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Maia
@andyetpoetry.bsky.social
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writer, artist, and reluctant idealist
super weird cat also makes occasional appearances

maiabrown-jacksonwriting.com | | instagram.com/tilting.at.windmills
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voicemailpoems.bsky.social
🌊 summer issue's up! 🌊

ft. @marissadesantis.bsky.social, @paradiselaust.bsky.social, @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social, @darkwebtofu.bsky.social‬, @andyetpoetry.bsky.social‬, & more!

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August 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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#poem #poetry #poetryreading #poetryvideo #video #substack

For #Stunday I'm going to be *stunningly* brave and link to a video of the (exhausted) poetry reading I did last night: tinyurl.com/peoplesgalleryreading
The rare opportunity to watch me perform at a poetry reading (if you don't live near me)
It wasn't my best; it wasn't my worst; it is the one I have on tape
tinyurl.com
August 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings, incl @birdcoatquarterly.bsky.social @ghostcitypress.bsky.social @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social @klooky.bsky.social @andyetpoetry.bsky.social @collagehead.bsky.social @carolinerayner.bsky.social
Saturday Shout-Out ~ July 26, 2025
Share your recently published work with the WRJ community
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July 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I am exceptionally flattered by this, thank you so much!!
rfpress.bsky.social Roi Fainéant Press @rfpress.bsky.social · Jul 28
Ever read a poem you wish you’d written? We have four examples of this from the same writer, and you can feel the little green monster for yourself. Read “Cavities” by @andyetpoetry.bsky.social in our 87th edition of the press.

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The cosmos and cesium, the nebulae and nitric acid— yes, they will kill you, and yes, you have no say, and yes,
July 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #BlueSkyMonday #Blue
The black tarmac road goes down a hill then back up, its left side lined in trees and its right side grass and then trees, until it disappears into the bright blue sky which has one low band of white clouds.
July 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Sometimes a writer titles a poem so brilliantly and apropos of your feelings, you’re compelled to read it. Then you realize that it’s not just the title but the whole poem that speaks to you. “All the fucks I give (are so, so many)” by Maia Brown-Jackson @andyetpoetry is out Sunday, July 27th!
July 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #ArtofSelfPortraiture #SelfPortrait #Selfie #Dramatic @jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social

sometimes when you dress up, you gotta be a little dramatic
A woman with pale skin and pulled back black hair (minus a stray curl) strands in front of a window and white brick wall. She is wearing a very low cut blue top and a delicate gold color, staring straight at the camera with one eyebrow raised and her lips painted purple-black.
July 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #BlueSkyMonday #Blue #ColorADay #PinkMon #Pink #Sunset

two very different nights
At the very bottom of the frame, the tops of buildings with one angule building stretching up across the right. Otherwise, deep blue sky at the top with indigo clouds on the right and coral and orange clouds at the bottom. A low city skyline, with two angular buildings in the center-right and the right standing much taller. The sky behind them is entirely pink-orange, with a few yellow glowing clouds right behind the center building.
July 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #Caturday #BlackCat #TuxedoCat #CatsofBluesky
A black cloth bag sits on pale wooden floors. Inside, curled up, is a black cat that disappears into the shadow of the bag other than green, glowing eyes looking straight up.
July 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #Scape #Skyscape #Sunset @jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
The lower half of the photo is a river reflecting orange over the blue, edged by a low city skyline. The sun is partially hidden behind it, the sky fading from orange to yellow to blue above with a few clouds hanging low in the sky, reflecting the yellow-orange light.
July 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #FloralFriday #FlowersonFriday
Vividly red roses against a backdrop of green leaves with the sun shining through from behind peer over the top of a fence with barbed wire at the top.
July 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #UrbanGaze
A narrow street is pastel pink, purple, and blue with stripes of brighter yellow and red and black and white. On the right, first is a purple and blue garage door, then a store front in wide stripes of many different bright colors with the gate pulled down, and finally a building that is red brick on the second story and brightly colored geometric shapes painted on the first.
July 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #ColorADay #RedWed #Red #LittleRedLighthouse
A bright red lighthouse, only a few stories tall, stands on the right. Behind it is the river and trees on the opposite side, with a blue-white sky behind and the underside of a bridge above it.
July 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #TagTuesday #Graffiti
A wall is covered completely in brightly colored graffiti tags, down to the two windows on it. The wall is one story high, and you can see the second story in the middle. There are exterior vents or pipes of some sort that climb down from the second story and go towards the left, where at the edge of the photo you cn see an awning. Everything is bright and chaotic. The upper left corner shows white sky.
July 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #ColorADay #PinkMon #Pink
City roofs cast in a pink glow give way to two tall buildings in the center and a lower city skyline to the left. The sky behind them is a vivid pink of speckled clouds.
July 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Orange
A close up of two sharpy defined weird spiky flowers (that I think someone told me were witchhazel?) with deep crimson centers and skinny petals branching off wildly fading from orange to yellow, against a backdrop of more of the flowers behind all in front of a red brick wall.
July 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #ColorADay #GreenSat #Green
In the midst of an overgrown green lawn with one tree on the right side, in front of green foliage, barely stands a dilapidated house with peeling green paint and white shutters covering most of the windows, though the screen door is wide open.
July 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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A very different kind of memoir for Afterimages. Take a gander at @andyetpoetry.bsky.social ‘s sophomore publication with us and feel the longing, tenderness, and grace with every line.

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It’s Like How Icarus Loved Apollo
Given up on the chance of a fairytale. A memoir by Maia Brown-Jackson
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July 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #BlueSkyArtShow #Sideways
On the left is a warehouse, alongside the roofs of houses, then a roof parking lot with cars in it; across the river is a low skyline with a tall, mirrored building on the right. Shooting across the sky from behind that building to the other side is a stripe of fluffy clouds, golden on the bottom, fading to purple at the top. The sky behind them is deep blue above fading paler down to pale yellow just above the buildings.
July 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #FloralFriday #FlowersonFriday
A closeup of two white irises, shot through with veins of purple and tiny purple petals and streaks of yellow in their centers. Barely visible is the dark grass behind them.
July 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #Scape #SkyScape #Clouds #Sunset #Manila
A dark city, lit up in certain places by mostly green lights, with a few tall buildings and two cranes veering into a sky that is orange on the bottom fading to pink to blue, criss-crossed with clouds in varying shades of purple.
July 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #UrbanGaze
A lone taxi is on the left of a wide street, construction steaming on the right next to a street pole with signs hanging over the street. On the left are a variety of tall, reflective glassy buildings that currently are tinted blue. Down ther street more skyscraspers disappear into the distance.
July 3, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #WackyWednesday #MexicoCity #DogsofBluesky #CuteDogs
In front of a circular stone bench on red-brown stone pavement sits a robust brown dog with white feet and chest. The dog is wearing sunglasses, a silver chain, and a neon green tank top. A straw hat sits beside them on the ground.
July 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #JuliArty #Sweet #SelfLove
Neon lights spell out "self love" on a metal grid, turning the nearby wall and column behind it all bright pink.
July 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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#ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #DailyArt #Art #TagTuesday #Skatepark
A skate park. The majority of the photo is flat ground, dominated by bright pink, blue, and green words and tags. Along the right side, curving around near the top and over to the left are curved walls, covered in graffiti. In the back is a flight of stair. Just visible behind all this is a wall of trees.
July 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM