Wendy Wisner

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

I listened this morning. It was wonderful 🤍

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

Thank you, thank you 🤍

Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts!
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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...
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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. 🤍

Thank you 🤍

Thank you for sharing!

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.

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If you're interested in reading The New Life, it appears to be a whopping 80% off at Amazon today, for $4.05. And if you're interested in reviewing it, I'm happy to send a free copy.

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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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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My Fantastic Four

Gorgeous poem 🤍

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

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

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Read this stunning, tender essay by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social. Just, wow.

This is just gorgeous.

Sobriety, poem by Jennifer Martelli

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 —
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“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

“Summer Light with Migraine” by Donna Vorreyer a horseshoe shovelSomething precious, pink shimmer of quartz in rough earth—precious glimmerseed of memory. No lie, things have been rough.Pink-cheeked fever, clustered stab of pain. But I’ve found…

“But I’ve found here, in
shimmer and dirt, a slow sifting of time, a stalled second-hand, the quartz
of a Swiss watch stymied.”

—Donna Vorreyer, with a new, last poem in our #SummerRiot series!

@djvorreyer.bsky.social

I would love that!

This workshop was incredible. Highly recommend <3

It was so wonderful! Thank you! I will share. XO.

Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

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.

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.

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."

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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