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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Oh when I go to the Renaissance Festival, I go cheesy as hell

Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

If you grew up evangelical like me, you’re no stranger to the rapture. In honor of being left behind, here’s an old poem of mine about it (in @glasspoetry.bsky.social )

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Sara Moore Wagner | On Everything They Left Out | Poets Resist | Glass: A Journal of Poetry

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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Packing for Punch Bucket Lit Fest in Asheville NC! I’m reading from Mycocosmic at 1:30 with Bruce Beasley, Patrick Paridee Samuel, & Brendan Walsh, then I hop into the publishing panel with these fine people. Excited! @saramoorewagner.bsky.social

Panel on Publishing at Punch Bucket Lit Fest in Asheville NC 9/20 3:30

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

If you’ll be in Asheville this weekend for Punch Bucket lit fest, come see me at any of these panels, or at the Driftwood table (which will be manned by my teen son while I am in these panels!), or send me a message if you want to meet up!

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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Pre-order your copy of Clayre Benzadón’s Moon as Salted Lemon! This poetry collection is a queering of form and language which interrogates the intersections of Sephardic Jewish, American, and nonbinary identity. #tbr #newpoetry

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NPR @npr.org · 27/07/2025

Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities. Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Get your Affrilachia & Appalachia poetics on with these recent Of Poetry guests! Ep 69: share.transistor.fm/s/9cb1fec4 & @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social Ep 74: share.transistor.fm/s/f542a5e6 & @saramoorewagner.bsky.social Ep 75: share.transistor.fm/s/a89ddedb & @christenkauffman.bsky.social

OF POETRY PODCAST
RECENT EPISODES WITH AFFRILACHIAN
& APPALACHIAN POETS!

UPFROMSUMDIRT (EPISODE 69)
SARA MOORE WAGNER (EPISODE 74)
CHRISTEN NOEL KAUFFMAN [EP 75)

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Dropped my teen son & friends at Cedar point, then decided to go beach reading. It’s very hot, I’m 4 hrs from home, & the only bathing suit I could find in my van was one too ugly for my tween. I stuffed myself in this thing like a weird mom-sausage. Can’t return it now, I guess. Laugh with me.

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

We’ve got your late night poetry listening, here: share.transistor.fm/s/f542a5e6 Episode 74: Sara Moore Wagner (Of Annie Oakley’s Narrative and Myth, Small Press Interconnectedness, and Writing A Project Book That Breathes) @saramoorewagner.bsky.social 🌙

I MOVE LIKE BUDDED BRANCHES.
HOW MANY FROSTS WILL COME
LATER THAN I CAME INTO MY BODY, RUNNING WITH MY SHOES IN MY HANDS.

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From Self Portrait as False Sonnet

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Both things can be true about adhd: mine is my poetry superpower & it holds me back: I lose checks, other important things, forget bills, texts, apts. I used to forget assignments & fail classes, self medicate. I’ve learned to admit this, to carefully plan. To (mostly) not shame spiral/check out.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 22/05/2025

The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This is what I’m wondering, where are all those liberal Hollywood millionaires and billionaires to beam clash fight these policies like this:

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I won first place in Midway Journal’s Action/Words contest! If you have a minute, you can read the whole poem here: midwayjournal.com/he-promises-...

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He Promises the World Won’t End

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Welp, unknowingly slept with a bat above us (shitting into the bed) in a cabin in Tennessee, so we spent today getting rabies shots…played crucify by Tori Amos on the drive to the ER, which did make it feel more like Easter. We’ll see if this gets in a poem.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Every billionaire (actually, millionaires too) not actively and publicly using their absurd and immoral wealth to fight the defunding/bribery/deportations is complicit, and yes, this includes the shiny liberal pop stars.

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Jillbles @jillbles.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Can’t stop thinking about the White Lotus, in part because in another lifetime, I too did things I can’t remember at the full moon party in Thailand. #whymybooksareinterestingiguess

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I’ve been rereading all of the Anne books with my youngest daughter, we’re on Anne of the island, and it’s abundantly clear: at 20 years old she only wants to be Gilbert’s friend, meanwhile her passion for Diana and now Philippa is consuming. Don’t hate me, but just we fans love Gilbert that way.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I’m not sure I fully understand Bluesky yet, because it seems like I only see posts from three people, no one sees mine (granted, I post very little and am awkward)…and also, why is it telling me I have three unread messages when I don’t have any unread messages. #stillbetterthanelon

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Dear poets, when and why did you all move to Florida #everybiolately

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

My son is driving now, and he is going through my old cds to put some in his hand-me-down mini van…How can I explain that all the burned CDs with Bruce Springsteen’s I’m on Fire prove I was a top tier Manic Pixi Dream Girl back in the day 😂😭

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Can we agree on a trading etiquette for authors? Recently, a man came up to a friend and me at a reading and told us he wanted to trade. We felt a little forced into it and are out $60 of merchandise between the both of us. Instead, we got books we weren’t interested in. We ended up resentful (1)

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Whenever I get too overwhelmed and hopeless, I’m just going to start sending money to @aoc.bsky.social . If anyone can save us, it’s her.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

PSA: to “hire” means to “employ someone for wages.” Please stop saying you’re hiring when you are looking for unpaid/volunteer labor, or at least make it clear in the job title.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I LOVED this book, and you will too!! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I absolutely see the nazi parallels, but also, this summer I took a group of students to Romania. Similarities between Trump’s cult of personality and Ceausescu cannot be understated. This essay published in 2017 by Maria Bucur is even more relevant now. publicseminar.org/2017/09/reme...

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Remembering Romanian Fascism; Worrying About America - Public Seminar

My father left Romania for the United States in 1983 to escape a dictatorship and give his children the opportunity...Read More

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Cincinnati poets poeting 💗💗💗

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/02/2025

It’s pretty insane that a private citizen can come in, hijack federal government servers, fire people, and steal their PII.

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I have a new poem [from my in-progress book of poems about sudden death, secrets, illness, and grief] in the latest issue of @haydensferryreview.bsky.social - "Elegy" thinks about reckoning on either side of death. haydensferryreview.com/issue-75

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HFR-Issue 75

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I mean this with every fuck you I can muster to every person who voted a monster into office (or didn’t vote):This is the greatness they’ve been building towards. Incompetent evil people should not lead anything. There is no heads down riding through the next 4 years. apnews.com/article/coas...

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Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee

President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up while...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/01/2025

Of course ending birthright citizenship is blatantly unconstitutional. So is a third term in office. But I thought the same thing about presidential criminal immunity and holding office after inciting an insurrection. The obvious is not so obvious anymore.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Of course my husband leaves for a 4 month film project in Atlanta on the same day the evil overlords take over, then the temperatures drop below zero and the kids and I get a horrible stomach virus. Merry 2025. I’m tired.

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Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Two poems from @saramoorewagner.bsky.social's excellent LADY WING SHOT:

AT THE ANNIE OAKLEY FESTIVAL, THERE ARE SO MANY TRUMP 2024 BANNERS

"I love a gun. I have always loved a gun."

-Annie Oakley

To love a gun the way I love the water rushing over my shins after a rain when we're children again and we've plugged up the sewers. The world was mine, stuffing old worn towels in every crack. My mother would turn away, watch the rain ping into the water like little stones, and the higher the water, the more it reverberated, the more she could feel it inside her lungs, feel those lungs fill. To love a gun like water, to sit down next to the biggest oak tree on a hot day in June, to put it into your mouth like a glass of water. To let it fix you. To love a gun, to think a gun could clean you or the Earth, could be God's deluge, could bring the rainbow back, the white dove with a branch in beak, the woman at the well, kneeling, and you are there with your gun and she must give you whatever it is you've come for. Because you've come for something, because you must want something. And if I am understanding it as I ought to, it's meant to fill you, cleanse you, keep you, smudge off that smell of chaos which sits in the bend of your empty hands in the morning when they are as neat as a child's, as simple and as holy as Abraham's hands above every lamb, above every boy,

above every single wife he stood over like a storm cloud, like a gun.

What does it means to hold this in front of me, out to me, to hold this up as an offering to the Lord our God, as an example of a man with power so thick it could blow you apart.

WHAT ANNIE OAKLEY KNEW

The big yellow moon, strung low above the tree line in the morning, looked like a second sunrise to the girl in the field with her gun, and it said I know what will come. What you intend is never the same as what happens. The flowers push little buds through the muck, have been to the other side of the world and under, where father is laid. There is no rest. And her gun, though it was not living, looked her straight in her hazel eye, coughed a smoke that turned to a meadowlark. I will grow up, said the smoke, leave you out. Tell me what men will do, have done. The Bible says
Love Mercy, but not in the same way the earth speaks,
or the gun, not by holding her quiet head in its hands.
There can be two sunrises, one where a girl
is barefoot hunting the last little rabbit to bring home
to her widowed mother, and one where the girl
is the rabbit and she is older now, working
in a gas station or grocery store and bam,
open fire. Lineage. What should I the girl says
to the chipping bark on the hickory tree, and the cicadas,
burrowed deep below, hear her, rise, chirp
one loud sorrow she interprets to mean it's coming,
no matter what you do.

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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

LAST CHANCE TO SUBMIT: The deadline for our In-House Writing Contest is TOMORROW! Make sure to use the link in our bio for guidelines and to submit before January 15th. #writingcontest

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I’ve been reading everything of Neil Gaiman’s since I heard Tori Amos sing “me & Neil’ll be hangin out with the dream king” when I was 12, as a side devotion to her. (1)

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Whew. The Gaiman story is horrifying on so many levels AND Amanda Palmer serving up vulnerable young women to him and exploiting someone for labor is also horrifying.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I will never get over this Wordle 1,301 X/6 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜

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Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

According to East Slavic folk-calendar, since January 6, the dead can take the shape of animals and roam the Earth. Hence, the tradition of treating every guest with utter respect and serve them treats – even if your guest is a beast. #dailyspooklore #ijulemørket #folklore

Depiction of three men: the one in the front is playing drums, the two in the back are dancing (the one on the left is dressed like a goat, and the one on the right is dressed like a bear).
(a vintage postcard)

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