Lynne Jensen Lampe
@ljensenlampe.bsky.social
Poet. Editor. Late bloomer. Trans ally. she/her. Reader at Tinderbox. Poems in Many Nice Donkeys, Rise Up Review, Stone Circle Review, Inflectionist Review. Coming: Okay Donkey. Talk Smack to a Hurricane (Ice Floe Press, 2022). https://icefloepress.net/tal
Y’all, AWP FOMO is nothing compared with Hospital FOMO—my almost 92-year-old dad had hip surgery yesterday—it went well—& now I’m like “Am I in time to catch the surgeon? What if Dad wakes up and I’m not here? Will I miss the case worker/OT/PT if I go to the bathroom/get coffee/go home/cry outside?
February 13, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Y’all, AWP FOMO is nothing compared with Hospital FOMO—my almost 92-year-old dad had hip surgery yesterday—it went well—& now I’m like “Am I in time to catch the surgeon? What if Dad wakes up and I’m not here? Will I miss the case worker/OT/PT if I go to the bathroom/get coffee/go home/cry outside?
Airing this old footage is unconscionable and unethical. jfc.
If you're wondering how mainstream media is covering the broad-based peaceful resistance in Minnesota, this morning @cnn.com aired footage of the Minneapolis 3rd Precinct fire *from the 2020 riots* as if it happened last night. This isn't just misleading, it's a dirty rotten lie.
February 2, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Airing this old footage is unconscionable and unethical. jfc.
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I worry that as we narrow the range of what we can talk about, think about, spend our time on, our ability to make expansive art and language shrinks, too, and so does our ability then to solve big problems and think creatively - all of which is the terrible point of fascism
February 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
I worry that as we narrow the range of what we can talk about, think about, spend our time on, our ability to make expansive art and language shrinks, too, and so does our ability then to solve big problems and think creatively - all of which is the terrible point of fascism
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A lot of carceral workers are nonwhite people.
Another example of why we need to deal with the racial politics of how people are recruited and encouraged to become carceral workers, and how the pathologizing of nonwhite communities and their “redemption” through carceral service are part of that.
Another example of why we need to deal with the racial politics of how people are recruited and encouraged to become carceral workers, and how the pathologizing of nonwhite communities and their “redemption” through carceral service are part of that.
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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February 1, 2026 at 9:58 PM
A lot of carceral workers are nonwhite people.
Another example of why we need to deal with the racial politics of how people are recruited and encouraged to become carceral workers, and how the pathologizing of nonwhite communities and their “redemption” through carceral service are part of that.
Another example of why we need to deal with the racial politics of how people are recruited and encouraged to become carceral workers, and how the pathologizing of nonwhite communities and their “redemption” through carceral service are part of that.
Change a letter, ruin a film:
The Bards
The Bards
change a letter, ruin a film:
The Mime Machine
The Mime Machine
change a letter, ruin a film:
Silence of the Limbs
Silence of the Limbs
January 26, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Change a letter, ruin a film:
The Bards
The Bards
Feeling grateful for our local community radio station KOPN. The Saturday program of music and hosting in Spanish just started, goes til noon central time. Listen live: www.kopn.org
KOPN 89.5 FM – Mid-Missouri's Independent Community Radio – It's more than radio, it's community radio.
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January 24, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Feeling grateful for our local community radio station KOPN. The Saturday program of music and hosting in Spanish just started, goes til noon central time. Listen live: www.kopn.org
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Brilliant! Glad to see this is now in print. A wonderful international anthology, evocations of mothers & children. Was honored to participate; to be invited to write the intro, and to have 2 new poems (on my mother) featured within. Copies now available from @ballerinibookpress.bsky.social 💐 #books
NEW RELEASE
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS has landed!
With thanks to ALL the contributors, including @rfredekenter.bsky.social for his support and Introduction, @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social for the idea, inspiration and permission.
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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS has landed!
With thanks to ALL the contributors, including @rfredekenter.bsky.social for his support and Introduction, @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social for the idea, inspiration and permission.
ballerinibookpress.ch/product/thro...
January 18, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Brilliant! Glad to see this is now in print. A wonderful international anthology, evocations of mothers & children. Was honored to participate; to be invited to write the intro, and to have 2 new poems (on my mother) featured within. Copies now available from @ballerinibookpress.bsky.social 💐 #books
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It's a five year birthday celebration for the incredible @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social 🥳
You can snag ALL press books for 10$ to celebrate the occasion!
www.riotinyourthroat.com
You can snag ALL press books for 10$ to celebrate the occasion!
www.riotinyourthroat.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:19 PM
It's a five year birthday celebration for the incredible @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social 🥳
You can snag ALL press books for 10$ to celebrate the occasion!
www.riotinyourthroat.com
You can snag ALL press books for 10$ to celebrate the occasion!
www.riotinyourthroat.com
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Today:
"In my ‘Wastelines’, deleted lines...edits from my notebook not only resurface to interfere w/ the published version of the text, but (like the dangerously active waste in landfill) start to form new compounds, new possible poems." @susiecampbell.bsky.social
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"In my ‘Wastelines’, deleted lines...edits from my notebook not only resurface to interfere w/ the published version of the text, but (like the dangerously active waste in landfill) start to form new compounds, new possible poems." @susiecampbell.bsky.social
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“Is This The Final”/ Wastelines: A Spoken Word Performance & Text – Susie Campbell
“Is This The Final?” – A Spoken Word Performance by Susie Campbell WASTELINES  …
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January 13, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Today:
"In my ‘Wastelines’, deleted lines...edits from my notebook not only resurface to interfere w/ the published version of the text, but (like the dangerously active waste in landfill) start to form new compounds, new possible poems." @susiecampbell.bsky.social
icefloepress.net/2026/01/12/i...
"In my ‘Wastelines’, deleted lines...edits from my notebook not only resurface to interfere w/ the published version of the text, but (like the dangerously active waste in landfill) start to form new compounds, new possible poems." @susiecampbell.bsky.social
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Another stunner in the Process series from @icefloepress.bsky.social. Inspiring, illuminating—this time how a page from a novel became a collaged erasure poem. #ErasurePoetry #Process #Poetry icefloepress.net/2026/01/09/l...
LITTLE FISH UNCANNED: ‘the seeker’ & creative notes (for an erasure project) – kerry rawlinson
Process: The Project Although some schools of literature rather look down on erasure poems, they actually have an interesting and erudite history. “Poet Erin Dorney identified six styles of erasure…
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January 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Another stunner in the Process series from @icefloepress.bsky.social. Inspiring, illuminating—this time how a page from a novel became a collaged erasure poem. #ErasurePoetry #Process #Poetry icefloepress.net/2026/01/09/l...
One of my dearest friends, amazing poet @camwhelr.bsky.social has a video poem “Body Surfing” on @icefloepress.bsky.social today—riding the waves of a disabled body: “I am trying to render / this body / for you / but first / we must crawl” #Disability #Vispo #Poetry icefloepress.net/2026/01/05/d...
Departure i am trying to render – a Video Poem by Cam Whelr
Artist Statement – Cam Whelr In creating this digital collage, I endeavor to render my poem “Body Surfing” as an urgent, sensorial, and impressionistic plunge into my embodied rea…
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January 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM
One of my dearest friends, amazing poet @camwhelr.bsky.social has a video poem “Body Surfing” on @icefloepress.bsky.social today—riding the waves of a disabled body: “I am trying to render / this body / for you / but first / we must crawl” #Disability #Vispo #Poetry icefloepress.net/2026/01/05/d...
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If you want understanding this morning, of course read the historians and the journalists and the political scientists. But please also read James Baldwin and Mary Oliver and Ted Berrigan and Nikki Giovanni and the other poets. They always saw history coming.
January 3, 2026 at 4:34 PM
If you want understanding this morning, of course read the historians and the journalists and the political scientists. But please also read James Baldwin and Mary Oliver and Ted Berrigan and Nikki Giovanni and the other poets. They always saw history coming.
Stunning in every way and a last line that—no lie—was the highlight of my day
Please enjoy the whole of @toddedillard.bsky.social's remarkably moving, Pushcart-nominated poem, "What the Husband Keeps," from Issue 20 of Stanchion Magazine.
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January 1, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Stunning in every way and a last line that—no lie—was the highlight of my day
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i think i know how priests feel seeing their congregation filled with parishioners just for christmas eve service bc i’m a librarian and it‘s school break and i‘ve never seen any of these people before
December 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
i think i know how priests feel seeing their congregation filled with parishioners just for christmas eve service bc i’m a librarian and it‘s school break and i‘ve never seen any of these people before
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In case you missed it this morning...
POEM 295: "Callisto on Artemis's Betrayal" by Sirrudeen Nahar (@sirrudeen.bsky.social)
"It was no fickle thing to swear myself to you. I was unmoving, I rejected a hundred hands just to keep my own laced to the bow, notching arrow after arrow in your name."
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#Poem
"It was no fickle thing to swear myself to you. I was unmoving, I rejected a hundred hands just to keep my own laced to the bow, notching arrow after arrow in your name."
stonecirclereview.com/callisto-on
#Poem
December 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
In case you missed it this morning...
What happens when an editor creates a journal to put positivity into our world, & encourages & promotes their writers? They make a Top 10 list! Congrats to @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social and lit mag Feed the Holy, which made @chillsubs.bsky.social Great Editors list www.chillsubs.com/lists/great-...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:55 AM
What happens when an editor creates a journal to put positivity into our world, & encourages & promotes their writers? They make a Top 10 list! Congrats to @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social and lit mag Feed the Holy, which made @chillsubs.bsky.social Great Editors list www.chillsubs.com/lists/great-...
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Arkansas will become the first state to lose PBS.
The state-wide network will switch to local programming in 2026 — after a vote by a board appointed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
"We want our states in the driver’s seat when it comes to educational television"
arktimes.com/arkansas-blo... #PBS
The state-wide network will switch to local programming in 2026 — after a vote by a board appointed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
"We want our states in the driver’s seat when it comes to educational television"
arktimes.com/arkansas-blo... #PBS
RIP, Arkansas PBS - Arkansas Times
The end of federal funding for public media demolishes Arkansas PBS. The station will rebrand as ATV and feature mainly local programming.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Arkansas will become the first state to lose PBS.
The state-wide network will switch to local programming in 2026 — after a vote by a board appointed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
"We want our states in the driver’s seat when it comes to educational television"
arktimes.com/arkansas-blo... #PBS
The state-wide network will switch to local programming in 2026 — after a vote by a board appointed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
"We want our states in the driver’s seat when it comes to educational television"
arktimes.com/arkansas-blo... #PBS
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We are thrilled that Vol. 10 Is. 2 of Tinderbox is out in the world! Read all the wonderful poems at tinderboxpoetry.com.
Tinderbox Poetry Journal
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December 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
We are thrilled that Vol. 10 Is. 2 of Tinderbox is out in the world! Read all the wonderful poems at tinderboxpoetry.com.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Children of a Lesser Gods Must Be Crazy
Jurassic Mansfield Park
December 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Mr. & Mrs. Smith Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Y’all, I was absolutely thrilled when @stonecirclereview.bsky.social accepted my poem “heart as double-paned window”—a golden shovel based on a Joni Mitchell song—and I’m elated they nominated it for a Pushcart. Check out this great journal, which rn features “Bidden” by @jackbedell.bsky.social
"heart as double-paned window" by Lynne Jensen Lampe (@ljensenlampe.bsky.social)
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#Pushcart #PushcartPrize
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#Pushcart #PushcartPrize
heart as double-paned window
by Lynne Jensen Lampe
golden shovel after joni mitchell’s down to you
words can’t paint everything
this side of the glass :: blood comes
with its own poetry &
each line leaks iron & loneliness :: ...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Y’all, I was absolutely thrilled when @stonecirclereview.bsky.social accepted my poem “heart as double-paned window”—a golden shovel based on a Joni Mitchell song—and I’m elated they nominated it for a Pushcart. Check out this great journal, which rn features “Bidden” by @jackbedell.bsky.social
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This collection has magic, humor, spirit, lyricism, resistance, delight, and lots of animals. Thought-provoking and kind, *Becoming Altar* makes a great gift for yourself or any reader.
What I want for Christmas is for *Becoming Altar* to sell out!
❤️ 🎄 📘 💖
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What I want for Christmas is for *Becoming Altar* to sell out!
❤️ 🎄 📘 💖
asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
December 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This collection has magic, humor, spirit, lyricism, resistance, delight, and lots of animals. Thought-provoking and kind, *Becoming Altar* makes a great gift for yourself or any reader.
What I want for Christmas is for *Becoming Altar* to sell out!
❤️ 🎄 📘 💖
asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
What I want for Christmas is for *Becoming Altar* to sell out!
❤️ 🎄 📘 💖
asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
Y’all, poet Justin Hamm @mdwstscribbler.bsky.social (who is so generous toward and supportive of other writers) will be having heart surgery and then miss weeks of pay during recovery. Plz consider donating to this GoFundMe. gofund.me/bc66c378c
Donate to Help Justin Hamm Heal and Support His Family, organized by Justin Hamm
I'm Justin Hamm. An elementary school librarian, poet, husband, and father of… Justin Hamm needs your support for Help Justin Hamm Heal and Support His Family
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November 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Y’all, poet Justin Hamm @mdwstscribbler.bsky.social (who is so generous toward and supportive of other writers) will be having heart surgery and then miss weeks of pay during recovery. Plz consider donating to this GoFundMe. gofund.me/bc66c378c