Lisa Bellamy
@lisalbellamy.bsky.social
Reader - Writer - Writers Studio teacher - www.lisabellamypoet.com
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There is literally no reason for the military to be in D.C.
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
There is literally no reason for the military to be in D.C.
Thank you to Lit Mag Lounge, curated by Janelle Drumwright, for the invitation to write about "Everything is Burning," published this fall in Thimble substack.com/home/post/p-...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Thank you to Lit Mag Lounge, curated by Janelle Drumwright, for the invitation to write about "Everything is Burning," published this fall in Thimble substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Patricia Smith’s The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems has won the National Book Award for Poetry! Read more here: buff.ly/HKCSQQQ
Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages
Nobody—and I mean NOBODY—warned me about my pubic hair. It glistened for years, springy and sprite, an Ivory Soap-scented welcome mat for lucky episodic visitors. I never gave it much thought, cert…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Patricia Smith’s The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems has won the National Book Award for Poetry! Read more here: buff.ly/HKCSQQQ
"Fear is not the end of the story" - Christina Leano, who works in the intersection of social and ecological justice & contemplative spirituality.
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"Fear is not the end of the story" - Christina Leano, who works in the intersection of social and ecological justice & contemplative spirituality.
"Over and over, the terrible weakness of the powerful" James Richardson, from Vectors 6.2: Just Saying
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"Over and over, the terrible weakness of the powerful" James Richardson, from Vectors 6.2: Just Saying
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I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.
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A 66-year-old competitive runner.
Six broken ribs.
He won’t be able to run his marathon anymore and all because ICE didn’t like how fast he moved his car.
This isn’t about “immigration enforcement” anymore.
It’s about unchecked power and the normalization of state violence.👇
Six broken ribs.
He won’t be able to run his marathon anymore and all because ICE didn’t like how fast he moved his car.
This isn’t about “immigration enforcement” anymore.
It’s about unchecked power and the normalization of state violence.👇
October 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A 66-year-old competitive runner.
Six broken ribs.
He won’t be able to run his marathon anymore and all because ICE didn’t like how fast he moved his car.
This isn’t about “immigration enforcement” anymore.
It’s about unchecked power and the normalization of state violence.👇
Six broken ribs.
He won’t be able to run his marathon anymore and all because ICE didn’t like how fast he moved his car.
This isn’t about “immigration enforcement” anymore.
It’s about unchecked power and the normalization of state violence.👇
“It is the vulgarity of this country to believe that naked wealth, unrelieved by any use or design, is merit.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1854
October 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
“It is the vulgarity of this country to believe that naked wealth, unrelieved by any use or design, is merit.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1854
Thrilled that Jackdaw Review Fall 2025 includes two of my poems, among so much terrific writing - pp 38 & 39 online.fliphtml5.com/nnzao/ioyf/#...
October 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Thrilled that Jackdaw Review Fall 2025 includes two of my poems, among so much terrific writing - pp 38 & 39 online.fliphtml5.com/nnzao/ioyf/#...
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OVER 7 MILLION PATRIOTIC AMERICANS! That's what I call one big, beautiful demonstration against this vast confederacy of dipshits. The largest protest in American history and not a crime in sight. Needless to say, all 7 million of you are reasons to be proud to be an American.
October 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
OVER 7 MILLION PATRIOTIC AMERICANS! That's what I call one big, beautiful demonstration against this vast confederacy of dipshits. The largest protest in American history and not a crime in sight. Needless to say, all 7 million of you are reasons to be proud to be an American.
"A Litany for Survival" by Audre Lorde www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147275...
A Litany for Survival
For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and...
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October 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
"A Litany for Survival" by Audre Lorde www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147275...
More US Federal agency banned words: race,
race and ethnicity, racial, racial diversity, racial identity, racial inequality, racial justice, racially, racism, segregation, sense of belonging, sex, sexual preferences, sexuality
race and ethnicity, racial, racial diversity, racial identity, racial inequality, racial justice, racially, racism, segregation, sense of belonging, sex, sexual preferences, sexuality
October 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
More US Federal agency banned words: race,
race and ethnicity, racial, racial diversity, racial identity, racial inequality, racial justice, racially, racism, segregation, sense of belonging, sex, sexual preferences, sexuality
race and ethnicity, racial, racial diversity, racial identity, racial inequality, racial justice, racially, racism, segregation, sense of belonging, sex, sexual preferences, sexuality
"With dripping drops of water even a water jug is filled. Little by little, a fool is filled with evil." The Dhammapada
October 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"With dripping drops of water even a water jug is filled. Little by little, a fool is filled with evil." The Dhammapada
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Shout out to the American Presidents who didn't... (checks notes)... hate Americans.
October 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Shout out to the American Presidents who didn't... (checks notes)... hate Americans.
I love this so much.
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I love this so much.
Thank you to Eastern Iowa Review for including "Wisdom" - originally published 2020 - in a forthcoming "best of" prose poem anthology from previous issues. www.portyonderpress.com/lisa-bellamy...
Lisa Bellamy - Wisdom
(PROSE POETRY) WISDOM LISA BELLAMY
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October 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Thank you to Eastern Iowa Review for including "Wisdom" - originally published 2020 - in a forthcoming "best of" prose poem anthology from previous issues. www.portyonderpress.com/lisa-bellamy...
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We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.
October 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.
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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
"TIVE" by Gray Davidson Carroll - rattle.com/tive-by-gray...
TIVE by Gray Davidson Carroll - Rattle: Poetry
I wake up in the morning and I am a terrorist.
I wash the dishes, I read the news.
My hands are a terrorist’s hands.
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September 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"TIVE" by Gray Davidson Carroll - rattle.com/tive-by-gray...
Thrilled that "Everything is Burning" appears in Thimble Literary Magazine's current issue, with so many wonderful poems. www.thimblelitmag.com/2025/07/13/e...
Everything is Burning
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September 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Thrilled that "Everything is Burning" appears in Thimble Literary Magazine's current issue, with so many wonderful poems. www.thimblelitmag.com/2025/07/13/e...
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There are many things we will look back on with incredulity but what has happened over the past ten days, is absolutely criminal.
September 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
There are many things we will look back on with incredulity but what has happened over the past ten days, is absolutely criminal.
"America actually is, at present, an occupied country." Marilynne Robinson, June 2025
September 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"America actually is, at present, an occupied country." Marilynne Robinson, June 2025
More banned US Federal agency words - person-centered
person-centered care
polarization
political
pollution
pregnant people
pregnant person
pregnant persons
prejudice
privilege
privileges
promote diversity
promoting diversity
pronoun
pronouns
person-centered care
polarization
political
pollution
pregnant people
pregnant person
pregnant persons
prejudice
privilege
privileges
promote diversity
promoting diversity
pronoun
pronouns
September 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
More banned US Federal agency words - person-centered
person-centered care
polarization
political
pollution
pregnant people
pregnant person
pregnant persons
prejudice
privilege
privileges
promote diversity
promoting diversity
pronoun
pronouns
person-centered care
polarization
political
pollution
pregnant people
pregnant person
pregnant persons
prejudice
privilege
privileges
promote diversity
promoting diversity
pronoun
pronouns
Happy that Bee Frequency, a new chapbook manuscript, was accepted for 2026 - more info to come, in October.
September 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Happy that Bee Frequency, a new chapbook manuscript, was accepted for 2026 - more info to come, in October.
"Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100" for the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local l00, working at the Windows on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the WTC, by Martin Espada - www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47868/...
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
Praise the kitchen radio, dial clicked even before the dial on the oven, so that music and Spanish rose before bread. Praise Manhattan from a hundred and seven flights up, like Atlantis glimpsed throu...
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September 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100" for the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local l00, working at the Windows on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the WTC, by Martin Espada - www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47868/...