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Lynne Jensen Lampe

@ljensenlampe.bsky.social
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Poet. Editor. Late bloomer. Trans ally. she/her. Reader at Tinderbox. Poems in Many Nice Donkeys, Rise Up Review, Stone Circle Review, Inflectionist Review. Coming: Okay Donkey. Talk Smack to a Hurricane (Ice Floe Press, 2022). icefloepress.net/tal

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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Y’all, Stone Circle Review is so supportive of writers and offers all kinds of delight for readers. Thank you, @leepottspoet.bsky.social
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Y’all, this is a phenomenal project. I’m not done reading, but—is biting wonder a thing? That’s how I’d describe it.
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Having conversations in my head and out loud I don’t want to have yet, wondering if my dad is near the end. This is maybe the most I’ve ever wished to be younger because then he would be too.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Small updates on this: Our time has moved to 8pm EST! Registration and attendance are still open! @notatawp.bsky.social @mitchnobis.bsky.social
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This week in the poetry blogs with @alinaetc.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @beckyltuch.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/02/poet...
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 8
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
tfw you’re an #Olympics superfan & you forget there even is the Olympics happening rn bc life is focused on one hospital room, one bed, your dad in that bed. I’m grateful he’s healing from surgery & getting excellent care. One worry down, multitudes to go. #ElderHealth #PoetPapa #IndependentLiving
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Y’all, AWP FOMO is nothing compared with Hospital FOMO—my almost 92-year-old dad had hip surgery yesterday—it went well—& now I’m like “Am I in time to catch the surgeon? What if Dad wakes up and I’m not here? Will I miss the case worker/OT/PT if I go to the bathroom/get coffee/go home/cry outside?
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Airing this old footage is unconscionable and unethical. jfc.
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I worry that as we narrow the range of what we can talk about, think about, spend our time on, our ability to make expansive art and language shrinks, too, and so does our ability then to solve big problems and think creatively - all of which is the terrible point of fascism
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
A lot of carceral workers are nonwhite people. Another example of why we need to deal with the racial politics of how people are recruited and encouraged to become carceral workers, and how the pathologizing of nonwhite communities and their “redemption” through carceral service are part of that.
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Change a letter, ruin a film: The Bards
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Feeling grateful for our local community radio station KOPN. The Saturday program of music and hosting in Spanish just started, goes til noon central time. Listen live: www.kopn.org
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KOPN 89.5 FM – Mid-Missouri's Independent Community Radio – It's more than radio, it's community radio.
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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Brilliant! Glad to see this is now in print. A wonderful international anthology, evocations of mothers & children. Was honored to participate; to be invited to write the intro, and to have 2 new poems (on my mother) featured within. Copies now available from @ballerinibookpress.bsky.social 💐 #books
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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
It's a five year birthday celebration for the incredible @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social 🥳 You can snag ALL press books for 10$ to celebrate the occasion! www.riotinyourthroat.com
A graphic stating that Riot in your Throat is five years old and that all press books are on sale for 10 dollars at www.riotinyourthroat.com
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Today: "In my ‘Wastelines’, deleted lines...edits from my notebook not only resurface to interfere w/ the published version of the text, but (like the dangerously active waste in landfill) start to form new compounds, new possible poems." @susiecampbell.bsky.social icefloepress.net/2026/01/12/i...
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“Is This The Final”/ Wastelines: A Spoken Word Performance & Text – Susie Campbell
“Is This The Final?” – A Spoken Word Performance by Susie Campbell WASTELINES                 &nbsp…
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Another stunner in the Process series from @icefloepress.bsky.social. Inspiring, illuminating—this time how a page from a novel became a collaged erasure poem. #ErasurePoetry #Process #Poetry icefloepress.net/2026/01/09/l...
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LITTLE FISH UNCANNED: ‘the seeker’ & creative notes (for an erasure project) – kerry rawlinson
Process: The Project Although some schools of literature rather look down on erasure poems, they actually have an interesting and erudite history. “Poet Erin Dorney identified six styles of erasure…
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
One of my dearest friends, amazing poet @camwhelr.bsky.social has a video poem “Body Surfing” on @icefloepress.bsky.social today—riding the waves of a disabled body: “I am trying to render / this body / for you / but first / we must crawl” #Disability #Vispo #Poetry icefloepress.net/2026/01/05/d...
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Departure i am trying to render – a Video Poem by Cam Whelr
Artist Statement – Cam Whelr In creating this digital collage, I endeavor to render my poem “Body Surfing” as an urgent, sensorial, and impressionistic plunge into my embodied rea…
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Aarik Danielsen (he/him) @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
If you want understanding this morning, of course read the historians and the journalists and the political scientists. But please also read James Baldwin and Mary Oliver and Ted Berrigan and Nikki Giovanni and the other poets. They always saw history coming.
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Stunning in every way and a last line that—no lie—was the highlight of my day
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
i think i know how priests feel seeing their congregation filled with parishioners just for christmas eve service bc i’m a librarian and it‘s school break and i‘ve never seen any of these people before
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
In case you missed it this morning...
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
What happens when an editor creates a journal to put positivity into our world, & encourages & promotes their writers? They make a Top 10 list! Congrats to @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social and lit mag Feed the Holy, which made @chillsubs.bsky.social Great Editors list www.chillsubs.com/lists/great-...
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Arkansas will become the first state to lose PBS. The state-wide network will switch to local programming in 2026 — after a vote by a board appointed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. "We want our states in the driver’s seat when it comes to educational television" arktimes.com/arkansas-blo... #PBS
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RIP, Arkansas PBS - Arkansas Times
The end of federal funding for public media demolishes Arkansas PBS. The station will rebrand as ATV and feature mainly local programming.
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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
New Works Dec @mjseyesopened.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @helenlaycock.bsky.social @jenwithwords.bsky.social @feversof.bsky.social @thewingedmoon.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @josephfasano.bsky.social @ljensenlampe.bsky.social
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Tinderbox Poetry Journal @tinderboxpoetry.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
We are thrilled that Vol. 10 Is. 2 of Tinderbox is out in the world! Read all the wonderful poems at tinderboxpoetry.com.
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Tinderbox Poetry Journal
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Mr. & Mrs. Smith Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Y’all, I was absolutely thrilled when @stonecirclereview.bsky.social accepted my poem “heart as double-paned window”—a golden shovel based on a Joni Mitchell song—and I’m elated they nominated it for a Pushcart. Check out this great journal, which rn features “Bidden” by @jackbedell.bsky.social
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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This collection has magic, humor, spirit, lyricism, resistance, delight, and lots of animals. Thought-provoking and kind, *Becoming Altar* makes a great gift for yourself or any reader. What I want for Christmas is for *Becoming Altar* to sell out! ❤️ 🎄 📘 💖 asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
Image of book cover in blue with yellow text, Becoming Altar, New and Selected Poems, Kyla Houbolt. The text on the spine is white.
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Y’all, poet Justin Hamm @mdwstscribbler.bsky.social (who is so generous toward and supportive of other writers) will be having heart surgery and then miss weeks of pay during recovery. Plz consider donating to this GoFundMe. gofund.me/bc66c378c
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Donate to Help Justin Hamm Heal and Support His Family, organized by Justin Hamm
I'm Justin Hamm. An elementary school librarian, poet, husband, and father of… Justin Hamm needs your support for Help Justin Hamm Heal and Support His Family
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A movie that takes place where you’re from:
Andie MacDowell and James Spader in 1989’s “sex lies and videotape”
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Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I'm a poet because I need my writing to be true and authentic with maximum plausible deniability.
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Whoop! This journal deserves to be on this Best Of list ❤️ If you’re looking for a good home for your writing, send it to Ice Floe! If you want to read challenging, innovative work, pop over to icefloepress.net
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IceFloe Press
Visit the post for more.
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
tfw your 91-yr-old dad lends your poetry book about your mother’s mental illness to yet another neighbor, this time an 80-something vet, and she loves it. @icefloepress.bsky.social #Poetry #ThanksDad #NoStigma #TalkSmackToAHurricane
Head and shoulders photo of my dad, smiling wide and wearing a ball cap
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Y’all, open call at Ice Floe Press! Deadline November 30. I’m thinking of you @hollypelesky.bsky.social Y’all, they publish 🔥🔥🔥 #Poetry #Vispo #CNF #SubsOpen
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Great news out of #Missouri: Justin Hamm @mdwstscribbler.bsky.social installed as our state’s poet laureate! A proclamation, an oath of office, a moving reading & an emotional, absolutely beautiful song frm the Mexico (MO) High School Noteworthy Choir. Photos in comment. #Poetry #FlyoverCountry
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
POEM 281: "Nostalgia, 1997" by Natalie Marino (@nataliemarino.bsky.social) "I see myself young and cunning because the war is over and I can go wherever I want. I walk away before the end" stonecirclereview.com/nostalgia-19... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
“Reality is the basis of all great art. Without it there is no life, no substance. Reality is the ground under our feet and sky over our head. Everything the artist creates has its point of departure in nature.” -- Yvan Goll, “Surrealism Manifesto”
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A beautiful recognition of the musicality of this poetic collab between @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and @rfredekenter.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
POEM 279: "all night i hear the noise of fire licking" by nat raum (@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social) "the pulse my body so spitefully insists upon is surging and burning and twisting through every vessel and then some like sneaking out like letting go" stonecirclereview.com/all-night/ #Poem #Poetry
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
So I started writing my life one golden shovel at a time—and @stonecirclereview.bsky.social published this one yesterday. All the rest of you poets help me be brave. Thanks, y’all 💕
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Y’all, check out this Ice Floe call for innovative hybrids, vispo, etc. and while you’re at the website, spend time with the exciting work they’ve already published! #subsopen #vispo #collaboration
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Yesterday in therapy I had the deep realization I believed from a very young age I had no right to be happy. Not that I didn’t deserve it—had no *right* to be. Today I read Ross Gay’s Book of Delights & read no. 14 “Joy Is Such a Human Madness.” Oh my—rearranging me onbeing.org/blog/joy-is-...
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“Joy Is Such a Human Madness”
An essay by Ross Gay.
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Y’all, if you don’t have this book on your shelf, buy it now. Ask your library to get it so you can borrow it 🩷
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Yep. A big amen to this
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Right now at the Missouri State capitol. Photo shows a fraction of thousands here from across the state. This is what democracy looks like—a big NO on illegal redistricting!!!
Thousands protest in the Missouri capitol rotunda—NO on redistrictingRainbow colored poster saying Missouri votes should always count.
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
If we lived in a world that made any sense, this would be the definitive end of ChatGPT and everything like it
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I just saw an ad that promised savings of 100%—so the items should be free, right? #PoetsCanMath
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