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Reader. Writer. Teacher. Human. Memphis & GCSU Alumna. Chapbooks: Green Light: The Gatsby Cycle & ghosts passing through
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Am/Are I (2020)
by Billie R. Tadros

Via Francis House

an experimental tiny chapbook that adds the capital A to Art
August 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

by Terrance Hayes

Reread via audiobook (university library) because hearing these poems read by the author made them more powerful
August 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Poems Are the Only Real Bodies (2013)
by Jennifer Tamayo

via @bloofbooks.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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SPIN (2009) by Zachary C. Bush via kendra steiner editions

Limited edition handmade in cellophane by a former colleague
August 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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CRUSH (2005) by @richard-siken.bsky.social

One of my favorite favorites
August 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Wish You Were Here (2013) Matthew Dickman

via SPORK PRESS
August 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Nightsink, Faucet Me A Lullaby (2019) by Alexa Doran

via Bottlecap Press

An exquisite reread from a poet friend
August 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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You're My Favorite (2022) by Lauren Saxon via @thirtywestph.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
(forgot to share)

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Fire Sermons (2021) by @rayehendrix.bsky.social

via @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

A reread because I love these poems so much.
August 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The life of a showgirl, you say? #IYKYK #ToriAmos
August 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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SIVVY by Lauren Davis via @whittlemicropress.bsky.social

IMHO, required reading for all #Plath fans (it's erasure poems from her letters):
August 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Un-Becoming (2018)

by Charnell Peters

via @thirtywestph.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) by T.S. Eliot

Illustrations by Edward Gorey (1982)

AN ABSOLUTE DELIGHT
August 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The Way The Body Had to Travel (2014) by Emily Lake Hansen

🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️

a reread that feels like part of my own memory
August 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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waveforms: a short course in piano tuning by Andrea L. Hackbarth

@smallharborpub.bsky.social

Cleverly arranged prose poems (pun intended)
August 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Wildcold (2016) by Ruth Baumann via Slash Pine Press

Tiny poems with monumental weight.
August 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Lies I Tell Myself (2018) by Sarah Suhr via dancing girl press & studio

'For a woman, there is always a sense of loss.'
August 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Easy Exit to Eleventh Street

By Kate Belt (2019) via @ghostcitypress.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Collections from a Shipwreck (2022) by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella via @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social

a haunting reread of prose poems
August 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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This Is How I Will Tell You I Love You by Amanda Dissinger (2015) via Bottlecap Press
August 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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a simple verb by jj rowan

@jayjayrowan.bsky.social @bloofbooks.bsky.social

a much needed reread ❤
August 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Regenerate: Poems of Mad Women (2018) by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
July 31, 2025 at 12:31 AM
To enter: reply with your favorite assigned reading. Was it a novel, poem, essay?

Two winners will be randomly selected around July 30. One winner will get a prize package from me & one will get a prize package from @allisonwrites.bsky.social

cc: @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social
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