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@annaojas.bsky.social

Writer, teacher, mother, former physician, and co-founder of YourWords STL, a nonprofit that amplifies the voices of marginalized youth.

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Let’s Write a Villanelle - The American Scholar

Try this writing prompt! Or check out the classic examples of villanelles below. My students at Marygrove Children’s Home especially enjoyed reading “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop.
Check out my poem in the article as well, titled, “Having It All: An Elegy.”

theamericanscholar.org/lets-write-a...

07.10.2025 22:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A cento from @tupelopress.bsky.social 30/30 Project. Lines from the poems of
Gwendolyn Brooks

Allen Worth

Cathy Park Hong

Sch’erica Wilson

Emily Dickinson

Hart Crane

Patick Gutierrez

Gerald Burton

Apollo Chastain

03.10.2025 19:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Support independent presses and diverse voices in literature! Follow the 30/30 poetry writing marathon and donate today! Join me as I attempt to write 30 poems in 30 days for the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project! Indie presses like Tupelo champion diversity in the lit...

Join me as I attempt to write 30 poems in 30 days for the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project!

tupelopress.networkforgood.com/projects/260...

02.10.2025 22:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for reposting! 😀

18.09.2025 18:18 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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The Stolen Lines - The American Scholar | The American Scholar As Pablo Picasso (allegedly) said, “Good artists borrow; great artists steal.” Such was the motivation behind last month’s “Next Line, Please” prompt, in which David Lehman offered a handful of “stole...

I was honored to have a poem of mine included in The American Scholar's "Next Line Please" by David Lehman! You can check it out here and even participate in the next competition for "poem of the week."
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-am...

18.09.2025 15:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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There's still time to register for the
#ForwardThroughFerguson Racial Equity Summit! Go to www.racialequitystl.org #stlouis

23.07.2025 03:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm excited to have a new poem published in Issue 90 of Bellingham Review. Thank you for all your work, @bellinghamreview.bsky.social !

bhreview.org/articles/the...

05.06.2025 23:53 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

MORE: Libraries in several states have received letters which claim to cancel federal IMLS grants.

Congress MUST act to restore this funding. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...

Use your voice - call Congress to protect & restore library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries

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