Jeffrey Morgan

“When in doubt, play insane”—RIP Catherine O’Hara

New poem in Sixth Finch—many thanks to Rob MacDonald and the good folks there.

Sounders La Galaxy for Ben’s birthday.

Meaningless menu prose: “slow cooked.” #grumpyhungry

Victoria BC

New poem in Cottonmouth

Creamsickle is grace personified.

Posted up early in Bellingham. Rolling thousands deep now.

Must be Saturday

Brown rice is the sweet potato fries of rice.

Thanks, Paul!

The Button | Poetry Northwest Sometimes I think every second I spend writing would be better spent on something else.

Honored to have a new poem up at Poetry Northwest today. Many thanks to @billcarty.bsky.social and all the good PNW folks.

Cats

MOPOP Keith Haring Exhibition

John Turturro is the best actor to have never won an Oscar.

“You can get a lot done in this world if you don’t need to take the credit.”

—Jeffrey Morgan

Shel Silverstein’s author photo for Where the Sidewalk Ends is wild af.

My wife and I love this Arielle Greenberg poem and refer to it often. I can’t find it online anywhere, and I’m pretty sure it’s not in any of her books, so I’m posting it here. It originally appeared in the great literary journal CHAIN.

Bellingham sunset

Favorite First Lines

We have all been in rooms
We cannot die in, and they are
odd places, and sad.

James Dickey “Adultery”

Wrote haiku with first and second graders today. Best one ever?

Polar Bear

He lives on the ice
He swims and eats fish all day
Pew pew pew, Star Wars

Trying to establish a more sane and useful (mostly to me, but hopefully not just) online presence, which in my case necessitates certain deletions. These are links to some of my writings available online. linktr.ee/jeffreymorgan