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Paula J Lambert
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Ten collections of poetry. Literary translator, micropress publisher, visual artist. Unapaulagetic on Substack. Always writing. Mostly trying to be mindful. And kind. www.paulajlambert.com
Thanks to Braided Way Magazine. 🙏💕

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Passages - Braided Way Magazine
I saw a shadow in the hallway, she said. She’s seen them there before, ghosts,
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October 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Fall schedule somehow keeps growing. October/November: Youngstown, Bowling Green, and Baltimore, OH.
October 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
“There’s a full harvest moon out there/ somewhere. But this is Ohio // and it’s raining…”
On the Harvest Moon in Ohio
There’s a full harvest moon out there, somewhere.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
October 5th is LAST DAY for preorder special price of Terms of Venery, Revised! Available at discounted price of $12.80. Regular price of $16.00 starts on Monday, October 6th.

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October 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Happy to have a poem in this issue! “Grief as Tunnel Painted in the Side of a Mesa”
The Fall 2025 Crone Power Issue is now available! Read all the fantastic poems from our older generation of women. www.gyroscopereview.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
So pleased to be part of this anthology and important educational project, with Paloma Press, Wick Poetry, and United by Nature. 🌱

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September 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Proof copy has arrived! Terms of Venery, Revised. From Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. So proud. So pretty! And two sample poems are available here, in the new fall issue of Sheila-Na-Gig Online. Pre-order sale info included in the same link!

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Paula J. Lambert
COMING SOON! Terms of Venery, Revisedby Paula J. Lambert ISBN: 978-1-962405-44-7$16.00 ($4.63 US Shipping) Pre-order discount through OCT 5:$12.80 ($4.63 US Shipping) Paula J. Lambert has published…
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September 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Poetry marathon at Bexley library today, hosted by Mimi Chenfeld and Fred Andrle!
September 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
So pleased to share that my new collection of poetry, Terms of Venery, Revised, is now available for pre-order from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions!

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Paula J. Lambert
COMING SOON! Terms of Venery, Revisedby Paula J. Lambert ISBN: 978-1-962405-44-7$16.00 ($4.63 US Shipping) Pre-order discount through OCT 5:$12.80 ($4.63 US Shipping) ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Paula J. Lam…
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September 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Today’s highlighted poem is “This Place, Too, a Loss: Blue Whale.” From The Wardrobe, who chose As If This Did Not Happen Every Day as this week’s Best-Dressed feature.

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The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: As If This Did Not Happen Every Day by Paula Lambert - The Sundress Blog
This selection, chosen by guest editor Alexis Ivy, is from As If This Did Not Happen Every Day by Paula Lambert (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions 2024). This Place, Too, a Loss: Blue Whale A blue whale’s heart,...
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August 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The Wardrobe, a Sundress publication, has selected As If This Did Not Happen Every Day as its “Best Dressed” feature this week. Today they’ve chosen to highlight “Indoctrination, 1972.” Thanks so much to guest curator Alexis Ivy, and Wardrobe managing editor Krista Cox.☀️
The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: As If This Did Not Happen Every Day by Paula Lambert - The Sundress Blog
This selection, chosen by guest editor Alexis Ivy, is from As If This Did Not Happen Every Day by Paula Lambert (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions 2024). Indoctrination, 1972 You were their leader, that gang of ...
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August 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I adore this book! The Four Ugliest Children in Christendom, by Camille-Yvette Welsch. Picked it up a while ago for the cover and title alone. Finally started reading several weeks ago and fell. in. love. 😍 Still managed not to finish , so doing that now for #TheSealeyChallenge, Day 1.
August 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Me, 2019: "Epstein gambled on the differential between his power and voice in the world and theirs and for the most part he won, because the game was rigged by dozens of people around him... Monsters rule over us, on behalf of monsters." lithub.com/in-patriarch...
In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine
One of my favorite books when I was young was T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, and one of its central themes is the attempt of King Arthur to replace an ethos of “might is right” with someth…
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July 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is the exhibition that will be on display when Chuck Salmons, Kip Knott and I read on Sunday, August 10th. Figuratively Speaking III at Pennington Custom Art Service, opening reception August 2nd. Show up through the month of August.
July 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Save-the-Date reminders for two upcoming Columbus readings! I’ll be reading with Kip Knott and Chuck Salmons in August, and with Cathy Essinger and Barbara Sabol in September. 📚💕
July 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Summer. Things are heating up.

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June 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder: freedom delayed is freedom denied. #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #FreedomDay #NeverForget
June 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Opportunities for writers in Europe
Our first monthly round-up of literary events and opportunites, online and in person
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June 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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So devastating 💔
'No Kings' Protester Killed In Salt Lake City Was Fashion Designer Who Competed On 'Project Runway'
Absolutely devastating 💔
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June 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Sharing again on Pigeon Appreciation Day. 🐦💕
Stringfoot
I. It’s the reason for so many pigeons with missing toes: stringfoot.
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June 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Wow. Just wow.
Absolutely bonkers — Joni Ernst doubles down on her “we are all gonna die” defense of Medicaid cuts while walking through a cemetery
May 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM