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Amanda Auchter
@alauchter.bsky.social
Author of the books The Wishing Tomb & The Glass Crib. PEN Center USA Literary Award recipient. Work in CNN and Huffington Post. Book hoarder. Happy wife. Knitter. Cat friend. Aquarius. Avid smiler.
Baking chocolate chip banana bread, cleaning the kitchen with Mrs Meyers gingerbread scented cleaning spray, and listening to holiday music on my Alexa Echo Show! It’s festive in my kitchen!
So pleased to have poems in the new issue of Two Hawks Quarterly! Check it out here: twohawksquarterly.com
Excerpt from a recent poem of mine published in Mulberry Literary! Check out the new issue to read the entirety and some other great poems here: shorturl.at/yej9K
A few of the poems that appear in my folio in the new issue of UCity Review. Read all nine poems here: shorturl.at/dtLjg
"You close the door to oak trees, sandcastles, thrift stores with their rows of vases and handbags." - Amanda Auchter is featured (9 poems) at UCity Review ... @alauchter.bsky.social #poetry www.ucityreview.com/29_Auchter_A...
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Stop by UCity Review and check out a preview of my third manuscript: Nine new poems up at UCity Review! Come and see a preview of my third manuscript here: shorturl.at/dtLjg
Is it just me, or are the holidays both the loneliest and most joyful times simultaneously? How does that work?
Am I the only one who will only watch romcoms during the holidays and at no other time of the year?
It’s time for all the cheesy Hallmark and Netflix holiday romcoms, all the baking, all the nostalgia-ing, and none of the fucks.
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Watching Our Little Secret on Netflix made me crave cookies (no spoilers, here!), so I made chocolate chip peppermint sugar cookies at 10:30pm 🤷🏻♀️🍪
I bought this gorgeous and incredibly soft Southern Living blanket at Dillard’s on Black Friday and Mustache has already decided it’s his.
Watching the Lindsay Lohan Christmas romcom on Netflix 💻, drinking gingerbread tea, and knitting myself a scarf 🧣 Ultimate cozy!
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My new poem, “Actinic Keratosis as Bad Love Story,” is now up at Mulberry Literary! shorturl.at/5dewl
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I’m spending this quiet, chilly morning reading this little classic by Marjorie Bowen. Read more classics! The language is amazing!
Sneak peek of the Christmas tree in progress: knitted (by me) baubles, glass poinsettias, Spode snowmen and nutcrackers, felted doves, real pinecones.
Husband just got home from work (gotta keep those planes flying!) & I made a ham in the crock pot with brown sugar and pineapple, dressing with cranberries, sweet potato casserole, a corn soufflé, and a pumpkin pie! It’s just us, but we’re going to eat and watch the original Miracle on 34th Street!
Just a reminder what your cat Fluffy can and can’t eat this Thanksgiving!
I was reading a story — “The Reckoning” — by Edith Wharton where she uses the phrase “the mentally unemployed” and I’m going to use that to describe MAGA devotees from now on.
I’m watching the new episode of the new season of #Outlander and I’m not 5 minutes in and I’m already emotional 🥹
I’m thinking of taking my writing in a new direction and by new direction, I mean a totally different genre (not to skip out on my poems or nonfiction essays and reviews). Any guesses?
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A bathroom is a bathroom. There are stalls with locks. Sinks. Mirrors for lipstick touch ups. Hand dryers. The end. Quit policing what’s under someone’s skirt and lock the door and do your business. We should be more worried that people are washing their hands.
I have three people in my larger orbit that are trans and let me tell you — I’d rather be in a stall next to them than a MAGA any day of the week.
I stand with @sarahemcbride.bsky.social. Bathrooms are to do your business and, if you’re a woman or woman-identifying, touch up your lipstick and powder your nose. Nancy Mace — and people like her — needs to get over herself.
Sarah McBride (@sarahemcbride.bsky.social)
Delaware's Congresswoman-elect. Working to deliver for ALL Delawareans.
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First homemade cranberry bread & tea in my Fox Books (iykyk) mug!
