Thanks to David Starkey, Chryss Yost, and @meghandunnpoet.bsky.social for including my poem "Ithaka" in the new issue of Anacapa Review! (I've been translating Barbara Köhler's reimagining of the Odyssey; maybe I'm "under the influence"!) anacapareview.com/christopher-...

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Ithaka It took[1] seventeen-plus yearsto accept your invitation[2] I shouldn’t have been[3]surprised to learn that the train doesn’t stop there anymore[4]but, remarkably, an ancient white cat stared a...

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Life’s never dull on the edge of town!

Join me and Arden Levine as we celebrate new work! Zoomland: June 25 at 7:00 p.m. (Central). Registration required, free: tinyurl.com/3w6cd94r My new chap, lowercase gods, from Seven Kitchens: tinyurl.com/ba7mkx3j Arden's new book, Spoke, from The Word Works: wordworksbooks.org/product/spoke/

Join me and Arden Levine as we celebrate new work! Zoomland: June 25 at 7:00 p.m. (Central). Registration required, free: tinyurl.com/3w6cd94r My new chap, lowercase gods, from Seven Kitchens: tinyurl.com/ba7mkx3j Arden's new book, Spoke, from The Word Works: wordworksbooks.org/product/spoke/

TONIGHT! Free! Fun! Poetic! We are also both publishers so bring your questions! Let @christophernelson.bsky.social and me make you feel electric! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #poetry

Join me and Bryan Borland Thursday for an hour of poetry! We'll be reading from our new and forthcoming books. Register here: tinyurl.com/yupmkuhs Links to the books below @sevenkitchenspress.bsky.social @bryanborland.bsky.social

Join me and @bryanborland.bsky.social as we celebrate our new work! Zoomland: May 21 at 8:00 p.m. (Central). Registration required, free: tinyurl.com/yupmkuhs @sevenkitchenspress.bsky.social: sevenkitchenspress.com/robin-becker... Sibling Rivalry Press: www.amazon.com/Listen-Kid-S...

Tomorrow night I'll be introducing Dennis Hinrichsen as he reads (via Zoom) from his new book, dementia lyrics. Join us. Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 p.m. (Central). Register here: tinyurl.com/bdfy622v

Tick-tock tick-tock! Green Linden Press is reading poetry chapbook manuscripts for a couple more days. greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit

I'm tickled pink to say that my new chap is available from Seven Kitchens. Many thanks to Ron Mohring and Steve Bellin-Oka. "What sumptuous landscapes of attraction and hurt lowercase gods makes visceral and real." —Richie Hofmann sevenkitchenspress.com/robin-becker...

Christopher Nelson | lowercase gods

lowercase gods by Christopher Nelson. Number 33 in our Robin Becker Chapbook Series, selected by series editor Steve Bellin-Oka. [ cover image from the film Sacré Collège! (Cadinot, …

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My review of Shane McCrae's recent chapbook, Song and Sonnets (Broken Sleep Books), which is somehow horrifying and beautiful, and meets the present moment with mimetic brilliance. www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a... @akasomeguy.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

One month remains in Green Linden Press's chapbook open-reading period! We'd love to read your work! greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit

Join JackLeg writers @christophernelson.bsky.social @gendeguzman.bsky.social @ritamookerjee.bsky.social + friends from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @masonjarpress.bsky.social & do some good to help Trans Maryland!! Tip donations at the door. #AWP #poetry #dragshow #burlesque #LGBTQPlus

Now that’s a statement

SPFE28@spfelocal28.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Yesterday, we joined tens of thousands to march. This am, ICE responded with violence. Alex was an ICU nurse, a union sibling, & an observer who stepped in to help. This is a union state. We will continue to show up, to watch, to document, and fight ICE is not welcome here.

"Skyfall"—new audio poem up at Booth. Feels timely. booth.butler.edu/2026/01/01/s...

Thank you @mariannelchan.bsky.social, Leslie Harrison, @michaelmontlack.bsky.social, @christophernelson.bsky.social, Gregory Orr, and Amy Raasch for sending great poems to Smartish Pace! #SmartishPace #pushcart #poetry #creativewriting #poet #poetrycommunity #poets #SmartishPacePoets #poetrylovers

Poets, it's twilight time! greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit

Join us tonight, 8:00 p.m. (Central)! tinyurl.com/499vk7vk

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Does the line of shameful acts "stretch out to th’ crack of doom?" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa

The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

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Delighted to share translations from a project I'm working on with the amazing @monikacassel.bsky.social: four poems from Barbara Köhler's Niemands Frau, a brilliant, hallucinatory re-telling of the Odyssey. Thanks to Asymptote for believing in the work. www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/no-on...

from No One’s Woman - Asymptote

TISSUE SAMPLE : PENELOPEpenelope waits waits for whatwaits penelope? does calypso wait circe wait scylla charybdis sirens wait all all for one only: the one the other—different fr...

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Spilt by Jordan Stempleman is now available! Winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize for poetic innovation. Join Green Linden Press for a reading tonight (Sept. 18 at 8 p.m., Central). Register here: tinyurl.com/2h83ehfb And get your book here: www.greenlindenpress.com/books/spilt

I reviewed Richard Siken's brilliant third book, which comes out this month from Copper Canyon Press. Not to be missed. www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a... @richard-siken.bsky.social @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

Poets, Green Linden Press is reading manuscripts! greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

Chip in. www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-...

Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun

Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza

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Chip in if you're able. South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water chuffed.org/project/1132...

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water

**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

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New poem at Pedestal.

Pedestal Magazine » Christopher Nelson – Consequence

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Less than one week remains to submit proposals for the $2500 Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship: greenlindenpress.com/submit