Bonnie Jill Emanuel
@bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social
poet | author of "glitter city" (2024) | midwest girl gone new york | find my recent poems & interviews in american poetry review, colorado review, pine hills review, rhino, & more ❤︎
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"By now, you know it was love / I walked toward"
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and you know what else!
How blue is the sea, how blue is the sky,
how blue and tiny and redeemable everything is, even you,
even your eyes, even your imagination.
—Mary Oliver, from "One"
How blue is the sea, how blue is the sky,
how blue and tiny and redeemable everything is, even you,
even your eyes, even your imagination.
—Mary Oliver, from "One"
June 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Many thanks to the amazing team at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social for including my poem “Coyotes Came Out of the Desert, 1945” in RHINO 2025! #poetry #poems #poets #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetryreaders
May 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Hot off the presses: RHINO 2025! 🦏
Featuring work by @jaiofearth.bsky.social, @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social, @jessicacuello.bsky.social, @sati-m.bsky.social—and more!
Get yours at: rhinopoetry.org/get-rhino
Featuring work by @jaiofearth.bsky.social, @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social, @jessicacuello.bsky.social, @sati-m.bsky.social—and more!
Get yours at: rhinopoetry.org/get-rhino
April 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Hot off the presses: RHINO 2025! 🦏
Featuring work by @jaiofearth.bsky.social, @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social, @jessicacuello.bsky.social, @sati-m.bsky.social—and more!
Get yours at: rhinopoetry.org/get-rhino
Featuring work by @jaiofearth.bsky.social, @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social, @jessicacuello.bsky.social, @sati-m.bsky.social—and more!
Get yours at: rhinopoetry.org/get-rhino
April 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Ecstatic to have three poems in the new issue of New England Review 🖤
March 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
YAY!!!! So excited for you.
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March 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
YAY!!!! So excited for you.
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This is Sunday (3/16) if you're in Chicago.
HUNGRY BRAIN, 2319 W. Belmont Ave.
Doors open 6:30pm, readings @7.
Hosted by Kenyatta Rogers & Simone Muench, The Sunday Reading Series: Poetry·Prose·Cocktails
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HUNGRY BRAIN, 2319 W. Belmont Ave.
Doors open 6:30pm, readings @7.
Hosted by Kenyatta Rogers & Simone Muench, The Sunday Reading Series: Poetry·Prose·Cocktails
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March 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This is Sunday (3/16) if you're in Chicago.
HUNGRY BRAIN, 2319 W. Belmont Ave.
Doors open 6:30pm, readings @7.
Hosted by Kenyatta Rogers & Simone Muench, The Sunday Reading Series: Poetry·Prose·Cocktails
📖🍸
HUNGRY BRAIN, 2319 W. Belmont Ave.
Doors open 6:30pm, readings @7.
Hosted by Kenyatta Rogers & Simone Muench, The Sunday Reading Series: Poetry·Prose·Cocktails
📖🍸
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depends on what process works for you, ultimately, but generally it's better, i think, to have desires (dreams, questions, fiery directions) for your poems than designs (set plans, firm goals)
March 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
depends on what process works for you, ultimately, but generally it's better, i think, to have desires (dreams, questions, fiery directions) for your poems than designs (set plans, firm goals)
Thank you ❤️🔥
March 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Thank you ❤️🔥
Reposted by Bonnie Jill Emanuel
on the blue. /
I wanted to save her—my mother /
I love this poem by @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social in @pinehillsreview.bsky.social
I wanted to save her—my mother /
I love this poem by @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social in @pinehillsreview.bsky.social
“Blue Linoleum” by Bonnie Jill Emanuel
“Blue Linoleum” by Bonnie Jill Emanuel
To say I remember it // exactly would be untrue. / Sweet, hard, scuffed blue.
pinehillsreview.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
on the blue. /
I wanted to save her—my mother /
I love this poem by @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social in @pinehillsreview.bsky.social
I wanted to save her—my mother /
I love this poem by @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social in @pinehillsreview.bsky.social
thank you so much 🩵
February 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
thank you so much 🩵
The fine people at @pinehillsreview.bsky.social published my poem, "Blue Linoleum." Thanks to Dan Nester and his crew for everything they do. ♡
“Blue Linoleum” by Bonnie Jill Emanuel
“Blue Linoleum” by Bonnie Jill Emanuel
To say I remember it // exactly would be untrue. / Sweet, hard, scuffed blue.
pinehillsreview.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The fine people at @pinehillsreview.bsky.social published my poem, "Blue Linoleum." Thanks to Dan Nester and his crew for everything they do. ♡
"the sun going down—this is how he died, the sun
going down."
Oh, so beautiful 🖤
going down."
Oh, so beautiful 🖤
My poem “Sundown” in the gorgeous new issue of @southerninreview.bsky.social 🩵 All my gratitude to the editors. What a thrill to be included alongside these incredible writers.
February 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"the sun going down—this is how he died, the sun
going down."
Oh, so beautiful 🖤
going down."
Oh, so beautiful 🖤
Books, books, books!
A Year of Books by Pen America Members.
Cool to see GLITTER🪩CITY on this list.
@penamerica.bsky.social
pen.org/a-year-of-bo...
A Year of Books by Pen America Members.
Cool to see GLITTER🪩CITY on this list.
@penamerica.bsky.social
pen.org/a-year-of-bo...
A Year of Books By PEN America Members 2024 - PEN America
This year, members of PEN America have published over 100 works, including translation, poetry, essays, and graphic novels.
pen.org
January 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Books, books, books!
A Year of Books by Pen America Members.
Cool to see GLITTER🪩CITY on this list.
@penamerica.bsky.social
pen.org/a-year-of-bo...
A Year of Books by Pen America Members.
Cool to see GLITTER🪩CITY on this list.
@penamerica.bsky.social
pen.org/a-year-of-bo...
These poems are the most gorgeous.
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January 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
These poems are the most gorgeous.
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These are the most gorgeous.
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January 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
These are the most gorgeous.
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Happy to have two poems in the new issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social (No. 6): one for my mom one for a favorite film 👼🪽Thrilled to share that “Your Mother Knew …” is the winner of the Sita Martin Prize for this issue. All my gratitude to the editors for their tireless work 🩵
January 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Happy to have two poems in the new issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social (No. 6): one for my mom one for a favorite film 👼🪽Thrilled to share that “Your Mother Knew …” is the winner of the Sita Martin Prize for this issue. All my gratitude to the editors for their tireless work 🩵
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@tahomareview.bsky.social opens for subs on Jan 15th & we now publish poems in translation!💖
My fellow editors interviewed me about this addition here: tahomaliteraryreview.com/news-announc...
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My fellow editors interviewed me about this addition here: tahomaliteraryreview.com/news-announc...
Please share!
& get your subs ready! We pay and we offer fee-free subs for those in need.
News & Announcements - Tahoma Literary Review
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January 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
@tahomareview.bsky.social opens for subs on Jan 15th & we now publish poems in translation!💖
My fellow editors interviewed me about this addition here: tahomaliteraryreview.com/news-announc...
Please share!
& get your subs ready! We pay and we offer fee-free subs for those in need.
My fellow editors interviewed me about this addition here: tahomaliteraryreview.com/news-announc...
Please share!
& get your subs ready! We pay and we offer fee-free subs for those in need.
December 27, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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“Imagine loneliness is a drug curing you of loneliness! This is what I believe, on this late Friday morning before the dermatologist looks at me as if I were a carpet with stains.” —Catherine Barnett, “Studies in Loneliness, iii”
December 18, 2024 at 1:22 PM
“Imagine loneliness is a drug curing you of loneliness! This is what I believe, on this late Friday morning before the dermatologist looks at me as if I were a carpet with stains.” —Catherine Barnett, “Studies in Loneliness, iii”
Congratulations to the winner & the other finalists. All of the poems will be published in RHINO 2025 — you’ll get a peek at the work then. Can't wait to read it, cover to cover. Grateful to everyone at the journal for all they do, & to the prize judge, the magical Cyrus Cassells✨
December 13, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Congratulations to the winner & the other finalists. All of the poems will be published in RHINO 2025 — you’ll get a peek at the work then. Can't wait to read it, cover to cover. Grateful to everyone at the journal for all they do, & to the prize judge, the magical Cyrus Cassells✨
Thrilled to share the news that my poem, “During the war,” was chosen as a finalist for the Founder’s Prize by the editors at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social.
I wrote the poem in September. It is part of my 2nd book (in progress⚙️). I’m so happily in a generative phase, which is where I really love to be ❤︎
I wrote the poem in September. It is part of my 2nd book (in progress⚙️). I’m so happily in a generative phase, which is where I really love to be ❤︎
December 13, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Thrilled to share the news that my poem, “During the war,” was chosen as a finalist for the Founder’s Prize by the editors at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social.
I wrote the poem in September. It is part of my 2nd book (in progress⚙️). I’m so happily in a generative phase, which is where I really love to be ❤︎
I wrote the poem in September. It is part of my 2nd book (in progress⚙️). I’m so happily in a generative phase, which is where I really love to be ❤︎
“… I made it be there”
December 12, 2024 at 2:15 AM
“… I made it be there”