Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025lambdaliterary.org/2025/10/5-qu...lambdaliterary.org5 Questions with Samuel Prize Winner Amy Beth SissonWe sit down with 2025 020
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 05/10/2025You can read my acceptance speech and interview here: lambdaliterary.org/2025/10/amy-...lambdaliterary.orgAmy Beth Sisson Wins the 2025 Samuel Prize for Emerging Writers Over 50Amy Beth Sisson wins the 2025 Samuel Prize! Read the announcement here. 010
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Thank you, @lambdaliterary.org , for bringing me into the spotlight. Even though I feel more comfortable in the light of a soft flickery candle, I am grateful. 010
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025@planthumanq.bsky.social fits my poetic obsessions. So glad to have my poem "Zoochory" here 011
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Thank you to the Mendelssohn Chorus and ArtPhilly for the opportunity to be part of this collaboration. It is wonderful to work with the brilliant composer Leigha Amick and my amazing and generous mentor Steven Kleinman. 000
Reposted by Amy BethSamiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 14/05/2025It’s Pub Day! I HOPE THIS HELPS is officially in the world. Born in rupture. Shaped in breath. Carried by love, survival, and the magic of our lives. This book understands heartbreak and turns it into balm, blade, blessing. May it find you when you need it most. #IHopeThisHelps #PoetryIsMedicine 072
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Samiya Bashir's book "I Hope This Helps" is layered and gorgeous. Thank you @scryptkeeper.substack.com 020
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 09/04/2025My interview with my brilliant teacher @paullisicky.bsky.social is live today! Thank you, @dintywmoore.bsky.social for bringing it into the world. 071
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I'm reading at the upcoming April 2 edition of Mad Poets First Wednesday with Ann de Forest and LaVonne France! Wednesday, April 2 7:00 p.m. Community Arts Center 414 Plush Mill Rd. Wallingford, PA Plentiful parking; accessible entrance around to the right of the building. An open mic will follow 010
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 08/02/2025...corporations externalize trillions in costs to society and the planet. Nonprofits form to absorb those costs, but have at their disposal only a tiny portion of the profits that corporations were able to generate by externalizing those costs in the first place. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Impossible Math of Philanthropy (Gift Article)There’s a reason so many seemingly well-funded causes fail to move the needle. 020
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025The Valentine poetry sharing circle has been postponed until February 15th! thepac.center/events/poetr... 110
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 25/01/2025www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...insidehighered.comRutgers cancels HBCU event to align with Trump DEI ordersThe Rutgers University Center for Minority Serving Institutions announced Thursday that it has canceled an upcoming virtual conference about registered apprenticeship programs as a result of President... 110
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025thepac.center/events/poetr... I'd love to see you there!thepac.centerValentine Poetry Sharing Circle — Park Avenue Community CenterDelco Writers and Friends Valentine Poetry Sharing Circle featuring poet Darla Himeles. Share your poetry love. Bring a printed copy of a poem that you love to read or memorize one to recite.&... 000
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 25/12/2024"I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept." gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/070...gutenberg.net.auA Child's Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas, free ebooks, ebook, etext 061
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 23/12/2024I memorized a poem by @dseuss.bsky.social recently. In my dream last night I was stumbling over a recitation. This morning someone sent me this: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 020
Reposted by Amy BethAlison Lubar @theoriginalison.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Blue Stoop, an incredible philly lit mag, is nearing the end of their fundraising auction! lots of great items & services! plz take a look givebutter.com/c/bluestoop/...givebutter.comCommunity Access FundSupport Blue Stoop's Free Programming, Scholarship Fund, and Capacity Building Today! 042
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Plaster cast for Adams Memorial by Saint-Gaudens. michenerartmuseum.org/exhibition/m... 020
Reposted by Amy BethRoz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 28/11/2024We constantly read writers whose words help us along. How often do we let them know this? @andreafirth.bsky.social decided she would. @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/a... #thanks #writingcommunity #creativewriting #authorlifebrevity.wordpress.comA Few Kind WordsBy Andrea A. Firth Maniouloux, Jean-Luc. Impact 1. Deyrolle, Paris. On a recent trip to Paris, my husband and I spent a morning wandering through the rooms of the Deyrolle boutique. Often described… 195
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024To see Hagedorn's book published with the orderly black spine and penguin logo is disorienting. In his introduction, Pat Rosal says, "To read Dogeaters, you've got to have a taste for danger. You've got to love listening to someone who has kissed the devil on the cheek and lived to tell the tale.” 010
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Photo taken on a rare cloudy but dry day. We need a nourishing soaking rain here. 010
Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 08/01/2024www.hotpinkmag.com/40-over-40/a... A good place to grow old 001
