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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Will I ever read poetry live without crying? We’ll find out someday.

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

They are all tiny eclipses and once you see it you can’t unsee it. 🌖

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Trump goes, we’ll call it even. 🙏🏼

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Dawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Really fantastic work from @cadaverformosus.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/jd-v... You might think you've already read enough about the man but you gotta try this too

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J. D. Vance’s Straussian Moment | Los Angeles Review of Books

The US vice president wrote his new book without citing his source—Peter Thiel.

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Maybe its a coastal California thing but please stop conflating your for-profit businesses with “community” - anything. No, your $120 a day music fest isn’t a “community space”, or your $30 a pie pizza shop. These are businesses! It’s OK to be a business! But you aren’t like, the public library?!

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Elizabeth Bishop would’ve LOVED tiktok.

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Support my poetry by pre-ordering my first collectionnand spoken word album today. Out in October from Harbor Editions and Royal Oakie. calebnichols.bandcamp.com/album/stone-...

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Stone Age Is Now: Poems from Lithic, by Caleb Nichols

12 track album

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This summer I read John of John and then Young Mungo. Wow. Stunned at the range.

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Poets! I have a spoken word album out on vinyl (!) this autumn, alongside my @smallharborpub.bsky.social debut, Lithic. You can listen to a track, and pre-order a CD or LP + Book bundle here: calebnichols.bandcamp.com/album/stone-... Reposts very appreciated! 💐

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Stone Age Is Now: Poems from Lithic, by Caleb Nichols

12 track album

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Aron Smith @bruthavoodoo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Now Playing on SHMUFM: "A Feeling of a Feeling of a Feeling" by @calebnichols.bsky.social #Wordplay #IrregularFeature shmu.org.uk/fm

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Genuinely surprised/outraged by the TERFiness of the academy.

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Just to say into the void that I’m enjoying a new Modest Mpuse record for the first time in almost 20 years. What a comeback!

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Now for sale: Redapples Falling Still by Sneha Subramanian Kanta 🍎 A luminous collection of lineage, memory, grief, and hope, praised by Allison Blevins as “a holy remnant.” Order your copy here: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/re...

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

in glasgow, men still wear cargo pants.

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

If you really need a wizard story in your life, you should turn to the Carry On books by @rainbowrowell.bsky.social — it’s got it all and it’s gay and I want a movie or series so badly! Heated Rivalry bit make it gay wizards and vampires.

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Run for the (gender) border; arrive at its shimmering; see that it is just an illusion; pass through the willowy membrane and emerge changed and yet the same.

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Rust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Arright poets — let’s dial our electeds and use our words. (If you can even get through today — one of our senator’s lines was down, presumably from being overwhelmed with calls.)

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The hottest country is actually Burkina Faso. Very hot there. Of course we’ll all be pretty toasty soon!

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Truly will not vote for any @democrats.org who don’t vow to prosecute this administration.

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Anyone else’s Mom/Grandma obsessed with this game in the 90’s? youtu.be/5aRN2yj9qm0?...

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Columns (1990) Soundtrack

YouTube video by Soundtrack Nostalgia

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I’m editing an anthology for the first time and wow it’s going to be difficult to select poems. so many insanely good poems. Honestly restoring my faith in the world a little bit, at the end of a rough year.

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

LOL - gonna use this in my Rhet Comp course to teach logical fallacies. We’re so cooked, as the kids say. “Climate Goals Are Becoming More Realistic. That’s Good News.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...

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Opinion | Climate Goals Are Becoming More Realistic. That’s Good News.

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

the Calvin pissing to Q-Anon pipeline

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

JAMES MERRILL
CHRISTMAS TREE
From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks,
That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me,
The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep
Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining —
Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver,
A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song
Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead
Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals
Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear,
Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin.
Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting
About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully!
No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's
Dusk room aglow For the last time
With candlelight. Faces love-lit,
Gifts underfoot.
Still to be so poised, so
Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

✨ Still Open: Laureate Prize! But not much longer! ✨ Submissions are open October 1–December 31 at Small Harbor Publishing. We’re thrilled to welcome work from writers of all backgrounds. 🏆 Judged by Traci Brimhall 📬 Submit at smallharborpublishing.com

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 10/12/2025

“Same as the others, O’Neill. The flippers, the fishbowl, the frog, the lights, the armor. ... Just one question remains: Is this the work of our guy, or a copycat?”

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ryan anthony hatch @standardedition.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

My department is hiring! Please help me spread the word and send this to people who may be interested. jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...

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Cal Poly - Details - Assistant Professor of English - 20th-21st Century American Literature in a Global Perspective (26/27)

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

As it’s @bandcamp.com friday, here’s a special deal: buy my new record, and I’ll send you a test pressing of your choice, of any of my last three albums, whilst supplies last. Today only! calebnichols.bandcamp.com/album/stone-...

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Stone Age Is Back, by Caleb Nichols

13 track album

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/11/2025

“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.” A new poem by D. A. Powell. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/…

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“Senescence”

“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

So History of Sound is a ‘queer’ story written by a straight iowa mfa grad and acted by two straight boys… the queerbaiting is stunning. that scene in the fountain? lol. Call me by MY name.

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I’ve spent two blissed out days working on spoken word versions of poems. Just me, the DAW, and the dog. It’s an interesting process and I’m revising the written poems a bit as I go, changing the order of the written manuscript… finding the musicality of the poems is astonishing.

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

There’s still plenty of time to submit! ✨ The Laureate Prize is open through December 31st — judged by Traci Brimhall. We welcome work from all writers, especially those from traditionally marginalized communities. Submit here: www.smallharborpublishing.com/laureate-pri...

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I’ve released a lot of music and I’m gonna try and post one song a day from @bandcamp.com until I’m out of songs. Might be a while. Here’s ‘Crimble Medley’ - a track that mashes up 4 Beatles tunes into one Fahey-esque folky mess. tips and reskeets appreciated. 38/? ffm.to/crimble

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Caleb Nichols - So This Is Crimble

Make The Yuletide Gay

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Fundraising for mutual aid ! Please give whatever you can! And stop supporting artists who don’t give a shit about human rights !

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I’ve released a lot of music and I’m gonna try and post one song a day from @bandcamp.com until I’m out of songs. Might be a while. Here’s ‘Karma Kops’ - a track that laments Radiohead’s turn to the dark side. Out today. Free Palestine! 🍉 tips and reskeets appreciated. 37/? ffm.to/karmakops

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Caleb Nichols - Karma Kops

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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Caleb Nichols - Karma Kops

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

So those negotiations went really well i guess.

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I’ve released a lot of music and I’m gonna try and post one song a day from @bandcamp.com until I’m out of songs. Might be a while. Here’s “Death” from an EP by my band, CHURCHES. It slaps. 90’s alt blues. 🤑 and reskeets appreciated. 36/?

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DEATH, by Churches

from the album C H U R C H E S

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Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I’ve released a lot of music and I’m gonna try and post one song a day from @bandcamp.com until I’m out of songs. Might be a while. Here’s “Christmas California” from “Let’s Look Back”, produced by Rogue Wave, who just announced reissues on @subpop.bsky.social ! 🤑 and reskeets appreciated. 35/?

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Christmas, California, by Caleb Nichols

from the album Let's Look Back

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