@barbaramarieminney.bsky.social
Award winning queer Appalachian poet, speaker, teaching artist, and quiet activist. Winner of the 2020
Poet Is Life Book
Award for “If There’s No Heaven” and the 2024 American Fiction Award for Poetry Chapbook for “A Woman in
Progress.”
Poet Is Life Book
Award for “If There’s No Heaven” and the 2024 American Fiction Award for Poetry Chapbook for “A Woman in
Progress.”
I was surprised and thrilled to learn that “A Woman in Progress” was a runner-up in the poetry category at the San Francisco Book Festival. This is the third award for my book!!!
November 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I was surprised and thrilled to learn that “A Woman in Progress” was a runner-up in the poetry category at the San Francisco Book Festival. This is the third award for my book!!!
Another step on my womanhood journey. I’m a calendar girl!
October 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Another step on my womanhood journey. I’m a calendar girl!
Available for readings, speaking, performances, facilitation of workshops, panels, and guest editor/reader work. Check out my website for more information and to purchase my books.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Available for readings, speaking, performances, facilitation of workshops, panels, and guest editor/reader work. Check out my website for more information and to purchase my books.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
I am delighted to be featured in the Queer Authors Day edition of Forever With Pride E-Magazine. Check it out here:
foreverwithpride.com/e-magazine/
foreverwithpride.com/e-magazine/
October 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I am delighted to be featured in the Queer Authors Day edition of Forever With Pride E-Magazine. Check it out here:
foreverwithpride.com/e-magazine/
foreverwithpride.com/e-magazine/
I am honored and thrilled to be featured in the “Most Inspirational Female Leaders of the World” along with Oprah Winfrey no less! My photo is on the cover. Copies may be purchased on Amazon.
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barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I am honored and thrilled to be featured in the “Most Inspirational Female Leaders of the World” along with Oprah Winfrey no less! My photo is on the cover. Copies may be purchased on Amazon.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
I’m thrilled to have my poem “Dear (I can’t say your name without deadnaming myself, but you know who you are” included in the New Generation Beats 2025 Anthology published by the National Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc. Copies may be obtained on Amazon.
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barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I’m thrilled to have my poem “Dear (I can’t say your name without deadnaming myself, but you know who you are” included in the New Generation Beats 2025 Anthology published by the National Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc. Copies may be obtained on Amazon.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
I’m really excited about this reading. I can check something else off my poetry bucket list.
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barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
August 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I’m really excited about this reading. I can check something else off my poetry bucket list.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
Hey local peeps, I will be performing some of my poetry on June 21st at The Blue Macaroon Theater Company in Doylestown as part of its Talent & Variety Show. This is particularly meaningful to me since this will be during Pride Month. Join me.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
June 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Hey local peeps, I will be performing some of my poetry on June 21st at The Blue Macaroon Theater Company in Doylestown as part of its Talent & Variety Show. This is particularly meaningful to me since this will be during Pride Month. Join me.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
Please consider ordering a copy of this important book from Saad Ghosn. It includes two of my poems accompanied by drawings, and I will be part of the readings in July.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
April 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Please consider ordering a copy of this important book from Saad Ghosn. It includes two of my poems accompanied by drawings, and I will be part of the readings in July.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
We had such a good time at the Canton Prom!
April 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We had such a good time at the Canton Prom!
We did not win, but as they say, it was an honor to be nominated and being selected as a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Da Vinci Eye Award.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
We did not win, but as they say, it was an honor to be nominated and being selected as a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Da Vinci Eye Award.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
Just a reminder that the link to the video of my multimedia performance of “Queer in the Holler: An Appalachian Journey of Peseverance” is still available.
Reviews or testimonials from those who have seen it would be most welcome.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
Reviews or testimonials from those who have seen it would be most welcome.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Just a reminder that the link to the video of my multimedia performance of “Queer in the Holler: An Appalachian Journey of Peseverance” is still available.
Reviews or testimonials from those who have seen it would be most welcome.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
Reviews or testimonials from those who have seen it would be most welcome.
barbaramarieminneypoetry.com
Thank you so very much to Sherry Cook Stanforth for publishing the insightful and inspirational review of my award winning chapbook “A Woman in Progress” written by Jackie Ison Kalbli in Appalachian Fusion Volume 27!
December 6, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Thank you so very much to Sherry Cook Stanforth for publishing the insightful and inspirational review of my award winning chapbook “A Woman in Progress” written by Jackie Ison Kalbli in Appalachian Fusion Volume 27!