Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro

Star Stuff Studio

So happy to announce that I am the recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2026!

My #poems are all about landscape, nature, personhood, and motherhood in the anthropocene. Hope you'll see some of them soon!

In the meantime, check out starstuffstudio.com 🌠

#poetrysky

a blue void spiraling into the kathunk of my fist-sized heart. Every muscle feels like it's made of cotton, on the thin breeze of the whims of my nerves, stretched over the weave of my basket skeleton.

How do I explain agitation like the fizz of a live wire? A spark at the base of my skull tremors in my veins like the movements of maggots crawling a corpse. I've got something inside me I dont understand,

Everything is a social construct. I want to live like a sunflower--following the sunshine around the sky and giving shelter to tired bees in the twilight.

#poetrysky

Little girl in pink runs away from camera through green grass.

Sweet 3 year old 💗🩷🌸❤️

Light purple clematis flower in full bloom.

Happy June #pridemonth 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🖤🩶🤍

Enjoy this gorgeous clematis flower on your Monday!

Iris blooming on mother's day

I had not heard of this, thank you for sharing.

55 years ago 4 students were murdered by the national guard on Kent State's campus. #neverforget #may41970 #kentstate

Pink four-petalled dogwood bloom on a bare brown twig. Background is green grass and a thicket of thin trees.

This dogwood bloom is #poetry

#poemtitle

I circulate.
I #plan curves in the body
Like I'm mapping a route.
You find me small and split
Between your palms.
A voice catches
In your throat.
Mine.

#vss365

As the sun reaches zenith, grass gets a #promotion and the trees who have spent winter asking for a raise finally unroll their leaves and get to work. My world is greening in the way it should, nothing but the flowers need answer my call.

#vss365 #earthday

As far as verbs go, #place weakens a sentence with delicate hesitance. Place your hand in mine, no, grasp it. Thread your fingers into the lace of my own, make a mess of our palms. Braid your hands into dirt. There is no being delicate in the dark, no location to which you can escape.

#vss365

Night transforms flowers to hellish maws gaping in shadows and starlight.

#horroryard #ccpl #ccplreadwrite #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrysky

#Haiku
by Issa

This dewdrop world--
Is a dewdrop world,
And yet, and yet...

#poetry

The roots of ancient oaks twist the earth like the #indivisibility of veins in your palm. I feel your heartbeat in the bark. A scar is just a sign of aging, a growing braid of skin and soul and cambium and heartwood that no one can unwrench.

#vss365

While the fire burns you are paralyzed, the flames lick the shag carpet of nostalgia and the clawed feet of the gilded age sofa. Why do we want to go back there? Aren't we all #guilty of rose-coloring some kind of the past? You give into the fire because it is all that is left to do.

#vss365

Selfie in a long mirror. Woman in a long black skirt, pink shirt, and black flower shawl, wearing buckle platform boots.

Season of the spring #witch
🖤🌌🌷

Dark brown bookshelf with striped teddy bear in the foreground and several books in background. Also on the shelf is a pale wood frame with black swirling art, a stout white candle labeled Library Tea Party, a wooden carving of a mom and child in a rocking chair, and an orange glass turkey.

Added a little bear muse #bookshelf #writer

“Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the Earth without making it unfit for all life?”

-Rachel Carson, SILENT SPRING

My body is a canvas for protest. My existence is political.

Taupe tumbler with black and white sticker with a Mary Oliver quote: "Instructions cor living a life: PayPal attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."

Happy #womensday
ft. sticker from Prufrock Design
#maryoliver #poetrysky

The half-moons of the sun scattered under the big oak tree, #penumbra moment, I sit in the half shadow and trace my fortune in a crescent arc.

#vss365

Paper art collage with the line "whose body do you belong to if not your mother's?"

Collage I made in a hybrid writing class tonight
#poetrysky #writing #hybrid #collage #paperart

A field of sunflowers at twilight. Trees and pink and purple sky in the background. Bright golden yellow sunflowers as big as plates in the foreground, some with small honey bees resting in their centers.

#sunflowers for resistance

An achingly familiar question

Welcome to the #emporium of bait and switch, televised tyranny in oversized navy suits. I hope you enjoy your stay because we've locked the doors behind you and fire exits no longer exist. Whatever you think we've done wrong, keep it to yourself. Choke on it. Medical staff won't intervene.

#vss365

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊