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Megan Merchant

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Poet (Glass Lyre Press / Stillhouse Press), (New American Press), Children’s Book Author (Philomel Books), Editor (Shiversong, LLC. / Pirene’s Fountain) , Visual Artist. Mother (Exhausted / Coffee).

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Added a new one to our #ExpoContributor @bookshop-org.bsky.social: bookshop.org/p/books/hort...! @meganmerchant.bsky.social

08.02.2025 06:05 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We're so proud of Issue One & all of our contributors! Come join us to hear from many of them on February 2! @amorak.bsky.social @arrieuking.bsky.social @josephlezza.com @meganmerchant.bsky.social Mike Nees Travis Chi Wing Lau and Mandi Magnuson-Hung!

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27.01.2025 19:50 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Cover of HORTENSIA, IN WINTER by Megan Merchant.

Cover of HORTENSIA, IN WINTER by Megan Merchant.

SUBJECTS TO CONSIDER FOR BOTH PAINTING & WRITING Film on my teeth after eating a hard-boiled egg. Why anyone would call blood crimson. Chopping wood on a day you can see your breath. The clicking sound that Mahjong tiles make. The speed at which they are placed. A windchime strung with bones. The way winter light feels most earnest in the morning. His chin, as it pressed against my shoulder blade. The muscles of grief that cramp without warning. Why men are allowed to age-the absence of a societal tantrum. The Farmer's Almanac that everyone in town is mumbling about. Radishes in a white bowl. Glue, hardened, on the window that looks like frost. Scratches on old records that are a kind of music. Gray hairs in the sink. How he unhooked the curtains and wrapped me, naked, in what light they still held.

SUBJECTS TO CONSIDER FOR BOTH PAINTING & WRITING Film on my teeth after eating a hard-boiled egg. Why anyone would call blood crimson. Chopping wood on a day you can see your breath. The clicking sound that Mahjong tiles make. The speed at which they are placed. A windchime strung with bones. The way winter light feels most earnest in the morning. His chin, as it pressed against my shoulder blade. The muscles of grief that cramp without warning. Why men are allowed to age-the absence of a societal tantrum. The Farmer's Almanac that everyone in town is mumbling about. Radishes in a white bowl. Glue, hardened, on the window that looks like frost. Scratches on old records that are a kind of music. Gray hairs in the sink. How he unhooked the curtains and wrapped me, naked, in what light they still held.

PORTRAITURE: NUDE We are taught to yearn for erasure. Red stockings drying over the porcelain tub. Strands of hair in the sink. The spot of shade between thighs. Pigeons on the landing, iridescent until the light rearranges, shifts to the apartment next-door, unpacks. If you were to paint want back into my skin, it would be with an old brush, streaks of morning blue stained into the bristles. The wood handle smooth, the air in the room tasting most like Spanish olives spooned directly from the can.

PORTRAITURE: NUDE We are taught to yearn for erasure. Red stockings drying over the porcelain tub. Strands of hair in the sink. The spot of shade between thighs. Pigeons on the landing, iridescent until the light rearranges, shifts to the apartment next-door, unpacks. If you were to paint want back into my skin, it would be with an old brush, streaks of morning blue stained into the bristles. The wood handle smooth, the air in the room tasting most like Spanish olives spooned directly from the can.

"How he unhooked the curtains and wrapped me, naked, in what light they still held"

- @meganmerchant.bsky.social from HORTENSIA, IN WINTER

24.01.2025 15:11 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Happy to have two mixed media pieces in the new & first issue of Asterales.

“It is a risk to plant a seed, an act of believing. It requires courage, fortitude, and belief that there will be a future in which the seed might thrive.” www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issue

20.01.2025 12:50 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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I’m thrilled to be teaching this revision workshop starting in March through Black Lawrence Press & would love to share this space with you. blacklawrencepress.com/books/revisi...

13.01.2025 02:27 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Would love to see you there!

08.01.2025 04:09 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ArtPop: Megan Merchant and Dusty Rug Band

Super jazzed that my piece “Climate Crisis” is being featured all week on 12 News AZ !

#12NewsArtPops

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08.01.2024 17:19 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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From Corey Mesler's delightful poem, "Big Swifty," in the new issue of Pirene's Fountain. Check it out here: glass-lyre-press.myshopify.com/collections/...

19.12.2023 14:36 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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From Diane DeCillis' beautiful poem "Inner Space" in Pirene's Fountain, Vol. 16 / Issue 24.

Copies can be purchased here: glass-lyre-press.myshopify.com/collections/...

08.12.2023 00:37 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!!!

03.12.2023 14:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Any / all :)

03.12.2023 14:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m looking for poems that do anger well — any suggestions ? (Thanks in advance).

02.12.2023 21:03 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 13 📌 0
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This beauty is officially out in the world this week!

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#poetry

02.12.2023 14:40 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0