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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Thanks to David Starkey, Chryss Yost, and @meghandunnpoet.bsky.social for including my poem "Ithaka" in the new issue of Anacapa Review! (I've been translating Barbara Köhler's reimagining of the Odyssey; maybe I'm "under the influence"!) anacapareview.com/christopher-...

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Ithaka It took[1] seventeen-plus yearsto accept your invitation[2] I shouldn’t have been[3]surprised to learn that the train doesn’t stop there anymore[4]but, remarkably, an ancient white cat stared a...

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Life’s never dull on the edge of town!

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Join me and Arden Levine as we celebrate new work! Zoomland: June 25 at 7:00 p.m. (Central). Registration required, free: tinyurl.com/3w6cd94r My new chap, lowercase gods, from Seven Kitchens: tinyurl.com/ba7mkx3j Arden's new book, Spoke, from The Word Works: wordworksbooks.org/product/spoke/

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

TONIGHT! Free! Fun! Poetic! We are also both publishers so bring your questions! Let @christophernelson.bsky.social and me make you feel electric! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #poetry

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Join me and Bryan Borland Thursday for an hour of poetry! We'll be reading from our new and forthcoming books. Register here: tinyurl.com/yupmkuhs Links to the books below @sevenkitchenspress.bsky.social @bryanborland.bsky.social

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Join me and @bryanborland.bsky.social as we celebrate our new work! Zoomland: May 21 at 8:00 p.m. (Central). Registration required, free: tinyurl.com/yupmkuhs @sevenkitchenspress.bsky.social: sevenkitchenspress.com/robin-becker... Sibling Rivalry Press: www.amazon.com/Listen-Kid-S...

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Tomorrow night I'll be introducing Dennis Hinrichsen as he reads (via Zoom) from his new book, dementia lyrics. Join us. Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 p.m. (Central). Register here: tinyurl.com/bdfy622v

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Tick-tock tick-tock! Green Linden Press is reading poetry chapbook manuscripts for a couple more days. greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I'm tickled pink to say that my new chap is available from Seven Kitchens. Many thanks to Ron Mohring and Steve Bellin-Oka. "What sumptuous landscapes of attraction and hurt lowercase gods makes visceral and real." —Richie Hofmann sevenkitchenspress.com/robin-becker...

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Christopher Nelson | lowercase gods

lowercase gods by Christopher Nelson. Number 33 in our Robin Becker Chapbook Series, selected by series editor Steve Bellin-Oka. [ cover image from the film Sacré Collège! (Cadinot, …

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

My review of Shane McCrae's recent chapbook, Song and Sonnets (Broken Sleep Books), which is somehow horrifying and beautiful, and meets the present moment with mimetic brilliance. www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a... @akasomeguy.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

One month remains in Green Linden Press's chapbook open-reading period! We'd love to read your work! greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Now that’s a statement

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

"Skyfall"—new audio poem up at Booth. Feels timely. booth.butler.edu/2026/01/01/s...

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Poets, it's twilight time! greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Join us tonight, 8:00 p.m. (Central)! tinyurl.com/499vk7vk

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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Delighted to share translations from a project I'm working on with the amazing @monikacassel.bsky.social: four poems from Barbara Köhler's Niemands Frau, a brilliant, hallucinatory re-telling of the Odyssey. Thanks to Asymptote for believing in the work. www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/no-on...

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from No One’s Woman - Asymptote

TISSUE SAMPLE : PENELOPEpenelope waits waits for whatwaits penelope? does calypso wait circe wait scylla charybdis sirens wait all all for one only: the one the other—different fr...

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Spilt by Jordan Stempleman is now available! Winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize for poetic innovation. Join Green Linden Press for a reading tonight (Sept. 18 at 8 p.m., Central). Register here: tinyurl.com/2h83ehfb And get your book here: www.greenlindenpress.com/books/spilt

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I reviewed Richard Siken's brilliant third book, which comes out this month from Copper Canyon Press. Not to be missed. www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a... @richard-siken.bsky.social @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Poets, Green Linden Press is reading manuscripts! greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Less than one week remains to submit proposals for the $2500 Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship: greenlindenpress.com/submit

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

NO WAR. "Good Faith" by Hasan Alizadeh (translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould). www.greenlindenpress.com/books/poetry... #iran

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Donald Trump’s fascism couldn’t exist today if we weren’t a country where George W. Bush could just disappear into cozy, pleasant retirement, make a few public appearances a year, & enjoy 52% approval, as if eight years of lies, crimes, constitutional violations, & policy negligence never happened.

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

End the war. "Pattern" by Garous Abdolmalekian (translated by Ahmad Nadalizadeh & Idra Novey) www.greenlindenpress.com/books/poetry...

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The "I'll lower costs and get us out of endless wars" candidate is now presiding over surging costs and brand new wars.

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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

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Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Happy to share my interview with the inimitable Monica Ong on her new book Planetaria. www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

A screenshot of a tweet by the official White House account.

Text: “Fixed it for you, @NYTimes.
Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen - he's NOT coming back.”

There is also a screenshot of the front page of the NyT with a large headline and photo about Van Hollen meeting with Abrego Garcia. They have edited the headline with red ink handwriting to say “ Senator meets with deported ms-13 illegal alien in El Salvador who’s never coming back.”

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I'm excited to be reading poems with the amazing Lise Goett! Join us on April 15 (8 central / 7 mountain) on Zoom as we celebrate our recent publications! Register here: tinyurl.com/mvw4vjff @eldiagram.bsky.social @tupelopress.bsky.social

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/04/2025

There's a dark truth behind Trump's tariffs: Absolute control. Trump's tariffs will be a potent and unilateral mechanism for reintroducing systematic corruption into the economy—and total control over its most influential players.

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Stock Market Diptych: 1: I told you to never trust a man who rides a golden escalator! 2: We the got the grifteds' blues.

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I'm excited to be reading poems with the amazing Lise Goett! Join us on April 15 (8 central / 7 mountain) on Zoom as we celebrate our recent publications! Register here: tinyurl.com/mvw4vjff

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/04/2025

“If a farm family voted for Trump, believing that his policies were good,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social, “it seems strange that they would then demand that they, and only they, should be spared the full consequences of those policies”:

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No Tariff Exemptions for American Farmers

They voted for the tariffs when they voted for Trump.

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Green Linden Press is reading poetry chapbook manuscripts for one more week! greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

True facts.

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Christopher Nelson @christophernelson.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

That’s about as fascist as it gets. Militarized public officers protecting business interests from the public.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/03/2025

BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology." This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.

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