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Contact

pixelated self-portrait of the artist. (that's me!)

For inquiries, commissions, collaborations, propositions, accusations, etc., contact me at [email protected].

About

The artist Jasper Beck slowly dissolving into a cumulonimbus.

Hi! I'm Jasper Beck, a poet from the woods of northwest Oregon, currently studying for my MFA at the University of Idaho. My work is usually free-verse poetry with a playful, philosophical bent. See my Publications tab for examples!

Publications

The cover of a really cool book, trust me!
a link to a lit mag
cover of Write Place
link to blood tree climate issue

What's On My Mind?

9.27.26 cloudgazing

yet another album cover

On Repeat:
"Archangel" by Burial (from Untrue)

Reading List:

  • Currently:

  • Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz

  • Previously:

  • Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

  • Community Garden for Lonely Girls by Christine Shan Shan Hou

  • The Moons of August by Danusha Laméris

  • Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

  • The 8th House by Feng Sun Chen

  • Cascadia by Brenda Hillman

  • Hua Shi Hua by Jen Hyde

  • Playlist for the Apocalypse by Rita Dove

  • What the Living Do by Marie Howe

  • Now We're Getting Somewhere by Kim Addonizio

  • Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma by Sy Hoahwah

  • Fire to Fire by Mark Doty

  • Apocalyptic Swing by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

  • Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück

  • Put Eyes on Me Not Like a Curse by Alyssandra Tobin

  • The Book of Light by Lucille Clifton

  • Ego to Earthschool by Stephen Roxborough

  • Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara

  • Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

  • Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Robert Bly

  • Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

  • Love Poems by Pablo Neruda, trans. Donald D. Walsh

  • There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt

  • The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin

  • Deed by torrin a. greathouse

  • [ominous music intensifying] by Alexandra Teague

  • Honey Mine by Camille Roy

  • What Work Is by Philip Levine

  • My Wicked Wicked Ways by Sandra Cisneros

  • The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca, ed. Francisco García Lorca and Donald M. Allen

  • The Carrying by Ada Limón

  • Sissy by Canese Jarboe

  • Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland

  • Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith

  • Take My Name But Say It Slow by Thomas Dai

  • Infinite Resignation by Eugene Thacker

  • On Drinking by Charles Bukowski, ed. Abel Debritto

  • History & Obstinancy by Alexander Kluge & Oskar Negt

  • Incarnate: The Collected Dead Man Poems by Marvin Bell

  • Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Cthulucene by Donna Haraway

  • Blackouts by Justin Torres

  • Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, ed. by Nathaniel Tarn

  • The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda, trans. William O'Daly

  • Angel Sharpening Its Beak by Michael McGriff

  • I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken

  • Garbage by A.R. Ammons

  • Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

  • Solaris by Stanisław Lem

  • Travesty Generator by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

  • Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

  • Eternal Sentences by Michael McGriff

  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

  • The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram

  • Gold by Rumi, trans. Haleh Liza Gafori

  • Science and Poetry by Mary Midgley

  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

  • Little Big Bully by Heid Erdrich

  • The Book of the Dead Man by Marvin Bell

  • A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning by Ray Jackendoff

  • Dialect: A Game About Language and How It Dies by Kathryn Hymes and Hakan Seyalıoğlu

  • Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, trans. Andrew Hurley

  • The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. Simon Armitage

  • Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing by Ian Bogost

  • Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

  • The Essential Rumi by Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks