Donna Vorreyer
@djvorreyer.bsky.social
Poet, artist, music lover. (She/her)
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Unrivered, To Everything There Is, Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story, & A House of Many Windows all at @sundresspub.bsky.social
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Order Unrivered ! https://tinyurl.com/4pj96v59
Unrivered, To Everything There Is, Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story, & A House of Many Windows all at @sundresspub.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/djvorreyer
Wrote about my goal to focus more on process this year. There's one of my favorite process prompts at the end...
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Process vs. Product
A few thoughts from someone trying to focus on the former this year
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January 5, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Wrote about my goal to focus more on process this year. There's one of my favorite process prompts at the end...
open.substack.com/pub/donnavor...
open.substack.com/pub/donnavor...
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all this is both foolish and unnecessary
January 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
First book of the year was Hackers by Aase Berg translated by @johannesg.bsky.social. A feast of image and language. Second book of the year I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken. A testament to the power and vulnerability of language, the body and memory.
January 4, 2026 at 1:55 AM
First book of the year was Hackers by Aase Berg translated by @johannesg.bsky.social. A feast of image and language. Second book of the year I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken. A testament to the power and vulnerability of language, the body and memory.
Come join us!
These four fantastic readers, coming up this Thursday, January 8? 6:30 C/7:30 E. Register here for @subhaga.bsky.social @nathanpspoon.bsky.social Cindy Veach and Kathleen Flenniken!
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January 3, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Come join us!
Starting the new year with a new poem about bodies, rocks, vulnerability and recklessness in @rogueagent.bsky.social. Happy to keep space with these fantastic writers... Thank you, guest editor Allison Blevins
RA 130, guest ed by Allison Blevins, is here! Including poetry by @seanthomasd.bsky.social @trampolinepoetry.bsky.social @travisclau.bsky.social @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social & @amiewhittemore.bsky.social 🪶 rogueagentjournal.com/issue130
Issue 130 — RogueAgent
Welcome!
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January 1, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Starting the new year with a new poem about bodies, rocks, vulnerability and recklessness in @rogueagent.bsky.social. Happy to keep space with these fantastic writers... Thank you, guest editor Allison Blevins
A little wrap up and a look ahead. One resolution is to try and post here once a month...
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December 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A little wrap up and a look ahead. One resolution is to try and post here once a month...
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Love this series and I'm excited to read with these writers and friends!
SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO happens, yes, as the world turns! Hope to see you all on Jan 25, 2026 w/ a fine lineup, featuring @djvorreyer.bsky.social, Jamie Wendt, Naoko Fujimoto, Albert DeGenova & Barry Pearce at the magical @roscoebooks.bsky.social. TY all & hope to see you. Be safe. 🎉🥰 👏
December 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Love this series and I'm excited to read with these writers and friends!
Thanks to the folks at Orange Peel Magazine, I have a wintry mixed media piece in the Winter issue both inside the issue in the "outside" section and featured on the landing page.
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December 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Thanks to the folks at Orange Peel Magazine, I have a wintry mixed media piece in the Winter issue both inside the issue in the "outside" section and featured on the landing page.
orangepeelmag.wordpress.com
orangepeelmag.wordpress.com
Thanks for all of your suggestions for reading poetry in translation. That is plenty to keep me busy for a while... I appreciate the response!
December 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Thanks for all of your suggestions for reading poetry in translation. That is plenty to keep me busy for a while... I appreciate the response!
I want to read more contemporary poetry in translation this year... Starting with Aase Berg's Hackers but would love some recommendations.
December 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I want to read more contemporary poetry in translation this year... Starting with Aase Berg's Hackers but would love some recommendations.
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We were taken by the movement and emotion in these abstracts by Issue 4 featured artist @sheilasquill.bsky.social
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December 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We were taken by the movement and emotion in these abstracts by Issue 4 featured artist @sheilasquill.bsky.social
asteralesjournal.com/1-4-squillante
asteralesjournal.com/1-4-squillante
Heading to the post office later this week. If anyone would like a signed copy of Unrivered OR any two of these small mixed media pieces for $20, including shipping in US, send me a message or comment here and I'll message you.
December 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Heading to the post office later this week. If anyone would like a signed copy of Unrivered OR any two of these small mixed media pieces for $20, including shipping in US, send me a message or comment here and I'll message you.
All the celebrations are over, even though ours are more about hanging out than anything else. Christmas in Nashville with our son (traditions including tv Yule log, video games, beef Wellington, and Die Hard) and my siblings and the whole crew in Madison. Hope yours was full of love, too.
December 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
All the celebrations are over, even though ours are more about hanging out than anything else. Christmas in Nashville with our son (traditions including tv Yule log, video games, beef Wellington, and Die Hard) and my siblings and the whole crew in Madison. Hope yours was full of love, too.
Thank you so much for reading. What a lovely gift!
I have been savoring Donna Vorreyer’s Unrivered (Sundress Publications, 2025). Took her with me to Bela for one of their last evenings open. Here she is in candle glow with ginger lemon tea and holiday lights, and yes, she was accompanied by cake.🍰 📖 @sundresspub.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Thank you so much for reading. What a lovely gift!
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Our first reading of 2026 (the beginning of our fifth year - how did that happen?)will be on January 8 at 6:30C. Don't miss @subhaga.bsky.social, @nathanpspoon.bsky.social, Cindy Veach & Kathleen Flenniken!
Register here:
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Register here:
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December 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Our first reading of 2026 (the beginning of our fifth year - how did that happen?)will be on January 8 at 6:30C. Don't miss @subhaga.bsky.social, @nathanpspoon.bsky.social, Cindy Veach & Kathleen Flenniken!
Register here:
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Register here:
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this one small brain think thoughts
December 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
this one small brain think thoughts
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Your editors read their eyeballs out the past few days so that we could make decisions and send emails before the holiday hits. Emails going out tonight...stay tuned for Issue Five in January! And thanks for being with us for our first year.
December 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Your editors read their eyeballs out the past few days so that we could make decisions and send emails before the holiday hits. Emails going out tonight...stay tuned for Issue Five in January! And thanks for being with us for our first year.
Not cool, press that charged money to submit to your prize and then announced your finalists on social media before you sent responses in Submittable...
December 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Not cool, press that charged money to submit to your prize and then announced your finalists on social media before you sent responses in Submittable...
I've never been on any list! I'm so excited! Congrats to all of these wonderful indie books and presses!
OverJOYED to see @juneroadpress.bsky.social, @perugiapress.bsky.social, @bobsykora.bsky.social, ENTRE RÍOS Books, @sundresspub.bsky.social and @djvorreyer.bsky.social on this list!
📚❤️🎉 I hope we are all giving books this year, and supporting small presses.
📚❤️🎉 I hope we are all giving books this year, and supporting small presses.
What has 464 poetry collections, chapbooks, and anthologies? Our Poetry of 2025 roundup, featuring an incredible wealth of poetry published by independent literary presses this year! www.clmp.org/news/poetry-...
December 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I've never been on any list! I'm so excited! Congrats to all of these wonderful indie books and presses!
Not much would make me want to leave the house today when it is so cold, but a good friend's birthday gathering with PIZZA is enough to make it happen. (I shouldn't be this excited about pizza, but now that I'm older, pizza (like a cookie) is a "sometimes food" for me.
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Sesame Street: A Cookie is a Sometime Food
YouTube video by Sesame Street
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December 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Not much would make me want to leave the house today when it is so cold, but a good friend's birthday gathering with PIZZA is enough to make it happen. (I shouldn't be this excited about pizza, but now that I'm older, pizza (like a cookie) is a "sometimes food" for me.
youtu.be/PaHkwE7TaNg?...
youtu.be/PaHkwE7TaNg?...
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The collage work of @susanbarryschulz.com graces two different pieces in Issue 4 accompanying work by @jillkitchen.bsky.social and Sean Cho.
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December 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The collage work of @susanbarryschulz.com graces two different pieces in Issue 4 accompanying work by @jillkitchen.bsky.social and Sean Cho.
www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...
www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...
I need some holiday cheer... This oughta do it.
December 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I need some holiday cheer... This oughta do it.
Gotta love all the big journals who have had my packets for 9-12 months (some with only one poem that hasn't been withdrawn) doling out the batch form rejects just before the holidays.
December 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Gotta love all the big journals who have had my packets for 9-12 months (some with only one poem that hasn't been withdrawn) doling out the batch form rejects just before the holidays.
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THIS IS TONIGHT! Your host is battling a migraine, but never fear, these six readers have plenty of good things to occupy your ears and brain and heart.
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One week from today, you won't want to miss SIX, count 'em, SIX fabulous readers to close out 2025! @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social @dsmpoet.bsky.social @magpiedays.bsky.social @kathrynkirkpatrick.bsky.social @erindorney.bsky.social & @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social!
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December 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
THIS IS TONIGHT! Your host is battling a migraine, but never fear, these six readers have plenty of good things to occupy your ears and brain and heart.
Register here:
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