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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · 11d

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · 15d

This Sunday! Perfect event to usher in the Keatsian season of mists...and a happy respite from the daily shite happening, well, you know. Hope you can join us in poetry. 💙

Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · 21d

Next weekend, please join us in celebration of #StanleyPlumly. A terrific lineup of writers will be reading from Stan's recently published COLLECTED #POEMS. Virtual event. Sept 28. 3:00 to 4:30. Link to register with @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social. 💙
Readings | HVWC share.google/ZR3g1pq731kN...

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · 17d

Same thought when he listed all those dudes.

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · 21d

Next weekend, please join us in celebration of #StanleyPlumly. A terrific lineup of writers will be reading from Stan's recently published COLLECTED #POEMS. Virtual event. Sept 28. 3:00 to 4:30. Link to register with @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social. 💙
Readings | HVWC share.google/ZR3g1pq731kN...

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GIFFORDS @giffords.org · Aug 27

Today, the children at Annunciation Catholic School were shot while praying. Two were killed in the pews.

Thoughts and prayers are NOT enough. We need immediate and comprehensive gun safety laws. That’s what saves lives.

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Aug 19

In this crazy life, we never know who's pulling for us! Be happy, Natalie! (delighted by the lift this #poem by Aaron Smith gave me this morning) 💜
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I’m Dating a Man Who’s Married

to a man who’s dating a man who’s

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Aug 12

Congrats! Terrific news!

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Aug 8

Drafting about Chagall fleeing N*zi France for NY, his beloved wife suddenly dying, a year of mourning (no art) until Balanchine commissions him to design costumes / sets for the reimagined Firebird ballet (Stravinsky) with genius Maria Tallchief in titular role. The world sucks, but there's that.

Firebird ballet. Dancer in red tutu leaps across crowd of maidens and animals, monsters, etc. New York City Ballet.

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Aug 2

@westbranchmagazine.bsky.social's Creative Nonfiction Editor here! Would love to see your #essays this season. If I've encouraged you in the past, please resubmit! Formal innovation, personal #essays, eco-focused, lgbtq+ -- I'm looking for your best and most surprising work! No fees. We pay. #cnf

West Branch Magazine @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 1

happy august!! we are once again open for submissions!! send us your beloveds!!!

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Jul 30

Starred, indeed. Looking forward to this. 💙

Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · Jul 29

★ This definitive retrospective gathers the work of an allusive, musical, and stylish writer and introduces nine new poems to his oeuvre. Elegant, stately, and immersed in literary history, this is a grand summation of the poet’s life.

Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly by Stanley Plumly

This definitive retrospective gathers the work of an allusive, musical, and stylish writer and introduces nine new poems to his ...

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Jul 28

You can send him my way. www.sharalessley.com.

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Jul 25

“You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.” Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Jul 17

West Branch opens in August! We pay! (Also, same)

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Jul 3

The evil that men do lives after them

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Jul 3

Oh wow! Pretty sure the Opry makes an appearance in Bruce's new book (just posted about it)! Blood Harmony | University of Wisconsin Press share.google/STwXZGb0DQRh...

Blood Harmony

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Jul 3

#BruceSnider isn't here, but the link to preorder his new book of #poems is! BLOOD HARMONY comes out Nov, 2025. Brotherhood, addiction, queerness, and country music. So many forms. It's a dazzler! #booksky @uwiscpress.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈 share.google/STwXZGb0DQRh...

Blood Harmony

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thanks!

Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Jun 3

I am so overwhelmed by the constant news coming out of this admin. This, itself, isn't news or new. I am just, good god,...

Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Jun 3

I'm still going strong and love this message from Susan Choi. 4496 words and counting. A tremendous accomplishment for the sloth. 🦥 #1000wordsofsummer

Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · Jun 3

Today's #1000wordsofsummer letter comes to us from National Book Award winner Susan Choi, who has a new novel called Flashlight out TODAY 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/day-4-1000...

Day 4 #1000wordsofsummer 2025

Because you are an observer.

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Jun 2

If you write more than #1000wordsofsummer the first two days and then subtract 500+ revising on the third, but then add 600 more later that afternoon, is it a deficit? This writer sloth needs a nap. 🦥

Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · Jun 1

Same, "after the dance" lady, same.

Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · May 31

'After the Dance.' (1899) Ramon Casas began studying under John Singer Sargent's mentor Singer Carolus Duran when he was just 16. A year after painting this work, he held a solo show in Barcelona which established him as the leading Catalan portrait painter of his day.

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · May 31

The sloth is off! Today's haul: 1006 words + a morning freewrite. Friends, don't expect me to keep up this pace. #1000wordsofsummer 🦥

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · May 30

Third collection of poems, DOUBLETAKE, officially has an order and TOC. I've been sitting on this manuscript forever. Guess it's past time.

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · May 27

I'm in. Because somebody needs to rep the writer-sloths. 🦥

Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · May 26

#1000wordsofsummer starts in FIVE days. This Saturday, May 31! Come write 1000 words a day for 2 weeks straight with 50k+ other people. It’s fun and nerdy and free. Have you started prepping for it yet? 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/how-to-pre...

How to Prep for #1000wordsofsummer

Time to get ready, people.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · May 23

For years, I, too, wept,

in secret,

and so did not weep at all.

—Jennifer Chang, from "The Death of Socrates"

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