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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Because you needed one last gasp of summer this morning, and/or because you love a good peach: read this sexy-ass poem by Maria Zoccola, which appears in the new issue of Gravy. I'm excited to intro Maria at the upcoming Southern Foodways Alliance symposium in Memphis! mailchi.mp/southernfood...

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Blue Plate Special: Poems, Peaches, and Prizes

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In Chicago this weekend? Phi Beta Kappa is hosting a get-together for literary folks (and those interested in meeting literary folks!) at the Art Institute of Chicago on Sunday, 9/27, 11 AM-2 PM. Enjoy a chance to chat, eat, and make your own zine~ www.eventbrite.com/e/pub-fair-n...

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Pub Fair & Networking Event Hosted by Phi Beta Kappa Society

Join The Phi Beta Kappa Society in Chicago on September 27 for a free afternoon of discovery at our Pub Fair and Networking Event!

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

C'mon, we're in the August lull and there's no good TV. You've already watched all of Widow's Bay twice. Watch our poetry reading tonight instead! Thursday, 8/13, 7 PM ET, on Zoom—Frost Place celebration w/ Adam Giannelli, James Davis May, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, & me. frostplace.org/dpir-contest...

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Online Reading Featuring the Winner and Finalists for the Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at the Frost Place 2026 - The Frost Place

Join us for an evening of poetry, featuring this year's winner, Adam Giannelli, and finalists James Davis May, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and Sandra Beasley, for the Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at The Fr...

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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Today on the site we’ve got a fresh new interview with Emily Lapomardo and @sandrabeasley.bsky.social about disabled literary community, tectonic shifts in identity and representation, and ways to show up for crip community! www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

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An Interview with Sandra Beasley

Sandra Beasley is a prominent DC-based writer and activist who has published four poetry collections and a memoir. She often centers disability at the forefront of her work, combining personal experie...

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

News: In July, I became the Editorial & Digital Content Manager for The Phi Beta Kappa Society. I'm thrilled to join a comms team making the case for the arts and sciences all day, every day. I've worked for Phi Beta Kappa twice before, and my office (back to Dupont Circle!) already feels like home.

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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Reminder

We open for subs June 1. All genres. $50, no sub fees. Barrelhousemag.com

There's a whole UFO/alien thing going on too

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

3 contemporary food memoirs—3 Mondays evenings in June. Come discuss these amazing books by John T Edge & Bee Wilson & Michelle Zauner with us through @politicsprose.bsky.social via Zoom! I don't know about you, but reading is what gets me writing. politics-prose.com/list/online-...

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ONLINE CLASS: Reading Contemporary Memoirs of Food & Culture (2646)

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I closed out last year by writing a little post for Chicks Dig Poetry (keeping the lights on, stubbornly) and sending out four applications for creative writing residencies. 2025 was a brutal year! But you're here. I'm here. Let's try to change our luck together. sbeasley.blogspot.com

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__Chicks Dig Poetry__

...occasional postcards from Washington, D.C. writer Sandra Beasley...

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Hooray for All These Ghosts! Silas House's collection is the Top Book of 2025 at Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, VA (H/T for their photo). This kind of recognition is so important in independent publishing—congrats to Silas & the @blairpub.bsky.social team, where I'm proud to serve as poetry editor.

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Just sent out an advance reading packet with a knockout array of poems about food. Want a look? My seminar, "An Appetite for the Page," is this Sunday (11/16), 1-4 PM ET online with the wonderful @poetcamp.bsky.social. Sliding scale registration & a couple of seats left! poetcamp.com/an-appetite-...

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An Appetite for the Page with Sandra Beasley | Poet Camp

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

It's time, poets! Last chance to submit for the Wren Poetry Prize. Winner receives $1K advance against royalties and gets to work with Blair. No reading fee. Send in by Saturday, Nov 15—but note, the portal will close early if we reach 300 submissions first!

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Hey there! I'm the final judge of this year's Wren Poetry Prize for @BlairPublisher, and we're looking to give a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd collection of poems a great home. Is it yours? NO reading fee. Get your entry in soon—at 300 submissions, we close the Submittable portal. blair.submittable.com/submit

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Blair / Carolina Wren Press Submission Manager

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Looking for book-ish community & convo in August? Join our @politicsprose.bsky.social seminar on contemporary memoir—we'll read Kiese Laymon's HEAVY, Chloé Cooper Jones's EASY BEAUTY, and Hua Hsu's STAY TRUE. 3 Mondays (8/11, 8/18, 8/25), 6:30-8 PM ET over Zoom. politics-prose.com/list/online-...

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ONLINE CLASS: Powerful Life Stories - Reading Contemporary Memoir (25100)

Welcome to our new website! We're excited to see you. *** RETURNING USERS WILL NEED TO RESET THEIR PASSWORD FOR THIS NEW SITE. CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD.***

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Baltimore friends—tonight at 6 PM ET (Monday, 5/19) I'll get to be in conversation with the stellar poet @stevenleyva.bsky.social at The Ivy Bookshop to celebrate Leyva's collection, The Opposite of Cruelty (H/T @blairpub.bsky.social). Please join us on The Ivy's patio at 6 PM!

Text:
The Ivy Bookshop presents....
Steven Leyva
with Sandra Beasley
5.19.25 - 6 PM - On the Patio

Author photos are of Leyva, a man with black skin tone wearing a red sweater and blue collared shirt, and Beasley, a white woman. Both are looking at the camera in close-up. The book's cover art is a designed image that emphasizes a "mirror" reality of above and below, and includes roses and a spiral staircase. The larger image has a light green background with ivy decorative elements.

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Eleanor’s Trousers @eleanorstrousers.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I was sitting on my porch in the rain and remembered my favorite poem with a veranda in the rain, and I initially couldn’t find it, so here it is for the good of everyone. Vocation by @sandrabeasley.bsky.social

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Vocation

Sandra Beasley

For six months I dealt Baccarat in a casino.
For six months I played Brahms in a mall.
For six months I arranged museum dioramas; my hands were too small for the Paleolithic and when they reassigned me to lichens, I quit.
I type ninety-one words per minute, all of them Help. Yes, I speak Dewey Decimal.
I speak Russian, Latin, a smattering of Tlingit.
I can balance seven dinner plates on my arm.
All I want to do is sit on a veranda while a hard rain falls around me. I'll file your 1099S.
I'll make love to strangers of your choice.
I'll do whatever you want, as long as I can do it on that veranda. If it calls you, it's your calling, right? Once I asked a broker what he loved about his job, and he said Making a killing.
Once I asked a serial killer what made him get up in the morning, and he said The people.

From / Was the Jukebox: Poems. Copyright © 2010 by Sandra Beasely. Used with permission of W. W. Norton & Company.

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The only thing better than having my book in a vending machine of DC authors would be if our books were piled in a big heap and you had 15 seconds to manipulate a claw to pick one at random. (LitBox 2.0?) Looking forward to the LitBox launch this Saturday (5/17) with Martha Anne Toll & Kyoko Mori!

Text - Lit Box: Book Vending Machine Launch Celebration
Saturday, May 17, 3-4 p.m.
With Books by Local DC/DMV-area Authors
And Readings from:

Sandra Beasley - Poetry
Kyoko Mori - Memoir
Martha Anne Toll - Fiction

Western Market
2000 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC

Graphic of LitBox shows an open-window front (inside blank) with a decorative edge based on the D.C. flag.

Side of LitBox shows a collage of iconic DC images including the Washington Monument, Capitol, Walt Whitman, and Martin Luther King Jr, with a typewriter superimposed in the center.

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

“You hit on me. You hit on everyone. / You pour gallons of lightning punch / into a trash bag, explaining that sobriety / is just a 2 AM Waffle House away.” — @sandrabeasley.bsky.social, “Love Poem for College” www.angelfire.com/zine/bluefif...

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Was heading home last night from hearing Anne Carson read in Georgetown University and saw this tree. It's about to get worse. We need to fight. But also, there is still joy in the world, and we need to honor that too. Thank you to whoever makes sure this tree is doing what it is doing.

Photograph taken from the sidewalk at night looking up at a very tall tree, with small white bulb lights strung all around its trunk and through its branches. The tree sits in front of a three-story white brick building. There is also a lit street lamp and black wrought iron fencing in view.

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Pableaux Johnson had many gifts—cooking skills, generosity of spirit—and absolutely irreplaceable talent as a photographer. People lit up for his camera (like I did, at a Southern Foodways Symposium) because of who was behind the camera. You are so missed, friend. www.foodandwine.com/pableaux-joh...

A white woman with mid-length brown hair is looking directly at the camera and grinning. Her hands are brought togther in front of her and tipped under her chin. She has orange sunglasses set on top of her head, hoop earrings, and a blue-and-green Southern Foodways Alliance lanyard around her neck.

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Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

2025 might seem like a very weird time to resolve to spend MORE time on social media, but life circumstances put me on relative hiatus back in 2022, and I miss y'all's voices. Kicking off by sharing an essay, "I Am Cat Lady," which I published in VQR late last year: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/be...

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I Am Cat Lady

Abyssinians are to tabbies as caviar is to salmon roe: the expensive version. I was determined to find an Abyssinian as I walked the floor of The Cotillion Ballroom in Wichita, Kansas, on what was als...

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