Sara Moore Wagner
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social
Poet: Books: Lady Wing Shot (Blue Lynx Prize, 2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press, 2022)
Loved working with Driftwood so much, I became Managing Poetry Editor in 2023
www.saramoorewagner.com
Loved working with Driftwood so much, I became Managing Poetry Editor in 2023
www.saramoorewagner.com
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Hi, Bluesky creatives! Now that I’ve transitioned into an editorial role, I haven’t really booked a lot of things to promote my book that came out this year! If you’re looking for someone for a reading series or class visit next semester, please reach out! I’ll reply/thread my book descriptions!
Oh when I go to the Renaissance Festival, I go cheesy as hell
September 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Oh when I go to the Renaissance Festival, I go cheesy as hell
If you grew up evangelical like me, you’re no stranger to the rapture. In honor of being left behind, here’s an old poem of mine about it (in @glasspoetry.bsky.social )
Sara Moore Wagner | On Everything They Left Out | Poets Resist | Glass: A Journal of Poetry
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September 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
If you grew up evangelical like me, you’re no stranger to the rapture. In honor of being left behind, here’s an old poem of mine about it (in @glasspoetry.bsky.social )
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Packing for Punch Bucket Lit Fest in Asheville NC! I’m reading from Mycocosmic at 1:30 with Bruce Beasley, Patrick Paridee Samuel, & Brendan Walsh, then I hop into the publishing panel with these fine people. Excited! @saramoorewagner.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Packing for Punch Bucket Lit Fest in Asheville NC! I’m reading from Mycocosmic at 1:30 with Bruce Beasley, Patrick Paridee Samuel, & Brendan Walsh, then I hop into the publishing panel with these fine people. Excited! @saramoorewagner.bsky.social
If you’ll be in Asheville this weekend for Punch Bucket lit fest, come see me at any of these panels, or at the Driftwood table (which will be manned by my teen son while I am in these panels!), or send me a message if you want to meet up!
September 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If you’ll be in Asheville this weekend for Punch Bucket lit fest, come see me at any of these panels, or at the Driftwood table (which will be manned by my teen son while I am in these panels!), or send me a message if you want to meet up!
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Pre-order your copy of Clayre Benzadón’s Moon as Salted Lemon! This poetry collection is a queering of form and language which interrogates the intersections of Sephardic Jewish, American, and nonbinary identity. #tbr #newpoetry
September 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Pre-order your copy of Clayre Benzadón’s Moon as Salted Lemon! This poetry collection is a queering of form and language which interrogates the intersections of Sephardic Jewish, American, and nonbinary identity. #tbr #newpoetry
I’m not sitting
August 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I’m not sitting
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Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
July 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
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Get your Affrilachia & Appalachia poetics on with these recent Of Poetry guests!
Ep 69: share.transistor.fm/s/9cb1fec4 & @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
Ep 74: share.transistor.fm/s/f542a5e6 & @saramoorewagner.bsky.social
Ep 75: share.transistor.fm/s/a89ddedb & @christenkauffman.bsky.social
Ep 69: share.transistor.fm/s/9cb1fec4 & @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
Ep 74: share.transistor.fm/s/f542a5e6 & @saramoorewagner.bsky.social
Ep 75: share.transistor.fm/s/a89ddedb & @christenkauffman.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Get your Affrilachia & Appalachia poetics on with these recent Of Poetry guests!
Ep 69: share.transistor.fm/s/9cb1fec4 & @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
Ep 74: share.transistor.fm/s/f542a5e6 & @saramoorewagner.bsky.social
Ep 75: share.transistor.fm/s/a89ddedb & @christenkauffman.bsky.social
Ep 69: share.transistor.fm/s/9cb1fec4 & @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
Ep 74: share.transistor.fm/s/f542a5e6 & @saramoorewagner.bsky.social
Ep 75: share.transistor.fm/s/a89ddedb & @christenkauffman.bsky.social
Dropped my teen son & friends at Cedar point, then decided to go beach reading. It’s very hot, I’m 4 hrs from home, & the only bathing suit I could find in my van was one too ugly for my tween. I stuffed myself in this thing like a weird mom-sausage. Can’t return it now, I guess. Laugh with me.
July 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Dropped my teen son & friends at Cedar point, then decided to go beach reading. It’s very hot, I’m 4 hrs from home, & the only bathing suit I could find in my van was one too ugly for my tween. I stuffed myself in this thing like a weird mom-sausage. Can’t return it now, I guess. Laugh with me.
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We’ve got your late night poetry listening, here: share.transistor.fm/s/f542a5e6
Episode 74: Sara Moore Wagner (Of Annie Oakley’s Narrative and Myth, Small Press Interconnectedness, and Writing A Project Book That Breathes)
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social 🌙
Episode 74: Sara Moore Wagner (Of Annie Oakley’s Narrative and Myth, Small Press Interconnectedness, and Writing A Project Book That Breathes)
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social 🌙
July 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
We’ve got your late night poetry listening, here: share.transistor.fm/s/f542a5e6
Episode 74: Sara Moore Wagner (Of Annie Oakley’s Narrative and Myth, Small Press Interconnectedness, and Writing A Project Book That Breathes)
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social 🌙
Episode 74: Sara Moore Wagner (Of Annie Oakley’s Narrative and Myth, Small Press Interconnectedness, and Writing A Project Book That Breathes)
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social 🌙
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Reposted by Sara Moore Wagner
Of Annie Oakley, of American Myth, of violence and gender, of memory as a basket rather than a bowl, of creating true narratives, of complexity and fashion and bullets and Appalachia and more.
Episode 74 with Sara Moore Wagner is here! 🎙️💙📚
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social
Episode 74 with Sara Moore Wagner is here! 🎙️💙📚
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social
Episode 74: Sara Moore Wagner (Of Annie Oakley’s Narrative and Myth, Small Press Interconnectedness, and Writing A Project Book That Breathes)
Sara Moore Wagner, author of Lady Wing Shot (Lynx House Press, 2024) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Purchase: Lady Wing Shot by Sara Moore Wagner (Lynx House Press, 2024) Rea…
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June 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Of Annie Oakley, of American Myth, of violence and gender, of memory as a basket rather than a bowl, of creating true narratives, of complexity and fashion and bullets and Appalachia and more.
Episode 74 with Sara Moore Wagner is here! 🎙️💙📚
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social
Episode 74 with Sara Moore Wagner is here! 🎙️💙📚
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social
So grateful for this space and for @hanvanderhart.bsky.social !!
Happy Friday morning; I hope you hear the joy in our voices—
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social is such a treasure. Find your copy of Lady Wing Shot and join us!
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social is such a treasure. Find your copy of Lady Wing Shot and join us!
Of Annie Oakley, of American Myth, of violence and gender, of memory as a basket rather than a bowl, of creating true narratives, of complexity and fashion and bullets and Appalachia and more.
Episode 74 with Sara Moore Wagner is here! 🎙️💙📚
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social
Episode 74 with Sara Moore Wagner is here! 🎙️💙📚
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
So grateful for this space and for @hanvanderhart.bsky.social !!
Both things can be true about adhd: mine is my poetry superpower & it holds me back: I lose checks, other important things, forget bills, texts, apts. I used to forget assignments & fail classes, self medicate. I’ve learned to admit this, to carefully plan. To (mostly) not shame spiral/check out.
June 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Both things can be true about adhd: mine is my poetry superpower & it holds me back: I lose checks, other important things, forget bills, texts, apts. I used to forget assignments & fail classes, self medicate. I’ve learned to admit this, to carefully plan. To (mostly) not shame spiral/check out.
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The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.
May 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.
This is what I’m wondering, where are all those liberal Hollywood millionaires and billionaires to beam clash fight these policies like this:
May 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This is what I’m wondering, where are all those liberal Hollywood millionaires and billionaires to beam clash fight these policies like this:
I won first place in Midway Journal’s Action/Words contest! If you have a minute, you can read the whole poem here: midwayjournal.com/he-promises-...
He Promises the World Won’t End
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April 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I won first place in Midway Journal’s Action/Words contest! If you have a minute, you can read the whole poem here: midwayjournal.com/he-promises-...
Welp, unknowingly slept with a bat above us (shitting into the bed) in a cabin in Tennessee, so we spent today getting rabies shots…played crucify by Tori Amos on the drive to the ER, which did make it feel more like Easter. We’ll see if this gets in a poem.
April 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Welp, unknowingly slept with a bat above us (shitting into the bed) in a cabin in Tennessee, so we spent today getting rabies shots…played crucify by Tori Amos on the drive to the ER, which did make it feel more like Easter. We’ll see if this gets in a poem.
Every billionaire (actually, millionaires too) not actively and publicly using their absurd and immoral wealth to fight the defunding/bribery/deportations is complicit, and yes, this includes the shiny liberal pop stars.
April 15, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Every billionaire (actually, millionaires too) not actively and publicly using their absurd and immoral wealth to fight the defunding/bribery/deportations is complicit, and yes, this includes the shiny liberal pop stars.
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Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
Can’t stop thinking about the White Lotus, in part because in another lifetime, I too did things I can’t remember at the full moon party in Thailand. #whymybooksareinterestingiguess
April 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Can’t stop thinking about the White Lotus, in part because in another lifetime, I too did things I can’t remember at the full moon party in Thailand. #whymybooksareinterestingiguess
I’ve been rereading all of the Anne books with my youngest daughter, we’re on Anne of the island, and it’s abundantly clear: at 20 years old she only wants to be Gilbert’s friend, meanwhile her passion for Diana and now Philippa is consuming. Don’t hate me, but just we fans love Gilbert that way.
March 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I’ve been rereading all of the Anne books with my youngest daughter, we’re on Anne of the island, and it’s abundantly clear: at 20 years old she only wants to be Gilbert’s friend, meanwhile her passion for Diana and now Philippa is consuming. Don’t hate me, but just we fans love Gilbert that way.
I’m not sure I fully understand Bluesky yet, because it seems like I only see posts from three people, no one sees mine (granted, I post very little and am awkward)…and also, why is it telling me I have three unread messages when I don’t have any unread messages. #stillbetterthanelon
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February 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I’m not sure I fully understand Bluesky yet, because it seems like I only see posts from three people, no one sees mine (granted, I post very little and am awkward)…and also, why is it telling me I have three unread messages when I don’t have any unread messages. #stillbetterthanelon
Dear poets, when and why did you all move to Florida #everybiolately
February 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Dear poets, when and why did you all move to Florida #everybiolately
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@ohiocapitaljournal.com A native of #Ohio, I wrote this before the election, about an overlooked line in Vance's memoir, re a cousin who started the war between the Hatfields/McCoys. He continues the legacy of vengeance and fear. @saramoorewagner.bsky.social
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JD Vance And The White Trashing of America
Deanne Stillman examines JD Vance's rise in politics, his controversial views, and the broader trend of "white trashing" in American media and politics. She contrasts Vance's approach with her own exp...
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February 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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