theunfetteredpoet.bsky.social
@theunfetteredpoet.bsky.social
I write from an unbound place of lived experience, navigating transitions, reinvention, self-discovery, & world travel.
Highlight of my weekend. The poetic beauty is inspiring not to mention dancing in my living room. #taylorswift #lifeofashowgirl #danceparty
October 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Poetry has been harder to come by with the ensuing chaos of late. But she always cheers me up. #germansheperds #dogsarethebest
October 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I'll be leading this writing group, join me at Petals and Pages of Denver. #writingcommunity #petalsandpagesdenver #nonfictionwriting

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September 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
September 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Deaths averted by vaccination since the 1970’s
August 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
How I came to my decision to walk away from an MFA
#mfa #disappointment #micdrop #poets

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From MFA to WTF
A year of waiting, wasting, and finally walking away
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August 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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What I Never Asked You

I carried it with me
from one season to the next,

the question I never asked.

Now it has no shape,

only a hollow sound

when I turn it over
in the dark.

#poetry
August 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
August 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
August 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
August 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
My tribunal of women that support me and the importance of storytelling.

#tribunalofwomen #mfa #poetry

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Story as Survival
The Power of Reflection and the Women Who Keep Me Going
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August 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
My final MFA project on Poetry in Healing and the importance of a tribunal of women. #poetry #poetryinhealing #poetryasmedicine #mfa #tribunalofwomen

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Poetry in Healing
A Tribunal of Women Writing in Community
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July 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Nature provides solace as I try not to drown while writing MFA end of semester papers.
#poetry #poetrycommunity #natureheals

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Tea Garden
Finding Solace in Sensory Overload
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July 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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June 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
My lament of the loss of the indie bookstore.
#indiebookstore #poets #shakespeare&co

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Gentrification of the Mind
Loss of the Indie Bookstore Culture
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July 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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‘We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.’
— Robert McKee
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#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
July 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It’s too 🔥. My cool view while writing incessantly to meet MFA deadlines. Good grief
July 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I forgot how hard writing a critical essay is. It’s been 45 years and that particular muscle memory, completely atrophied. #mfa #criticalessay
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How to Write a Critical Essay After 45 Years (and Not Lose Your Mind)
Or, Anne Waldman, Tracie Morris, Kristin Prevallet, and the unexpected thrill of thinking hard again
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June 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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I deployed three times to Iraq & Afghanistan.

I know the true costs of war.

I know what happens when unaccountable Washington elites pound their chest, saber rattle, and then send somebody else's kids to fight.

It's working class folks who pay the price.
June 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
One of the best memoirs I’ve ever read! #theaterkid #artislife #artasprotest #jeffreyseller
June 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
One Summer Writing Program down. Exhausted and anxious, we’re glad to be home amd have solitude to take it all in. #mfa #poetry #dogsandpoets
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Barking Through Discomfort
Poetry, Anxiety, and the Dog That Kept it Real
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June 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I Brought My Dog to Poetry School
MFA Summer Writing Program
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June 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Re-learning the body:poetics of becoming. Just when I think I’m not learning in my MFA, something comes along and whacks me over the head. #poetics #mfa #poetry

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Re-learning the body
Poetics of Becoming
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June 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM