Sarah Ann Winn | Poet Camp

@poetcamp.bsky.social

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I’m a poet, teacher and free-range librarian, and the founder of Poet Camp. #wompo *And brand new to Bluesky as of 9/5! PoetCamp.com

Little free library in a snowy yard
Greyed out photo of Nikki Giovanni in background. Title reads "Nikki Giovanni (1948-2024). Quote underneath reads "i hope i die warmed by the life i tried to live" by Nikki Giovanni. Link on footer to sarahannwinn.substack.com
Background image: Wool woven throw on a window seat, with snowy bush on other side of the glass. Text reads "December Jumpstarts. Dec. 2-6 & Dec. 9-13. 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Eastern, Google Meet. $25-50. Poet Camp logo in white.
Magpie on a snowy lamppost’s garland.
Still Water by Patricia Fargnoli [epigraph] "What times are these when a poem about trees is almost a crime because it contains silence against so many outrages." Brecht [/end epigraph] And why not silence? Ahead of me, Goose Pond parts pale water and my canoe slides through into June sun, cathedral quiet,/soft plumes of cloud. A thin gauze of rain stalls over Mt. Monadnock. This is the way I drift from each skirmish with the world to the diplomacy of light as it flares off the water./flickers among the flute-notes of birds hidden in the leaning birches. Would you condemn me? I've already held the old bodies of grief long past morning; leave them to the ministrations/ of the dirt-borers who work what is finished back into the earth. Some atrocities are beyond redemption-- you know them already-- the world will be the world no matter. I want the blinding silver of this small pond/to stun my eyes, the palaver of leaves to stop my ears.
Text over image of tree with red and yellow leaves, "Good medicine: togetherness, kindness and beauty (and a signup hiccup at Poet Camp's shop page.)
Kermit the Frog flailing his arms wildly and (probably) saying "yaaaaaaay!" (No subtitle.)
Book cover, painted with stylized flowers. Title: Leaning Towards Light: Poems for gardens & the hands that tend them. Edited by Tess Taylor, Foreward by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
“A Blessing for Stocked Fish” by Cecily Parks [full text of poem in Field Folly Snow]
Snip of screen grab of email beginning “Raccoons are…”