@lizlizcountryman.bsky.social
poet; author of Green Island (Tupelo, 2024) and A Forest Almost (Subito, 2017); teaching in U of South Carolina's MFA program; co-editor of Oversound
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The most extreme abortion ban in South Carolina history, SB 323, has a public hearing THIS WEDNESDAY at 9:30 AM in the State House.
Republicans want to criminalize doctors, punish families, and strip away our freedoms. We must stand up now. #SCPol #StopSB323
Republicans want to criminalize doctors, punish families, and strip away our freedoms. We must stand up now. #SCPol #StopSB323
September 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The most extreme abortion ban in South Carolina history, SB 323, has a public hearing THIS WEDNESDAY at 9:30 AM in the State House.
Republicans want to criminalize doctors, punish families, and strip away our freedoms. We must stand up now. #SCPol #StopSB323
Republicans want to criminalize doctors, punish families, and strip away our freedoms. We must stand up now. #SCPol #StopSB323
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🚨 South Carolina’s most extreme abortion ban ever, SB 323, is here. It would:
❌ Ban abortion
❌ Criminalize patients, doctors & families
❌ Threaten birth control & IVF
Representative Heather Bauer said it best.
📍Speak out: Wed, Oct 1 @ 9:30 AM, SC State House
#StopSB323 #SCPol
❌ Ban abortion
❌ Criminalize patients, doctors & families
❌ Threaten birth control & IVF
Representative Heather Bauer said it best.
📍Speak out: Wed, Oct 1 @ 9:30 AM, SC State House
#StopSB323 #SCPol
September 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🚨 South Carolina’s most extreme abortion ban ever, SB 323, is here. It would:
❌ Ban abortion
❌ Criminalize patients, doctors & families
❌ Threaten birth control & IVF
Representative Heather Bauer said it best.
📍Speak out: Wed, Oct 1 @ 9:30 AM, SC State House
#StopSB323 #SCPol
❌ Ban abortion
❌ Criminalize patients, doctors & families
❌ Threaten birth control & IVF
Representative Heather Bauer said it best.
📍Speak out: Wed, Oct 1 @ 9:30 AM, SC State House
#StopSB323 #SCPol
When your phone thinks you're trying to spell "creatine writing"
September 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
When your phone thinks you're trying to spell "creatine writing"
Thrilled to have my essay included in Chicago Review's new dossier on the late wonderful Elizabeth Arnold. She was such a deep influence on me and on so many of us, such a wildly generous mentor, never not moving through the world as an artist.
www.chicagoreview.org/moving-throu...
www.chicagoreview.org/moving-throu...
Moving Through Poetry with Elizabeth Arnold
By Liz Countryman
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July 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Thrilled to have my essay included in Chicago Review's new dossier on the late wonderful Elizabeth Arnold. She was such a deep influence on me and on so many of us, such a wildly generous mentor, never not moving through the world as an artist.
www.chicagoreview.org/moving-throu...
www.chicagoreview.org/moving-throu...
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I've got some excerpts from my book-length poem MONOLITH up in the new Action, Spectacle here: www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2025-... Issue looks pretty great. Ronaldo Wilson, Josh English, Thea Brown, lots more...
Samuel Amadon - poetry — Action, Spectacle
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April 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I've got some excerpts from my book-length poem MONOLITH up in the new Action, Spectacle here: www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2025-... Issue looks pretty great. Ronaldo Wilson, Josh English, Thea Brown, lots more...
Thrilled that my first book, A Forest Almost, will be back in print soon. Here's a link to the book on Subito Press's new site: www.colorado.edu/journal/subi...
A Forest Almost - Liz Countryman
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March 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Thrilled that my first book, A Forest Almost, will be back in print soon. Here's a link to the book on Subito Press's new site: www.colorado.edu/journal/subi...
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"The poems are wide open-armed gestures remarking on the gap between the then-time when memories happened and the now-time when they’re being recollected."
from my goodreads review of Liz Countryman's Green Island
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from my goodreads review of Liz Countryman's Green Island
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Kent's review of Green Island
5/5: I have many feelings about the quotations that always hover close by while I’m reading poetry. Like what do I feel about the ghost of Wordsworth, and his “emotions recollected in tranquillity”? L...
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March 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"The poems are wide open-armed gestures remarking on the gap between the then-time when memories happened and the now-time when they’re being recollected."
from my goodreads review of Liz Countryman's Green Island
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
from my goodreads review of Liz Countryman's Green Island
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
RIP the amazing George Tice - he got something about Jersey that's hard to express
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/a...
George Tice, ‘Bard of New Jersey’ With a Camera, Dies at 86
He found beauty in the prosaic: bars, phone booths, hamburger joints, barber shops — first in a downtrodden Paterson, then throughout the state and beyond.
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February 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
RIP the amazing George Tice - he got something about Jersey that's hard to express
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/a...
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
SC friends, please tell Governor McMaster to stop Marion Bowman's execution this evening. 803-734-2100. Also there's a petition you can sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
Stop the Execution of Marion Bowman in South Carolina
Marion Bowman, 44, is scheduled for execution in South Carolina for the murder of Kandee Martin.
Marion takes responsibility for making immature choices like selling drugs as a teenager, but he has s...
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January 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
SC friends, please tell Governor McMaster to stop Marion Bowman's execution this evening. 803-734-2100. Also there's a petition you can sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
from Greenland:
January 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
from Greenland:
Did you know that the most recent Microsoft Word update allowed AI to scrape your personal files? Disable this function by going to Preferences, selecting Privacy, un-clicking "connected experiences," and restarting Word.
January 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Did you know that the most recent Microsoft Word update allowed AI to scrape your personal files? Disable this function by going to Preferences, selecting Privacy, un-clicking "connected experiences," and restarting Word.
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Ongoing notes: mid-January, 2025: Peter Dubé, Eric Folsom + Louise Akers, / @razovsky.bsky.social ;
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Ongoing notes: mid-January, 2025: Peter Dubé, Eric Folsom + Louise Akers,
New year, new round of chapbooks, as well as a mound I should still get through from 2024. Will I ever get through? And don’t forget to catc...
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January 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Ongoing notes: mid-January, 2025: Peter Dubé, Eric Folsom + Louise Akers, / @razovsky.bsky.social ;
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I just got a note from an undergrad student telling me that my fall poetry workshop reunited last weekend for a "poetry night." 🥹
January 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I just got a note from an undergrad student telling me that my fall poetry workshop reunited last weekend for a "poetry night." 🥹
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OVERSOUND: Monica Fambrough + Alexis Almeida,
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OVERSOUND: Monica Fambrough + Alexis Almeida,
I recently garnered a handful of gracefully-produced softbound chapbooks produced through American poetry journal OVERSOUND , most of which ...
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September 16, 2024 at 12:36 PM
OVERSOUND: Monica Fambrough + Alexis Almeida,
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I went on a #Greenland reading / listening streak a couple of years ago. So many of the poems I read that come out of Greenland are on the topic of sharing. I also discovered this amazing band, Sume:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nC9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nC9...
Pilerineq Tikinneq - Sumé
YouTube video by ikinngut
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January 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I went on a #Greenland reading / listening streak a couple of years ago. So many of the poems I read that come out of Greenland are on the topic of sharing. I also discovered this amazing band, Sume:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nC9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nC9...
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Liz Countryman, Green Island: Poems
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Liz Countryman, Green Island: Poems
Now, to be 40 is to be a comb someone else’s hair moves through. I sense but can’t describe some other, newer kind of openness con...
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September 24, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Liz Countryman, Green Island: Poems
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Today’s Featured Poet:
Liz Countryman is the author of Green Island and A Forest Almost. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina, where she is Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina and co-editor, with her husband Samuel Amadon, of the poetry journal Oversound.
Liz Countryman is the author of Green Island and A Forest Almost. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina, where she is Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina and co-editor, with her husband Samuel Amadon, of the poetry journal Oversound.
December 13, 2024 at 4:05 AM
Today’s Featured Poet:
Liz Countryman is the author of Green Island and A Forest Almost. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina, where she is Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina and co-editor, with her husband Samuel Amadon, of the poetry journal Oversound.
Liz Countryman is the author of Green Island and A Forest Almost. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina, where she is Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina and co-editor, with her husband Samuel Amadon, of the poetry journal Oversound.
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Today’s Featured Poem:
“The End Is Always Sudden” by Liz Countryman, from Green Island, published by @tupelopress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/the-end...
“The End Is Always Sudden” by Liz Countryman, from Green Island, published by @tupelopress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/the-end...
The End Is Always Sudden – Poetry Daily
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December 12, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Today’s Featured Poem:
“The End Is Always Sudden” by Liz Countryman, from Green Island, published by @tupelopress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/the-end...
“The End Is Always Sudden” by Liz Countryman, from Green Island, published by @tupelopress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/the-end...
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"The End Is Always Sudden" from Liz Countryman's GREEN ISLAND up on Poetry Daily Today!
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The End Is Always Sudden – Poetry Daily
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December 12, 2024 at 1:31 PM
"The End Is Always Sudden" from Liz Countryman's GREEN ISLAND up on Poetry Daily Today!
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So far I'm seeing lots of AI generated pictures of the moon.
November 20, 2024 at 10:51 PM
So far I'm seeing lots of AI generated pictures of the moon.