Wendy Wisner
@wendywisner.bsky.social
Poet • Writer • IBCLC • She/Her • Author of three books of poems, including The New Life (2024)• www.wendywisner.com
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Wendy Wisner
@wendywisner.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Wanted to introduce myself. I'm a poet and health journalist. My third book, The New Life, just came out with Cornerstone Press. As the mom of queer kid and a lover of humanity, I've been super depressed/terrified these past few days. Hoping to find some light in the literary community here.
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Turns out a lot of Americans understand that trans people aren’t the reason shit is expensive and people are being starved
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Turns out a lot of Americans understand that trans people aren’t the reason shit is expensive and people are being starved
I listened this morning. It was wonderful 🤍
Grateful to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for our conversation about Unrivered & writing community. I'm always afraid to do interviews and podcasts, but Han makes it feel easy.
Of sonnet crowns, of John Donne & the body, of taking formal risks, of writing with sacred texts, of dysmorphia & finding joy & sweater weather & so much more!
Episode 78 with @djvorreyer.bsky.social is here! Join us as Donna reads from her forthcoming UNRIVERED (@sundresspub.bsky.social) 🎙️💙🎉
Episode 78 with @djvorreyer.bsky.social is here! Join us as Donna reads from her forthcoming UNRIVERED (@sundresspub.bsky.social) 🎙️💙🎉
September 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I listened this morning. It was wonderful 🤍
Massive thanks to @glasspoetry.bsky.social for the Best of the Net Nomination 🤍
We're thrilled to announce our 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net Nominations!
Congrats and good luck Anthony Thomas Lombardi, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, @wendywisner.bsky.social, Carly Joy Miller, @erinmizrahi.bsky.social, and @icarus-flies.bsky.social!
Congrats and good luck Anthony Thomas Lombardi, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, @wendywisner.bsky.social, Carly Joy Miller, @erinmizrahi.bsky.social, and @icarus-flies.bsky.social!
September 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Massive thanks to @glasspoetry.bsky.social for the Best of the Net Nomination 🤍
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Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts!
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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #ItsLit #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #WomenSupportingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts
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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #ItsLit #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #WomenSupportingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts
September 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts!
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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #ItsLit #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #WomenSupportingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts
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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #ItsLit #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #WomenSupportingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts
Hi NY friends. I’ll be reading poems for the Adverse Abstraction series at Otto’s Shrunken Head on E. 14th Street next Friday, September 19th, between 6pm and 8pm. There’s an open mic, too. Would love to see you.
Info here: www.ottosshrunkenhead.com/pages/events...
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Info here: www.ottosshrunkenhead.com/pages/events...
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September 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Hi NY friends. I’ll be reading poems for the Adverse Abstraction series at Otto’s Shrunken Head on E. 14th Street next Friday, September 19th, between 6pm and 8pm. There’s an open mic, too. Would love to see you.
Info here: www.ottosshrunkenhead.com/pages/events...
www.instagram.com/adverseabstr...
Info here: www.ottosshrunkenhead.com/pages/events...
www.instagram.com/adverseabstr...
What joy to have a new poem in the latest, gorgeous Alaska Quarterly Review, a journal I’ve long admired. Grateful to Ronald Spatz and the editorial staff. 🤍
September 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
What joy to have a new poem in the latest, gorgeous Alaska Quarterly Review, a journal I’ve long admired. Grateful to Ronald Spatz and the editorial staff. 🤍
Grateful to @rustandmoth.bsky.social for publishing this new poem. It's a difficult one—part of my new manuscript. This is one of a series of Alzheimer's sonnets that appear throughout the manuscript. XOXO.
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August 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Grateful to @rustandmoth.bsky.social for publishing this new poem. It's a difficult one—part of my new manuscript. This is one of a series of Alzheimer's sonnets that appear throughout the manuscript. XOXO.
rustandmoth.com/work/her-obs...
rustandmoth.com/work/her-obs...
It's been a wild few weeks, including getting my oldest ready for college (gulp!). But coming up for air to share these sweet words about my book.
So grateful for Robin Turner for including The New Life in her #sealeychallenge. What an honor. It made my day.
So grateful for Robin Turner for including The New Life in her #sealeychallenge. What an honor. It made my day.
August 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It's been a wild few weeks, including getting my oldest ready for college (gulp!). But coming up for air to share these sweet words about my book.
So grateful for Robin Turner for including The New Life in her #sealeychallenge. What an honor. It made my day.
So grateful for Robin Turner for including The New Life in her #sealeychallenge. What an honor. It made my day.
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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My Fantastic Four
July 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
My Fantastic Four
Gorgeous poem 🤍
It was always the mountain
and me. Paris Mountain.
The woods were mine:
tree tops, rocks, creeks,
space between. I topped
for the first time on leaves
straddling felled trees.
—Tara Burke, with a new #SummerRiot beauty this morning 🍃
and me. Paris Mountain.
The woods were mine:
tree tops, rocks, creeks,
space between. I topped
for the first time on leaves
straddling felled trees.
—Tara Burke, with a new #SummerRiot beauty this morning 🍃
“I was a child, all body.” by Tara Burke
It was always the mountain and me. Paris Mountain. The woods were mine: tree tops, rocks, creeks, space between. I topped for the first time on leaves straddling felled trees. The way they laid acr…
moistpoetryjournal.com
July 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Gorgeous poem 🤍
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Final summer workshop happening tomorrow! I’d take one or two more folks! ✍️📚💜 9-11amET
I’m offering an online, generative writing workshop twice in July, with the proceeds going to @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. Suggested donation of $100, but please take the workshop regardless/ feel free to reach out with Qs.
Finding Shape in the Dark (on writing difficult narratives) - July 5 & 19
Finding Shape in the Dark (on writing difficult narratives) - July 5 & 19
Finding Shape in the Dark (on writing difficult narratives) - Two Online, Generative Writing Workshops, July 5 & 19
poetrynotesfromhan.beehiiv.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Final summer workshop happening tomorrow! I’d take one or two more folks! ✍️📚💜 9-11amET
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Read this stunning, tender essay by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social. Just, wow.
“We are in a deep evening now; I was in a deep evening then. The pond and the pond’s singers—they exist, and sing.”
I have an essay up today which was OH SO TENDER to write—many thanks to @jeremylybarger.bsky.social for his astute edits 🙏📚
Come for the pond, stay for the CD Wright and Linda Gregg.
I have an essay up today which was OH SO TENDER to write—many thanks to @jeremylybarger.bsky.social for his astute edits 🙏📚
Come for the pond, stay for the CD Wright and Linda Gregg.
This Be the Place: A Several-Acre Space of Tenderness
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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July 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Read this stunning, tender essay by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social. Just, wow.
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Summer reading — Jennifer Martelli’s PSYCHIC PARTY UNDER THE BOTTLE TREE is one of the best books I’ve read on sobriety. Tender, and funny. Honest and fierce. Here’s my favorite poem —
@jennmartelli.bsky.social
@jennmartelli.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Summer reading — Jennifer Martelli’s PSYCHIC PARTY UNDER THE BOTTLE TREE is one of the best books I’ve read on sobriety. Tender, and funny. Honest and fierce. Here’s my favorite poem —
@jennmartelli.bsky.social
@jennmartelli.bsky.social
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“What will I do with my days / now that my nights / are sublimely alone / and how will I make use of this wound / I carried like a map / so that I would never, never / lose you?” — @paulmguest.bsky.social, “In Praise of the Defective” thediagram.com/7_4/guest.html
DIAGRAM :: Paul Guest
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July 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“What will I do with my days / now that my nights / are sublimely alone / and how will I make use of this wound / I carried like a map / so that I would never, never / lose you?” — @paulmguest.bsky.social, “In Praise of the Defective” thediagram.com/7_4/guest.html
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“But I’ve found here, in
shimmer and dirt, a slow sifting of time, a stalled second-hand, the quartz
of a Swiss watch stymied.”
—Donna Vorreyer, with a new, last poem in our #SummerRiot series!
@djvorreyer.bsky.social
shimmer and dirt, a slow sifting of time, a stalled second-hand, the quartz
of a Swiss watch stymied.”
—Donna Vorreyer, with a new, last poem in our #SummerRiot series!
@djvorreyer.bsky.social
“Summer Light with Migraine” by Donna Vorreyer
a horseshoe shovelSomething precious, pink shimmer of quartz in rough earth—precious glimmerseed of memory. No lie, things have been rough.Pink-cheeked fever, clustered stab of pain. But I’ve found…
moistpoetryjournal.com
July 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
“But I’ve found here, in
shimmer and dirt, a slow sifting of time, a stalled second-hand, the quartz
of a Swiss watch stymied.”
—Donna Vorreyer, with a new, last poem in our #SummerRiot series!
@djvorreyer.bsky.social
shimmer and dirt, a slow sifting of time, a stalled second-hand, the quartz
of a Swiss watch stymied.”
—Donna Vorreyer, with a new, last poem in our #SummerRiot series!
@djvorreyer.bsky.social
This workshop was incredible. Highly recommend <3
Great workshop this morning! 🙏☺️
I’m offering a second in two weeks, for those interested: poetrynotesfromhan.beehiiv.com/p/finding-sh...
I’m offering a second in two weeks, for those interested: poetrynotesfromhan.beehiiv.com/p/finding-sh...
July 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This workshop was incredible. Highly recommend <3
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Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
July 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Grateful to @rachelnm.bsky.social for sharing this folio for her incredible—and much needed—new venture, Calul Journal. "Hakol Calul" means "everything is included” in Hebrew. The journal is an inclusive space for Jewish voices (and others) to share their experiences and truths.
Each Small Shoe: Introducing the Poetry of Wendy Wisner
I am crying as I place the last image on this feature: a picture of two white gloved hands holding up a child’s shoe to be photographed.
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July 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Grateful to @rachelnm.bsky.social for sharing this folio for her incredible—and much needed—new venture, Calul Journal. "Hakol Calul" means "everything is included” in Hebrew. The journal is an inclusive space for Jewish voices (and others) to share their experiences and truths.
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The poems keep coming! Today I have a new poem up at @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social.
"The tree is topless, all trunk.
Its body cuts open to the sky, slit running up most its length like a dress designed to surprise, when moving, with a delight of thigh."
www.broadkillreview.com/post/even-th...
"The tree is topless, all trunk.
Its body cuts open to the sky, slit running up most its length like a dress designed to surprise, when moving, with a delight of thigh."
www.broadkillreview.com/post/even-th...
"Even the Trees Get to Be Slutty" by Megan McDermott
The tree is topless, all trunk.Its body cuts open to the sky,slit running up most its lengthlike a dress designed to surprise,when moving, with a delight of thigh.I don’t regret the college boys Ididn...
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July 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The poems keep coming! Today I have a new poem up at @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social.
"The tree is topless, all trunk.
Its body cuts open to the sky, slit running up most its length like a dress designed to surprise, when moving, with a delight of thigh."
www.broadkillreview.com/post/even-th...
"The tree is topless, all trunk.
Its body cuts open to the sky, slit running up most its length like a dress designed to surprise, when moving, with a delight of thigh."
www.broadkillreview.com/post/even-th...
Just read this stunning book in one sitting. It’s a beautiful, searing journey through grief. Thank you for sharing it with the world, @susanlleary.bsky.social
June 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Just read this stunning book in one sitting. It’s a beautiful, searing journey through grief. Thank you for sharing it with the world, @susanlleary.bsky.social
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"I wondered if I’d loved enough, risked enough for this earth,
which is clearly raging back at us all,"
Daily reads @wendywisner.bsky.social in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social ❤️
which is clearly raging back at us all,"
Daily reads @wendywisner.bsky.social in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social ❤️
“I wondered if I’d loved enough, risked enough for this earth,
which is clearly raging back at us all”
Wendy Wisner, with a new beauty this morning in our #SummerRiot series 🌈
@wendywisner.bsky.social
which is clearly raging back at us all”
Wendy Wisner, with a new beauty this morning in our #SummerRiot series 🌈
@wendywisner.bsky.social
“Apocalypse Love Poem” by Wendy Wisner
This week, as I watched the sky turn ash orange,saw the air quality ticker go red, purple, maroon,glimpsed two construction workers exchanging soft blue masks under the dusky morning moon,witnessed…
moistpoetryjournal.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"I wondered if I’d loved enough, risked enough for this earth,
which is clearly raging back at us all,"
Daily reads @wendywisner.bsky.social in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social ❤️
which is clearly raging back at us all,"
Daily reads @wendywisner.bsky.social in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social ❤️
Forgot to share this new poem of mine up at B O D Y. It's a difficult poem and I'm very grateful to the editors for publishing it.
www.bodyliterature.com/2025/06/25/w...
www.bodyliterature.com/2025/06/25/w...
June 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Forgot to share this new poem of mine up at B O D Y. It's a difficult poem and I'm very grateful to the editors for publishing it.
www.bodyliterature.com/2025/06/25/w...
www.bodyliterature.com/2025/06/25/w...