Thirty-One
Before you the world ended, stretched on tables of tears – like every other single woman I knew at thirty – that confused everyone who didn't know and scared my mother. Made her worry that I might be suicidal, might give myself over to fear that I wasn't actually living after thirty…
Roads Home
The paths we take to come home again are longer than those same roads are away. They arc, electricity lighting the sullen midnight dark, stretching out in the dim spaces between stars. Maybe tires move faster, you say, when they're taking us away. When they aren't weighed down with our…
Bicycle Memory
We lie belly to belly, memory slipping between ribs, thought made heat and grief and nothing held except the hum of cunning and the echo of use worn smooth by yesterday’s yesterday. Too little now that was too much. My sister said love is like a bicycle ride. I understand it,…
Kudzu
Jilted, I planted it like a curse, waited until he was gone, scattered the seeds wide enough to test its patience, how it waits for nothing. Small, I knew they would become. The vines learned his house, his heart. Those doors and windows vanished into green. We could not escape. Some growth…
A while ago I posted about being selected as a runner up in the Mukoli Contest from Mukoli - The Magazine for Peace. The winner's issue is out! mukoli.net/issue-5/
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I had four poems (two new, two reprints) out a few days ago from @eunoiareview.bsky.social (the arm is getting much better, so getting caught up on what I missed!) eunoiareview.wordpress.com/tag/betty-st... #poem #blueskypoetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
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The houses on Sixth Street are identical, white teeth in a jaw that never closes. @fadingbetty.bsky.social
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And another one I've been excited about out now from @rustandmoth.bsky.social rustandmoth.com/work/inherit...
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New poem in the newest issue of Innisfree Poetry Journal. It's been out a few days but this whole 'one arm' thing is really slowing me down! www.innisfreepoetry.org/uncategorize...
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“My work has always found a focus in the bodies of women, and watching the mix of strength and fragility in women...” Read four #poems by Betty Stanton (@fadingbetty.bsky.social), along with a few words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
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I'm the biweekly featured poet at the Philly Poetry Chapbook Review. phillychapbookreview.org/four-poems-b...
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Thank you! I grew up on this street in more ways than one.
It's in @templeinacity.bsky.social but thank you!
Mine was just the ulnar nerve. Can't imagine doing all of that at once! 🫂
New poem in this issue of Hole In The Head Review. Glad to have some new works coming out since I'm stuck not really writing right now in the cast!
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Had surgery on my elbow yesterday. Very hard to be #amwriting in a cast! 😒
Thank you!
New micro out today @templeinacity.bsky.social templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...
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“Is it necessary to suffer in order to be a writer? Don’t worry about the suffering. The suffering will occur whether you like it or not.” - Margaret Atwood
Thank you! Which one? Or did you mean from both?
Need a queer cozy apocalyptic love read? New flash piece in @littlefruitsmag.bsky.social today.
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New flash piece today in Quotidian Bagatelle from @foofarawpress.bsky.social qb.foofaraw.press/the-collecti... I'll have two more flash pieces out with them over the next few months!
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My dissertation advisor told me to 'find an ass to kick'.
I mean, I'll have to get her birth certificate, but she was definitely Canadian and moved to the US in the late 1930's...
So, if this is true, I'm just fully Canadian because my paternal grandmother was a Canadian citizen? .... Because I'd be good with that.
Thank you!
Yeah, I have no idea how 2025/2026 has ended up being my most successful/prolific year, but it definitely has been.
