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1st print journal featuring a #poem by my teen RainbowRaven! 🤩The Echo Teen Art & Lit Mag’s a great pub for youth to submit! Proud of my kid for taking the risk to submit & sharing their words. They have so many important things to say—this is just the beginning.

Definitely recommend Stephanie Foo, author of WHAT MY BONES KNOW’s “What My Bones Know,” for all #fosterparents & many #adoptiveparents because #CPTSD is what’s coursing through our kids bones—the more we understand it, especially from a first-hand perspective, the more we can support our kids & ourselves💜

Truly enjoying reading the entire issue Honeyguide Literary Magazine on the theme of #oceananimals🪼My piece, “Internal Compass” appears in it as well (and can be read online) 🐢 It’s such a wonderful journal to work with—taking great care & pride in the work they publish 📖

"My daughter’s birth mom dons a tattoo of a sea turtle— a premonition her hatchings would return the same way sea turtles do each year to the exact beach their existence began." "Internal Compass" by Amber Watson ✍️ honeyguidemag.com/internal-compa…

My teenager’s first published art piece appears in the latest issue of #deadpeasant magazine! 🎨 Look out world, RainbowRaven’s a double threat: poetry & art!

It’s October, which means one of very own #poems appears on display at several #NorthCarolina locations, like here in Durham Freeman's Creative 🧵It’s all part of NC Poetry Society’s #poetryinplainsight statewide program 📝

My high schooler and I will both have #poems in Ghost Light Lit’s very first issue!💡What a special experience to share, especially as we both continue to use our creative outlets to process big feelings like grief 🖤 RainbowRaven

"...Your poor idea of heaven: absence of change. Better than earth? How would you know, who are neither here nor there, standing in our midst?" - Louise Glück #RIP #LouiseGluck #the_wild_iris Photo: arterialtrees.home.blog/tag/louise-glu…

We are eagerly anticipating it!

My poem “I Take Your Grief to Target” p.28 feels at home in Ghost Light Lit’s inaugural issue 🖤 Alongside my teenager’s #poem on p. 44.

So pleased NCLA archived this wonderful project. I came across Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words in its final years and it inspired me to lean into my love of ekphrastic poetry. visualverse.org/writers/amber-…

We’re back with our 4th Annual Library Fest – The Nature Edition! In celebration of National Library Week, Library Fest will be showcasing art, live animals, live music, poetry and more! Stay tuned for more updates and be sure to visit us at: DurhamCountyLibrary.org/LibraryFest

My patio table created a bunch of tiny little eclipses during yesterday’s cosmic event 🌙 #SolarEclipse2024

Well, only 2 years and 1 month later…I got my rejection from the New Yorker 😂

I’ll be taking part in an #ekphrastic (#poetry inspired by #art) show on display at the NC Pittsboro Gallery of Arts this May!

In honor of the 13-year #cicadas hatching like crazy this week in North Carolina, here’s my #poem “Molt” originally published in 3Elements Review 🪰

Nice seeing new & old faces @ opening reception for “Confluence: Where Art & Poetry Meet” #Pittsboro Gallery of Arts! Here’s the enamel necklace by artist Pam Freese my #poem was inspired by 🦋 My piece is on the wall next to the case; the show’s on display for the rest of May!

I started making resin #jewelry this summer which is, much like my writing, inspired by my love of nature. If you or someone you know would like a piece, check out more styles & colors on my IG (@amberreflections) & Etsy amberreflections.etsy.com