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Lisa Stice
@lisasticepoet.bsky.social
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poet, mother, mil-spouse: author of 'Letters from Conflict,' 'Forces,' 'Permanent Change of Station,' 'Uniform,' 'Desert'
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lisasticepoet.bsky.social
I've received so many predatory comments/messages from men using Bluesky as a dating service. I post poetry. I'd thought of removing pics that include me, but why would I want to have to do that? Legit people can find me elsewhere. This post will stay up for a bit, then I'll cancel my profile.
November 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
lisasticepoet.bsky.social
Thank you to Line of Advance and guest judge @jdam.bsky.social for selecting my poem "Last of Autumn" as one of the 2025 Col. Darron L. Wright Awards for poetry by a mil-fam member finalists...
www.lineofadvance.org/blog/2025/8/...
Last of Autumn — Line Of Advance Literary Journal
where leaves and flowers grew, I cut so the plants keep through the cold my activity is heard by the blackbirds who sound a warning, fly together to distant perches     &...
www.lineofadvance.org
August 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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middlewestpress.bsky.social
Along with co-sponsor Collateral Journal, we are pleased to reveal another 2025 War Poetry Postcard Project design! More info: linktr.ee/warpoets

Congratulations to NY poet @pam-hart.bsky.social, for her poem "Mothers Over Nangarhar"!
Image consists of two elements author photo of Pamela Hart on right; her poem "Mothers Over Nangarhar" on left. The poem is superimposed on a satellite photo of Eastern Afghanistan, including the Nangarhar Province region. The poem reads: "Powered by search engines and history mothers navigate Google Earth, view the flashing lights of MRAPs as the cursors flag river or range The mothers leap across time zones check their satellite feed sprint from screen to field where you lie split calling their name The mothers fly from Fallujah Wanat, Khe Sanh to Marathon Hastings, Vicksburg Their hands are epic their bodies large pouring into and out of you"
July 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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middlewestpress.bsky.social
Along with co-sponsor Collateral Journal, we are pleased to reveal another 2025 War Poetry Postcard Project design! More info: linktr.ee/warpoets

Congratulations to poet and U.S. Army veteran @dagray.bsky.social , for "A.M. radio"!

More info: www.middlewestpress.com/2025/07/texa...
Left image: Central Texas poet and U.S. Army veteran D.A. Gray wears a "Good Trouble / Better South" T-shirt and American flag button. Right image: D.A. Gray's WPPP-finalist poem "A.M. radio" is superimposed on a cloudy sky over the yellow-dashed centerline of a Texas highway. The poem reads: "You drive together in an unremarkable sedan, the a.m. radio station comes in and out of tune. You’d forgotten in the desert how hills could churn the contents of your last lunch, pin them to your ribs, or make you eat it again. Still flying upward a split second after the road’s fallen from your wheels. Atop the next hill the signal comes through. A man’s voice speaks of those people, then the signal cuts out. Between the static you piece it together. The caller wants those people to go back. You begin to picture faces: the translator who risked everything feeding you dolma and tea so sweet sugar settled in the glass; your soldier, who volunteers every job by day, studies for his citizenship test by night. You look over; he’s staring off to the side. You’re more American than some who never left their hometown. you say, and both laugh uneasily, and turn the radio off — when you turn back to the road, cresting a blind hill, you nearly meet a pickup truck coming the other way. Both vehicles swerve from the center."
July 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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aimingcircle.bsky.social
The 2025 Col. Darron L. Wright Awards for poetry by a mil-fam member!
- 1st: “Shipwreck on Padre Island” by Emma Comery
- 2nd: “Last of Autumn” by @lisasticepoet.bsky.social
- 3rd: “Rolling Hills” by Erick Garske

The annual contest is administered by the @line of advance. www.lineofadvance.org
Line Of Advance Literary Journal
Literary Journal for America's Military Veterans, their Families, and Active Duty Members. Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry.
www.lineofadvance.org
August 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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middlewestpress.bsky.social
With co-sponsor Collateral Journal, we are pleased to announce the 2025 War Poetry Postcard Project results! linktr.ee/warpoets

1st Prize: @janemuschenetz.bsky.social, "Every poem is political—"!

Finalists:
@dagray.bsky.social, "A.M. radio"!
@pam-hart.bsky.social, "Mothers Over Nangarhar"
Image on right: Poet Jane Muschenetz Image on left: A vertical postcard presentation of Jane Muschenetz's poem, "Every poem is political—" Superimposed over a blue sky and bordered by a yellow sunflower, he poem continues: "in the sense that everything is political even sunflowers this blue sky, stands in opposition to the air sirens above my birth city this deep ocean shelters undocumented oil fields the great mountains in the distance are unapologetically arresting … everywhere you look is a reason to protest everywhere you look is so beautiful never forget every tongue is a borderland every heart, a homeland worth longing for"
July 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
lisasticepoet.bsky.social
'Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism' by Eve L. Ewing, published by @oneworldbooks.bsky.social

#nonfiction #community #history #society #sociology #abolitionistliterature #anticolonialliterature #decolonialliterature #activism
June 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
lisasticepoet.bsky.social
'the patient routine' by @lunareyhall.com, published by @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social

So amazing and like nothing I have ever read...

#poetry #poetrycommunity #narativepoetry #novelinverse #horrorpoetry #psycologicalthriller #poetryaboutmentalhealth #nonbinarypoetry #lgbtqpoetry #queerpoetry
June 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
lisasticepoet.bsky.social
Thank you to @wildroofjournal.bsky.social for including my poem "Genesis" in issue 30 💚

wildroofjournal.com/issue-30/

#poetry #poetrycommunity #literaryjournal #literarycommunity #artcommunity #wildroofjournal
June 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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wildroofjournal.bsky.social
It's pub day for our new issue! Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art | Check it out:
wildroofjournal.com/issue-30/

#poetry #art #litmag
June 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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fobhaiku.bsky.social
"Welcome to FOB Haiku: War Poems from Inside the Wire" by Randy "Sherpa" Brown.

Cover art by @aaronprovost.bsky.social

- Print: amzn.to/2n7zOIg
- Kindle: amzn.to/3acccrT

Intended to create moments of conversation among military veterans & civilians.

About the author:
linktr.ee/randysherpab...
Text reads: "All this has happened before, all this will happen again." Book cover of "Welcome to FOB Haiku: War Poems from Inside the Wire" features pencil sketch of Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected ("M-RAP") truck.
June 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
lisasticepoet.bsky.social
‘In Spring We Turned to Water’ by Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social, published by @doirepress.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #naturepoetry #dailinessoflife #poetryofplace #ruralpoetry #lyricalpoetry #landscapepoetry #pastoralpoetry #meditativepoetry #irishpoetry
June 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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‘Occupy Whiteness’ by @jzthepoet.bsky.social published by @deepvellum.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #hybridlit #bilingualpoetry #bilingualliterature #erasurepoetry #decolonialpoetry #immigrantpoetry #politicalpoetry #nativepoetry #poetryofwitness #poetryasactivism #literatureasactivism
June 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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middlewestpress.bsky.social
Launches Oct. 7, 2025! "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" collects more than 70 short poems and 300-word narratives of mythic beasts that illuminate, celebrate, or challenge stereotypes of Midwestern identity!

E-book pre-sale: amzn.to/3ZSvQn0

More info:
www.middlewestpress.com/2025/06/midw...
Book cover of "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" anthology features a giant, shambling creature towering over a lone humanoid figure walking through a flowery forest. Text reads: "A Harvest of Fresh Horrors !" and "On Pre-Sale Now! Arrives Oct. 7, 2025!"
June 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
lisasticepoet.bsky.social
'Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms' by @joankwonglass.bsky.social, published by @perugiapress.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #anticolonialpoetry #historicalpoetry #koreanpoetry #koreanamericanpoetry #poetryofplace #familypoetry #poetryaboutdeath #poetryofidentity #poetryofconflict
May 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
lisasticepoet.bsky.social
'With My Back to the World' by @victoriachang.bsky.social, published by @fsgbooks.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #prosepoetry #ekphrasticpoetry #agnesmartin #biographicalpoetry #poetryaboutdeath #autobiographicalpoetry #familypoetry #poetryaboutdepression #feministpoetry #wittypoetry
May 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
lisasticepoet.bsky.social
'Blood Wolf Moon' by Elise Paschen, published by @redhenpress.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #familypoetry #heritagepoetry #biographicalpoetry #mariatallchief #autobiographicalpoetry #elisepaschen #poetryofplace #poetryoflanguage #naturepoetry #poetryofselfdiscovery #nativepoetry
May 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
lisasticepoet.bsky.social
Check out Collateral Journal issue 9.2 for amazing poetry, fiction, non-fiction, & my (as Visual Arts Editor) interview with featured artist Elias Not Afraid (his beadwork is throughout the interview & entire issue).
#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #beadart #beadwork
www.collateraljournal.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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middlewestpress.bsky.social
It's not too late!!! DEADLINE is May 3, 2025!!!

We want people to write, read, & exchange words about conflicts overseas … and those closer to home.

Prizes include $50 cash & trophy coffee mugs!

3x finalists will be produced & distributed to ALL ENTRANTS as designer postcards!

linktr.ee/warpoets
Image depicts cartoon clock character superimposed on photographic crowd scene, gesturing toward the words: "POETRY CONTEST." - "Submit up to 3 poems" - "26 lines or less; 'fits on postcard'" - "Deadline: 03 MAY 25!"
April 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
lisasticepoet.bsky.social
'Raven Mothers’ by Breda Wall Ryan, published by @doirepress.bsky.social

celebrating the spiritual and natural worlds

#poetry #poetrycommunity #naturepoetry #spiritworldinnature #connectingtonature #feministpoetry #connectingtoancestors #poetryforancestors #irishpoetry #nationalpoetrymonth
April 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
lisasticepoet.bsky.social
For #NationalPoetryMonth, today's share is spoken word poetry set to music.

Shane MacGowan with "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by W.B. Yeats
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loq9...
Shane MacGowan - An Irish Airman Forsees His Death (Yeats)
YouTube video by Gorikain
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April 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
lisasticepoet.bsky.social
‘Small Wars Manual’ by @santisugi.bsky.social, published by @milkweededitions.bsky.social

Amazing! Many of the poems are erasures of the USMC ‘Small Wars Manual.’

#poetry #poetrycommunity #erasurepoetry #poetryofconflict #warpoetry #anticolonialpoetry #antiimperialismpoetry #nationalpoetrymonth
April 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
lisasticepoet.bsky.social
For #NationalPoetryMonth, today's share is a song inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson. The first portion of the song quotes part of Dickinson's "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain."

Iona Zajac with "Summer"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW2c...
Iona Zajac - Summer (Official Video)
YouTube video by Iona Zajac
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April 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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middlewestpress.bsky.social
Author of collections including “Letters from Conflict” & “Permanent Change of Station,” NC poet & U.S. Marine Corps spouse @lisasticepoet.bsky.social (she/her) will serve as one of three judges for the War Poetry Postcard Project (WPPP) contest!

More info:
www.middlewestpress.com/2025/04/lisa...
Lisa Stice to Serve as a War Poetry Postcard Project Judge
Author of poetry collections including “Letters from Conflict” and “Permanent Change of Station,” North Carolina poet and U.S. Marine Corp...
www.middlewestpress.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
lisasticepoet.bsky.social
‘Through a Red Place’ by @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social, published by @perugiapress.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #moheganpoetry #poetryintranslation #poetryofplace #familypoetry #historicalpoetry #poetryofidentity #decolonization #recoveringhistory #nativepoetry
April 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM