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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · Aug 29

Our children deserve to grow up. Fletcher Merkel and Harper Moyski should still be alive. As a father, I'm heartbroken for what these families are going through.

As a legislature, we need to take action. We need a special session. Let's move our feet. senatedfl.mn/senator-omar...

Senator Omar Fateh Calls for Special Session on Gun Violence Prevention | Minnesota Senate DFL

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Senator Omar Fateh (DFL-Minneapolis) releases the following statement: “I am horrified by the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School, an attack on innocent children in their place ...

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Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ah no, I hadn't seen! So lovely!

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izzi @izziholmes.bsky.social · Aug 25

Avryl Bender (@avrylbender.bsky.social) on Claire Wahmanholm's Meltwater!!! www.montrealpoetryprize.com/reviews/beca... <3

Because Now There Is a Child: What Motherhood Can Teach Us About the Climate Crisis — Montreal International Poetry Prize

Review of Meltwater by Claire Wahmanholm by Avryl Bender In her 2023 collection of poems, Meltwater, Claire Wahmanholm treats language with the care of a finite resource, demonstrating a conscientious respect for the organic materials of poetry. Throughout the work, Wahmanholm repurposes lines

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Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · Aug 18

I wrote a sonnet sequence during the MN drought of 2021, and three of the poems are in the latest issue of Like a Field 🌱🌿🪲💚 You can read the entire issue online here: www.likeafield.com/2025/summer

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Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · Aug 5

Ah! Thank you so much for reading 😍

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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · Aug 5

Day 4: Meltwater by @cwahmanholm.bsky.social

I read this whole book in one sitting, in the sneaky presence of a tiny snake, and am still dazed by its vivid grief.

The cover of Meltwater: Poems by Claire Wahmanholm. The cover is a photograph of the deep blue meltwater between two white glaciers. The water splits the cover.

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Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · Jul 20

hey folks, if you want to hear me run my mouth about stuff that ISN'T POETRY (cocaine, the Talking Heads, crabs, vegetable orchestras, Lays potato chips, obscure citrus fruits), have I got a deal for you, thanks to the good folks at @triviamafia.com!

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No Brains, No Lightbulbs | Episode 2: It Was a Little Schvitzy Outside — Trivia Mafia

Poet extraordinaire Claire Wahmanholm joins the No Brains, No Lightbulbs crew to discuss crabs, vegetable orchestras, cocaine, citrus fruits, berets... pretty much everything except poetry. Sean c...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · Jun 28

Ok that’s it this is a concerted group effort there is no denying it. The Dem establishment got together in a back room and said “how are we gonna stop this man from making change in the party he is too dangerously progressive and popular.”

And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Jun 28

Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell says of Zohran Mamdani: "I don't associate myself with what he has said about the Jewish people."

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Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · May 22

TONIGHT!! 7pm Pacific/9pm central, @mollyolguin.bsky.social's short story collection is one you'll want to have on your radar, I'm serious 🌊🐙

Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · May 19

THIS THURSDAY, online, I'll be talking to my amazing friend @mollyolguin.bsky.social about her EXTREMELY GOOD debut story collection, The Sea Gives Up the Dead, out now with @redhenpress.bsky.social. We'll talk about horror, fairy tales, grim days, maybe even hope??

Zoom link on graphic!

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Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · May 19

THIS THURSDAY, online, I'll be talking to my amazing friend @mollyolguin.bsky.social about her EXTREMELY GOOD debut story collection, The Sea Gives Up the Dead, out now with @redhenpress.bsky.social. We'll talk about horror, fairy tales, grim days, maybe even hope??

Zoom link on graphic!

Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · May 18

TONIGHT! let's gooo!

Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · May 13

SUNDAY, 5/18, 6PM CST: come help me celebrate the virtual launch of @farahghafoor.bsky.social's collection Shadow Price (@houseofanansi.bsky.social)! @sarahali.bsky.social and I will be reading a couple poems to kick things off 💛

Register here: tinyurl.com/ywx5dn6p

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · May 17

minneapolitans, you can find a free copy of #abundantnumber in the entryway at Bench Pressed if you're quick

Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · May 17

dropped off a bunch of #abundantnumber vol. 3 and 4 there 👀 abundantnumber.ohbara.com

Abundant Number

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Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · May 15

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Come on out to @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social tonight folks! The tornado warning is OVER, @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social's book is EXTREMELY EXCELLENT and Angela Voras-Hills and @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social are both WELLS OF DELIGHT and there will be snacks and drinks!

Book Launch: The Deletions

Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.

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Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · May 13

SUNDAY, 5/18, 6PM CST: come help me celebrate the virtual launch of @farahghafoor.bsky.social's collection Shadow Price (@houseofanansi.bsky.social)! @sarahali.bsky.social and I will be reading a couple poems to kick things off 💛

Register here: tinyurl.com/ywx5dn6p

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Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · May 5

I've got two alphabet poems in the Arsenic and Old Lace DOUBLE ISSUE of Fairy Tale Review ❤️ Major gratitude to Asiya Wadud, whose poem "L" my "L" is directly responding to. I'm very into the idea of poems being letters/postcards that poets can send back and forth to each other! Why not?

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · May 1

Ahoy! What're you doing on Weds. 5/28 at 7pm UK time? (2pm US Eastern/1pm Central/12 MTN/11am Pacific.) You're invited to this first reading (of a summer of readings♪) to celebrate #patternbook, out 29/5 from @carcanet.bsky.social 👇👇👇
• admission £2
• event 1 hour long
• 10 poems+conversation, ∞ joy

Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · Apr 30

📚 Pattern-book by Éireann Lorsung, hosted by Jon McGregor - Wed 28th May, 7pm

Threaded through with filaments of others’ poems, Pattern-book’s sonnets, couplets, quatrains and invented forms draw on family life, art history, grief, time and the natural world.
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Pattern-book by Éireann Lorsung: Carcanet Online Book Launch - Carcanet Press

Please join us to celebrate the launch of Pattern-book by Éireann Lorsung. The reading will be hosted by Jon McGregor. The event will feature readings and

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · Apr 26

do your fucking job you hack

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · Apr 23

From @cwahmanholm.bsky.social's book, Meltwater.

#poem #books #writing

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · Apr 21

I wrote about the Sweet Briar College Vixens, and how they are better than the adults in charge lithub.com/lydia-kiesli...

Lydia Kiesling on Refusing to Speak at an Anti-Trans University

Last April, I got an email from a faculty member at Sweet Briar College, a small women’s college in rural Virginia. The college was preparing to choose its Common Read for the following academic ye…

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Apr 16

Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do

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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · Apr 15

#HandsOffUSPS teach-ins are happening in 20 states so far!

Shoutout AK, CA, CO, IA, IL, MA, MD, ME, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA & WI

Would love signups in all 50 states by May 3rd and make it a truly National P.O. Soapbox Day 💌

#AskBelieveReceive lolol

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"Hands Off USPS" Teach-In!

A decentralized grassroots event that creates an opportunity to (1) build community and (2) provide participants with resources to take action on behalf of USPS.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · Apr 15

I don’t need to go into space, it’s none of my business. I’m a big Earth guy, I can’t get enough of her work. Daffodils! Are you kidding me? Bison! Miraculous. Sending a slinky down the stairs? Incredible. Mariachi music? Yes, please.

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Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · Apr 15

Truly! It was hard not to screenshot every damn page!

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Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · Apr 15

Hey gang, if you want a vibe, @misternagel.bsky.social has got your ideal surreal-dirtbag-sad-hilarious-grim pandemic-era-but-really-all-era essay collection right here! Out from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social! please get a copy and read it immediately!

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