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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you to Line of Advance and guest judge @jdam.bsky.social for selecting my poem "Last of Autumn" as one of the 2025 Col. Darron L. Wright Awards for poetry by a mil-fam member finalists...
www.lineofadvance.org/blog/2025/8/...

Last of Autumn — Line Of Advance Literary Journal

where leaves and flowers grew, I cut so the plants keep through the cold my activity is heard by the blackbirds who sound a warning, fly together to distant perches     &...

www.lineofadvance.org

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Middle West Press @middlewestpress.bsky.social · Jul 15

Along with co-sponsor Collateral Journal, we are pleased to reveal another 2025 War Poetry Postcard Project design! More info: linktr.ee/warpoets

Congratulations to NY poet @pam-hart.bsky.social, for her poem "Mothers Over Nangarhar"!

Image consists of two elements author photo of Pamela Hart on right; her poem "Mothers Over Nangarhar" on left. The poem is superimposed on a satellite photo of Eastern Afghanistan, including the Nangarhar Province region. The poem reads:

"Powered by search engines
and history
mothers navigate

Google Earth, view the flashing
lights of MRAPs
as the cursors flag river or range

The mothers leap across time zones
check their satellite feed
sprint from screen to field

where you lie
split
calling their name

The mothers fly from Fallujah
Wanat, Khe Sanh to Marathon
Hastings, Vicksburg

Their hands are epic
their bodies large pouring
into and out of you"

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Middle West Press @middlewestpress.bsky.social · Jul 8

Along with co-sponsor Collateral Journal, we are pleased to reveal another 2025 War Poetry Postcard Project design! More info: linktr.ee/warpoets

Congratulations to poet and U.S. Army veteran @dagray.bsky.social , for "A.M. radio"!

More info: www.middlewestpress.com/2025/07/texa...

Left image: Central Texas poet and U.S. Army veteran D.A. Gray wears a "Good Trouble / Better South" T-shirt and American flag button.

Right image: D.A. Gray's WPPP-finalist poem "A.M. radio" is superimposed on a cloudy sky over the yellow-dashed centerline of a Texas highway.

The poem reads:

"You drive together in an unremarkable sedan,
the a.m. radio station comes in and out of tune.
You’d forgotten in the desert how hills could churn
the contents of your last lunch, pin them to your ribs,
or make you eat it again. Still flying upward
a split second after the road’s fallen from your wheels.
Atop the next hill the signal comes through.
A man’s voice speaks of those people, then the signal
cuts out. Between the static you piece it together.
The caller wants those people to go back.
You begin to picture faces: the translator who risked
everything feeding you dolma and tea so sweet
sugar settled in the glass; your soldier, who volunteers
every job by day, studies for his citizenship test by night.
You look over; he’s staring off to the side. You’re more
American than some who never left their hometown.
you say, and both laugh uneasily, and turn the radio off —
when you turn back to the road, cresting a blind hill,
you nearly meet a pickup truck coming the other way.

Both vehicles swerve from the center."

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The Aiming Circle @aimingcircle.bsky.social · Aug 5

The 2025 Col. Darron L. Wright Awards for poetry by a mil-fam member!
- 1st: “Shipwreck on Padre Island” by Emma Comery
- 2nd: “Last of Autumn” by @lisasticepoet.bsky.social
- 3rd: “Rolling Hills” by Erick Garske

The annual contest is administered by the @line of advance. www.lineofadvance.org

Line Of Advance Literary Journal

Literary Journal for America's Military Veterans, their Families, and Active Duty Members. Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry.

www.lineofadvance.org

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Middle West Press @middlewestpress.bsky.social · Jul 3

With co-sponsor Collateral Journal, we are pleased to announce the 2025 War Poetry Postcard Project results! linktr.ee/warpoets

1st Prize: @janemuschenetz.bsky.social, "Every poem is political—"!

Finalists:
@dagray.bsky.social, "A.M. radio"!
@pam-hart.bsky.social, "Mothers Over Nangarhar"

Image on right: Poet Jane Muschenetz

Image on left:

A vertical postcard presentation of Jane Muschenetz's poem, "Every poem is political—" Superimposed over a blue sky and bordered by a yellow sunflower, he poem continues:

"in the sense that everything is political
even sunflowers

this blue sky, stands in opposition
to the air sirens above my birth city

this deep ocean
shelters undocumented oil fields

the great mountains in the distance
are unapologetically arresting …

everywhere you look is a reason to protest
everywhere you look is so beautiful

never forget

every tongue is a borderland
every heart, a homeland worth longing for"

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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · Jun 27

'Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism' by Eve L. Ewing, published by @oneworldbooks.bsky.social

#nonfiction #community #history #society #sociology #abolitionistliterature #anticolonialliterature #decolonialliterature #activism

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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · Jun 27

'the patient routine' by @lunareyhall.com, published by @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social

So amazing and like nothing I have ever read...

#poetry #poetrycommunity #narativepoetry #novelinverse #horrorpoetry #psycologicalthriller #poetryaboutmentalhealth #nonbinarypoetry #lgbtqpoetry #queerpoetry

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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thank you to @wildroofjournal.bsky.social for including my poem "Genesis" in issue 30 💚

wildroofjournal.com/issue-30/

#poetry #poetrycommunity #literaryjournal #literarycommunity #artcommunity #wildroofjournal

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Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social · Jun 24

It's pub day for our new issue! Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Visual Art | Check it out:
wildroofjournal.com/issue-30/

#poetry #art #litmag

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Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social · Jun 26

"Welcome to FOB Haiku: War Poems from Inside the Wire" by Randy "Sherpa" Brown.

Cover art by @aaronprovost.bsky.social

- Print: amzn.to/2n7zOIg
- Kindle: amzn.to/3acccrT

Intended to create moments of conversation among military veterans & civilians.

About the author:
linktr.ee/randysherpab...

Text reads: "All this has happened before, all this will happen again."

Book cover of "Welcome to FOB Haiku: War Poems from Inside the Wire" features pencil sketch of Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected ("M-RAP") truck.

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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · Jun 6

‘In Spring We Turned to Water’ by Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social, published by @doirepress.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #naturepoetry #dailinessoflife #poetryofplace #ruralpoetry #lyricalpoetry #landscapepoetry #pastoralpoetry #meditativepoetry #irishpoetry

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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · Jun 6

‘Occupy Whiteness’ by @jzthepoet.bsky.social published by @deepvellum.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #hybridlit #bilingualpoetry #bilingualliterature #erasurepoetry #decolonialpoetry #immigrantpoetry #politicalpoetry #nativepoetry #poetryofwitness #poetryasactivism #literatureasactivism

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Middle West Press @middlewestpress.bsky.social · Jun 5

Launches Oct. 7, 2025! "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" collects more than 70 short poems and 300-word narratives of mythic beasts that illuminate, celebrate, or challenge stereotypes of Midwestern identity!

E-book pre-sale: amzn.to/3ZSvQn0

More info:
www.middlewestpress.com/2025/06/midw...

Book cover of "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" anthology features a giant, shambling creature towering over a lone humanoid figure walking through a flowery forest. Text reads: "A Harvest of Fresh Horrors !" and "On Pre-Sale Now! Arrives Oct. 7, 2025!"

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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · May 28

'Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms' by @joankwonglass.bsky.social, published by @perugiapress.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #anticolonialpoetry #historicalpoetry #koreanpoetry #koreanamericanpoetry #poetryofplace #familypoetry #poetryaboutdeath #poetryofidentity #poetryofconflict

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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · May 28

'With My Back to the World' by @victoriachang.bsky.social, published by @fsgbooks.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #prosepoetry #ekphrasticpoetry #agnesmartin #biographicalpoetry #poetryaboutdeath #autobiographicalpoetry #familypoetry #poetryaboutdepression #feministpoetry #wittypoetry

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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · May 28

'Blood Wolf Moon' by Elise Paschen, published by @redhenpress.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #familypoetry #heritagepoetry #biographicalpoetry #mariatallchief #autobiographicalpoetry #elisepaschen #poetryofplace #poetryoflanguage #naturepoetry #poetryofselfdiscovery #nativepoetry

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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · May 1

It is clearly Beadwork Day!

Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · May 1

Check out Collateral Journal issue 9.2 for amazing poetry, fiction, non-fiction, & my (as Visual Arts Editor) interview with featured artist Elias Not Afraid (his beadwork is throughout the interview & entire issue).
#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #beadart #beadwork
www.collateraljournal.com

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Middle West Press @middlewestpress.bsky.social · Apr 25

It's not too late!!! DEADLINE is May 3, 2025!!!

We want people to write, read, & exchange words about conflicts overseas … and those closer to home.

Prizes include $50 cash & trophy coffee mugs!

3x finalists will be produced & distributed to ALL ENTRANTS as designer postcards!

linktr.ee/warpoets

Image depicts cartoon clock character superimposed on photographic crowd scene, gesturing toward the words:

"POETRY CONTEST."
- "Submit up to 3 poems"
- "26 lines or less; 'fits on postcard'"
- "Deadline: 03 MAY 25!"

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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · Apr 19

'Raven Mothers’ by Breda Wall Ryan, published by @doirepress.bsky.social

celebrating the spiritual and natural worlds

#poetry #poetrycommunity #naturepoetry #spiritworldinnature #connectingtonature #feministpoetry #connectingtoancestors #poetryforancestors #irishpoetry #nationalpoetrymonth

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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · Apr 19

For #NationalPoetryMonth, today's share is spoken word poetry set to music.

Shane MacGowan with "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by W.B. Yeats
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loq9...

Shane MacGowan - An Irish Airman Forsees His Death (Yeats)

YouTube video by Gorikain

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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · Apr 11

‘Small Wars Manual’ by @santisugi.bsky.social, published by @milkweededitions.bsky.social

Amazing! Many of the poems are erasures of the USMC ‘Small Wars Manual.’

#poetry #poetrycommunity #erasurepoetry #poetryofconflict #warpoetry #anticolonialpoetry #antiimperialismpoetry #nationalpoetrymonth

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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · Apr 11

For #NationalPoetryMonth, today's share is a song inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson. The first portion of the song quotes part of Dickinson's "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain."

Iona Zajac with "Summer"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW2c...

Iona Zajac - Summer (Official Video)

YouTube video by Iona Zajac

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Middle West Press @middlewestpress.bsky.social · Apr 9

Author of collections including “Letters from Conflict” & “Permanent Change of Station,” NC poet & U.S. Marine Corps spouse @lisasticepoet.bsky.social (she/her) will serve as one of three judges for the War Poetry Postcard Project (WPPP) contest!

More info:
www.middlewestpress.com/2025/04/lisa...

Lisa Stice to Serve as a War Poetry Postcard Project Judge

Author of poetry collections including “Letters from Conflict” and “Permanent Change of Station,” North Carolina poet and U.S. Marine Corp...

www.middlewestpress.com

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Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social · Apr 7

‘Through a Red Place’ by @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social, published by @perugiapress.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #moheganpoetry #poetryintranslation #poetryofplace #familypoetry #historicalpoetry #poetryofidentity #decolonization #recoveringhistory #nativepoetry

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