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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 27/07/2026

"Maybe someday gardening will call to me and be just what I need," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1567 of The Slowdown. "In today’s poem, gardening is exactly what the speaker needs." Read "Assistance" by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social: bit.ly/4vQcyf8

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

That last line there! And everything before it! 💖 Someone posted about @abbiekiefer.bsky.social's Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024) & I'm still grateful they did. So, here's mine for all & anyone & #smallPoemSunday. #poetry 📚💙 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

The book on a wooden surface. Its cover features a linen postcard from the 1930s or 40s with a small town night or evening street scene with cars of that era and low buildings of small businesses. It is in color. The title and author name are along the upper and down the right edge.

Revitalization Efforts: St. Mary's

The parish house now a showroom. Caskets propped
open like pianos and an offering of urns, your choice

of finish. Director's desk in the sacristy. Spare suit waiting
where the vestments once hung. They've restored

the floors. Kept the pews. Scrapped the confessional.
Sold the stained glass. The salvage dealer, lapsed

Catholic, brought a truck and latent reverence. Coaxed
out the panels: most of Christ's body, then his thorned,

haloed head. Then Mary of Magdala, fogged
at his feet, and Mary his mother, holding her own hands

in prayer. Anything, anything can come undone.

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Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I remain steadfast in my ♥️ for both libraries & friends! Thanks to Durham Public Library in NH for getting my book Singing from the Deep End for its collection, and thanks to @abbiekiefer.bsky.social for snapping this pic. @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

A new poem in Image about how fear shows up in our lives. It started, kind of, with a very old interview in which Stephen King admitted to skipping the 13th stair. Thanks to @akasomeguy.bsky.social Shane McCrae and the whole lovely Image team. imagejournal.org/article/twel...

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Twelve and a Half Stanzas on the Desire for Control - Image Journal

At his Victorian mansion, a certain stair has never held Stephen King’s weight.

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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Up on @adroitjournal.bsky.social's blog today: Robert Hass's "Author's Note" that frames his new book of essays out from @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social: A THIRD COMMONNESS: ESSAYS ON POETRY, POETICS, AND THE NATURAL WORLD. Beautiful book from a genius poet. theadroitjournal.org/2026/05/04/a...

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A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World

This is, by my count, my third gathering of essays and reviews. And I noticed that, inside the genre of the essay, it includes a number of introductions—an introduction to an anthology of the histo…

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Glad to have the chance to review Bobby Elliott’s THE SAME MAN (@upittpress.bsky.social) in the new issue of @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social blackbird.vcu.edu/review-bobby...

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Review: Bobby Elliott’s The Same Man

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

New Hampshire friends! Would love to see you!

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Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I’m so looking forward to reading at the wonderful Word Barn w/Abbie Kiefer & Diana Whitney on Sunday, April 26 at 4pm! Thanks to Sarah & Ben for hosting us. Free, but registration requested - link in bio. 🎉📚🎤 @abbiekiefer.bsky.social @juneroadpress.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

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Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"...my mother’s mother’s china cups exactingly formed from clay and bone dust—" Check out @abbiekiefer.bsky.social's poem "Prayer with Dust" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/pr...

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Prayer with Dust by Abbie Kiefer — Bracken

that laces my weeping fig the base- board’s jut

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 10/03/2026

“Even amidst death, these poems find joy...” The Inheritance of Grief and Work: @medenkuyatt.bsky.social reviews @abbiekiefer.bsky.social’s Certain Shelter (@juneroadpress.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/Nc5zhXG

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY is for poetry talk 💕 Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social was interviewed in the Gulf Coast Literary Journal about her poetry collection CERTAIN SHELTER. We know you'll love it: buff.ly/tQw9Ygq

The book cover of Certain Shelter by Abbie Kiefer. 1950 style cars and building are painted with a cloth woven texture.

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Print: A Bookstore @printbookstore.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The surge of ICE activity across Maine over the last few weeks is deeply alarming. We know many of you are feeling the same mix of anxiety and anger that we are, while our staff is doing their parts as individuals, we also wanted to take a stand as a business.

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

So appreciative of readers like @megmcdermott92.bsky.social. I love seeing these kinds of connections and being part of a conversation.

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Grateful to @theatlantic.com and the editorial team of Kat Hu and Walt Hunter for publishing this abecedarian about my night guard, among other things. I feel like my dentist would be proud.

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Abecedarian With Sensodyne

A poem

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Correction to a previous post! @abbiekiefer.bsky.social was published in @baltimorereview.bsky.social. ✨ Which means you have another chance to check out her piece. 😉 buff.ly/a3Vx7jw

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David Banach @davidbanach.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

#sealeychallenge Day 22 Abbie Kiefer, Certain Shelter This book evokes memories of a vanished Maine, a lost mother, and the way the past still lives in us as we revitalize our homes and ourselves.

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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Join us for a cozy Sunday-night virtual craft chat on 9/28 to celebrate the launch of Level Watch in two weeks, featuring Abbie Kiefer! Register at bit.ly/level-watch-launch ✨

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Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Our newest issue is now available for purchase! Featuring work by @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social, @nadeemzaman.bsky.social, @mlynxqualey.bsky.social, @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social, @abbiekiefer.bsky.social, @riggstah.bsky.social, and more. Order the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/winter...

Volume 98
Number 4
Contributors

Marilyn Hacker
Catherine DeNardo
Deema K. Shehabi
Emily Black
Chase Twichell
Danielle Weeks
Orlando Ricardo Menes
Tom Laichas
Felicia Zamora
Alonso Llerena
Cyril Dabydeen
Matthew Lippman
Nadeem Zaman
Christine Marshall
Mary Morris
Wes Matthews
Marcia Lynx Qualey
Genevieve Payne
Sabina Urraca
Rachel Ephraim
J.P. White
Esi W. Nkeyekyer
Matthew Gellman
Abbie Kiefer
Karan Kapoor
Joanne Clarkson
Keisha-Gaye Anderson
Avia Tadmor
Brian Francis
Chris Watkins
Andrea L. Hackbarth
Adam J. Gellings
Jay Kophy
Mariah Rigg
Nicholas Samaras
Brittany Perham
Enzo Silon Surin
Gracie Newman
Robert Thomas

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

"There is a measure of comfort in the nearness of others and there are ways in which a person can never be near enough." Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social reviewed CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington for @themassreview.bsky.social! Give it read right here: buff.ly/6Go8W1a

Civil Twilight, poems by Cynthia Huntington.

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Whittle Micro-Press @whittlemicropress.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Our catalog features titles by Kelly R. Samuels, Cyril Wong, Abbie Kiefer, Lauren Davis, Miranda Dennis, Katherine Fallon, & Roseanna Alice Boswell. All proceeds go to authors! #chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #indiebooks #smallpress #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

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Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Summer reading: CERTAIN SHELTER by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2024). Here are poems for a mother, “All These Things I Can’t Remember” & a father, “I Don’t Like Baseball, Just the Red Sox.” I recommend the @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social about this incredible debut. ♥️

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Brian Turner calls HUMAN RESOURCES by @erinmurphy.bsky.social a "love song to the profound work of survival." It's a fantastic description of this incisive, clever collection that made me pay real attention to the ways we value labor and the humans who provide it. graysonbooks.com/products/hum...

What Did You Do Last Week?
1. I lay in bed and thought of the AA mantra
one day at a time and the Dolly Parton lyric
I’ve had to think up a way to survive
and the Becket line I can’t go on. I’ll go on.
2. I scattered a few bucks like birdseed
to causes I care about.
3. I sat in meetings where there were calls
to order and motions on motions,
oceans of motions. Someone in the shadows
was always taking minutes. Taking minutes.
4. I went for a walk in a wetland preserve
nestled between an asphalt company
and the county courthouse. A northern flicker
pecked for ground beetles. On its head:
a red brushstroke like an artist’s
afterthought. Or a warning. I wondered
if birds have blood. I wondered if the people
in power have feelings. I wondered
if we’ll go on. I told myself we can’t
not go on.
5. I wrote this poem.

Cover of HUMAN RESOURCES by Erin Murphy. A black background with a doll in a yellow dress that appears to be falling. Small doll hands reach from the top of the image toward the falling doll.

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Making your list for the Sealey Challenge? Order CERTAIN SHELTER for 15% off with the promo code AUGUST: www.abbiekieferpoet.com/books

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Grateful to @eadwinedwards.bsky.social for this insightful, generous review of CERTAIN SHELTER in the latest issue of Pedestal. thepedestalmagazine.com/abbie-kiefer...

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Pedestal Magazine » Abbie Kiefer’s Certain Shelter, Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social: "I don't want to take anything away from the size of the bummer that this is all temporary. But also the fact that it's temporary means that it really matters. We really have an obligation to each other, and that obligation isn't forever." www.npr.org/2025/03/27/1...

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John Green still has hope : Wild Card with Rachel Martin

John Green keeps busy – from authoring blockbuster young adult novels like "The Fault in Our Stars," to running a YouTube empire with his brother Hank, to publishing his latest nonfiction book, "Ever...

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Trying to be chill about this but the audiobook narrator of a novel set in Maine keeps calling Bangor "Banger."

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Shellie Kalinsky @sheshellwrites.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

“Like a quilt, in which scattered pieces of fabric are used to create a new whole, Kiefer stitches together scenes...” Read Lori Rottenberg’s review of Abbie Kiefer’s Certain Shelter here: literarymama.com/articles/dep...

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

So proud of my @juneroadpress.bsky.social pressmate @mardery.bsky.social. LEVEL WATCH is gorgeous. Do future-you a favor and pre-order! www.juneroadpress.com/level-watch

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Level Watch — June Road Press

A poetry collection by Mary Ardery

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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I have so many Matchbook Lit favorites! But I'm not in the running for a FREE notebook w. writing prompts! Matchbook is giving five copies away, so be sure to weigh in here! 📚📚📚

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

"When will we go back and brush the plants that know to fold against threat. Rebuild the bonobo, its empty bones so like ours" Beautiful and devastating micro from @abbiekiefer.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/kiefer/wh...

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When Can We Go Back | matchbook

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Have a beautiful poem for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 💕 Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social‬ published a poem in @theoffingmag.bsky.social about moving forward: buff.ly/pvVv92z

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The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

"of equinoctial certainty — each in ascent, wings cutting like checkmarks" From “Geese in Flight, Oil on Canvas, Restwell Motor Inn Room 12 with One-Way U-Haul Parked Outside” a Poem by Abbie Kiefer ( @abbiekiefer.bsky.social ). theoffingmag.com/poetry/geese...

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Geese in Flight, Oil on Canvas, Restwell Motor Inn Room 12 with One-Way U-Haul Parked Outside - The Offing

Poetry - The Offing Magazine

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social‬ was interviewed in The Maine Review, where she talked about her first writing job, the show Top Chef, and CERTAIN SHELTER, her debut full-length poetry collection from @juneroadpress.bsky.social! Read the interview here: buff.ly/d5LUxq1

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

“I love writing about the quotidian because I saw how much of our lives are given to that.”

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I only just subscribed to Devin Kelly's blog & am loving it! Thank you @abbiekiefer.bsky.social for posting last week's! I hope this week's will find some more subscribers as well. #writingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/ordinary...

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Etheridge Knight's "The Sun Came"

Thoughts on the lateness of sunsets.

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Devin Kelly's Ordinary Plots is maybe my favorite newsletter. Today's reflection is on Marie Howe's "Hurry" and you will read it and be grateful. ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/marie-howe...

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Marie Howe's "Hurry"

Thoughts on the word "and."

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Flash (a single paragraph!) nonfiction about joy and bravery and Boston's @museumofscience.bsky.social. Thanks to matchbook for publishing it and to whoever invented astronaut ice cream.

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