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sophie klahr
@sophieklahr.bsky.social
wrote TWO OPEN DOORS IN A FIELD (University of Nebraska), MEET ME HERE AT DAWN ( YesYes Books) and co-wrote THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD ( Fiction Collective Two ). For online poetry classes, manuscript consultation & more ---> sophieklahr.com
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Looking for some literary assistance? An editor for 3 poems or a whole manuscript? Office Hours? Submission management? I've got you <3 www.sophieklahr.org/editorialser...
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The holidays are upon us! We hear that adding to the to-read piles of your friends & family is the greatest gift there is. www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...
December 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"...how quaint to die of this they’ll think in 2030.."

for #worldAIDSday - Patrick Donnelly's "Finding Paul Monette, Losing Him"

synonymforliving.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/a...
again and again
FINDING PAUL MONETTE, LOSING HIMIt’s just two days since I read youtwo days since your Elegies for Rog grabbed mein the stacks at the Brooklyn branchgrief eating through the binding like drag…
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December 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Get 50% off THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD, the collaborative book I wrote with Corey Zeller! fc2.org/authors/klah...
December 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS SALE! www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...
November 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Until December 2nd, you can get 50% off THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD ~ the book I co-wrote with Corey Zeller, a winner of @fictioncollective2.bsky.social's annual Ronald Sukenick Contest. Use code FLASH at checkout ⚡
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There Is Only One Ghost in the World
One ghost, infinite echoes—where memory, myth, and identity collide.There Is Only One Ghost in the World follows the fragmented meditations of a multilayer...
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November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
( fun fact - socials manager is me )
November 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
saw a community college production of Chekov's 'Three Sisters' yesterday & it was so bonkers that I suddenly felt I could achieve anything
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Here's a sonnet of mine that appears in a new issue of Witness Magazine 💙 witness.blackmountaininstitute.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Here I am with my cats! And, FRIDAY = last chance to sign up for DIVING INTO THE MUCK: HOW TO SUBMIT POETRY, NOT GET DEFEATED, AND GET PUBLISHED, a 1.5 hour long online seminar this coming Sunday on creating healthy, practical submission habits & shedding old perspectives! sophieklahr.com/classes
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Two of my Angel poems are in the new @diodeeditions.bsky.social issue - here's one below diodepoetry.com/klahr_sophie/

btw, the "Brief History of Allegiance, Part 1" is over at @adnpoetry.bsky.social : adozennothing.com/2025/02/01/s... )
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Today is the anniversary of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh - the shooter was targeting my congregation.
Here is my poem about the shooting and aftermath, published in @newenglandreview.bsky.social - I repost it every year. ❤️‍🩹 nereview.com/article/tree...
Tree of Life – New England Review
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October 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The 2nd of my small fiction splinters over at @havehashad.com 🧿🗡️ www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
October 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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two amazing new prose poems today from Sophie Klahr!



here's the first of the two: https://www.havehashad.com/7nv8q
October 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Loved the thin line between humor and disaster in these two pieces by Sophie Klar:
two amazing new prose poems today from Sophie Klahr!



here's the first of the two: https://www.havehashad.com/7nv8q
October 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Happy second birthday to THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD ( @fictioncollective2.bsky.social )You can get 31% off (+ free shipping) til Nov. 1st with code 'spooky' 👻
www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366203...
There Is Only One Ghost in the World
One ghost, infinite echoes—where memory, myth, and identity collide.There Is Only One Ghost in the World follows the fragmented meditations of a multilayer...
www.uapress.ua.edu
October 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Dang. This poem by @sophieklahr.bsky.social hits hard. Absolutely beautiful.
October 13, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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New work from @sophieklahr.bsky.social, 2022 Sukenick Contest winner for THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD, co-authored with Corey Zeller. 👻 Our Sukenick Contest and Doctorow Prize are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS until NOVEMBER FIRST !! Send your poetic prose to us! fc2.org/prizes
October 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Thanks to American Literary Review for featuring this flash from the new book i'm working on ! 🗝️
October 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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REMINDER!
fc2.org/prizes/
September 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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New poem from our 2022 Sukenick Contest winner THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD co-author @sophieklahr.bsky.social in Alaska Quarterly Review.
( Poets writing prose ~ this is your sign to submit to our contests: fc2.org/prizes/ )
September 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In the latest issue of Alaska Quarterly Review - my poem on gratitude, devastation, & reality.
September 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
won a thing at a time (aka now) when i really needed a win 🥲
September 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Bright idea: hire our 2024 Sukenick Contest winning co-author of THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD @sophieklahr.bsky.social as your editor, then submit your shined-up manuscript to the Sukenick Contest, OPEN NOW! fc2.org/prizes/
September 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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In which Kazim Ali, final judge of our Doctorow Prize, tells us what he is hungry to read 🎼 Submit now, until November 1st! fc2.org/prizes/#doct...
September 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Looking for some literary assistance? An editor for 3 poems or a whole manuscript? Office Hours? Submission management? I've got you <3 www.sophieklahr.org/editorialser...
September 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM