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Amanda Roth @helloamandaroth.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

That glorious and terrifying moment when the poet prints her manuscript...

A book manuscript is printed and taped page-by-page on two walls. Beneath them is a bed, a plant, and an air filter.

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Book banning is real and is terrorizing teachers, librarians & students from marginalized identities now. It is worse than it has ever been. If you’re remembering your quaint “Celebrate Freedom. Read a Banned Book” T-shirt, adjust your perspective. You’ve brought an umbrella to a hurricane.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/01/2025

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

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Amanda Roth @helloamandaroth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I might be on a contrapuntal kick right now. Thank you to the kind editors at Hoxie Gorge for giving this piece such a good home! The whole issue is now live at HoxieGorgeReview.com

Labor, by Amanda Roth. A five column contrapuntal poem.

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Amanda Roth @helloamandaroth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Created a starter pack for the insanely talented members of my writing group. Let me know if I missed anyone? go.bsky.app/PtNE3bv

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Amanda Roth @helloamandaroth.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I'd dump all social media right now, but I'd miss the poets so much. 😭

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Would any French-fluent mutuals be up for translating two short sentences from English into French for me? I don’t trust Google. DM if so! 🫶

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Amanda Roth @helloamandaroth.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Sci-fi nerds of Bluesky: Any recommendations for introducing a 9yo to the genre? Books, TV, movies, games are all welcome.

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Amanda Roth @helloamandaroth.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Sharing my published pieces from 2024! First up: The Bear published by @literarymama.bsky.social and inspired my childrens' obsession with the book We're Going on a Bear Hunt. literarymama.com/articles/dep...

The Bear
By Amanda Roth

“We can’t go over it. We can’t go under it. Oh, no! We’ve got to go through it!”
- Michael Rosen

I cannot tell my kids that we are on a bear hunt.
I can only muster lies by omission:

It’s a beautiful day.
Don’t be scared.

I show them how to walk through walls of grass.
We laugh when it sticks to our hair, but at the river,

that deep,
cold river,

even they begin to see: the world
is not a safe place.

What kind of mother
brings her children to the river?

We are still wet when the forest
swallows us whole. Hand in hand
we stumble, trip, break
our knees open, wash our blood in the snow.

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How do I keep them
safe? I don't know
the way under the dark, wet earth.
If I shake
the nails loose from my throat,
would it be enough
to build a bridge?

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What kind of mother
brings her children to the bear? Shows them how
to reach into the dark mouth
of its cave, thick with rot
and scat and fear?

This is the world, I want
to say. The nose and fur and teeth of it.

This is how we hold
our hands out for the world.

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Amanda Roth @helloamandaroth.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I'm late to the Becky Chambers Fan Club, but y'all... Monk and Robot! What hopepunk/cozy sci-fi should I read next?

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Amanda Roth @helloamandaroth.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I never really joined Twitter, and I'm not convinced I want/need more social media, but the FOMO is winning today. So, hi! Hello!

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