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Emily Adams-Aucoin
@emilyapoetry.bsky.social
Writer/poet & mother & other things.
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Two poems today by Emily Adams-Aucoin.

@emilyapoetry.bsky.social

librelit.com/2025/05/09/e...
May 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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The Iridescent Net | Emily Adams-Aucoin <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5h5koki63ehjjml72tcqi6ti" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@emilyapoetry.bsky.social | Frozen Sea - Issue Eight
April 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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writing this poem felt like cutting off my own arm 🥲
February 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Lisel Mueller.
December 22, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Rosmarie Waldrop
December 1, 2024 at 4:11 AM
“To be a mother is to live piercingly and inescapably in the moment. The artist who is also a mother must leave the moment in order to access a moment of a very different nature, and each time she does it a cost is exacted, the cost of experience.”

— Parade: A Novel by Rachel Cusk
November 24, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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“Every empire denies the iceberg
it crashes into, hires a chorus, funds the arts.
Every empire sings itself a lullaby.”

— from “To Be Self-Evident” by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, who just won the poetry category at the US National Book Awards

westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/lena-khalaf-...
November 21, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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Good morning! While we get ourselves set up over, if you've ever been published in Variant Lit, could you leave us a like? We want to make sure that we're up to date with your pubs!!
November 18, 2024 at 6:22 PM
“The only true democracy is that we all live the loss of the world.”

Marguerite Duras
November 18, 2024 at 10:51 PM