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I once saw a single work completed. Nothing decorative but everything necessary; the rare moment when a task is finished completely. Dig. Dump. Bury. Cover.
My lyric micro nonfic "Liturgist of the Land: A Single Work Completed." #lyricessay, #nonfiction, #writing

“Liturgist of the Land: A Single Work Completed” by Gregory Ormson In his lyric essay, “Liturgist of the Land: A Single Work Completed,” Gregory Ormson pairs the philosophical with the practical, the conceptual with the concrete. While he ponders the lofty lessons…

Does anyone experience a single work completed?

A short lyric essay on labor, burial, and the rare moment when a task is finished completely.

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#nonfiction #lyricessay #writing

How I Became a Motel 6 Hybrid/Experimental, Mitchell Ny As I walk in the abyss, only the clunk of my white Nike Air Force Ones illuminates the soundscape of the pool area at our local Motel 6. I’m pacing in my cool kid shoe...

"I will stay here in my homebase, where my shoes recognize the petrichor. I'll sleep in the foundation of Motel 6."

#books 🫣 #lyricessay

Tying Myself In Knots Consider each of these fragments connected like knots in a web, like kinbaku. – Masking feels like cutting part of myself off. It feels like taking an elastic band, or a piece of string and w…

Tying Myself in Knots is out!

It's about shame, autism, self-expression and acceptable art. It's personal and not what I usually write, but I think it's good.

I hope people 'get' it, or at least, enjoy it!

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#Autism #Shame #SelfExpression #Writing #LyricEssay

So grateful to Bare Knuckle Press for including my essay “Habit” in their first issue, Love Letters to the Landlord, now up at www.bareknucklepress.com #creativenonfiction #lyricessay

Days of Reckoning - Cable Street Two Lyric Essays by Ian C. Smith Ancestry When I visited, then lived for some time in the U.K., I embarked on genealogy’ s quest, curious about my troubled family, chasing long-dead shadows, imaginati...

I love these brisk lyric essays by Ian C. Smith—he manages to be both charming and melancholy, and the result is unique. One of my favorite writers of creative nonfiction.💙📚 cablestreet.org/issue-8-tabl...
#creativenonfiction #lyricessay

Final day to register for my SPRING 2025 private 6-week Zoom-based writing workshops: In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry & Introduction to the Lyric Essay. See my website for details & to join us. #Poetry #Writing #WritersLife #essays #WritingCommunity #lyricessay

3 days left to register for my SPRING 2025 private 6-week Zoom-based writing workshops: In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry & Introduction to the Lyric Essay. See my website for details & to join us. #Poetry #Writing #WritersLife #essays #WritingCommunity #lyricessay

Registration is open for my SPRING 2025 private 6-week Zoom-based writing workshops: In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry & Introduction to the Lyric Essay. Registration has just opened. See my website for details & to register. #Poetry #Writing #WritersLife #essays #WritingCommunity #lyricessay

Microchimaera | Melissa Goodnight - Sonora Review I.I sweep my porch in the sticky Georgia heat. I sweep, sweep, sweep like the dirt and the stray pine straw and the single bird feather will disappear as easily as the rain drops on my skin. The meteo...

New essay out at Sonora Review! Thanks for reading and supporting the literary community. #SonoraReview #Homer #Teenagers #Microchimaera #LyricEssay #CreativeNonFiction

Announcing! My SPRING 2025 private 6-week Zoom-based writing workshops: In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry & Introduction to the Lyric Essay. Registration has just opened. See my website for details & to register. #Poetry #Writing #WritersLife #essays #WritingCommunity #lyricessay

Announcing! My SPRING 2025 private 6-week Zoom-based writing workshops: In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry & Introduction to the Lyric Essay. Registration has just opened. See my website for details & to register. #Poetry #Writing #WritersLife #essays #WritingCommunity #lyricessay

The Maiden in the Moon — porkbelly press A chapbook of creative nonfiction by Sayuri Ayers.

Happy Printversary to Sayuri Ayers' THE MAIDEN IN THE MOON 🌙 a #chapbook of #essays on #motherhood #mentalhealth #recovery #lyricessay

Ayers’ chapbook is a lyric essay investigating relationships, mental illness, pregnancy, and family weaving through folktale and childhood memory.

Sorry I’m posting this so late! Just got back 😂 But thank you to @poetesss.bsky.social for working with me on this review! O’Neil’s work is stunning in every sense of the word, and an illuminating read for the heart and soul.
#bookreview #lyricessay #poetry

Diver Beneath the Street by Petra Kuppers Petra Kuppers’ new collection of poetry, Diver Beneath the Street positions her as a poet laureate of the wounded world’s layers. For the…

Liv Mammone has written a dazzling lyric essay-exploration of Petra Kuppers' poetry collection "Diver Beneath The Street." For 'Poetic Conversations' column at ANMLY blog @anmlymag.bsky.social:
#poetry #bookreview #lyricessay
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Poetic Conversations: Home is Where the Heart (And Hurt) Is ~ January O’Neill’s Glitter Road. “This place is not finished with me.”

@marlas.bsky.social has contributed a thoughtful lyric essay exploration of January Gill O'Neil's Glitter Road (2024) poetry collection. At @anmlymag.bsky.social blog's Poetic Conversations column: medium.com/anomalyblog/...

#poetry #bookreview #lyricessay

POETS, ESSAYISTS, READERS:

I’m teaching a class on the “lyric essay” (for lack of a better term rn)—what essays do you recommend, even if they’re not classified as such, that we read together? Any suggestions (&links!) would be appreciated!

#poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #lyricessay

#NationalPoetryMonth Day 19

An excerpt from Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

#Poem #Poetry #PoetrySky #LyricEssay

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Poetic Conversations: Queering Dys- Utopia: KB Brookins’ Freedom House and the Poetics of… I was supposed to write this review half a year ago. I have given many different people different excuses: a period of deep personal…

@willowpoet.bsky.social latest for @anmlymag.bsky.social Poetic Conversations column is live! 'Queering Dys-Utopia, KB Brookins' Freedom House and the Poetics of Possibility' #poetry #bookreview #lyricessay #queerpoetry medium.com/anomalyblog/...

Reading List: Lyric Essay Craft & Criticism Thanks to Heidi Czerwiec for this list! Books that focus on the lyric essay: The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins, ed. Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold (Wayne State UP, 2023): includes...

Lyric essayists you do not want to miss this extensive reading list on the lyric essay by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social in @assayjournal.bsky.social

#cnf #lyricessay #essayists

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“Perhaps the lyric essay is an occasion to take what we typically set aside between parentheses and liberate that content—a chance to reevaluate what a text is actually about. Peripherals as centerpieces. Tangents as main roads.” - Julie Marie Wade

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Poetic Conversations ~ Despite the Scars: A Review of Jennifer A Sutherland’s Bullet Points I was immediately intrigued when I saw the announcement post for a new poetry press, River River Books. Two experienced editors committing…

'Poetic Conversations ~ Despite the Scars: A Review of Jennifer A Sutherland’s Bullet Points' by @willowpoet.bsky.social is live on ANMLY Blog! #poetry #lyricessay #bookreview

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