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Sandra Beasley
@sandrabeasley.bsky.social
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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.
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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!
Upper right corner image is of Blair Publisher logo. Text: Wren Poetry Prize Last Call, Closing Nov. 15 (capped at 300). The Wren Poetry Prize is for a first, second, or third full-length poetry collection. Judged by Sandra Beasley. Bottom right corner image is photo of Sandra Beasley. Text: Wren Poetry Prize. Submission info: Free to enter. Link on Submittable. Opens: October 1. Closes: November 15 OR after 300 submissions. This award is for a first, second, or third full-length poetry collection. Winner receives $1,000 in the form of an advance against royalties and a standard publishing contract. Manuscripts should be 54 pages of poems with each poem beginning on a new page. No identifying information in manuscript or file name. Acknolwedgements for previously published poems can be included. Current or former colleagues, current or former extended-length students, and close friends and family of the contest judge are not eligible. For updates and reminders, follow Blair on instagram or Facebook, or sign up for our newsletter at www.blairpub.com. Contact ops@blairpub.com with questions or accessibility requests.
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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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!
Text: The Ivy Bookshop presents.... Steven Leyva with Sandra Beasley 5.19.25 - 6 PM - On the Patio Author photos are of Leyva, a man with black skin tone wearing a red sweater and blue collared shirt, and Beasley, a white woman. Both are looking at the camera in close-up. The book's cover art is a designed image that emphasizes a "mirror" reality of above and below, and includes roses and a spiral staircase. The larger image has a light green background with ivy decorative elements.
May 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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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!
Text - Lit Box: Book Vending Machine Launch Celebration Saturday, May 17, 3-4 p.m. With Books by Local DC/DMV-area Authors And Readings from: Sandra Beasley - Poetry Kyoko Mori - Memoir Martha Anne Toll - Fiction Western Market 2000 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC Graphic of LitBox shows an open-window front (inside blank) with a decorative edge based on the D.C. flag. Side of LitBox shows a collage of iconic DC images including the Washington Monument, Capitol, Walt Whitman, and Martin Luther King Jr, with a typewriter superimposed in the center.
May 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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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.
Photograph taken from the sidewalk at night looking up at a very tall tree, with small white bulb lights strung all around its trunk and through its branches. The tree sits in front of a three-story white brick building. There is also a lit street lamp and black wrought iron fencing in view.
February 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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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...
A white woman with mid-length brown hair is looking directly at the camera and grinning. Her hands are brought togther in front of her and tipped under her chin. She has orange sunglasses set on top of her head, hoop earrings, and a blue-and-green Southern Foodways Alliance lanyard around her neck.
January 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM