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So excited to dive into "There's a Rock on Martin Avenue" by Sandra Feen and Cliff Treyens. This is about a group of friends meeting for over three decades! I think it's going to be a balm to the heart for sure. 🥰

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What a feeling! Seeing your book on the shelf at the local library. 😍 Next time you're at the library check out "American Saunter" and if they don't have it yet, please take a moment to REQUEST it! Huge boost to authors when you do this! Costs nothing. ❤️ @flowersongpress.bsky.social

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Hi everyone! We're pleased to share that Issue 9 of LIT SHARK MAGAZINE: The Winter Edition is live! We'll update you when it's on Amazon, but for now, we have a free PDF available on our website: litshark.com/issue-9-lit-... We're so excited for you to read it! #LitShark #LitSharkMagazine

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FRIDAY NIGHT #poetry SPOTLIGHT ON...Amanda Hayden: samanthaterrell.weebly.com/shine-poetry... #shinepoetry #poetrycommunity #internationalcommunity

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Today, SHINE poetry series features three poems: When You Said “No” to Seeing the David (Pantoum); Old Men Don’t Cry (Song of Arranmore); Do You Dream in Color? (about Vinny) YAYAY and thank you, @shinepoetry.bsky.social samanthaterrell.weebly.com/shine-poetry... 17 seconds ago

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The print proof for "How to Tie Tobacco" has arrived from @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social and it is gorgeous! 😍 I am so happy with this collection! I hope it makes my Me Ma and Ma Ma proud. 🦚❤️ Release date: May 27th! @ohiopoetry.bsky.social

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Thrilled to be included in this cool issue (9) of @litsharkmag.bsky.social The poems "Whale Watching in Maine" from American and Three Fishermen and Two Boys (about Costa Rica) are included. Love being part of an issue that fosters environmental ethics, conservation, and ecology education! 🦈

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Poem by Peggy Shumaker. Shared by Alexis Rhone Fancher. 🩷 Plus I'm performing in the Vagina Monologues this month, so timely... 🍭

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"This collection feels sacredly passed down, like a recipe or home remedy." Thank you to @saramoorewagner.bsky.social for this beautiful description of "How to Tie Tobacco." This chapbook inspired by Southern and Appalachian Grandmother wisdom releases May 27th by @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social!

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Happy National Poetry Month! Some VERY exciting poetry things are happening in the Windy Chicken Poet world - stay tuned! 😍 #MorePoetry #nationalpoetrymonth

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I wasn't able to be in LA for AWP, but my book was! 😍 what a dream to see. Thank you @edwardvidaurre.bsky.social @flowersongpress.bsky.social #AmericanSaunter

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Two months from today, How to Tie Tobacco, will be released by @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social “A stunning debut chapbook…(the) author presses hands with ancestors in dream and form…diving into the invisibly treacherous waters women have always been made to navigate.” – @mothergusa.bsky.social

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Guess whose birthday? Vinny Valentine is 6 years old! 😍🎂 To celebrate, we're doing a three-legged blind dog bday discount of 10% off a signed, inscripted author copy of "American Saunter" today! Message for details. Let's get Vinny a new birthday boy squeaky toy! ❤️ @flowersongpress.bsky.social

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Also, it's World Poetry Day! Read a poem. Support a poet. Buy their book. Or check it out at the library. Your library doesn't have it yet? Request it! Leave a review. Share one of their poems. Give them a hug! ❤️ @flowersongpress.bsky.social Graphic courtesy of @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social 🙌

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On this St. Patrick’s Day we share a poetic tribute to the Irish diaspora from @windychickenpoet.bsky.social Read it below: syncopationliteraryjournal.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... #stpatricksday #ireland #irishdiaspora #irishamerican #irishcanadian #poetry #poem

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Resharing my first Abcedarian🍀 about visiting the EPIC Museum of Dublin through Institute of Study Abroad Ireland. Thank you @syncopationlit.bsky.social and EPIC for featuring this last year. It will be in the book, Old World Wings: Poems of Europe, releasing 2025 @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social

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"I'm just a vegan!" Lol

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Someone needs to invent a pharmaceutical drug that treats greed, which I consider to be a mental illness. Prove God wrong.

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Grateful to Poet Alexis Tolkkinen for this gut honest review of "American Saunter." Thank you! www.flowersongpress.com/books/p/amer...

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Nevertheless, she persisted! Source: Wild West Racoon Gazette

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I'm thoroughly enjoying reading "Penning Paper Moths" by @trishaleighpoetry.bsky.social A whispery, spring linen, lace curtain, cottage tea delight, with some saucy, under the cover pieces as well. I also love her nods to Virginia Woolf, Keats, Samuel Hurley, and 17th century folk ballads.

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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. —June Jordan artwork by @sophiemcteartattoo

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🚶‍♀️✨ Take a journey through the heart of a continent! American Saunter by Amanda Michelle Hayden is a lyrical, immersive exploration of North America’s landscapes, culture, and soul. Perfect for wanderers & dreamers alike. 🌎📖 🌿 Start your adventure → amzn.to/40Zfett #Poetry #ReadMore #Authortunities

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I'm diving into my next big writing project. Can you guess what it is? 🕌

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Day made! 🥰 thank you Yvonne Osborne! If you have read American Saunter and haven't had a chance to leave a review yet, well, good news, you still can! Perfect timing for Women's History Month! 👏 😘

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I loved having the chance to explain the reasoning behind my "School of Athens" poem in the #UncensoredInk Anthology and all the censorship and pushback philosophers and seekers have fought against. @iantan.bsky.social @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social

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See and hear poet (and the Ohio Poetry Association's immediate past president) Chuck Salmons Saturday afternoon at the East Cleveland Public Library:

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Please keep writing. In the face of fucktastrophe after fucktastrophe. Please keep putting your heart on the page and sharing. Don’t let them take that as well.

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I am so proud of this photo. It's a visual manifestion of not giving up and generous editors who took a chance on an unknown poet. @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social @gyroscopereview.bsky.social @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social @tangledlockslit.bsky.social @flowersongpress.bsky.social

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My darling kids. ♥️

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www.facebook.com/share/p/18Lo... So grateful to be featured on SpoFest Muse's Mic by the lovely Sandra Feen and James Bryant last Wednesday! Here is the podcast recording if you'd like to take a listen. Interview starts about 5 minutes in. @jburroughs.bsky.social @ohiopoetry.bsky.social

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Today's powerhouse poetry pick: Naomi Shihab Nye - what a woman! The gorgeous "Everything Comes Next" collection is luscious, honest, and so inspiring, just like Naomi herself. Truly a delightful human being and outstanding poet.

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Every day in February I will choose a poetry book off my bookshelf and share. Today's choice is: "Likely" by Lisa Coffman is life put into poetry. She's all heart and landscape and slow burn. If Watts from Some Kind of Wonderful were a book, she'd be "Likely."

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Today's poetry pick: Cider Press Award Winner "Inheritance With a High Error Rate" by Jen Karetnick. She reminds me of Mary Oliver in her seeing, and focus on urgent eco-imbalance. Yet it is often buoyed by humor and clever playfulness.

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Today's poetry pick is: "As if this did not happen every day" by Paula J. Lambert. Her poems are psalms about nature. Seeing a starling murmuration from my back window yesterday was my sign Paula would be one of my next choices. 🥰 @pjlpoet.bsky.social @ohiopoetry.bsky.social

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Today's poetry pick: "40 Weeks" by Julia Kolchinsky is a love letter/poetic diary of pregnancy. The honest intimacy and beautiful strength of this collection validates the desire I've long had to write my own collection of pregnancy poems.

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I am SO excited and teary-eyed to share that the chapbook I've written about our blind, three-legged rescue wonder dog, Vinny Valentine, is going to be PUBLISHED, released Winter 2026 by FlowerSong Press (through their Juventud Imprint). @flowersongpress.bsky.social 3 minutes ago

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Today's poetry pick includes: "The Unfolding" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, who swims, glides and kicks through immense, ultimate loss with a keen, insightful, feminine beauty that takes my breath away. I featured her "Hush" last year which I was (still am) obsessed with.

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