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Edie Meade

@ediemeade.bsky.social
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Got moss? Writer, musician, shuffling in with assorted grocery bags. | Work in Invisible City, Atlas & Alice, The Normal School, Litro, Heavy Feather Review | Novels incoming soon 🤞

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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm having trouble talking myself into the feeling this whole thing ain't broken... but I have a new poem called "Hickory Hill," published in Oyster River Pages' glorious annual issue, and I'd be thrilled if you read it (or listened to me read it) www.oysterriverpages.com/edie-meade
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"Hickory Hill," Poetry by Edie Meade — Oyster River Pages
“Hickory Hill” by Edie Meade is a haunting, visceral prose poem that confronts a devastating tragedy while questioning poetry’s ability to hold, witness, or make meaning from it.
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"I know what you call what that takes all of you, emitting nothing what-for the squall of your demise. But how do you escape what light cannot." [In Ypsilanti, Michigan, Shattering My Dolly Parton] + 3 by @ediemeade.bsky.social in @acrossthemargin.bsky.social acrossthemargin.com/four-poems-b...
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Four Poems by Edie Meade — Across The Margin
Four Poems by Edie Meade — Across The Margin
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"... couldn’t we just leave, couldn’t we, couldn’t we just, just go home, just slink home, slither home and ..." @ediemeade.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/urgent-care/ pitheadchapel.com/urgent-care/
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Urgent Care
Edie Meade My son gripped his left index finger in a coil of righthand fingers so anyone in the urgent care waiting room could see the punctures go purple before their eyes drifted onto me, the mot…
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Across The Margin @acrossthemargin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
These four poems by Edie Meade linger in parking lots, dark apartments, motel rooms, and rubble, all the beautiful/hideous doorways where contradictions interlock: acrossthemargin.com/four-poems-b... #poems #poetry @ediemeade.bsky.social
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Four Poems by Edie Meade — Across The Margin
Four Poems by Edie Meade — Across The Margin
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I have not been killed on the escalators or TUBE TRAINS. I have not been drowned in the Thames. I have not been run over by a bus.
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good September morning. I have a prose poem in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social, which is a towering dream of mine come true! The poem's called "Urgent Care." pitheadchapel.com/urgent-care/
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Urgent Care
Edie Meade My son gripped his left index finger in a coil of righthand fingers so anyone in the urgent care waiting room could see the punctures go purple before their eyes drifted onto me, the mot…
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Here's round 2 of Stone Circle's new series, now simply called "Three Poems." I wanted more flexibility to describe how the poems are related. It includes work by Lynne Ellis, Edie Meade (@ediemeade.bsky.social), and Paula (Brown@azpaula.bsky.social). Enjoy! stonecirclereview.com/collections/...
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Every time something like this happens and there isn’t an outcry about it, we move a little bit further on the Overton window.
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Getting my fangs out at the beach.
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Maybe someone else will find this of use. Increasingly feeling harassed and violated by AI in my email and browser, I wanted to see what I could do about it. www.cnet.com/tech/service...
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How to Tell Google's AI Features to Leave You Alone, Once and for All
You aren't doomed to using Google's AI services across your devices for the rest of your life.
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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? 🖤
A.E. Houseman
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Scavenged wisdom.
Graffiti on a rock reads, "we are all dingus"Memorial bench plaque: "Kay Shepherd Schattner/ soft as a butterfly/ light as milkweed down"Tail of possible copperhead in the trailGraffiti eyes with cartoonish lashes and running mascara casting a sidelong look from a rock.
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Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I read this intentionally slowly to grapple with the weight of the content and the beauty of the language and how the latter supported the former. Truly, one of the best, most stunning books I’ve ever read. Probably the best. It’s an example of what art, particularly the novel, can aspire to.
A copy of Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
it's all liminal
Window full of wig mannequin heads under blinking red open sign.City street in late evening light; vertical store sign reads "Crazy discounts"Mural reads "onward" in foreground with 19th century train station in background Mannequin head with reflective ski goggles and cherry red wig matching lipstick
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026
me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Send me stuff!!!
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 11/05/2026
new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...
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Everlee Has Disappeared
Everlee Wihongi was transferred by ICE to the notorious "Camp East Montana" at Fort Bliss, Texas. Then she disappeared.
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"Mom breaks her other hip. Lungs hold clots like berries in an apron, and nurses dig for dehydrated veins. It’s never the same nurse, never the same vein." From "Nightfall," a prose poem about being a daughter far away. #mothersday #poetry gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Gone Lawn 65 : Edie Meade
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
New poem, The Toothache, in Louisiana Literature
The Toothache, a poem by Edie Meade, published in Louisiana Literature Journal.Brass letter slot on an old wooden door.Cover of Louisiana Literature Journal, featuring a distorted image of docks in a marshMasthead of Louisiana Literature.
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ONE ART: a journal of poetry @oneart.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I Go Back to May 1973 by Mary Keating in ONE ART: a journal of poetry oneartpoetry.com/2026/05/08/i...
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I Go Back to May 1973 by Mary Keating
I Go Back to May 1973 To the night I crashed and see myself, a long tender lily unaware of her grace as she’s about to get into a Mustang to leave a party with someone she barely knows because her …
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The Oxbow Estate @theoxbowestate.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Working on our new album... it's been almost a year since we released "I Dissolve," but it feels so much longer. Funny how an album a year is actually cookin' if you're making it from scratch, writing, playing, recording it all for real. #art #music #indie music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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The Oxbow Estate: I Dissolve (full album)
Listen to The Oxbow Estate: I Dissolve (full album) on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“… Someday I’ll be a plant dying. I’ll draw myself up tall and brave, keep a stiff upper-limb, kiss the woollyworms goodnight for the season. Goodbye a while, damselflies! Bon voyage! …” @ediemeade.bsky.social in @louisianalit.bsky.social www.louisianaliterature.org/how-plants-d...
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How Plants Die | Louisiana Literature
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Also, artificial intelligence isn't "wrestling" with anything. That is the problem, the lack of problem. Moral dilemmas are for human beings. Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.
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Kass Assassin @kassassassin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Richard Dawkins: *looking at a mirror* there's a man trapped in there!
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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
God help me but I made a video to talk about two things I hate
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Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The flower moon has many colors, but you must look for them. Choose one and find a stem, pick it free. Care for it where you are. Listen to how the flower sings, Di di di. Sing back to the flower, La la la. Look at the moon, your color is there, too. #65 is live! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I have three prose poems in the flower moon (May) issue 65 of Gone Lawn! I am so grateful to editors Owen Wyke and Amy Cipolla Barnes for including me in this beautiful publication. @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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Gone Lawn 65 : Edie Meade
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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap42
Haunted swimming pool
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I am so proud to have five poems in the new print issue of @louisianalit.bsky.social. Here is one of them: www.louisianaliterature.org/how-plants-d...
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How Plants Die | Louisiana Literature
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New retirement plan just dropped.
Butterflies feasting on tropical fruit kabobs.Hot pink Golden Girls change purse in a thrift store.
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“Did I forget them from the very day they fell silent? So much has happened since last fall.” Doves by @ediemeade.bsky.social in Belladonna’s Garden (p. 52 of the doc) drive.google.com/file/d/1oWfc...
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Belladonna's Garden Issue 3 (fin toc.).pdf
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is so bleak. Dangerous and dumb.
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A little poem for my mom, published in Issue 3 of the magical, beautifully curated Belladonna's Garden.
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ONE ART: a journal of poetry @oneart.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Carrying Kevin to the Grave by Dick Westheimer in ONE ART: a journal of poetry oneartpoetry.com/2026/04/20/c...
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Carrying Kevin to the Grave by Dick Westheimer
Carrying Kevin to the Grave I told Kevin that we’re all moving at the speed of light in space-time. He replied that I was likely right but that wouldn’t help me haul the Gravely sickle bar attachme…
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I hate Al and I refuse to use it

Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money

I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites. This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran (🎥 i24 News)
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/04/2026
Today is a good day to remember that Carl Sagan was as outspoken about the dangers of war and nuclear weapons as he was an advocate of space exploration.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
In honour of Long Covid Awareness Month, here are 2 asks for fellow Blueskyers 1. Wear an N95 in public to reduce transmission & in solidarity with the millions living with Long Covid 2. Please stand up to large accounts that minimize this illness & who dunk on disabled folks 🙏
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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 28/02/2026
Tumblr post that says "i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point. you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling"
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
What it's all about.
Two children sit at the edge of a field beside a river at sunset.A wild plant seeding with sun shining golden behind it
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
A beautiful gloom. The peepers are awake at the river. I thought you should know.
Old yellow painted brick building with other brick houses, set against a vibrant purple cloud cover.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 24/02/2026
"500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives"
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What Elon Has Done
Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.
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Sewzinski @sewzinski.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
“Fix your hearts and live.”
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
But what if we drank beers together out of a Kiss Kasket?
Screenshot of archived webpage featuring a Kiss Kasket, a fully functional novelty casket decorated with Kiss rock band logo and band members' faces, once for sale on the band's official website.
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Happy Valentine's Day from the floor where we witness troubles. Here is a poem I wrote one year ago, published in @oneart.bsky.social 💖
Poem titled February 14, by Edie Meade:

February 14

I lay on the floor trying to unhear screams, the city
screaming into its elbows to stifle what it knows.
The neighbors rise fighting, and I’m afraid
to seek answers to the questions I have. Google,
can AR-15 bullets pierce a brick wall? How
do hiding mothers keep their children quiet?
Is the screaming in my middle ear or a fold
of nervous tissue? Is it me? Is it only me?
Car doors slam and engines ignite and I remain
on the floor, keeping close to the world without
beds, those born and born again shivering pink
each morning waiting to receive spring’s augurs.
Geese shadows labor over the window so low
I hear their wings threshing. None cry out.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm working with The Writer's Center on two new book clubs that focus on independent authors and presses!! We'll read a new book each month. Then the author will join us, read an excerpt, and answer reader questions! Read with us!
The Writer's Center Book Club: Register at writer.org/book-clubPoetry Online on 2nd Wednesdays, starting March 11th.

Fiction in person on 3rd Sundays, starting April 19th.TWC book club is no run-of-the-mill book club. Visiting writers will read excerpts and join the discussion, and answer your questions about craft, process, the publishing industryWant to read amazing books, build community, and meet small press writers? Join the book club!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
All flights to and from El Paso, Texas, have been grounded for ten days for “Special Security Reasons”, the Federal Aviation Administration announced. Shutting down airspace of a major US city for such an extended period hasn’t happened since the aftermath of 9-11.
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
“… I shell shells, terns turn over a pink plastic carnation decoy bright as sushi, what once was a revolution, plastic, now an island in a vortex visible from space” Two-star Hotel, Myrtle Beach + 2 by @ediemeade.bsky.social in @oneart.bsky.social oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/08/t...
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Three Poems by Edie Meade
Coming Storm fleeced inside the cell, undefined violence flashes purple. still chain-smoking on his balcony as windows close for bed, the new neighbor, a slapping flag, a Marine retiree vanity plat…
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I have three new poems out today at @oneart.bsky.social, one of the most supportive publications out there in this hard old world. Thanks so much to One Art editors Mark Danowsky and Louisa Schnaithmann for my first publication of 2026. Proof I can take "yes" for an answer!
Coming Storm, a poem by Edie MeadeOn a beach hotel boardwalk, a neon sign lit up "Yes," with unilluminated "no" visible behind it.
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Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I love pulp paperbacks. I still forage the thrift stores for cheap classics and unknown gambles. They pass through my hands into the little free libraries, and on and on, living again.
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