Two poems today by Emily Adams-Aucoin. @emilyapoetry.bsky.social librelit.com/2025/05/09/e...

The Iridescent Net | Emily Adams-Aucoin @emilyapoetry.bsky.social | Frozen Sea - Issue Eight

New poem in Frontier Poetry from Variant poetry reader @emilyapoetry.bsky.social! ✨️ Check out "Bedtime Aubade" by Emily Adams-Aucoin www.frontierpoetry.com/2025/03/14/e...

writing this poem felt like cutting off my own arm 🥲

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Lisel Mueller.

Rosmarie Waldrop

“To be a mother is to live piercingly and inescapably in the moment. The artist who is also a mother must leave the moment in order to access a moment of a very different nature, and each time she does it a cost is exacted, the cost of experience.” — Parade: A Novel by Rachel Cusk

“Every empire denies the iceberg it crashes into, hires a chorus, funds the arts. Every empire sings itself a lullaby.” — from “To Be Self-Evident” by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, who just won the poetry category at the US National Book Awards westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/lena-khalaf-...

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