Sign in

Sandra Simonds

@sandmansimonds.bsky.social
824 followers 687 following 442 posts

Poet and Trail 🏃🏻‍♀️ Runner, Magician Vermont Book Award in Fiction 2023 for Assia. 9 books of poetry Burning Oracle (poetry-ish) coming 2026 Wesleyan University Press Arctic Circle Residency, May 25 ❄️

PostsRepliesMedia
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
tenacious me
010 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
i guess they are our new patrons
000 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
this city is legit dirty but i love it
020 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
chasing down poetry money is so annoying
051 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
gotta admit that the summer hits are pretty great
000 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
at this point, i get paid more for my prose than poetry idk how i feel about that
000 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
i love writing this piece
000 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I find Maxin Kumin’s obsession with Anne Sexton bizarre and off-putting.
000 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
if I don’t start writing again, I have no excuse to be a lunatic
020 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
i can make in 1 day what I make in my teaching job in a week, but i care about teaching these kids my art so…
010 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
John Lee Hooker ran away at 14 and never saw his mother again …cray
020 0
Reposted by Sandra Simonds
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My review of @joriegraham.bsky.social ‘s latest book, “Killing Spree” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...
nytimes.com
Shocked and Shattered Elegies for a Lost Utopian Dream
194 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My review of @joriegraham.bsky.social ‘s latest book, “Killing Spree” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...
nytimes.com
Shocked and Shattered Elegies for a Lost Utopian Dream
194 0
Reposted by Sandra Simonds
ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/05/2026
1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix. Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection. They knew how to treat her. There was one issue … 🧵
A woman with shoulder-length dark hair wearing a reddish-brown corduroy jumpsuit.
20045512094 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
on a beach of weathered sand
030 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
the problem w/ academia is its demands for propriety instead of creative intelligence
010 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
bc they are also freaks
010 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
more than i ever saw in academia
100 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
i work with geniuses
100 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
don’t want to have to worry about money but also don’t want a boss
010 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
probably poetry requires a certain level of lawlessness that most people are not comfortable with
000 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
next time i will just say give me the ticket
100 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
i got out of another ticket ..something is wrong w me
110 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
hegel —tragedy as a collision of contradictory views
110 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
most def
010 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
hey you came up in conversation at word of the south !
100 0
Reposted by Sandra Simonds
Immune to Boredom @immunetoboredom.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Only if you dislike them.
111 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
but i also know im almost ready bc i cleaned my house
010 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
i hate the thing where i have to start working on a book and i just procrastinate & post song lyrics like whyyyy
020 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
should you really give the ppl what they want tho?
100 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
i think maybe being practical would crush me
020 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
should i go to law school or should i continue to be an unemployed poetry freak?
100 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I’ve killed my world & I’ve killed my time
010 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I worked so fucking hard on this review & I think it is really good. I’m glad I was trained as a materialist Marxist freak bc it is good for criticism
030 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I don’t remember the last day I did not work.
000 0
Reposted by Sandra Simonds
MICHAEL CHANG POET @officialmchangpoet.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
😱😱😱 My new chap HEROES is now available from Temz Review / 845 Press • cover art by the amazing Jean Jullien 🐳🐳🐳 — www.thetemzreview.com/store/p50/HE...
HEROES BY MICHAEL CHANG NOW AVAILABLE FROM TEMZ REVIEW 845 PRESS
1105 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Madame Bovary really fucked me up
120 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
the Lydia Davis translation is pretty great
140 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Flaubert said he was Emma Bovary
120 0
Reposted by Sandra Simonds
MICHAEL CHANG POET @officialmchangpoet.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
ft blurb by @sandmansimonds.bsky.social and others 🌟🌟🌟
022 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
the Animals cover of It’s all over Now Baby Blue I like better than the og
000 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
must register beforehand to get on campus
000 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
reading at Columbia tonight
130 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I wrote this about AI and poetry
061 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
haha is that what he said?
110 0
Reposted by Sandra Simonds
Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 06/04/2026
ah the poète maudit (as Alex once described you to me!)
111 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
easter, writing deadline, weird hotel room what is my life?
110 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
uncanny
000 0
Reposted by Sandra Simonds
Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
It's almost as if people like that have an extra sense that allows them to inhabit songs and make themselves at home in those "little rooms in time" as David Berman called them (songs, that is).
111 0
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
New Jersey drivers 😭
010 0