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Winona Paige
@poetwinonaanderson.bsky.social
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An aspiring poet who's not afraid to talk about periods.
https://winonapanderson.com/
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Winona Paige @poetwinonaanderson.bsky.social · Apr 23
Interested in more in-depth reading about my story? You can check me out on substack - all posts are free! open.substack.com/pub/ichoseme...
An Introduction:
Why I Chose Menopause
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poetwinonaanderson.bsky.social
I've been sitting on some exciting news that I'm so glad I finally get to share - I'm officially a published poet! @mosspuppymag.bsky.social put together an absolutely incredible edition of their mag that I am so grateful to have been a part of. You can read "Heaven is Made of Gold" on page 85 :)
Issue 8: Amberfields | Moss Puppy Magazine
www.mosspuppymag.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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ADHD is so crazy… please tell me why I haven’t made any progress on a piece that’s due ASAP and yet instead I’ve made progress on several other pieces that’s not the priority piece that’s due…?? wtf.
April 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Need some inspiration for your next poem? Try giving ovarian form a try - here's a quick breakdown of how the form works. If you're interested in a more of a breakdown of the form, you can also check it out on my website at winonapanderson.com/2025/04/12/o...
a text explanation of a poetic form called "ovarian form," on a light pink background with a wreath with a circle of arrows in the center in the upper right corner of the image. The text reads: Ovarian Form 1st stanza - about ¼ of the poem - tone should gain momentum and be energetic, excited, alive, freeing 2nd stanza - one to two lines (or about an equivalent ratio for longer poems) - tone is a sudden break or shift in direction from the first stanza 3rd stanza - about ½ of the poem - tone should show a descent, getting darker and moodier and heavier as you go, until… 4th stanza - about ¼ of the poem - tone now shifts back towards hope, circles back to beginning themes, and starts its movement back towards that energy from the first stanza Additionally: The last word of each stanza should be the first word of the next, and the last word of the poem should repeat the first word of the poem.
April 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Ahhhh I love it so much!!!
emilyander.bsky.social Emily @emilyander.bsky.social · Apr 23
I had the pleasure of creating this illustration and cover design for @poetwinonaanderson.bsky.social and I absolutely loved every moment of bringing her vision to life.
April 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
poetwinonaanderson.bsky.social
Interested in more in-depth reading about my story? You can check me out on substack - all posts are free! open.substack.com/pub/ichoseme...
An Introduction:
Why I Chose Menopause
open.substack.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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A NEW womensart book!
Out June 1st
Available to PRE-order
www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...
At any good bookshop!
April 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I mean just LOOK at this gorgeousness! #KidLitArt
kipalizadeh.net kip alizadeh @kipalizadeh.net · Apr 8
hello #PortfolioDay I'm Kip, I'm an illustrator and I'm currently available to work on board books and picture books as well as cards, packaging and paper products.
📧 kip.alizadeh@gmail.com
🌐 kipalizadeh.net
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#KidLitArt
An illustration by Kip Alizadeh of a young child in a yellow rain jacket jumping enthusiastically into a big splashy puddle vector illustration by Kip Alizadeh of an owl sitting on a branch in front of a full moon Illustration by Kip Alizadeh of two children building a snowman, helped by their dog who is holding a stick that will be a snowman arm. There is a robin perched on the snowman's bobble hat. watercolour painting by Kip Alizadeh of a baby rabbit sitting in wildflowers staring at a crescent moon in a dusky sky
April 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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caitluce.bsky.social Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · Apr 14
Out tomorrow Hellions by Julia Elliott! A muggy, surreal collection of fairy tales and horror set in rural South Carolina, including a story about a family obsessed with a network TV broadcast of The Exocist. Highly recommended! www.islandbooks.com/book/9781963... @tinhouse.bsky.social
Copies of Hellions on the counter at Island Books. Cover shows an alligator emerging from red/ pink flowers
April 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Canada’s First Black Woman Artist Is Celebrated in a Landmark Museum Show
"Edith MacDonald-Brown's descendants are working to preserve and promote her legacy."
by Jo Lawson-Tancred for Artnet
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Canada's First Black Woman Artist Is Celebrated in a Landmark Museum Show | Artnet News
Edith MacDonald-Brown, Canada's first known Black woman artist, is finally getting her due with a museum show in her native Nova Scotia.
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April 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
poetwinonaanderson.bsky.social
It's April 15th - you know what that means!

We're only a couple of weeks away from those end-of-the-month-deadlines. Make sure you're checking your calendars and getting those submissions in!

Oh, and I guess you could double check that your taxes are in too

#emergingpoet #taxday
April 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Spark vs. Gasoline

#poetry #poetryprompt #nationalpoetrymonth
Spark vs. Gasoline we knew the room was on fire but locked the door anyway. you smiled like gasoline. I kissed you like a spark. it wasn’t love— not the soft, sustainable kind— but it was holy in its ruin. a religion of heat and hunger. we didn’t bother to swim. we sank with purpose. every gasp another vow to go down together, to make the abyss our altar. you said, this will end badly. I said, I know. you said, good. and in the wreck, we found a kind of grace— not the saving kind, but the beautiful kind, the kind that leaves scars shaped like teeth. sometimes, we drown together, and call it paradise. -Gerhard Oevermann
April 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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After much procrastination, it’s time for Auntie Ethel…

Live with more Baldur’s Gate 3: www.twitch.tv/girbeagly
April 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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April 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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✨ Happy National Poetry Month!✨

Tin House is celebrating with a new video every Friday of April. Today it's Rob Macaisa Colgate reading the poem "Eli Eats Dirt" from his forthcoming poetry collection HARDLY CREATURES (5/20/25).𓆈💛

More about the book:
bit.ly/HardlyCreatu...
April 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Reminder that you don't owe anyone shit if they can't be bothered to give a damn about you
shortpoems.bsky.social Short Poem of the Day @shortpoems.bsky.social · Apr 11
Short Poem of the Day 📝

Impasse

I could tell you
If I wanted to,
What makes me
What I am.

But I don't
Really want to—
And you don't
Give a damn.
—Langston Hughes
April 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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April 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I wrote you a poem, I hope you like it :)
A poem on a background of a purple, grey, and black stripes, the poem reads: it took me so long by Winona Anderson, I was ten, thinking I knew what a crush felt like, there he was— knew we loved the same bands. I knew what a crush led to, even then. But I was so young, I’m not worried yet. What it led to, even then— think of how I’m all wrong. I’m not worried, yet now stung like a lie. I’d think of where I went wrong— was I just broken? It just grew like a lie, so I’d sit and pretend Was I just broken, was there a reason? To sit and pretend, I was like others. Was there a reason? Took me years to see I was like others – My ace family.
April 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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retired-librarian.bsky.social
I cannot overstate the importance of reading books, particularly novels by respected authors, for critical thinking skills and reading comprehension. If the big gun novelists don't interest you, start small and work your way up. Or read whatever interests you. Just read. Or listen. It's all books.
April 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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If I never stop writing this book, then I never need to edit it.

#writersky
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April 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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garden scents
layer her skin
like papier-mâché

the joy
of the work
thrills through her bones
as her fingers
green the world

#poetry
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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I keep telling myself it's fine that I have two chapbook drafts open at the same time, it's so that when the words on one page start to blur together into an unintelligible blob, I can just swap over to the other to keep the momentum going lol
#emergingpoet
April 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Trust the process!
tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · Apr 8
Hey look at me I've been here for years and I still have zero books out. You can just be a writer! No qualifications! No clue what you're doing! Just making things and telling other people about it all day who barely care! That's all I do!
April 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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It's finally that time of year again for my favorite volunteer opportunity - Model UN! Especially in today's climate, there's nothing more important than giving youth the space and the tools to disagree respectfully and work together across their differences for the greater good.
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April 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM