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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Atlanta Friends: Please come to an event celebrating my new poetry chapbook Mega-Galaxies: Monday, 9/28, at 6 pm. Tall Tales Book Shop(Toco Hills Shopping Center) 2105 Lavista Road talltalesatlanta.com 1/2

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Like everyone else in the poetry and the environmental world, I was so sad to learn of Wendell Berry’s death. What a great poet and what a great human. We were thrilled to include “The Peace of Wild Things” in Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, 2025)

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Interview on HOWL Radio CIUT 89.5FM So very grateful to @hollay.bsky.social for inspiring, energizing, generous conversation about Mega-Galaxies, my poetry chapbook from @DriftwoodPress Listen to episode here: howlciut.podbean.com/e/howl-tuesday… 🎙️ Host: @newbooksnetwork & @howl895fm

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

@SealeyChallenge, 2 chapbooks that might have fallen off people’s radar, & that I loved: Christopher Newson, Fugitive, New Michigan Press (2024): traditionally formatted poems & and visual poetry. This small book, contains a universe thediagram.com/merch/product-… 1 of 3/

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It was so gratifying to respond to Alexis Olafsson’s wonderfully thoughtful questions in this interview on AsterismBooks about my chapbook Mega-Galaxies asterismbooks.com/blog/post/me... #poetry #poetrychapbooks

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Out today from Driftwood Press: Mega-Galaxies, with so much gratitude to @driftwoodpress.bsky.social for their kindness and hard work, and to Matthew Olzmann for choosing Mega-Galaxies for the 2025 Adrift Poetry Chapbook Prize. (Here is a reading of the poem “In the Grasslands” from the book.)

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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

OUT 6/30: @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social's Mega-Galaxies considers both the vastness and intimacy of what surrounds us, from our communities to the larger natural world. Link to pre-order is on our website! #poetry #awardwinner #chapbook

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Thank you @driftwoodpress.bsky.social for so beautifully shepherding Mega-Galaxies to publication!

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

So pleased to have in hand ARC copies of Mega-Galaxies, 2025 @driftwoodpress chapbook prize winner. Pub date 6/30, available for preorder asterismbooks.com/product/mega...

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I’m so grateful to @ Passionfruit Review for featuring Mega-Galaxies along with the books of @sheila.e.murphy and Elizabeth Shé in their newsletter. And I look forward to reading their new issue 24!

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

“What struck me wasn’t necessarily just Earth, it was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbedly in the universe,”Christina Koch, Artemis II Astronaut It’s easy to forget this lifeboat is all we have, &we must protect it with everything we’ve got.

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I’m very grateful to Berkeley Poetry Review for including “A Vacancy in the Cosmos” in their splendid journal, Issue 55. The poem can be read here (on page 24): www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bpr/past-is... You can purchase physical copies here: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bpr/purchas...

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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

NEW TITLE ALERT: Elizabeth J. Coleman’s Mega-Galaxies considers both the vastness and intimacy of what surrounds us, from our communities to the larger natural world. Link in bio to pre-order today! #poetry

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I am so honored and wildly grateful to @Driftwood Press and Matthew Olzmann. This means the world to me. And warm congratulations to Matthew Rickart, the short story winner #poetry #chapbook #poetryjournal

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The last leaves are falling in Manhattan…Michael Palmer & I memorialized our turning toward nature in fall 2022, during the pandemic with images (his) & poems (mine) in Autumn in a Solitary Time (Audience Askew Chapbooks 2023). Please enjoy this image & poem #chapbook #poetry

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Happy Fall! In 2020, Michael Craig Palmer photographed Hudson Valley's fall trees & leaves & asked me to write accompanying poems, resulting in Autumn in a Solitary Time, Audience Askew Press, a celebration of nature's enduring beauty & and of human connection.

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Honored my chapbook is a finalist for the Headlight Review Prize, & grateful to Headlight Review for publishing my poem, “On the 56th Anniversary of My Father’s Death,” in the current issue, along with other prize-winning & finalist poems. 1/2

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Have begun releasing my classical guitar music on Spotify. Soon I’ll release 2 more “albums.” While I’m not a professional musician, I’ve performed for many years in hospital settings & elsewhere. Here’s hoping you enjoy the music: open.spotify.com/album/2i6UlP...

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I’m very grateful to Certain Age Magazine for publishing my poem, “Mega-Galaxies.” If you’d like, you can read the poem, and listen to me read it, here: www.certainagemag.com/post/mega-ga...

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Please join us Wednesday for readings and a conversation on this vitally important subject

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It was an honor to participate in the MER reading on May 4th for Volume 23 of this amazing journal on motherhood and women’s lives. There are many rich offerings in the issue, and I recommend it highly. Here’s my reading of “As If It Were My Name” youtu.be/lJriBe2ruIU 1/3

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

My poem “Song of Innocence,” was published in the new issue of Eye Contact, the literary and art Magazine of Seton Hill University. You can read the full poem on page 34. And be sure and check out the other poems in the issue! drive.google.com/file/d/1vA0y...

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I’m pleased my poem @ being a grandmother appears in the current issue of the journal Mom Egg, and I’m delighted I’ll be reading “As If It Were My Name” at the launch Sunday, May 4th, 5:30 pm ET. Preregistration (free) here to online reading: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: MER 23 Launch Reading II - May 4, 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I’m grateful Cider Press Review has published my poem “The Grasslands.” We fell in love with the elephants when we walked through the Serengeti years ago, sleeping in small tents along the way. You can read the poem here: ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-2... #ecopoetry #poetry CiderPressRev

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

So grateful “As If It Were My Name,” about my grandchildren, and about the thread among generations, will appear in the forthcoming issue of the amazing Mom Egg Review, launching April 15th. Get a print copy! ($18) Get a PDF copy ($5, directly to your inbox) @merliterary.bsky.social #poetry

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Delighted & grateful my poem “In the Morning in the City” appears among these amazing prizewinning & commended poems @Passionfruitlit passionfruitreview.com/in-the-morni... #poetry

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’m grateful to Lit Fox Books for featuring my poem “Stratagem” alongside two other wonderful poems in their Spring 2025 Lit Fox Poetry Series.

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

When I find myself struggling to feel hope in this time of terrible uncertainty & crisis, in this time of great cruelty towards fellow humans & our planet, I remind myself hope is a strategy store.hbr.org/product/hope-i…, & “despair not an option” @BernieSanders 1/3

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I am so honored that Wandering Aengus Press has chosen my poetry collection THE BODEGA AND THE WREN as a finalist for their Trail to Table Book Awards, and and so very happy for the winners and the other finalists #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetryawards #poetrylovers

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Thrilled to learn @Poetry_Society has awarded Giovanni the prestigious Frost Medal posthumously, so wonderfully deserved.

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

So sad to learn of Nikki Giovanni’s recent death, one of the marvelous poets who contributed to HERE: Poems for the Planet (@CopperCanyonPrs 2019) @UCUSA @DalaiLama. We made the decision in 2019 only to include living poets, & we’ve lost so many great ones since then 1/2

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Grateful @OwenLewis introduced me to poet Pascale Petit & her stunning “Green Bee-Eater" poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_bee��: “If you see one singing..you might dream/of the forests//that once clothed/our flying planet.” #ecopoetry #ClimateCrisis

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Grateful @Greenpeace enumerated 2024 environmental victories around the globe greenpeace.org/international/… I continue to believe strongly hope is a strategy, sort of… @HarvardBiz hbr.org/2012/10/hope-i�� Hope gives us courage & energy to fight for Earth’s future, & ours. 1/2

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Orbital, Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize 2024 novel about 6 humans orbiting our planet in a spacecraft (@GrovePressUK ) is one of best books I’ve read. The book’s sense of urgency in this time of climate crisis contrasts with growing disregard for the planet by many in power. 1/2

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Honored Cider Press Review has published, Windhovers on their beautiful website. “A group of swans is called a lamentation. The stars—indifferent—masquerade as friends.” Full poem at: ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-2... @CiderPressRev @CaronAndregg

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Windhovers by Elizabeth Coleman – Cider Press Review

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Elizabeth J. Coleman @elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I’m so sorry this heart-breaking poem by the late Jane Meade, “Money,” in Here: Poems for the Planet @CopperCanyonPrs @UCSUSA @dalailama (2019) has renewed urgent resonance today: “..by then//…The water didn’t belong to the water.”#climatecrisis #ecopoetry

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