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Laura Donnelly
@laurakdonnelly.bsky.social
Author of Midwest Gothic (Ashland Poetry Press) and Watershed (Cider Press Review). Poetry prof at SUNY Oswego.
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Congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction and Poetry!

The competition runs from Jan. 15 to March 15 annually.

Learn more about the book prize here:
prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize/
August 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Planted these for the bees, glad the bees approve
June 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
That little red dot is how we find our mailbox in the snow bank.
February 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
“America, it’s clear you’ve gone without deodorant,
driven into inquisition, arrived on time and tried
to find distraction in the waiting room."
February 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Reposted by Laura Donnelly
You are welcome, you are welcome, you are welcome.

Omotara James
February 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I wrote a poem about ushering in my forties with an MRI. Thank you to the marvelous @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for giving this one a home!
"And I wasn’t scared but / in awe. Of the body. The sound."

Laura Donnelly's "Baptism at Forty: Magnetic Resonance Imaging"

psalteryandlyre.org/2025/02/10/b...
Baptism at Forty: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
by Laura Donnelly
psalteryandlyre.org
February 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
"Sing me a love song of glaciers & seed vaults. You be the blue-tailed skink soaking up concrete’s residual heat; I’ll be the puffball that rises in the wake of punishing rain." -- Jane Saterfield sending us postcards from the Anthropocene in @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Finally finished knitting @katedaviesdesigns.bsky.social #carbeth sweater. Mug for scale in pre/post blocking photos. (I was nervous pre-blocking, but it’s perfect.) Yarn = Hikoo Sueno. Colorway = “bashful” (lol). Love all Kate Davies’ patterns. #knitting #knitsky
February 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"to lay their / great pale cheek against the burning / cheek of earth and say, There, there, child.”
Philip Levine
February 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Reposted by Laura Donnelly
Joy Harjo from her book An American Sunrise.
January 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Meditation w/ Sue
January 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Reposted by Laura Donnelly
Today's climate action.
January 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“like a world // slipping through its own hands”
January 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Ok, Bluesky, let’s start here
January 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM