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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

They are wonderful to work with and each issue is beautiful and masterfully curated. Send them your submissions!

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

What an absolute honor to be in this beautiful journal! Thank you!

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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Issue 6 is here! With poems from @erindorney.bsky.social, @mrmack88.bsky.social Renee Emerson, Sunshine Lately, Jackson Benson, & Isaac Salazar, flash from @emcapettini.bsky.social and art from @christenkauffman.bsky.social & Jill Khoury! www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The brilliant @esylviapoet.bsky.social wrote the most generous review of my debut collection and I’m so so grateful to have my work seen by such a beautiful writer. Thank you! ❤️ tinderboxpoetry.com/review-of-th...

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Review of The Science of Things We Can Believe by Christen Noel Kauffman | Tinderbox Poetry Journal

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Michael VanCalbergh @mvcpoet.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

New Widely Read available for your Saturday reading pleasure. This essay talks about my struggles with writing/publishing poetry and @christenkauffman.bsky.social 's book which helped pull me (at least for now) out of my dread. Thanks for reading! widely-read.ghost.io/myself-my-po...

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Myself, My Poet Self, and Struggling with Poetry

I’ve been trying to write about how I’ve been struggling with poetry lately. Specifically struggling with the poetry publishing world. Truthfully, if I asked myself the series of questions my therapis...

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Read full poem and listen to Episode 75 here: ofpoetrypodcast.com/2025/07/17/e... @christenkauffman.bsky.social @ghostpeachpress.bsky.social

from "Faith Test"

this was our church, our induction into something greater
than youth group on Wednesday nights where a teen with a bible taught us to renounce sex, rated R movies, the devil in a hot pink romper.

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This has been a joy to listen to today. Do yourself a favor and spend some time with this episode.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Hope you join us for this ebullient episode! 💙✨ What a joy to talk with @christenkauffman.bsky.social, our third Appalachian guest in the past few months.

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

@hanvanderhart.bsky.social is all kindness and brilliance and getting to talk with them about poems and Appalachia and faith was such a gift.

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

New episode dropping tomorrow with @christenkauffman.bsky.social! 📚💙🎙️ #poetry #podcast Follow today on Apple, Spotify, Google, or elsewhere to have the episode in your queue tomorrow morning ☀️☕️

OF HER WRITING RELATIONSHIP WITH SARA MOORE WAGNER:

"We attack images the same way ...both of us write heavily with moving through multiple images, and we both talk about food and taste in our poems... and for this book, that was important, because The Science of Things We Can Believe is a very hungry book."

CHRISTEN NOEL KAUFFMAN, EP 75

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I need poets to write and essay and podcast their hearts out 💜

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Christen Noel Kauffman 💙 from THE SCIENCE OF THINGS WE CAN BELIEVE, winner of the 2023 Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry Day 10 - National Poetry Month @christenkauffman.bsky.social @ghostpeachpress.bsky.social @birdcoatquarterly.bsky.social

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

We are thrilled to have these incredible Judges! @kellylink.bsky.social and Matthew Olzmann!

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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series @hphseries.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Get ready for our poetry month celebration reading on April 17 with six fantastic readers: @toddedillard.bsky.social, @benkline.bsky.social, @brandelfrance.bsky.social, @stevieedwardspoet.bsky.social, @cdeskilson.bsky.social & @rubenq.bsky.social! Register at link! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Listen to Episode 69: @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social (Of Fayre Gabbro, Myth and Romance, and the Role of Counterculture) here: share.transistor.fm/s/9cb1fec4

"There doesn't seem to be as much overlap within a counterculture as once existed. Everyone is very tribalistic in trying to protect who they are, their own identities. It's just hard to step out of that and form a community of different backgrounds, where everybody feels equally safe."

UPFROMSUMDIRT, EPISODE 69

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maniacally abstrack black @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 04/03/2025

han doing what han exquisitely does 🙏🏿💐❤️... thank you @hanvanderhart.bsky.social / @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social for this opportunity to run my mouth; i am so grateful! please tune in yall & spread the word.

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David J Bauman @davidjbauman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Just wow, this book of poems by @christenkauffman.bsky.social

A SUCCESSION OF CHURCH MOTHERS
Golden Shovel of "Will the Circle be Unbroken?"
in the mirror is a magpie, judicious beak that will pick at the loose skin, holler about a temple the lord made in a garden somewhere, lilies that circle a valley before it floods and look, anything can be whole again, rearranged and unbroken if we want it enough, measure our faith by accepting miracles. I could be a miracle and wouldn't that be worth it, return to the altar, and by this I mean river swollen to the levee's red mark. lord, it's been months since I felt myself, stood by an elevator to watch it carry someone up and disappear them above me, footsteps so close by but untouchable. in the morning there's
a hollowness no Sunday could ever fill, but here is a woman who has my eyes, tells me it gets better once the rain ends. I've tried to find home in the center of a cut tree, pew after pew awaiting transformation but to confront the restlessness in me is to set loose the wild dog from its cage, forgive the tectonic shift when I should've seen only sky. my mother could be a god, could claim herself lord in an open field where we dissect the iris to see what's in-side. I want something to carry my dead weight, hold up the earth and plant me there. forget heaven. forget sky.

Gorgeous colorful cover, young ladies in the grass. THE SCIENCE OF THINGS WECAN
BELIEVE
CHRISTEN NOEL KAUFFMAN

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Oh, this poem from @christenkauffman.bsky.social in THE SCIENCE OF THINGS WE CAN BELIEVE

ACTS OF PROTECTION
carry the bat as though she's a newborn found clinging to the sheers. feed her the fried fish you offered to your husband but he refused-a belly full of rum. ask her
to lie down on the bed under sheets you bought from the expensive boutique, Egyptian cotton,
the color of good sunburn. praise her brushed fur, glass eyes you've seen in a taxidermist's shop, this enjambment of meat and tiny bone flexed, poised for flight. refuse to cover her ornament of teeth when she opens into half-smile your father would scoop her up with his bare hands but this is not a poem about patriarchy. here, you can offer her mint tea, build her a shrine and ignite it.

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I was lucky to get to read with Milk and Cake Press hosted by Kim Jacobs Beck. It’s also always good to read with my poet wife @saramoorewagner.bsky.social

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My debut collection is on the shelf at @powells.bsky.social which is a real dream. Do I know anyone who might be visiting there soon and would be willing to send me a photo?

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

A brief stab at alt text: A photo of Shaun Tan's wordless graphic novel The Arrival. On the cover, which resembles a 19th century photo album is an inset sepia illustration of a man in a hat & suit bent down to address a comical blobby white creature with an erect tail, stubby legs, & a wide mouth.

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

If you haven’t bought/checked out/borrowed this book you should buy/check out/borrow this book.

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Research for things to come. I’m excited to learn a new genre!

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

New books❤️ from Carolyn Oliver and @christenkauffman.bsky.social

Three poetry books: The Alcestis Machine by Carolyn Oliver, Notes to a Mother God and The Science of Things We Can Believe by Christen Kauffman

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

@benkline.bsky.social @christenkauffman.bsky.social and I really want to read more poems for this!! Send!!

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Received a new box of books! Would you like a signed copy? DM me! $18 includes shipping!

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Please wish a mega happy birthday to @christenkauffman.bsky.social who not only has the worst birthday date ever, but is also double named after the birth of Jesus. She’s the true reason for the season in my eyes. Buy holy Christ-en’s book for even more sacrilege: ghostpeachpress.com/purchase/

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FREE SHIPPING FOR ORDERS OVER $25 The Science Of Things We Can Believe | NEW November 2024 $16.95 Wandering In All Directions Of This Earth | October 2023 $16.95 TOO MUCH | September 2022 $16.95 St…

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Darby Lyons @darbylyons.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Poetry book mail! So happy to have this new one from @christenkauffman.bsky.social

Book cover: The Science of Things We Can Believe
Christen Noel Kauffman

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

So glad to see it made it to you!! ❤️

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Midwinter new includes—WELCOME, Elizabeth Sylvia and Zöe Ryder White to River River Books! 🎉🎉🎉 Sylvia’s Scythe and White’s The Visible Field will be published in early 2026–read more about both manuscripts and poets in the image and alt text below. Congratulations!

Spring 2026

Scythe limns the verdant space of the cultivated garden (from Versailles to Massachusetts), the reality of rising environmental heat, and the cost of human flourishing. Alongside Marie Antoinette and the bees, the speaker engages French colonialism, the extractive sugarcane trade, and the language of flight and escape-who can fly, and who can escape.

Bio: Elizabeth Sylvia's first book, None But Witches: Poems on Shakespeare's Women (2022), won the 2021 3 Mile Harbor Press Book Award. She has been a semifinalist or finalist in competitions sponsored by the Burnside Review, C&R Press, DIAGRAM, Thirty West, Rare Swan and Wolfson Press, and is a reader for SWWIM Every Day. She has received fellowships from the West Chester University Poetry Center and the Longleaf Writers Conference. She is the winner of the 2023 riverSedge Poetry Prize. Her chapbook My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties is forthcoming from Ballerini Press.

The Visible Field
The poems in White's debut collection live in the space between the mind's internal life and the body's external world. Meditative and expansive, quiet and joyous, these poems listen and look past the surface of things. Pay attention, they urge, and we do.

Bio: Zoë Ryder White (she/her) has had poems appearing in Tupelo Quarterly, Iterant, Plume, and Threepenny Review, among others. Her most recent chapbook, Via Post, was a finalist for Tupelo Press' Snowbound Chapbook award and won the Sixth Finch chapbook contest in 2022. Her chapbook, HYPERSPACE, was the editors' choice pick for the Verse Tomaz Salamun Prize in 2020 and is available from Factory Hollow Press. She co-authored A Study in Spring, with Nicole Callihan. Another collaboration with Nicole, Elsewhere, won the Sixth Finch chapbook competition in 2019. A former elementary school teacher, she edits books for educators about the craft of teaching.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Today is a press ANNOUNCEMENT day! 🎉🎉🎉 We also have a River River Books’ podcast episode dropping at 8am on @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social, if you like your news with a side of poems, laughter, and end-of-year gratitude. 📚🌊🌊

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Elizabeth Sylvia @esylviapoet.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I'm so excited for my collection Scythe to come out with @riverriverbooks.bsky.social in 2026, and also For the next ENTIRE YEAR instead of awkwardly dying when anyone asks how the writing is going, I can say "I have a new book coming out in 2026, thank you so much for asking!"

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I absolutely believe the same thing x 100 about @benkline.bsky.social , he has a stunning collection coming out soon. Might as well book both of us together! Better yet, add @christenkauffman.bsky.social whose book’s now out and get 3 urban Appalachian @driftwoodpress.bsky.social editors for 1!!

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hi, Bluesky creatives! Now that I’ve transitioned into an editorial role, I haven’t really booked a lot of things to promote my book that came out this year! If you’re looking for someone for a reading series or class visit next semester, please reach out! I’ll reply/thread my book descriptions!

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

When your poet wife throws you a book launch, she makes you cry. Thank you @saramoorewagner.bsky.social!!! What an incredible night ❤️

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Helped the ever perfect @christenkauffman.bsky.social celebrate the release of her award winning first book, and I made it through my long ass introduction without completely falling apart! Win! Buy/review/teach this book from @birdcoatquarterly.bsky.social . It’s brilliant.

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

My poem, “Clean,” from DRESSING THE BEAR (@triohousepress.bsky.social) seems to be the most beloved, and I’m grateful for the ways it’s connected me with so many others who have experienced a similar loss. Thanks for this thread, Kelli! 💙

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I didn’t do an unboxing video because I’m a mess, but look what was delivered today! If you have a manuscript you’re trying to place, send to @ghostpeachpress.bsky.social! They are wonderful.

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Sara Moore Wagner @saramoorewagner.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My bestie/ poet wife’s beautiful book is out TODAY!! You’ll want to own this book. It’s magic, truly, and so is she!

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It’s pub day for my first poetry collection! To celebrate, I’m sharing the final blurb from the incomparable Tiana Clark. You can order a copy from @ghostpeachpress.bsky.social ghostpeachpress.com/purchase/ or soon I’ll have signed copies available ❤️

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

Anyone want to interview me about comics/ graphic memoir/ life or review FRENCH GIRL, let me know!

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Is it normal to feel terrified and like you want to hide and you might throw up before your book comes out?

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Here’s my second blurb from the incredible Lisa Fay Coutley! So grateful to her. You can still preorder through @ghostpeachpress.bsky.social!

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I'll be sharing blurbs for my debut collection, THE SCIENCE OF THINGS WE CAN BELIEVE (@ghostpeachpress.bsky.social), in anticipation of it's publication day 11/19! Here's the first blurb from the amazing @tracibrimhall.bsky.social!

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Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Can we do a POET Roll Call to see who's all here? #poetrycommunity Drop a note, reshare, etc.--let's see who's here!

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Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

This is such kind and helpful information for anyone getting back into submitting work or new to it entirely ❤️

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