Elinor Ann Walker
@elinorann.bsky.social
Poet| writer| editor| PhD
she/her/hers | FUGITIVE BUT GORGEOUS forthcoming (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions)| GIVE SORROW forthcoming (@whittlemicropress.bsky.social)|poems in AGNI, Plume, Poet Lore, Terrain, PHQ & more.
https://elinorannwalker.com
she/her/hers | FUGITIVE BUT GORGEOUS forthcoming (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions)| GIVE SORROW forthcoming (@whittlemicropress.bsky.social)|poems in AGNI, Plume, Poet Lore, Terrain, PHQ & more.
https://elinorannwalker.com
I'm excited to be able to share that my poem "Sestina (A Ghost Story)," published originally in Northwest Review, was awarded an honorable mention in the Winning Writers Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2024💫 🔗 in comments. #poetry #poetrycommunity #nationalpoetrymonth #NaPoMo
April 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I'm excited to be able to share that my poem "Sestina (A Ghost Story)," published originally in Northwest Review, was awarded an honorable mention in the Winning Writers Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2024💫 🔗 in comments. #poetry #poetrycommunity #nationalpoetrymonth #NaPoMo
Thrilled to be on this list & for my first full-length poetry manuscript MEUSE! Thank you Madville Publishing & judge @allisonpoet.bsky.social
💫 congratulations to winner DeAnna Stephens & first runner-up Meghan Malachi! 💫 #poetry #NaPoMo #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrycommunity
💫 congratulations to winner DeAnna Stephens & first runner-up Meghan Malachi! 💫 #poetry #NaPoMo #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrycommunity
April 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Thrilled to be on this list & for my first full-length poetry manuscript MEUSE! Thank you Madville Publishing & judge @allisonpoet.bsky.social
💫 congratulations to winner DeAnna Stephens & first runner-up Meghan Malachi! 💫 #poetry #NaPoMo #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrycommunity
💫 congratulations to winner DeAnna Stephens & first runner-up Meghan Malachi! 💫 #poetry #NaPoMo #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrycommunity
Grateful for 🌼 & poetry, readers & kind publishers. National Poetry Month. Wild violets that provide food & nectar for fritillary butterfly caterpillars & 🐝 So much is cruel, but much is beautiful 💚 thanks to @susurrusmag.bsky.social for publishing this one in 2023 #NaPoMo #poetry #poetrymatters
April 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Grateful for 🌼 & poetry, readers & kind publishers. National Poetry Month. Wild violets that provide food & nectar for fritillary butterfly caterpillars & 🐝 So much is cruel, but much is beautiful 💚 thanks to @susurrusmag.bsky.social for publishing this one in 2023 #NaPoMo #poetry #poetrymatters
Send us your poems! ✨You may also receive a free writing prompt accompanied by a photo each day in April for Na-Po-Mo-25 (National Poetry Month) from @riverheronreview.bsky.social via sign-up on the website. 🔗 www.riverheronreview.com 💫 #poetry #poetrysubmissions #poetrycommunity #NaPoMo
March 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Send us your poems! ✨You may also receive a free writing prompt accompanied by a photo each day in April for Na-Po-Mo-25 (National Poetry Month) from @riverheronreview.bsky.social via sign-up on the website. 🔗 www.riverheronreview.com 💫 #poetry #poetrysubmissions #poetrycommunity #NaPoMo
The hellebores are blooming around our pond. The 1st anniversary of my mother’s death nears in April. By then, the lilies of the valley rhizome-descendents also from her years-ago garden may waft sweetness from their tiny, white flower-bells 🌱 @riverheronreview.bsky.social 🤍 #poetry
March 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The hellebores are blooming around our pond. The 1st anniversary of my mother’s death nears in April. By then, the lilies of the valley rhizome-descendents also from her years-ago garden may waft sweetness from their tiny, white flower-bells 🌱 @riverheronreview.bsky.social 🤍 #poetry
Many thanks to Harbor Review — I’m honored that my manuscript, STILL LIFE IS MOVABLE, was longlisted & named a finalist (top 4!) for the 2024 Washburn Prize 💛 Congratulations to winner Gail Griffin! 💫 #poetry #poetrycommunity
February 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Many thanks to Harbor Review — I’m honored that my manuscript, STILL LIFE IS MOVABLE, was longlisted & named a finalist (top 4!) for the 2024 Washburn Prize 💛 Congratulations to winner Gail Griffin! 💫 #poetry #poetrycommunity
February 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I saved this image a while ago but didn’t expect to deploy it so soon. Every damn day. Practically every hour …
January 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I saved this image a while ago but didn’t expect to deploy it so soon. Every damn day. Practically every hour …
2024: thank you #poetrycommunity & editors @agnimagazine.bsky.social
@nimrodjournal.bsky.social @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social @westtradereview.bsky.social @merliterary.bsky.social &&& others 💫 #poetry is light 🕯️
@nimrodjournal.bsky.social @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social @westtradereview.bsky.social @merliterary.bsky.social &&& others 💫 #poetry is light 🕯️
January 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
2024: thank you #poetrycommunity & editors @agnimagazine.bsky.social
@nimrodjournal.bsky.social @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social @westtradereview.bsky.social @merliterary.bsky.social &&& others 💫 #poetry is light 🕯️
@nimrodjournal.bsky.social @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social @westtradereview.bsky.social @merliterary.bsky.social &&& others 💫 #poetry is light 🕯️
I’m 59, and this news is sweet indeed. Don’t give up, writers. This chap will be my debut creative book publication. Many thanks to editor Hayley Mitchell Haugen for selecting my work and to Sheila-Na-Gig Editions! Stay tuned for more about FUGITIVE BUT GORGEOUS …
December 11, 2024 at 8:54 PM
I’m 59, and this news is sweet indeed. Don’t give up, writers. This chap will be my debut creative book publication. Many thanks to editor Hayley Mitchell Haugen for selecting my work and to Sheila-Na-Gig Editions! Stay tuned for more about FUGITIVE BUT GORGEOUS …
Happy news! Honored to be on this list. Good luck to the finalists, & thank you, Nine Syllables Press, for this honor ✨
December 10, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Happy news! Honored to be on this list. Good luck to the finalists, & thank you, Nine Syllables Press, for this honor ✨
Remembering Ruth Stone (1915-2011) 🤍 I return to this poem again & again; we should all pay attention #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
December 4, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Remembering Ruth Stone (1915-2011) 🤍 I return to this poem again & again; we should all pay attention #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
I’m here & over the 🌙 to see my ekphrastic pantoum out in the world AND in the 100th issue of AGNI alongside work by luminaries such as Heidi Seaborn, JP Grasser, Timothy Liu, Paisley Rekdal & @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social &&& 💛 #poetry #ekphrastic #ekphrasticpoetry #poetrycommunity
November 8, 2024 at 6:58 PM
I’m here & over the 🌙 to see my ekphrastic pantoum out in the world AND in the 100th issue of AGNI alongside work by luminaries such as Heidi Seaborn, JP Grasser, Timothy Liu, Paisley Rekdal & @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social &&& 💛 #poetry #ekphrastic #ekphrasticpoetry #poetrycommunity
As we await the thaw … here’s my poem about dirt, roots, & other earthy/ly matters in the winter issue of THE PENN REVIEW 💚Read more here: www.pennreview.org#/no-73/
January 22, 2024 at 6:36 PM
As we await the thaw … here’s my poem about dirt, roots, & other earthy/ly matters in the winter issue of THE PENN REVIEW 💚Read more here: www.pennreview.org#/no-73/
A wonderful holiday gift. Thank you, *MacQueen’s Quinterly* (& EIC, Clare MacQueen), for nominating my poem (which shares its title with my chapbook-in-progress)—I’m honored to be among these nominees~~congrats & good luck to all! 💙💫
December 31, 2023 at 7:17 PM
A wonderful holiday gift. Thank you, *MacQueen’s Quinterly* (& EIC, Clare MacQueen), for nominating my poem (which shares its title with my chapbook-in-progress)—I’m honored to be among these nominees~~congrats & good luck to all! 💙💫
“… a word for grief that/ doesn’t rhyme with thief.” —Dr Maya C Popa, “Year,” WOUND IS THE ORIGIN OF WONDER (W. W. Norton & Co, 2022) #poetry
November 1, 2023 at 5:41 PM
“… a word for grief that/ doesn’t rhyme with thief.” —Dr Maya C Popa, “Year,” WOUND IS THE ORIGIN OF WONDER (W. W. Norton & Co, 2022) #poetry
Very grateful to have this poem borne of my fascination with logarithmic spirals find a habitat in issue 146 of Plume Poetry & to EIC Danny Lawless for the infinite care he takes with poems & poets 🐚🌀link: plumepoetry.com/category/all...
October 18, 2023 at 7:46 PM
Very grateful to have this poem borne of my fascination with logarithmic spirals find a habitat in issue 146 of Plume Poetry & to EIC Danny Lawless for the infinite care he takes with poems & poets 🐚🌀link: plumepoetry.com/category/all...
“these things we depend on,/ they disappear.”
October 13, 2023 at 9:05 PM
“these things we depend on,/ they disappear.”
Thank you, poet 🤍 (from “Twilight,” Louise Glück, 1943-2023)
October 13, 2023 at 8:49 PM
Thank you, poet 🤍 (from “Twilight,” Louise Glück, 1943-2023)
Celebrating 31 years with my partner today. Drafted this #sonnet in 1997 while we lived apart for the sake of two jobs—it was nominated for a Pushcart & published this year. I’m grateful to The Orchards Poetry Journal—& for so much else—
October 10, 2023 at 5:09 PM
Celebrating 31 years with my partner today. Drafted this #sonnet in 1997 while we lived apart for the sake of two jobs—it was nominated for a Pushcart & published this year. I’m grateful to The Orchards Poetry Journal—& for so much else—
I’m humbled & hopeful because my very first full-length manuscript was named a finalist among such stellar company ✨thank you to judge Sandra Beasley & to U of Akron P!
September 29, 2023 at 4:22 PM
I’m humbled & hopeful because my very first full-length manuscript was named a finalist among such stellar company ✨thank you to judge Sandra Beasley & to U of Akron P!
Ending takes my breath every time
September 22, 2023 at 6:12 PM
Ending takes my breath every time