Miranda Lynn Barnes
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Miranda Lynn Barnes
@luminousjune.bsky.social
poetry & science, writer, researcher. she/her/ they is fine, too.
https://mirandalynnbarnes.wordpress.com/

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June 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I am reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, for the first time. It was published in 1993. Over 30 years ago. The story begins in late 2024, during an election. It is chilling me to my core.
June 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
So pleased that my poem 'zoom out, love. impressionist cityscape.' has found a home with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social in the forthcoming Glow: City at Night anthology! My gratitude to @alanparry83.bsky.social and congrats to my fellow poets selected to appear. Can't wait to read it all!
February 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Today’s office.
January 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Fantastic reading at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social tonight from @carrieetter.bsky.social and @alanbaker1511.bsky.social. Also wonderful to see so many lovely poet friends in the crowd.
January 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Just weeks left to submit your poem to the 2nd Molecules Unlimited Poetry Competition! The theme is 'Place' and poems should have a discernible link to chemistry (it can be tenuous).

Judge is Imtiaz Dharker.
Deadline is 31st December 2024
Poems up to 40 lines

Photo by Luke Watkinson on Unsplash.
December 5, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.
November 27, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Examining the structure of tartrazine molecules today, for the creation of our yellow pigment forms. #chemistry #poetry
November 23, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Thank you to Modron Magasine @modronmagazine.bsky.social
for interviewing me about my poem 'The Sibyl of the Fireflies Watches from an Elm', and the more-than-human, nature, and the ecological crisis.

modronmagazine.com/2024/03/17/m...
March 20, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Incredibly pleased to have my poem 'Astronomers are watching a black hole tear a star apart in another galaxy' in the Spring issue 59.3 of Poetry Wales out very soon! (You can get the digital edition now.) Thank you so much to the editors!
poetrywales.co.uk/.../poetry-w...
March 6, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Well, it might be accurate...
January 2, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Deadline is midnight tomorrow UK time. Total prize pot for the winning poems will be announced in 2024. The theme is pain and the management of pain, and the poems should have some link, however tenuous, to chemistry. Judge is the wonderful Daniel Brenchi-Sluman. #poetry #chemistry #science
December 30, 2023 at 12:05 PM
Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2024?
December 29, 2023 at 9:32 AM
October 24, 2023 at 3:59 PM