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Anne’s 2025 Year in Books
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Anne Marie Wells Writerly Newsletter December 2025
Happy End of Year, Writers!
Hard to believe that 2026 is around the corner… the year that I turn the big 4-0. Wowee, wow.
My 2025 Recap
Photo by Kyrie kim on UnsplashJanuary: I organized and hosted the Poetry for Yani’s Kidney’s fundraiser, re-launched The Joy of Poeting, was a guest faculty at the Roanoke Regional Writers Conference, and facilitated Growing Into a New Home: Hermit Crab
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“I feel disconnected from the people who I know have not experienced the exposed nerves of a close loved one yanked by pliers from one's jaws. I am different from them now. They can’t know the festering wound staining my teeth red, can't know the taste of salt and iron in everything I eat.”
― Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems
― Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems
“I never thought I would feel lucky to have pain dripping from my pores, pain stuck to the pads of my fingers, to the bottoms of my feet, to have pain become the core of my identity in an instant, but here I am.”
― Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems
― Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems
“I am a ghost town, my body still exists among the remnants and relics, but no one lives here anymore. The locals moved out with the post office. The shelves at the corner store stand as tombstones marking the prices of items
that once waited for hands to toss them in their basket. Spiders and the remains of their kills fill the fluorescent lights. The crows don’t even stop on the wires when they fly over.”
― Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems
that once waited for hands to toss them in their basket. Spiders and the remains of their kills fill the fluorescent lights. The crows don’t even stop on the wires when they fly over.”
― Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems
“Its the same for every career and life decision. You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve, and you're going to speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.”
― Seriously... I'm Kidding
― Seriously... I'm Kidding
“I was a curious boy, but the schools were not concerned in curiosity. They were concerned in compliance... 60% of all black men who drop out of school end up in jail. This should disgrace our country, but it does not.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“I read about Queen Nzinga who ruled in Central Africa in the 16th century resisting the Portuguese. I read about her negotiating with the Dutch. When the Dutch Ambassador tried to humiliate her by refusing her a seat Nzinga had shown her power by ordering one of her advisers to all fours to make a human chair of her body. That was the kind of power I saw. and the story of our own royalty became for me a weapon.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
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