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Sara Moore Wagner

@saramoorewagner.bsky.social

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Poet: Books: Lady Wing Shot (Blue Lynx Prize, 2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press, 2022) Loved working with Driftwood so much, I became Managing Poetry Editor in 2023 www.saramoorewagner.com

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hi, Bluesky creatives! Now that I’ve transitioned into an editorial role, I haven’t really booked a lot of things to promote my book that came out this year! If you’re looking for someone for a reading series or class visit next semester, please reach out! I’ll reply/thread my book descriptions!

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 19d

Oh when I go to the Renaissance Festival, I go cheesy as hell

Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 23d

If you grew up evangelical like me, you’re no stranger to the rapture. In honor of being left behind, here’s an old poem of mine about it (in @glasspoetry.bsky.social )

Sara Moore Wagner | On Everything They Left Out | Poets Resist | Glass: A Journal of Poetry

www.glass-poetry.com

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 28d

Very excited to meet you all!!

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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 28d

Packing for Punch Bucket Lit Fest in Asheville NC! I’m reading from Mycocosmic at 1:30 with Bruce Beasley, Patrick Paridee Samuel, & Brendan Walsh, then I hop into the publishing panel with these fine people. Excited! @saramoorewagner.bsky.social

Panel on Publishing at Punch Bucket Lit Fest in Asheville NC 9/20 3:30

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 29d

If you’ll be in Asheville this weekend for Punch Bucket lit fest, come see me at any of these panels, or at the Driftwood table (which will be manned by my teen son while I am in these panels!), or send me a message if you want to meet up!

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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · Sep 16

Pre-order your copy of Clayre Benzadón’s Moon as Salted Lemon! This poetry collection is a queering of form and language which interrogates the intersections of Sephardic Jewish, American, and nonbinary identity. #tbr #newpoetry

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · Aug 16

I’m not sitting

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 27

Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.

Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · Jul 17

Get your Affrilachia & Appalachia poetics on with these recent Of Poetry guests!

Ep 69: share.transistor.fm/s/9cb1fec4 & @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social

Ep 74: share.transistor.fm/s/f542a5e6 & @saramoorewagner.bsky.social

Ep 75: share.transistor.fm/s/a89ddedb & @christenkauffman.bsky.social

OF POETRY PODCAST
RECENT EPISODES WITH AFFRILACHIAN
& APPALACHIAN POETS!

UPFROMSUMDIRT (EPISODE 69)
SARA MOORE WAGNER (EPISODE 74)
CHRISTEN NOEL KAUFFMAN [EP 75)

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · Jul 15

Dropped my teen son & friends at Cedar point, then decided to go beach reading. It’s very hot, I’m 4 hrs from home, & the only bathing suit I could find in my van was one too ugly for my tween. I stuffed myself in this thing like a weird mom-sausage. Can’t return it now, I guess. Laugh with me.

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · Jul 15

We’ve got your late night poetry listening, here: share.transistor.fm/s/f542a5e6

Episode 74: Sara Moore Wagner (Of Annie Oakley’s Narrative and Myth, Small Press Interconnectedness, and Writing A Project Book That Breathes)

@saramoorewagner.bsky.social 🌙

I MOVE LIKE BUDDED BRANCHES.
HOW MANY FROSTS WILL COME
LATER THAN I CAME INTO MY BODY, RUNNING WITH MY SHOES IN MY HANDS.

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From Self Portrait as False Sonnet

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · Jun 30

😍😍😍

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · Jun 27

Of Annie Oakley, of American Myth, of violence and gender, of memory as a basket rather than a bowl, of creating true narratives, of complexity and fashion and bullets and Appalachia and more.

Episode 74 with Sara Moore Wagner is here! 🎙️💙📚

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Episode 74: Sara Moore Wagner (Of Annie Oakley’s Narrative and Myth, Small Press Interconnectedness, and Writing A Project Book That Breathes)

Sara Moore Wagner, author of Lady Wing Shot (Lynx House Press, 2024) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Purchase: Lady Wing Shot by Sara Moore Wagner (Lynx House Press, 2024) Rea…

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · Jun 30

So grateful for this space and for @hanvanderhart.bsky.social !!

Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Jun 27

Happy Friday morning; I hope you hear the joy in our voices—
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social is such a treasure. Find your copy of Lady Wing Shot and join us!

Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · Jun 27

Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · Jun 4

Both things can be true about adhd: mine is my poetry superpower & it holds me back: I lose checks, other important things, forget bills, texts, apts. I used to forget assignments & fail classes, self medicate. I’ve learned to admit this, to carefully plan. To (mostly) not shame spiral/check out.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · May 22

The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · May 20

This is what I’m wondering, where are all those liberal Hollywood millionaires and billionaires to beam clash fight these policies like this:

Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · May 13

I have a close friend who does art photography for Vogue and stuff. Her name is Erin Schmerr, and I know she would be happy to (and wouldn’t charge a ton). I can connect you, if you want!

Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · Apr 22

I won first place in Midway Journal’s Action/Words contest! If you have a minute, you can read the whole poem here: midwayjournal.com/he-promises-...

He Promises the World Won’t End

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · Apr 22

The owner of our cabin just had a maintenance man literally bat it out with a towel and now I’m like testing the bat would’ve been sad, but also so much easier than trying to find rabies vaccines in Ohio 😭

Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · Apr 21

Welp, unknowingly slept with a bat above us (shitting into the bed) in a cabin in Tennessee, so we spent today getting rabies shots…played crucify by Tori Amos on the drive to the ER, which did make it feel more like Easter. We’ll see if this gets in a poem.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · Apr 15

Every billionaire (actually, millionaires too) not actively and publicly using their absurd and immoral wealth to fight the defunding/bribery/deportations is complicit, and yes, this includes the shiny liberal pop stars.

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Jillbles @jillbles.bsky.social · Apr 14

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · Apr 13

I’ve never been able to write very specifically about the roughly 3 yrs I spent in Asia. Maybe this is a way in!