Author: amandashawpoet
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It will have been so…complicated: 2024—the Good, the Bad, and the Future Anterior*
On December 31st, 2023, Eileen Cleary posted a beautifully worded Facebook announcement that my book, It Will Have Been So Beautiful, was available for pre-sale. I knew it was coming, […]
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Wait, Now I Have to Read Them?
THE EXCITEMENT AND ANGST OF PERFORMING MY POEMS NOTE This post was originally published in the Washington Independent Review of Books on May 27, 2024. I also decided to put […]
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Guest Post: Insights from a Poet’s Husband
BEHIND THE SCENES OF BOOK PROMOTION By Greg Sauter Amanda’S NOTES Apparently, when you have a book out, you need to write about it all the time. This is a […]
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Will it have been beautiful?
THOUGHTS ON “LAUNCHING” I opened my email this morning to a notification from UPS: “Hi, Amanda! Your package is arriving today.” I couldn’t remember ordering anything, so I used my […]
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Yes it will: meet Ruthie.
ON TWEENS, GIRLHOOD, and BARBIE Entering into social media life means that I know more about the Barbie Oscar nomination kerfuffle than I might in another year. I’ve seen Oppenheimer—and […]