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[poemsbyelizabeth]

It's A Rainy Day // Poem

It's A Rainy Day By: Elizabeth Almeida (me)I have been blown away from the support my channel has gotten! Thank you all for your support! Want to read more o...

New poetry video up on my YouTube channel! Check it out for some rainy day blues. 

[andreablythe]

My forthcoming chapbook Twelve: Poems Inspired by the Brother’s Grimm Fairy Tale (Interstellar Flight Press) is now available for preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Indiebound.

Twelve is a retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairytale “The Twelve Dancing Princesses.” Bewitching and beguiling, this short series of linked poems takes the reader to the underrealm and back, following the stories of twelve princesses and their life after the magic shoes.

If obtaining a copy of my shiny new book is not enough of an incentive by itself, Interstellar Flight Press is offering swag to the first 50 people who preorder. The swag bag includes gorgeous red-edged, hand-numbered broadside with lines from from the book, as well as stickers and various surprise items. Just send them an email after ordering.

If you can’t afford to buy a book at this time — no problem. I totally get it. Times are hard.

Maybe you can help by reblogging instead?

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Here are some kind things my fellow poets have said about the book:

“Andrea Blythe’s collection of the retold (and often feminist) Brothers Grimm fairytale, ‘The Twelve Dancing Princesses,’ is a breath of air at the bottom of the ocean. It’s not only fresh, but it’s so different and unique that it deserves multiple reads. One of my favorite lines in the book is also something we should all ask ourselves, ‘Do you mean it?’”

— Joanna C. Valente (@joannacvalente), author of Marys of the Sea and editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault

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“Hearkening back to when Grimms’ tales were less fairy, more formidable, Andrea Blythe offers a rhythmic, alliterative retelling of traditional stories that reveal a stark imbalance between genders. An engaging and eerie tribute to the young girls and women who read, dance, and keep things clean, Twelve does exactly what her storyteller suggests of her characters: it ‘see[s] the truth beneath the pretty surface.’”

— Christina M. Rau (@christinamrau), author of the Elgin Award winning Liberating The Astronauts

[thewrittenpoet]

A real bummer when one of the lit mags you had such big hopes for has to close because they weren't getting submissions... :/

[wordsfromherlife]

Here's to More Poetry

Poetry has been my biggest escape for as long as I can remember. Writing isn’t just something I do—it’s who I am. When I use the hashtag healing through poetry, I truly mean it. Without poetry, I’d probably be running around in chaos, trying to make sense of everything.Every time I share my words—whether here on my blog or on Facebook—I do so because this space feels safe. It’s like an online…

Here's to More Poetry

[guyfarmer]

There Will Always Be Poverty | Modern Poetry by Guy Farmer With a shrug of His shoulders he Says that there Will always be poverty, And, unknowingly, with…

[tlhopkinson]

13 Ways to Support Poetry – guest blog post by Dick Allen #NaPoMo

13 Ways to Support Poetry – guest blog post by Dick Allen #NaPoMo

Great guest blog post rewind up today from Dick Allen… the 13 ways to support poetry below include what to ask your local library, how to support the poetry community, and quotes from others in the lit mag industry.

“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet [humans] die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”—William Carlos Williams

1. Ask your local public librariesand…

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[guyfarmer]

Why It’s Happening | A Poem by Guy Farmer Though these could be Moments of reflection, They instead become Frantic lurches from One place to another…