Amber Watson ✍️

writer, poet, food blogger, foster & adoptive mom, neat freak, libra, paddle boarder and animal lover.

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

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 https://t.co/1uk5NQxusP

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

Luckily, this was on my flight home—had it been on the way it would have ruined my trip and I would have been so upset. I know ppl are over masking, but pls. don’t ruin other people’s trips by being careless and too cool to mask.

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

Got my 1st cold in 4 years (I still mask indoors & don’t dine indoors) after taking my 1st flight in 4 yrs. I masked the entire time but the person next to me didn’t & was sneezing & coughing. If you’re sick at all PLEASE buy a mask & wear it on the plane to keep others healthy😷

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

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!

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

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

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

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

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

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

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

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

[Durham County Library @DurhamCountyLib]

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: https://t.co/pEwviMBIPF

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

So pleased @NCLA_tweets archived this wonderful project. I came across @visual_verse in its final years and it inspired me to lean into my love of ekphrastic poetry. https://t.co/rgMLPRvOiS

[NCLA @NCLA_tweets]

Wow. The entire 10 years of the unique anthology @visual_verse is now archived and freely available for all to use via NCLA! For research, teaching and to inspire your new writing, or search by artist, writer, volume and chapter: https://t.co/KCkX9a9vUc

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

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

[Ghost Light Lit @ghostlightlit]

Issue #1: GRIEF MACHINE is now available online on our website!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

https://t.co/SRile26o5Q

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

We are eagerly anticipating it!

[Ghost Light Lit @ghostlightlit]

Issue #1: GRIEF MACHINE will be out in the world on Tuesday, February 27th!! We could not be more excited for you to read these beautiful poems and stories. I’m already crying.

[FOLIO Literary @FolioLitJournal]

"...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: https://t.co/lFVlr7mUKi

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

My high schooler and I will both have #poems in @ghostlightlit’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 🖤 @RainbowRaven37

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

It’s October, which means one of very own #poems appears on display at several #NorthCarolina locations, like here in Durham @FreemansCreativ 🧵It’s all part of @ncpoetrysociety’s #poetryinplainsight statewide program 📝

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

My teenager’s first published art piece appears in the latest issue of #deadpeasant magazine! 🎨 Look out world, @RainbowRaven37’s a double threat: poetry & art!

[Honeyguide Literary Magazine @HoneyguideM]

"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 @awatsonwrites
https://t.co/eyLYXOsewq

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

Truly enjoying reading the entire issue @HoneyguideM 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 📖

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

Definitely recommend @stephaniefoooo’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💜

[Amber Watson ✍️ @awatsonwrites]

1st print journal featuring a #poem by my teen @RainbowRaven37! 🤩@EchoLiteraryMag’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.