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

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It took us all month but we finally got to ride the @metroforward #pride🌈 train. Annual goal achieved by @tsolson33

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Homosexual hat giveaway for tonight's Mystics vs Lynx game #pridenight🏳️‍🌈 #wnba #washingtonmystics🏀 by @tsolson33

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by @tsolson33

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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 by @tsolson33

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5 months ago

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! by @tsolson33

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I’ll be reading tonight at the YesYes Books offsite at AWP with my amazing press mates. Please join us! by @tsolson33

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7 months ago

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 by @tsolson33

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8 months ago

I'm in Atlanta but Bojangles is better than ChikFilA everyday by @tsolson33

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9 months ago

Off to VCCA for a week of writing and I can't wait. This lunch time stop at Cookout is a fabulous beginning.

Cookout style
Double onion rings
Cheerwine/Coke Zero mix
Watermelon shake taken in CookOut Charlottesville by @tsolson33

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a year ago

We are beyond the beyond happy that Lambda has announced the finalists for this year’s 2025 awards and Born Backwards by @tsolson33 is on the list and in brilliant company!!! YAAAAYYYYYYY!!! And huge thanks to @lambdaliterary for the work they do year after year after year. 💖💖💖 by @tsolson33

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Tonight we got the 4th of July car by @tsolson33

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a year ago

Thanks to the Golden Crown Literary Society for celebrating Born Backwards with a Goldie Award!! by @tsolson33

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