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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Do you like poems that ramble about mortality and other human problems but also get a little silly with it? Might be a book 4 u

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Risk Tolerance, my forthcoming book with @autofocusbooks.bsky.social, is now available for pre-order. More at link (beautiful cover by Amy Wheaton) autofocusbooks.com/store/p/risk...

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I merely CONSIDERED signing up for a marathon and my toenail is immediately falling off due to something called "runners toe". What will happen if I actually start training for one in earnest

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Im dipping spicy sweet chili doritos in ranch........ now that is niinovation

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One day you have an infant.... the next day the infant is playing Fortnite. Devouring time, blunt thou the lion's paws

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We watched Coyote vs Acme with the kids last weekend and when Gossamer showed up, my three-year-old whispered "That guy's just shoulders"

A montage of the character gossamer, who is in fact just shoulders.

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You deconstruct a blippi song with your guitar teacher ONE TIME and he will forever remind you when you forget how to play b flat that it's "the blippi chord"

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My 3yo upon hearing the opening notes of "Boys Don't Cry": "THIS IS THE OLD SONG FROM HE-MAN!"

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Why is everything gummies? Oh here you can't be trusted to eat a fuckin vegetable unless it's bear shaped

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I asked Google how to turn off its AI search results because I want to direct traffic to sites instead of being served the summary. Anyway it recommended I not use it

Google suggested trying another search engine like DuckDuckGo or Bing

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

For @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 's #smallpoemsunday this gem from Mark Leidner's new book Elegy for Pangaea

HORSE CHRISTMAS

We have a house in the livingroom this year,
and everyone's been taking turns

oohing and ahhing
at the Christmas tree, all lit up

and ornamented, reflected in its enormous eye

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I don't think anyone can beat me in times listened to "Whatever (I Had a Dream)" by Butthole Surfers in the last 24 hrs

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I needed only to hear the concept of Wicker and now I've got a Justin Timberlake voice in my head singing "I'm bringing SexyPack"

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Growing mushrooms feels a little like dabbling in the dark arts

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Why do my children decide they need to absolutely chug water at the very moment we turn off the lights at bedtime

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Continuing the conversation about book reviews today, jump in the thread if you missed it & want to chat. Yes, the thing C.H. points out is super important-- reviews can stand in for convos, like seeing a movie and then standing around talking with your friends about it!

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

How it feels to read something seems important. Well well well, it appears existing in a human body is still advantageous for now

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Adrienne says a lot of good stuff in this thread but I really like the idea of the critic as the draw, the personality, the Style, and I think another sad detriment to the lack of valuing criticism $ wise is that we lose the chance to develop more of these voices

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This shouldn't seem like too much to ask and yet in the world of low-paid/unpaid criticism it feels that way!

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I've been asking over at Substack, but want to throw the question out here too: what makes a "good" book review in this day and age? When do you read book reviews (before or after reading the book)? Do you discover books through reviews?

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Shoutout to the musician at the scenic local barbecue place, just absolutely crushing it playing john prine's most depressing songs

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My pleasure to help edit this -- poets and language nerds go check this interview out asap

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I purchased last minute tickets to one of the NYC Tori Amos shows this past weekend. I'm talking two hours before the show. Someone on r/toriamos sold a very nice seat to me for $50 and sent me the ticket before I even cash apped him. Reddit is the best place on the internet

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I enjoy editing for zona motel because our contributors don't just love books, they truly love reading 😊😎

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I've been posting here less but I also kind of like it still. The sensation of screaming into a nice indifferent tunnel is what poetry is made of. All I LOVE YOU WALLS

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Someone could easily poison me by offering me a baked potato

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is a classic thing a ghost would say FYI

A screenshot of an article about mitch mcconnell's health with the sentence " i have unfinished business" underlined

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

All that time I spend doomscrolling looking for one good piece of news and now it is here.

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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I love the phrase "writers and poets" because it suggests poets aren't writing but instead doing something far more sinister

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I reviewed Learning by Courtney Bush, a book that shows you that maybe children are relatable and wise and adults are the silly geese. (Not the psyop) open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Going to exclusively refer to m*ga as "fandom of the flop era" from now on

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

For the early nothing weekend set. I didn't set out to review this book originally, but found that it elicited such a strong emotional reaction in me that I wanted to write about it to investigate that. This review is the result.

Book cover of DOE by Conor Hultman accompanied by the review title, "Haunted by Incompleteness"

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Fence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"[This] book is like a harrowing road trip, a long-haul truck route..." @niina.bsky.social reviews Conor Hultman’s huge, sad, conceptual poetry book, DOE (@cloak.bsky.social, 2026), for The Constant Critic! Read full review on Fence Digital: fencedigital.com/2026/06/24/c.... 🍃

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Also guess what, I'm recording an audiobook this weekend

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I reviewed Conor Hultman's DOE, which uses text from a database of cases with unidentified victims. This book, in all its imposing 600+ pages, shines a light on the continuity and pervasiveness of violence in America. Thx @fencebooks.bsky.social for the venue. fencedigital.com/2026/06/24/c...

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Haunted by Incompleteness: Niina Pollari Reviews Conor Hultman’s DOE – Fence Digital

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Forty two years and my life is still trying to get up that great big hill of hope SIRI SEND TWEET

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Greetings, I will attend AWP 2027 so if you need a deeply charismatic and approachable yet undeniably brilliant participant for your offsite..... let me know now because I have to start rehearsing asap

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Sometimes I feel like my children are the world's pickiest eaters, and then other times I'm like, wow, they really crushed that bowl of tofu with nutritional yeast

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

For the London contingent -- this Zona Motel reading in a couple weeks should be by all measures excellent. Featuring Iphgenia Baal, Lucy K Shaw, Paul Johnathan, @poppycockburn.bsky.social, and me

Flyer with the readers' names and some creepy victorian strawberries. Reading details: June 11th at 730pm at The Bell in London (50 Middlesex Street)

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Wow all star cast out here today

Merlin birdsong app with the following birds identified: tufted titmouse, eastern towhee, carolina chickadee, northern parula, wood thrush black and white warbler

Merlin birdsong app continued: blue jay, northern cardinal, wild turkey

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Evidently there is a mushroom called the jack-o-lantern mushroom and it is bioluminescent due an enzyme called Luciferase. Nature has got to be kidding

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Phone changed "cynical" to "Santa Claus" when I was doing speech to text. Magic is real

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

As a parent I don't care about a lot of forms of indoctrination, but I love sharing music with my children. Them screaming "TKO! Hear it on the radio!" whilst running to an elevator in a hotel in Pigeon Forge is giving me something vital

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I love taco bell because you can just get a cup of beans and that's pretty frequently what I want

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

"Mr beast feastable" sounds like a cat treat

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

When you're a parent, being on the apps means being on the taekwondo app, the daycare app, and the after school and/or camp app

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

My son, holding a bowl of cheese: "I want to know, have you ever had a cheese bowl?"

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