Sandra Beasley
@sandrabeasley.bsky.social
Author of four poetry collections (most recently Made to Explode, published by W. W. Norton in 2021) and a disability memoir (Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life). Freelancer, teacher, poetry editor for Blair, & DC resident.
Just sent out an advance reading packet with a knockout array of poems about food. Want a look? My seminar, "An Appetite for the Page," is this Sunday (11/16), 1-4 PM ET online with the wonderful @poetcamp.bsky.social. Sliding scale registration & a couple of seats left! poetcamp.com/an-appetite-...
An Appetite for the Page with Sandra Beasley | Poet Camp
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November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Just sent out an advance reading packet with a knockout array of poems about food. Want a look? My seminar, "An Appetite for the Page," is this Sunday (11/16), 1-4 PM ET online with the wonderful @poetcamp.bsky.social. Sliding scale registration & a couple of seats left! poetcamp.com/an-appetite-...
It's time, poets! Last chance to submit for the Wren Poetry Prize. Winner receives $1K advance against royalties and gets to work with Blair. No reading fee. Send in by Saturday, Nov 15—but note, the portal will close early if we reach 300 submissions first!
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
It's time, poets! Last chance to submit for the Wren Poetry Prize. Winner receives $1K advance against royalties and gets to work with Blair. No reading fee. Send in by Saturday, Nov 15—but note, the portal will close early if we reach 300 submissions first!
Hey there! I'm the final judge of this year's Wren Poetry Prize for @BlairPublisher, and we're looking to give a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd collection of poems a great home. Is it yours? NO reading fee. Get your entry in soon—at 300 submissions, we close the Submittable portal. blair.submittable.com/submit
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October 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Hey there! I'm the final judge of this year's Wren Poetry Prize for @BlairPublisher, and we're looking to give a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd collection of poems a great home. Is it yours? NO reading fee. Get your entry in soon—at 300 submissions, we close the Submittable portal. blair.submittable.com/submit
Looking for book-ish community & convo in August? Join our @politicsprose.bsky.social seminar on contemporary memoir—we'll read Kiese Laymon's HEAVY, Chloé Cooper Jones's EASY BEAUTY, and Hua Hsu's STAY TRUE. 3 Mondays (8/11, 8/18, 8/25), 6:30-8 PM ET over Zoom. politics-prose.com/list/online-...
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July 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Looking for book-ish community & convo in August? Join our @politicsprose.bsky.social seminar on contemporary memoir—we'll read Kiese Laymon's HEAVY, Chloé Cooper Jones's EASY BEAUTY, and Hua Hsu's STAY TRUE. 3 Mondays (8/11, 8/18, 8/25), 6:30-8 PM ET over Zoom. politics-prose.com/list/online-...
Baltimore friends—tonight at 6 PM ET (Monday, 5/19) I'll get to be in conversation with the stellar poet @stevenleyva.bsky.social at The Ivy Bookshop to celebrate Leyva's collection, The Opposite of Cruelty (H/T @blairpub.bsky.social). Please join us on The Ivy's patio at 6 PM!
May 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Baltimore friends—tonight at 6 PM ET (Monday, 5/19) I'll get to be in conversation with the stellar poet @stevenleyva.bsky.social at The Ivy Bookshop to celebrate Leyva's collection, The Opposite of Cruelty (H/T @blairpub.bsky.social). Please join us on The Ivy's patio at 6 PM!
Reposted by Sandra Beasley
I was sitting on my porch in the rain and remembered my favorite poem with a veranda in the rain, and I initially couldn’t find it, so here it is for the good of everyone. Vocation by @sandrabeasley.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I was sitting on my porch in the rain and remembered my favorite poem with a veranda in the rain, and I initially couldn’t find it, so here it is for the good of everyone. Vocation by @sandrabeasley.bsky.social
The only thing better than having my book in a vending machine of DC authors would be if our books were piled in a big heap and you had 15 seconds to manipulate a claw to pick one at random. (LitBox 2.0?) Looking forward to the LitBox launch this Saturday (5/17) with Martha Anne Toll & Kyoko Mori!
May 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The only thing better than having my book in a vending machine of DC authors would be if our books were piled in a big heap and you had 15 seconds to manipulate a claw to pick one at random. (LitBox 2.0?) Looking forward to the LitBox launch this Saturday (5/17) with Martha Anne Toll & Kyoko Mori!
"I can't decide which / catfish is frying, history or memory, in the skillet." Happy pub day to @stevenleyva.bsky.social for THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY from @blairpub.bsky.social!
The Opposite of Cruelty, poems by Steven Leyva — Blair Publisher
Steven Leyva’s second collection of poetry renders beauty through a Black man’s lens in a post-pandemic world populated with superheroes and characters from ancient mythology.
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March 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
"I can't decide which / catfish is frying, history or memory, in the skillet." Happy pub day to @stevenleyva.bsky.social for THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY from @blairpub.bsky.social!
Reposted by Sandra Beasley
“You hit on me. You hit on everyone. / You pour gallons of lightning punch / into a trash bag, explaining that sobriety / is just a 2 AM Waffle House away.” — @sandrabeasley.bsky.social, “Love Poem for College” www.angelfire.com/zine/bluefif...
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February 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“You hit on me. You hit on everyone. / You pour gallons of lightning punch / into a trash bag, explaining that sobriety / is just a 2 AM Waffle House away.” — @sandrabeasley.bsky.social, “Love Poem for College” www.angelfire.com/zine/bluefif...
Was heading home last night from hearing Anne Carson read in Georgetown University and saw this tree. It's about to get worse. We need to fight. But also, there is still joy in the world, and we need to honor that too. Thank you to whoever makes sure this tree is doing what it is doing.
February 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Was heading home last night from hearing Anne Carson read in Georgetown University and saw this tree. It's about to get worse. We need to fight. But also, there is still joy in the world, and we need to honor that too. Thank you to whoever makes sure this tree is doing what it is doing.
Pableaux Johnson had many gifts—cooking skills, generosity of spirit—and absolutely irreplaceable talent as a photographer. People lit up for his camera (like I did, at a Southern Foodways Symposium) because of who was behind the camera. You are so missed, friend. www.foodandwine.com/pableaux-joh...
January 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Pableaux Johnson had many gifts—cooking skills, generosity of spirit—and absolutely irreplaceable talent as a photographer. People lit up for his camera (like I did, at a Southern Foodways Symposium) because of who was behind the camera. You are so missed, friend. www.foodandwine.com/pableaux-joh...
2025 might seem like a very weird time to resolve to spend MORE time on social media, but life circumstances put me on relative hiatus back in 2022, and I miss y'all's voices. Kicking off by sharing an essay, "I Am Cat Lady," which I published in VQR late last year: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/be...
I Am Cat Lady
Abyssinians are to tabbies as caviar is to salmon roe: the expensive version. I was determined to find an Abyssinian as I walked the floor of The Cotillion Ballroom in Wichita, Kansas, on what was als...
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January 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
2025 might seem like a very weird time to resolve to spend MORE time on social media, but life circumstances put me on relative hiatus back in 2022, and I miss y'all's voices. Kicking off by sharing an essay, "I Am Cat Lady," which I published in VQR late last year: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/be...