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Poet. Boyishly (2014). Stay (2019). Born Backwards (2024)

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Sealy Challenge recap post 3/3!

Photo 1:
–Fenestration by Othuke Umukoro from Texas Review Press
–Brine Orchid by Arah Ko from YesYes Books
–3 Summers by Lisa Robertson from Coach House Books
–Rattlesnake Allegory by Joe Jiménez from Red Hen Press

Photo 2:
–Mend by Kwoya Fagin Maples from University Press of Kentucky
–The Wine-Dark Sea by by Mathias Svalina from Sidebrow Books
–Moods by Rachel B. Glaser from Factory Hollow Press
–How to Not Be Afraid of Everything by Jane Wong from Alice James Books

Photo 3:
–Born Backwards by Tanya Olson from YesYes Books
–At the Gate by Lucille Clifton from Boa Editions
–Remedies for Disappearing by Alexa Patrick from Haymarket Books
–Flight Plan by M. Soledad Caballero from Red Hen Press

#sealeychallenge

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A selection of queer books (diaries, novels, chapbooks, letters) from our editor. Happy Pride Month! 🎉🏳️‍🌈

Titles displayed:
1. We Both Laughed in Pleasure - by Lou Sullivan
2. Born Backwards - by Tanya Olson
3. God is a Lesbian - by Liberty Brooke
4. Stowaways - by Andre Aciman
5. Explaining a Dress - by Jessie Keary
6. Prelude to Bruise - by Saeed Jones

7. God’s Boy - by Andrew Hahn
8. I Do Know Some Things - by Richard Siken
9. We are Green and Trembling - Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
10. Letters to a Young Poet (an ambiguous pick, but still) - Rainer Maria Rilke
11. Open, Heaven - Seán Hewitt
12. The New Economy - Gabrielle Calvocoressi

#happypride #queer #books #rindandroot #readingrecommendations

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Wild Rose Poetry & Story is back and this time on the East Coast and featuring four amazing poets: Elizabeth Bradfield, Andrea Cohen, Tanya Olson, and Kate Wallace Rogers! Woot!!! Please join us at 6pm on Monday, June 22 at the Truro Meeting House. Reception to follow. This free event is sponsored by YesYes Books and hosted by Lili Flanders and KMA Sullivan. See you there!

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for our May reading, thanks to the inspiring readers for sharing their work, thanks to @tsolson33 for kicking us off with a bang, and thanks to @shawstavern for hosting us! #dcwriters #baltimorewriters #dmvwriters #202creates

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Loved catching up with my fellow @vacenterforthecreativearts writer Tanya Olson at @theinnerlooplit May reading. Her book Born Backwards has so many dope poems. This writing thing keeps bringing me into community with the very best people. 💜✨

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I’ll be reading tonight at the YesYes Books offsite at AWP with my amazing press mates. Please join us!

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Tanya Olson reading her poem from Smartish Pace at @awpconference_and_bookfair. Smartish Pace will see ya soon at booth 844 & at our off-site events on Wed (with @barrelhousemag & @32poems), Fri & Sat nights. Smartish Pace has been to every AWP since '03 in Baltimore & we're training hard for our next home game. Video by @stephen_reichert

@tsolson33 lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her first book, Boyishly, was published by @yesyesbooks in 2013 and received a 2014 American Book Award. Her second book, Stay, was released By YesYes Books in 2019. In 2010, she won a Discovery/Boston Review prize and she was named a 2011 Lambda Fellow by the Lambda Literary Foundation. Her poem 54 Prince was chosen for inclusion in Best American Poems 2015. Olson's book Born Backwards appeared from YesYes Books in 2024.

#poetry #poetryreading #SmartishPace #Poets #Bmoreart #poems #reading #poet #AmericanPoetry #UnitedStatesPoetry #poetryreading #stephenreichertart #englishpoetry #creativewriting #literaryreading #reading #authorreading #book #verse #literature #StephenReichert #art #ContemporaryPoetry #AWP #ContemporaryPoet #poetryvideo #AWP24 #AWP25 #AWP26 #SmartishPacePoets

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Looking for gifts for the holidays, or simply searching for your newest read to bundle up inside with? 🎁❄️

To make your holiday shopping as easy as possible, we’ve compiled a holiday booklist featuring books by local D.C. area authors, personally recommended by Washington Unbound contributors and staff, local authors, and local bookstores, such as @peoplesbooktakoma and @oldtownbooks.

Find the link here & in our bio:
https://bit.ly/3MGgYo6

See yourself or one of your favs mentioned? Like & share!

#holidayshopping #readlocal #dmvauthors #holidaybooklist #lastminutegifts

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America's Future ... a big launch at @busboysandpoets ... for the big/bold anthology from the Washington Writers' Publishing House last night! Big thanks to fantastic readers... and all at Busboys ad Poets in Takoma!!

Onward to @frederickbookarts on Friday, September 26 for our Frederick launch event -- inclusive, free. Details, rsvp on our website! #frederickmaryland #frederickmd #dmvwriters #writingcommunity

This anthology is now available in print and ebook everywhere-- buy now! #booksbooksbooks #bookworm #bookstagrammer #americasfuture

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This Sunday. Our first official in-person reading of AMERICA'S FUTURE, a major new anthology of poetry & prose from the Washington Writers' Publishing House, which is celebrating 50 years of publishing writers from DC, Maryland, and Virginia. We are a nonprofit cooperative literary small press.

We will not be silenced...and cake will be served.

Let us know you are coming, please...go to @busboysandpoets event page link.

AMERICA'S FUTURE (first editions) will be on sale at the event, plus some great books by our stellar featured readers.

#literaryevent
#takomaparkmd #takomadc #writersfollowwriters #writerssupportingwriters #writerssupportwriters #poetsofinstagram

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You are invited to join us at the IN-PERSON launch/celebration of AMERICA'S FUTURE: poetry and prose in response to tomorrow at Busboys and Poets Takoma on Sunday, September 21st!

Hosted by co-editors/presidents Caroline Bock and Jona Colson, this launch/celebration will feature a diverse sampling of the 164 writers in this 500-page landmark anthology. Let's join in community and solidarity to make our voices heard on America's future.

Where: Busboys and Poets in Takoma
When: Sunday, September 21 from 5-7 pm
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL, but please RSVP to reserve your FREE ticket at @busboysandpoets

#literaryevent #americasfuture #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

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consistently always fail #thesealeychallenge so deliberately only putting on half the normal books ☠️

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