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Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro

@starstuffstudio.bsky.social

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starstuffstudio.com She/Her Poet from Cleveland made of star stuff 🌟 Individual Excellence Award Winner 2022 from the Ohio Arts Council. SPACE SPECTACULAR (2018) from Ghost City Press. Narrative Medicine.

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Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Mar 10

My body is a canvas for protest. My existence is political.

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Oct 1

#poetrysky

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Oct 1

a blue void spiraling into the kathunk of my fist-sized heart. Every muscle feels like it's made of cotton, on the thin breeze of the whims of my nerves, stretched over the weave of my basket skeleton.

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Oct 1

How do I explain agitation like the fizz of a live wire? A spark at the base of my skull tremors in my veins like the movements of maggots crawling a corpse. I've got something inside me I dont understand,

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Sep 11

Everything is a social construct. I want to live like a sunflower--following the sunshine around the sky and giving shelter to tired bees in the twilight.

#poetrysky

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Aug 17

Sweet 3 year old 💗🩷🌸❤️

Little girl in pink runs away from camera through green grass.

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Jun 2

Happy June #pridemonth 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🖤🩶🤍

Enjoy this gorgeous clematis flower on your Monday!

Light purple clematis flower in full bloom.

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Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · May 11

Iris blooming on mother's day

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · May 4

I had not heard of this, thank you for sharing.

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · May 4

55 years ago 4 students were murdered by the national guard on Kent State's campus. #neverforget #may41970 #kentstate

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Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Apr 30

This dogwood bloom is #poetry

Pink four-petalled dogwood bloom on a bare brown twig. Background is green grass and a thicket of thin trees.

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Apr 29

#poemtitle

Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · Apr 29

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Apr 23

I circulate.
I #plan curves in the body
Like I'm mapping a route.
You find me small and split
Between your palms.
A voice catches
In your throat.
Mine.

#vss365

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Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Apr 22

As the sun reaches zenith, grass gets a #promotion and the trees who have spent winter asking for a raise finally unroll their leaves and get to work. My world is greening in the way it should, nothing but the flowers need answer my call.

#vss365 #earthday

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Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Apr 21

As far as verbs go, #place weakens a sentence with delicate hesitance. Place your hand in mine, no, grasp it. Thread your fingers into the lace of my own, make a mess of our palms. Braid your hands into dirt. There is no being delicate in the dark, no location to which you can escape.

#vss365

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Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Apr 4

Night transforms flowers to hellish maws gaping in shadows and starlight.

#horroryard #ccpl #ccplreadwrite #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrysky

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Mar 24

#Haiku
by Issa

This dewdrop world--
Is a dewdrop world,
And yet, and yet...

#poetry

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Mar 22

The roots of ancient oaks twist the earth like the #indivisibility of veins in your palm. I feel your heartbeat in the bark. A scar is just a sign of aging, a growing braid of skin and soul and cambium and heartwood that no one can unwrench.

#vss365

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Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Mar 18

While the fire burns you are paralyzed, the flames lick the shag carpet of nostalgia and the clawed feet of the gilded age sofa. Why do we want to go back there? Aren't we all #guilty of rose-coloring some kind of the past? You give into the fire because it is all that is left to do.

#vss365

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Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Mar 16

Season of the spring #witch
🖤🌌🌷

Selfie in a long mirror. Woman in a long black skirt, pink shirt, and black flower shawl, wearing buckle platform boots.

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Mar 13

Added a little bear muse #bookshelf #writer

Dark brown bookshelf with striped teddy bear in the foreground and several books in background. Also on the shelf is a pale wood frame with black swirling art, a stout white candle labeled Library Tea Party, a wooden carving of a mom and child in a rocking chair, and an orange glass turkey.

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Mar 13

“Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the Earth without making it unfit for all life?”

-Rachel Carson, SILENT SPRING

NRDC @nrdc.org · Mar 13

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has announced plans to repeal or weaken 31 crucial standards that protect public health and address the climate crisis.

These actions send a clear signal: Polluters get a free ride and the rest of us will pay for it.

EPA announces dozens of environmental regulations it plans to target

The Environmental Protection Agency didn't provide details about what it wants to do with the regulations — whether it will try to weaken them or eliminate them entirely.

www.npr.org

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Mar 10

My body is a canvas for protest. My existence is political.

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Mar 8

Happy #womensday
ft. sticker from Prufrock Design
#maryoliver #poetrysky

Taupe tumbler with black and white sticker with a Mary Oliver quote: "Instructions cor living a life: PayPal attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."

Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Mar 4

The half-moons of the sun scattered under the big oak tree, #penumbra moment, I sit in the half shadow and trace my fortune in a crescent arc.

#vss365

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Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro @starstuffstudio.bsky.social · Mar 4

Collage I made in a hybrid writing class tonight
#poetrysky #writing #hybrid #collage #paperart

Paper art collage with the line "whose body do you belong to if not your mother's?"