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Sheree La Puma (Poet)

@shereelapuma.bsky.social

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I'm a poet. Cancer survivor. Feminist. Reader OBR. Writes in Baja, MX & Los Angeles. MFA CalArts. Multiple BOTN & Pushcart nominations. Penn Review. Mantis. Pinch Journal. Frontier Poetry. Redivider. The Maine Review. Poetry Salzburg Review. 150 + journals

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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Jun 25

One of my favorite previously published poems from @rustandmoth.bsky.social
Sunset Beach – Rust & Moth share.google/SWG7xGVpIcim...

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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · May 6

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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · May 5

Look what arrived from Penn State. Lake Effect. I'm so excited, so grateful. I worked for several years to get accepted here! 🎉🎉🎉🥰🙏🙏💕💕💕

behrend.psu.edu/school-of-hu...

Sheree La Puma

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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Apr 5

Thanks so much for supporting me. 🙏💕

Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Apr 5

Hands Off!!! I'm so proud of everyone who protested today. You rock!

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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Apr 4

Thank you, Sandy. 🙏

Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Apr 4

Thank you, Karin. 🩷🩷

Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Apr 4

Thanks so much, Jill. Catamaran is top notch. I was so grateful to have a poem included. 🙏🩷

Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Apr 4

A poem of mine published in Catamaran Lit. @catamaranlit.bsky.social

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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Mar 31

Pyramid Plaza del Mar. I was cleansed and blessed in Baja on Saturday.

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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Mar 21

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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Mar 21

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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Mar 21

Thanks so much. 🙏🙏🙏

Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Mar 21

Yep! That's me.

Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Mar 21

Some of my past published work for World Poetry Day.

harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/ecotopia/

A Few Days After She Fled
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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Mar 3

Thanks so much. 🙏

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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Dec 31

A very dear friend of mine is in the process of leaving this world right now and I can barely breathe. My grief is overwhelming. She wouldn't want me to feel this way. She's been an incredible teacher and a brave and beautiful leader. She's taught me how to LIVE with my own cancer. 🥹

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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Dec 16

Thanks so much, John. 🙏

Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Dec 16

slavering over sex. Here is the cake I made for you. The key to life is in the box in the corner.

Infinite & lonely, like a second life.

Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Dec 16

I think of the kid that jumped, rooftop, Santa Monica Place Mall.

I'd tell him how a mirror shatters. How we bleed & bleed until there is nothing left.

Help me to understand why a body poisons itself. You crave the delicate secret blessings,

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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Dec 16

If you ignore the stems, the edges of leaves, toxins that act as a defense mechanism...

If you dug up earth to excavate soil, unearthed roots, disloyal in their slow

creep towards death. If you gave up men, complicit in those acts of yearning...

Would you plant the seeds God gave to you?

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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Dec 16

I haven't had a chance to share my Pushcart nominated poem. I want to thank the Santa Fe Literary Review for this wonderful honor. 🙏

IF YOU SKIPPED ONE COFFEE A DAY

Or wine, red that slips wantonly between your lips like nectar on a flower petal...

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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Dec 9

Thanks so much, Gloria.

Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Dec 9

This little girl had a 6:30 am beauty appt. It was well worth it. Such a cutie. #Minigoldendoodle #ADogNamedJill

Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social · Dec 5

That should say nominated! Why does spell check change words on my phone? 🥹😳