Emily Adams-Aucoin

Two poems today by Emily Adams-Aucoin.

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

Poetry: "Bedtime Aubade" by Emily Adams-Aucoin | Frontier Poetry - Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry Emily Adams-Aucoin’s “Bedtime Aubade,” is brimming with intimacy as we peek into the terror and beauty of new motherhood. There’s something scary about the way that Adams-Aucoin describes the love she...

New poem in Frontier Poetry from Variant poetry reader @emilyapoetry.bsky.social! ✨️ Check out "Bedtime Aubade" by Emily Adams-Aucoin

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writing this poem felt like cutting off my own arm 🥲

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Lisel Mueller.

what’s called a normal life, a series, but how long, of grainy mistakes and irritating if you feel that way about mistakes when you rather than be afraid of words

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

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The Baby on the Fire Escape An insightful and provocative exploration of the relationship between motherhood and art through the lives of women artists and writers.What does it mean to create, not in “a room of one’s own,” but i...

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