Lena Crown

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Saturday Shout-Out ~ April 5, 2025 Share your recently published work with the WRJ community

New round of shout-outs is up on our Substack. Click here to check out a bunch of great new lit mag & small press publications: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...

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Re-Awakeners: Tiana Clark "We are shaped not only by the people we read but also the people who teach us. Those fingerprints are all over our work."

That's a wrap on Awakeners Season 1! This episode is bittersweet – Tiana Clark's mentor passed away last year, but his fingerprints are all over her new collection. Listen to the end to hear Tiana read and discuss "Broken Sestina Reaching for Black Joy" ❤️ www.awakenerspodcast.com/post/re-awak...

Adrian Matejka & Austin Araujo Awakeners · Episode

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Adrian Matejka & Austin Araujo "In Austin’s poems, whatever the catalyst, I am always aware of where I am.”

One of my favorite Awakeners episodes yet came out last week: a conversation with Adrian Matejka, poet & EIC of Poetry Magazine, and his former student @austinaraujo.bsky.social, whose debut book is out in February. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 🧡 www.awakenerspodcast.com/post/adrian-...

Kyoko Mori & Abi Newhouse Podcast Episode · Awakeners · 12/17/2024 · 1h 20m

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Kyoko Mori and Abi Newhouse Rebelled Quietly At First This is Awakeners, a Lit Hub Radio podcast about mentorship in the literary arts. Robert Frost allegedly said he was not a teacher but an “awakener.” On every episode of this podcast, host Lena Cro…

A very special Awakeners episode this week featuring nonfiction writer Abi Newhouse & Professor Kyoko Mori, who advised both Abi's and my MFA theses. (Also mentioned: Terry Tempest Williams, Mormon pioneers playing dead & some wild advice Kyoko got from Raymond Carver.) lithub.com/kyoko-mori-a...

A conversation between poets Rick Barot & Brian Teare. We discuss “horizontal” mentorship, ethical pedagogy, ekphrasis, and disidentifying with the artists you're "supposed" to love.

New episode! I loved this conversation with Rick Barot & Brian Teare about finding mentors in friends, evolving towards a more ethical practice of ekphrasis, and helping each other "re-see" the work of another queer artist. Listen on Apple, Spotify, etc.!
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Robbie!! This is such a wonderful surprise ❤️ So honored!

A conversation between poets Rick Barot & Brian Teare. We discuss “horizontal” mentorship, ethical pedagogy, ekphrasis, and disidentifying with the artists you're "supposed" to love.

New episode! I loved this conversation with Rick Barot & Brian Teare about finding mentors in friends, evolving towards a more ethical practice of ekphrasis, and helping each other "re-see" the work of another queer artist. Listen on Apple, Spotify, etc.!
www.awakenerspodcast.com/post/rick-ba...

Thank you Split Lip family !!!

Leslie Jamison and Emmeline Clein on Words That Cut This is Awakeners, a Lit Hub Radio podcast about mentorship in the literary arts. Robert Frost allegedly said he was not a teacher but an “awakener.” On every episode of this podcast, host Lena Cro…

Be sure to check out the new @literaryhub.bsky.social podcast with the amazing @whichistosay.bsky.social: Awakeners, conversations about mentorship in the literary arts (first episode: Leslie Jamison!)

Such a generous reading Reuben – thank you 😭❤️

The boy with the couch and coffee table had recently been left. It came as a set, he said, She liked midcentury modern, bought from Amazon. The table legs splayed out just like a foal’s, young and spindly—emulating, but only emulating, instability. Thirteen stories down, a jogger dodged tectonic plates of concrete knocked askew along the park, which stretched mutely toward the horizon, the Arch a sterling thread plucked loose from the seam.

The first part of Lena Crown's "Facebook Marketplace" in today's @poetrydaily.bsky.social!! 😱

So glad we got to publish this clever, arterial, beautifully built poem in the spring Issue 6 of @coupletpoetry.bsky.social 😊

Huge congrats and gratitude to @whichistosay.bsky.social 👏

You're the best, Richard!! 🧡

Leslie Jamison & Emmeline Clein "I feel like I’m bringing questions I’ve been wrestling with my whole life to the things we talk about."

Late to announcing this on here, but I created a podcast with @literaryhub.bsky.social about mentorship in the literary arts, and the first episode—featuring the indomitable Leslie Jamison and her former student Emmeline Clein—is out on all platforms today! www.awakenerspodcast.com/post/leslie-...

Telo - The Rumpus Teh-lo: I liked the way the word felt and sounded. Small and round, like a pebble. When I mouthed it to myself, the tip of my tongue flicked the back of my teeth.

I'm still absolutely thrilled that last week we got to publish "Telo" by @whichistosay.bsky.social at @therumpus.bsky.social. Such a stunning essay. therumpus.net/2023/11/21/t...

Telo - The Rumpus Teh-lo: I liked the way the word felt and sounded. Small and round, like a pebble. When I mouthed it to myself, the tip of my tongue flicked the back of my teeth.

Such an amazing @therumpus.bsky.social essay for you all today by @whichistosay.bsky.social. This one grabbed me from the second I started reading it. therumpus.net/2023/11/21/t...

The pub date for Snakeskin is Halloween, but the official launch event (via Zoom) is the next night, the Day of the Dead, November 1st, where I'll be joined by Megan Culhane Galbraith, Selah Saterstrom, Dennis James Sweeney, and @whichistosay.bsky.social (link to register is in my bio)

the other night a friend and i were rewatching Fleabag and he said "guinea pigs ARE just rats" and i agreed and then he said "which ones are the sexy ones? the sexy rats" and i said "squirrels?" and he said "yup, squirrels"

me! gal with red hair & blue headband smiling huge & holding a tortie kitty

what do you call a post on here? a cloud? in any case today's installment of should-i-stop-agonizing-and-just-adopt-a-cat felt worthy of my first one