LeeAnn Pickrell
@leeannp.bsky.social
Poet, editor, and coffee, cat, and book lover. Author of Tsunami and Gathering the Pieces of Days. Managing editor of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. www.leeannpickrell.com leeannpickrell.substack.com
When the Ocean Leaves: LeeAnn Pickrell's Tsunami and the Stories We Carry Home #Tsunami #LeeAnnPickrell #Memoir #CreativeNonfiction #NewBooks #IndieBooks #UnsolicitedPress
When the Ocean Leaves: LeeAnn Pickrell's Tsunami and the Stories We Carry Home
Before the Indian Ocean rose to swallow coastlines and rewrite modern history, the day opened with an ordinary cup of coffee.
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My new book Tsunami is one of Foreword Reviews Books of the day for this week! #Tsunami #LeeAnnPickrell #Memoir #CreativeNonfiction #NewBooks #IndieBooks #UnsolicitedPress
Book of the Day Roundup: August 10-14, 2026
Tsunami / LeeAnn Pickrell / Unsolicited Press / Softcover $19.95 (120pp) / 978-1-969421-04-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / LeeAnn Pickrell’s taut and harrowing memoir recounts her experienc...
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Ahead of our release of LeeAnn Pickrell's TSUNAMI, read some of her poems!!! oneartpoetry.com/2026/07/26/t...
Three Poems by LeeAnn Pickrell
Regret “You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.” &…
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What does surviving a disaster actually do to a person after the news cameras leave? www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/tsunami
TSUNAMI — Unsolicited Press
On the morning of December 26, 2004, an undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra unleashed a tsunami that tore across the Indian Ocean. In a matter of hours, entire coastlines were transformed and...
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Thank you CLMP for including LeeAnn!!! Books Launching in August 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses www.clmp.org/news/books-l...
The ocean disappeared. Then it came back. Twenty-two years after surviving the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Thailand, LeeAnn Pickrell tells the story of that morning and the life that came after it. TSUNAMI is out tomorrow! www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/tsunami #Tsunami #Memoir
My memoir Tsunami is out in the world today from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social LeeAnn Pickrell Recounts the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in Intimate New Memoir #Tsunami #LeeAnnPickrell #Memoir #CreativeNonfiction #NewBooks #IndieBooks #UnsolicitedPress
LeeAnn Pickrell Recounts the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in Intimate New Memoir
PORTLAND, Ore. August 11, 2026 — On December 26, 2004, LeeAnn Pickrell was drinking coffee near the beach in Rai Leh, Thailand, when the ocean disappeared.
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Thanks to editor Barbara Leonhard for featuring my poem "Kindnesses" in Feed the Holy today. #poetry
Kindnesses by LeeAnn Pickrell
Image / Ba Tik Kindnesses You hand me the cup of coffee, fresh brewed, as I walk into the kitchen just awake in my stockinged feet. Each ...
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My latest Substack post is about those moments that make us who we are. When did you become a poet, a writer, an artist, a musician, a chef, a gardener, a lover of life? #poetry #poetrycommunity #poems #blueskypoets
The Spring I Waited for the Dogwood to Bloom
Becoming a poet
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Attention is love. My book GATHERING THE PIECES OF DAYS is a love letter to life’s small moments—each poem a week, a breath, a memory. #PoetryBooks #PoetryCollection #NewBooks #MindfulMoments #PoetryLover #MindfulMoments #NewBookRelease #ReadPoetry #52WeeksOfPoetry@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social
GATHERING THE PIECES OF DAY BY LEEANN PICKRELL — Unsolicited Press
GATHERING THE PIECES OF DAYS is a collection of 52 poems, one for each week of the year. By capturing pieces from each day–whether mundane, frustrating, raw, or joyful–this collection reveals the extr...
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National Poetry Month is here, and we’re making it poetic AF—with 10% off ALL poetry books all April long! 🥳 Use code POETRYMONTH10 at checkout. Link: unsolicitedpress.com/shop/poetry #nationalpoetrymonth
Here’s the poem that inspired the title of my book Gathering the Pieces of Day, due out in two days from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social #poetry #poetrybooks #poem #52weeksofpoems
🔥 FOUR BOOKS. FOUR WOMXN. ONE POWERHOUSE MONTH. 🔥 open.substack.com/pub/unsolici...
🔥 FOUR BOOKS. FOUR WOMXN. ONE POWERHOUSE MONTH. 🔥
This year, Unsolicited Press is celebrating THE YEAR OF WOMXN, publishing an incredible lineup of books exclusively by womxn writers—and April is bringing FOUR stunning new releases that will blow you...
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"Celebrates the extraordinary hidden within the ordinary, from laughter and love to loss and longing, and the dreams that carry us forward." Enter to win a copy of @leeannp.bsky.social's "Gathering the Pieces of Days" from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social www.librarything.com/ner/detail/5...
Book Giveaway for Gathering the Pieces of Days by LeeAnn Pickrell
Enter to win one of 30 free copies available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
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Final Countdown 3 days until Gathering the Pieces of Days is out in the world! 📚 Ready to read 52 poems that celebrate the everyday? Preorder now & let’s take this poetic journey together. 💙 #TBR #ComingSoon #GatheringThePieces
I read last night with @cathy-shea.bsky.social for Literary Nights with Unsolicited Press. We read from our new collections of poems and talked poetry and writing. Watch it here. #PoetryLover #MindfulMoments #PoetryBooks #PoetryCollection #NewBookRelease #Bookstagram #ReadPoetry #52WeeksOfPoetry
Literary Nights with Unsolicited Pres
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I'll be at AWP signing and selling books at the Unsolicited Press table (T755) on Thursday, 3/27 at 11 a.m. with @cathyshea.bsky.social, on Friday, 3/28, at 11 a.m., and Saturday 3/29. #AWP2025 #UnsolicitedPress #PoetryLover #PoetryBooks #PoetryCollection #NewBookRelease #52WeeksOfPoetry
"I wake and time is an hour ahead" An anti-daylight savings time poem #daylightsavingstime
"I wake and time is an hour ahead"
A poem
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Gathering the Pieces of Days, my debut collection, is available for preorder now! Preorders help authors, and you can get 25% off your book with code GATHERING from March 1 through April 8 at Tertulia! #YearOfWomxn #WomxnInLiterature #RedForRebellion #Poetry #Poems #UnsolicitedPress #tertulia
Spent last week in Santa Cruz. I didn't open my NYT app once. I didn't play on my phone and I mostly stayed offline. I'm refreshed. Highly recommend. #takingabreak
My first book Gathering the Pieces of Days is available for preorder! Here's the fabulous cover from Unsolicited Press! #YearOfWomxn2025 #UnsolicitedVoices #WomxnInLiterature #RedCovers2025 www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/gathe...
I read this poem by Denise Levertov this morning. It was first published in 1982, and it could have been written yesterday. #poetry #BlueSkyPoets #poems #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #SkyPoets #POETRY #Authors
My Sunday Substack post contained a poem I wrote after the Supreme Court took away the right for a woman to choose what to do with her own body. They want us to be quiet. I will not be quiet. #poets #poetry #BlueSkyPoets #resistTrump #pro-choice
The first days ...
A poem and some thoughts
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David Garyan has created an online anthology of California Poets. I'm so excited to be in the company of such wonderful poets. #poetry #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets #poems #CaliforniaPoets
California Poets | LAdige
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