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wendywisner.bsky.social
Poet • Writer • IBCLC • She/Her • Author of three books of poems, including The New Life (2024)• Associate Editor at Rise Up Review www.wendywisner.com
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Finished my February article assignments a day early, so it’s a poetry day. ❤️

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So thrilled to share work from the inimitable Katie Manning today at VILLAIN ERA. 🖤🔪

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YES.

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I've been submitting the Alaska Quarterly Review for over 20 years, and they just took a poem. I often feel like I'm out of my mind submitting to the same journals over and over for years. But I guess persistence pays off, at least sometimes. I really love AQR and feel honored to appear in it. ❤

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On a bit of social media hiatus because of ... ALL THE THINGS. But coming up for air to share the latest issue of The Rise Up Review. Some fantastic poems in here--poems for the times we are living through. Huge thanks to all our fantastic contributors. <3 riseupreview.org/current-issue

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My poem "Feral" is up on @versedaily.bsky.social today. Thank you to @jpdancingbear.bsky.social who also loves animals. As I typed this post I found myself longing for a photo of the cat who was my childhood companion.

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🙌🏳️‍⚧️❤️

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Excited to have a new poem in this issue. Coming soon ❤️

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Gutting. Grateful to these parents for using their grief to fight for others.

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Yes, this.

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I woke up in the middle of the night in a panic thinking, “Oh, they want to destroy the Department of Education too?” Like, my brain can't process all that's happening during the day. Fun world. #blessed

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Jane Kenyon

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If you're wondering whether you should promote your book or your latest publication now with all the chaos, the answer is yes. We need your words. We need to flood the channels with art and literature. So go for it, friends.

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Can’t wait for this ❤️

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Morning beauty. The steam from that chimney! Looking for beauty where I can find it.

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Gorgeous poem by @stevieedwardspoet.bsky.social ❤️

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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

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Read these searing poems by @jessicacuello.bsky.social

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Send away!

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Wow.

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Tomorrow is my birthday. My gift to myself is that I cleared my schedule to write poems for the next two days. This is no small feat given my work and kid responsibilities and it’s something I rarely do.

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Yes! Ohmyheart.

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Yup.

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Self-portrait on my morning walk. In my feelings. Rage, despair, fear. Please keep trans kids and their families in your thoughts today. This newest EO is awful.

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Here is a poem I wrote that mentions our mother feeding us with WIC, and even as I read about these cuts there is still shame mixed in with anger. May anger overcome shame. May anger take the form of clarity & action shenandoahliterary.org/711/prayer/

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Abhorrent and heartbreaking and awful. *** As Britain’s deputy U.N. ambassador, James Kariuki, recently told the Security Council, “Gaza has become the deadliest place in the world to be a child.” “The children of Gaza did not choose this war,” he said, “yet they have paid the ultimate price.”

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This is empowering ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

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Gutting piece.

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In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, resharing a poem I wrote (published in Jet Fuel Review) for my grandmother’s family, all of whom were murdered in the Holocaust. She was the only one who got out. She’s the young woman sitting above the man with the long beard.

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Tonight’s reading. Wow. Thanks for this, @leahumansky.bsky.social

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But the price of eggs. 😳

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Oof.

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I am really looking forward to reading this.

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From the current issue of The Rise Up Review, "Rafah" by Tanner Howard. Read more here: riseupreview.org/current-issue

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New interview with Emily Mohn-Slate’s Be Where You Are series, and I’m so grateful to be a part. Emily curates these interviews with such attention and care—I’m blown away. 🙏💙📚 #poetry @ohiounivpress.bsky.social

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