Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose
@poetlady74.bsky.social
I’m a poet, animal lover, camping fanatic, and educator living in Rochester, NY. Medusa scholar. Author of Imago, Dei ( Rattle Chapbook Prize, 2021) and Wild Things (Main Street Rag, 2021). 2025 Betsy Colquitt Poetry Award.
Thank you, @clmporg.bsky.social!
Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP)@clmporg.bsky.social · last wk.Submit to the 2027 @perugiapress.bsky.social Prize by November 15! The judges seek first or second books of poetry from "emerging women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities." The winner receives $2,000, publication, and author copies: www.clmp.org/members/open...
Something affected my sleep quality last night? You don’t say 😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🤢🩵🤢
Official statement from incoming chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform @robertgarcia.house.gov:
Whatever you’re doing, I promise it’s not as fun as heading over to mcsweeneys.net and following the live election night updates that @ginnyhogan.bsky.social and I have been posting.
I’m literally in tears. Thank you, Ohio.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · last wk.AMY ACTON WINS GOVERNOR'S RACE IN OHIO
Finishing Line Press has no reading fee in November: finishinglinepress.submittable.com/submit #poetry #fiction #writers
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Finishing Line Press is an award-winning, small press publisherFinishing Line Press is the home of the New Women's Voices Chapbook Series, the New Women's Voices Prize in Poetry, the Finishing Line Pr...
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Perugia Press’s annual prize is open for two more weeks - through 11/15! Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Full guidelines & info in bio. We look forward to reading your work!
Just made the mistake of going to see Verity in the theater. I want a refund and my two hours and my brain cells back. JFK. 😣😂😞.
"They were like, we need to check to make sure that you don't have a penis." This woman has a work permit and a pending asylum case. But she was taken into custody, and deeply humiliated.
Transgender woman says ICE tackled her at Rochester airport, held her in men's detention facility
A transgender woman from Singapore says ICE agents arrested her at Rochester's airport and held her at an all-men's detention center in Batavia.
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Last night I was at a #blackhistorymonth event & speaking were Anthony Walker’s mother & sister They spoke so eloquently about how they have turned their pain into purpose This poem begins with a list of flower names and ends with young men who lost their lives to violence #poetry #poemoftheday
Poem for your Friday 10.23.26 Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror ~ By Kelli Russell Agodon —America breaks my heart some days /I watched a woman have a breakdown in the mall today/what I could see was all of us/ Some days the sky is too bright. And like that, we were her...
I have news! You are looking at a certified Zumba instructor, coming to a YMCA near you— at least if you live in Rochester (my plan for the next phase of my life, since AI can’t teach Zumba!)
Poetry proves again and again that any single overall theory of anything doesn't work. Poetry is always the cat concert under the window of the room in which the official version of reality is being written. -- Charles Simic
Tonight's guest is Mark Yakich, anthologist of The Poetry Reader and author of Spiritual Exercises, among other collections of his own. We'll talk about the trouble with poetry, as it's taught, and how we might right the ship. Join us live at 8pm ET!
Mark Yakich: How to Read Poetry, The Poetry Reader & Experimental Poetics | Rattlecast 364
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Roc friends, GO SEE TOP DOG, UNDER DOG at GEVA. Make it a priority.
Date night @ Geva Theater to see Top Dog, Underdog 💕
NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.
When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.
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Dear friends—well, say—I’m feeling so thankful to reach 97 months of sobriety, and to celebrate, here are 97 literary journals opening for submissions in November and some are open now: substack.com/home/post/p-...
97 Literary Journals Opening Up For No-Fee Submissions In November
Celebrating 97 Months Of Sobriety
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