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Sally Rosen Kindred

@sallypoet.bsky.social
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poet, person / she/her / NO EDEN (Mayapple Press) / BOOK OF ASTERS (Mayapple Press) / WHERE THE WOLF (Diode Editions) / Baba Yaga's BFF

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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Deep thanks to the editors at @swwim.bsky.social for sharing this one. It appears in a manuscript that I've begun sending out, that could have just been called, "Bodies, Man. Seriously?"
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Deep thanks to @poetrycurrency.bsky.social for featuring these two poems--which are proof I'm a) still writing about foxes and b) still writing, even though a doctor drilled a hole in my head. 😂🦊🤷‍♀️
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Folklore friends, this summer reading is meant for you--Selkie Moon, by @kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social , is a selkie story told freshly and tenderly from the daughter's p.o.v. Its lush island dreamscapes swept me away. And oh, the sentences! Such enchanting sentences!
A copy of the book Selkie Moon, whose cover shows a moon reflected in the sea and surrounded by seals, appears on a desk between an amethyst and a black and white polished stone, along with blue eyeglasses.
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Still have a few open seats in this May workshop. Poets and dreamers, come write with us!
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Poetry Friends, I'll be teaching this new online async workshop in May! Hope you'll join us!
poetrybarn.org
Here, There, and OtherWhere: Dreaming Spaces/Places in Your Poems — The Poetry Barn
Dates: Monday, May 5 - Sunday, June 1 Format: Asynchronous ( learn more ) Poet Naomi Shihab Nye has said, “place is really the gravity for poetry. Poetry exists in terms of how it springs out of...
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Everything is burning down, and also, I am thankful to New Ohio Review for including this small grief poem.
Cover of new issue of New Ohio Review. It's a broad-stroked painting of a face in orange and white on a yellow background.text of poem about a recurring dream
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Matthew Lafferty @mattlaff.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Kay Ryan, my goodness
"Eggs" by Kay Ryan

We turn out
as tippy as
eggs. Legs
are an illusion.
We are held
as in a carton
if someone
loves us.
It's a pity
only loss
proves this.
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
“If a star, hydrangea me blue.” 💙 —C.T. Salazar in HEADLESS JOHN THE BAPTIST HITCHHIKING (Acre Books) @ctsalazar.bsky.social
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Damn Rita Dove is so stunning 🔥🔥
From insta account @poetryisnotaluxury 

Rita Dove

PITHOS

Climb
into a jar 
and live 
for a while.

Chill earth.
No stars 
in this stone 
sky.

You have ceased 
to ache.

Your spine is 
a flower.
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Michael Boccardo (he/him) @mboccardopoet76.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
@sallypoet.bsky.social never ceases to amaze me. Check out this haunting piece published in the latest issue of Plume Poetry. plumepoetry.com/anatomy-of-l...
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Anatomy of Late - Plume
Anatomy of Late   It looks like a fox, when it’s sleeping. No, its body won’t be that red, that curled certain with tufts of sky. It looks like the moss that covers your dream of the fox when sleep be...
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
@jessicacuello.bsky.social, I cherish this pointed (porcupine joke, see what I did there?) poem for its surprise wings (oh, oops, spoiler)
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Wow.
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Karen Craigo @karenkay.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I'm pleased to offer manuscript coaching for literary journal publication – and ready to start today, since this is something I love to do. About me: Former editor/current nonfiction editor, Mid-American Review; prose poetry editor, Pithead Chapel, series editor, Moon City Press poetry prize.
Get the Word Out: Publish in 2025

Your work isn't finished if it doesn't have an audience. Let's work together to close the loop.

Mindset work: We'll explore the question, "Why publish?"
Revision help: You'll get an editor's perspective on your work.
Packet prep: We'll strategically package and target submissions.

Introductory offer: $99 covers four hours of live coaching. And if you don't publish within six months, we'll do it again for free.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 20/11/2024
A new report details both an epidemic of fatal violence and discriminatory legislation against trans Americans. While many fear a Trump administration will only further threaten trans lives, these orgs are fighting back. ⤵️
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Amid An Violence Epidemic Against Trans Americans, These Groups Are Fighting Back
A new report details both an epidemic of fatal violence and discriminatory legislation against trans Americans. While many fear a Trump administration will only further threaten trans lives, these org...
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
First: an email from AWP, telling me about how my online panel will work, when I'm not going to AWP next year. Then, as I begin to reply, an email from the NEA, rejecting my fellowship application (which I at least actually did submit). As Hamlet would say, "Indeed, Lord, it followed hard upon." 🙃
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
About to go visit a poetry class, which turns out to be in a building I haven't been in since 1991, when I went there twice a week, to teach my first-ever college writing course. 👀 When I walk in to the classroom, should I burst into The Circle of Life? (asking for my old-ass self)
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Molly Spencer @mspencerpoet.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
This poem today and every day: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...
poetryfoundation.org
Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)
I lived in the first century of world wars.
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Lisa M. Bradley @cafenowhere.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
RAÍCES Texas has a wishlist of supplies they provide to immigrant families. You can buy them dish soap, shaving cream, even car booster seats. click.everyaction.com/k/97052365/5...
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Welcoming Refugee Families with RAICES | Amazon Gift List
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Louise Glück.
MATINS
You want to know how I spend my time?
I walk the front lawn, pretending to be weeding. You ought to know I'm never weeding, on my knees, pulling clumps of clover from the flower beds: in fact I'm looking for courage, for some evidence my life will change, though it takes forever, checking each clump for the symbolic
leaf, and soon the summer is ending, already the leaves turning, always the sick trees going first, the dying turning
brilliant yellow, while a few dark birds perform their curfew of music. You want to see my hands?
As empty now as at the first note.
Or was the point always to continue without a sign?
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
“I tell you how it is that we live and what it is that we do. We get ourselves up off our much abused sofas to the old intolerable sound of hollow spoons and hollow bowls to ensure that our love has not left the world or else.” C.D. Wright
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 29/06/2024
My poem about Disney and deer and the weird dark of movie theaters and oh, yeah, also grief is out in the new issue of storySouth. Thanks @terrylkennedy.bsky.social for including this one in Issue 57!
storysouth.com
First Movie: Bambi, 1975 - storySouth
They tell you it’s going to be dark in there and the mother’s going to die. Dark in there and empty, like a cave.
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
So thankful that this poem found such a great home at the wonderful @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social .
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Tristan Beiter @tristanbeiter.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
I just revisited the most recent issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social and this poem is just incredible! www.whaleroadreview.com/kindred-3/
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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
In the DC area? Come out on 2/20 to hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social read poetry with Sarah Kain Gutowski, @sallypoet.bsky.social and @larapayne.bsky.social
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
Thanks to Tahoma Literary Review for including this poem in their latest issue--
tahomaliteraryreview.com
In a Rainlit Voice - Tahoma Literary Review
The news of your death called me Bird this morning. It spoke in a rainlit voice you hadn’t used for years before you died, so the news of your death is
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Psaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Did you know we are currently accepting book reviews? Send us an email if you're interested in getting set up with a book to review!
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$ (Poetry Is Currency) @poetrycurrency.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
She pursued his ship like it was him like his capital was scraps of skin   like the cargo was silver love This poem from the $ archive is "Dear North 1795," by @jessicacuello.bsky.social. poetrycurrency.com/poem/jessica...
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Dear North 1795, | Jessica Cuello | $ – Poetry Is Currency
She pursued his ship like it was him like his capital was scraps of skin   like the cargo was silver love      Laudanum deadened her       Norway numbed her The Baltic Sea passed rag a...
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
I'm thankful to have a poem, "Prayer with Dead Mother and Apparent Outward Force on a Rotating Mass," in this issue, filled with poets whose work I so admire. Thank you and happy 8th birthday, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social.
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Thank you, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social 💜
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Thank you, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social !
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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
“To raise the veil. To see what you're saying goodbye to.” ~ Louise Glück
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
🐺🌲Thank you, Sarah!
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Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
I would so appreciate your passing word of this 9/9 zoom session on to students and other poet pals. TY. www.writerscenter.org/calendar/art...
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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
A labor poem for Labor Day.
Poet’s work
BY LORINE NIEDECKER
Grandfather   
   advised me:
         Learn a trade

I learned
   to sit at desk
         and condense

No layoff
   from this
         condensery
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Sally Rosen Kindred @sallypoet.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
I made it to Bluesky! And I even know where the share button is! Now...any poets around here? :)
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