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Ann E. Wallace, PhD

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Author of Days of Grace & Silence: A Chronicle of COVID’s Long Haul and Counting by Sevens Host & Producer of The WildStory: A Podcast of Poetry & Plants Poet Laureate Emeritus of Jersey City Poet, memoirist, educator, illness advocate

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We appreciate our readers so much, and we love to see Perugia books in Sealey Challenge stacks! Thanks to Ann Wallace for choosing Joan Kwon Glass’s DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS this month for the 2025 #sealeychallenge. 💞 @joankwonglass.bsky.social @annwallace.bsky.social

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Is this how we Make American Healthy (&, uh…, Great?) Again? Disgusting.

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Thank you to Literary Mama for publishing Suzette Bishop’s beautiful & moving review of my poetry collection ❤️

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Thank you for this beautiful review of my book ❤️

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❤️ thank you

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Such a quietly devastating book

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Thank you so much for buying a copy! ❤️❤️❤️

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I’m moved by this beautiful & personal review of my book chronicling my Long Covid illness by Suzette Bishop in @literarymama.bsky.social

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Thank you for this beautiful review of my book by Suzette Bishop! ❤️

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The Inauguration Protest Poetry Reading is happening today at 2pm EST. Streaming on Facebook live and also on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/4288823774...

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Thank you, Jennifer.

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In State
on the occasion of Donald J. Trump’s Second Inauguration
 
America is lying in state today,
laid bare in this consecrated place 
where she fought against her ravaging 
four years ago, where she cried 
and shook through her death throes, 
as we turned away, away,
and, again, away. Here, the fury 
of a jilted man caught the wind, 
as it always does, and poisoned 
our nation’s imagination, 
until we could no longer see
what we know we all saw.
 
America is lying in state today, 
in this sacred place of the people 
where past commanders rested, 
laid out under the guard 
of a flag bowing in gratitude, 
under the watch of a nation in grief.
 
Today, the remains of America 
are laid before us, here in the Rotunda, 
at the feet of a flaccid man beholden 
to the spectacle of pomp without circumstance, 
of a lowered flag ordered to stand 
without consent and without respect, at full mast. 
Together, we mourn our beloved stars 
and stripes, limp and shuddering, sad 
witness to this day’s blustering death rattle.
 
Ann E. Wallace
January 20, 2025

In State on the occasion of Donald J. Trump’s Second Inauguration   America is lying in state today, laid bare in this consecrated place where she fought against her ravaging four years ago, where she cried and shook through her death throes, as we turned away, away, and, again, away. Here, the fury of a jilted man caught the wind, as it always does, and poisoned our nation’s imagination, until we could no longer see what we know we all saw.   America is lying in state today, in this sacred place of the people where past commanders rested, laid out under the guard of a flag bowing in gratitude, under the watch of a nation in grief.   Today, the remains of America are laid before us, here in the Rotunda, at the feet of a flaccid man beholden to the spectacle of pomp without circumstance, of a lowered flag ordered to stand without consent and without respect, at full mast. Together, we mourn our beloved stars and stripes, limp and shuddering, sad witness to this day’s blustering death rattle.   Ann E. Wallace January 20, 2025

Today seems an appropriate time to make my first post here. “In State,” a poem written for this sad day in our nation’s history.

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