Sarah Josephine
@sarahjosephinep.bsky.social
Writer and Multi-Disciplinary Artist
Reposted by Sarah Josephine
Happy release day to Sarah Josephine Pennington's WHERE THE BLUEGRASS GROWS, JUNE 1916.
In addition to Sarah's words, some of the poems include lines or images sourced from a vintage Kentucky newspaper. #appalachian #southeasternkentucky #kentucky #poetry #appalachianpoetry #handbound #chapbook
In addition to Sarah's words, some of the poems include lines or images sourced from a vintage Kentucky newspaper. #appalachian #southeasternkentucky #kentucky #poetry #appalachianpoetry #handbound #chapbook
June 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Happy release day to Sarah Josephine Pennington's WHERE THE BLUEGRASS GROWS, JUNE 1916.
In addition to Sarah's words, some of the poems include lines or images sourced from a vintage Kentucky newspaper. #appalachian #southeasternkentucky #kentucky #poetry #appalachianpoetry #handbound #chapbook
In addition to Sarah's words, some of the poems include lines or images sourced from a vintage Kentucky newspaper. #appalachian #southeasternkentucky #kentucky #poetry #appalachianpoetry #handbound #chapbook
I have a new poem up over at @salvationsouth.com
Things sure are heavy right now, but I wish you all some queer joy and community this Pride month.
www.salvationsouth.com/queer-poetry...
Things sure are heavy right now, but I wish you all some queer joy and community this Pride month.
www.salvationsouth.com/queer-poetry...
June 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I have a new poem up over at @salvationsouth.com
Things sure are heavy right now, but I wish you all some queer joy and community this Pride month.
www.salvationsouth.com/queer-poetry...
Things sure are heavy right now, but I wish you all some queer joy and community this Pride month.
www.salvationsouth.com/queer-poetry...
Feeling rough today, so I'm doing some reading. Still Life With Bones should absolutely be on your tbr list. Hagerty explores the aftermath of governments and forces that use disappearance of citizens as a means of control.
#readingrecommendation #reading
#readingrecommendation #reading
June 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Feeling rough today, so I'm doing some reading. Still Life With Bones should absolutely be on your tbr list. Hagerty explores the aftermath of governments and forces that use disappearance of citizens as a means of control.
#readingrecommendation #reading
#readingrecommendation #reading
I just reread Joy Priest's Horsepower. Full of poems as strong as the horses that race past Longview at Churchill Downs--poems of survival, poems of beauty, poems rooted in place and family and life.
#apoemaday #poetry
#apoemaday #poetry
June 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I just reread Joy Priest's Horsepower. Full of poems as strong as the horses that race past Longview at Churchill Downs--poems of survival, poems of beauty, poems rooted in place and family and life.
#apoemaday #poetry
#apoemaday #poetry
Blood Dazzler might be the most arresting collection I've read. Smith delves into the destruction of Hurricane Katrina with an unflinching eye, capturing the humanity of the survivors, the city, and those we lost. My only complaint is that I didn't read it sooner.
#poetry #blooddazzler
#poetry #blooddazzler
June 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Blood Dazzler might be the most arresting collection I've read. Smith delves into the destruction of Hurricane Katrina with an unflinching eye, capturing the humanity of the survivors, the city, and those we lost. My only complaint is that I didn't read it sooner.
#poetry #blooddazzler
#poetry #blooddazzler
I fell off of posting my poem a day hard. I also might have lost track of reading, but I've caught up (and probably gained ground). I'm going to share some collections I've read recently.
#apoemaday
#apoemaday
June 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I fell off of posting my poem a day hard. I also might have lost track of reading, but I've caught up (and probably gained ground). I'm going to share some collections I've read recently.
#apoemaday
#apoemaday
Tonight!
I've been awful at posting, but I'm still here, and still writing. Come join me for an evening of writing. I'll bring a prompt and you bring yourself and your current project (or start something new).
#writing #louisville #kentuckywriter
I've been awful at posting, but I'm still here, and still writing. Come join me for an evening of writing. I'll bring a prompt and you bring yourself and your current project (or start something new).
#writing #louisville #kentuckywriter
May 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Tonight!
I've been awful at posting, but I'm still here, and still writing. Come join me for an evening of writing. I'll bring a prompt and you bring yourself and your current project (or start something new).
#writing #louisville #kentuckywriter
I've been awful at posting, but I'm still here, and still writing. Come join me for an evening of writing. I'll bring a prompt and you bring yourself and your current project (or start something new).
#writing #louisville #kentuckywriter
Hen. 2025. Hand built ceramic bowl.
Mr. Rooster seemed to approve of her, but declined to be in the photos.
Mr. Rooster seemed to approve of her, but declined to be in the photos.
March 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Hen. 2025. Hand built ceramic bowl.
Mr. Rooster seemed to approve of her, but declined to be in the photos.
Mr. Rooster seemed to approve of her, but declined to be in the photos.
William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheel Barrow"
#poetry #poem #apoemaday
If you're invested in rooster watch, animal control came by, but Mr. Rooster was too savvy to be caught. He has returned and was full of bawks for Crystal, who he doesn't believe has any right to go into our garage.
#poetry #poem #apoemaday
If you're invested in rooster watch, animal control came by, but Mr. Rooster was too savvy to be caught. He has returned and was full of bawks for Crystal, who he doesn't believe has any right to go into our garage.
March 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheel Barrow"
#poetry #poem #apoemaday
If you're invested in rooster watch, animal control came by, but Mr. Rooster was too savvy to be caught. He has returned and was full of bawks for Crystal, who he doesn't believe has any right to go into our garage.
#poetry #poem #apoemaday
If you're invested in rooster watch, animal control came by, but Mr. Rooster was too savvy to be caught. He has returned and was full of bawks for Crystal, who he doesn't believe has any right to go into our garage.
Today we read from Diane Di Prima's Revolutionary Letters.
We remember the stakes really are ourselves. We remember that we are endless, always one, never separate.
Get going, join hands, see to business.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday #dianediprima
We remember the stakes really are ourselves. We remember that we are endless, always one, never separate.
Get going, join hands, see to business.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday #dianediprima
March 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Today we read from Diane Di Prima's Revolutionary Letters.
We remember the stakes really are ourselves. We remember that we are endless, always one, never separate.
Get going, join hands, see to business.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday #dianediprima
We remember the stakes really are ourselves. We remember that we are endless, always one, never separate.
Get going, join hands, see to business.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday #dianediprima
From "Roosters" by Elizabeth Bishop
Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48289/...
Featuring the neighborhood rooster who has taken up roost in our lean to. He's bound for the pound as soon as it stops raining as no one seems to know where he came from.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday #roosters
Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48289/...
Featuring the neighborhood rooster who has taken up roost in our lean to. He's bound for the pound as soon as it stops raining as no one seems to know where he came from.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday #roosters
March 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
From "Roosters" by Elizabeth Bishop
Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48289/...
Featuring the neighborhood rooster who has taken up roost in our lean to. He's bound for the pound as soon as it stops raining as no one seems to know where he came from.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday #roosters
Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48289/...
Featuring the neighborhood rooster who has taken up roost in our lean to. He's bound for the pound as soon as it stops raining as no one seems to know where he came from.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday #roosters
March 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
On Friday we said goodbye to my father. He was a lot of things --a veteran, a union man, and about the most mule headed person to ever walk this Earth.
If there's an afterlife, he's busy haunting Mitch McConnell and all the warmongers in Washington.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
If there's an afterlife, he's busy haunting Mitch McConnell and all the warmongers in Washington.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
March 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
On Friday we said goodbye to my father. He was a lot of things --a veteran, a union man, and about the most mule headed person to ever walk this Earth.
If there's an afterlife, he's busy haunting Mitch McConnell and all the warmongers in Washington.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
If there's an afterlife, he's busy haunting Mitch McConnell and all the warmongers in Washington.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
Kenneth Koch's "To the United States Army"
Full text: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
Full text: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
March 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Kenneth Koch's "To the United States Army"
Full text: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
Full text: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
From Yusef Komunyakaa's "Facing It."
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47867/...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47867/...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
March 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
From Yusef Komunyakaa's "Facing It."
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47867/...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47867/...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
From "Cocktails with Orpheus" by Terrance Hayes
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#poem #poetry #apoemaday
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
February 28, 2025 at 4:14 AM
From "Cocktails with Orpheus" by Terrance Hayes
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
Reposted by Sarah Josephine
February 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
From "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do" By Parneshia Jones
Full text: poets.org/poem/what-wo...
#poem #poet #apoemaday
Full text: poets.org/poem/what-wo...
#poem #poet #apoemaday
February 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
From "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do" By Parneshia Jones
Full text: poets.org/poem/what-wo...
#poem #poet #apoemaday
Full text: poets.org/poem/what-wo...
#poem #poet #apoemaday
From "What You Need to Survive Vernon, OK" by Steven Leyva
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
February 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
From "What You Need to Survive Vernon, OK" by Steven Leyva
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
February 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Let's read Kelly Ellis Norman's "Raised By Women"
Full text at mwg.org/portfolio/co...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
Full text at mwg.org/portfolio/co...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
February 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Let's read Kelly Ellis Norman's "Raised By Women"
Full text at mwg.org/portfolio/co...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
Full text at mwg.org/portfolio/co...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
February 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
From Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Lovers of the Poor"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43317/...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43317/...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
February 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
From Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Lovers of the Poor"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43317/...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43317/...
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
Reposted by Sarah Josephine
You do not need to stop to reassess your purpose or intention to write. This is creative writing. It's like having high functioning anxiety except you're writing it down and calling it a book. Give in to the spiral.
February 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
You do not need to stop to reassess your purpose or intention to write. This is creative writing. It's like having high functioning anxiety except you're writing it down and calling it a book. Give in to the spiral.
"Untitled" by James Baldwin.
My heart has felt heavy these past days watching the devastating flooding in Eastern Kentucky. It's even heavier watching the second thousand year flood in just a few years.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
My heart has felt heavy these past days watching the devastating flooding in Eastern Kentucky. It's even heavier watching the second thousand year flood in just a few years.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
February 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
"Untitled" by James Baldwin.
My heart has felt heavy these past days watching the devastating flooding in Eastern Kentucky. It's even heavier watching the second thousand year flood in just a few years.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday
My heart has felt heavy these past days watching the devastating flooding in Eastern Kentucky. It's even heavier watching the second thousand year flood in just a few years.
#poem #poetry #apoemaday