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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 16/03/2026

CW: sexual harassment / indecent exposure If you’ve ever wondered why women sometimes ignore men who talk to us randomly in public, here’s a real-life example. Yesterday around 11AM I stopped by Dollar Tree in Blanchard, Louisiana. I parked directly in front of the store doors. (1/5)🧵

A Google Maps street-view image of the Dollar Tree storefront in Blanchard, Louisiana. The image is heavily distorted with a digital glitch filter, creating vibrating, translucent layers of the building and cars in neon cyan, red, and yellow.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 16/03/2026

Some happy news: my poem “Anxiety is a House” has been selected as a finalist for the AR Ammons Poetry Prize! The winner will be announced March 25th (judged by Crystal Simone Smith). I’m really honored to be on this list. 🥰

A screenshot of the "AR Ammons Finalists" announcement list. The second entry, "Maudie Bryant" and her poem "Anxiety is a House," is highlighted in yellow. A large, surprised "face with open mouth" emoji is layered over the right side of the list, partially covering other titles to emphasize the shock and excitement of the news.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 13/03/2026

That map isn't accurate, the current map has the newest Dist 06 as a diagonal slice across the state and through the previous Dist 04. Also, please look into @mattgromlichla4.bsky.social, a professor in the district who actually shows up and has the skills to get the job done.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 26/01/2026

This is a non-exhaustive list. May everyone have the day they deserve.

A digital illustration featuring Marshmallow from the animated series Bob’s Burgers dressed as a cowboy, standing next to a large chalkboard. The chalkboard contains the following text in a white, serif font:

"I wish for you what you wish for trans people. I wish for you what you wish for immigrants. I wish for you what you wish for the unhoused. I wish for you what you wish for drug addicts. I wish for you what you wish for the mentally ill. I wish for you what you wish for the most vulnerable of our society."

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 23/12/2025

About trying to find an appropriate container for grief in a world of mass-produced sentiment... my poem, "At Hobby Lobby, Choosing an Urn," is out now in Kansas City Review, Volume 21. [🎙️ Sound on to hear me read.] #LouisianaPoet #SouthernWriters #LouisianaArts #GriefPoetry

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 22/12/2025

Officially picked up my plaque for the 2025 Ephraim Tyler Poet of the Year award this weekend. This honor was given earlier this year at Speak Poetry Fest by POETIC X, and picking it up this past Saturday (on Apollo’s birthday) felt like the perfect alignment. #LouisianaArts #SouthernWriters

Outdoors in the sunlight, a woman in a floral print blouse beams with pride while holding a dark wood and gold plaque awarded to her as "Poet of the Year" at the 2025 Speak Poetry Fest. Fall-colored leaves and a chain-link fence are visible in the background.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 03/12/2025

Currently regretting the gas station mocha I drank this morning because I felt like getting a "treat." 💩 On the bright side, Spotify Wrapped is out! Of course my top song is @alliex.music-social.com's "Is Anybody Out There." A soundtrack befitting a morning spent questioning my life decisions.

A screenshot from the Spotify mobile app showing a "Your top songs" list, featuring five tracks with their corresponding artists and album art.

The ranked list is:

Is Anybody Out... by Allie X.

On My Way by Grand Yellow.

Malachite by Lydia Ainsworth.

Living as a Ghost by GEMS.

Fireflies - 2023 R... by Still Corners.

The bottom of the screen has a button that reads "Share this story." The image is captured on an Android phone, showing the time 10:12 and connectivity icons (5G+, WiFi, battery at 91%).

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 03/12/2025

The academic mind prison is almost lifted. Getting my hands in some paint as soon as this semester is over!! 🤪 These two are on the easel first. Ready to ditch the grading for the grinding.

A full-length view of a painting-in-progress on a long, narrow canvas with a bright mint-green background. A figure wearing a tailored brown jacket, white shirt, and a deep green bow tie stands centered. The head is replaced entirely by an open birdcage. Butterflies are depicted escaping the cage, with two butterflies flying freely above it. The figure’s face is missing, suggesting a focus on constraint and liberation.

A close-up view of a painting-in-progress featuring the upper torso of a person in a heavily patterned, vivid purple jacket with a white pearl cluster brooch on a yellow background. The jacket has yellow textured fabric underneath. The figure’s neck is replaced by an extended coiled spring, which supports a serene face with short purple hair, backlit by a bright halo. The image is cropped diagonally, emphasizing the texture and color.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 30/11/2025

My poem “The Last Pick Up” is live at Mulberry Literary. I wrote it after my dad died, trying to make sense of an impossible errand. 💞 www.mulberryliterary.com/issue-xi/mau...

Dark, textured background with a single, intact goldfish cracker next to a pile of crushed cracker crumbs. The large white text above reads: "We're past that." Smaller text below credits the poem: "The Last Pick Up" by Maudie Bryant, Published in Mulberry Literary, Issue XI.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 28/10/2025

I'm happy to share my poem, "Hydrangea," is featured in the latest Flora Fiction Literary Magazine! I'm honored to contribute along with so many talented writers and artists. Read the full publication for free here: florafiction.com/literary-mag...

Page 12 of Flora Fiction Literary Magazine Volume 6 featuring the poem "Hydrangea" by Maudie Bryant. The poem's title is in an ornate, decorative font over a light blue and green watercolor background, with a decorative border of blue hydrangeas and green leaves at the bottom of the page. The full text of the poem is:

I couldn’t remember the flower’s name—
it curled away like yours did.
The creases around your eyes, once
folded in a map of living, fade.
Blue, like the bloom, drains
into something pale: periwinkle, maybe—
a hush of color. Each bulbous cluster
offers a secret: bouquets
nested in each fruiting sprout,
as if the plant keeps giving,
even in forgetting.

The scent—barely there—
sleeps beneath my skin.
Petals and leaves,
soft as your ghost behind a door,
soft as the breeze that cups my cheek—
your hand again—
shaking the branches
until glitter spills from the sky.

The poem is followed by a short bio stating: Maudie Bryant is a Pushcart-nominated poet and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores memory, identity, and the quiet disquiet that lingers beneath the surface. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, with her husband and two young sons.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 27/10/2025

My poem "Recalibrations" is out in The Shallot: Journal of Mental Health, Art, and Literature (Vol. 4, No. 2)! So proud to be part of this issue! Grab a copy here: thelayeredonion.com/collections/...

The cover of "The Shallot: Journal of mental health, art, and literature." The artwork is an abstract portrait featuring layered brushstrokes of vivid red, deep purple, and bright gold/yellow. A softly defined face is centered in the purple and yellow layers, surrounded by a texture of red, bubbling paint below. The text "The Shallot" and "Vol. 4 No. 2" is visible on the cover.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 10/10/2025

This poem, "On a Morning When Everything Feels Heavy," came out of the first week I went back to work after my dad's funeral. It's that staggering feeling of loss mixed with the pressure of a world that just keeps going. I'm honored to have it included in Shift: A Journal of Literary Oddities 💞

A close-up photograph of an open book, showcasing a poem titled "On a Morning When Everything Feels Heavy" by Maudie Bryant. The page rests on another copy of the book, Shift: A Journal of Literary Oddities.

Poem Text:

On a Morning When Everything Feels Heavy

by Maudie Bryant

The coffee scalds my tongue,
bitter as the ache that woke me.
I think of my father's hands,
how they used to cup my face,
how they smelled
like cigarettes and sawdust.

The world doesn't care
if I stay in bed today,
but my inbox fills
like a sink left running—
so I pull on jeans
stiff with yesterday's sweat,
grab the keys,
and pretend the engine's roar
isn't just another version of my own.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 30/09/2025

I’m a little late sharing, but three of my visual poems were published in swifts & slows at Arteidolia. These pieces let me stitch fragments and small drawings into something between poem and spell. I'm happy they found a home. 👀: www.arteidolia.com/swifts-slows... #VisualPoetry #Poetry

A black and white visual poem is centered on a line-drawn image of a globe on fire, which is mounted on a small pedestal. The globe has a cross-hatched pattern to suggest lines of longitude and latitude.

The poem's text is scattered around the central image in a mix of typewritten and handwritten-style fonts, some words are curved or angled:

"southern porch" is at the top center.

"the sliding door feels like apple skin" is below that, with "waxy warm, peeling chimes" positioned further down and to the right.

"vibrate" is on the left.

"hummingbirds," is on the right, above "tasting tasting".

"red-capped vessels," is to the right of the burning globe.

The phrase "don't mix bleach and ammonia" forms an arc around the bottom half of the globe, with "don't mix" on the left and "and ammonia" on the right.

"fertile with sugared water." is at the very bottom.

The overall texture of the background suggests crumpled or wrinkled paper.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 19/09/2025

Honored and excited that my poem “Millennium Girl” has been nominated for Best of the Net 2026 by orangepeel! Huge thanks to the editors for this recognition, and congratulations to all the other nominees 💜

A graphic with a maroon background titled “best of the net 2026 nominations by orangepeel.” Three categories are listed:

Art: Eloise Arnott, “Why Won’t My Screen Turn On?”; Gabi Diaz, “Always Always Girl.”

Nonfiction: Chelsea McMillan, “Online: A List of Failed Tween Ventures.”

Poetry: Maudie Bryant, “Millennium Girl”; David Colodney, “The Harder They Come Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”; Katie Grierson, “THE WORLD WANTS US TO SEE EACH OTHER ONE MORE TIME!!!”

The names and titles appear in colored boxes on the maroon background.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 18/09/2025

Between presence and absence, memory and silence. Grateful to see "Schrodinger's Call" in Naugatuck River Review. It's a poem written in the wake of my father's passing. 💞 #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky #publishedpoet #writingthroughgrief

A hand holds open a book displaying the poem "Schrödinger's Call" by Maudie Bryant, published in Naugatuck River Review. The poem describes receiving a voicemail about a father’s passing, blending the moment of ordinary work tasks with the shattering weight of loss. A white label across the page reads: “New publication in Naugatuck River Review.”

Poem Text:
Schrödinger’s Call

The first, I let ring.
Just one more thing, I thought,
just one more click
before the world cracked open.

I was still smoothing
out the creases of a new day,
the office barely awake—
the computer’s hum a soft rhythm,
my fingers clicking in time to a task
I was sure would be done
before the second round of rings.

But the second came fast,
I let the voicemail unfold in the silence,
the words coming slow,
like they had to work up the courage.

“Call back,” it said,
and I knew without knowing
that something had shifted—
something I’d never recover.

I dialed the number
with the same fingers
that had just typed another email,
clicked another box.

Then, the words.
“Your father passed.”

I sat still
as if the world had paused
with me,
as if the space between
those words
had been stretched
so thin
that I could feel my father
both here
and not here
at the same time.

The task,
still waiting,
the screen before me
suddenly distant,
a room I once knew—
but didn’t belong in anymore.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 26/07/2025

It is a fundraiser! More importantly, for who is unclear! Here's info on the protest. #publicservantnotprivatespeaker

A bold protest flyer with a red fist icon and blue checkerboard design. The headline reads: "LUNCH CRASHER – Disrupt the Big Beautiful Lie" in large, impactful text. Subheadings urge people to “Bring Water. Bring Signs. Bring Friends. Bring Dissent.” The event is scheduled for Wednesday, July 30, 2025, from 10:00AM to 1:30PM, with a note that “Mike’s ‘Lunch’ starts at 11:30AM. Let’s be there first!” Protesters are instructed to meet at the Malone Stadium parking lot to walk down to Bayou Pointe. A lower section features a photo collage: Mike Johnson looking uneasy, flanked by edited images of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. A caption over the images reads: “WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? WHY DID MIKE JOHNSON KEEP THE FILES SEALED?” The event is sponsored by “Mike Johnson’s Constituents Demanding Public Town Halls.”

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 01/05/2025

🖋Another poem has dropped!🌸 "In the Temple Shadows" is now live in the "Blooms in Dusk" issue of Boudin, the online home of The McNeese Review. Deep thanks to the editors for giving this piece a home. Step into the hush and read it here: www.mcneese.edu/thereview/20...

Screenshot of the Boudin page from The McNeese Review website, featuring the poem "In the Temple Shadows" by Maudie Bryant, published on April 30, 2025. The site header shows links to Home, Boudin, and Current Issue, with the tagline "Poetry - Fiction - Essays."

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 01/05/2025

🎨 I'm happy to share that a few of my abstract paintings are nestled into the newly released Issue 10 of Last Leaves Magazine! Grateful to be included alongside so many beautiful artworks and poems. 🌿 Take a look here: www.lastleavesmag.com/last-leaves-...

An abstract painting composed of mosaic-like shapes in vibrant hues of red, purple, teal, and yellow. Organic forms and rounded rectangles flow across the canvas, outlined in warm golden tones, with blue rings creating a dynamic, rippling effect through the center.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 11/04/2025

🌸 So thrilled to share my painting "Floral Facade" (24"x30" Acrylic) at Critical Mass 13, the region’s largest critic-judged exhibition, celebrating visual, literary, and performance art. The opening reception is tonight, 5–8 p.m. at Artspace Shreveport! ✨

A colorful acrylic painting on canvas depicting a figure with blue hair and a tailored suit in shades of magenta and teal. Their face is obscured by a lush arrangement of large teal and magenta flowers with golden centers, blending seamlessly into their features. The background is a textured field of teal and blue geometric patterns, creating a sense of movement and depth. The painting has intricate linework and a surreal, dreamlike quality.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 10/04/2025

Gonna read from my Critical Mass entry in just a little while. If you're in Shreveport, come downtown for some lunch and lit!

Lunch & Lit Critical Mass 13 Literary Readings
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Caddo Common Park
869 Texas Ave
Shreveport, LA

Food Trucks On Site

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 20/03/2025

✨Some words fade. Others leave their mark, lingering in the spaces we least expect.✨ Grateful to have my poem "Residual" featured in Apricity Magazine out of UT Austin. Read it here: apricitymagazine.com/portfolio/re... #poetry #litmag #poetsky

The design features two images: on the left, a close-up of hands in yellow rubber gloves washing a plate in a kitchen sink with soapy water; on the right, an underwater scene with light filtering through, illuminating small rocks and sediment. The title "Residual" is displayed in large, elegant serif font at the bottom, with "Apricity Magazine, 2025" written in smaller text below. The background has a textured, earthy tone.

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 22/01/2025

Just received a lovely surprise of alstroemeria as I wrap up the work day. 💐

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 15/11/2024

I love Anodyne for creating such a raw, honest space for real, unfiltered voices. It’s a safe, supportive home for important work. Please read their online content, and subscribe or buy a copy! I have two pieces in Vol. 4 that explore some of my personal reactions to trauma. anodynemag.com/vol4/

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 15/11/2024

After reading "For Desire" by Kim Addonizio, I felt compelled to respond with a poem of my own, rooted in dissociation. I'm happy to share that it’s published today in SLANT! slantpoetryjournal.wordpress.com/maudie-bryant/

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 11/11/2024

I haven’t made an Audi Locus page here yet, but I’m editing an online lit journal seeking poetry & art submissions! What we’re looking for: ✨ Unpublished poetry (ok if shared online before) ✨ Artwork (previously published is fine if you own the rights) Excited to see your work!

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 11/11/2024

Last year, something shifted—I knew I couldn’t sit on my creative work any longer. Turning 40 this year lit a fire in me to see my name in ink. Exceeded my publishing goal this year, with more to come! Here’s to showing up for our art. 💪✨ #writingcommunity #artistjourney #makeart

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Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 07/11/2024

Reposting this recent announcement to give this new account a proper start! I am honored that my poem, "Millennium Girl" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by orangepeel literary magazine! This recognition means the world to me, and I'm grateful to the editors for believing in my work! 🌟

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