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LeeAnn Pickrell

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Poet, editor, and coffee, cat, and book lover. Managing editor of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. My poetry book Gathering the Pieces of Days is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in 2025 www.leeannpickrell.com leeannpickrell.substack.com

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Kindnesses by LeeAnn Pickrell Image /  Ba Tik Kindnesses You hand me the cup of coffee,  fresh brewed, as I walk into the kitchen  just awake in my stockinged feet. Each ...

Thanks to editor Barbara Leonhard for featuring my poem "Kindnesses" in Feed the Holy today. #poetry

29.10.2025 16:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ode to Pluto A poem

My latest Substack post
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24.08.2025 17:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Spring I Waited for the Dogwood to Bloom Becoming a poet

My latest Substack post is about those moments that make us who we are. When did you become a poet, a writer, an artist, a musician, a chef, a gardener, a lover of life? #poetry #poetrycommunity #poems #blueskypoets

04.05.2025 18:24 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GATHERING THE PIECES OF DAY BY LEEANN PICKRELL — Unsolicited Press GATHERING THE PIECES OF DAYS is a collection of 52 poems, one for each week of the year. By capturing pieces from each day–whether mundane, frustrating, raw, or joyful–this collection reveals the extr...

Attention is love. My book GATHERING THE PIECES OF DAYS is a love letter to life’s small moments—each poem a week, a breath, a memory. #PoetryBooks #PoetryCollection #NewBooks #MindfulMoments #PoetryLover #MindfulMoments #NewBookRelease #ReadPoetry #52WeeksOfPoetry@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social

10.04.2025 17:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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National Poetry Month is here, and we’re making it poetic AF—with 10% off ALL poetry books all April long! 🥳 Use code POETRYMONTH10 at checkout.

Link: unsolicitedpress.com/shop/poetry

#nationalpoetrymonth

06.04.2025 17:10 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Here’s the poem that inspired the title of my book Gathering the Pieces of Day, due out in two days from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social #poetry #poetrybooks #poem #52weeksofpoems

07.04.2025 04:47 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🔥 FOUR BOOKS. FOUR WOMXN. ONE POWERHOUSE MONTH. 🔥 This year, Unsolicited Press is celebrating THE YEAR OF WOMXN, publishing an incredible lineup of books exclusively by womxn writers—and April is bringing FOUR stunning new releases that will blow you...

🔥 FOUR BOOKS. FOUR WOMXN. ONE POWERHOUSE MONTH. 🔥
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02.04.2025 20:58 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Book Giveaway for Gathering the Pieces of Days by LeeAnn Pickrell Enter to win one of 30 free copies available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

"Celebrates the extraordinary hidden within the ordinary, from laughter and love to loss and longing, and the dreams that carry us forward."

Enter to win a copy of @leeannp.bsky.social's "Gathering the Pieces of Days" from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social

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06.04.2025 19:14 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Gathering the Pieces of Day, by Leeann Pickrell Gathering the Pieces of Days is a collection of 52 poems-one for each week of the year-born from a daily ritual begun by LeeAnn Pickrell in 2018. Committing to a page each morning about the previous d...

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05.04.2025 20:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Final Countdown
3 days until Gathering the Pieces of Days is out in the world! 📚 Ready to read 52 poems that celebrate the everyday? Preorder now & let’s take this poetic journey together. 💙
#TBR #ComingSoon #GatheringThePieces

05.04.2025 20:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Literary Nights with Unsolicited Pres YouTube video by Unsolicited Press

I read last night with @cathy-shea.bsky.social for Literary Nights with Unsolicited Press. We read from our new collections of poems and talked poetry and writing. Watch it here.
#PoetryLover #MindfulMoments #PoetryBooks #PoetryCollection #NewBookRelease #Bookstagram #ReadPoetry #52WeeksOfPoetry

03.04.2025 16:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My book— and I—at AWP!
#awp25

28.03.2025 22:30 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I'll be at AWP signing and selling books at the Unsolicited Press table (T755) on Thursday, 3/27 at 11 a.m. with @cathyshea.bsky.social, on Friday, 3/28, at 11 a.m., and Saturday 3/29. #AWP2025 #UnsolicitedPress #PoetryLover #PoetryBooks #PoetryCollection #NewBookRelease #52WeeksOfPoetry

25.03.2025 01:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"I wake and time is an hour ahead" A poem

"I wake and time is an hour ahead"

An anti-daylight savings time poem
#daylightsavingstime

09.03.2025 18:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Gathering the Pieces of Day, by Leeann Pickrell Gathering the Pieces of Days is a collection of 52 poems-one for each week of the year-born from a daily ritual begun by LeeAnn Pickrell in 2018. Committing to a page each morning about the previous d...
01.03.2025 23:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Gathering the Pieces of Day, by Leeann Pickrell Gathering the Pieces of Days is a collection of 52 poems-one for each week of the year-born from a daily ritual begun by LeeAnn Pickrell in 2018. Committing to a page each morning about the previous d...
01.03.2025 23:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Gathering the Pieces of Days, my debut collection, is available for preorder now! Preorders help authors, and you can get 25% off your book with code GATHERING from March 1 through April 8 at Tertulia!

#YearOfWomxn #WomxnInLiterature #RedForRebellion #Poetry #Poems #UnsolicitedPress #tertulia

01.03.2025 23:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I am so ashamed to be an American today.

01.03.2025 00:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

28.02.2025 20:44 👍 80319 🔁 34288 💬 1176 📌 1666
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T.G.&Y. A poem about my first job

What was your first job?

23.02.2025 17:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Isn't that the truth?

17.02.2025 18:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spent last week in Santa Cruz. I didn't open my NYT app once. I didn't play on my phone and I mostly stayed offline. I'm refreshed. Highly recommend. #takingabreak

17.02.2025 18:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My first book Gathering the Pieces of Days is available for preorder! Here's the fabulous cover from Unsolicited Press! #YearOfWomxn2025 #UnsolicitedVoices #WomxnInLiterature #RedCovers2025

www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/gathe...

10.02.2025 17:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Indeed.

30.01.2025 00:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I read this poem by Denise Levertov this morning. It was first published in 1982, and it could have been written yesterday. #poetry #BlueSkyPoets #poems #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #SkyPoets #POETRY #Authors

29.01.2025 17:38 👍 101 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0
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The first days ... A poem and some thoughts

My Sunday Substack post contained a poem I wrote after the Supreme Court took away the right for a woman to choose what to do with her own body. They want us to be quiet. I will not be quiet. #poets #poetry #BlueSkyPoets #resistTrump #pro-choice

22.01.2025 17:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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LeeAnn Pickrell: California Poets Part 8, Three Poems January 8th, 2025California Poets: Part VIIILeeAnn PickrellThree PoemsThis is not This is not a poem aboutthe solar eclipse I missed how smog shrouds the city below while herewhere we walk the grass b...

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12.01.2025 21:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
California Poets | LAdige

David Garyan has created an online anthology of California Poets. I'm so excited to be in the company of such wonderful poets. #poetry #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets #poems #CaliforniaPoets

12.01.2025 21:21 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Chompie is my writing partner
#CatsOfBlueSky #BlueSkyCats

11.01.2025 01:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Gathering the Pieces of Days A poem and a book

Since it's the first week of January, I've posted a new Substack with the first poem in Gathering the Pieces of Days. The poem is appropriately titled "January 1." The book will be published by Unsolicited Press as part of 2025 Year of Womxn. #unsolicitedpress #poetry #poetrycommunity #YearOfWomxn

05.01.2025 19:43 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0