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Emily Mohn-Slate

@mohnslate.bsky.social
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poet & essayist, THE FALLS & FEED 📚 BE WHERE YOU ARE on Substack ✨ teaches @madwomencarlow.bsky.social ⚡️

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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💀🧙🏼The Ass in Chair Collective is rolling into October with our usual weekly meet-ups! We meet Mondays from 12-1 EST on zoom. Come hang with us and make your art alone/together with the warmest, weirdest bunch of creative humans on the block! 💀🧙🏼
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Ass in Chair Collective // October 2026
SPOOKY SEASON is HERE! 💀
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Grateful to @swwim.bsky.social for giving this poem a home! These lines came to me in pieces as I was trying to name what it is to parent two tweens and be in the Before times of so much change to come 💜 (also happy I managed to sneak in our favorite awkward puberty joke that the kids hate:)
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Come hang with Ass in Chair Collective this September! We’d love to see you and cheer you on with your creative work in the midst of ALL THE THINGS 🙌🏼 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/ass-in-cha...
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Ass in Chair Collective // September 2026
⚡Join us to get moving on your creative project!⚡
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Come hang with Ass in Chair Collective this September! We’d love to see you and cheer you on with your creative work in the midst of ALL THE THINGS 🙌🏼 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/ass-in-cha...
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Ass in Chair Collective // September 2026
⚡Join us to get moving on your creative project!⚡
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
new beginner's mind interview today with Lauren Davis, who tells the story of how her book THE NOTHING (@yesyesbooks.bsky.social) came out of letting herself just “play” with this form in the wake of the rejection of her first poetry collection. So much wisdom here for writers! 💥
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“Being uncomfortable is temporary...on the other side is beauty”
poet, writer, and creative writing instructor Lauren Davis on acceptance, play, and doing the work even when there seem to be no results ✧
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
new beginner’s mind interview up today with poet, editor, and yoga philosophy teacher, Catherine Esposito Prescott! (co-founder of @swwim.bsky.social) So much wisdom in here for your writing and meditation practices—check it out! emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/songs-of-d...
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Songs of Delight and Rawness
poet, editor, and yoga philosophy teacher Catherine Esposito Prescott on going deep into the authorship of your favorite writers, and the power of a daily practice 🌺🌊​​
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The Madwomen in the Attic @madwomencarlow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Sep 2: A reading of Barbara Wolvovitz's The Only Way to Now. 7-8:30 pm, JCC of Greater Pgh (Squirrel Hill), Room Levinson B; 5738 Darlington Rd. Free & open to the public, but pls RSVP: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/vnV01hK94q Books for sale. Presented by Madwomen & MadBooks. Not a JCCPGH-sponsored event.
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This Monday the 17th at noon EST is our FREE Ass in Chair Collective meet-up! We work on our own creative thing alone/together and it’s kind of magic. Come try it out and bring a friend 🙌🏼💥 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/ass-in-cha...
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Ass in Chair // August 2026
"August is the Sunday of the year, am I right?" —Erinn
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Final post for The Practice of Attention Book Club w/ highlights from our author visit with Cody Cook-Parrott + the recording from my Generative Writing Workshop on Attention, Noticing, and Tuning In w/ @catherinepierce.bsky.social and her Summer of Attention crew! @stmartinspress.bsky.social
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Last post for The Practice of Attention Book Club + our Writing Workshop Recording + a prompt ✨
all the good things for you!
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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
YOU GUYS www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wDr...
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Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives
YouTube video by WXYZ-TV Detroit | Channel 7
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Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
#booksky
Books are amazing because a stranger from 200 years ago can still ruin your afternoon emotionally
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Thank you to Ed Simon @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social and to Kris Collins & Joan Bauer for their leadership of the Hemingway’s Poetry Series. I wrote this poem after the fires in LA in 2025, trying to name what it is to live through all these apocalypses—impacting some far greater than others.
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Emily Mohn-Slate at Hemingway's - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Over this summer PRoB will be featuring the work of upcoming readers that will be appearing at Pittsburgh’s venerable Hemingway’s Poetry Series, now
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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEW: A guide to the best bookshops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 📚🇺🇸 by Lesley Rains @upittpress.bsky.social @staygoldbooks.bsky.social @cityofasylum.bsky.social @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social
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The best bookshops in Pittsburgh, USA - LSE Review of Books
In this guide, Lesley Rains takes us on a tour of the best independent bookshops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In my latest for @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social I look beyond the question of casting in Nolan's Odyssey to what kind of story Nolan is trying to tell, and whether it will ever be possible to tell that story with the Odyssey. pghrev.com/nolans-odyss...
Image of the linked article, showing an image of Agamemnon from Nolan's Odyssey
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
His name was Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a loving husband and father murdered July 13, 2026. We stand with the people of Maine, their protest, and their quest for justice for another innocent civilian murdered at the hands of ICE.
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Grateful for this conversation with poet Cecily Parks. "I’ve learned to trust that my curiosity won’t lead me wrong," she says. There's so much wisdom here in a very distilled way. If you haven’t read THE SEEDS (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) yet, I can’t recommend it enough. 🌱
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"my curiosity won’t lead me wrong"
poet Cecily Parks on not needing a room of her own to write, walking and weeding as meditative movement, and trusting her curiosity 🌱
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Last Monday in Ass in Chair, Katie wrote in the chat: “So grateful for this group and the chance to make something in community. It really has moved me out of years of deep stuck-ness.” Maybe come try it out? We'd love to see you!
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Ass in Chair Collective // July 2026
☀️ Steal some creative time for yourself this summer! ☀️
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
✧ new beginner’s mind interview up today with Leigh Sugar on trying to resist punitive ways of thinking/working regarding writing and training herself to trust softness ✧
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"I am not a machine"
Leigh Sugar on resisting punitive ways of thinking/working and training herself to trust softness ✧
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
💥 new beginner’s mind interview up today with writer, critic, and poet Adriana E. Ramírez on gratitude, "productination," and the power of out-engineering your weaknesses
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"Redefine yourself as the sky, and everything else as weather"
Adriana E. Ramírez on gratitude, "productination," and the power of out-engineering your weaknesses💥
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
new beginner’s mind interview up today with writer, artist & movement practitioner Cody Cook-Parrott ⚪ “Do not beat yourself up for needing to start over. Do not feel like you are too late to begin a spiritual practice. You are right on time!”
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"You are right on time"
writer, artist, and movement practitioner Cody Cook-Parrott on starting a running practice, leaning into ritual, and taking life one day at a time ⚪
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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Check it out, Jessica Danger was recently interviewed by @mohnslate.bsky.social to talk about her memoir NO HEROIC MEASURES, and more over on Substack! buff.ly/BQR0F9A Get NO HEROIC MEASURES here: buff.ly/ocbhE5V @susanschulman.bsky.social
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"Come on luminous entourage. Let’s get to it.”
memoirist, professor, and literary citizen Jessica Danger on being a creative and a whole ass person 🍅
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The Madwomen in the Attic @madwomencarlow.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Workshop fee waivers (no questions asked) and pay-what-you-can, when-you-can available to all who need them!
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The Madwomen in the Attic @madwomencarlow.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Time to spotlight one of our upcoming summer workshops that still has plenty of room! Digital Storytelling w/Dr. Christina Fisanick; Wednesdays, May 20-June 24, 2026, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time; online via Zoom. Sign up today at forms.cloud.microsoft/r/VkfKgx2aTE!
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The Madwomen in the Attic @madwomencarlow.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
April 27, 1:00 p.m. EDT: Registration opens for Summer 2026 Madwomen workshops in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry! 6-week workshops, online and on-campus options, $175 each (scholarships and pay-what-you-can available). Complete info: bit.ly/su26mad.
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Our low-key book club on The Practice of Attention starts this Monday, May 11th! I'd love for you to join us. Any questions? Let me know! 🙌🏼
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Let's read The Practice of Attention together ✨
Join our low-key book discussion group to help reclaim your attention & have fun while doing it
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
⚡new beginner’s mind interview up today with novelist Davin Malasarn today! Davin shares about writing practices, including how he cultivates a sense of security before he writes, which involves wearing a cape! which yes, is my favorite creative ritual anyone has shared yet in this series...
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"a book is only a step, not a finish line"
novelist Davin Malasarn on the power of cultivating a sense of security, just playing in your work, and defining what success means for yourself 🌴
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
⚡ new beginner’s mind interview up today with memoirist Jessica Danger! I highly recommend her memoir, NO HEROIC MEASURES, just out with Santa Fe Writer’s Project! ⚡
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"Come on luminous entourage. Let’s get to it.”
memoirist, professor, and literary citizen Jessica Danger on being a creative and a whole ass person 🍅
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Our Ass in Chair Collective is open to anyone this Monday, April 20th! Join us for a burst of collective energy and virtual gold stars & time to work on what you want to do. 💥 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/free-ass-i...
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⚡FREE Ass in Chair: Mon, April 20th ⚡
This one's open to anyone—get on the list!
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This interview w/ @chingin.bsky.social is a GIFT right now. Ching-In talks about how they need to be accountable to others to write at all, how they push themself to write outside of their wheelhouse, and what we need to learn from fungi 🍄 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/we-need-to...
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"WE NEED TO LEARN FROM THE FUNGI"
writer, community organizer, and teacher Ching-In Chen on the power of writing within community, continually changing up our process, and what we need to learn from fungi 🍄
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Acre Books is looking for creative nonfiction broadly, including #memoir, graphic nonfiction, #essay collections, and narrative #nonfiction. For this call, we’re reading full manuscripts (no query required). Submit through our website at acre-books.com/submissions/ by April 15. #booksky 📚🖊️
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Come join us at Ass in Chair Collective for your weekly dose of creative community! We’d love to cheer you on in your creative life & make some art with you. FREE meet-up is April 20th—register here to get the link. Message me with any questions! 🎉 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/ass-in-cha...
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Ass in Chair Collective: April 2026
Time to sign up for your weekly dose of creative community!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.
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Lisa Gilbert @lisa-pubcitizen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Still 90 mins out and Boston crowd is massive…millions taking to the street today saying “no kings!”
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is going to be an incredible reading with @donikakelly.bsky.social! 🔥 In person for Pittsburghers or virtual for anyone to join! @madwomencarlow.bsky.social
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
@catherinepierce.bsky.social just casually shares SO MANY GEMS HERE. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, if you need a good prompt to get your ass outside, check this out. She’s one of our living greats💥
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"Just do something"
poet, essayist & teacher Catherine Pierce on "woods medicine," the power of specificity, and starting again & again ✨✨
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EngagedPureLand @engagedpureland.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The Internet sucks but also contains the beauty found here:
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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
As someone who has only recently regained the ability to write about not-my-daughter, this is. Yes. This is the thing, right here. I love these pieces.
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
You must say what you want. Robert Bly
White flowers above a book page with the poem by Robert Bly:

Such Different Wants

The board floats on the river.
The board wants nothing 
but is pulled from beneath 
on into deeper waters.

And the elephant dwelling 
on the mountain wants 
a trumpet so its dying cry 
can be heard by the stars.

The wakeful heron striding 
through reeds at dawn wants 
the god of sun and moon 
to see his long skinny neck.

36You must say what you want.
I want to be the man 
and I am who will love you 
when your hair is white.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 27/01/2026
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
These poems.
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This poem is for any writer-parent who’s ever had someone belittle their work. Some dude asked me the question in the title of the first poem after a reading 😤🤬 Thank you to Nelle for giving these poems a home ✨
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/03/2026
more folks should know about this BS: A federal appeals court said West Virginia’s policy denying Medicaid coverage to people seeking surgical treatment for gender dysphoria is *not discriminatory* bc it bans trans-specific healthcare for cis & trans people alike ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Federal Courts Are Putting Trans People In Danger
The Supreme Court’s decision in Skrmetti is already leading to devastating consequences in the lower courts.
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
✨beginner’s mind interview w/ Namrata Poddar(@namratapoddar.bsky.social)⚡If you’ve been feeling intimidated by a larger project, she shares wisdom you might need + reading recs for helping us to decolonize mental health, and to explore what stillness and mindfulness means in this historic moment. ✨
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"Staying with the journey"
writer, editor & professor Namrata Poddar on the power of setting small goals, seeing life as a practice, and decolonizing mental health ✨
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Lara Putnam @laraputnam.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Of course, other thing this chart shows is that growth of Independent + small party registrants is far outpacing either Dem or Rep. Research suggests those are likely folks who do tend to vote for one major party, but also have heterodox views & low trust in political institutions. Go persuade them!
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Lara Putnam @laraputnam.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New numbers: In the month of October, net voter registration trends turned positive for Dems in Pennsylvania. Unprecedently [in recent memory], Dem gains have outpaced Republicans every single month since then
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The Madwomen in the Attic @madwomencarlow.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Congratulations also to our honorable mentions and our remaining finalists! And thanks to all who submitted to this award.
Patricia Dobler Poetry Award 2025 Honorable Mentions

“On the Corner of Tremont Street and My Fourth Decade” by Kristin Gallagher from Pembroke Pines, FL

“Ninth Grade” and “Touch-Me-Nots” by Tori Sharpe from Little Rock, ARPatricia Dobler Poetry Award 2025 Finalists

“In the Begging Season” by Marion Brown from Bronxville, NY

“A Homeland Denied” by Christa Bruhn from Fitchburg, WI

“from Lives of the Saints (St. Lucy)” by Susan Cronin from Ann Arbor, MI

“Thirty-Nine-&-a-Half-Foot Pole” by Corey Ginsberg from Avalon, PA

“The Note I Leave” by A. Dearborn Goldsmith from Hingham, MAPatricia Dobler Poetry Award 2025 Finalists (cont'd)

“IMAGINE” by Joyce Hernandez from Yakima, WA

“Matrescence” by Laura Joyce-Hubbard from Highland Park, IL

“October” by Amanda P. Smith-Hatch from Ontario, NY

“Redemption, Eighth Grade” by Mercer Warriner from Valatie, NY
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The Madwomen in the Attic @madwomencarlow.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
As winner of the 2025 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award, Tokaji will receive $1,000; a public reading in Pittsburgh, PA, with judge Jenny Johnson in Spring 2026; round-trip travel and lodging for her public reading; and publication of her winning poem in Voices from the Attic.
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