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Ida Stewart
@idastewart.bsky.social
writer of poems and the like (https://perugiapress.org/product/gloss/)
editor
here for language
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Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GLOSS by Ida Stewart. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Stewart’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @idastewart.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Charles Wright
March 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Rae Armantrout
March 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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A #birddivination for today. Available as a stand-alone print at bit.ly/painted-bunting and as part of the deck of 100 (along with the story behind them) at almanacofbirds.org
January 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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this i think is the poem I’m most known for, and probably will be for the rest of my life
November 23, 2024 at 4:25 AM
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May Swenson, with found annotation
November 14, 2024 at 11:07 PM
"... I shout
through the guiltless but roaring silence
that it will be okay
because even in my dreams
I am learning that another answer
would be death before impact"
It’s Going to Be Okay by Abby E. Murray
It’s Going to Be Okay I know it will be okay because NASA has confirmed Stephen Hawking was right and the world will end probably by the year 2600, which means we are celebrating the birth of our c…
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November 12, 2024 at 9:20 PM
"... and when I was young
I was mildly outrageous, and now I am
completely, having seen in my brief forays
into predictability that there's no percentage
in it. Really, there isn't. I know you hope
there is, but really, there isn't."

—Irene McKinney, "Legs," from "Have You Had Enough Darkness Yet?"
November 11, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Aww my first @ and rebleet. Def got my fix here.
Just heard someone call this place “the Nicoderm of social media.”

“Posting on Twitter is definitely hurting me and others, but I just can’t quit. Got to find a way to limit the second hand effects while I try to quit….”

Citing my source here. It was @idastewart.bsky.social
October 13, 2023 at 12:25 AM
October in a new backyard / It was chilly this morning and the kids said maybe we'll have more luck with snow here and I said sometimes, sometimes it snows in October.
October 9, 2023 at 7:09 PM
i'm on bluesky / this monarch's on the grass
hello hello
September 27, 2023 at 4:12 PM