Sandy McIntosh
@sandymcintosh.bsky.social
Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
https://sandymcintosh.info
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"Don’t even get me started on what McIntosh says about Robert Bly and Carlos Castenada . . "
-Jean Taylor, Amazon review
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-Jean Taylor, Amazon review
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December 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“His confusion begins with his bemused revelation that he has (maybe) two mothers, and continues through various other doublings.”
-Laurel Blossom, American Book Review
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-Laurel Blossom, American Book Review
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December 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
“His confusion begins with his bemused revelation that he has (maybe) two mothers, and continues through various other doublings.”
-Laurel Blossom, American Book Review
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#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
-Laurel Blossom, American Book Review
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Poetry inspires creativity and encourages us to think outside the box.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Poetry inspires creativity and encourages us to think outside the box.
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#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
Two Bookstores and Two Capote Intrusions
“When I was eleven, I was yanked out of my progressive grammar school and sent into exile up the Hudson River to a military school.”
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“When I was eleven, I was yanked out of my progressive grammar school and sent into exile up the Hudson River to a military school.”
Read on: marshhawkpress.org/sandy-mcinto...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Two Bookstores and Two Capote Intrusions
“When I was eleven, I was yanked out of my progressive grammar school and sent into exile up the Hudson River to a military school.”
Read on: marshhawkpress.org/sandy-mcinto...
#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
“When I was eleven, I was yanked out of my progressive grammar school and sent into exile up the Hudson River to a military school.”
Read on: marshhawkpress.org/sandy-mcinto...
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“Whether to call them prose-poems with a strong plot or short stories is unimportant: McIntosh is a consummate story-teller with a gift for the rhythms of poetry and prose and le mot juste."
–Tom Fink
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–Tom Fink
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December 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“Whether to call them prose-poems with a strong plot or short stories is unimportant: McIntosh is a consummate story-teller with a gift for the rhythms of poetry and prose and le mot juste."
–Tom Fink
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#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
–Tom Fink
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Poetry News →
Mon., December 22nd 6:00 - 7:30 PM ET
JON CURLEY, BURT KIMMELMAN, Elena Alexander, & Cheryl Pallant: Poetry Reading to Exorcise the Year and Greet the Ending of It. 11th Street Bar, 510 East 11th Street, New York, New York 10009.
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Mon., December 22nd 6:00 - 7:30 PM ET
JON CURLEY, BURT KIMMELMAN, Elena Alexander, & Cheryl Pallant: Poetry Reading to Exorcise the Year and Greet the Ending of It. 11th Street Bar, 510 East 11th Street, New York, New York 10009.
INFORMATION: 11thstbar.com
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11th St. Bar - East Village, New York, NY
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December 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Mon., December 22nd 6:00 - 7:30 PM ET
JON CURLEY, BURT KIMMELMAN, Elena Alexander, & Cheryl Pallant: Poetry Reading to Exorcise the Year and Greet the Ending of It. 11th Street Bar, 510 East 11th Street, New York, New York 10009.
INFORMATION: 11thstbar.com
#PoetryNews #PoetrySky
Mon., December 22nd 6:00 - 7:30 PM ET
JON CURLEY, BURT KIMMELMAN, Elena Alexander, & Cheryl Pallant: Poetry Reading to Exorcise the Year and Greet the Ending of It. 11th Street Bar, 510 East 11th Street, New York, New York 10009.
INFORMATION: 11thstbar.com
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Attending a poetry reading offers a variety of benefits for the listener, ranging from deeper appreciation of the art form to personal and communal well-being.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Attending a poetry reading offers a variety of benefits for the listener, ranging from deeper appreciation of the art form to personal and communal well-being.
#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
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Sat. December 13th. 5:00 PM ET
SUE LANDERS and Michael Gottlieb read from their work.
Segue Reading Series at Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York City.
Live-streamed.
INFORMATION→ www.seguefoundation.com/reading-series
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Sat. December 13th. 5:00 PM ET
SUE LANDERS and Michael Gottlieb read from their work.
Segue Reading Series at Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York City.
Live-streamed.
INFORMATION→ www.seguefoundation.com/reading-series
#PoetryNews #PoetrySky
SEGUE READING SERIES — Segue Foundation
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December 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Sat. December 13th. 5:00 PM ET
SUE LANDERS and Michael Gottlieb read from their work.
Segue Reading Series at Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York City.
Live-streamed.
INFORMATION→ www.seguefoundation.com/reading-series
#PoetryNews #PoetrySky
Sat. December 13th. 5:00 PM ET
SUE LANDERS and Michael Gottlieb read from their work.
Segue Reading Series at Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York City.
Live-streamed.
INFORMATION→ www.seguefoundation.com/reading-series
#PoetryNews #PoetrySky
“At times verging on the surreal and at other times fastened to clear, direct speech and plain imagery, his work elegantly distills the wonder and absurdity.”
-Tom Fink
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-Tom Fink
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December 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“At times verging on the surreal and at other times fastened to clear, direct speech and plain imagery, his work elegantly distills the wonder and absurdity.”
-Tom Fink
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-Tom Fink
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Reposted by Sandy McIntosh
Today I’m starting my #AdventPoem series. My recordings of six seasonal poems, four of them mine, bookended by a twentieth & a fifteenth-century masterpiece.
First, inspired by a Lancelot Andrewes sermon, TS Eliot’s glorious Journey of the Magi
#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #Advent #Christmas
First, inspired by a Lancelot Andrewes sermon, TS Eliot’s glorious Journey of the Magi
#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #Advent #Christmas
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Today I’m starting my #AdventPoem series. My recordings of six seasonal poems, four of them mine, bookended by a twentieth & a fifteenth-century masterpiece.
First, inspired by a Lancelot Andrewes sermon, TS Eliot’s glorious Journey of the Magi
#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #Advent #Christmas
First, inspired by a Lancelot Andrewes sermon, TS Eliot’s glorious Journey of the Magi
#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #Advent #Christmas
#PoetryNews
Gala book launch for Quest: A Writer’s Journey. Poets and writers JANE HIRSHFIELD, R.L. STINE, DANUSHA LAMERIS, SPENCER RUMSEY, MARY MACKEY, ELAINE EQUI, and BARBARA NOVACK read from essays about their beginnings as writers.
Oceanside Public Library
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Gala book launch for Quest: A Writer’s Journey. Poets and writers JANE HIRSHFIELD, R.L. STINE, DANUSHA LAMERIS, SPENCER RUMSEY, MARY MACKEY, ELAINE EQUI, and BARBARA NOVACK read from essays about their beginnings as writers.
Oceanside Public Library
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Book Launch: Sandy McIntosh
Registration requested, walk-ins welcome.
Quest: A Writer’s Journey
Join us as we celebrate the publication of an anthology showcasing twenty-six memoirs and interviews of...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Gala book launch for Quest: A Writer’s Journey. Poets and writers JANE HIRSHFIELD, R.L. STINE, DANUSHA LAMERIS, SPENCER RUMSEY, MARY MACKEY, ELAINE EQUI, and BARBARA NOVACK read from essays about their beginnings as writers.
Oceanside Public Library
tinyurl.com/mr3wwrse
Gala book launch for Quest: A Writer’s Journey. Poets and writers JANE HIRSHFIELD, R.L. STINE, DANUSHA LAMERIS, SPENCER RUMSEY, MARY MACKEY, ELAINE EQUI, and BARBARA NOVACK read from essays about their beginnings as writers.
Oceanside Public Library
tinyurl.com/mr3wwrse
David Ignatow began his professional career as a businessman. After committing wholly to poetry, Ignatow worked as an editor of, among other periodicals, the American Poetry Review and the Beloit Poetry Journal, and as poetry editor of The Nation.
- Wikipedia
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December 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
David Ignatow began his professional career as a businessman. After committing wholly to poetry, Ignatow worked as an editor of, among other periodicals, the American Poetry Review and the Beloit Poetry Journal, and as poetry editor of The Nation.
- Wikipedia
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- Wikipedia
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Reposted by Sandy McIntosh
E. E. Cummings, "little tree"
little tree
little silent Christmas tree
you are so little
you are more like a flower
who found you in the green forest
and were you very sorry to come away?
see i will comfort you
because you smell so sweetly
#Poems #Poetry #Christmas
poets.org/poem/little-...
little tree
little silent Christmas tree
you are so little
you are more like a flower
who found you in the green forest
and were you very sorry to come away?
see i will comfort you
because you smell so sweetly
#Poems #Poetry #Christmas
poets.org/poem/little-...
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
E. E. Cummings, "little tree"
little tree
little silent Christmas tree
you are so little
you are more like a flower
who found you in the green forest
and were you very sorry to come away?
see i will comfort you
because you smell so sweetly
#Poems #Poetry #Christmas
poets.org/poem/little-...
little tree
little silent Christmas tree
you are so little
you are more like a flower
who found you in the green forest
and were you very sorry to come away?
see i will comfort you
because you smell so sweetly
#Poems #Poetry #Christmas
poets.org/poem/little-...
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JUST PUBLISHED!
Quest: A Writer's Journey
Twenty-six Essays and Interviews from Outstanding Writers of Diverse Backgrounds Who Recall How They Started.
Join Danusha Laméris for her Introduction.
www.amazon.com/Quest-Writer...
#PoetryNews #PoetrySky
JUST PUBLISHED!
Quest: A Writer's Journey
Twenty-six Essays and Interviews from Outstanding Writers of Diverse Backgrounds Who Recall How They Started.
Join Danusha Laméris for her Introduction.
www.amazon.com/Quest-Writer...
#PoetryNews #PoetrySky
December 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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JUST PUBLISHED!
Quest: A Writer's Journey
Twenty-six Essays and Interviews from Outstanding Writers of Diverse Backgrounds Who Recall How They Started.
Join Danusha Laméris for her Introduction.
www.amazon.com/Quest-Writer...
#PoetryNews #PoetrySky
JUST PUBLISHED!
Quest: A Writer's Journey
Twenty-six Essays and Interviews from Outstanding Writers of Diverse Backgrounds Who Recall How They Started.
Join Danusha Laméris for her Introduction.
www.amazon.com/Quest-Writer...
#PoetryNews #PoetrySky
“Ernesta, in the Style of the Flamenco, Sandy McIntosh's latest volume, bursts with brilliance and sizzles with sass. McIntosh's new poems are audacious, ravishing, syntactic marvels, clowning-around oddballs.”
-Denise Duhamel
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-Denise Duhamel
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#poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
December 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“Ernesta, in the Style of the Flamenco, Sandy McIntosh's latest volume, bursts with brilliance and sizzles with sass. McIntosh's new poems are audacious, ravishing, syntactic marvels, clowning-around oddballs.”
-Denise Duhamel
www.amazon.com/Ernesta-Styl...
#poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
-Denise Duhamel
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#poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
