poetry
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Happy poetry month everyone! There will be a few changes going on with my site over the next month, but I will be sure to share poetry prompts for each day below! Stay tuned each day for a new prompt! April 1 – Imagine you are underwater. Describe the feeling. Fear? Euphoria? What do you…
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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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We need poems and poets now more than ever. If ever a group of humans existed who could see the world through a broken lens, a skewed lens, a rosy lens, it is poets. I am so glad I can speak about the world and read what truths other poets have gifted us. Thank you,…
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You’ve all heard it before from some relative or friend: planning a wedding takes up all of your time. It’s true. I neglected creative work for my wedding. Not a terrible thing, because I am so happy to be married to my best friend and to have had a stellar party as we celebrated! But,…
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1 – The Fool 2 – Satellites in Orbit 3 – The Letter “E” appears in odd numbers. You cannot use the letter “E”. 4 – “I used to be a roller coaster girl” jessica Care moore 5 – Write the moment you decide to cut a corner. 6 – Kigo – write a haiku…
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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 have three poems up at Nice Cage in Issue 007! Please head there and take a read. Additionally, I have a poem nominated for a Pushcart Prize! “Last Note Slipped Under the Mattress” in Gordon Square Review, Issue 2. If you haven’t already, you can read it here! And that poem, as well as…
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Today was the Cleveland Drafts Literary Crawl in Tremont. I had an amazing time and was so grateful to share in the Cleveland literary community. I read alongside Joe Kapitan, Phyllis Levine, and Ali McClain at Round 2. We all have very different styles and voices, and our work was a great sampling of what…
Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro 