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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

LOUISVILLE!!! Have you registered for this yet?! ROSS GAY! TENTH ANNIVERSARY! GRATITUDE! byway-books.com/events?fbcli...

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

HAPPY FKA TWIGS NEW ALBUM DAY ✨ It’s a ripe time to revisit this poem I crafted after her last album for NEON DOOR.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 08/01/2025

🇫🇷 French word of the day: éberluer = to dumbfound

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

what writer named a group of vultures feeding on a carcass a “wake,” because I love it

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

HAPPY NEW YEAR or, THANK GOD IT’S FINALLY 2025 🪩

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

2 hours deep at the drivers license office & the camaraderie in this line could top Larry-David-sharing-water-at-the-Georgia-polls

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

yes I’ve always been good at sawing down trees & serving closed eyed lewkz

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Brief hiatus but I’m baaaaack here I guess

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

In celebration of Sarabande’s ✨30 Anniversary✨, we are thrilled silly to be partnering with MISSION CREEK to present a special LIVE episode of LIVE WIRE RADIO! Learn more and purchase tickets at the link in our bio! @simonshieh.bsky.social

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

GALLEYS OF @whitneycollins.bsky.social’s RICKY ARE HERE!! Believe me when I say this book is hilarious, wacky, and BRILLIANT. If you're a reviewer who would like a copy, message me! (Out from @sarabandebooks.bsky.social on 6/25!)

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Never leave thy book in the direct path of sunlight lest it be reclaimed.

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

how your email finds me:

A medieval drawing of a woman in a long dress with a bored look on her face falling upon a sword

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Brian Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

Oh, the Humanities!

Screen grab from the Economist. Britain | Getting verse
Britain has seen an alarming rise in poetry sales

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

✨CALLING ALL POETS!✨ The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry is accepting manuscript submissions through February 15! Hanif Abdurraqib will select one winning manuscript for publication by Sarabande Books. Learn more and submit at the link in our bio!

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

✨ATTENTION FICTION WRITERS!✨ The Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction is accepting manuscript submissions through February 15! Lauren Groff will select one winning manuscript for publication by Sarabande Books. Learn more and submit at the link in our bio!

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

✨Calling all essayists! ✨The inaugural Sarabande Prize in the Essay is accepting manuscript submissions through February 15! Learn more and submit at the link in our bio!

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Yes, I’m still here, and yes, I’m mostly just duplicating @sarabandebooks.bsky.social content, but do you or do you not want to know about 👏👏👏 this 👏incredible👏lineup👏of👏opportunities?!?! 👏👏👏

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Merry christmas from me and this lil cutie 🌈

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

“Books before billions”! You all get it. 💛🌈 THANK YOU!!

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Books are important. Art is important. Culture is important. I live by this, & every member of our small (& mighty! team lives by this. Dear ones, if you, too, share these values, I hope you'll consider supporting @sarabandebooks.bsky.social this #Giving Tuesday!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

“They were trying to evacuate from the north to the south, when they were stopped at a checkpoint with a lot of others. Mosab was ordered to put his son down and then the army grabbed him, along with a lot of other men, 200, his wife said. His wife has not heard from him since.”

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Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha arrested by Israelis in Gaza, family says

The American Book Award winner was said to be heading south for the Rafah crossing when he was picked up at a checkpoint

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Next Wednesday, 10/25, the KAC will graciously host a webinar to showcase the work of all of the grant recipients. I’ll be reading and talking a bit about my work and creative process. I hope you’ll join us! 10am. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

This year has offered an abundance of surprises, among them, this exciting, thrilling, bubbly news: I’ve been awarded an Emerging Artist Award from the Kentucky Arts Council for my poetry collection-in-progress. I am beside myself with gratitude —to the KAC, to the panelists, to the NEA…

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

these gorgeous galleys are about to hit mailboxes! (feat. views from my @sarabandebooks.bsky.social reading corner)

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Danika Isdahl @danikaaaaaah.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Listening to @joannaenglert.bsky.social talk up Bluesky during a social media presentation at @sarabandebooks.bsky.social so I had to put it on Bluesky.

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Thank you @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @thenation.com for shouting out @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and our fellow independent nonprofit presses. There's a reason we dedicate ourselves to publishing the work that we put out, even when the conglomerates don't rightly recognize the value.

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

This is so fascinating. “Literary fiction” has certainly carried a varied history of meaning. And like anything purporting mild success, the market has been able to co-opt and redefine that term. No matter the label, important, non-commercial literature continues to be born, and *read*,…

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Sarabande proudly presents “A Reading and Conversation with Sarabande Anthology Poets on Writing & Addiction” as a featured mainstage event at #AWP24. If you are attending #AWP24, we hope you’ll consider attending this important conversation.

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Happy Fat Bear Week to those who celebrate 🥲

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

*UPDATE*: We’ll be set up after 1:00 PM on Sunday! Due to Friday’s flooding and flight cancellations, our schedules have changed, but we’re still coming to sling your favorite books from 1:00-6:00! Come and see us! @kristenmiller.bsky.social @joannaenglert.bsky.social

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

🔴 COMING SOON: 10/24/23 🔴 Pre-order your copy today at the link in our bio.

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

I saw Green Day last night so here are some jobs I had in high school which required borrowing my parents’ old Ford Explorer & blasting my inherited copy of “Dookie” every commute: -Dairy Kastle, gonna call this *soft serve specialist* -Kroger, cashier -Piano teacher & accompanist

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Writer friends! Who will be here? I want to see you! Come say hi to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social !

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Whether or not you’re from Louisville, go watch WRESTLERS on Netflix. So many talented fellow Louisvillians & friends worked on this docuseries & really, they did an *incredible* job. (Also coming soon out of Louisville: WILDCAT with Ethan Hawke!!! So many talented friends at work!!!) Go Lou. 🖤

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Just can’t wait for Moira McCavana’s ELECTRODOMÉSTICOS (coming February 2024)? Then check out McCavana’s newest story in the current issue of THE PARIS REVIEW (out now)! Visit the link in our bio to pre-order McCavana’s debut collection. ⚡️

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Finally, and finally, and finally: what I’ll be (appropriately) busy with until the Mortal Kombat 1 drop🤘🤠🤘

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Oh hi, it’s me, another Kentuckian waking up, turning on the radio, and finding a reason to shout “Fuck Daniel Cameron” during my morning commute.

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Joanna Englert Lyons @joannaenglert.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

This. Book! The first time I read this manuscript, it was in one quick sitting. I sped through it. I got goosebumps. I gasped. I dog- eared every page. And then I immediately read it again.

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