Erika Meitner
@rika99.bsky.social
poet • professor • parent • perambulator • erikameitner.com | also keeper of https://post-mfa.tumblr.com
Hey! It’s me!
SWWIM@swwim.bsky.social · last mo.From “Are You Making the Most of Summer? / Looming Heat Spike” by Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poem #WomenPoets #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #AreYouMakingtheMostofSummer?/LoomingHeatSpike #ErikaMeitner #MondayPoem
A few years ago I flew to Traverse City (MI) on the 4th of July, which was extraordinary (seeing fireworks from above) which reminded me of July 4th as a new mom on Capitol Hill in DC on Independence Ave, so I wrote a poem, & you can read it here! 🎆 www.shenandoahliterary.org/volume-75-nu...
We are all experts in risk assessment now
silent glittery bursts peaking / above runway fences and then, / from the air, dotting the darkness
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Everything else is a dumpster fire, but then there’s this. 🌖 🧑🚀
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4mo agoHOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II’s astronauts return to Earth, ending a record-breaking trip around the moon with a splashdown in the Pacific.
We're in Baltimore! Join us TOMORROW NIGHT at 7pm for our AWP off-site reading, Boathouse Extravaganza: Writers (and Editors) on the Waterfront! Lia Purpura, @rika99.bsky.social, @samuelkolawole.bsky.social, and Athena Nassar will be reading for AGNI. See you there! #awp2026
🔥ONE WEEK FROM TODAY🔥 Join us for our AWP off-site reading, Boathouse Extravaganza: Writers (and Editors) on the Waterfront! Lia Purpura, @rika99.bsky.social, @samuelkolawole.bsky.social, and Athena Nassar will be reading for AGNI. See you there! #awp2026
Y’all, I have a book cover + a pre-order page for my 7th book of poems, Assembled Audience, due out from @milkweededitions.bsky.social on Sept 29th! milkweed.org/book/assembl... #poetry #poetrycommunity
Assembled Audience | Milkweed Editions
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Madison Wisconsin State Capitol where a huge crowd of people came to make their voices heard! Abolish ICE!
Stumbled across this podcast episode today. I love Levine and this poem. Meitner’s close reading really adds to my appreciation of it. Also, shout out to the power of a great poetry anthology. The Poulin anthology she mentions, I found at a used bookstore in my hometown, struggling, post undergrad.
Erika Meitner@rika99.bsky.social · last yr.It is possible you maybe want to hear me talk about “What Work Is” by Philip Levine with Kevin Young over at the @newyorker.com poetry podcast? www.newyorker.com/podcast/poet...
"This isn’t the time to say nothing." Indie journalist @marisakabas.bsky.social beautifully and heart-breakingly reminds us how important it is right now to find solidarity in our neighbors, wherever they're from, and fight the power being rained down upon us. www.thehandbasket.co/p/crackdown-...
Crackdown
Writing through history and heartbreak.
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Normal thing for a major urban American newspaper to have to post.
Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · 6mo agoHere's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 7mo agoEvery time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
City of Minneapolis@minneapolismn.gov · 7mo agoVehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost. Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.
It is possible that this Hanukkah, especially, you might need a little poetry to bring some light through the darkness. If so, we’ve got you covered. #hanukkah #poetry Register (for free) here and join us on Zoom: www.eventbrite.com/e/from-darkn...
Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
I got to talk 100 Notable Small Press Books on the Lit Hub podcast this week! We're trying hard to make 2026 happen, but we need a handful more reviewers. If you want to celebrate small presses & their authors, sign up here: tinyurl.com/100smallpress lithub.com/its-best-of-... #100smallpress
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You guys: this is an actual Buche De Noel complete with fondant mushrooms 🍄🟫 that my amazing colleague @bethnguyen.bsky.social made for our Secret Wisconsin Interdenominational Solstice (gift) Swap (SWISS) + party!
