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Megan Merchant
@meganmerchant.bsky.social
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Poet (Glass Lyre Press / Stillhouse Press), (New American Press), Children’s Book Author (Philomel Books), Editor (Shiversong, LLC. / Pirene’s Fountain) , Visual Artist. Mother (Exhausted / Coffee).
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Added a new one to our #ExpoContributor @bookshop-org.bsky.social: bookshop.org/p/books/hort...! @meganmerchant.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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We're so proud of Issue One & all of our contributors! Come join us to hear from many of them on February 2! @amorak.bsky.social @arrieuking.bsky.social @josephlezza.com @meganmerchant.bsky.social Mike Nees Travis Chi Wing Lau and Mandi Magnuson-Hung!

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January 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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"How he unhooked the curtains and wrapped me, naked, in what light they still held"

- @meganmerchant.bsky.social from HORTENSIA, IN WINTER
Cover of HORTENSIA, IN WINTER by Megan Merchant. SUBJECTS TO CONSIDER FOR BOTH PAINTING & WRITING Film on my teeth after eating a hard-boiled egg. Why anyone would call blood crimson. Chopping wood on a day you can see your breath. The clicking sound that Mahjong tiles make. The speed at which they are placed. A windchime strung with bones. The way winter light feels most earnest in the morning. His chin, as it pressed against my shoulder blade. The muscles of grief that cramp without warning. Why men are allowed to age-the absence of a societal tantrum. The Farmer's Almanac that everyone in town is mumbling about. Radishes in a white bowl. Glue, hardened, on the window that looks like frost. Scratches on old records that are a kind of music. Gray hairs in the sink. How he unhooked the curtains and wrapped me, naked, in what light they still held. PORTRAITURE: NUDE We are taught to yearn for erasure. Red stockings drying over the porcelain tub. Strands of hair in the sink. The spot of shade between thighs. Pigeons on the landing, iridescent until the light rearranges, shifts to the apartment next-door, unpacks. If you were to paint want back into my skin, it would be with an old brush, streaks of morning blue stained into the bristles. The wood handle smooth, the air in the room tasting most like Spanish olives spooned directly from the can.
January 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Happy to have two mixed media pieces in the new & first issue of Asterales.

“It is a risk to plant a seed, an act of believing. It requires courage, fortitude, and belief that there will be a future in which the seed might thrive.” www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issue
January 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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I’m thrilled to be teaching this revision workshop starting in March through Black Lawrence Press & would love to share this space with you. blacklawrencepress.com/books/revisi...
January 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Would love to see you there!
January 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Super jazzed that my piece “Climate Crisis” is being featured all week on 12 News AZ !

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ArtPop: Megan Merchant and Dusty Rug Band
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January 8, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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From Corey Mesler's delightful poem, "Big Swifty," in the new issue of Pirene's Fountain. Check it out here: glass-lyre-press.myshopify.com/collections/...
December 19, 2023 at 2:36 PM
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From Diane DeCillis' beautiful poem "Inner Space" in Pirene's Fountain, Vol. 16 / Issue 24.

Copies can be purchased here: glass-lyre-press.myshopify.com/collections/...
December 8, 2023 at 12:37 AM
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I’m looking for poems that do anger well — any suggestions ? (Thanks in advance).
December 2, 2023 at 9:03 PM
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This beauty is officially out in the world this week!

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#poetry
December 2, 2023 at 2:40 PM