Mia Pohlman

Writer. Editor of flourish magazine. Fulbright fellow alumna. Heart in rural Missouri, lover of truth, goodness, beauty, και το Αθηναϊκό φως και αγάπη.

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

The way this red roof gets laid in her heart is Kenneth's magic.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

this

[Mia Pohlman @MiaPohlmanWrite]

Yes. Just yes. 😭😭😭

Two of my heroines, one song, deliriously happy 💔💔💔

https://t.co/jkp4tcQp2G

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Lucille Clifton 🙏🏻

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

This beauty by Jenny George:

[Dr. Han VanderHart is on Bluesky @hmvanderhart]

this tenderness…keeps me like a garden

Carla Sofia Ferreira, @ecotheo 🌱

[Mia Pohlman @MiaPohlmanWrite]

So happy to get to meet these women while presenting about features writing at the Missouri College Media Association Conference this morning. I can’t wait to see all the good they do in the world 🌞

#MBEAMCMA2023 #WomenInMedia #featurestory

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

“Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.”
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Along the Woods in Spring (1889)
🎨 Alfred Sisley

[Mia Pohlman @MiaPohlmanWrite]

So grateful to get to be a part of this amazing group of people! Thank you, @exchangealumni !

[Exchange Alumni @exchangealumni]

We’re thrilled to wrap up a successful #AlumniTIES! In Birmingham, AL this week, 39 U.S. #ExchangeAlumni gathered to drive the conversation around #RuralEngagement in global affairs. With a chance to collaborate on community-based projects, we can’t wait to see what they do next.

[Mia Pohlman @MiaPohlmanWrite]

This feels like only the beginning of a conversation and movement towards a more connected nation, and I am so excited to get to be a part of it. After learning from my colleagues this past week, I am so hopeful for the future. Thank you!!

#hereisgood #MidwestMade #globalaffairs

[Mia Pohlman @MiaPohlmanWrite]

So grateful for these new friends I got to learn from this week at the #AlumniTIES #RuralEngagement in #GlobalAffairs Seminar in Birmingham. It was incredible to gather to discuss creative solutions to challenges facing #RuralCommunities.

[Mia Pohlman @MiaPohlmanWrite]

Thank you to @StateDept and @InternationalExchangeAlumni for recognizing the importance of rural people, rural communities and rural voices in the national conversation about connecting our country domestically and abroad.

[Mia Pohlman @MiaPohlmanWrite]

❤️

[Blessed Is She @blessedisshe__]

I did a lot of stupid, often self-deprecating things just trying to get loved when I was younger. What a relief it is to understand, the problem wasn't that I was asking for too much. No, I was asking way too little.

// Liz Kelly https://t.co/f4HIuqrA4g

[Here. Literary Magazine @HereLiterary]

We discovered what a literary magazine is and what editors do at our October workshop. We are excited to put this knowledge into practice as we create Issue 03 of Here. Literary Magazine!

#youngwriters #literarymagazine #midwestmade

[Here. Literary Magazine @HereLiterary]

We had a blast at our October Art Editorial Board workshop learning about the importance of art in the community and arts nonprofits. Thanks for treating us to pumpkin decorating!

#makeart #youngartists #midwestmade #literarymagazine

[Mia Pohlman @MiaPohlmanWrite]

So happy to have gotten to do my first foray into voiceover for this video, and even happier to work with the amazing people who made Every. Single. Piece. Of this rustmedia reel.

Check out the talent of these coworkers and friends here:

https://t.co/gz1AArHiJV

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Speak midwestern

No Yeah = Yes

Yeah no = No

Yeah no for sure = Definitely

Yeah no yeah = I’m sorry unfortunately, the answer is yes

No yeah no = oh yeah nothing to worry about

Welp: exclamation before it’s time to go or “I guess that’s how it goes”

Ope: shorthand apology

[Mia Pohlman @MiaPohlmanWrite]

I do know this: The blank space between two sections in an essay promises the ideas connect. Let us rest in these gaps while questions like rocks tumble around, as wet clothes in a hot dryer until they’re ready for us to wear them.

flourish, Winter 2021:
https://t.co/Hy066L97a0

[Mia Pohlman @MiaPohlmanWrite]

Thanks, @SarahGeringer !

:) I love that little place in the world.

What's your medium for loving people?

[Sarah Lynne Creates @SarahLynneCR]

“Today, we’re going to put ourselves and our own needs...aside and go above and beyond to serve people.
They did it as if their job was not to make and sell cake; it was to love people. It just so happened cake was their medium.” https://t.co/52fXNXK1iH via @MiaPohlmanWrite