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@heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social

Poet + Executive Editor The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social Books: TIC TIC TIC (9/25); MARILYN: ESSAYS & POEMS (An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe); GIVE A GIRL CHAOS NYU mfa heidiseabornpoet.com

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Writing to the End: Artistic Choices in Apocalyptic Times, a Poetry Craft Essay by Heidi Seaborn β€’ Cleaver Magazine A Craft Essay by Heidi Seaborn Writing to the End: Artistic Choices in Apocalyptic Times Two a.m. on November 6, 2024. My love is propped with pillows, his phone aglow with news. Have I slept at all? ...

How to write the end of a book of poetry when the world feels like its ending--my craft essay on choosing the final poem for my newest collection on the night of the 2024 election. Thanks to Cleaver Magazine, @oneart.bsky.social & @markdanowsky.bsky.social
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29.09.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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10 Books of Poetry for Insistence & Resistance - Electric Literature These poets respond to the violence and uncertainty of our world with hope and determination

How to keep living with honesty, humor, faith, love, and an extra helping of hope. (@heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social)

18.09.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Writing Poetry Can Freeze Time I was one of those teenagers who wrote and read poetry, who dreamed of being a poet. I still have my teenage poems, the ones I wrote in notebooks between classes, on the bus, late at night when my …

@heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social on the regrets and advantages of waiting until her fifties to become a poet.

18.09.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's here! My third collection. #poetry #newbooks
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16.09.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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tic tic tic...one week until my third collection of poetry is published! #seattle come celebrate: reading & launch party πŸ₯‚πŸΎπŸ“šβœ¨ w/ @tms2072.bsky.social Cindy Veach +Suzanne Edison 🩷 @Elliott Bay Books tix +info: bit.ly/4pkxg56
#poetry #book #seattle #literature #poems

09.09.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Time Pieces Visit the post for more.

TIME's on my mind. I've got a new lyric essay about time πŸ•°οΈ
theadroitjournal.org/2025/09/03/t... @adroitjournal.bsky.social w/ literary shoutouts to @jennifergrotz.bsky.social Ellen Bass Hanif Aburraqib Zadie Smith James Baldwin Elizabeth Hartwick Haruki Murakami ++ #time #essay #literary

03.09.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Take Five by Heidi Seaborn Take Five The tempo changes. Rain in late August. Wildfire season extinguished. As my email clutters with democratic emergencies, I play Brubeck’s Take Five on loop like when I was seventeen drivin…

Thanks to @oneart.bsky.social & @markdanowsky.bsky.social for publishing this poem written a year ago. So much has happened to threaten the hope I express in this poem. Yet...
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26.08.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Issue Fifty-Four Visit the post for more.

Insanely great issue of @adroitjournal.bsky.social πŸ”₯❀️
theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

14.08.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing line up! I mean @dseuss.bsky.social 🀩

11.08.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much!!!!

06.06.2025 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's time ⏰ to pre-order my third collection of poems, tic tic tic--a book that brings hope & resilience in these chaotic and frightening times. Thank you so much for supporting my writing, it means so much. πŸ™πŸ˜˜β€οΈ #poetry #newbook #Resist #hope #resilience #PreOrderNow

05.06.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Talk of a "Feb 28 Economic Blackout" is spreading on social media. What is it? A grassroots effort is asking American consumers to refrain from making purchases at major retailers for one day in February.

SPREAD THE WORD www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/eco...

22.02.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Economic Blackout
Β WHEN:
Friday, Feb 28thΒ from
12:00 AM to 11:59 PM
Β Β 
WHAT NOT TO DO:
Do not make any purchases
Do not shop online, or in-store
No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy
Nowhere!
Do not spend money on:
Fast Food
Gas
Major Retailers
No Credit or Debit Cards for non-essential spending

22.02.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Adroit Journal is now on Bluesky πŸ¦‹@adroitjournal.bsky.social--check us out!

04.02.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My 3rd poetry collection TIC TIC TIC (forthcoming Sept. 2025 Cornerstone) began last January to try to make sense of the chaos of our current times, our vulnerable planet and what faith, love and hope bring to this moment.The book's done, the writing continues. #chaos #2020s #poetry #newbook

04.02.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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Letter to America by Heidi Seaborn Continuum [i] Β  for the many dead in this residence of woeβ€” And me, holding a family wedding photo. Β  * Β  1 January 2020 When the weather turns anxiousβ€” the bright cheek of autumn grayed. Β  In a chart...

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04.02.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves.

To epigraph or weave or footnote or leave to the reader? Elisa Gabbert's Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b... #poetry #poet #poetrycommunity

01.02.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The new issue of Image gave me so much to think about from where we derive light in our lives to doubt and wonder. My poem in Image questions the source of hope and wrestles with faith as the earth howls imagejournal.org/article/unen... #hope #faith #poetry

13.01.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Last Jan 6, recalling Jan 6, 2021, I wrote the "Winter 2020/21" section of my long poem "Continuum". Let's never forget. Read my Letter to America in @terrain. terrain.org/2024/poetry/le… #January6th #insurrection #Democracy #poetry #poem

06.01.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Balancing Act" by Heidi Seaborn from AGNI Verse Daily, a quality online web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.

"Balancing Act" by @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social πŸ‘‡
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05.01.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

With the clock tic of the new year: announcing my 3rd poetry collection TIC TIC TIC (forthcoming Sept. 2025 from Cornerstone Press). A book that I began last January to try to make sense of the chaos of our current times, our vulnerable planet and what faith, love and hope bring to this moment. 🩷

01.01.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Jill!

29.12.2024 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Blessed to have a poem up at @versedaily.bsky.social that is in the new issue of Agni. Thank you @jpdancingbear.bsky.social β™₯️
www.versedaily.org/2024/balanci...

28.12.2024 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œA poet is a nightingale who sits in the darkness, and sings”

β€”Shelley, in Defense of Poetry

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"In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
About the dark times."

β€”Bertolt Brecht

10.11.2024 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 126    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

I’ve been wrestling with how to end a poetry manuscript. Tips? Examples? #poetry #manuscript #endings #final #poem

24.11.2024 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi. Feeling πŸ’™πŸ©΅ to be here with you! #poet #editor

14.11.2024 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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