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Ms. AWashington, M.A. 🖇️ artist | writer | poet

@arwashington.bsky.social

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Kevin Powell @poetkevinpowell.bsky.social · Apr 16

NTOZAKE SHANGE gave us masterpiece/instant classic with for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf. First time I met this work I was blown away that she took about 20 poems and made a play/choreopoem. Read it, watch it, stage it. #NationalPoetryMonth

April 16, 2025 at 5:08 AM Everybody can reply

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Mirkka

@mirkkawrites.bsky.social

Tomorrow: finest poets in London will be reading at The Devereux WC2R 3JJ! Join us.

#poetryevents #poetry

Mirkka @mirkkawrites.bsky.social · 17d

We go again next Monday!

Third Table Reading by The Poetry School students. Monday 13 October. Doors 6:30, start 7pm. Finish by 9:30pm. At The Devereux WC2R 3JJ. FREE. No need to book.

October 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM Everybody can reply

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Ms. AWashington, M.A. 🖇️ artist | writer | poet

@arwashington.bsky.social

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Marcía Lynn Paul - Author/Poet @marcialynnpaul.bsky.social · Mar 28

brook babbles, softly—
dragonfly hovers while two
daffodils slow dance

#haiku
#poem
#3lines
#poetry
#prompt
#writesky
#skypoets
#micropoetry
#poetrylovers
#Blueskypoets
#poetrycommunity
#writingcommunity
#dailyhaikuprompt #daffodil #dragonfly

April 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM Everybody can reply

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Ms. AWashington, M.A. 🖇️ artist | writer | poet

@arwashington.bsky.social

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yeehaw poems 👑 @yeehawpoems.bsky.social · Apr 4

Pandora's box begs
unlock me
spring me open
inside I've lain
my scooped out eyes
hazel and pretty
behind clear glasses
they're yours
if you want them
windows
to my soul

#poetry

April 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM Everybody can reply

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Ms. AWashington, M.A. 🖇️ artist | writer | poet

@arwashington.bsky.social

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Shiola @shiolasabra.bsky.social · Apr 7

an eon infinite
it has felt like.
in just a hundred days
we’ve been
kept on edge,
fraught with tension.
a firecracker
about to be detonated
every time
the mad king
opens his mouth,
his crew spewing
from their spout.
felt like
forever,
suspended
in unknowns,
our nation’s life
in dire limbo.

April 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM Everybody can reply

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Lucy Heuschen (she/her)

@petitecreature1.bsky.social

I'm looking forward to reading at the @saloneurope.bsky.social gathering in Berlin along with eleven other brilliant writers and poets. Thanks to Deborah and the EWS team for all your efforts to build the European writing community! #PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryEvents

European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · Mar 12

🎤 Introducing our next reader in Berlin @petitecreature1.bsky.social 🎤

Lucy Heuschen is a Pushcart-nominated poet with two chapbooks, We Wear The Crown (Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2022) and Loggerheads (The Broken Spine, 2024). Her debut collection Daughter of Fire is due out in 2025.

March 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM Everybody can reply

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Lucy Heuschen (she/her)

@petitecreature1.bsky.social

In case the FB link doesnt work, you can find the event details and pre-order your copy of Daughter of Fire 🔥 at the same time on my website: www.lucyheuschen.co.uk
#BookLaunch #PoetryEvents #Yorkshire

April 9, 2025 at 6:18 AM Everybody can reply

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Ms. AWashington, M.A. 🖇️ artist | writer | poet

@arwashington.bsky.social

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Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social · Mar 3

Issue 34 Spring 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine now available!

Our new issue features the creative works of 50 contributors from all around the world

You can order copies on our website
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/sprin...

#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews

April 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM Everybody can reply

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chicago4poets.bsky.social

@chicago4poets.bsky.social

This Wednesday! Poetry readings from four local poets, cocktails, custom typewritten poems, and a table with selections of poetry from City Lit to peruse and purchase! #PoetryChicago #PoetsforChicago #PoetryinChicago #PoetryMonth #PoetryEvents

Bright green heading text reads "Poetry Night" a subtitle beneath reads: Poetry reading, cocktails, custom typewritten poems, and a table with city lit! The image is then divided by a line with the date and time listed below as 8-9:30 23 April 2025 and the location listed as The Walk In 2727 Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647, United States. Below, in smaller font reads the quote from the event listing, "An evening of live poetry readings featuring four local poets including our good friend Dr. Carrie McGath (Visiting Lecturer in the Department of English at UIC) Each Poet will take the mic for a 15-minute set with a short intermission halfway through the night. No cover no RSVP required- just swing by grab a drink and settle in. Seating is limited so we recommend arriving early to grab a spot.

April 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM Everybody can reply

chicago4poets.bsky.social

@chicago4poets.bsky.social

This Friday! 7:30-10pm, 18 April, 2025 Open Mic at Eli Tea Bar. Will you come and read your poems? #Chicago4Poets #PoetryChicago #PoetryEvents #OpenMicChicago #OpenMicsinChicago #PoetsChicago #NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry #Poems #Poets #OpenMic #ChicagoEvents

April 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM Everybody can reply

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Mirkka

@mirkkawrites.bsky.social

Poetry School presents...

Third Table at the Betsey Trotwood, Thursday 18 September from 6:30pm.

Reading: meee and other poets, like Glyn Maxwell.

Come see me look like a deer in the headlights when it's my turn! (Except am much less fairytaley and magical.)

#londonpoetry #poetryevents

September 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM Everybody can reply

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Ms. AWashington, M.A. 🖇️ artist | writer | poet

@arwashington.bsky.social

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April 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM Everybody can reply

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Ms. AWashington, M.A. 🖇️ artist | writer | poet

@arwashington.bsky.social

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · Apr 3

Censored in silence,
Skin trembling, breath taken by
Your seismic whisper.
#blueskyrelay #seismic #haiku #poem #writing #writingcommunity

April 4, 2025 at 4:21 AM Everybody can reply

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Gene Twaronite

@genetwaronite.bsky.social

I will be sharing poems from my latest collection "Death at the Mall" this Saturday, Feb. 22, at the Tucson Desert Art Museum. The event is free, though donations are gladly accepted.
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#poetryreadings
#openmic
#poetryjournal
#poetrylovers
#poetrycenter
#tucson
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February 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM Everybody can reply

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Ms. AWashington, M.A. 🖇️ artist | writer | poet

@arwashington.bsky.social

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Yongversation @yongversation.bsky.social · Apr 4

Register for Storytellers Open Mic at West Cobb Regional Library in the Kennesaw/Acworth area. You must register to read but anyone can join the audience without signing up. See you there!

www.cobbcounty.org/events/story...

Storytellers Open Mic Night | Cobb County Georgia

www.cobbcounty.org

April 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM Everybody can reply

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chicago4poets.bsky.social

@chicago4poets.bsky.social

THIS SATURDAY, April 19 11am-12pm at the Lozano Branch of the Chicago Public Library: Book Club Discussion of "Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora" as compiled by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Janine Joseph, and Esther Lin! #Chicago4Poets #PoetryChicago #PoetryEvents

BOOK CLUB: Coffee and book discussion of "Here to stay: poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora" date & time: 11am-12pm 19 April, 2025. event's location: Chicago Public Library-Lozano 1805 S. Loomis Street Chicago, IL 60608. "A lush tapestry of poetry created by undocumented and undocu-adjacent writers, Here to Stay is an invitation to be an integral component of contemporary American poetry"--provided by publisher

April 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM Everybody can reply

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Ms. AWashington, M.A. 🖇️ artist | writer | poet

@arwashington.bsky.social

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Stephanie Maria @staylokey.bsky.social · Mar 26

We don’t love,
care, or believe the same
but I thought your proximity
to me
would invoke a change.

Did you know
beneath
a tiger’s striped fur
is striped skin?

I’ll remember that
the next time, if I,
engage with you again.

#poetry #poems #writing #bvm
#blackpoets #writingcommunity

April 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM Everybody can reply

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VERVE Poetry Festival

@vervepoetryfest.bsky.social

What festival #poetryevents have we shared so far?

December 21, 2024 at 2:16 PM Everybody can reply

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Ms. AWashington, M.A. 🖇️ artist | writer | poet

@arwashington.bsky.social

#NationalPoetryMonth
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bluehaiku2.bsky.social @bluehaiku2.bsky.social · Apr 2

The cornflower print
of my hand-sewn dress
that matched grandma's eyes
and the love of spring skies
I cried for storebought.

#5lines #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

April 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Jason O’Toole

@operationriskyou.bsky.social

I'm bringing Diverging Poets to the Unitarians in Billerica today at one in the afternoon. Snow be damned! #poetry #poetryevents #neurodivergent #autism #ptsd #adhd #tourettes #poetlaureate

Diverging poets of new england – Christa A. Lamb

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February 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM Everybody can reply

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Florida State Poets Association

@flstatepoetsassoc.bsky.social

Registration will open next month.

#floridapoets #flpoets #floridapoetry #poetryevents #poetryworkshops #poetrysky

January 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM Everybody can reply

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Ms. AWashington, M.A. 🖇️ artist | writer | poet

@arwashington.bsky.social

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Jen J.C. @jennnne.bsky.social · Apr 14

#spicy #poetry #submission

Skittish and marred
By way of invasion
Demanding the silence
Of her body's protestation
For this bold leviathan
She will trust
One more time
Confident of fulfillment
Never violation
The inner voice
Endorsing surrender
Full submission
Under his artful hands
To surrender all control
To his mastery
For what he craves
In its intensity
Has been her desire
All along

J. C. 03.13.25

April 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM Everybody can reply

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chicago4poets.bsky.social

@chicago4poets.bsky.social

A Three day poetry festival at the Pilsen Arts & Community House featuring Road Scholar Catalina Maria Johnson, presenting her on hip hop as the new poetry. #PoetryEvents #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryinChi #ChiPoets #Pilsen #PilsenPoets #ChicagoPoetry

BBFF: Black and Brown Poetry Festival: Spoken word, open mic night, poetry film festival. Date(s) & Time(s) April 24- 7pm, April 25- 6:30pm, April 25-3pm. Location: Pilsen Arts & Community House 1637 West 18th Street Chicago, IL 60608 The BBFF Poetry Festival is a three-day celebration of Black and Brown femme voices, featuring powerful spoek word, an open mic night, and a poetry film festival. Highlights include Road Scholar, Catalina Maria Johnson's presentation on hip hop as the new poetry, a showcase of Chicagoland poets, and screenings of poetry-inspired films

April 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM Everybody can reply

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chicago4poets.bsky.social

@chicago4poets.bsky.social

Close out your #NationalPoetryMonth the right way with a Monday Workshop and Open Mic hosted by Chicago's own @audaciousdon at Legler Regional Library! #ChicagoforPoets #PoetryChicago #PoetryChi #ChiPoets #PoetsofChi #Poets #PoetryEvents #ChicagoEvents #chipublib #FreeEvents #FreeChicago

Title text reads: Wrokshop and Open Mic with Audacious Don. Subtitle reads: A Free Event "Creating Space for Creative Healing" date & time: April 28, 4-5pm, location: Legler Regional Library. Subtext: Join Chicago's own Spoken Word Artist and Poet Audacious Don for this hour long workshop and open mic. Registraton in advance not required.

April 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM Everybody can reply