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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I'm such a fan of @nicolechung.bsky.social and @tajjaisen.bsky.social, and this conversation for @whichistosay.bsky.social's Awakeners podcast about mentorship, the relationship between writing and editing, and more is a gem. Loved listening & came away with much to think about:

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Tajja Isen and Nicole Chung on Becoming Colleagues and Friends

This is Awakeners, a Lit Hub Radio podcast about mentorship in the literary arts. Robert Frost allegedly said he was not a teacher but an “awakener.” On every episode of this podcast, host Lena Cro…

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Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New round of shout-outs is up on our Substack. Click here to check out a bunch of great new lit mag & small press publications: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s... @autofocusbooks.bsky.social @blacksunlit.bsky.social @dintywmoore.bsky.social @passagesnorth.bsky.social

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Saturday Shout-Out ~ April 5, 2025

Share your recently published work with the WRJ community

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Lena Crown @whichistosay.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

That's a wrap on Awakeners Season 1! This episode is bittersweet – Tiana Clark's mentor passed away last year, but his fingerprints are all over her new collection. Listen to the end to hear Tiana read and discuss "Broken Sestina Reaching for Black Joy" ❤️ www.awakenerspodcast.com/post/re-awak...

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Re-Awakeners: Tiana Clark

"We are shaped not only by the people we read but also the people who teach us. Those fingerprints are all over our work."

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Lena Crown @whichistosay.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

One of my favorite Awakeners episodes yet came out last week: a conversation with Adrian Matejka, poet & EIC of Poetry Magazine, and his former student @austinaraujo.bsky.social, whose debut book is out in February. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 🧡 www.awakenerspodcast.com/post/adrian-...

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Adrian Matejka & Austin Araujo

"In Austin’s poems, whatever the catalyst, I am always aware of where I am.”

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Lena Crown @whichistosay.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

A very special Awakeners episode this week featuring nonfiction writer Abi Newhouse & Professor Kyoko Mori, who advised both Abi's and my MFA theses. (Also mentioned: Terry Tempest Williams, Mormon pioneers playing dead & some wild advice Kyoko got from Raymond Carver.) lithub.com/kyoko-mori-a...

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Kyoko Mori and Abi Newhouse Rebelled Quietly At First

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Lena Crown @whichistosay.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

New episode! I loved this conversation with Rick Barot & Brian Teare about finding mentors in friends, evolving towards a more ethical practice of ekphrasis, and helping each other "re-see" the work of another queer artist. Listen on Apple, Spotify, etc.! www.awakenerspodcast.com/post/rick-ba...

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A conversation between poets Rick Barot & Brian Teare.

We discuss “horizontal” mentorship, ethical pedagogy, ekphrasis, and disidentifying with the artists you're "supposed" to love.

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Lena Crown @whichistosay.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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A conversation between poets Rick Barot & Brian Teare.

We discuss “horizontal” mentorship, ethical pedagogy, ekphrasis, and disidentifying with the artists you're "supposed" to love.

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Reuben Gelley Newman @joustingsnail.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The first part of Lena Crown's "Facebook Marketplace" in today's @poetrydaily.bsky.social!! 😱 So glad we got to publish this clever, arterial, beautifully built poem in the spring Issue 6 of @coupletpoetry.bsky.social 😊 Huge congrats and gratitude to @whichistosay.bsky.social 👏

The boy with the couch and coffee table
had recently been left.
It came as a set, he said, She liked
midcentury modern, bought from Amazon.
The table legs splayed out just like a foal’s,
young and spindly—emulating, but only
emulating, instability.
Thirteen stories down, a jogger dodged
tectonic plates of concrete knocked askew
along the park, which stretched mutely toward
the horizon, the Arch a sterling thread
plucked loose from the seam.

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Lena Crown @whichistosay.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Late to announcing this on here, but I created a podcast with @literaryhub.bsky.social about mentorship in the literary arts, and the first episode—featuring the indomitable Leslie Jamison and her former student Emmeline Clein—is out on all platforms today! www.awakenerspodcast.com/post/leslie-...

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Leslie Jamison & Emmeline Clein

"I feel like I’m bringing questions I’ve been wrestling with my whole life to the things we talk about."

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

The pub date for Snakeskin is Halloween, but the official launch event (via Zoom) is the next night, the Day of the Dead, November 1st, where I'll be joined by Megan Culhane Galbraith, Selah Saterstrom, Dennis James Sweeney, and @whichistosay.bsky.social (link to register is in my bio)

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Lena Crown @whichistosay.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

the other night a friend and i were rewatching Fleabag and he said "guinea pigs ARE just rats" and i agreed and then he said "which ones are the sexy ones? the sexy rats" and i said "squirrels?" and he said "yup, squirrels"

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Lena Crown @whichistosay.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

what do you call a post on here? a cloud? in any case today's installment of should-i-stop-agonizing-and-just-adopt-a-cat felt worthy of my first one

me! gal with red hair & blue headband smiling huge & holding a tortie kitty

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