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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Friends, in advance of @miamibookfair.bsky.social, I’ll be reading with Julie Marie Wade for @soflopojo.bsky.social’s reading series. Register to join us via Zoom on 10/22 at 7 p.m. Eastern. 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Richard Blanco @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This month’s Free Poetry Resources are here! Check out my site to download the poetry broadside, writing prompt, reading recommendations & explore resources for teachers & educators. You'll also find details about my upcoming craft tutorial, What Makes a Poem Memorable? richard-blanco.com.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No one owns poetry It only goes through you As soon as you realize that you will be actually Dorothea Lasky

take my hand just like the others But in his eyes I will know it was all worth it And when I say I love you how are you He will say oh thanks for asking
But no this isn't the way it will end
I will go gliding through With everyone watching
And it will be inevitable how I win again
I've got so much before me
And even as the poems run away from me
In less than an hour
I know they will come back
No one owns poetry
It only goes through you
As soon as you realize that you will be actually happy
It's all a source of

From Dorothea Lasky’s MOTHER published by Wave Books

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Metro Detroit locals! Michigan and Ohio folks looking for an afternoon out! People kinda far-ish but wanting a day trip! We have a reading for you! @mrdecember.bsky.social and I are reading from our debut poetry collections at the awesome Book Suey in Hamtramck on October 17th at 4:00. Come by!

A flyer announcing that Kevin Risner and I are reading at Book Suey on October 17 at 4:00 p.m.

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Alys Wilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In the same way, when we smell the air in autumn, our brains provide a whole lifetime of autumns and the emotions, and visuals connected with them. For the real human, or character, it’s happening in the background - a writer’s job is to bring it to your conscious attention.

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes! I saw you on the roster. 💜

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Another thanks to @bunkong.bsky.social, @kavetchnik.bsky.social, and @mickiepoet.bsky.social for publishing this poem in Cultural Daily, @swwim.bsky.social and Queer Poem-A-Day, respectively. 💜

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have a new poetry book coming out in April. Sharing the title poem here as a sneak peek. With thanks to Richie Hofmann for the prompt that inspired the poem and the resulting collection, and to Summer from @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social for publishing this book.💜

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This poem that Maxine Kumin wrote for Anne Sexton.

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I meant October. Time is flying!

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A wonderful evening of poems! Thanks @natallman.bsky.social, for bringing us together.

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The recording of the September installment of A Very Literary Happy Hour is now live, featuring @casswhit.bsky.social, @djvorreyer.bsky.social & Sarah Carey, & hosted by yours truly with the generous support of @jacklegpress.bsky.social!

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A Very Literary Happy Hour Featuring Cassandra Whitaker, Donna Vorreyer and Sarah Carey

YouTube video by Nicole Tallman

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anne Sexton died 52 years ago today at the age of 45. Let us honor her life and her poems together. Here is one of my favorites. Please share yours. ❤️

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I will keep watching AHS 13 out of sheer devotion to Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Let's try that again with my glasses on... Would love to see you there!

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wrote an article. Took a photo. More soon.

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

She is aging so well naturally.

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you, Koss. Doing my part for the good of art. 🩷

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Starting soon. Happy Saturday! 🩷

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Are we watching the new Monster?

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The inaugural Miami-Dade Public Library System Poetry Contest for Teens is open for submissions, and @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social, Caridad Moro-Gronlier and I can’t wait to read your sonnets! (With special thanks to @booksandbooks.bsky.social for supplying the prizes.)

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today marks the kickoff of Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Poetry Contest for Teens! Poets Laureate @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social, Caridad Moro-Gronlier and I look forward to reading the submissions. More info 🔗 mdpls.org/PoetryContest

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A sonnet so hot it opens in 437 theatres.

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Finished writing my first favorite-books article for a local newspaper supplement and it was not an easy task, but I had a lot of fun, and may write more in the future.

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years ago. I was in Holland, Michigan, working as a spokesperson for Haworth, Inc., when I heard the news. I received a call from a local reporter asking if our New York office was ok, and I ran over to my supervisor who had a small TV on in her office. 💔

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m teaching a virtual sonnet writing workshop for teens in partnership with the Miami-Dade Public Library System on 9/19, 3-4 pm. If you know a teen or are a teen who’d like to join me, registration is open now! 🔗 mdpls.org/event/16747090

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hi, I’m Nicole Tallman and I write poetry for myself and those who want to listen, and speeches for people more important than me In Miami. I will never not cry at Whitney’s final vocal climax of “I Will Always Love You,” and anyone who wants to call that explosion basic, has no ear for music.

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Overwhelmed by these kind words for Thou Wast Mild and Lovely 💕💕🙏 Congrats to all the finalists!

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“He walked as if through a wildfire, he walked so much, he disappeared. His brain now had an accent and no one could understand how to stop him from learning the new language.” — @victoriachang.bsky.social, “Obit” @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

OBIT. Obsession—born on January 20, 1940, never died after the stroke but grew instead. The stroke gained an oak door, not just hard but impenetrable. The obsessions lived in solitude behind the oak door. After his stroke, the obsession took my father to the gym to walk on the treadmill. He walked as if through a wildfire, he walked so much, he disappeared. His brain now had an accent and no one could understand how to stop him from learning the new language. My mother called and said he fell on the treadmill, hit his head, blood thinners spread his blood like moonlight. They drilled holes in his head, vacuumed out the blood and more words. My father was finally arrested, he turned in the rest of his words, they bound his tongue. And he dreamed in blank paper. Victoria Chang

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Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Grateful to Maya C. Popa and Poem-A-Day for publishing this translation Katie Farris and I did of a piece by Lyudmyla Khersonsky, a wonderful poet from Odesa, Ukraine. I met Lyudmyla back in 1993 when I was still a sixteen year old in Odesa. She taught me English alphabet.

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just finished watching the penultimate season 1 episode of Furious, and anxiously awaiting Monday’s arrival.

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