Jared Stanley

@weedlet.bsky.social

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Poet. So Tough. Antifascist. Satan is a friend of mine. https://jared-stanley.info ♏️ Nevada/California

Jared and unnamed magical historian riding bikes though a Finnish forest.
Sessa performing in Brooklyn
An image of a poem: In this ear, a moron sucks and all the air is slurs— sounds like a wad of ludicrous wet rags. In the left ear, the overarching reality is Sister Rosetta Tharpe, moving with our earth, whose rhythms she briefly visited. Her spirit was in motion. I’ve never been so bored by the idea of god that I wanted to punish someone for a faithful existence. ​ I keep dying and my soul feels lost ​ I taped it in my book so my hand would tremble less
Poem of Joanne Kyger’s beginning “you believe this stash of writing is “scholarly”?
Image of a homonculus with a caption reading “a well-developed plant person”
Flyer for the Poetry on Drugs Symposium
Blauveldt, Andrew et al. Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia. Walker Art Center, 2015 Campagna, Federico. Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons in Escaping History. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 Fisher, Mark. Ghosts of My Life. Zero Books, 2014 Hickey, Dave. Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy. Art Issues Press, 1997 [Revenge of the Looky-Loos] Iser, Wolfgang. The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response. Johns Hopkins UP, 1980 Ghosh, Amitov: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. University of Chicago Press, 2017 Kyger, Joanne. The Wonderful Focus of You. Z Press, 1980 Mellis, Miranda. Crocosmia. Nightboat Books, 2025 Pendell, Dale: Pharmakopoeia: Power Plants, Poisons, and Herbcraft. North Atlantic Books, 2010 Schwartzer, Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption. University of California Press, 2021 Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton UP, 2021
A cartoon of King George III laughing at America
Book launch and reading for Catherine Theis “By a Roman” Canessa Gallery, 4pm San Francisco