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Caleb Curtiss

@cdcurtiss.bsky.social

965 followers 375 following 132 posts

Parent, teacher, writer, notably slow learner. books: Age of Forgiveness (Sundress), A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us (Black Lawrence). I live in a special economic zone called Delaware.

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

We saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe

Former U.S. presidents Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush pose together for a smiling seaside selfie, wearing collared shirts against a bright blue ocean and sky backdrop.

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Just going through some old papers…

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Tho not Shakespeare, I’m a big fan of “These are for you!”

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I’ll show you everything!

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Think of everything we could accomplish.

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

For example, it took me nearly 11 prompts to generate this image when it could’ve probably been accomplished in one or two if only I had CoalGPT!

An ai image of a digital crucifix outside a coal / ai plant in a midwestern cornfield.

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

When you’re at the museum in search of a man who will eventually give you the clap.

Alt text: “A screenshot from the film Dressed to Kill showing a blonde woman in a white outfit with a neutral expression. She is in an art gallery, with a blurred nude painting visible in the background. The accompanying caption reads, ‘When you’re at the museum looking at a painting of a man who will even give the clap.’”

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Thanks, Michael. It’s always great to see you, no matter the angle.

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Last night was a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone who came out to 804 and to @andrewbertaina.bsky.social & @laurenwoods.bsky.social for inviting me to read (and sleep) at their lovely home. A real treat.

“Audience gathered in a cozy, well-lit living room for a literary reading. A speaker stands at the front, holding a book and gesturing, as attendees seated on chairs and couches listen attentively. Bookshelves and decor add to the intimate setting.”

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

I was, in this moment, very proud of my pumpkin.

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Comin’ in hot, baby!

A cardboard box full of copies of age of forgiveness. The cover design for a book of poems: “Age of Forgiveness, Poems by Caleb Curtiss.” A pink background with white and gray lettering, pencil drawing of a rabbit, and torn away white paper in the foreground.

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

New copies of Age of Forgiveness are arriving even though preorders are still open! We might call it the Goldilocks phase of the preorder cycle, which ends Tuesday.🫡 sundress-publications.square.site/product/age-...

The cover design for a book of poems: “Age of Forgiveness, Poems by Caleb Curtiss.” A pink background with white and gray lettering, pencil drawing of a rabbit, and torn away white paper in the foreground.

Dark text on a pink background: The poems in Age of Forgiveness by Caleb Curtiss possess a quiet courage. They are as solid, and magnificent, as a coastal shelf that collects the layers of the past, and the story those layers tell us about the future. These poems are anchors for when the “firmament trembles from time to time.”

Dark text on a pink background: “If, to create an erasure, the poet carves everything away that is not the poem, then these poems might be the opposite of erasures. In Age of Forgiveness, absence is a presence, and Caleb Curtiss shows us the complicated whole: the ways we remember and the ways we resist remembering; the things that are funny but not. Grief, like time, pixilates, obscures, and makes strange—and Curtiss doesn’t resist that distortion (‘memory/ looped like tape/ in a cassette,/ worn out/ with play’) but instead makes it his medium. Not since Matt Rasmussen’s Black Aperture has a book of poems moved me like this.”

—Maggie Smith, author of Goldenrod

Emotionally precise and sonically rich, the poems of Age of Forgiveness go for the jugular—or seem to—and end up softly touching the tender. This beautifully lyric-narrative work never shies away from difficulty—in family, in religion, in the natural world, in the self. But engaging the difficult here is ultimately a way of moving toward the hopeful. And true hope, as this incisive poet understands, does not mean a sanitizing of the past but a compassionate examination of it: “the present tense / of your absence / tangible for a moment / and then not.” What a gift, these insights, these elegies and self-portraits and songs of trying again to love honestly and more fully.

—Chen Chen,

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

Self-portrait with a review copy. You can preorder yours today if you want. Tomorrow works too, tho. sundress-publications.square.site/p…

A picture of Caleb Curtiss (middle aged white man, beard, glasses, still has some hair) holding a paperback entitle Age of Forgiveness (white lettering on a pink background).

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Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

Look at this nice thing my press made for me. Is it ok that looking at it makes me want to throw up a little?

A promotional asset featuring the cover of “Age of Forgiveness Poems by Caleb Curtiss,” a photo of Caleb Curtiss, and an excerpt from Maggie Smith’s blurb: “In Age of Forgiveness, absence is a presence, and Caleb Curtiss shows us the complicated whole: the ways we remember and the ways we resist remembering; the things that are funny but not. […] Not since Matt Rasmussen's Black Aperture has a book of poems moved me like this."

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