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April 1, National Poetry Month again, and I’ve got quite a few poetry things planned for myself this month! Feeling like I’ve dipped my toes back into writing in the most beautiful and slow way, a way that hopefully will allow me to enjoy my writing instead of worrying about submitting or perfecting. Just let…
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Another morning shifts into view like frost receding from rooftops, the unexpected cold of April’s end. The sheets are warm with your body, the imprint next to me where your hand pressed the mattress. Now entropy. I have to leave this space and wake the baby. I finger the edge of the comforter will-less to…
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Sliver of the icicle from a clogged gutter in April, wind like a spray // of water, biting raw our cheeks and hands held to pray. A rolling over in my belly, again. You awaken like spring // should be. Up with the hyacinths and daffodils opening petals to pray. Sticky fingers in my hair,…
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So happy to announce that I have been awarded the 2022 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council! I am thrilled to be named among so many talented Ohio artists and so grateful for the recognition of the council for my body of work. The poems that I submitted represent such a labor of…
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Due to the Covid-19 quarantine in Ohio, the Ekphrastacy April 2020 event at Heights Arts in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was cancelled. Fortunately the staff at HA got together and had us poets record our poems for a virtual ekphrastacy! My poem “Invisible Storm” is up on Heights Arts’ website. It was inspired by “Black Horse”…
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Please support this amazing journal out of Cleveland, Ohio! Barnhouse Journal’s debut issue dropped in February on their website here! I have a prose poem, “The Beast with No Face,” in this issue. You can access it online or purchase a hard copy.
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I am happy to announce that after a year of adventure in North Carolina, I will be returning to Ohio. Cleveland and the whole state of Ohio hold a very special place in my heart, so I am grateful to be returning HOME and to the amazing literary communities that Ohio has to offer. Go…
Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro 