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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Three years ago I lost Bjarki (1st picture). A week ago I lost Yazhi. Today I buried Bjarki’s ashes with her. They were only a couple months apart in age and inseparable. Now they’re finally together again and my house is so empty. I miss them so goddamn much...

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My heart aches so goddamn much. This poem ‘Fair Trade’ (second slide) was published in my book - Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost. You’ll either get it or you won’t. I just want my damn dog back… My house is howling.

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I lost my side-eye girl Yazhi today and I’m not okay. I’ll never understand how humans with their capacity for violence and cruelty are given ever long lives. There are beast in this life that same us with their unconditional love.

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

For no other reason it’s almost the end of July. I literally took the whole ‘Christmas in July’ context to heart. It’s JULY go find a damn forest glen somewhere with pine trees 🤷🏻‍♀️. This piece was originally printed in @ponderreview.bsky.social

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

NY is a dull haze of smoke. What else is one to do but find the woods and breathe deep. After hiking for a few hours, finding a few caves, finding mystery , I emerged from the woods to the skies first break of blue. (How cool are the root steps in the second picture…)

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It’s an immense honor to be in the first issue of @nervetowrite.bsky.social with so many talented writers. Do yourself a favor and check out this incredible issue. 🙏🤟

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The poem is based on a true story. A fist did indeed come through a door…Every Damn Day Is Domestic Violence Awareness. Pulp was originally published in Pinhole Poetry. #DomesticViolence, #Holidays, #Pulp, #pinholepoetry

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Might be human… We’re all complicit in this humanness. Let this be a reminder, kindness doesn’t cost a damn thing… #human, #WeCarryTheWound, #mightbeapoet, #KindnessRebel

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

When you have fangs and a heart. Our humanity is making us the wrong kind of animal. #fangsandheart, #trashethos, #notgrandmaspoetry, #littlegirlgrownup

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I’m not even mad the moon hid last night. Make sure to read the poem inspiring the caption. I was fortunate and honored Atlanta Review chose to published ‘Between Bites’ a few years back. #moonlight, #betweenbites, #atlantareview, #poetry

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

*Lit Cigarette Summer is in two parts. The recent Canadian wildfires have me returning to this poem of mine in scavengers.lit . NY’s red haze moonlit nights of ‘what have we done’, is yet another in your face reminder. The world is becoming a dumpster fire with each passing day.

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I’ve been sadly remiss in announcing two wonderful anthologies I had the pleasure of gracing recently. The first is @pioneertownlit decade long celebrated collection - Pioneertown Pairings. Poems are paired with a cocktail or mocktail recipe throughout. Check out my poem, ‘What Escapes a Throat’.

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Gallaudet University Press @gallaudetpress.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

We can’t let April pass us by without featuring some #DeafLit for #NationalPoetryMonth! Here's “Night Speak” and “Playing God with a Flashlight” by @sageravenwood.bsky.social from EVERYTHING THAT HURT US BECOMES A GHOST. Now 30% off w/ promo code NDHM2025: gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever...

NIGHT SPEAK
When you heard the rain tapping gently outside your window pebble tinged
A lover’s insistent plea to be let in Sweat draped in cotton sheets
screen shifted breeze floating bare skin Before your nail torn larynx’s scream asphyxiated Hatched
spiderlings pouring from every orifice
Wool choked whispers misnomered sheep knowing want and desire are different beast
Squandering retaliation on forgivable regret Who pays the piper to chase uncounted sheep Delinquent
soothsayer’s childlike prayers When you can’t forget whose voice
never shuts up
in your head a familiar stranger Memories sewn into a taunt fitted skin suit
bloodied by touch wail slapped birthing
And you want to pierce the heart of every white knight who failed to save the possessed maiden
Virginity’s broken vessel has a female body It’s dark in the dark beneath ghost lids
The night spits up chewed morsels of cognition Endless rooms in a house of woke with no escape
every ex-lover is holding a hatchet of mistake Our dank sub-duality drum grown quiet Curtains
tangled into knotted links of noose Stygian slumber’s bloated corpse awakening
to sunrise’s persuasive red-tinged cleaving Dawn filters through eyelash ensnared brain fog
Do you remember a kindness of sleep

PLAYING GOD WITHOUT A FLASHLIGHT
Fear and loathing eat days
Mares of night wearing faces of memory
racing blind and trampling throated screams Couch sitting on my hands wood paneled Walls covered in
The Wizard of Oz memorabilia
I’m Dorothy talking to an inferno head Pretending to be a wizened little man behind the curtain
Words flick against enamel escaping between my lips All the house of me doors are unlocked
I’ve set a place at the table for you
Introducing each trauma sitting with us by name I played the role of cowardly lion
Empty as a tin man with no heart
A scarecrow psychologist panning my brain Each response institutionalized textbook ready You
believed this yellow brick road
led to all my selves
For years pulling up a chair to examine
Each nag pulled from the race of my headspace Time was a useful tool for thieving senses
Never staying longer than an hour Refusing to turn on the stair lights to the
basement’s sublevel of emotional fortitude Every other room mined of intellectual capacity I never
locked my doors you were free to leave Your pissed stained road spiraled out of control
Munchkins couldn’t brick enough winding yellow Holding a motor purring kitten not Toto
I’m watching the ball you dropped roll away There was never enough magical realism to forge
the wilderness of me No matter how many times you stopped to skip stones across my creek
I own this darkness
The batteries in your flashlight are dead

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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Includes collections by @mailbykite.bsky.social, Naomi Cohn, @tagreathouse.bsky.social, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social, @sageravenwood.bsky.social, and Jillian Weise.

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Your girl’s book is featured in the DeafLit Reading Fest. I’m right up there with Nyle Dimarco whose book Deaf Utopia made The NY Times Bestseller list. 🙏🤟

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

There’s no flesh between love and pain…Twin shadows, never one without the other.” I’m a little too ‘real’, so you might want to grab a copy before it ends up getting banned in this new reality we find ourselves in. gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever...

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Today’s a good day after all. 🙏🤟

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

What is Autumn of the soul but a lesson in how to let the dead things go. And what if we can’t? It’s been a quiet year of gentling loss and goodbyes. Words unflinchingly stabbing pins in nerve endings like a voodoo doll as if we haven’t already succumbed to grief.

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Happy Bookaversary! It’s been one year since Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost debuted. I would love to hear what you thought of the collection or if there was a favorite poem. 🙏🤟

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

A poetry expose, halfway between beauty and chaos. ‘I still don’t like my face’ but this book is what happens when you cut the raw truth from your body and expose it to the light of day. The emptying… (link in bio)

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

My poem ‘Deer Woman’ originally published in @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social is today’s feature poem on #versedaily www.versedaily.org/2024/deerwom...

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

I’m honored and thankful to @shiloniziolek for choosing ‘Tsola’ one of two poems for print in the recent issue of @scavengers.lit. When you see life unfolding around you and within you.

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

When you trip into Goodreads and find your book isn’t doing so bad after all. 🙏🤟 www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

The post about my 2nd book making finalist for the Southeast Missouri State University Cowles Poetry Prize got a lot of traction. Here’s the poem the collection is based on. First published in Hobo Camp Review. It’s loosely based on the MMIW (Missing Murdered Indigenous Woman) movement.

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

I had the honor of having two poems accepted by South Dakota Review. I’ve already shared the first with you, here’s the second one, aptly titled, ‘Seeded Pain’. Once again the poem is in two parts, scroll for the second half. Indigenous thoughts on who we are.

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

What better way to say I’m not a fan of Valentine’s Day than to share, ‘I’m Not the Branch’ a deaf poem about falling out of love or is it about love. You decide. This poem first showed up Santa Clara Review and makes an entrance in my book ‘Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost’.

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

It’s an incredible honor to grace the pages of the latest issue of South Dakota Review. American Spirit is in two parts✌️pages. Make sure you read for the full poem. Speaking about native cliches…

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

When you’re trying to get creative promoting your book which came out in Oct. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Honestly, I don’t know what I’m doing. I wrote some words in a poetry collection. You can find it here: gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever... Let me know what your favorite poem of mine is. I’d love to know.

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

My manuscript ‘Many Persons Faces Covered Over’ ended up being a finalist in the Southeast Missouri State University Press 2023 Cowles Poetry Prize. I’m writing it off as a big deal. So close to having another of my books out in the world. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

I’m delighted to have my poem ‘Vase Drunk Season’ in the latest issue of Free State Review with so many other amazing writers.

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Let’s keep the mystery alive. Yes, I’m damn well angry in that second image. Either I have a perpetual pout or scowl. Life has jagged edges, I don’t like being sawed open.

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Carlos A. Pittella @pittella.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

"Glue your eyes to my chest so you won't see my mouth devouring a scream" Sage, this gave me the goosebumps. The whole poem is stunning 🔥 Can't wait to read the full issue when my copy arrives across the border... & beyond excited to have a piece alongside yours in Shō #4 💙

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 28/01/2024

When our stories come with warnings and a belief in something larger within us. I’m incredibly grateful to have my poem ‘Deer Woman’ (Ani Yunwitsandsdi) in the latest issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social with so many other extraordinary poets.

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

So happy to be published in Shō no. 4 @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social with two Returning from the Dead poems. Also thrilled to be alongside poets like @jackbedell.bsky.social Ariel Francisco Melissa Fite Johnson, @sageravenwood.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social and many others!!

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V.C. Myers @vcmyers.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

I just received my copy of @sageravenwood.bsky.social's gorgeous debut poetry book. Sage is one of my very favorite poets & I've been waiting years for this book. Get your copy at the link below: t.co/4HiQp7gQ15

Book cover: everything that hurts us becomes a ghost by Sage Ravenwood

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I’m honored to have my poem ‘Singing Coming From a Torn Throat’ in the recent edition of @WorcesterReview Volume 44 with so many amazing writers. Poem is in two parts scroll for the ending. It’s a nod to October’s soliloquy.

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Two weeks!! I can’t wait until this book is out in the world! ‘Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost’ comes out October 18th from @GallaudetPress. It’s available for preorder from the link below as well as Amazon, Barnes & Noble. Who else is excited? gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever...

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Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

It’s an honor to have my poem ‘Torn’ in the latest issue of @westtrestal. I can’t think of a more appropriate poem to offer up as summer wind down. www.westtrestlereview.com/west_trestle...

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