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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · May 25

New Substack up that acknowledges the awfulness but also acknowledges the beauty. #poem #poetry #onlineworkshop open.substack.com/pub/creative...

But...

also love, also beauty

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · May 17

So happy to announce the winners and finalists of Sweet's 2025 Poetry Contest! You'll be able to read them on June 17. As the final judge, I can tell you they are amazing poems. #poems #poetry sweetlit.org/2025-sweet-p...

2025 SWEET POETRY CONTEST RESULTS

We are thrilled to announce the winners and finalists of the 2025 Sweet Poetry Contest. Ninefinalists (one potential finalist had been withdrawn) were selected from a strong pool by poetryco-editor…

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HAD @havehashad.com · Apr 6

two great new Natalie Warther shorts today!

here's one.

click through for the other!!

https://www.havehashad.com/sfnhb

A vibrant illustration of a diverse group of people, including men and women of different ethnicities, engaged in various activities related to social media, such as using smartphones, laptops, and tablets, set against a colorful background.

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Mar 12

I'm thrilled that my lyric memoir about my sister and grief is up for preorder from Cornerstone Press! #siblinggrief #sistergrief #grief #memoir secure.payconex.net/paymentpage/...

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Mar 6

Amazing poem from Academy of American Poets today. So many lines to love!

"I miss my magnolias, miss my maples, think
Where did they go?, think, Oh yes, to the past,
that place where everything goes and can I visit?
No, but also Yes..."

poets.org/poem/beautif...

#poem #poetry #loss

A Beautiful House with a Hot Tub and Pool

I miss my magnolias, miss my maples, think

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Feb 23

New Substack up on moving to the UK. I know that platform is problematic, and I'm happy to hear about a different one that you've used and liked. But anyway, here it is: open.substack.com/pub/creative...

14 Houses in 10 Days

on leaving and adventure

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Anya Kirshbaum @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social · Feb 19

I have a couple of poems out in the lovely journal: Sweet: A Literary Confection. Many thanks to @katierpoet.bsky.social and @chelsdingman.bsky.social and the rest of the team for their important work keeping the poetry fires burning. #poem #poetry

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Anya Kirshbaum

Press Play to hear the author read their piece. Letter From the Edge of Every Known Thing Dear Ginkgo, are we so different? You at the edge of undress—I, undone, unkempt, infant at my breast. I hav…

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Jan 22

“Beginning again and again is the actual practice.” —Sharon Salzberg #buddhism #meditation

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Jan 20

You were hilarious! And you made me fresh salsa.

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Jan 20

New Substack up—and yes, I know that platform is problematic. Still I hope you’ll take a look. It’s free! open.substack.com/pub/creative...

Eating Poetry

what we nurture becomes part of us

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · Jan 8

"Those days you wait like a dog at the door"
Three striking poems -- absolute heart punchers -- from @katierpoet.bsky.social | #poetry | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/kathe...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Jan 2

I am so grateful to Does It Have Pockets for publishing 3 of my poems! The 1st is the title poem of my new manuscript, the 2nd expresses my longing for the farm where I grew up, and the 3rd is about the dog park. #poem #poetry #poems www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/kathe...

Katherine Riegel — Does It Have Pockets

What Life is Like Here on Earth | My Entrance to the Otherworld is in Illinois | She Couldn’t Understand My Words but I Still Wish I Could Unsay Them

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Dec 31

I'm so grateful to have 2 new poems up at Bear Paw Arts Journal. The links go to each one, so I'll post them separately. There's such beautiful work in this issue, writing that affirms the dignity and beauty of everyday life. #poem #poetry www.bearpawartsjournal.com/poetry2/reig...

Riegel1 | bearpawartsjournal

Home

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Dec 21

Happy winter solstice!

To Know the Dark by Wendell Berry
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings.

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Sarah Carey @saycarey1.bsky.social · Dec 14

Awesome to wake up to my poem, "Everywhere We Once Knew Wildness" from my new book, The Grief Committee Minutes, on Verse Daily today!
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Verse Daily: Everywhere We Once Knew Wildness by Sarah Carey from THE GRIEF COMMITTEE MINUTES

Verse Daily, a quality online web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Dec 17

This is from a poem by Andrew Lang called “Ballade of the Midnight Forest” and I now recognize that my true childhood ambition was to be a 19th century Scottish poet and folklorist (and also a wood nymph of course).

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Dec 17

Thanks so much!

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Dec 7

Read this brilliant poem! Dog parks are good places to think.
www.versedaily.org/2024/howefar...

...This year is closing down.
What I lost I will
never regain...

#poem #poetry #dogs

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Nov 25

I'm recommending my friends' books! Today it's a wonderful poet who was part of a workshop of grad students I led years ago. Buy his book--and discover others at the wonderful Meadowlark Press! www.meadowlarkbookstore.com/s/stories/tu... #poetry

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Nov 22

My gorgeous boy welcomes everyone who’s new here with sugar-face contentment. May you have your favorite ball and a hooman to cuddle.

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David Cazden @dcazdn.bsky.social · Nov 17

You know a poetry book's great when you just open it at random and the poem is really good. random pick from @susanlleary.bsky.social Dressing The Bear.

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Jon @asaphus.bsky.social · Nov 6

Wow! Stand up Ed Davey!

Joe Tyler @joetyler.bsky.social · Nov 6

Excellent statement from Lib Dem leader Ed Davey (not yet on Bluesky)👇

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Nov 1

New poem on Poets Reading the News! It’s about perspective. www.poetsreadingthenews.com/2024/11/i-bu... #poem #poetry

I Buy a Star Projector - Katherine Riegel

It wasn’t easy. It isn’t now. It won’t be, ever.

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Gibbety🎃Flibbet @thecorrection.bsky.social · Oct 5

Photographer Kristie Kohn says

"While I was trying to photograph the Northern Lights in the wee hours of the morning, my cat decided to photobomb the picture. Since I had the camera’s shutter speed maxed out, it ended up leaving a sort of ghostly image of my cat in the photo."

Photographer Kristie Kohn's 2024 aurora photo was photobombed by a ghostly image of her cat. The photo shows stars, above red and then bright green aurora, and the cat shadow, looking right, is in the bottom third of the photo, with the aurora appearing to go right through her

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Katie Riegel @katierpoet.bsky.social · Oct 7

I have a new poem up in the Rise Up Review, on how we’ve lost those moments of peace, the in-between moments. I hope you’ll check out this wonderful magazine. riseupreview.org/katherine-ri... #poem #poetry

Katherine Riegel

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