Amy Holman

This is such a thrill to have my flash fiction nominated by #ettereview

Blue sky reflected in Prospect Park Lake. #skylake

I’m honored to be nominated for my flash fiction

Tagged Philadelphia Zoo mural. On my way to DC for my poetry reading. #beltwaypoetry

Second Coming No. 205 — August 12, 2025 A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by Donald Trump and his fascist regime

My poem “Born Ready” is the poem for August 12th: open.substack.com/pub/secondco...

Desperate moves

Zone 3 Hardy, wild, and vivid

I read #Zone3 for this month's newsletter. July is free to all subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/whatwher...

Isn’t it also a propaganda problem? Are the Fox News and Truth Social etc reporting or shielding?

Brooklyn #nokingsday

The snowy pre-alps in the distance, as seen from the Casteli di Vezio ruin in Varenna, Italy almost two weeks ago. #lakecomo #beautifulviews

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I’ve got flash fiction “Stuck” in this fine journal. Check it out. Also, I’m interviewed on Pod—ette. I’m speaking slightly too fast but I say where the story came from and how I’m writing into this political time.

I’m thrilled to be the feature poet for a week

I’m in Milan, about to start a group trip to Lake Como for a plein air watercolor class. This sky gives me hope for the week since every day all day rain is forecasted, and today the weather app indicates 100% rain. I may yet be able to use that half pan of cerulean. #pitturaadacquarello #bluesky

A thousand-fold

That’s a good point about who he thinks should get the low-wage immigrant jobs. This IQ insult is definitely a problem when women who are black seem untroubled by him and are sparring with him, and proving they are smarter than he is.

#bluesky #caturday

Good for the talented individuals

Evening Flight We are flying north, near six o’clock. I’ve got a window seat behind the angled wing. On the open fold table is my tiny cold press notebook the size of a small shower tile. Near six o’clock, a hazy ye...

You could say I’m flying high to have my flash nonfiction “Evening Flight” published at Airplane Reading. It started its literary life as a pantoum, but grew out of that dress. #airplane #microessay #art airplanereading.org/story/5141/e...

“Miss Jessie Just Let Rhonda Sit There with Her Apple” by Della Wells, 2006, Collage, at the Outsider Art Fair

Some blue sky in contrast

Shorts in February Boxes of text

I look at variety in Five Minutes and elsewhere open.substack.com/pub/whatwher...

Clever, touching—even if it never actually touches

RIP Roberta Flack. Her most famous songs light up areas of my young childhood because my mom would play that record on repeat, singing along to parts of it.

This weekend, write your way into existing mythologies, driven by the ideas, interests, and characters you simply can’t shake. This craft intensive will include close readings, small group discussions, and...

This World Whale Day, a plea for action to save a critically endangered whale

I don’t what happened to the link, but you support what matters to you. Here’s IFAW: www.ifaw.org/uk/press-rel...

I’m helping IFAW create a better future for animals everywhere. With your support, we can build a world where animals and people thrive together. Today, Feb 16th, is World Whale Day.

I’ve been reading Bob Johnson’s dark stories with lyrical lines for several years. I first met him in a 15-minute one-on-one consulting meeting at Bread Loaf, when I suggested possible journals for him. Buy this book!

Book Review: ‘The Continental Divide,’ by Bob Johnson The taut, disturbing stories in Bob Johnson’s “The Continental Divide” share the setting of a rural hamlet in Indiana — and transcend it.

Whatever You Think Will Happen Next, It’s Even More Grotesque www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/b...

“He drove/and I rode, leaning with each turn and jerking above/each rutted groove” and We saw them in moments/that flew” “sitting in our own boxes/of wonder or ennui”. So many good lines in Anne’s superb poem.