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Michael Kleber-Diggs

@mkdordiggsy.bsky.social
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Another dude with fancy notions. Poet, essayist, lit critic, arts educator. 📚: WORLDLY THINGS (Milkweed Ed., 2021). Lit agent: Nordlyset; booking agent: Blue Flower Arts. Saint Paul MN. linktr.ee/michaelkleberdiggs

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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I am thinking about editing an anthology focused on the role of adjunct professors in higher education - what’s good, what’s bad, what adjunct professors allow, and what the role prevents. Any adjuncts or former adjuncts interested in exploring this topic? Please reply or send a DM. TY.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I am so excited to co-host this cool new workshop with the brilliant and talented @sunyungshin.bsky.social !
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
So excited to have episode 2 of our podcast out into the world! Check it out!
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I despise cancel culture, and I support this decision. Ye has apologized, but he has made no effort at repair. Until it is set right, it stays wrong. U.K. Bars Ye Over Antisemitism, Months Before Major Festival Performances www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/a...
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U.K. Bars Ye Over Antisemitism, Months Before Major Festival Performances
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Was trying to text a friend and got this reply. Does this mean I’m poetry famous!?! 😎 😂 🤷🏿‍♂️
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I’m grateful to the editors at the Under Review for nominating my poem, “Giving and Taking”, for a Pushcart Prize. It means a lot to me that they appreciate the poem. www.underreviewlit.com/new-blog/giv...
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Giving and Taking — The Under Review
— based on United We Stand by Gene Okok Beyond the lights and hype, before the purse and prize, there is the spartan gym— dim and grimy, grim, bereft of artifice and glamour. Here, there...
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
“draw closer. The flowers speak to us…” I am grateful to the Academy of American Poets and to this month’s guest editor, Danusha Lameris for including my sonnet, “Lupines in a Yard in San Antonio, Texas”. I feel lucky and happy and blessed. poets.org/poem/lupines...
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Lupines in a Yard in San Antonio, Texas
My friend grieves while we search / for an authentic experience, like tacos
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🎶 “Good morning, Baltimore!” 🎶 Well, actually, good evening, Baltimore! Come to this EcoTheo reading on Thursday night at the Baltimore Brewhouse! A stunning lineup (and also me)!
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Poets and poetry lovers, do you have a few minutes to complete a survey on line breaks? It’s part of a research project led by one of my graduate students. Please feel free to share. Thanks for considering. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Lineation Survey
This survey is designed to understand writers’ attitudes about and use of lineation. Survey responses are anonymous unless you provide contact information at the end . You are not required to answer a...
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Congrats to the U.S. men’s hockey team, AND, I’m always amazed by people who grow up with so much privilege and so much support and go on to have so much material wealth and so many resources only to lead small, stingy, selfish lives, callous to the suffering of others.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Congrats to the U.S. men’s hockey team, AND, I’m always amazed by people who grow up with so much privilege and so much support and go on to have so much material wealth and so many resources only to lead small, stingy, selfish lives, callous to the suffering of others.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Dear Canada, I hope you’re alright. Sorry you lost the hockey game today. Say, if Minnesota becomes a Canadian province, we (“we”) WE would win gold in hockey forever. And MN would be done federal occupation. AND, I would live in a country with universal healthcare! Let me know, eh? MKD
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
For Orion Magazine, I wrote about the American Experiment - what it is and has been and what Minnesota shows us it could and should be. 1000 thanks to Kathleen Yale and Tajja Isen for all the edits and ideas. orionmagazine.org/article/what...
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What It Should Mean to Be American - Orion Magazine
The private and public fight for humanity in the Twin Cities and beyond
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Is it me? Am I the only one who, you know… if the person in front of me at the ATM leaves their receipt behind… uh… you know… checks on how they’re doing… uh… um… financially…?
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I’ve seen enough! The Minnesota Wild will win Lord Stanley’s Cup this season!
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
So grateful to have “Gloria Mundi” featured on The Slowdown podcast this morning. Thank you to the host, Maggie Smith, for seeing the poem fully and reading it beautifully. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
Performing Arts Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · Host Maggie Smith is your daily poetry companion. Poetry is one of the greatest tools we have to wield our own attention — to consider our own lives and ...
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
That parenthetical is giving real “once and future” energy. Fool so foolish he thought he could change it forever. They’re placating you, fool. You’re a clown, fool.
A photo of a screen on an airplane, on which is written Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico).
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We hope to see you there!
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Tiny-ass Donald Trump cereal boxes! We got much bigger cereal boxes (way more cereal) under Joe Biden!
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
My most recent review for the Minnesota Star Tribune finds much to admire in MINOR BLACK FIGURES, a worthy addition to Brandon Taylor's exceptional bibliography. If you like it half as much as I did, you'll love it. www.startribune.com/minor-black-...
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Review: An artist and his would-be boyfriend are ‘Minor Black Figures’
Fiction: Booker finalist Brandon Taylor returns with a sensational novel about art, God and modern love.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Shohei Ohtani isn’t real.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We really do.
Text that reads “WE HAVE ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE (to have enough)!”
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Sorry, Seattle. You had a great season.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Our daughter, Elinor, is raising money for an artist’s residency. Money raised will cover: pay for two dancers, travel expenses, and meals and miscellaneous expenses. Please support with a gift or a share if you are so inclined. TY www.gofundme.com/f/support-el...
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Donate to Support Elinor's Residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, organized by Elinor Kleber Diggs
Hello friends, family, and friends of friends! My name is… Elinor Kleber Diggs needs your support for Support Elinor's Residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
So wait, I can’t be in the military now because I have a beard!?! 😭😭😭😩😩😩 (I’m also a pleasantly portly gentleman with a interest in things like peace and the Posse Comitatus Act and like not obeying illegal orders, so yeah, it probably wasn’t going to work out anyway)
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
No offense.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
In my socialist utopia, there are no toll roads, and all the highways stay silky smooth because most of the travelers are on the world’s fastest and swankiest bullet trains. Also: healthcare for all.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
When I look at certain strains of white evangelical Christianity, I think “I bet those people think everyone in heaven is white.” I mean, what you hate on earth could not exist in the heaven of your imagination…
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Okay, if the rapture didn’t happen, doesn’t that also mean the seven years of trials and tribulations in the wake of the rapture ain’t happening? Like, can we dial down the trials and tribulations?
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Rare sports weekend: Jayhawks won Vikings won Chiefs won Packers lost and, most importantly, Lynx won!
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Yes to Farm Aid. AND (2 questions, please): (1) are we talking clearly about why farmers need aid in this moment? And (2) what, if anything is or can be done to get farmers to see this as a sea change moment, to get them to vote with us (instead of against us)? www.startribune.com/what-does-fa...
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How Farm Aid actually helps Minnesota farms
The 40-year-old organization’s fundraising concert is Saturday at Huntington Bank Stadium, but the group also provides a crucial hotline and grants that are needed as much as ever by farmers in crisis...
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I enjoyed my visit with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Christie Friesen Aschwanden on their cool and smart Emerging Form podcast. Check out the episode here. emergingform.substack.com/p/episode-14...
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Episode 147: Michael Kleber-Diggs on the Role of the Artist in “dark times”
In this episode, we talk with Michael about the importance of mentors and how sometimes they transition to colleagues as we find our own footing in our creative work, stepping into our own creative id...
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I feel like this is a safe space where I can be myself, love what I love unreservedly, and pursue my passions!
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Very sad to hear about the shooting at Evergreen High School in Denver today. There are three young people in critical condition whose lives (if they survive) will never be the same. Sensible gun laws now!
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Rode my bike to work! Yaaay Michael! Yaaay! Forgot my fitness tracker. Booooo!
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Forgot to get a Powerball ticket. 🤷🏿‍♂️
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
For all the parents surviving all those college drop-offs - you are not alone. ♥️
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Among the many sad things about the horrific shootings in Minneapolis today is they may become a pretext for sending (again) the National Guard here. But only that, a pretext, not an actual or valid reason. To be clear, there’s nothing the National Guard could have done to stop these shootings.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Poets and poetry loving friends, when you think of “voice” which poets and books come to mind? Thank you. ♥️
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I am probably noticing your hands. I’m probably looking at them. Not in a fetishistic way - please don’t. I don’t mean anything by it. I’m drawn to people’s hands in a narrative way; they’re full of stories.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Hair AND body wash? I don’t trust it.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Hmmmm… bad news here… that won’t do… maybe Trump Should fire both the President and the Chair of the New York Stock Exchange… 🧐 www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/s...
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Dow closes 500 points lower Friday as weak jobs data and new tariffs incite sell-off: Live updates
Investors weighed July's payrolls report following a weak session on Wall Street a day earlier.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
It is so hard to be a Minnesota Twins fan sometimes. Like yesterday, for example. And today. I hurt all over. 😩😭😩😭
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Capitalism: people choosing to work for the benefit of the wealthy because they are convinced that any alternative would force them to work for the benefit of the needy.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Part of me is like, “THIS is what got the MAGA base to turn on Trump!?!” And part of me is like, “of course something like this is what got the MAGA base to turn on Trump.” Epstein. That tracks actually. Dumbest timeline ever.
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the Under Review @underreviewlit.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Yes, hi, hello! Is this thing on? 🎤 It’s pub day for the 12th issue of the Under Review and the 1st of our BlueSky era! We’ve got sporty poems, stories, essays, and a review and interview of epic proportions for y’all! Enjoy and share widely! 💕 www.underreviewlit.com/issue-12-202...
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Issue 12 | Summer 2025 — The Under Review
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Thrilled to have a new poem, “Giving and Taking”, in the Under Review, a dream publication for me. Please also spend a moment with all the cool art in Issue 12 (especially the Letter from the Editor). www.underreviewlit.com/new-blog/giv...
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Giving and Taking — The Under Review
— based on United We Stand by Gene Okok Beyond the lights and hype, before the purse and prize, there is the spartan gym— dim and grimy, grim, bereft of artifice and glamour. Here, there...
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I’m pleased to announce the formation of a new political party, the United States party. Our core platform: tax the rich until every last one of them is middle class; use what our gain$ to save the planet.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I have seen many movies I like less than 28 YEARS LATER.
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