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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 3d

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 5d

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5 Questions with Samuel Prize Winner Amy Beth Sisson

We sit down with 2025

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 6d

You can read my acceptance speech and interview here: lambdaliterary.org/2025/10/amy-...

Amy Beth Sisson Wins the 2025 Samuel Prize for Emerging Writers Over 50

Amy Beth Sisson wins the 2025 Samuel Prize! Read the announcement here.

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you, @lambdaliterary.org , for bringing me into the spotlight. Even though I feel more comfortable in the light of a soft flickery candle, I am grateful.

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 19d

@planthumanq.bsky.social fits my poetic obsessions. So glad to have my poem "Zoochory" here

Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social · 19d

Happy Equinox!🌙🍁 From falling leaves to elegies, skunk cabbage to trout lilies - our new issue is here:

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Artwork by Candela Murillo (@kamusa_art)

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · 20d

Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thank you to the Mendelssohn Chorus and ArtPhilly for the opportunity to be part of this collaboration. It is wonderful to work with the brilliant composer Leigha Amick and my amazing and generous mentor Steven Kleinman.

Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · Jun 28

I haven't doodles in a long time.

Colored drawing of coltsfoot and pitcher plant flowers

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · May 21

A surfeit of peonies!

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · May 14

It’s Pub Day!
I HOPE THIS HELPS is officially in the world.

Born in rupture. Shaped in breath. Carried by love, survival, and the magic of our lives.

This book understands heartbreak and turns it into balm, blade, blessing.
May it find you when you need it most.

#IHopeThisHelps
#PoetryIsMedicine

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · Apr 30

I so want to be there but I will be at a writing retreat. I will keep an eye out for other celebrations of your work.

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · Apr 30

Samiya Bashir's book "I Hope This Helps" is layered and gorgeous. Thank you @scryptkeeper.substack.com

Visual poem "Dark Matters" created from a musical score with grayed out text. From Samiya Bashir's book "I Hope This Helps."

Cover of Samiya Bashir's book "I Hope This Helps"

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · Apr 9

My interview with my brilliant teacher @paullisicky.bsky.social is live today! Thank you, @dintywmoore.bsky.social for bringing it into the world.

Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · Apr 9

Paul Lisicky discusses his newest book, Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell--part Joni Mitchell playlist, part fan letter, and part memoir. @paullisicky.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/i...

My Mentor’s Mentor Text: An Interview with Paul Lisicky about Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell

By Amy Beth Sisson Pictured: Paul Lisicky Paul Lisicky’s latest book Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell, is part Joni Mitchell playlist, part fan letter, and part memoir.…

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · Apr 2

Tonight!

Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · Mar 15

I'm reading at the upcoming April 2 edition of Mad Poets First Wednesday with Ann de Forest and LaVonne France!
Wednesday, April 2
7:00 p.m.
Community Arts Center
414 Plush Mill Rd.
Wallingford, PA
Plentiful parking; accessible entrance around to the right of the building. An open mic will follow

Three women standing in front of a colorful painting

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · Mar 15

I'm reading at the upcoming April 2 edition of Mad Poets First Wednesday with Ann de Forest and LaVonne France!
Wednesday, April 2
7:00 p.m.
Community Arts Center
414 Plush Mill Rd.
Wallingford, PA
Plentiful parking; accessible entrance around to the right of the building. An open mic will follow

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · Mar 3

Great in "crab" cakes too

Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · Feb 16

Thank you for everyone who came out to read and shared these wonderful poems!
Carl Dennis "Spring Letter"
Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"
Martin Espada "Vivas To Those Who Have Failed"
Carol Ann Duffy "Valentine"
Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays"
Maxine Kumin "The Revisionist Dream"

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · Feb 13

Poster showing national day of protest/ President's Day February 17th 2025 at noon/ where The White House, or your state capital, city hall, town hall, why: to resist fascism.

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Amy Beth @sissonab.bsky.social · Feb 8

...corporations externalize trillions in costs to society and the planet. Nonprofits form to absorb those costs, but have at their disposal only a tiny portion of the profits that corporations were able to generate by externalizing those costs in the first place.
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