Mollie O'Leary
molliepoleary.bsky.social
Mollie O'Leary
@molliepoleary.bsky.social
poet • UW MFA ‘22 • The Forgetting Curve via poetryonl 💙
• she/her • heavy sleeper • sensitive in terms of everything else

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yay! thank you @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social and orison books!
We are thrilled to announce that Mollie O'Leary's poem “Late Summer Study” was chosen for inclusion in Orison's anthology of Best Spiritual Literature! Congratulations, Mollie! Look out for “Late Summer Study” in Best Spiritual Literature 2025 in December. @molliepoleary.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Someday, if I am Lucky

#poetry
by Matthew Nienow
@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
love poem for your saturday <3
August 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Alice Notley got it. She GOT it.
May 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
new poem out at @phoebejournal.bsky.social :) excited to be featured alongside such cool poets--thank you to the wonderful editors!
phoebejournal.com/Touchstruck/
Touchstruck - phoebe
Mollie O'Leary I’d spent the morning staring down into a caldera, ropes of steam moving past me to pursue their own relentless cycles. I could see the city below, miniature buildings gathered tight al...
phoebejournal.com
May 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Another by Franz Wright
⸻ from Rorschach Test (1995)
April 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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From Marie Howe's book, What the Living Do: bit.ly/howeliving

#books #writing #poem
March 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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All morning the /
Morning has been blackening, /
—Sylvia Plath
March 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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February 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM