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Yep and we have a reading coming up with @chiaradilello.bsky.social @esylviapoet.bsky.social and @mgarrigan.bsky.social

Monday the 27th

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🙏🙏❤️❤️ I’m loving your book Donna!

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Cover of No Sea Here in large white block text integrated into a landscape painting of golds, blues and grays with the authors name in black: Dana Henry Martin

Cover of No Sea Here in large white block text integrated into a landscape painting of golds, blues and grays with the authors name in black: Dana Henry Martin

You Can't Tell Direction Here

by the roads, which are five degrees or so off cardinal. I've never tried to follow anything,

not even sun or star.

I swear I saw a goose heading north last week,

its honk a cry for help through the loose clouds. I suppose navigating is like most anything-go one way

long enough and you've gone the other.

You Can't Tell Direction Here by the roads, which are five degrees or so off cardinal. I've never tried to follow anything, not even sun or star. I swear I saw a goose heading north last week, its honk a cry for help through the loose clouds. I suppose navigating is like most anything-go one way long enough and you've gone the other.

Cover of Ghost Hunting Glaciers, dark grey-blue title letters on a white ground above a painting of glaciers with a spiral pastel rainbow sky, Poems Michael Garrigan in thin letters matching title color.

Cover of Ghost Hunting Glaciers, dark grey-blue title letters on a white ground above a painting of glaciers with a spiral pastel rainbow sky, Poems Michael Garrigan in thin letters matching title color.

Epistemology: Estuary

A melding stillness-her feet sunken firm in this small estuary where creek meets ocean;

seaweed and small stones painted with root blood, creeping dogwood in sand around her ankles, spruce holding wind even when water is flat calm at her back.

She watches brook trout coast in on high tide chased by some larger fish-stripers maybe? would they eat something so beautiful?

and marvels at how they hold the soft color of salt around each faint halo and how their skin maps tides and currents and how one mineral can change a body.

Epistemology: Estuary A melding stillness-her feet sunken firm in this small estuary where creek meets ocean; seaweed and small stones painted with root blood, creeping dogwood in sand around her ankles, spruce holding wind even when water is flat calm at her back. She watches brook trout coast in on high tide chased by some larger fish-stripers maybe? would they eat something so beautiful? and marvels at how they hold the soft color of salt around each faint halo and how their skin maps tides and currents and how one mineral can change a body.

Enjoying reading these two books side by side. Both so deeply rooted in place. @danahenrymartin.bsky.social @mgarrigan.bsky.social

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Looking forward to this!

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Hey! This week stunk, huh? But poetry will make ya feel better (or commiserate artistically...), so:

1. Click below to register for the reading w/ @chiaradilello.bsky.social, @mgarrigan.bsky.social, & @esylviapoet.bsky.social!!!

2. Click this for previous NAWP readings: bsky.app/profile/nota...

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Review: Michael Garrigan — THE SHORE On Ghost Hunting Glaciers by Michael Garrigan by Tyler Truman Julian In an interview, Whitman Award winning poet, Leah Naomi Green explained that, instead of using the word nature when discussing...

“Viewing nature as something mystical, of which humans are simply one part, is necessary for engaging fully with Ghost Hunting Glaciers … this collection beautifully explores the metaphysical reality of entering the greater than human world."

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Looking forward to this!

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Review: Michael Garrigan — THE SHORE On Ghost Hunting Glaciers by Michael Garrigan by Tyler Truman Julian In an interview, Whitman Award winning poet, Leah Naomi Green explained that, instead of using the word nature when discussing...

Grateful for this wonderful review of Ghost Hunting Glaciers

www.theshorepoetry.org/shore-things...

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I just started yours!!!

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Black stoneflies are going crazy right now

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Jessica — thank you so much for coming out! It was wonderful finally meeting you :)

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Michael Garrigan standing in a bookstore reading a poem

Michael Garrigan standing in a bookstore reading a poem

Grant clauser standing reading a poem, windows behind both poets

Grant clauser standing reading a poem, windows behind both poets

A hand holding Grant's book of poetry called Temporary Shelters

A hand holding Grant's book of poetry called Temporary Shelters

I'm so glad to have attended the reading tonight with @mgarrigan.bsky.social and @grantclauser.bsky.social, both PA poets I've known *online* and admired for a while now, but never met in person. The work they shared--mostly ecopoetry--is dense with imagery, beauty, and life.

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Hey Lancaster PA folks, this Sunday @mgarrigan.bsky.social and I will be reading from our new books at Nooks Gallery & Bookstore.

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Happy book release day!

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Terrain.org - Online Environmental Magazine of Literature and Place Terrain.org is an online environmental magazine of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, editorials, interviews, reviews, Unsprawl case studies, and art since 1998.

I'll be going to AWP for the first time this year and will be signing books at the Terrain.org table on Saturday, March 7th at 1 p.m. Are there any readings happening Fri. or Sat. night that are looking for another poet? I'd love to participate! Reach out if you'll be there, I'd love to meet up!

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I’ll only be there for a day, can I still join ?

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Michael McGriff is an incredible poet and I’m honored to have his words on the back cover of Ghost Hunting Glaciers. Please check out any of his collections. When I need to reimagine syntax and memory, I turn to his work for inspiration. 

Preorder link in profile!

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GHOST HUNTING GLACIERS by Michael Garrigan (Winner of the Grayson Books Poetry Prize, Selected by Alberto Ríos) @mgarrigan.bsky.social
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Thank you!!

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West Virginia knows what’s up

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Ghost Hunting Glaciers: Poems Poems

It’s an absolute honor to have her words on the cover of Ghost Hunting Glaciers. And we’ll be signing together at the Terrain table at AWP on March 17th from 1-2!

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Anne Haven McDonnell has been an inspiration to me for many years. Her chapbook, Living with Wolves, showed me how to create an ecology within a collection and Breath on Coal is a fantastic book that I return to often. I cannot wait to read her newest book Singing Under Snow!

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about The origins of Raftman's Path.

I’m so excited to announce that my latest book of poetry, Ghost Hunting Glaciers, was selected by the wonderful Alberto Ríos for the Grayson Books Poetry Prize & will be published on February 23! I can’t wait for you to meet Dead Elk, Stone Swimmer, & others that comprise the ecology of this book.

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Yah! I’ll keep you posted

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Yah!!! I’ll be at AWP on Saturday. Will you be around?? I’d love to meet!

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Coming soon…

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A few new poems from my upcoming collection!!!

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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Cooper Dart - The Rumpus for samson, his sky the way I’d show up and leave into night   and he’d still be out   with that orange bikethe carburetor

“calculus assumes that at a certain point
a curved line becomes straight but that just means anything orbiting
anything is always trying to get somewhere new.”

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Poetry rejections on Thanksgiving? Oof. 😂

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