Amy Beth

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

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.

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

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.

I haven't doodles in a long time.

A surfeit of peonies!

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

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

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

Tonight!

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

...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. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...

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thepac.center/events/poetr... I'd love to see you there!

"I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept." gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/070...

I memorized a poem by @dseuss.bsky.social recently. In my dream last night I was stumbling over a recitation. This morning someone sent me this: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Blue Stoop, an incredible philly lit mag, is nearing the end of their fundraising auction! lots of great items & services! plz take a look givebutter.com/c/bluestoop/...

Plaster cast for Adams Memorial by Saint-Gaudens. michenerartmuseum.org/exhibition/m...

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We constantly read writers whose words help us along. How often do we let them know this? @andreafirth.bsky.social decided she would. @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/a... #thanks #writingcommunity #creativewriting #authorlife

To see Hagedorn's book published with the orderly black spine and penguin logo is disorienting. In his introduction, Pat Rosal says, "To read Dogeaters, you've got to have a taste for danger. You've got to love listening to someone who has kissed the devil on the cheek and lived to tell the tale.”

Photo taken on a rare cloudy but dry day. We need a nourishing soaking rain here.

Muted

www.hotpinkmag.com/40-over-40/a... A good place to grow old