk, a big mood. The ocean is so amazing and we all should be grateful we have it

I looked up the NATO alphabet to see if I could write a message in it. All I could come up with was this:

BRAVO ZULU TANGO YANKEE

             Wonderfully done              Thank you

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To be put into conversation with such poets!

universal, chaos theory (final episode)

Louise Glück (Snowdrops) // Photo by canoncompliantlestat // Lev St. Valentine (Untitled, March 2023) // Franny Choi (Introduction To Quantum Theory) // Jacquelyn Bengfort (But Gravity Still Exists)

(masterpost)

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How easy. How effortless. This breath. I’m here. I’m here. I’m right here. I want to say. I wish things were simple, like taking just one drink and not another, like not burning in a fire, like letting things be good without being holy. I wouldn’t have to pretend to try to resume the bounty of this blossom.  

— Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, from “if found, then measured,” published in Quarterly West

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Suitable for All Methods of Communication by Jacquelyn Bengfort

published by Ghost City Press, can be found here

Read while sitting in bed listening to AM Joy

Author’s note explains the method of communication and I already know I’m gonna like this book

First poem, “Prayer,” and I’m blown away

BRAVO KILO DELTA VICTOR UNAONE

                 You are overhead                  I am adrift

I want to get a line from this poem tattooed on the inside of my wrist

Of course the trouble is KILO looks so random without context but it means something important you know?

“Love Song” has a refrain & I think someone could sing this, though I realize singing the “UNIFORM SIERRA UNAONE” part will defeat the purpose of communicating in signal

WWI was, I think, called “the writers’ war” and “Lament” fits it perfectly

Do you think the soldiers who fought in WWI would be disappointed if they saw us now

I think everyone in history would be disappointed if they saw us now tbh

“Ode” is, if I could be forgiven some Gen Z talk, a big mood. The ocean is so amazing and we all should be grateful we have it

I looked up the NATO alphabet to see if I could write a message in it. All I could come up with was this:

BRAVO ZULU TANGO YANKEE

             Wonderfully done              Thank you

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a day late because I was doing my eclipse observing. but this is about the moon, and a little bit about the sun, too.

From "Giant Collision Theory," published by FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art

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Do I reblog myself? Very well, I reblog myself. I am large, I contain multitudes (of poems this National Poetry Month).

"But Gravity Still Exists," Jacquelyn Bengfort in Couplet Poetry

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Let's be honest. It was more like two, and more.

“for nearly a year I was dangerous weather”

— Jacquelyn Bengfort, from Navy News Service

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Perhaps the only Annie Ernaux review you'll read today that references both Taylor Swift and Duolingo.

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My tenure portfolio, humbly & hopefully submitted to the chairman...

"But Gravity Still Exists," Jacquelyn Bengfort in Couplet Poetry

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One of two poems by Jacquelyn Bengfort in The Mid-Atlantic Review: https://midatlanticreview.com/2024/01/two-poems-about-water-by-jacquelyn-bengfort/

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"But Gravity Still Exists," Jacquelyn Bengfort in Couplet Poetry

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wapo really channeling the mcsweenys today