Steve Edwards
@the-big-quiet.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir, and the essay collection RARE GOOD: ESSAYS ON ART, AUTISM, AND ASTONISHMENT. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com
Looks like doing the dishes & off to bed early again. 🤔
Steve Edwards@the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 18h agoWill report back later.
Don’t take my word for it—listen to the Boston Globe. This is going to be a great event in Acton, MA, Friday October 9. Hope to see you there!
These beat up end-of-seasons zinnias are the mirror in which I’m seeing my face this morning.
Official publication day for my new collection Rare Good! Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered and helped me spread the word. You all mean the world to me. ❤️ www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Rare Good - Nebraska Press
Now I saw that I was more than who I thought I was—more than who I had been told I was. There wasn’t anything the diagnosis didn’t touch. In time, even...
nebraskapress.unl.edu
Dear writers who aren't writing right now: An apple tree wants to make apples, &, if the conditions are right, it will. Neither shame nor self-discipline can change the season.
✨COVER REVEAL✨ for my new chap, SENTENCE, out with Nine Syllables Press on December 1st! If you love my brother poems, you will love these as well! PRE-ORDER at the link: www.ninesyllablespress.com/shop/p/sente... And learn more in the replies! Graphics: 9SP IG
Happy national coffee day! www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/267...
A Thousand Cups Of Coffee
It’s like arriving at your destination after a long drive, only to realize your mind has been elsewhere the entire time and you have no memory of the lights you stopped at, the turns you made, the gli...
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Tonight I was remembering an incredible essay I’d first read in a Pushcart anthology 30 years ago. It was called “Stillborn” by Maribeth Fischer. So I looked her up online and sent her a note of appreciation. It felt great to do. Highly recommend.
One week from tomorrow! 8 pm EST! Join us online! @terrainorg.bsky.social
Online Reading with Joe Wilkins, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams & Steve Edwards - Terrain.org
Terrain.org September 29, 2026 online reading featuring Joe Wilkins, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, and Steve Edwards. Registration required.
terrain.org
New England friends! Hope to see you there for this special night!
I have too many thoughts. Like when it's summer and you have too much zucchini in your garden and you're just oh please God let up on the zucchini
New England friends! Hope to see you there for this special night!
A few more minutes of summer in the east. Kiss someone quick.
Super excited for this! If you’re in Boston, come say hi!
Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability@bu-igs.bsky.social · 2w agoJoin us Oct. 1 for a conversation with Amy Westervelt on her new book "Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy". Moderated by @commscholar.bsky.social RSVP ⬇️ spr.ly/63326BGdnzQ
Why? some people have asked. Why did you write a book? I don't know the answer yet but I will try to by 8pm NYC time, Thurs, Sept 24 when you can hear excerpts from "We'll Be Birds" and readings by the six incredible authors listed below ⬇️ Join us? www.sandandgravelpress.com/lisa-thornto...
I like those little moths in the grass that flutter up when you shuffle through the yard after dark. What are they doing? Who knows. Something. Nothing. They are white & fluttery & mindless in a way I (forever anxious) envy. What are they doing?! Little ghosts! It doesn’t matter…& of course it does.
I saw a child crying today because she was going to have to miss the scholastic book fair. I felt so bad for her. Yet somehow it also gave me hope.
