Anna Leigh Knowles
@annaleigh.bsky.social
Poet * Educator ➡️ annaleighknowles.com
In The Country Of Hard Life and Rosebuds, (Idaho Poetry Prize, 2023) 🌹
Conditions Of The Wounded, 🌲
(Wisconsin Poetry Series, 2021)
In The Country Of Hard Life and Rosebuds, (Idaho Poetry Prize, 2023) 🌹
Conditions Of The Wounded, 🌲
(Wisconsin Poetry Series, 2021)
Honored to have two new poems in the recent issue of Willow Springs, and with a fellow SIU poet!
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Honored to have two new poems in the recent issue of Willow Springs, and with a fellow SIU poet!
Coming this month!
October 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Coming this month!
New poems in the latest @diodeeditions.bsky.social-gratitude for the editors who helped usher these forth 💫
July 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
New poems in the latest @diodeeditions.bsky.social-gratitude for the editors who helped usher these forth 💫
Happy Fathers Day 🥹 The greatest dad for baby Julian 💫
June 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Happy Fathers Day 🥹 The greatest dad for baby Julian 💫
This month, Colorado Humanities had its NEH grant terminated as a sweeping DOGE effort to dismantle public funding for the humanities nationwide. As a high school teacher I can’t stress enough how devastating this is on the state level for K-12 education. Support by visiting: coloradohumanities.org
April 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This month, Colorado Humanities had its NEH grant terminated as a sweeping DOGE effort to dismantle public funding for the humanities nationwide. As a high school teacher I can’t stress enough how devastating this is on the state level for K-12 education. Support by visiting: coloradohumanities.org
Thank you Colorado Humanities for this huge honor. I am stunned and excited to be in this company. Funding for the humanities remains under threat- check out ways to help statewide initiatives to maintain cultural programs here: coloradohumanities.org
April 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Thank you Colorado Humanities for this huge honor. I am stunned and excited to be in this company. Funding for the humanities remains under threat- check out ways to help statewide initiatives to maintain cultural programs here: coloradohumanities.org
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Today's Featured Poet:
Andrew Hemmert is the author of Blessing the Exoskeleton (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Sawgrass Sky (Texas Review Press). His third book, No Longer at This Address, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in Fall 2025.
Andrew Hemmert is the author of Blessing the Exoskeleton (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Sawgrass Sky (Texas Review Press). His third book, No Longer at This Address, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in Fall 2025.
February 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Today's Featured Poet:
Andrew Hemmert is the author of Blessing the Exoskeleton (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Sawgrass Sky (Texas Review Press). His third book, No Longer at This Address, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in Fall 2025.
Andrew Hemmert is the author of Blessing the Exoskeleton (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Sawgrass Sky (Texas Review Press). His third book, No Longer at This Address, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in Fall 2025.
Grateful for passionate local bookstores like Mountain Shire: Books & Gifts for hosting an author meet and greet with me this afternoon! Always a reason to be in the mountains talking poetry 🏔️ I can’t believe this book has been in the world for almost eight months 🌹
November 24, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Grateful for passionate local bookstores like Mountain Shire: Books & Gifts for hosting an author meet and greet with me this afternoon! Always a reason to be in the mountains talking poetry 🏔️ I can’t believe this book has been in the world for almost eight months 🌹
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The Onion, a satirical publication that skewers newsmakers and current events, said on Thursday that it had won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Infowars, a website founded and operated by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. nyti.ms/4fqnxEF
November 14, 2024 at 8:14 PM
The Onion, a satirical publication that skewers newsmakers and current events, said on Thursday that it had won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Infowars, a website founded and operated by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. nyti.ms/4fqnxEF
Those of you already up in Winter Park CO, or if you are in need of a nice mountain drive, come say hello to me Saturday November 23rd 1-3pm) at Mountain Shire Books! I will be discussing my book “In The Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds” and there will be copies for purchase 😊 🌹
November 11, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Those of you already up in Winter Park CO, or if you are in need of a nice mountain drive, come say hello to me Saturday November 23rd 1-3pm) at Mountain Shire Books! I will be discussing my book “In The Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds” and there will be copies for purchase 😊 🌹
Listen to my husband Graham’s/ aka DJ Building Blocks amazing mix show on soundcloud! The most recent episode takes us on the whiplash tour of American election season 💜 on.soundcloud.com/AjraLTgZCAfJ...
Nov 2, 2024 - Special Election Anxiety Episode!
Hope y'all enjoy this election anxiety episode! GO VOTE!!!! Big shout out to SeaBath for letting me play their new song
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November 3, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Listen to my husband Graham’s/ aka DJ Building Blocks amazing mix show on soundcloud! The most recent episode takes us on the whiplash tour of American election season 💜 on.soundcloud.com/AjraLTgZCAfJ...
Tonight! Come through for some poems about homesickness, places that no longer exist and the theology of gossip. Very excited to read alongside poet @andrewhemmert.bsky.social
April 6, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Tonight! Come through for some poems about homesickness, places that no longer exist and the theology of gossip. Very excited to read alongside poet @andrewhemmert.bsky.social
Come say hi 👋 at Tattered Cover in Aspen Grove next Friday, April 5th. I’ll be reading poems about rivers, myth and maternal connection to place 🥀 Save your spot for this free reading open to the public at the following link: www.eventbrite.com/e/anna-leigh...
Anna Leigh Knowles Live at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove
She will be presenting her book, In The Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds!
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March 26, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Come say hi 👋 at Tattered Cover in Aspen Grove next Friday, April 5th. I’ll be reading poems about rivers, myth and maternal connection to place 🥀 Save your spot for this free reading open to the public at the following link: www.eventbrite.com/e/anna-leigh...
Back to binge reading! Corey Van Landingham renders language and perspective in unabashed, incredibly intelligent poems in Reader, I.
March 21, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Back to binge reading! Corey Van Landingham renders language and perspective in unabashed, incredibly intelligent poems in Reader, I.
Great company today on my way into Seattle
February 28, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Great company today on my way into Seattle
Slowly making my way through my AWP stacks. Loving these beautiful collections by Austin Segrest and Danielle Cadena Deulen ⭐️
February 19, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Slowly making my way through my AWP stacks. Loving these beautiful collections by Austin Segrest and Danielle Cadena Deulen ⭐️
Grateful for the chance to see these cool dudes again at AWP in Kansas City. Miss SIU and the poetic drive of Carbondale more and more. Thanks for the great conversations @thatbrentonguy.bsky.social can’t wait for more down the road!
February 11, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Grateful for the chance to see these cool dudes again at AWP in Kansas City. Miss SIU and the poetic drive of Carbondale more and more. Thanks for the great conversations @thatbrentonguy.bsky.social can’t wait for more down the road!
AWP! I’ll be at the Sarabande booth Thursday and with Lost Horse Press on Friday. Come visit with other amazing writers within the anthology “Once A City Said” that originally housed several poems that became my book “In The Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds”. I can’t wait to see you there! ⭐️ 🌹 🖤
February 1, 2024 at 2:55 AM
AWP! I’ll be at the Sarabande booth Thursday and with Lost Horse Press on Friday. Come visit with other amazing writers within the anthology “Once A City Said” that originally housed several poems that became my book “In The Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds”. I can’t wait to see you there! ⭐️ 🌹 🖤
She’s here! Advance copies arrived today 🌹 Getting myself ready for AWP madness. Stay tuned for April 1, 2024!
January 20, 2024 at 12:59 PM
She’s here! Advance copies arrived today 🌹 Getting myself ready for AWP madness. Stay tuned for April 1, 2024!
Deadline ends tonight! www.newliteraryproject.org/jack-hazard-...
January 4, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Deadline ends tonight! www.newliteraryproject.org/jack-hazard-...
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Julie Myerson's Nonfiction: A Novel is a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 at LitHub 👏
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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024
Happy New Year, readers. 2023 had its ups and downs (mostly downs), but as always, at least it brought us some very good books. But now that you’ve read all the books last year had to offer (right?...
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January 3, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Julie Myerson's Nonfiction: A Novel is a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 at LitHub 👏
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