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Jane Hicks

@thecosmicpossum

Poet, teacher, granny, over-educated hillbilly. Possum lover. Cancer survivor.

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Her caramel frosting is exactly like my country granny’s. I’ve been trying g to reproduce it for years. Hers was spot on.

08.03.2026 23:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Most deserved. I laugh and cry every time is use this book. I’ve cooked several of the recipes.

08.03.2026 20:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My favorite as a child. I taught it with my students many times.

04.03.2026 00:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Often.

02.03.2026 18:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was t following you then. Maybe next book.

06.02.2026 00:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wanted this for my book cover. The editor didn’t even try to find it. Lower right.

06.02.2026 00:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I frequently had tea with my landlady. Often Lawrence Welk was on. I heard this and was trying hard not to get hysterical.

06.02.2026 00:36 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

So many, so many did.

28.01.2026 17:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Spent the afternoon sending out poems. I’m very unorganized at this task.

28.01.2026 17:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A snapshot of the video Luke posted

A snapshot of the video Luke posted

I just shared a big update on my mushroom foraging guide I’m writing 🙌 There’s a free video on Patreon patreon.com/luke_venechuk

Pretty sure I used the phrase “hell yeah” more than any other mushroom guide author ✍️

04.01.2026 22:40 👍 141 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

Fascinating. Altercation. Wow

02.01.2026 02:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2026 Richard Snyder Prize Opens! - Ashland Poetry Press Ashland Poetry Press is thrilled to announce that the 2025 judge for our Richard Snyder Memorial Book Prize is D.A. Powell. The Prize opened for submissions on January 1 and will read through the spri...

I will be selecting the winner of the Ashland Poetry Press' Richard Snyder Prize for a full-length collection. Submissions open today. Final deadline is the first of May.
ashlandpoetrypress.com/2026-richard...

02.01.2026 01:15 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
photo of a text message appearing on an older model flip phone. the message reads: the shoes of the fisherman's wife poems by upfromsumdirt makes a great gift!

photo of a text message appearing on an older model flip phone. the message reads: the shoes of the fisherman's wife poems by upfromsumdirt makes a great gift!

...help me help you. 😌☺️

17.12.2025 11:21 👍 29 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

My Cars loving grandson was greatly disturbed

12.12.2025 22:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They look like kindergarten art and are butt ugly in person.

10.12.2025 02:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So here comes the encouragement:
* you are not alone
* this, too, shall pass
* keep writing because someone needs your story
* keep writing because you love the craft
* you have survived 100% of the times that felt impossible
* art is rebellion
* art feeds your soul
* winter is for lying fallow 8/

10.12.2025 01:25 👍 152 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 3

I say this every ding dang year, but PLEASE if you have friends/family who you don't know what they need for the holidays, ask if they need something for their pets.

I'm helping SO many people raise funds for spay/neuter right now. Many people want help, not presents 💗

09.12.2025 21:46 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

My eyes were damaged by the measles. Whooping cough nearly killed me.

09.12.2025 03:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I want her trousers. Beautiful

09.12.2025 03:34 👍 32 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

My mother took the first iteration of this drug called Byetta. She called it her lizard spit.

05.12.2025 17:49 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Ep. 51 | Poetry Corner: upfromsumdirt — Read Appalachia In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner,  Kendra Winchester is joined by upfromsumdirt.

NEW PODCAST EPISODE!

In today’s episode @kdwinchester.bsky.social talks to @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social about his new poetry collection THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN’S WIFE. Have a listen!

www.readappalachia.com/blog/ep-51-u...

05.12.2025 01:20 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

It happened to me in my 30’s.

02.12.2025 03:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Decoding an Ancestor’s Scandalous, Encrypted Diaries - Electric Literature In “Cipher,” Jeremy B. Jones uses the nineteenth-century life of his forefather to better understand the present

Jeremy B. Jones and Denton Loving discuss Jones’s new memoir “Cipher,” the process of journaling, what it’s like to be haunted, and whether the past offers any hope for our current times.

01.12.2025 19:00 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Red Branch Review #4 is gorgeous. I have a poem along with a number of great poets, writers, and artists. Order here:

www.redbranchreview.org

01.12.2025 15:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ALL THESE GHOSTS is a finalist for the Southern Book Prize. This award is special because booksellers pick the finalists and readers pick the winner. I’m honored to be a finalist among such an amazing lineup. You can vote for your favorites here.
thesouthernbooksellerreview.org/southern-boo...

03.11.2025 15:24 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Several years ago my mom was prescribed Byetta an early form of this med. we called it her lizard spit.

12.09.2025 19:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My head is going to explode

05.09.2025 23:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No. They don’t. I live nearby. There are many other doctors who would treat her.

24.07.2025 12:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Monumental.

18.07.2025 15:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤣

16.07.2025 18:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0