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Bonnie Jill Emanuel

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poet | author of "glitter city" (2024) | midwest girl gone new york | find my recent poems & interviews in american poetry review, colorado review, pine hills review, rhino, & more ❤︎

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Nov 13

"By now, you know it was love / I walked toward"

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · Jun 25

and you know what else!
How blue is the sea, how blue is the sky,
how blue and tiny and redeemable everything is, even you,
even your eyes, even your imagination.

—Mary Oliver, from "One"

Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · May 16

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Aaron Caycedo-Kimura @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social · May 15

As does @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social!! ❤️❤️❤️

Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · May 15

@aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social has a beautiful poem in RHINO 2025.

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · May 15

@aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social has a beautiful poem in RHINO 2025.

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Aaron Caycedo-Kimura @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social · May 12

Many thanks to the amazing team at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social for including my poem “Coyotes Came Out of the Desert, 1945” in RHINO 2025! #poetry #poems #poets #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetryreaders

RHINO 2025 poetry journal with origami rhinoceros on top.

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RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social · Apr 21

Hot off the presses: RHINO 2025! 🦏

Featuring work by @jaiofearth.bsky.social, @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social, @jessicacuello.bsky.social, @sati-m.bsky.social—and more!

Get yours at: rhinopoetry.org/get-rhino

Copies of "Rhino 2025" displayed in a cardboard mailing box.

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Apr 5

“night entered / our living room “

Love this dark 🖤 poem by @jessicacuello.bsky.social.

Jessica Cuello @jessicacuello.bsky.social · Apr 4

New poem in @postcardlit.bsky.social

I love this project! ✨💖🦋
A journal like no other.

text of poem "we got married in a fever"

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Mar 29

@majalukic.bsky.social 🖤

Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Mar 28

Ecstatic to have three poems in the new issue of New England Review 🖤

Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Mar 14

YAY!!!! So excited for you.
⭐️

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Mar 13

This is Sunday (3/16) if you're in Chicago.

HUNGRY BRAIN, 2319 W. Belmont Ave.

Doors open 6:30pm, readings @7.

Hosted by Kenyatta Rogers & Simone Muench, The Sunday Reading Series: Poetry·Prose·Cocktails

📖🍸

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · Mar 7

depends on what process works for you, ultimately, but generally it's better, i think, to have desires (dreams, questions, fiery directions) for your poems than designs (set plans, firm goals)

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Mar 8

Thank you ❤️‍🔥

Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Feb 21

ty ♡

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Suzanne Frischkorn @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social · Feb 20

on the blue. /
I wanted to save her—my mother /

I love this poem by @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social in @pinehillsreview.bsky.social

Pine Hills Review @pinehillsreview.bsky.social · Feb 19

“Blue Linoleum” by Bonnie Jill Emanuel

To say I remember it // exactly would be untrue. / Sweet, hard, scuffed blue.

pinehillsreview.com

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Feb 20

thank you so much 🩵

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Feb 20

The fine people at @pinehillsreview.bsky.social published my poem, "Blue Linoleum." Thanks to Dan Nester and his crew for everything they do. ♡

Pine Hills Review @pinehillsreview.bsky.social · Feb 19

“Blue Linoleum” by Bonnie Jill Emanuel

To say I remember it // exactly would be untrue. / Sweet, hard, scuffed blue.

pinehillsreview.com

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Feb 6

"the sun going down—this is how he died, the sun
going down."

Oh, so beautiful 🖤

Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Feb 5

My poem “Sundown” in the gorgeous new issue of @southerninreview.bsky.social 🩵 All my gratitude to the editors. What a thrill to be included alongside these incredible writers.

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Jan 17

Books, books, books!

A Year of Books by Pen America Members.

Cool to see GLITTER🪩CITY on this list.

@penamerica.bsky.social

pen.org/a-year-of-bo...

A Year of Books By PEN America Members 2024 - PEN America

This year, members of PEN America have published over 100 works, including translation, poetry, essays, and graphic novels.

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Jan 15

These poems are the most gorgeous.

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Jan 15

These are the most gorgeous.

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Maja Lukić @majalukic.bsky.social · Jan 14

Happy to have two poems in the new issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social (No. 6): one for my mom one for a favorite film 👼🪽Thrilled to share that “Your Mother Knew …” is the winner of the Sita Martin Prize for this issue. All my gratitude to the editors for their tireless work 🩵

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Jessica Cuello @jessicacuello.bsky.social · Jan 12

@tahomareview.bsky.social opens for subs on Jan 15th & we now publish poems in translation!💖

My fellow editors interviewed me about this addition here: tahomaliteraryreview.com/news-announc...

Please share!

& get your subs ready! We pay and we offer fee-free subs for those in need.

News & Announcements - Tahoma Literary Review

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Dec 27

Christian Wiman’s fine poem in @newyorker.com.

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · Dec 18

“Imagine loneliness is a drug curing you of loneliness! This is what I believe, on this late Friday morning before the dermatologist looks at me as if I were a carpet with stains.” —Catherine Barnett, “Studies in Loneliness, iii”

STUDIES IN LONELINESS, III

I take issue with all the studies saying beware loneliness, avoid loneliness, it will speed your death. I say it will speed your death only if you believe it’s a toxin. Imagine loneliness is a drug curing you of loneliness! This is what I believe, on this late Friday morning before the dermatologist looks at me as if I were a carpet with stains. I have to lie down in my sparkly pink G-string while she examines me for moles. She tells me I have calluses from sitting so much; she reminds me of the studies that show women who get Botox receive more positive reinforcement. I tell her no thank you very much.

She says Botox could lower my raised eyebrow. She says she doesn’t give Botox to people who need to feel empathy, which I do, deeply, in order not to feel lonely. At $500 a shot, Botox is an agent of loneliness. I thought about beginning an essay with Aristotle’s Rhetoric, and talking about the pathos, ethos, and logos of loneliness. Or with the id, ego, superego—yes, that would be a way to think about it. The id of loneliness—Inductive loneliness? Deductive?

Studies in loneliness indicate that those high on the neuroticism scale are also high on the UCLA Loneliness Scale. I think the existential danger of loneliness awakens the imagination, fuels it. Who knows you best in the world? Who knows me best are these black notebooks, purchased in bulk, used up one by one. But you can’t trust what you find here. For example, sometimes I’m the Angel of Loneliness! Sometimes the Big Foot of Loneliness! Sometimes researcher, sometimes subject.

The sense of falling forever is one sign of loneliness, often the earliest sign. “Vertigo,” I say at the edge of the Grand Canyon, “I love the vertigo, it’s calling to me.” Onto a plexiglass stand my son and I step into and above the void. My mother finds her car by pressing the unlock button on the gadget and listening.

—Catherine Barnett

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Dec 13

Congratulations to the winner & the other finalists. All of the poems will be published in RHINO 2025 — you’ll get a peek at the work then. Can't wait to read it, cover to cover. Grateful to everyone at the journal for all they do, & to the prize judge, the magical Cyrus Cassells✨

Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thrilled to share the news that my poem, “During the war,” was chosen as a finalist for the Founder’s Prize by the editors at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social.

I wrote the poem in September. It is part of my 2nd book (in progress⚙️). I’m so happily in a generative phase, which is where I really love to be ❤︎

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Bonnie Jill Emanuel @bonniejillemanuel.bsky.social · Dec 12

“… I made it be there”

Jessica Cuello @jessicacuello.bsky.social · Dec 11

Jan Beatty

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