Lisa Allen

Join me & Lisa @backtoallen.bsky.social for a @notebookscltv.bsky.social coffee meet up early Thursday. Help me mentally prepare for #AWP26

Cover page of the website at asteralesjournal.com with the names of pieces and contributors in beige colored boxes with original art in circles.

Issue Five is now live with words from @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social, Katie Kim, @aprilist.bsky.social Svetlana Litvinchuk, @creakyvoice.bsky.social, Amanda Lee, & Stephen Energia Gifford Bell. Art from @sjane.bsky.social and @titaniayellow.bsky.social!

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Oct. 21st! Come celebrate Iain Haley Pollock's exceptional new collection with us!
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That's this coming Tuesday, everyone! Come join us!
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Poets Monica Lee Weatherly & Valerie Smith in zoom windows having a conversation.

Indulging in beautiful poems by Monica Lee Weatherly & Valerie Smith via @notebookscltv.bsky.social Home & place. Belonging & longing.

Tools for Self-Critique Shift your revision practice from one of judgment to one of discovery and accountability.

Join us on August 3rd to learn how to practice identifying what’s working in a piece, what questions it’s asking, and what possibilities revision can open up. Through interactive lecture and guided prompts, we’ll explore how to cultivate a more generous, self-aware approach to the revision process.

Write Two: The Prose Poem as Diptych Memoir This is a class in dualities: two forms, two poems. (In two hours!) The two forms: We’ll explore the prose poem (a hybrid of prose and poetry) and the prose poem as memoir (a lyric rendering of a…

Friends, we'd love for you to join us for this class on Sunday, July 27th. @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social is teaching Write Two: The Prose Poem as Diptych Memoir and whew, does it promise to be an amazing two hours.

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ICYMI, the pope's letter on reading:

Also, don't miss this free opportunity to explore the epistolary form as a way to address current social justice issues in today’s political landscape with Pauletta Hansel and Tabassam Shah: poetsagainstracism-usa.org/events/

In Conversation: Fleda Brown & Anne-Marie Oomen Emotional openness. An invitation to think together. Fleda Brown and Anne-Marie Oomen aren’t just contemporaries; they’re friends and deep admirers of each other’s work.

One week from tonight! Join Fleda Brown & @oomenam.bsky.social for an In Conversation. Both acclaimed poets and essayists, Fleda and Anne-Marie are also both teachers, Michganders, and friends. Registration is free for this virtual event!

Writing is fine. It's literally the most embarrassing thing on earth to put yourself on full display for rejection or validation, but it's fine. I enjoy it. I find it therapeutic to set myself on fire.

Cynthia Marie Hoffman & Sarah Kain Gutowski Poets Cynthia Marie Hoffman and Sarah Kain Gutowski will read from their collected works, with an emphasis on their newest respective collections, both of which are cohesively themed (Cynthia’s is a…

Our next In Conversation is on March 18 with @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social & Sarah Kain Gutowski. They’ll talk their respective collections as book-length “projects,” how their own journeys with OCD/anxiety have impacted their work; and more.
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This is happening this Tuesday evening! We're still pinching ourselves a little that we get to host these poets and hope that you join us! Reminder: In Conversation events are free and virtual (via Zoom) and all are welcome :)

Busy Sunday? @jessicacuello.bsky.social is teaching a class about persona poetry and we'd love for you to join us. Find details and registration info at the link.
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Two photographs on a bright green flyer advertising featured poets: A Black woman with long, dark hair & a black sleeveless top in the top photo, and a non-binary white person with short, brown hair, a black sleeveless top with a blue & white neckerchief, and tattooed arms in the photo below.

If you're in Cincy this Tuesday (Feb. 4th), come to Sitwell's Coffee House for some electric poetry from @taylorbyas.bsky.social & @kebpoet.bsky.social! We'll have an open mc, too!

Writing Persona: When a Mask Is All We Can Bear A generative course that will look attentively at poems by Ai, Lucie Brock-Broido, and Patricia Smith among others. We’ll explore ways to enter persona and deepen the imaginative possibilities of…

The phenomenally talented poet @jessicacuello.bsky.social is teaching a persona class on March 2nd for only $60 and I'm irrationally excited. More here: thenotebookscollective.com/event/writin...

So excited for this In Conversation event!

This order doesn't just ban trans people from the military. It states that this administration believes trans people lack "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle" and that being trans "is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member."

Your regular reminder to tell the creators whose work you love that you love their work. Doesn't have to be a conversation, can just be "hey, you made a thing I love, thank you for it." It'll make their day, and probably yours too.

I had the chance to work with Poet Lore to pick some amazing poems! I really hope y’all enjoy my selections
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I didn't know until now, but I absolutely do

The Trace My friendships with one or two, yes, three men for whom once I felt the wildest, most painful longing, still retain, in their enduring transformation, some fragrance of those times, like a box where once the leaves of an exotic herb were kept, an herb of varied properties, useful and dangerous, long since consumed.

Denise Levertov

This is the energy I need to see from our reps. More of this. Please.

An important note about bathrooms in the US Capitol: members have private bathrooms in their offices.

Members who are obsessed with where other people pee can use their own private bathroom.

Unconscionable and yet I'm sadly not surprised.

Thanks! And I will! It's almost like a yearly exercise at this point, lol.

Yep, me too. Because today is the day I needed a reminder that my panel was rejected 😏.

LOL. I wish I'd been able to come up with a clever response like that!

I had one who did that too, also for a memoir draft, but also said he'd be more interesting as an asexual man.

A screenshot of a laptop with a zoom conversation in progress. There are three squares: Poet Marcus Myers in a red shirt, host Lisa Allen in a black blouse & poet Rivka Clifton in black. Marcus & Lisa are listening to Rivka as she answers a question.

Hi poets & writers! My pal @backtoallen.bsky.social & I run @notebookscltv.bsky.social & you should follow us! We host creatives in conversation, readings, & classes! #poetry #blueskypoets