Heidi Seaborn
@heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social
Poet + Executive Editor The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social
Books: TIC TIC TIC (9/25); MARILYN: ESSAYS & POEMS (An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe); GIVE A GIRL CHAOS
NYU mfa
heidiseabornpoet.com
Books: TIC TIC TIC (9/25); MARILYN: ESSAYS & POEMS (An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe); GIVE A GIRL CHAOS
NYU mfa
heidiseabornpoet.com
Reposted by Heidi Seaborn
Today's Feature:
What Sparks Poetry: @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social on "Even Now After All These Years" from Tic Tic Tic published by Cornerstone Press
Read here:
poems.com/poem/even-no...
What Sparks Poetry: @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social on "Even Now After All These Years" from Tic Tic Tic published by Cornerstone Press
Read here:
poems.com/poem/even-no...
Even Now After All These Years
For love of Shakespeare, we speak starling, our mouths black with feathers.
I want to dance. But you refuse to lead. Isn’t that a form of backstepping,
of creating space between us? In the wingspan o...
poems.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today's Feature:
What Sparks Poetry: @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social on "Even Now After All These Years" from Tic Tic Tic published by Cornerstone Press
Read here:
poems.com/poem/even-no...
What Sparks Poetry: @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social on "Even Now After All These Years" from Tic Tic Tic published by Cornerstone Press
Read here:
poems.com/poem/even-no...
How to write the end of a book of poetry when the world feels like its ending--my craft essay on choosing the final poem for my newest collection on the night of the 2024 election. Thanks to Cleaver Magazine, @oneart.bsky.social & @markdanowsky.bsky.social
www.cleavermagazine.com/writing-to-t...
www.cleavermagazine.com/writing-to-t...
Writing to the End: Artistic Choices in Apocalyptic Times, a Poetry Craft Essay by Heidi Seaborn • Cleaver Magazine
A Craft Essay by Heidi Seaborn Writing to the End: Artistic Choices in Apocalyptic Times Two a.m. on November 6, 2024. My love is propped with pillows, his phone aglow with news. Have I slept at all? ...
www.cleavermagazine.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
How to write the end of a book of poetry when the world feels like its ending--my craft essay on choosing the final poem for my newest collection on the night of the 2024 election. Thanks to Cleaver Magazine, @oneart.bsky.social & @markdanowsky.bsky.social
www.cleavermagazine.com/writing-to-t...
www.cleavermagazine.com/writing-to-t...
Reposted by Heidi Seaborn
How to keep living with honesty, humor, faith, love, and an extra helping of hope. (@heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social)
10 Books of Poetry for Insistence & Resistance - Electric Literature
These poets respond to the violence and uncertainty of our world with hope and determination
buff.ly
September 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
How to keep living with honesty, humor, faith, love, and an extra helping of hope. (@heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social)
Reposted by Heidi Seaborn
@heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social on the regrets and advantages of waiting until her fifties to become a poet.
How Writing Poetry Can Freeze Time
I was one of those teenagers who wrote and read poetry, who dreamed of being a poet. I still have my teenage poems, the ones I wrote in notebooks between classes, on the bus, late at night when my …
buff.ly
September 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
@heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social on the regrets and advantages of waiting until her fifties to become a poet.
September 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
tic tic tic...one week until my third collection of poetry is published! #seattle come celebrate: reading & launch party 🥂🍾📚✨ w/ @tms2072.bsky.social Cindy Veach +Suzanne Edison 🩷 @Elliott Bay Books tix +info: bit.ly/4pkxg56
#poetry #book #seattle #literature #poems
#poetry #book #seattle #literature #poems
September 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
tic tic tic...one week until my third collection of poetry is published! #seattle come celebrate: reading & launch party 🥂🍾📚✨ w/ @tms2072.bsky.social Cindy Veach +Suzanne Edison 🩷 @Elliott Bay Books tix +info: bit.ly/4pkxg56
#poetry #book #seattle #literature #poems
#poetry #book #seattle #literature #poems
TIME's on my mind. I've got a new lyric essay about time 🕰️
theadroitjournal.org/2025/09/03/t... @adroitjournal.bsky.social w/ literary shoutouts to @jennifergrotz.bsky.social Ellen Bass Hanif Aburraqib Zadie Smith James Baldwin Elizabeth Hartwick Haruki Murakami ++ #time #essay #literary
theadroitjournal.org/2025/09/03/t... @adroitjournal.bsky.social w/ literary shoutouts to @jennifergrotz.bsky.social Ellen Bass Hanif Aburraqib Zadie Smith James Baldwin Elizabeth Hartwick Haruki Murakami ++ #time #essay #literary
Time Pieces
Visit the post for more.
theadroitjournal.org
September 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
TIME's on my mind. I've got a new lyric essay about time 🕰️
theadroitjournal.org/2025/09/03/t... @adroitjournal.bsky.social w/ literary shoutouts to @jennifergrotz.bsky.social Ellen Bass Hanif Aburraqib Zadie Smith James Baldwin Elizabeth Hartwick Haruki Murakami ++ #time #essay #literary
theadroitjournal.org/2025/09/03/t... @adroitjournal.bsky.social w/ literary shoutouts to @jennifergrotz.bsky.social Ellen Bass Hanif Aburraqib Zadie Smith James Baldwin Elizabeth Hartwick Haruki Murakami ++ #time #essay #literary
Thanks to @oneart.bsky.social & @markdanowsky.bsky.social for publishing this poem written a year ago. So much has happened to threaten the hope I express in this poem. Yet...
oneartpoetry.com/2025/08/26/t...
oneartpoetry.com/2025/08/26/t...
Take Five by Heidi Seaborn
Take Five The tempo changes. Rain in late August. Wildfire season extinguished. As my email clutters with democratic emergencies, I play Brubeck’s Take Five on loop like when I was seventeen drivin…
oneartpoetry.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Thanks to @oneart.bsky.social & @markdanowsky.bsky.social for publishing this poem written a year ago. So much has happened to threaten the hope I express in this poem. Yet...
oneartpoetry.com/2025/08/26/t...
oneartpoetry.com/2025/08/26/t...
Amazing line up! I mean @dseuss.bsky.social 🤩
Join us for our Issue Fifty-Four release reading on Tuesday, August 12th! Tickets are free through the Eventbrite link in our bio. ✨
August 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Amazing line up! I mean @dseuss.bsky.social 🤩
It's time ⏰ to pre-order my third collection of poems, tic tic tic--a book that brings hope & resilience in these chaotic and frightening times. Thank you so much for supporting my writing, it means so much. 🙏😘❤️ #poetry #newbook #Resist #hope #resilience #PreOrderNow
June 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's time ⏰ to pre-order my third collection of poems, tic tic tic--a book that brings hope & resilience in these chaotic and frightening times. Thank you so much for supporting my writing, it means so much. 🙏😘❤️ #poetry #newbook #Resist #hope #resilience #PreOrderNow
SPREAD THE WORD www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/eco...
Talk of a "Feb 28 Economic Blackout" is spreading on social media. What is it?
A grassroots effort is asking American consumers to refrain from making purchases at major retailers for one day in February.
www.cbsnews.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
SPREAD THE WORD www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/eco...
Economic Blackout
WHEN:
Friday, Feb 28th from
12:00 AM to 11:59 PM
WHAT NOT TO DO:
Do not make any purchases
Do not shop online, or in-store
No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy
Nowhere!
Do not spend money on:
Fast Food
Gas
Major Retailers
No Credit or Debit Cards for non-essential spending
WHEN:
Friday, Feb 28th from
12:00 AM to 11:59 PM
WHAT NOT TO DO:
Do not make any purchases
Do not shop online, or in-store
No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy
Nowhere!
Do not spend money on:
Fast Food
Gas
Major Retailers
No Credit or Debit Cards for non-essential spending
February 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Economic Blackout
WHEN:
Friday, Feb 28th from
12:00 AM to 11:59 PM
WHAT NOT TO DO:
Do not make any purchases
Do not shop online, or in-store
No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy
Nowhere!
Do not spend money on:
Fast Food
Gas
Major Retailers
No Credit or Debit Cards for non-essential spending
WHEN:
Friday, Feb 28th from
12:00 AM to 11:59 PM
WHAT NOT TO DO:
Do not make any purchases
Do not shop online, or in-store
No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy
Nowhere!
Do not spend money on:
Fast Food
Gas
Major Retailers
No Credit or Debit Cards for non-essential spending
The Adroit Journal is now on Bluesky 🦋@adroitjournal.bsky.social--check us out!
February 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The Adroit Journal is now on Bluesky 🦋@adroitjournal.bsky.social--check us out!
My 3rd poetry collection TIC TIC TIC (forthcoming Sept. 2025 Cornerstone) began last January to try to make sense of the chaos of our current times, our vulnerable planet and what faith, love and hope bring to this moment.The book's done, the writing continues. #chaos #2020s #poetry #newbook
February 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
To epigraph or weave or footnote or leave to the reader? Elisa Gabbert's Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b... #poetry #poet #poetrycommunity
Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference
Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
To epigraph or weave or footnote or leave to the reader? Elisa Gabbert's Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b... #poetry #poet #poetrycommunity
The new issue of Image gave me so much to think about from where we derive light in our lives to doubt and wonder. My poem in Image questions the source of hope and wrestles with faith as the earth howls imagejournal.org/article/unen... #hope #faith #poetry
January 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The new issue of Image gave me so much to think about from where we derive light in our lives to doubt and wonder. My poem in Image questions the source of hope and wrestles with faith as the earth howls imagejournal.org/article/unen... #hope #faith #poetry
Last Jan 6, recalling Jan 6, 2021, I wrote the "Winter 2020/21" section of my long poem "Continuum". Let's never forget. Read my Letter to America in @terrain. terrain.org/2024/poetry/le…#January6tht#insurrectiono#Democracyc#poetryr#poemem
https://terrain.org/2024/poetry/le…
January 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Last Jan 6, recalling Jan 6, 2021, I wrote the "Winter 2020/21" section of my long poem "Continuum". Let's never forget. Read my Letter to America in @terrain. terrain.org/2024/poetry/le…#January6tht#insurrectiono#Democracyc#poetryr#poemem
Reposted by Heidi Seaborn
With the clock tic of the new year: announcing my 3rd poetry collection TIC TIC TIC (forthcoming Sept. 2025 from Cornerstone Press). A book that I began last January to try to make sense of the chaos of our current times, our vulnerable planet and what faith, love and hope bring to this moment. 🩷
January 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
With the clock tic of the new year: announcing my 3rd poetry collection TIC TIC TIC (forthcoming Sept. 2025 from Cornerstone Press). A book that I began last January to try to make sense of the chaos of our current times, our vulnerable planet and what faith, love and hope bring to this moment. 🩷
Blessed to have a poem up at @versedaily.bsky.social that is in the new issue of Agni. Thank you @jpdancingbear.bsky.social ♥️
www.versedaily.org/2024/balanci...
www.versedaily.org/2024/balanci...
December 28, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Blessed to have a poem up at @versedaily.bsky.social that is in the new issue of Agni. Thank you @jpdancingbear.bsky.social ♥️
www.versedaily.org/2024/balanci...
www.versedaily.org/2024/balanci...
Reposted by Heidi Seaborn
“A poet is a nightingale who sits in the darkness, and sings”
—Shelley, in Defense of Poetry
*
"In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
About the dark times."
—Bertolt Brecht
—Shelley, in Defense of Poetry
*
"In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
About the dark times."
—Bertolt Brecht
November 10, 2024 at 4:17 PM
“A poet is a nightingale who sits in the darkness, and sings”
—Shelley, in Defense of Poetry
*
"In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
About the dark times."
—Bertolt Brecht
—Shelley, in Defense of Poetry
*
"In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
About the dark times."
—Bertolt Brecht
I’ve been wrestling with how to end a poetry manuscript. Tips? Examples? #poetry #manuscript #endings #final #poem
November 24, 2024 at 6:51 PM
I’ve been wrestling with how to end a poetry manuscript. Tips? Examples? #poetry #manuscript #endings #final #poem
November 14, 2024 at 7:21 PM