Bernadette Geyer

Always and again - a literary journal that recently said they want to see more from me in the next submission period suddenly institutes a $5 submission fee. I wonder if journals say that to everyone when they know they are about to introduce a fee? #AWP

Very sorry to hear this. My condolences.

Thank you to @pinehillsreview.bsky.social for this interview opportunity! It was fun to think so deeply about my new poetry collection, What Haunts Me.
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Really frustrating when salespeople give discounts on rush jobs. Of course it's not the salespeople who have to drop everything and work OT to actually do the rush jobs. And then certain salespeople ALWAYS seem to have rush jobs.

So much fun reading from my new book and listening to amazing writers in the @saloneurope.bsky.social Open Mic yesterday evening!

I'll be reading as part of this exciting event this evening! A few tickets remain!

Woke up with a horrible cold yesterday. Will spend the icy day in bed with tea, reading Bread of Angels, by Patti Smith.

Pray for a new coach...

So, you're told one year that you weren't positive enough and they missed that about you. So the next year, you try to stay positive and encouraging for the team. Then they punish you for being "not serious enough."

I know absolutely no one who has seen it. Not a single one.

Don't blame others if you can't actually sink any of the shots you make.

Supporting cultural spaces this evening. Best kind of Friday.

Mine was the Monongahela.

Vinegar... I got some Limoncello vinegar for Christmas and I will eat so many salads now!

No words.

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#Justice4Renee

Former UT professor Cornelius Eady reads original poem at NYC Mayor's swearing-in ceremony Acclaimed poet and former University of Tennessee professor Cornelius Eady made a special appearance at the NYC Mayor's swearing-in, reading an original poem.

Celebrating Cornelius Eady now and always.

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I am reading Practical Gods, by Carl Dennis.

instructions for how to hold a morning

don't open the blinds all at once. light should arrive hesitant, like it isn't sure you're ready to be seen. check the air. some days it tastes like metal, some days like thawing fruit. either way, swallow it. pretend it was your choice. touch the counter.…

Dear litmags that say they open for submissions every year on January 1st but won't actually get around to it until mid-month: Please just change your guidelines. 😅

Writing the Rapids By Ellen Notbohm “Just remember to hold your breath in the troughs and breathe deep in the crests,” instructed our river rafting guide. I stood with my brother and nephew on a rocky path above a sh…

A magazine article challenged me to "write what scares and compels me, and I’ve ridden the literary whitewater many years since: I hold my breath through the troughs and breathe on the crests. I pull for shore and stand up proud." ~ Ellen Notbohm
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We didn't have a white Christmas, but it looks like the snow came thru for New Year's Eve!

If you groove on end-of-year reading lists, I've got a different take on the theme! #booksky

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Out and about celebrating the season!

Dear editors, If you are considering sending rejections over the next 2 days... just don't. It can wait.

So strange!

So happy to read new work from Patricia!

Maybe Santa can send me a couple of litmag acceptances for Christmas? There's still a few days left!

POV: People who were not even born in the 80s can't really judge whether certain movies or TV shows present an appropriate portrayal of what it was like to be a teenager in the 80s. Yes? No? Feels like millennial-splaining a Gen Xer's experience to them?

I am having a terrible suspicion that not all of these poems are meant to be prose poems and that I have to completely rethink some of them.

Kinship requires a leap of faith and a keen eye for beauty in darkness — Washington Unbound What Haunts Me by Bernadette Geyer is an intimate look at kinship and all the responsibilities and history it comes with. The narrator of these poems is looking at nature, their family, and events to...

My new poetry book got its first review!! Thank you @sagustocox.bsky.social for the very generous review of What Haunts Me!

#booksky #bookreview #poetrybook

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