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Ann E Michael
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#poet --Poet, retired academic writing coach, gardener, blogger. Three books of poetry, 6 chapbooks: www.annemichael.blog Not ambitious. Curious about the world. Working on being more of a mensch.
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 2d
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An elegy for a space canine.
#blog #laika #dog #poem
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Poetry, nature, books, & speculative philosophical musings
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 2d
I'll be there!
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I'm going! You should come! (zoom)

Sun 2 Nov 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM: ONE ART x Keystone Poetry -

(I missed the in-person release so I'm glad this is happening.)

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ONE ART x Keystone Poetry – Zoom, Sun Nov 2, 2025 - ONE ART x Keystone Poetry Date: Sunday, November 2 Time: 2:00pm Eastern Please Note: This is a virtual event held via Zoom. >>> Tickets A...
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 8d
🌱 last of season, after heavy frost last night.
#lateharvest
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 8d
Latest blog post: More on traveling in Turkey, and a bit about poetic devices.
#blog #poetry #Turkey #zeugma #Euphrates
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Zeugma
Zeugma, an ancient city in what is now Türkiye’s Gaziantep Province, is near where we began our tour of a 2000-km section of the Silk Road trade route. The city’s name comes from the an…
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 8d
🌱 Milkweed puffs.
#garden #nativeplant #milkweed
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 10d
🌱 tithonia and bumblebee, late October 🩷
#gardening #bee
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 12d
Autumn colors look lovely against turquoise!
#Autumn #sweetgum #liquidambar #turquoise
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 13d
Been there. Yep. Done that.
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 13d
🌱 #ceramic #autumn
The ceramic head finds itself draped in walnut branch and foliage.
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 15d
Because snake goddess queens are stunning.
#snake #goddess #folklore #turkey #Kurdish #Anatolia
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 16d
🌱 yeah autumn.
#autumn #vivid #leaf
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 19d
Back home: Pennsylvania, where autumnal hues have emerged. 🌱
#autumnal
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 21d
Traveling through Mesopotamia, meeting the bald ibis man, being from the USA abroad.
#baldibis #turkey #travel
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Adventure and ibises
At my daughter’s suggestion, we ended up in Mesopotamia: central to eastern Turkey, fertile crescent, Euphrates and Tigris, vaguely following the borders of Syria, Iran, and Armenia up toward…
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · 26d
Traveling in Turkey is amazing, but the way the president here has gradually but effectively hurt his own citizens and tried to rewrite history to advance his own narrative is chilling. And all too familiar to this U. S. citizen.
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Oct 5
Because bald ibises are so close to extinction. And so very amazing.
#Turkey #baldibis #endangeredspecies
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Oct 3
Gazientep, Turkey at dusk from the terrace of a terrific kebap place in the old Town. Tomorrow, a tour of the markets. Then east and north to Sanliurfa.
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Oct 1
High-contrast cat.
#cats
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 30
Good curation here, going from potential inspiration to where poems come from to the reflective aspects of poem origin as one ages...and onward. And when I get home I'm going to read Martha Silano's last book. ❤️
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 28
Adventuring and monarch butterflies.
#monarchs #butterflies #blog #travel #adventure
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Adventuring
The weather here has been hot and somewhat humid, though it continues to be dry–much drier than autumns used to be. Drought extending past August into October is becoming a more usual thing, …
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 27
🌱 While doing garden cleanup I chanced upon this helpful toady. Yes, poetry lovers I thought of Marianne Moore.
#gardens #toads #mariannemoore #poems

Poetry by Marianne Moore - Poems | Academy of American Poets share.google/cB1iwSoaIfUu...
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 26
🌱 🦋
#tithonia #garden #butterfly
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 25
Milkweed bugs/beetles.
#beetles #bugs #milkweed
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 22
Take up pottery!
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Ann E Michael @aempoet.bsky.social · Sep 22
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#blog #memory #proust #youth #poems
Points of view
I ran across something online that made me shudder–and it wasn’t politics or global tragedies but something sillier and more personal. Apparently there was a trend a decade ago of adult…
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