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🇬🇾| she/her | MFA @UNCW | IN THE AFTERMATH ( @prismaticapress , 2024) | EARTHLY GODS ( @VariantLit , 2024)

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Jessica Nirvana Ram

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17 days

✨updated tour schedule✨ Earthly Gods (09.06.2024) comes out in sixteen days!! I got my reading time for Printers Row in Chicago, added a Raleigh date to the lineup, tickets for NY & Philly are linked on my website, & registration for the virtual reading is in my bio!

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11 months

can I get some commotion for the dress

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5 months

We’re teaching poetry workshops in the local school district and their evals are killing me im gonna weep

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1 year

I GOT A POETRY ACCEPTANCE!!! FOR ONE OF MY NEW POEMS!!! AHHHHHH

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11 months

I looked like a fairy yesterday !!!!!

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6 years

@penhoIder yes !!!!! after my assault he said “let’s agree to not talk about this to anyone” and my personal essay about it just got accepted for publication so that’s that, they don’t get to hold any power over us

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2 years

I am once again writing poems I cannot read in front of my parents

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2 years

I GOT A POETRY ACCEPTANCE WITH @ChicagoQReview !!!!!!!

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9 months

MY CHAPBOOK IS GETTING PUBLISHED I ACTUALLY CRIED READING THE ACCEPTANCE EMAIL IVE BEEN TRYING TO PLACE IT FOR SO LONG

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7 months

if yall can make bible references in your poems that expect me to know them then I will reference Hindu gods and offer no explanation and you will accept it

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Jessica Nirvana Ram

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2 years

Y'all I just got a short story acceptance from @PassagesNorth ????? MY FIRST FICTION PUBLICATION IS COMING OUT WITH PASSAGES NORTH IN 2024???? I'M GONNA COMBUST I CAN'T BELIEVE IT

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3 years

Okay y’all I can finally share the news: I’ve been selected to be the 2022-23 Stadler Fellow in Literary Arts Administration at Bucknell University!! I still can’t quite believe it but I’m over the moon to be joining such a brilliant community this fall!!

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2 years

I GOT A POETRY ACCEPTANCE TODAY

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2 years

HELLO I JUST GOT TWO POETRY ACCEPTANCES FROM @TheSchooner IM SCREAMING IN MY CAR RN

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1 year

there was a time where I used to think certain things weren’t significant enough to be worthy of a poem but nowadays I much more live by the philosophy that everything is worthy of being made into a poem nothing is too small or mundane it’s all life

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1 year

Announcement: my debut poetry collection is forthcoming with @VariantLit !! IM GONNA HAVE A BOOK YALL CAN YOU BELIEVE IT I SURE CAN’T

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1 year

Say hello to the newest additions to the Variant family: MJ Gomez, Todd Dillard, Ian Powell-Palm, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Ben Kline, Robin Rahija, and Jessica Ram!

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2 years

I PASSED MY THESIS DEFENSE 🎉

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1 year

sent my poem to my mother and she called me and was like “you pay attention to things” and I was like well, yes, that is in fact a large part of being a poet

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1 year

opens book, reads one poem, has to put book down to write a poem

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25 days

I took better headshots

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1 year

I walked into the CVS today and immediately the worker standing there went “oh my god you’re gorgeous” and I’m like blushing and she continues with “you literally took my breath away” and then the older lady next to her nods and goes “very beautiful” and I’m trying not to sob

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3 years

YALL I GOT A @havehadhavehad ACCEPTANCE IM ACTUALLY SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS SORRY TO MY NEIGHBORS

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2 years

I GOT MY FIRST 2022 POEM ACCEPTANCE

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1 year

I get that I write confessional poetry, I understand that I’m giving people access to a part of me, but knowing my poetry doesn’t mean you know me in any real capacity, that’s still a curated image and I wish people would remember that who someone is online is not who they are

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1 year

I love reading a book of poems that forces me to put it down because it inspired a poem

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11 months

so grateful to be recognized like this!!! I never win things!!

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11 months

THRILLED to announce our 2022 Prairie Schooner prize winners! For more details about the awards, writers, and their winning pieces, visit:

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1 year

I have a reading tonight! Also I cut my hair!

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3 years

I just doubled over into full body sobs because I got into Tin House???? For their summer workshop??? Is this real??? I think I’ve reread the email ten times just to make sure I wasn’t imagining it holy shit yall excuse me while I run around my apartment in disbelief

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25 days

do yall know of poetry books about siblings? I feel like I don’t read books where poets write about their siblings and I’ve been writing about mine lately and would like some points of reference

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4 months

It’s my birthday!!!! I am twenty eight and I have a cake and I went to the farmers market and it’s so sunny and what a life I get to live 🫶🏾

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1 year

as a poet I should be living in a cottage in the woods not going to work, I’d like a refund

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1 year

it’s my birthday!!! how am I 27!!! where did the time go!!!! so much has happened in the last year I can’t even fathom what’s to come. dear universe, I’m ready for anything, bring it on ✨

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6 months

My undergrad poetry professors are going to be teaching my debut collection to their students next year, I literally couldn’t have dreamt of this I’m gonna sob

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just wrote an email to my third grade teacher from twenty years ago to tell her about my book coming out and how she was the first person that ever told me I was good at writing and I just hope she gets this email

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5 months

I can finally share with y’all the cover for my debut collection of poetry coming out with @VariantLit ! Earthly Gods released in September and I can’t wait to get this book into y’all’s hands 🫶🏾

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3 years

I love that emerging writer contests exist but I really would love for the entry fee for all of them to not be $20 a pop

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6 months

FIRST POEM ACCEPTANCE OF 2024 WAS A DOUBLE ACCEPTANCE !!!!!!!

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1 year

GUESS WHO GOT ANOTHER POETRY ACCEPTANCEEEEEEE

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1 year

how do y’all have full time jobs and cook meals and be a person all at once

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11 months

the poet / the poem

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The poet the poem

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6 months

any excuse to post this dress again

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What did you wear to the last wedding you attended ??

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3 years

Additional good news I’m allowed to share now: my chapbook “in the aftermath” is officially forthcoming with @porkbellypress !!!!!!! When I tell you I CRIED when I found out?? This chapbook means so much to me I’m honored it’s found a home with such a loving press

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crying, my 3rd grade teacher wrote back

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1 year

so some news: @TheSchooner just awarded me the Jane Geske Award for my poems published in their most recent issue—I hadn’t had a chance to share them bc the issues have been held hostage at my parents house but here they are!! what a day!!!

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5 months

MY BOOK HAS AN ISBN NUMBER I MIGHT ACTUALLY CRY

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3 years

HI YES HELLO I GOT A POEM ACCEPTANCE TODAY FROM @nocontactmag AHHHHHHH

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2 months

so excited to announce that I've been chosen as a Festival poet for the 20th Dodge Poetry Festival this October!!!!! Dodge was the first festival I ever attended at 18 as a baby poet so to be able to return this year as a part of the programming & with my book, I'm so grateful!

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1 year

YALL I GOT A POETRY ACCEPTANCE FROM @GhostCityPress !!!!!!! brb crying about it

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2 months

hello!!! my debut collection of poetry comes out in September!!!! I am available to do things!!! book me!!! please!!!

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1 year

I wrote this poem about two months after I was diagnosed bipolar, I finally had the language to name this thing I’d experienced and I’d already written a self portrait as depressive episode so it only made sense to write its partner. Thanks to @WhaleRoadReview for publishing it✨

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2 months

yall, my little brother got the title of my book tattooed on him I’m gonna sob

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8 months

the best green I’ve ever worn

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1 year

Post yourself in green immediately 🐍

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1 year

I HAVE NEWS I CANNOT SHARE BUT HOLY SHIT YALL

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5 years

Y’all ready? I’ve been offered a Graduate Teaching Assistantship at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington as I pursue an MFA in Poetry starting this fall. Fully funded first year, recurring stipend. I’m going to get a masters degree, IM GOING TO GET A MASTERS DEGREE !!!!

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1 year

remember when I said I had some exciting news? this is it!!!!!! I’m so thrilled to be joining the @HoneyLiterary masthead—I admire this community so much and I can’t wait to champion your work in this position. get ready to send me your work y’all!!!! 🫶🏾✨

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HEY HIVE!!!! It’s time to announce our new masthead members ❤️‍🔥 🪼✨🍯 The incomparable Jessica Nirvana Ram ( @jessnirvanapoet ) is our NEW Director of Sticky Fingers!!! Let’s give her our biggest Honey applause 🐝✨✨ Jess, we are so excited and honored to work with you!!! 💘💘💘

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1 year

Im not allowed to buy anymore books this year #AWP23

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6 months

applying to things I don’t think I’m good enough for !!!! because delusion is the only way to succeed sometimes !!!

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3 years

I GOT A POETRY ACCEPTANCE TODAY OH MY GOD

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2 years

grading is tiring I’m sorry I assigned anything

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10 months

dear god I wrote a poem for the first time in months

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7 months

AWP book haul day one !!

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3 years

Y'ALL I JUST GOT THREE POEMS ACCEPTED AT ONE MAG IM GONNA GO SCREAM OUTSIDE AT THE MOON REAL QUICK

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1 year

I published two poems today!!! I wish more people would read them!! I would be so very grateful!!! thanks!!! They’re my last tweets and linked in my bio!!!

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1 year

a year from now she’s gonna be a whole physical book !!!!! insane to even conceptualize

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1 year

it’s giving nick miller actually

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it's giving princess diana revenge dress

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9 months

next year the goal is to take more pictures

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it's the last month of the year, quote with your favorite pictures of yourself this year.

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I JUST GOT THE ABSOLUTE BEST POSSIBLE NEWS IM TRYING NOT TO CRY IN THIS CAFE RN

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1 year

have I been writing a poem a day for april? yes. are they any good? absolutely not

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9 months

I’ve had thirteen poems published this year!!!! Which is a significant jump from last year’s five

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BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

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1 year

I’ve been writing in a new voice these last six months. The first line of this poem came to me while I was driving home from therapy two months ago and then it sort of just, happened. All my love to @Heroin_Chic_Mag for publishing it in their newest issue. ✨

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I have a new poem out today with @GhostCityPress !!!!

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2 years

will never understand how a tweet announcing I got a publication gets 400 likes but when the actual pub comes out it will struggle to be seen lol Twitter why u like this

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3 months

just came out to my mother as bisexual—she said without outright saying “I kinda knew” so that went better than I could have imagined

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2 months

hi! my debut collection of poetry comes out on September 6, 2024!!! preorder it now!!

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promote your shit til it get annoying!

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1 year

hello! do you want to review a debut collection!! full length or chapbook! do you have a pitch for a review or have you written the review??? I would love to have you submit to Sticky Fingers over at @HoneyLiterary I really want to use this space to highlight BIPOC work! submit!

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I had to pull my chapbook from a press due to atrocious editor negligence and it is, disheartening bc this chapbook could have been pubbed already but I let it get held hostage for almost two years because I wanted to give people grace and now I’m just back to square one

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9 months

Now that I’ve informed my current employers I can announce: I’ll be returning to the @StadlerCenter in January as their new Publicity and Outreach Manager! I’m so excited to be returning to the arts admin field and working amongst writers again!!!!

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my editor told me someone purchased eight copies of my book in one preorder and I was like wow maybe a class or a book club and lo and behold it was my friend buying copies for himself and everyone he knows lmao

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2 years

happy coming out day!! I’m bisexual!! My parents still do not know!!! But everyone else does!!!

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BITCH BOTH MY PANEL PROPOSALS FOR AWP WERE ACCEPTED IM OVER THE MOON RN

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the wildest thing about AWP for me was people coming up and saying they loved my work like??? I think sometimes the work is out in the world and I can’t see who is reading it or if anyone is reading it but I have real readers!!!!!!!!! people waiting for my book!!!! unbelievable

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tried to take new headshots and I kind of hate them all what do we think

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the entire masthead of this magazine has now followed me, did yall like the poems or not I need to know now

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new poem out with @sho_journal !!!

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10 months

I know we’re not supposed to put faith into institutions to have morals but like seeing so many places that say they understand the importance of poetry in the world choose to take a neutral stance in an active genocide when they of all people know the power of words really hurts

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as I'm trying to cobble together a book tour it really becomes more evident that it is all about who you know and who knows you and who is willing to vouch for you or bring your name up in spaces with opportunities and part of this is community but the other part is gatekeeping

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5 years

hey y'all so I was waiting quietly in the wings until I made it onto the masthead but I'm super excited to announce that I've joined @BarrenMagazine as their Submissions Manager! I'm so pumped to get started and to be part of this beautiful collection of humans

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1 year

JUST GOT A POEM ACCEPTANCE FROM @olicketysplit !!!!! COULD CRY MIGHT CRY WOW this made my whole week

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1 year

made mini cheesecakes for my office potluck today arent they cute !!!

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just discovered someone ordered 8 copies of my book in one purchase, who are you what are you doing with that many copies lmao

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“The body of the boy lies on the asphalt like a paper clip. The body of the boy lies on the asphalt like the body of a boy.” @ilya_poet ’s Deaf Republic is going to sit in my throat for weeks I can already feel it, god if you haven’t read this yet you really need to

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Jessica Nirvana Ram

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1 year

this is hands down one of my best poems lyrically like some of these lines??? what was I on??? all my thanks to @havehadhavehad and @dorothykchan for giving me my first skull with this pub back in 2021 💀

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1 year

BROKE THE POEM HIATUS AND WROTE A POEM TONIGHT WE LOVE TO SEE IT

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Jessica Nirvana Ram

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4 months

confirmed book tour cities: Chicago, Baltimore, Brooklyn, DC in-progress: Lancaster, Collegeville, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Wilmington, NC hopes and dreams: Richmond, Raleigh, Columbus, Cincinnati, LA, San Fran, Portland, OR, Seattle, Dallas, San Antonio

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Jessica Nirvana Ram

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1 year

this is the first poem in my full length collection, Earthly Gods, that’s coming out in September 2024. all my love to @haydensferryrev for giving it a home two years ago and for pairing it with this stunning artwork—I hold this poem really close to my heart 🫶🏾✨

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1 year

it’s raining and gloomy today so I pulled out the yellow

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Jessica Nirvana Ram

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6 months

struggling with a poem, but blissfully, because at least there is a poem with which to struggle

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Jessica Nirvana Ram

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1 year

Uber: what brought you to town me: writing conference! Uber: oh what do you write? me: poetry! Uber: *silence for the rest of the ride*

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Jessica Nirvana Ram

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1 year

first flight read, I have the urge to write so many things after finishing this collection, how stunning @dlseuss

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Jessica Nirvana Ram

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8 months

So excited to be back on this team!!!

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8 months

Welcome to @jessnirvanapoet ! We’re so thrilled to have Jess on the team as our new Publicity and Outreach Manager!

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Jessica Nirvana Ram

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11 months

poets: at what point in your career do you get an agent why does it feel like poetry agents appear out of thin air and like the process to get one is a mystery

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