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Kersten Christianson

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Poet, Moon Gazer, Raven Watcher, Way-Finder, Northern Trekker, Teacher. Curating the House of Nostalgia (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2020).

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This week in the poetry blogs with @emmalee1.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @johnglenday.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 39
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Happy Canada Day from this Alaskan.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak rose to prominence in the 1950s with her experimental printmaking and is one of many indigenous women artists who have employed the medium to create intriguing and important artworks #ReframingWomenPrintnakers
Print featuring a stylised owl looking outwards with multicoloured flowering plants eminating from the bird, against a white background
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈
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TC @tcustodis.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Be gay do crow stuff #pridemonth #pridecrows
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
From Dave Bonta: Dispatch from the Front woodrat.vianegativa.us/2025/05/04/d...
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Dispatch from the Front
We call them invasive species now, but they didn’t ask to be brought here and planted ‘for wildlife,’ the multiflora roses, Amur honeysuckles, Russian olives, Japanese barberries&…
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
That kinda weekend.
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This week in the poetry blogs w/ @grimalkingerry.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @kerstenak.bsky.social @rmhaines.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/04/poet...
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 16
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Tariffs by Gary Soto oneartpoetry.com/2025/04/21/t...
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Tariffs by Gary Soto
Tariffs Neruda, fill your ears with the sound of the sea And stay home. Chopin, close the lid of your piano— Lay on the couch, hands on your playable ribs. Koko, famed gorilla, eat your apple And k…
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Easter & the Golden Eggs of Writing
I’m not much the Easter celebrator, but I do appreciate this day. The sun shines across my desk, starburst daffodils shimmy in the wind out in the garden – I don’t have the heart …
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
When the editing calls for a red pen.
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maegutz.bsky.social @maegutz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Who would’ve thought we’d be living these books out? We are in perilous times.
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
An oeuvre d'oeufs by Tom Gauld
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Missing the Sunday morning sunshine vibes.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International Women's Day from Ada Limon
HOW TO TRIUMPH LIKE A GIRL


I like the lady horses best,
how they make it all look easy,
like running 40 miles per hour
is as fun as taking a nap, or grass.
I like their lady horse swagger,
after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up!
But mainly, let's be honest, I like
that they're ladies. As if this big
dangerous animal is also a part of me,
that somewhere inside the delicate
skin of my body, there pumps
an 8-pound female horse heart,.
giant with power, heavy with blood.
Don't you want to believe it?
Don't you want to lift my shirt and see
the huge beating genius machine
that thinks, no, it knows,
it's going to come in first.
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Vivian Faith Prescott @alaskapoet.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
International Women’s Day! Support women’s poetry—Old Woman With Berries in Her Lap. 📕 upcolorado.com/university-o... #AlaskanPoet #womenpoets #poetsofbluesky #AlaskaBlueSky #Alaska #poetry #Internationalwomensday #AlaskaSky #SamiDiaspora
Poet Vivian Faith Prescott holds up her (my) poetry book on a beach in southeast Alaska. Brown and white border collie lies on beach in background. Cover of poetry book Old Woman With Berries in Her Lap depicts a snowy field in shadows and the frame of a Sami lavvu (tent).
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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Liz Brownlee @lizpoet.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at HR@opm.gov.
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
R U feeling lucky? 🍀🙂
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Issue 34 Spring 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine is available for pre-order. Our next issue features the creative works of 50 contributors from all around the world. www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/sprin... #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews #writingcommunity
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Spring 2025
Door is a Jar is a print and digital literary magazine of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, drama and artwork. Our publication focuses on writing that is accessible for all readers.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I’m a poet, of course I’m writing lines during staff meetings.
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Doge or Douche?
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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I love this.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Witch of November 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇨🇺🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱 🇪🇺🌍🐕‍🦺🐾🍉🐈 @scotiasheppard.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Seems that way
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY by this review of my chapbook by @lowermelody.bsky.social in the @phillychapbook.bsky.social!!! Thank you for spending time with my work and explicating it so wonderfully!!! phillychapbookreview.org/dancing-with...
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Dancing With the Dead: On Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance by Todd Dillard
"Todd Dillard successfully transgresses the unspoken cultural embargo on work that grapples with life during the COVID-19 pandemic in his new chapbook, Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance."
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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Denali. Period. No further discussion.
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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10 Haiku Poems by Inam Hussain Begg Mullick
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
12 Sunday swans a’ sleepin’. And poetry never sleeps.
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
“What a little moonlight can do. Wait a while ‘till a little moonbeam comes peepin’ through.” —Billie Holiday 🌝
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Happy to have a poem included!
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Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Happy J.R.R. Tolkien Day! Today is the author's birthday, so if you're having a group of rowdy dwarves and an old wizard over for cake, be sure to sing, "That's what Bilbo Baggins hates! So, carefully! carefully with the plates!" www.britannica.com/biography/J-...
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J.R.R. Tolkien | Biography, Books, Movies, Middle-earth, & Facts | Britannica
J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer and scholar who achieved fame with his children’s book The Hobbit (1937) and his richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). His writing continu...
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Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Starting things off quietly, with this poem by Jill Osier…
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
NYE was a flashy occasion in SE Alaska.
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coopmike48 @coopmike48.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I count, this first day of another year, what remains. —Jane Hirshfield
Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me
by Jane Hirshfield

The world asks, as it asks daily: 
And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured?

I count, this first day of another year, what remains. 
I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hands. 

Can admire with two eyes the mountain, 
actual, recalcitrant, shuffling its pebbles, sheltering foxes and beetles.

Can make black-eyed peas and collards.
Can make, from last year’s late-ripening persimmons, a pudding.

Can climb a stepladder, change the bulb in a track light.

For four years, I woke each day first to the mountain, 
then to the question.

The feet of the new sufferings followed the feet of the old, 
and still they surprised.

I brought salt, brought oil, to the question. Brought sweet tea, 
brought postcards and stamps. For four years, each day, something.

Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. 
Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder. 

Today, I woke without answer. 

The day answers, unpockets a thought from a friend

don’t despair of this falling world, not yet

didn’t it give you the asking
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Morning. January (with Blue Tits, a Great Tit and a Coal Tit), Edith Holden.
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
No poem is just its autobiographical content. No poem is just its embroidery of language. As a reader, I favor poems that have multiple textures, moving freely from plain-speech, to silken [...] But all poetic language must be soaked in the oil of human feeling. —Henri Cole
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Gorse and furze are two favorite words. Right up there with krummholz and bearberry.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Every weekend I think about the best diary entry ever.
I've fallen in love or imagine that I have; went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I don't need at all.

—Tolstoy, Jan 25, 1851
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Kersten Christianson @kerstenak.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Writing about contingency plans and the paper fortunes collected in a hand-pottered bowl. Merry morning of the eve! 😉🎄❤️
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
All I want for Christmas is to pull a loose book from a bookshelf and finally, at long last, find that it opens a hidden door.
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