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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 8h

Night crowd, what up? RSVP! Tomorrow!

Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 11h

This is tomorrow, so RSVP now! I think this is my first live online reading since the book came out believe it or not, so I'd be honored if you joined the crowd. Plus, @clbpoetry.bsky.social & @djvorreyer.bsky.social are the BEST!

NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 24d

Announcement time! October 14th, 7:00 Eastern: Hear poems from @clbpoetry.bsky.social, @mitchnobis.bsky.social, and @djvorreyer.bsky.social! Hosted by the amazing @readinstead.bsky.social!

Hit the eventbrite link to register. NAWP!

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

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@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social · 8h

Yorick is actually Hamlet's father.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉 @clbpoetry.bsky.social · 9h

See y’all tomorrow! Register below ⬇️

Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 11h

This is tomorrow, so RSVP now! I think this is my first live online reading since the book came out believe it or not, so I'd be honored if you joined the crowd. Plus, @clbpoetry.bsky.social & @djvorreyer.bsky.social are the BEST!

NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 24d

Announcement time! October 14th, 7:00 Eastern: Hear poems from @clbpoetry.bsky.social, @mitchnobis.bsky.social, and @djvorreyer.bsky.social! Hosted by the amazing @readinstead.bsky.social!

Hit the eventbrite link to register. NAWP!

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah. Thankfully my boys are getting old enough to get into another level of books, but I stand by that Marvel needs to let titles run longer.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10h

Sorry, but it's very frustrating to watch your kids get let down over and over again while there are a bajillion Deadpool options.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10h

"Here, have movies of a decreasing quality FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIVES HAHAHAHAA."

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10h

They have a perplexing lack of desire to have a market audience in 10-20 years. They can only imagine selling dudes my age movies about stories we read when we were...that's right! My kids' age.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10h

"I'll tell you what you CAN have: 17 different titles with the same couple of characters who were seemingly hand-crafted in lab to appeal to lonely, violent 43-year-old basement dwellers."

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10h

"Oh, would you like to fall in love with reading and have positive feelings anytime you see these characters you can't wait to read about every month? Haha, go to hell!"

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10h

"Oh, you like this character we're promoting so much we made a TV series with her? Well tough shit—canceled!"

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10h

My most hinged take is that Marvel Comics should stop canceling all my kids favorite titles/series, the jerks.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10h

I even quit one a month ago that I thought was pretty good! Just didn't scratch the itch I was looking for.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10h

I've had a couple of in-person & pre-recorded things, and there's another live online reading coming soon. But nothing else is NAWP, so ACT NOW to be in the crowd tomorrow!

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 11h

Come hear Mitch and Chris! Oh, and I'll be hanging around as well...

Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 11h

This is tomorrow, so RSVP now! I think this is my first live online reading since the book came out believe it or not, so I'd be honored if you joined the crowd. Plus, @clbpoetry.bsky.social & @djvorreyer.bsky.social are the BEST!

NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 24d

Announcement time! October 14th, 7:00 Eastern: Hear poems from @clbpoetry.bsky.social, @mitchnobis.bsky.social, and @djvorreyer.bsky.social! Hosted by the amazing @readinstead.bsky.social!

Hit the eventbrite link to register. NAWP!

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10h

Ha, I was gonna say the same thing about you two. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 11h

I even posted this to instagram, and I hate that thing. At least, I think I posted it. They don't really do links, huh.

Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 11h

This is tomorrow, so RSVP now! I think this is my first live online reading since the book came out believe it or not, so I'd be honored if you joined the crowd. Plus, @clbpoetry.bsky.social & @djvorreyer.bsky.social are the BEST!

NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 24d

Announcement time! October 14th, 7:00 Eastern: Hear poems from @clbpoetry.bsky.social, @mitchnobis.bsky.social, and @djvorreyer.bsky.social! Hosted by the amazing @readinstead.bsky.social!

Hit the eventbrite link to register. NAWP!

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

Promo graphic with author photos of Donna Vorreyer, Chris Butler, and Mitchell Nobis. And the NAWP ostrich, of course.
The text says:
A NAWP Reading
Chris L. Butler
Mitch Nobis
Donna Vorreyer
Hosted by
Jared Beloff
October 14, 2025
7:00-8:00PM EST

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 1d

@mitchnobis.bsky.social’s book cover appears in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (PS5)

Adrian holds up the green book “The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees” by Mitchell Nobis, which closely matches the pattern on the jacket of the video game character on the screen behind the book

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14h

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 12h

Gotta say, I'm surprised this didn't set off an Internet-wide debate over best tree. I'm not ready for that level of fame, so it's just as well it didn't, but still, surprising.

Bryan Harvey @bryanharvey.bsky.social · 5d

Spoke with @mitchnobis.bsky.social about his book, trees, Tree Rollins, more trees, and his book.
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Airport Beers with Mitch Nobis and his poetry in ‘The Size of the Horizon, Or, I Explained…

Airport Beers is an interview series. The following is an interview between Bryan Harvey and writer Mitch Nobis. Mitch’s book The Size of…

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 15h

I mean...
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 2d

And with a final flickering and a barely audible hissing sound, the light of my hope for the intelligence of humanity is forever extinguished.

42% of people didn’t know. potato chips. are made. of. potatoes.

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Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 16h

Why? What am I reading? Why, poems from my book that came out a few months ago, of course!
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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 10d

Of course it's also great to get The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees (or TSOTHOIEETTT when you're in a rush) right from @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social. Collect all of MFE's books with the cool house cover design!
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The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees by Mitchell Nobis | Books | Match Factory Editions

The Size of the Horizon explores parenting, uncertainty, and injustice, weaving nature, gun violence, and joy into poetry that embraces life’s chaos.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 18h

You heard the NAWPstrich.

NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 18h

Hey! Tomorrow!

NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 24d

Announcement time! October 14th, 7:00 Eastern: Hear poems from @clbpoetry.bsky.social, @mitchnobis.bsky.social, and @djvorreyer.bsky.social! Hosted by the amazing @readinstead.bsky.social!

Hit the eventbrite link to register. NAWP!

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 8d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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