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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · 9d

How to write the end of a book of poetry when the world feels like its ending--my craft essay on choosing the final poem for my newest collection on the night of the 2024 election. Thanks to Cleaver Magazine, @oneart.bsky.social & @markdanowsky.bsky.social
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Writing to the End: Artistic Choices in Apocalyptic Times, a Poetry Craft Essay by Heidi Seaborn • Cleaver Magazine

A Craft Essay by Heidi Seaborn Writing to the End: Artistic Choices in Apocalyptic Times Two a.m. on November 6, 2024. My love is propped with pillows, his phone aglow with news. Have I slept at all? ...

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 20d

How to keep living with honesty, humor, faith, love, and an extra helping of hope. (@heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social)

10 Books of Poetry for Insistence & Resistance - Electric Literature

These poets respond to the violence and uncertainty of our world with hope and determination

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 20d

@heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social on the regrets and advantages of waiting until her fifties to become a poet.

How Writing Poetry Can Freeze Time

I was one of those teenagers who wrote and read poetry, who dreamed of being a poet. I still have my teenage poems, the ones I wrote in notebooks between classes, on the bus, late at night when my …

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · 22d

It's here! My third collection. #poetry #newbooks
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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · 29d

tic tic tic...one week until my third collection of poetry is published! #seattle come celebrate: reading & launch party 🥂🍾📚✨ w/ @tms2072.bsky.social Cindy Veach +Suzanne Edison 🩷 @Elliott Bay Books tix +info: bit.ly/4pkxg56
#poetry #book #seattle #literature #poems

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Sep 3

TIME's on my mind. I've got a new lyric essay about time 🕰️
theadroitjournal.org/2025/09/03/t... @adroitjournal.bsky.social w/ literary shoutouts to @jennifergrotz.bsky.social Ellen Bass Hanif Aburraqib Zadie Smith James Baldwin Elizabeth Hartwick Haruki Murakami ++ #time #essay #literary

Time Pieces

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thanks to @oneart.bsky.social & @markdanowsky.bsky.social for publishing this poem written a year ago. So much has happened to threaten the hope I express in this poem. Yet...
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Take Five by Heidi Seaborn

Take Five The tempo changes. Rain in late August. Wildfire season extinguished. As my email clutters with democratic emergencies, I play Brubeck’s Take Five on loop like when I was seventeen drivin…

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Aug 14

Insanely great issue of @adroitjournal.bsky.social 🔥❤️
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Issue Fifty-Four

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Aug 11

Amazing line up! I mean @dseuss.bsky.social 🤩

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · Aug 6

Join us for our Issue Fifty-Four release reading on Tuesday, August 12th! Tickets are free through the Eventbrite link in our bio. ✨

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thank you so much!!!!

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Jun 5

It's time ⏰ to pre-order my third collection of poems, tic tic tic--a book that brings hope & resilience in these chaotic and frightening times. Thank you so much for supporting my writing, it means so much. 🙏😘❤️ #poetry #newbook #Resist #hope #resilience #PreOrderNow

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Feb 22

SPREAD THE WORD www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/eco...

Talk of a "Feb 28 Economic Blackout" is spreading on social media. What is it?

A grassroots effort is asking American consumers to refrain from making purchases at major retailers for one day in February.

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Feb 22

Economic Blackout
WHEN:
Friday, Feb 28th from
12:00 AM to 11:59 PM

WHAT NOT TO DO:
Do not make any purchases
Do not shop online, or in-store
No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy
Nowhere!
Do not spend money on:
Fast Food
Gas
Major Retailers
No Credit or Debit Cards for non-essential spending

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Feb 4

The Adroit Journal is now on Bluesky 🦋@adroitjournal.bsky.social--check us out!

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Feb 4

My 3rd poetry collection TIC TIC TIC (forthcoming Sept. 2025 Cornerstone) began last January to try to make sense of the chaos of our current times, our vulnerable planet and what faith, love and hope bring to this moment.The book's done, the writing continues. #chaos #2020s #poetry #newbook

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Feb 4

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Letter to America by Heidi Seaborn

Continuum [i] for the many dead in this residence of woe— And me, holding a family wedding photo. * 1 January 2020 When the weather turns anxious— the bright cheek of autumn grayed. In a chart...

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Feb 1

To epigraph or weave or footnote or leave to the reader? Elisa Gabbert's Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b... #poetry #poet #poetrycommunity

Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference

Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves.

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Jan 13

The new issue of Image gave me so much to think about from where we derive light in our lives to doubt and wonder. My poem in Image questions the source of hope and wrestles with faith as the earth howls imagejournal.org/article/unen... #hope #faith #poetry

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Jan 6

Last Jan 6, recalling Jan 6, 2021, I wrote the "Winter 2020/21" section of my long poem "Continuum". Let's never forget. Read my Letter to America in @terrain. terrain.org/2024/poetry/le…#January6tht#insurrectiono#Democracyc#poetryr#poemem

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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · Jan 5

"Balancing Act" by @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social 👇
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"Balancing Act" by Heidi Seaborn from AGNI

Verse Daily, a quality online web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Jan 1

With the clock tic of the new year: announcing my 3rd poetry collection TIC TIC TIC (forthcoming Sept. 2025 from Cornerstone Press). A book that I began last January to try to make sense of the chaos of our current times, our vulnerable planet and what faith, love and hope bring to this moment. 🩷

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Dec 29

Thank you Jill!

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Dec 28

Blessed to have a poem up at @versedaily.bsky.social that is in the new issue of Agni. Thank you @jpdancingbear.bsky.social ♥️
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Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social · Nov 10

“A poet is a nightingale who sits in the darkness, and sings”

—Shelley, in Defense of Poetry

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"In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
About the dark times."

—Bertolt Brecht

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Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social · Nov 24

I’ve been wrestling with how to end a poetry manuscript. Tips? Examples? #poetry #manuscript #endings #final #poem

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