amandacecilypoet
@amandacecilypoet.bsky.social
Poet, incorrigibly. Someday my handle will be valid. It Will Have Been So Beautiful, Lily Poetry Review Books 2024
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Late to the game, but also so happy to be amid others who are dreaming of something new.
📚Writing Tip: Reading beyond your genre is essential for your growth as a writer. Read widely. It strengthens your voice, sharpens your craft, and sparks new ideas. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips
February 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
📚Writing Tip: Reading beyond your genre is essential for your growth as a writer. Read widely. It strengthens your voice, sharpens your craft, and sparks new ideas. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips
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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
February 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
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Looking forward to this!
📖✨ Join me for the Café Muse Literary Salon reading on March 3 at 7 PM ET. I’ll read alongside Nathalie Anderson and Emily Tuszynska. This is a hybrid event! 🔗 Register & Learn More About the Poets: amandashawpoet.com/poetry-event...
Café Muse Literary Salon Online with Amanda Shaw - Amanda Shaw
Experience the Café Muse Literary Salon on March 3, 2025, featuring Amanda Shaw, Nathalie Anderson, and Emily Tuszynska. Join us in person at The Writer’s Center or online for a night of lyrical poetr...
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February 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Looking forward to this!
Is it me, or are people posting a lot of biting articles about DOGE et al from Forbes?
February 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Is it me, or are people posting a lot of biting articles about DOGE et al from Forbes?
📖✨ Join me for the Café Muse Literary Salon reading on March 3 at 7 PM ET. I’ll read alongside Nathalie Anderson and Emily Tuszynska. This is a hybrid event! 🔗 Register & Learn More About the Poets: amandashawpoet.com/poetry-event...
Café Muse Literary Salon Online with Amanda Shaw - Amanda Shaw
Experience the Café Muse Literary Salon on March 3, 2025, featuring Amanda Shaw, Nathalie Anderson, and Emily Tuszynska. Join us in person at The Writer’s Center or online for a night of lyrical poetr...
amandashawpoet.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
📖✨ Join me for the Café Muse Literary Salon reading on March 3 at 7 PM ET. I’ll read alongside Nathalie Anderson and Emily Tuszynska. This is a hybrid event! 🔗 Register & Learn More About the Poets: amandashawpoet.com/poetry-event...
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Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
newrepublic.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
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I’ve heard the most horrible stories about this, including literally running off life support machines. What’s sad to me is the people losing this aid didn’t matter to most outlets until they could be used as a cudgel against Trump. I’ve been pitching their stories for years and getting nothing back
Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
newrepublic.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I’ve heard the most horrible stories about this, including literally running off life support machines. What’s sad to me is the people losing this aid didn’t matter to most outlets until they could be used as a cudgel against Trump. I’ve been pitching their stories for years and getting nothing back
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Check it out! There's a close reading of Rita Banerjee's poem "Birds on Blue" over on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/damncuri...
You can catch Rita reading with @amandacecilypoet.bsky.social on Tuesday, February 11 @ 7:30pm Eastern on Zoom. Register at bit.ly/WTUIFeb2025!
You can catch Rita reading with @amandacecilypoet.bsky.social on Tuesday, February 11 @ 7:30pm Eastern on Zoom. Register at bit.ly/WTUIFeb2025!
A Close Reading of Rita Banerjee's poem "Birds on Blue"
In which I talk about jazz and nuclear weapons and birds. I also play around with footnotes. I don't know. Things are weird right now.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Check it out! There's a close reading of Rita Banerjee's poem "Birds on Blue" over on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/damncuri...
You can catch Rita reading with @amandacecilypoet.bsky.social on Tuesday, February 11 @ 7:30pm Eastern on Zoom. Register at bit.ly/WTUIFeb2025!
You can catch Rita reading with @amandacecilypoet.bsky.social on Tuesday, February 11 @ 7:30pm Eastern on Zoom. Register at bit.ly/WTUIFeb2025!
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Please please please do not start using FOIA systems as a form of protest. No one outside of a handful of FOIA officers at most will ever see it, and it'll just clog things up for anyone actually trying squeeze valuable information out of the government.
February 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Please please please do not start using FOIA systems as a form of protest. No one outside of a handful of FOIA officers at most will ever see it, and it'll just clog things up for anyone actually trying squeeze valuable information out of the government.
Excited to join What the Universe Is, curated by Michael Mercurio, on Feb 11 at 7 PM ET! I'll be reading alongside Rita Banerjee. Join us on Zoom for poetry & a safe space. 🔗 Event Info: amandashawpoet.com/poetry-event... #writingcommunity #poetry
What The Universe Is Reading Series - Amanda Shaw
Join Amanda Shaw on February 11, 2025, for a hybrid poetry reading as part of the 'What the Universe Is' series, featuring Rita Banerjee. Attend online for an evening of inspiring poetry.
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February 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Excited to join What the Universe Is, curated by Michael Mercurio, on Feb 11 at 7 PM ET! I'll be reading alongside Rita Banerjee. Join us on Zoom for poetry & a safe space. 🔗 Event Info: amandashawpoet.com/poetry-event... #writingcommunity #poetry
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An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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February 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org
📝 💭 It’s not simple to face a blank page, but try to remember: There is nothing you can do wrong in a first draft. (You have all the time in the world to mess up down the line.) #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Tips
January 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
📝 💭 It’s not simple to face a blank page, but try to remember: There is nothing you can do wrong in a first draft. (You have all the time in the world to mess up down the line.) #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Tips
I have been thinking exactly this. We’ve let go of resistance against the most insidious elements of tech (and the intersecting with unfettered capitalism) because of the good in it, and now we are dependent.
Things were always leading here. Because not enough people stopped to think that private industry looks out for private industry and instead thought "Cool new tech! It's nice of Company A to provide this for me; I'm going to immediately and uncritically adopt it into my life so I depend on it 🥰"
January 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I have been thinking exactly this. We’ve let go of resistance against the most insidious elements of tech (and the intersecting with unfettered capitalism) because of the good in it, and now we are dependent.
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sometimes I don’t even need the first paragraph, the title will do
January 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
sometimes I don’t even need the first paragraph, the title will do
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Gavin Newsom made a website to fight the misinformation about the fires. Give it a read.
REPOST
gavinnewsom.com/california-f...
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California Fire Facts | Governor Gavin Newsom
Get the facts about the Los Angeles fires.
gavinnewsom.com
January 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Gavin Newsom made a website to fight the misinformation about the fires. Give it a read.
REPOST
gavinnewsom.com/california-f...
REPOST
gavinnewsom.com/california-f...
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Why do I fuckeeeng sit here?
January 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Why do I fuckeeeng sit here?
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus responded to Trump's proposal to make Canada the 51st U.S. state by noting that existing laws prevent "sexual abusers" from leading his nation.
Canadian MP shoots down Trump offer: 'Sexual abusers don't get to lead our nation'
Canadian MP Charlie Angus responded to President-elect Donald Trump's proposal to make Canada the 51st U.S. state by noting that existing laws prevent "sexual abusers" from leading his nation.In a Mon...
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January 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Canadian MP Charlie Angus responded to Trump's proposal to make Canada the 51st U.S. state by noting that existing laws prevent "sexual abusers" from leading his nation.
I’ll be participating in an online reading this Thursday with three other debut poets who are also Smith alums. If you live in a cold place, why not curl up with some cocoa and listen as we read to you? Cats, dogs, and pygmy hippos welcome. 🐱🐶🦛 #AmReading #WritingCommunity
tinyurl.com/Smith-Alums
tinyurl.com/Smith-Alums
January 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I’ll be participating in an online reading this Thursday with three other debut poets who are also Smith alums. If you live in a cold place, why not curl up with some cocoa and listen as we read to you? Cats, dogs, and pygmy hippos welcome. 🐱🐶🦛 #AmReading #WritingCommunity
tinyurl.com/Smith-Alums
tinyurl.com/Smith-Alums
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Thanks to Shannon K. Winston for reviewing Amanda Cecily Shaw's debut collection, It Will Have Been So Beautiful (Lily Poetry Review)! Check it out on Brown Bag Lit's #MilkJournal's first review of 2025:
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal
January 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Thanks to Shannon K. Winston for reviewing Amanda Cecily Shaw's debut collection, It Will Have Been So Beautiful (Lily Poetry Review)! Check it out on Brown Bag Lit's #MilkJournal's first review of 2025:
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal
I wrote a blog about what it feels like when the milestones in your life don’t match the tone of the year. Here’s to new possibilities for communion in the midst of the unknowns ahead.
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#PoetryCommunity #HappyNewYear #Gratitude #WritingCommunity
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#PoetryCommunity #HappyNewYear #Gratitude #WritingCommunity
January 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I wrote a blog about what it feels like when the milestones in your life don’t match the tone of the year. Here’s to new possibilities for communion in the midst of the unknowns ahead.
tinyurl.com/amanda-shaw-...
#PoetryCommunity #HappyNewYear #Gratitude #WritingCommunity
tinyurl.com/amanda-shaw-...
#PoetryCommunity #HappyNewYear #Gratitude #WritingCommunity
Join me for a class with Politics & Prose on The Transit of Venus & Fates and Furies! Starting February 20 online, featuring a Q&A with Lauren Groff. Details: tinyurl.com/Politics-and... #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #AmReading
Revisiting the Marriage Plot Online Class with Politics & Prose - Amanda Shaw
Join Amanda Shaw's online class exploring the marriage plot in literature with insights from Hazzard and Groff. Live Q&A included!
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December 18, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Join me for a class with Politics & Prose on The Transit of Venus & Fates and Furies! Starting February 20 online, featuring a Q&A with Lauren Groff. Details: tinyurl.com/Politics-and... #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #AmReading
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"Bluesky is awesome now, for how long?" I mean, look, all things change and end, we will all die, earth will be uninhabitable in a billion years, then the sun will expand and destroy the planet, and the universe will die a slow death of proton decay. But BEFORE THAT, let's make this place fun, okay?
November 20, 2024 at 12:49 PM
"Bluesky is awesome now, for how long?" I mean, look, all things change and end, we will all die, earth will be uninhabitable in a billion years, then the sun will expand and destroy the planet, and the universe will die a slow death of proton decay. But BEFORE THAT, let's make this place fun, okay?