Turns out a lot of Americans understand that trans people aren’t the reason shit is expensive and people are being starved
Wendy Wisner
@wendywisner.bsky.social
Poet • Writer • IBCLC • Author of three books of poems, including The New Life (2024), a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year • www.wendywisner.com
Massive thanks to @glasspoetry.bsky.social for the Best of the Net Nomination 🤍
Glass Poetry Press@glasspoetry.bsky.social · last yr.We're thrilled to announce our 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net Nominations! Congrats and good luck Anthony Thomas Lombardi, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, @wendywisner.bsky.social, Carly Joy Miller, @erinmizrahi.bsky.social, and @icarus-flies.bsky.social!
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Hi NY friends. I’ll be reading poems for the Adverse Abstraction series at Otto’s Shrunken Head on E. 14th Street next Friday, September 19th, between 6pm and 8pm. There’s an open mic, too. Would love to see you. Info here: www.ottosshrunkenhead.com/pages/events... www.instagram.com/adverseabstr...
What joy to have a new poem in the latest, gorgeous Alaska Quarterly Review, a journal I’ve long admired. Grateful to Ronald Spatz and the editorial staff. 🤍
Grateful to @rustandmoth.bsky.social for publishing this new poem. It's a difficult one—part of my new manuscript. This is one of a series of Alzheimer's sonnets that appear throughout the manuscript. XOXO. rustandmoth.com/work/her-obs...
It's been a wild few weeks, including getting my oldest ready for college (gulp!). But coming up for air to share these sweet words about my book. So grateful for Robin Turner for including The New Life in her #sealeychallenge. What an honor. It made my day.
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
Gorgeous poem 🤍
Moist Poetry Journal@moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · last yr.It was always the mountain and me. Paris Mountain. The woods were mine: tree tops, rocks, creeks, space between. I topped for the first time on leaves straddling felled trees. —Tara Burke, with a new #SummerRiot beauty this morning 🍃
Final summer workshop happening tomorrow! I’d take one or two more folks! ✍️📚💜 9-11amET
Dr. Han VanderHart@hanvanderhart.bsky.social · last yr.I’m offering an online, generative writing workshop twice in July, with the proceeds going to @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. Suggested donation of $100, but please take the workshop regardless/ feel free to reach out with Qs. Finding Shape in the Dark (on writing difficult narratives) - July 5 & 19
Read this stunning, tender essay by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social. Just, wow.
Dr. Han VanderHart@hanvanderhart.bsky.social · last yr.“We are in a deep evening now; I was in a deep evening then. The pond and the pond’s singers—they exist, and sing.” I have an essay up today which was OH SO TENDER to write—many thanks to @jeremylybarger.bsky.social for his astute edits 🙏📚 Come for the pond, stay for the CD Wright and Linda Gregg.
Summer reading — Jennifer Martelli’s PSYCHIC PARTY UNDER THE BOTTLE TREE is one of the best books I’ve read on sobriety. Tender, and funny. Honest and fierce. Here’s my favorite poem — @jennmartelli.bsky.social
“What will I do with my days / now that my nights / are sublimely alone / and how will I make use of this wound / I carried like a map / so that I would never, never / lose you?” — @paulmguest.bsky.social, “In Praise of the Defective” thediagram.com/7_4/guest.html
DIAGRAM :: Paul Guest
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“But I’ve found here, in shimmer and dirt, a slow sifting of time, a stalled second-hand, the quartz of a Swiss watch stymied.” —Donna Vorreyer, with a new, last poem in our #SummerRiot series! @djvorreyer.bsky.social
“Summer Light with Migraine” by Donna Vorreyer
a horseshoe shovelSomething precious, pink shimmer of quartz in rough earth—precious glimmerseed of memory. No lie, things have been rough.Pink-cheeked fever, clustered stab of pain. But I’ve found…
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Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Grateful to @rachelnm.bsky.social for sharing this folio for her incredible—and much needed—new venture, Calul Journal. "Hakol Calul" means "everything is included” in Hebrew. The journal is an inclusive space for Jewish voices (and others) to share their experiences and truths.
Each Small Shoe: Introducing the Poetry of Wendy Wisner
I am crying as I place the last image on this feature: a picture of two white gloved hands holding up a child’s shoe to be photographed.
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The poems keep coming! Today I have a new poem up at @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social. "The tree is topless, all trunk. Its body cuts open to the sky, slit running up most its length like a dress designed to surprise, when moving, with a delight of thigh." www.broadkillreview.com/post/even-th...
"Even the Trees Get to Be Slutty" by Megan McDermott
The tree is topless, all trunk.Its body cuts open to the sky,slit running up most its lengthlike a dress designed to surprise,when moving, with a delight of thigh.I don’t regret the college boys Ididn...
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Just read this stunning book in one sitting. It’s a beautiful, searing journey through grief. Thank you for sharing it with the world, @susanlleary.bsky.social
"I wondered if I’d loved enough, risked enough for this earth, which is clearly raging back at us all," Daily reads @wendywisner.bsky.social in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social ❤️
Moist Poetry Journal@moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · last yr.“I wondered if I’d loved enough, risked enough for this earth, which is clearly raging back at us all” Wendy Wisner, with a new beauty this morning in our #SummerRiot series 🌈 @wendywisner.bsky.social
Forgot to share this new poem of mine up at B O D Y. It's a difficult poem and I'm very grateful to the editors for publishing it. www.bodyliterature.com/2025/06/25/w...
And a few weeks ago, she won the Creative Writing Award from the English Department at her school. She loves to write more than anything and I’m over the moon that her teachers recognized her talent and passion. It means so much to be seen. My heart ❤️
Sometimes, you can't fix your parents — and that's OK. In our latest episode, @karaswisher.bsky.social and @mollyjongfast.bsky.social get personal about their difficult relationships with their moms and Jong-Fast's new memoir, How to Lose Your Mother Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
3 new poems up at the incredible Lunch Ticket! Here’s “Mid-Trauma Sonnet.” It’s a beautiful issue, friends, edited by one of the kindest: Jessica Ballen. So very glad to be included! 💙 Check out the entire issue here: lunchticket.org/archive/issu... @jessicaballen.bsky.social
