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Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I am available for poetry manuscript consultations. I've done manuscript consultations for Frontier Poetry and I was a Visiting Professor at the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2022, as well as being the author of 4 books, the last two from Copper Canyon. Rates are flexible. nikkiwallschlaeger@gmail.com

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Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks to Poetry Magazine for featuring my poem. At the link you can read it or listen to me reading it. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Opening lines to my poem “Hey Siri” from Poetry Magazine.

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“What is the Greek word for mercy? / What is the capital of Kansas? / Who perished in the fire, / made anonymous by ash / but mourned all the same, in public?” — @paulmguest.bsky.social, “Hey Siri”

HEY SIRI. What is the Greek word for mercy? What is the capital of Kansas? Who perished in the fire, made anonymous by ash but mourned all the same, in public? Who grieves the dawn? Who wrote down the directions to the old farm and the haunted house and the mill which has been repurposed? Who is the speaker of the pained jeremiad? The delicate ode whispered to the rain. This poem which should have been a riddle. A knock-knock joke. Who is there? Who is waiting at the door?

In the bright morning, where is the fire? And who squeezed the trigger? Who was inspired by safely pedestrian suffering? Enlivened, even. I should not exclude myself from this. At night it’s easy, nothing at all, to feel one’s chest ache with beauty because of the stars which keen throughout the vacuum. How long ago did John Keats die and was it raining then, as in a dream? I don’t understand beauty. How it insists. upon itself. You, this trembling day. Never mind. Paul Guest

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Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m looking forward to getting my copy

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Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thank you to Leah Umansky for snapping this photo of my poem in the October issue of Poetry.

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 05/07/2026

gavin's golden hill, east durham, new york, 1977

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/06/2026

To recap: Iran: There is no deal Israel: There is no deal Trump: Deal approved!

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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

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Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Excited for two poems from my next book to appear in American Poetry Review.

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Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Excited for two poems from my next book to appear in American Poetry Review.

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michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

the school year just ended and I already miss indoctrinating students into cultural Marxism and extremist gender ideology

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Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Thank you for sharing this, Simeon!

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“I pray for your career. / That you aren’t crushed by the stupid and the vacant. / For whatever is left / of imagined, impossible careers: / dyspeptic soda jerk dying in Frazier, Indiana; / a librarian in Pompeii” — @paulmguest.bsky.social, “I Hope for Everything”

I HOPE FOR EVERYTHING. All morning I have been thinking about disco—I was alive and aware of a lot: who was the President back then and what stations our television could receive and at the skating rink there was a strobing square of dance floor and everything glowed like a dime store afterlife. Because everything becomes about promise. What good there might be in the soft bark of a rare tree. What will almost certainly happen to every star running down like batteries in the always night; the souvenir baseball bat beside the bed. I should be inspired when a stranger tells me life is all about possibility. As if cancer isn’t a terrible kind of proof of concept.

As if wildfires aren’t a starving arithmetic and it won’t matter who you vote for, this year and the next and forever and ever. This sense of time: I can get down with it, not curl up in the darkness hoping to save my life. I hope for every thing I love to last and last. I hope for this river to sound like ringing. I pray for your career. That you aren’t crushed by the stupid and the vacant. For whatever is left of imagined, impossible careers: dyspeptic soda jerk dying in Frazier, Indiana; a librarian in Pompeii, before the subtle ash of a bad winter; For the abandoned mutt, unloved, forlorn on Instagram, I pray. Paul Guest

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 13/05/2026

LOGGING ON

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Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Frank O’Hara remains undefeated

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michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I think all the time about Jack Kerouac heckling Frank O’Hara that he was ruining American poetry & O’Hara responding without a beat, “That’s more than you ever did for it”

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Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I'm speedrunning my train of thought upon reading this, but I'm thinking about all of the pressure put on young people to work hard & get a good job & never do anything that might fuck up your employability & yet when you enter the workforce the assaults on your dignity never stop.

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Know I told you it was okay to leave me. Why'd you believe me? You always believed me.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This era and political movement have revealed beyond a doubt that many Americans simply don’t think non-Americans matter, or that they are actually even people. There is no way around this conclusion. As a nation, we must agree to accept we are part of a vibrant, larger world, not its master.

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Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A nurse was going on about this series to me the other day; are they any good?

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It makes so much sense to put ALL these villains on TV, non-stop, for ongoing viral-video interrogations—to get them to slip up, to say something that pisses him off, to look weak— because the only thing that matters to this guy is what happens on the tube

media.tenor.com

a man in a top hat stands next to a child and says " goggles on please "

Alt: Mike TV from Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory

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Letitia Trent @letitiatrent.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

the internet is poison

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

When AOL and Prodigy started taking off in the early 90s, our neighbor bought a bunch of cement slab and busted it up and sold it online as "Real Pieces of the Berlin Wall" and "Real Pieces of the Great Wall of China" and that guy realized what the internet was gonna be before everyone else

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Wickets Giroux @rigamarock.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I say this three times a day and mean it more every single time, but what is going ON?????

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

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Jahd Khalil @jahd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Gov Spanberger has directed Virginia’s state law enforcement agencies to end 287g agreements with ICE, saying the agreements "improperly cede accountability and discretion over VA law enforcement" to the feds.

governor.virginia.gov

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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I'm just waiting for Donald to tell Sean Hannity he'd be so much prettier if he smiled more.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

No we don’t you worthless lump of campaign bribes, we want ICE abolished and every person who committed crimes, as well as those who allowed it to happen, prosecuted. Go fucking retire, you’ve done enough damage already.

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Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

We want it abolished, old man

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Sexy Unrestricted Launch Authority @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The center-will-hold folks seem to understand very little about widening gyres and mere anarchy.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

We are ruled over by thieves and murderers and rapists who are hellbent on taking everything from us. Evidence like the Epstein Files just makes abundantly clear what we already know and continually confronts us with a question we must answer: how much more of this are we willing to take?

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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I’ll be in conversation with these smart poets a week from today, Fri 2/6 starting 6:30 pm—& the temps will be above freezing! Free @PVCC campus in Charlottesville VA. Register & get a free book! piedmontgarden.org/event/a-poet... #poetrycommunity @paulmguest.bsky.social @haydensaunier.bsky.social

Fri 2/6 at PVCC Campus in Charlottesville Va: a poets panel, Guardians of Wonder: Writing What We Must Not Lose

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