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Wren Donovan

@wrendonovan.bsky.social
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www.wrendonovan.com she/her. Poet, Tarot reader. I love history, fairy tales, mythology, folklore, overgrown gardens, foxes, birds, and dance. Introvert neurodivergent. Lately awash in rage and grief. Pushcart & BOTN nominee 2025!

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 27/04/2026
This is a set of frames of the surface of Comet 67P taken by the Rosetta mission on 1 June 2016. The particles in the foreground are bits of dust and ice or cosmic rays effects. The "waterfall" of points moving in the background are stars.
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
My poem in the Spring issue of Susurrus! www.susurrusthemagazine.com/light-in-feb... #poetry
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Light in February — Susurrus
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
In the Spring issue of Cumberland River Review: crr.trevecca.edu/article/amer... #poetry
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
mood
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Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
YouTube video by PaleRider81
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Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
James Baldwin
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always chang-ing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Lady and her horse on a snowy day Photo by Félix Thiollier, 1899
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
#poetry #orangeblossomreview #wrendonovan #august #mercuryretrograde
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
thebookendsreview.com/2025/04/21/a... #august #poetry #thebookendsreview #wrendonovan
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Excavation / Psyche" by Wren Donovan (@wrendonovan.bsky.social‬) stonecirclereview.com/excavation-p...
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Excavation / Psyche - Stone Circle Review
by Wren Donovan - We choose where to dig with soft brushes, careful,string a polygon grid based on rumors. Smoke-choked and salty, a stalker in dark rooms ...
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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“Spring Health Report (With Apologies to Eliot’s Ghost)” by Wren Donovan
**This is a reprint. Originally published in Emerge Literary Journal, Fall 2023 This April isn’t cruel, exceptcomplacency is a bully. Depressionstands aside, and lets it happen. Anxietythrows a pun…
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Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Featuring: Gordon Johnston, D Bedell, @adrianabeltrano.bsky.social, Stasha Cole, @wrendonovan.bsky.social, Morrow Dowdle, @kevingrauke.bsky.social, Mikey Jones...
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Just published, a gorgeous new issue of Susurrus, and I'm proud / honored to see my poem 'Overhead' a small part of this loveliness. www.susurrusthemagazine.com/overhead
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Overhead — Susurrus
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Some days it rains. Dorianne Laux
DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL


Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip.
Barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible, she tells me,
not like you think: all darkness and silence.

There are wind chimes and the scent of lemons.
Some days it rains. But more often the air
is dry and sweet. We sit beneath the staircase
built from hair and bone and listen
to the voices of the living.

I like it, she says, shaking the dust from her hair.
Especially when they fight, and when they sing.
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
New poem published. crr.trevecca.edu/article/ever...
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Everything Fades and Small Things Return
Everything Fades and Small Things Return
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Rust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Rust & Moth’s Spring 2025 issue is now available in print! This one concerns itself with messengers; be they voices from the other side, unfamiliar eyes in the leaves, winged familiars, or the seeds we use to pay them for their troubles. rustandmoth.com/issue/spring...
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Spring 2025 | Rust & Moth
Rust & Moth's Spring 2025 issue is now available in print! This one concerns itself with messengers; be they voices from the other side, unfamiliar eyes in the leaves, winged familiars, or the seeds w...
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
First of four poems coming out into the light of day in April thebookendsreview.com/2025/04/07/l...
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Lying in Wait For the Monster That Takes Away Time - The Bookends Review
I crouch in leaves and needlesunder pines and water oak. I crashed my wayto this place through the saw-vines and mimosaavoiding poison ivy and backyards. Vibration escalation, terror of arrival, noise...
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Monday mood 😐
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Two kittens who look like illustrations from mid-century children's books: One kitten asks, "How are you doing?" The other kitten responds, "The rage consumes me."    credit (?) Earthy Herbs @canna.pothecary
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Four poems to be published in April ! #poetry
Happy relaxed orange and white cat lying on his/her back among white clover flowers and yellow dandelions and green grass.
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
“There were marches, of course, a lot of women and some men. But they were smaller than you might have thought.” —Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
William Shakespeare
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Love Rust + Moth, love seeing my poem here!
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
A beautiful issue of The Shore, proud to be a small part of it.
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Mood.
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a woman in a white dress playing a record player
Alt: Woman in a vintage dress (Donna Reed as Mary in "It's a Wonderful Life") smashes a vinyl record on the record player then hangs her head sadly.
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
Photo of a tubby little wren (what I like to call a "little dumpling birb") perched on an icy branch, taken by Jeff Cohen
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Suzanne Frischkorn @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
And have been cold a long time / To behold the junipers shagged with ice, /
The Snow Man poem by Wallace Season
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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Writers: publish now. Don't leave a drawer of unfinished, unpublished manuscripts for your family to deal with when you die. You're not Emily Dickinson. Your family might just bin the lot. Or put it into a new, different drawer, and forget.
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Recent pubs! Orca Literary orcalit.com/paris-or-may... The Shore www.theshorepoetry.org/wren-donovan... Farewell Transmission farewelltransmission.net/2024/09/unti... Recent accepts! Rust + Moth (soon!) The Bookends Review (two!) Trying to motivate myself with exclamation! Mr. Matthias for tax.
Adorable orange kitty asleep upside down on a chair with his little paws curled.
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Happy to have a poem in this issue!
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Rust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
New #poetry from Karen G. Berry: "The Red Thread".
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The Red Thread | Rust & Moth
She handed me this ball of red thread as if I were to knit him a girdle, a bloody shawl to wrap around the muscled column that holds his Taurian head. Thread. A woman’s gift. I rarely think of women...
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
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The Only Girl
The Only Girl
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
orcalit.com/mourning-whi...
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Wren Donovan @wrendonovan.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
NEW POEM #171: "Excavation / Psyche" by Wren Donovan "We choose where to dig with soft brushes, careful, string a polygon grid based on rumors." stonecirclereview.com/excavation-p... ‎ #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem
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