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Katie Manning
@katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
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Poet, parent, professor.
Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · Nov 14
I think it's my Jeff Goldblum thirst poem. 🤣
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We will only be open for submissions for 5 more days! Our submission period will end this Friday, October 31 (Halloween). Send us your work before then!! lastsyllablelit.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Happy book release day to my dear friend Kelly Foster Lundquist! Her new book, Beard, is an impossibly beautiful memoir, full of humor, food, pop culture references, and so much compassion for her ex-husband and her past self. I can't recommend this book highly enough.
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Just listened to this super late last night. It’s so lovely. I might need to get new poetry books soon… 🐠
katiemanningpoet.bsky.social Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · Oct 7
If you give me 3 minutes, I'll tell you about and read you a poem from Unalone (Four Way Books, 2024) by Jessica Jacobs. :)

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Poetry Rev 65 - Jessica Jacobs - Unalone
YouTube video by Katie Manning
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October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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I just need everyone to know that today my awestruck 14yo son called me the God of Tetris. 😁🚀
October 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!
October 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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❤️❤️❤️ to see people still engaging with Jesus Merch is the most exciting, thank you @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social!!!
katiemanningpoet.bsky.social Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · Oct 6
I haven't made a Poetry Rev video in a while (it's been an absurd year), but here's a new one with Jesus Merch by Megan McDermott!

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Poetry Rev 64 - Jesus Merch - Megan McDermott
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October 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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If you give me 3 minutes, I'll tell you about and read you a poem from Unalone (Four Way Books, 2024) by Jessica Jacobs. :)

youtu.be/HsodIXXqGwU?...
Poetry Rev 65 - Jessica Jacobs - Unalone
YouTube video by Katie Manning
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October 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I haven't made a Poetry Rev video in a while (it's been an absurd year), but here's a new one with Jesus Merch by Megan McDermott!

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Poetry Rev 64 - Jesus Merch - Megan McDermott
YouTube video by Katie Manning
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October 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I’m so honored that Painted Pebble Lit Mag has nominated my poem “When My Spouse Was Hot” for Best of the Net!

You can read (and hear me read) “When My Spouse Was Hot” at this link: paintedpebblelit.com/k-manning/
October 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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"We, the GOP, don’t want a shutdown, but that’s just how things go when you only control all three branches of government."
We, the GOP, Don’t Want a Government Shutdown, But…
We, the GOP, don’t want a shutdown, but Democrats are dangerously close to keeping health insurance costs from spiking. We, the GOP, don’t want a s...
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October 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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We are officially open for submissions until October 31st! Send us your long-form fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and your work that transcends the genres! Submit on: lastsyllablelit.com
We can’t wait to read your work!!

#writing #writingcommunity #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #litjournal #submit
October 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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whaleroadreview.bsky.social
Since I live in a place without colorful leaves or colder weather to make it feel like fall, our fall issues are my favorite harbingers of the season. This Fall 2025 issue is full of earnest language and surprising humor, and these pieces are packed with autumn.

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September 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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This is gonna be fun!
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inthreepoems.bsky.social In Three Poems @inthreepoems.bsky.social · Sep 3
It’s been some time since my old YouTube poetry readings, so I’m really looking forward to chatting with poets about their own poems as well as the poems that inspire them. Recordings are starting now for the mid-October launch! 18 poets lined up for our first season
Logo with speech bubbles saying in three poems. Text says David at the mic. Testing, 1, 2, 3 image of David with headphones and microphone
September 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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@katiemanningpoet.bsky.social 's chapbook How to Play. @amorak.bsky.social's Dungeon Master's Guide to Eighth Grade: www.therupturemag.com/the-collagis...
Dungeon Master's Guide to Eighth Grade — The Rupture
Amorak Huey   "As long as your campaign remains viable, it will continue a slow process of change and growth." —Gary Gygax When you come back in the fall of 1983 your friends lis...
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September 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Day 23 of the #sealeychallenge

August 23rd- How to Play, Katie Manning

This chapbook by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social from features poems inspired by games of childhood, a perfect nostalgia for the end of summer
The cover of the Katie manning book how to play, poems inspired by games YOU ALWAYS LET ME WIN AT CANDYLAND I never knew you were cheating, but Mom said you were going to make me a bad sport. If you could speak now, what would you say? I just loved to see you happy. No, you'd still say love— present-cigarettes and coffee on your breath. And you'd play love so I would be the one to find it, like our favorite card-the layered ice cream bar that never melts.
August 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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So pleased to have a review of UK writer James Roderick Burns' chapbook, Salamander Street, in this fine publication - @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @davidbridie.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social
July 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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This week in the poetry blogs w/ @jillpearlman.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @andotheritems.bsky.social @kathleenjamie.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 29
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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July 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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A person sitting in front of a wall of books. The caption reads, "reading can seriously damage your ignorance."
June 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Hot take: Not only are work requirements for Medicaid bad, tying health care to work at all is cruel and we should be doing it less not more.

Everyone deserves health care. Everyone.
July 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I wrote “Smothering Villanelle” with poetry queens Beth Gylys & Denise Duhamel. It’s a contoured villanelle using Julie Kane & Erica Reid’s “The Double Image Redux.” Thank you, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social & @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social.

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poems
June 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Please make a writer’s day and send a little something (or a lot) using the Tip the Author links below many of the bios. As ever, thank you for reading!

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Issue 39 / Summer 2025
Do you ever read something and feel like it’s reading you back? Our summer issue is doing this to me. My dad died just over a month ago (“A storm cannot grieve, but a grief can be a storm.” –…
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June 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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In pedagogy, Jen Hirt brings us a timely and much-needed example of modeling the writing process rather than integrating AI.

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Model What’s Natural Instead of Integrating the Artificial
When I was a graduate student, the professor teaching our pedagogy class gave an unpopular task: we had to write the paper we were about to assign in first-year composition. Then we’d exchange pape…
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June 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Do you ever read something and feel like it’s reading you back? Our summer issue is doing this to me. My dad died just over a month ago (“A storm cannot grieve, but a grief can be a storm.” – Donna Vorreyer, “These Currents Turn Awry”).
June 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I'm delighted to be on faculty for the Glen Workshop this summer as the writing retreat guide. Come write with me in Seattle? :)

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This is a black and white photo of Katie Manning with text that says "Glen Workshop" and "Writing Retreat Guide."
May 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM