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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/11/2025

Turns out a lot of Americans understand that trans people aren’t the reason shit is expensive and people are being starved

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I listened this morning. It was wonderful 🤍

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Massive thanks to @glasspoetry.bsky.social for the Best of the Net Nomination 🤍

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Hi NY friends. I’ll be reading poems for the Adverse Abstraction series at Otto’s Shrunken Head on E. 14th Street next Friday, September 19th, between 6pm and 8pm. There’s an open mic, too. Would love to see you. Info here: www.ottosshrunkenhead.com/pages/events... www.instagram.com/adverseabstr...

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

What joy to have a new poem in the latest, gorgeous Alaska Quarterly Review, a journal I’ve long admired. Grateful to Ronald Spatz and the editorial staff. 🤍

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Grateful to @rustandmoth.bsky.social for publishing this new poem. It's a difficult one—part of my new manuscript. This is one of a series of Alzheimer's sonnets that appear throughout the manuscript. XOXO. rustandmoth.com/work/her-obs...

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

It's been a wild few weeks, including getting my oldest ready for college (gulp!). But coming up for air to share these sweet words about my book. So grateful for Robin Turner for including The New Life in her #sealeychallenge. What an honor. It made my day.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

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Tori Amos News from Undented @undented.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

My Fantastic Four

Tori Amos' album From the Choirgirl Hotel

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Final summer workshop happening tomorrow! I’d take one or two more folks! ✍️📚💜 9-11amET

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Suzanne Frischkorn @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Summer reading — Jennifer Martelli’s PSYCHIC PARTY UNDER THE BOTTLE TREE is one of the best books I’ve read on sobriety. Tender, and funny. Honest and fierce. Here’s my favorite poem — @jennmartelli.bsky.social

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

“What will I do with my days / now that my nights / are sublimely alone / and how will I make use of this wound / I carried like a map / so that I would never, never / lose you?” — @paulmguest.bsky.social, “In Praise of the Defective” thediagram.com/7_4/guest.html

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DIAGRAM :: Paul Guest

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This workshop was incredible. Highly recommend <3

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Grateful to @rachelnm.bsky.social for sharing this folio for her incredible—and much needed—new venture, Calul Journal. "Hakol Calul" means "everything is included” in Hebrew. The journal is an inclusive space for Jewish voices (and others) to share their experiences and truths.

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Each Small Shoe: Introducing the Poetry of Wendy Wisner

I am crying as I place the last image on this feature: a picture of two white gloved hands holding up a child’s shoe to be photographed.

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Megan McDermott (she/her) @megmcdermott92.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The poems keep coming! Today I have a new poem up at @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social. "The tree is topless, all trunk. Its body cuts open to the sky, slit running up most its length like a dress designed to surprise, when moving, with a delight of thigh." www.broadkillreview.com/post/even-th...

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"Even the Trees Get to Be Slutty" by Megan McDermott

The tree is topless, all trunk.Its body cuts open to the sky,slit running up most its lengthlike a dress designed to surprise,when moving, with a delight of thigh.I don’t regret the college boys Ididn...

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Just read this stunning book in one sitting. It’s a beautiful, searing journey through grief. Thank you for sharing it with the world, @susanlleary.bsky.social

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Ra'Niqua Lee, PhD @raniqualee.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"I wondered if I’d loved enough, risked enough for this earth, which is clearly raging back at us all," Daily reads @wendywisner.bsky.social in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social ❤️

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Forgot to share this new poem of mine up at B O D Y. It's a difficult poem and I'm very grateful to the editors for publishing it. www.bodyliterature.com/2025/06/25/w...

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

And a few weeks ago, she won the Creative Writing Award from the English Department at her school. She loves to write more than anything and I’m over the moon that her teachers recognized her talent and passion. It means so much to be seen. My heart ❤️

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On with Kara Swisher @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Sometimes, you can't fix your parents — and that's OK. In our latest episode, @karaswisher.bsky.social and @mollyjongfast.bsky.social get personal about their difficult relationships with their moms and Jong-Fast's new memoir, How to Lose Your Mother Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

3 new poems up at the incredible Lunch Ticket! Here’s “Mid-Trauma Sonnet.” It’s a beautiful issue, friends, edited by one of the kindest: Jessica Ballen. So very glad to be included! 💙 Check out the entire issue here: lunchticket.org/archive/issu... @jessicaballen.bsky.social

Mid-Trauma Sonnet

Once, you slapped your cheek
so hard you felt the burn less in your face
& more in your hand. How you happened
to be wild had nothing to do with wildness
& everything to do with knowing
someone else disapproved. You spent four
days at the bedside of a stranger
& your annoyance was also your envy.
Outside, there were dogs running
amok in a graveyard & you called me by a name that was not yours. There must be more than fear to live inside of. How mid-day, or mid-beauty, or mid-trauma, a rose knows little of its shadow along the fence.

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Thank you thank you, @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for publishing this poem. As a huge fan of your work, I'm honored. Also feels right to see this out in the world today, during a heat wave the feels like the earth saying NOPE. XOXO.

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I’m grateful to Eileen Cleary and the Lily Poetry Review for publishing my poem, “After We Found Her” from my new manuscript-in-progress. Look at how gorgeous that cover is. The issue is filled with poets I admire. Check it out if you get a chance. XO.

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Thank you thank you thank you 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

One day we'll look back on this period of history & wonder why the world hated trans kids so much. You have to have a lot of hate in your heart to want to harm such a small population. The trans community is strong. Many kids will find a way to get the care they need. Others won't. Breaks my heart.

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~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Tired I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two- And see what worms are eating At the rind. ~ Langston Hughes

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I’m so incredibly happy to have a new poem (“Little Children”) in the latest issue of Moon City Review. It’s a swoon-worthy issue and I’m thrilled to share these pages with such wonderful poets.

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Just read an ARC of HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER. It was honest, refreshing, and FUNNY. So many dementia caregiving books focus on how sad it is--and it really is--but not how enraging and triggering and all-consuming and dreadful it can be. I needed this. Thank you, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social <3

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I loved Maggie Smith’s generous, intimate new book on writing, Dear Writer. This quote really spoke to me. @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Thanks to @calyxpress.bsky.social for sharing and featuring me today! Super proud to be in this issue, along with other rich, meaningful, evocative work.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

congratulations to Marie Howe on the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry!! i’m thinking again of this moment from an interview— Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart.

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Re-reading the new poems from the Marie Howe book that won the Pulitzer and OMG they are all so good. Here’s one. Marie Howe is one of my favorite living poets and I’m thrilled she won.

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

So grateful for Sally Ashton and the DMQ Review for featuring me reading a few poems from THE NEW LIFE. It's just a few minutes, so have a listen if you get a moment ❤ Link here: www.dmqreview.com/salon

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Tonight! On Zoom. My last scheduled reading for the spring. 🌸📖❤️

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Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

So excited for this reading on Sunday! It will be my last reading this spring and I would love to see you. It's on Zoom, and you can register at www.sundaysalon-chicago.com.

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Ignatius Valentine Aloysius @ignatius2u.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Sunday Salon Chicago REMINDER! Join us for a Zoom reading event on 4/27 at 6 pm CT & experience a lovely evening of prose and poetry w/ Maggie Paul, Liz Rose Shulman, @sudhab.bsky.social, @wendywisner.bsky.social, & Todd Cirillo 💖🔥🌎 To register for zoom, visit www.sundaysalon-chicago.com

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