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Porkbelly Press @porkbellypress.bsky.social · Jun 24

Happy release day to Sarah Josephine Pennington's WHERE THE BLUEGRASS GROWS, JUNE 1916.

In addition to Sarah's words, some of the poems include lines or images sourced from a vintage Kentucky newspaper. #appalachian #southeasternkentucky #kentucky #poetry #appalachianpoetry #handbound #chapbook

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Jun 22

I have a new poem up over at @salvationsouth.com

Things sure are heavy right now, but I wish you all some queer joy and community this Pride month.

www.salvationsouth.com/queer-poetry...

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Jun 19

Feeling rough today, so I'm doing some reading. Still Life With Bones should absolutely be on your tbr list. Hagerty explores the aftermath of governments and forces that use disappearance of citizens as a means of control.

#readingrecommendation #reading

Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Jun 17

I just reread Joy Priest's Horsepower. Full of poems as strong as the horses that race past Longview at Churchill Downs--poems of survival, poems of beauty, poems rooted in place and family and life.
#apoemaday #poetry

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Jun 2

Blood Dazzler might be the most arresting collection I've read. Smith delves into the destruction of Hurricane Katrina with an unflinching eye, capturing the humanity of the survivors, the city, and those we lost. My only complaint is that I didn't read it sooner.

#poetry #blooddazzler

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Jun 2

I fell off of posting my poem a day hard. I also might have lost track of reading, but I've caught up (and probably gained ground). I'm going to share some collections I've read recently.

#apoemaday

Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · May 21

Tonight!
I've been awful at posting, but I'm still here, and still writing. Come join me for an evening of writing. I'll bring a prompt and you bring yourself and your current project (or start something new).

#writing #louisville #kentuckywriter

Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Mar 9

Hen. 2025. Hand built ceramic bowl.

Mr. Rooster seemed to approve of her, but declined to be in the photos.

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Mar 9

William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheel Barrow"

#poetry #poem #apoemaday

If you're invested in rooster watch, animal control came by, but Mr. Rooster was too savvy to be caught. He has returned and was full of bawks for Crystal, who he doesn't believe has any right to go into our garage.

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Mar 8

Today we read from Diane Di Prima's Revolutionary Letters.

We remember the stakes really are ourselves. We remember that we are endless, always one, never separate.

Get going, join hands, see to business.

#poem #poetry #apoemaday #dianediprima

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Mar 6

Yep. I got some responses from the neighborhood FB groups. Basically everyone knows he and some hens run the streets, and they narrowed it down to a block, but no one actually knows the house or is claiming him. I drove around and can't find a house with a coop, so I think he's not well cared for.

Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Mar 6

From "Roosters" by Elizabeth Bishop

Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48289/...

Featuring the neighborhood rooster who has taken up roost in our lean to. He's bound for the pound as soon as it stops raining as no one seems to know where he came from.

#poem #poetry #apoemaday #roosters

Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Mar 5

"Thoughts in Jail" by Katharine Rolston Fisher

#poem #poetry #apoemaday

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Mar 4

On Friday we said goodbye to my father. He was a lot of things --a veteran, a union man, and about the most mule headed person to ever walk this Earth.
If there's an afterlife, he's busy haunting Mitch McConnell and all the warmongers in Washington.

#poem #poetry #apoemaday

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Mar 4

Kenneth Koch's "To the United States Army"

Full text: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

#poem #poetry #apoemaday

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Mar 1

From Yusef Komunyakaa's "Facing It."

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47867/...

#poem #poetry #apoemaday

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Feb 28

From "Cocktails with Orpheus" by Terrance Hayes

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

#poem #poetry #apoemaday

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · Feb 26

Okay so this one always makes me cry.

Thank you @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

Jesus at the Gay Bar
He's here in the midst of it -
right at the centre of the dance floor,
robes hitched up to His knees
to make it easy to spin.

At some point in the evening
a boy will touch the hem of His robe
and beg to be healed,
beg to be anything other than this;

and He will reach His arms out,
sweat-damp, and weary from dance.
He'll cup this boy's face in His hand
and say,

my beautiful child
there is nothing in this heart of yours
that ever needs to be healed.

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Feb 27

From "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do" By Parneshia Jones

Full text: poets.org/poem/what-wo...

#poem #poet #apoemaday

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Feb 25

From "What You Need to Survive Vernon, OK" by Steven Leyva

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

#poem #poetry #apoemaday

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Feb 24

"Kitchen Ghosts" by Crystal Wilkinson

#poem #poetry #apoemaday

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Feb 24

Let's read Kelly Ellis Norman's "Raised By Women"

Full text at mwg.org/portfolio/co...

#poem #poetry #apoemaday

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Feb 23

From "Eustasy" by Nikki Finney

www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

#poem #poetry #apoemaday

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Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social · Feb 21

From Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Lovers of the Poor"

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43317/...

#poem #poetry #apoemaday

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · Feb 20

You do not need to stop to reassess your purpose or intention to write. This is creative writing. It's like having high functioning anxiety except you're writing it down and calling it a book. Give in to the spiral.

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