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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

we only get two weathers now, rain or mosquitoes, I don't make the rules

Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Grateful & honored to be named a finalist for this poetry prize, & immense congratulations to Sara Hovda in poetry & Leslie Pietrzyk in fiction! side note: new poem of mine (this one) forthcoming in @adroitjournal.bsky.social next month.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In Voice & Silence, the seminar I teach at @uvalaw.bsky.social, this week we talked about "What is a fact" & who gets to decide, through the lens of reading The Lifespan of a Fact (the original essay, some reviews, & the play)—I wish I'd had this thread to play with too.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The fragment of the earth that is now me is only on its way through me. It is on its way from having been a tree, a school of fish, a terrapin, a flock of birds. It will pass through all those forms again. —Wendell Berry, from Farming, A Hand Book (1970)

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dolly Parton & Wendell Berry in a week's time is *rough*.

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thank you, Dolly Parton, for showing us a way.

Dolly Parton, 20, in the recording studio. My heart is broken.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Happy 91st(!) birthday to my Poetry Dad, the brilliant Charles Wright. Later this afternoon, I will call him on his landline phone, which is still & always the most technologically advanced item he owns.

HOW I FAILED

I tried to fit the body of light into the body of darkness.
I tried to lengthen the last landscape.
I tried to unhinge and reconstruct / the language I had been given.
I tried to fit the body of darkness into the body of light.

—Charles Wright

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

5-4 is not a win; it's a warning.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

sincerely, poem. like, this could easily be a v. good James Tate poem.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

One beautiful thing abt your current dogs is that they also carry all your past dogs inside of them & if you close your eyes & hug on them, you can feel all your ever dogs with you all at once.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

You know you’re old when your former legal intern is the faculty speaker at your nephew’s law school graduation.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Healthcare in general—& especially critical research like this—is one of the v. best & primary purposes a (good) government can serve. Quality, affordability, accessibility, longevity & longterm investment in innovation. The market on its own can't/won't do it. Abuse of power like this is criminal.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Today is my book's 6th birthday! It's on sale during NaPoMo at @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, but also I've got 5 copies I'll mail out at no cost to anyone having a tough time, financial or otherwise, who wants a copy—first 5 ppl who send me a mailing address: www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/ne...

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Neck of the Woods — Alice James Books

Amy Woolard A finalist in the 2020 Julie Suk Award “This debut offers a troubled journey delivered by a voice the reader will want to keep listening to.” — Publishers Weekly April 20...

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

HBD, Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) A beautiful recording of O'Hara reading "Having a Coke With You" in his NY flat from 1966: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLw...

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Frank O´Hara reads "Having a coke with you"

YouTube video by Modo de Usar

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

It's one of the most efficient & practical sorting mechanisms for existing out in the wild & requires low-to-no effort on my part.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Didn't realize it until it was too late, but I walked into the 4th Circuit today with a handful of dog training treats in my jacket pocket that I hadn't yet taken out from True's puppy day school yesterday. Security: Do you have anything in your pockets ma'am? Me: uhhhhh yes?

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Banger of a midwest emo song title

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Happy Twin Peaks Day to all who celebrate 🌲🌲☕

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

In actual good news: Bret Anthony Johnston—an immeasureably talented writer & also my friend—has a new book out TODAY!—a beautiful story collection called Encounters with Unexpected Animals. It's brilliant, as is Bret, & you should check it out. www.austinchronicle.com/arts/bret-an...

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Acclaimed Author Bret Anthony Johnston Flips the Page • The Austin Chronicle

On the hard, flat cement of Corpus Christi, Bret Anthony Johnston got his first unconventional lessons in what it takes to be a writer. “As a skateboarder, you spend a lot of time on the ground. You a...

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I always tell people the skills I use most in my Legal/Policy career come from bartending, not law school.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

ok who had money down on "nbd just f'ing around with killer lasers" as the reason for the El Paso shutdown

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Legislation is working its way through the 2026 Va. General Assembly session right now that would end similar *local* 287(g) agreements & other ICE entanglements here. Virginians, make sure you tell your state reps you have their back in support of these bills! See acluva.org for more details.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"How I Failed"—Charles Wright.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"How I Failed"—Charles Wright.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

this reminds me of the way i’ve seen susan bro speak about her daughter, heather heyer. when a fascist murders your child, you aren’t allowed to just grieve. you have to defend their memory, even their very grave.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I could not be more proud of my colleagues at ACLU of MN & their co-counsel for fighting this fight. The courts alone will not save us, we know this, but it's important to take this terror to task in every field we can. These witnesses are so brave & true.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I'm honestly just sick. If you can stomach watching any of this footage & still let the words "more training" escape your mouth, I cannot ever forgive you. These are state-sanctioned street executions. This is the training.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

If you need a way to remember good fights are winnable in these dark times, we've (ACLU of Virginia) got you. Yday WE WON on summary judgement a historic case that will restore voting rights to tens & potentially hundreds of thousands of Virginians with felony records. www.acluva.org/press-releas...

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Federal judge restores thousands of Virginians' voting rights in historic ruling - ACLU of Virginia

“Virginia’s government has blatantly broken the law for more than a century by disenfranchising everyone with a felony conviction, disproportionately affecting Black and Brown Virginians,” said ACLU-V...

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Is anyone making a line of anti-ICE dog onesies? I've been taking Selma the Whippet (who's from Puerto Rico) to some protests & she'd really like to do her part. I would buy the heck out of someone's dog protest outfit line.

Selma the white & brindle whippet lays in a cream-colored armchair with her head on the armrest & gazes out a window. She is wearing a red harness and a grey collar. She was born without one back paw but she gets around still like nobody's business.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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Federal judge restores thousands of Virginians' voting rights in historic ruling - ACLU of Virginia

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

so apparently there will be a winter storm this weekend & here in Charlottesville we will officially get anywhere from 1"-27" of snow

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

i found some great places to donate using the list put together by @ziibiing.com don't give your money to consultants for some vague promise, give it to people who will go out right now, today, and buy a car full of groceries for a family that's too afraid to leave their home.

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Stand With Minnesota

A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Despite much of immigration law/policy sitting at the fed level, there are actually a lot of meaningful things state law & gov can/shld do to protect immigrant communities: from disentangling local LE from ICE, to preventing data-sharing, to keeping courthouses from being warrantless arrest traps.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself. Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Sometimes I can’t believe how fortunate we are that dogs let us take care of them.

Selma the white & brindle whippet, sleeps on her side with one paw extended & resting on the face of her brother True, a tan malinois puppy, also asleep on his side right next to Selma’s face. Too much cuteness & beauty for one photo.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

let love be / at the end Lucille Clifton

Let There Be Flowering

let there be new flowering
in the fields let the fields
turn mellow for the men
let the men keep tender
through the time let the time
be wrested from the war
let the war be won
let love be
at the end

—Lucille Clifton

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Paige Perriello @paigeperriello.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

“To families of transgender youth in Virginia: you are not alone. You deserve respect, privacy, and the freedom to make informed health care decisions with providers you trust. Our Commonwealth stands with you.” bit.ly/GACJointLetter

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Joint Letter in Support of Gender-Affirming Care in Virginia - Equality Virginia

As Virginians, we stand unequivocally for the right of transgender people and their families to access medically appropriate, evidence-based health care—free from fear, stigma, or political intrusion....

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Today’s Feature: What Sparks Poetry: Debra Nystrom on Charles Wright’s “Ghost Days” from Scar Tissue published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Read here:

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Ghost Days

Who was the sixth guy in the Fiat 500 With Giancarlo, Pamela, the two drunken carabinieri and me That New Year’s Eve around 3 a.m.

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Machines in the lab. Retro arcade videogames, a typewriter that types you prompts to type back memories & prints the outcome as a zine; a even wooden generative poetry machine (last 2=by Critical Makerspace Fellows Holly Zhou, Alexa Luborsky; both w/Ammon Shepherd) +

Photo of a wood-boothed videogame arcade booth with red and blue buttons and joysticks; the monitor shows a videogame credits list

Photo of an interactive typewriter art electronics and collective memory mapping exhibit, with an electric typewriter and printer in a red snd blsck marble painted booth with an iridescent acrylic surround

Closeup photo of a wood poetry generator machine, a massive wood barrel made of staves laserburned with short phrases; 3D printed red chains allow three sections of the cylinder to turn at different rates when the crank is cranked, aligning the phrases into new combinations of poetry lines

Photo of a wood poetry generator machine, a massive wood barrel made of staves laserburned with short phrases; 3D printed red chains allow three sections of the cylinder to turn at different rates when the crank is cranked, aligning the phrases into new combinations of poetry lines

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

This is the force of faith. Nobody gets / what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing / is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. —@joriegraham.bsky.social poets.org/poem/prayer

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

This is the force of faith. Nobody gets / what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing / is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. —@joriegraham.bsky.social poets.org/poem/prayer

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

good morning to everyone but leafblowers, perhaps my most despised way we try to control nature

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Before I got to UVA & took Greg's workshop my first year, I honestly believed no one was actually still writing poems/books anymore—all poets were long dead. This was the poem that first made me realize you could do anything in a poem. This poem was a golden ticket for me, doing so much so simply.

Love poem

Gregory Orr 1947-

A black biplane crashes through the window / of the luncheonette. The pilot climbs down, / removing his leather hood. / He hands me my grandmother's jade ring. / No, it is two robin's eggs and / a telephone number: yours.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I have never been more grateful for a paywall in my life.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

the Sartre play of our times, just writing itself in the all-chat

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

truly nothing brings people together like the Microsoft Authenticator app going down at the beginning of a workday

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