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Donna Vorreyer
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Poet, artist, music lover. (She/her)
Order Unrivered ! https://tinyurl.com/4pj96v59

Unrivered, To Everything There Is, Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story, & A House of Many Windows all at @sundresspub.bsky.social
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Next Monday evening, when the holiday is done and you need something quiet, come listen to @darrencdemaree.bsky.social and I chat as he reads from his new selected poems Now Flourish Northern Cardinal and shares some insights.

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November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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I am almost 64 and if you know me, I rarely dance in public but come on, who can resist this song by Cut Copy? Worth staying up late for.
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Excited to be reading with these fine folks for Night Light on Thursday evening. 9 PME/8 PMC. Thanks, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social!

You can register for the Zoom link here:
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NIGHT LIGHT - Thursday 11/20 9 PM Eastern Zoom Donna Vorreyer, J.L. Moultrie, Maya Weeks, Thomas Kneeland
November 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Thanks to all of you that have been sharing your pics/poems from Unrivered - it means a lot for your writing community to come through. I have lots of readings coming up this winter, many of them in the Chicago area, so stay tuned for details and I hope to see you in person!
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Home after three weeks of incredible, once in a lifetime travel to the Falklands, South Georgia, and Antarctica. What a gorgeous place the earth is when there are no people to ruin it.
a chinstrap pengion on an iceberg with snow falling A large iceberg with a natural arch reflected in the ocean which is dotted with sea ice. Glacial mountains reflected in clear blue water under a bright blue sky Snow on an ice sheet and ice that has gathered with a blue jewel-like center glowing.
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Mountain biked in the Andes of Ushuaia this morning. Spent about the same amount of time falling and pushing the bike as riding. My body is going to be mad later. But it was beautiful.
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I love to revise for sound... And I'm leading a mostly generative workshop about sound, encompassing rhythm, pace, and syntax, on Nov. 29 for @fahmidangroup.bsky.social. Check it out here! Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
October 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Tomorrow things will be official, so today is your last chance for the pre-order sale price of Unrivered AND to have a portion of your $ go to @wck.org.

Order here:
tinyurl.com/4pj96v59 .
October 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Thanks, mail. Afternoon planned. @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social
Photo of Patricia Shields New and selected poems The Intention of Thunder next to a spa candle and a small green plant.
October 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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One week until the official release of Unrivered means one more week of the low sale price! If you are so inclined, pre-ordering also gets you a custom broadside.

Thanks to those of you who have supported the book in this early phase...it means a lot.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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This trip has been stunning. The aspens are gold and it's like no other color.
September 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Why can't everywhere look like this?
Photo of Mills Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park.
September 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Are you thinking about treating yourself to a book today? Here is my weekly reminder that Unrivered is now in pre-orders at @sundresspub.bsky.social - on sale for the price of a couple of fancy coffees - AND if you order soon, this little broadside swag included.

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Blue ombre backgrouns with white wavelike lines and a collaged image of a woman's robed figure with haloes at her head and feet and streams coming from her outstretched hands in shades of blue, white, grey, red and black. Text reads: "I salvage a self, unrivered" from "Bloodline" Unrivered by Donna Vorreyer/Sundress Publications 2025
September 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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"Attention, attention, may I have all your eyes and ears"[email protected] day 3.Great sets from The Ataris, Hanson (w/special guest John Stamos on Mmm Bop), Bad Religion, Idles, Cobra Starship, & my fave set of the day, The Academy Is playing all of Almost There. This old emo punk is tired.
September 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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@riotfest.bsky.social day 2: Wishy, Girl in a Coma, Militaire Arms, Front Bottoms, great sets from Superchunk, James, the always dependable Weezer, and the highlight of my day: being elder emo grandma at All Time Low
September 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Day 1 @riotfest.bsky.social: Shonen Knife, Harrison Gordon, Marianas Trench, Camper Van Beethoven, Honey Revenge, The Hold Steady, Sparks, Rilo Kiley and Blink-182. Winner: this queen.
September 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Starting off @riotfest old school with Shonen Knife.
September 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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A little love poem for today at Action, Spectacle.
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Aubade with Fluttering Clematis vines climb the trellis on the east wall, a panic of green limb and pink mouth. The dog scratches his need against the dim window. I rise to pull back the door, let him out to roll and sniff the good grass, all scramble and delight. I pick roses without gloves, longing for a thorn, an arrow to pierce me awake. Moths gather on the screen door, still and silent. Last night, they fluttered over our chests in the dark, drawn to us, punch-drunk, oh, they knew that our bodies together are the purest light.
September 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Do you have a body? Is it getting older? Have you ever had to rethink your place in the world after experiencing changes? Then Unrivered might be for you! Pre-order at sale price at
@sundresspub.bsky.social
...some of these free broadsides are still available w/order!

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September 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I love this composition of yours... Mine is here!
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September 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Grateful to @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social for her kind words about Unrivered. Pre-orders help both author and press, and I appreciate your support.

(You can pre-order at B&N or Amazon, but full price.The link below is to @sundresspub.bsky.social for the sale price!)

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"Unrivered begins with a green field, and guides us through a remarkable journey of expressive power and vulnerability. I'm so grateful for this balm–this impassioned reckoning of the body and the outdoors."
September 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Saw so many friends and heard great poems and bought a couple of books by @dlassell.bsky.social and @maudlavin.bsky.social and didn't take enough photos and it was sunny and cool and honestly, Printers Row Lit Fest was pretty much the perfect afternoon.
Cover of Maud Lavin Swim Lessons. Black when light blue lit gauzy image. Cover of Frame Inside A frame by Daniel Lassell. White text in back rectangle on earth toned/newspaper collaged strips.
September 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Grateful to @taylorbyas.bsky.social for her words about Unrivered. I feel like she saw the heart of this book.
In her blurb, Taylor says:
"You will come away from this book with a new understanding of your body. You will put this book down and want to hold yourself instead."

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Picture of a ruined temple - text from the poem "Transubstantiation" - The body on earth a temple in ruins. It should not need to be forgiven." TEXT: Pre-Order now" sundress-publications.square.site Donna Vorreyer leads us by the hand from the noisy, news ridden world into the muted quiet of the forest and trees, a quiet in which we can finally hear ourselves. - Taylor Byas, author of I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, Winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award. IMAGE: Photo of the author smiling in glasses and a floral shirt against a blue ombre background and a photo of the book cover of Unrivered,.
September 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Grateful to multigenre dynamo @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social, a writer and person I admire, for her kind words about Unrivered.

Pre-order from @sundresspub.bsky.social at tinyurl.com/4pj96v59

The first 75 pre-orders receive a mini-broadside as a thank you. (picture below).
Quote from Kathleen Rooney - author of Where Are the Snows: With wit and clarity, this book reveals the surrender and acceptance that aging, especially aging as a woman, requires, and lauds the new self that emerges within the inevitability of change." Photo of the author Donna Vorreyer on a blue background and the book cover of Unrivered.
August 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Today's the day! Unrivered is available for pre-orders from @sundresspub.bsky.social! The first 75 pre-orders receive a mini-broadside as a thank you.
Grateful to those who believed in this book. I'll be sharing the kind words of those who wrote blurbs over the next few days.

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August 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM