Lisa Wells
@lisawellswriter.bsky.social
Writer and multimedia artist. Author of The Fire Passage (Fourway Books, 2025) and Believers (FSG, 2021)
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Sensible zombies start the day with a brain muffin
October 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Sensible zombies start the day with a brain muffin
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
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NBCC member Valerie Duff-Strautmann reviewed Lisa Wells’ "The Fire Passage" for On the Seawall:
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September 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
NBCC member Valerie Duff-Strautmann reviewed Lisa Wells’ "The Fire Passage" for On the Seawall:
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"In her wish for phoenix-like resurrection, she always admits a profound uncertainty, yet the underlying song is her compass": Valerie Duff-Strautmann on THE FIRE PASSAGE, poems by Lisa Wells @fourwaybooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
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September 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"In her wish for phoenix-like resurrection, she always admits a profound uncertainty, yet the underlying song is her compass": Valerie Duff-Strautmann on THE FIRE PASSAGE, poems by Lisa Wells @fourwaybooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL
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Martha Park recommends apocalyptic nonfiction by Mark O’Connell, Emily Raboteau, Jeff Sharlet and more.
Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List
As a child, I grew up singing a song in church which ended with the lines, “As it was in the beginning / is now and ever shall be / world without end / amen, amen.” I loved the way the song sounded…
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May 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Martha Park recommends apocalyptic nonfiction by Mark O’Connell, Emily Raboteau, Jeff Sharlet and more.
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Thanks, Martha Park! This line-up makes sense to me.
Martha Park recommends apocalyptic nonfiction by Mark O’Connell, Emily Raboteau, Jeff Sharlet and more.
Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List
As a child, I grew up singing a song in church which ended with the lines, “As it was in the beginning / is now and ever shall be / world without end / amen, amen.” I loved the way the song sounded…
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May 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Thanks, Martha Park! This line-up makes sense to me.
She didn't just make room for us, she increased the available store of reality.
May 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
She didn't just make room for us, she increased the available store of reality.
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beautiful essay by the fabulous @lisawellswriter.bsky.social on her @dseuss.bsky.social approved second collection, The Fire Passage
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Poets and translators on their work.
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May 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
beautiful essay by the fabulous @lisawellswriter.bsky.social on her @dseuss.bsky.social approved second collection, The Fire Passage
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
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'Dandelions,' was painted by the Danish artist Bertha Wegmann around 1910. It wasn't an arbitrary choice of a plant to paint: the dandelion was used to promote the women’s liberation movement in Scandinavia because of its capacity for uncontrolled, strong-willed growth.
April 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
'Dandelions,' was painted by the Danish artist Bertha Wegmann around 1910. It wasn't an arbitrary choice of a plant to paint: the dandelion was used to promote the women’s liberation movement in Scandinavia because of its capacity for uncontrolled, strong-willed growth.
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Sure, a lot of us have in fact "read our Hannah Arendt," and maybe writing stately essays is more navel-gazing an activity than we need at the moment, but to presume everyone is already at a certain level of understanding is naive and frankly, a bit foolish.
March 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Sure, a lot of us have in fact "read our Hannah Arendt," and maybe writing stately essays is more navel-gazing an activity than we need at the moment, but to presume everyone is already at a certain level of understanding is naive and frankly, a bit foolish.
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ICYMI: POTUS issued an EO yesterday directing to dissolve the IMLS (and six other agencies). Solidarity to everyone affected. I’m with you—it’s been a major source of my research support, and, generally, a major source of support for libraries and museums in America.
March 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
ICYMI: POTUS issued an EO yesterday directing to dissolve the IMLS (and six other agencies). Solidarity to everyone affected. I’m with you—it’s been a major source of my research support, and, generally, a major source of support for libraries and museums in America.
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Wish I were to the laughing into the void point
March 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Wish I were to the laughing into the void point
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Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
March 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
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I needed a dose of humor and smarts with my gravitas today, so I reread this sparkling conversation between Lydia Millet and @lisawellswriter.bsky.social in @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/lydi...
Nonfiction as a Choice: An Interview with Lydia Millet - Orion Magazine
On the writer's new memoir 'We Loved It All' and storytelling without the artifice of filters
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March 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I needed a dose of humor and smarts with my gravitas today, so I reread this sparkling conversation between Lydia Millet and @lisawellswriter.bsky.social in @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/lydi...
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Calling poets, nonfiction writers, and lovers of language: Orion has three writers’ workshops open for application! Apps are due January 30. More on each workshop – and how to apply – here.
https://orionmagazine.org/events-workshops/workshops/
https://orionmagazine.org/events-workshops/workshops/
January 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Calling poets, nonfiction writers, and lovers of language: Orion has three writers’ workshops open for application! Apps are due January 30. More on each workshop – and how to apply – here.
https://orionmagazine.org/events-workshops/workshops/
https://orionmagazine.org/events-workshops/workshops/
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An HBCU conference at Rutgers was cancelled following Trump's EO:
“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Rutgers cancels HBCU event to align with Trump DEI orders
The Rutgers University Center for Minority Serving Institutions announced Thursday that it has canceled an upcoming virtual conference about registered apprenticeship programs as a result of President...
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January 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
An HBCU conference at Rutgers was cancelled following Trump's EO:
“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Trying to forge new moves on my board (with the voice of Richard Alpert)
January 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Trying to forge new moves on my board (with the voice of Richard Alpert)
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I don't think I need to clarify my stance on the topic but these soccer folks summed it up
January 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I don't think I need to clarify my stance on the topic but these soccer folks summed it up