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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Y'all I straight panicked when I saw everyone posting abt Anne Carson & hadn't seen the Nobel news yet. You cannot do that to me. Also here's my favorite photo of her. Do not make me choose my favorite work / the answer is all of it. Just go read all of it.

Anne Carson in a leather jacket walking through a strip mall parking lot, smiling. What a queen.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I honestly loved this one. This makes me want to re-read it; I haven't thought about it in years.

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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

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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 · 11/08/2026

with you in whole spirit, friend. Love to you.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I have someone for you, but bsky says I can't DM you

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

That said, I'm incredibly proud & still awed by my ACLU colleagues—a lot of hard work & skill went into winning this case. Of all the places I could be working rn, I'm fortunate to be where I am alongside these ppl & this community.

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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 · 08/04/2026

You are so kind as always--thank you so much!

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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 · 07/04/2026

Chelsey Minnis: "A Speech About the Moon" fenceportal.org/a-speech-abo...

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A Speech About the Moon

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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 · 26/02/2026

Reminds me a bit of when Whole Foods demanded cashiers strike up chit-chat conversations about the particular grocery items a customer was buying as they scanned them, which I imagine had to've been so uncomfortable for those workers—likely even more so than for me having to explain my groceries.

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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 · 19/02/2026

Did you find it at Daedalus? There used to be crates of them there.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Need this to be made into a "Tr*mp shouting at kid mowing White House lawn" meme

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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

At the end of 2024, Virginia was down to ZERO 287(g) agreements. Just in the last year, we've skyrocketed to more than 30, along w/the state entanglements the Governor is now ending, plus these task force situations that have little transparency—the tentacles run deep & spread fast w/o these checks.

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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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