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Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD

@poetisabella.bsky.social

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Author of Lemon and The Hollows of Bone. Write Bloody Jack McCarthy Prize Honorable Mention, 3x Pushcart Nominee, 3x Best of the Net Nominee Booking: [email protected] linktr.ee/isabellajmansfield

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Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate you so, Evelyn! See you Wednesday?

Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · 1d

Next Wednesday is the official launch event for Hurt Sounds!! if you’re in SE Michigan, I would love to share this evening with you! Join us at 2Dandelions Bookshop in Brighton, 10/22 at 6pm!! 💙📚

Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Sep 15

Ok but… I don’t think they gave this much attention when the queen died. And it’s weird.

Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Sep 12

yeah...I'm not buying it...

Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Sep 7

I will be opening the show this Saturday at the 11th annual LO Palooza music festival in Lake Orion, MI!! Come hang out! 100% of the proceeds support making recreational spaces accessible in local communities ❤️❤️

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Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Sep 4

a.co/d/559fYw8 Get the audiobook here!!

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Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Sep 4

Also of note is that 7 of Audible’s top 10 poetry books belong to Homer, who likely doesn’t even appreciate it, and who definitely doesn’t need three separate versions of The Iliad on the list 🙄🙃. Go get lemon on Audible and let’s knock some of these guys off their pedestals 😉

Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Sep 4

Did you know that when you get Lemon from @audible, there’s a gift with purchase? Eric C. from Howell described it as a “BEAUTIFULLY written & presented poem.” and that poem has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2024) and for Best of the Net (2025) by the fine folks at @gnashingteethpublishing

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Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Aug 29

Galleys have been checked, minimal corrections sent back to the publisher (and I mean minimal, like.. two lol)

Next up is the full galley and proof copy and then Hurt Sounds will be ready for you!!

Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Aug 19

I’ve got your Saturday and Sunday plans sorted! I’ll be at the Plymouth unFair Saturday w books to sign and performing too!

Sunday at Books&Brews with A Novel Event & Rivers Edge Brewery! Come hang out, Michigan!!!

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Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Aug 15

YAY!!!

Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Aug 14

Oh hey, I remembered to update my event listing! And whew, I'm excited and also already tired lol. I'll be all over Michigan in the next few months, but if there's someplace else I should look for, let me know!

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Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Aug 7

i am counting myself to sleep
each ache a lost lamb

i call them back, in whisper:
“you are safe.”

when I notice the tension
I lose count of the flock

it takes more time
to count the missing

ijm

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Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Jul 31

I'm considering this 52 words towards your goal. (54? I lost count at the end.) You got this!

Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Jul 28

I’m so lucky to work in a place not only dedicated to helping our community, as the only neuro rehab clinic in our county, but for a company who celebrates #DisabilityPrideMonth

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Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Jul 22

Not my neurologist telling me to stop giving myself new material for my next book. 🫠

Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Jul 18

One summer I hunted a cricket in the tub drain. 2 wks later, another took up residence inside the lid of the toilet. Trying to wash it out of heavy, wet porcelain at 3am, I was so mad lol. Good luck!!

Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Jul 18

gutted. All week

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Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Jul 18

You are a treasured friend.

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Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Jul 17

I am approx 20 books short of my goal for "Hurt Sounds." Preorders end TOMORROW, July 18.

Friends, if you can't preorder or already have, would you mind sharing? This book means so much to me, I can't miss my preorder goal. 💙📚♿

#Booksky #newbook #disabledartist #disabilitysky #poetry

Hurt Sounds by Isabella J Mansfield – NWVS #185 – Finishing Line Press

www.finishinglinepress.com

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Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Jul 15

in the theme song to Sesame Street, the question "can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street" is asked.

They never answered the question.

Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Jul 11

MAGA “If yer gonna come to our country you gotta learn our language.”

Also maga:

Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Jul 5

google search: best countries to live in for disabled people.
google search: homes in Berlin.
google search: how to move to Europe.

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Isabella J Mansfield • Poet • Spoken Word Performer • PWD @poetisabella.bsky.social · Jul 4

Happy birthday to my brother and absolutely nothing else today.