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Lesley Wheeler

@lesleymwheeler.bsky.social

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Poetry Ed of Shenandoah. Author of Mycocosmic, Poetry’s Possible Worlds, Unbecoming, The State She’s In, & Radioland—poetry, fantasy fiction, CNF, scholarship. She/they. linktr.ee/lesleymwheeler

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@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 3:39 PM

Wish I could join this but I’m about to get on a plane. It’ll be terrific!

@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 5:12 PM

On my way to the ODU Literary Festival in Norfolk VA in a couple of days and very much looking forward to reading with Luz Schweig and Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda!

ODU Lit fest: Make Room for Wonder, VA Poets Database reading on Weds 10/7 at 2 pm
@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 10:08 PM

I am released! Thank you so much @simeonberry.bsky.social !

@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 8:20 PM

Thank you so much! I did too, so that’s helpful to hear

@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 8:19 PM

lesleymwheeler.substack.com/p/snailing-a...

@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 3:04 PM

I’ll be reading Mycocosmic’s “Underpoem” at W&L this week, after Chris talks about his new book, while audience members nosh on fruit and baked Brie. 9/23, 11:50-12:50, Leyburn Library in Lexington, Virginia. Better than dropping sandwich crumbs into your keyboard while you process email, right?

Chris Gavaler and Lesley Wheeler discuss their new books at W&L this week, 9/23, 11:50-12:50, Leyburn Library in Lexington, Virginia. Refreshments served!
@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 8:53 PM

Taking a breather from the September work-blizzard to thank @whaleroadreview.bsky.social for including my poem “Moonday” in its splendid new issue. Plus here’s a handsome bolete, just for fun. www.whaleroadreview.com/wheeler-2/

Yellow bolete in the duff
@levostregc.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 4:54 PMReposted by @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

@heideerdrich.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 5:07 PMReposted by @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social

WONDEROUSNESS has taken place and my gratitude is sky-wide!!!!!
McKnight Names Heid E. Erdrich 2026 Distinguished Artist - McKnight Foundation share.google/9EAQV9wYePzR...

@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 11:35 PM

Tomorrow!

@whaleroadreview.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 5:43 PMReposted by @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social

This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate...

www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-44-fal...

@whaleroadreview.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 5:43 PMReposted by @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social

P.S. Our virtual WRR Fall Celebration Reading (ft. many of the writers in this issue) will be held on Saturday, October 10, at 9 a.m. PST. Register here.

pointloma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 11:05 PM

Also obsessed with the Great Pink Sea Snail? @ the Betsy Writers Room, thanks to @swwim.bsky.social , I re-watched the first Dr Dolittle so I could write this final section of my long poem “Ternary Systems.” Thanks to @pinchjournal.bsky.social for giving it a shiny home! 🐌

The Pinch magazine with nasturtiumPoem “Ternary Systems 101” by Lesley Wheeler
@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialSep 4, 2026, 4:45 PM

A week from Sunday, 9/13 2-4 pm, I’ll be at the wonderful Stone Soup books in Waynesboro VA with Jeanne Larsen, Sarah Ann Winn, @stbrigidpress.bsky.social & others for a free reading, convo, and workshop! www.stonesoupbooks.net/event-detail...

@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialSep 3, 2026, 1:08 PM

I loved the whole book, honestly—the form REALLY works, the humor is sly, and place so vividly observed! Really one of the best I’ve read this year, though I’m late to the party

@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialAug 30, 2026, 9:01 PM

From Dave Bonta’s “Ice Mountain: An Elegy”: “what would the wind do without / the daffodils’ yellow / hoopla of blooms”? @davebonta.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday

@aempoet.bsky.socialAug 30, 2026, 8:38 PMReposted by @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social

I have a new poem you can read online.
#poetry #poets #cadralor #gleam
gleampoets.org/cadralor-iss...

@martin65.bsky.socialAug 30, 2026, 6:12 PMReposted by @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social

And of course always this one, by Marianne Moore. #SmallPoemSunday

I May, I Might, I Must 

If you will tell me why the fen
appears impassable, I then
will tell you why I think that I
can get across it if I try.

--Marianne Moore
@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialAug 27, 2026, 11:56 PM

Yes!

@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialAug 6, 2026, 3:35 PM

Spending the first week of August within these two resonant, powerful collections: House of Sugar, House of Stone about surviving life in a woman’s body, and A Suit or a Suitcase about reintegration after suffering. Kudos to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social & Emily Pérez! #sealeychallenge

House of Sugar, House of Stone by Emily Perez and A Suit or a Suitcase by Maggie Smith
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