iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 10/09/2026

“Today’s poem considers how we regard ourselves—our physical selves. It’s a poem I love, a poem that I see a lot of beauty in,” host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today’s encore episode. Read “Parts of a Body House” by Erika Meitner (@rika99.bsky.social): bit.ly/4yoBuMy

text graphic featuring a portion of Erika Meitner's poem

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Matthew Nisinson @mnisinson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“the absolute wrong thing in this perpetual time of global violence, war, famine,”

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Maybe you want to read a #poem about this Franz West sculpture @massmoca.bsky.social? #likeafield www.likeafield.com/2026/summer/...

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you’re interested in astronauts & Meret Oppenheim, maybe check out my poem? #likeafield www.likeafield.com/2026/summer/...

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My author copies of ASSEMBLED AUDIENCE are here! Big thanks to @milkweededitions.bsky.social for everything!!!! Thrilled to share this book with everyone on September 29th! It’s got everything: Miami Vice! Shark teeth! Fracking protests! Def Leppard! LaGuardia airport! Yellowstone! Dolly Parton!

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you’re interested in astronauts, Frank Stella & Franz West, & zombies have I got some #poems for you! #likeafield www.likeafield.com/2026/summer/...

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Erika Meitner - Two poems

a seasonal journal of art & poetry

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A few years ago I flew to Traverse City (MI) on the 4th of July, which was extraordinary (seeing fireworks from above) which reminded me of July 4th as a new mom on Capitol Hill in DC on Independence Ave, so I wrote a poem, & you can read it here! 🎆 www.shenandoahliterary.org/volume-75-nu...

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We are all experts in risk assessment now

silent glittery bursts peaking / above runway fences and then, / from the air, dotting the darkness

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Everything else is a dumpster fire, but then there’s this. 🌖 🧑‍🚀

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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

We're in Baltimore! Join us TOMORROW NIGHT at 7pm for our AWP off-site reading, Boathouse Extravaganza: Writers (and Editors) on the Waterfront! Lia Purpura, @rika99.bsky.social, @samuelkolawole.bsky.social, and Athena Nassar will be reading for AGNI. See you there! #awp2026

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AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

🔥ONE WEEK FROM TODAY🔥 Join us for our AWP off-site reading, Boathouse Extravaganza: Writers (and Editors) on the Waterfront! Lia Purpura, @rika99.bsky.social, @samuelkolawole.bsky.social, and Athena Nassar will be reading for AGNI. See you there! #awp2026

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

#awp26 where I’ll be, mostly—come see me!

List of events I’m doing at AWP which can all be found in accessible version at erikameitner.com/events

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Y’all, I have a book cover + a pre-order page for my 7th book of poems, Assembled Audience, due out from @milkweededitions.bsky.social on Sept 29th! milkweed.org/book/assembl... #poetry #poetrycommunity

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Assembled Audience | Milkweed Editions

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Madison Wisconsin State Capitol where a huge crowd of people came to make their voices heard! Abolish ICE!

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Mark Jenkins @choiceweb0pen0.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Stumbled across this podcast episode today. I love Levine and this poem. Meitner’s close reading really adds to my appreciation of it. Also, shout out to the power of a great poetry anthology. The Poulin anthology she mentions, I found at a used bookstore in my hometown, struggling, post undergrad.

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"This isn’t the time to say nothing." Indie journalist @marisakabas.bsky.social beautifully and heart-breakingly reminds us how important it is right now to find solidarity in our neighbors, wherever they're from, and fight the power being rained down upon us. www.thehandbasket.co/p/crackdown-...

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Crackdown

Writing through history and heartbreak.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Normal thing for a major urban American newspaper to have to post.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Superb reportage on Minneapolis from one of the all time greats.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.

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ariel @aritalks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

…it should break your heart to kill.

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by Brian Turner

It should make you shake and sweat, nightmare you, strand you in a desert of irrevocable desolation, the consequences seared into the vein, no matter what adrenaline feeds the muscle its courage, no matter what god shines down on you, no matter what crackling pain and anger you carry in your fists, my friend, it should break your heart to kill.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

It is possible that this Hanukkah, especially, you might need a little poetry to bring some light through the darkness. If so, we’ve got you covered. #hanukkah #poetry Register (for free) here and join us on Zoom: www.eventbrite.com/e/from-darkn...

From Darkness to Light: Poetry in Celebration of Hanukkah, Tues 12/16 8-9pm EST on a blue background with menorah and dreidels

List of many names of readers (Jewish Poets)

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omodesierto.bsky.social @omodesierto.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I got to talk 100 Notable Small Press Books on the Lit Hub podcast this week! We're trying hard to make 2026 happen, but we need a handful more reviewers. If you want to celebrate small presses & their authors, sign up here: tinyurl.com/100smallpress lithub.com/its-best-of-... #100smallpress

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It’s Best-of Season on The Lit Hub Podcast

A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Br…

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

You guys: this is an actual Buche De Noel complete with fondant mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 that my amazing colleague @bethnguyen.bsky.social made for our Secret Wisconsin Interdenominational Solstice (gift) Swap (SWISS) + party!

Chocolate cake that looks like an actual log with rosemary and cranberry and mushroom garnishes

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Hanukkah is just a week and a few days away. Sign up for @notatawp.bsky.social's third annual Hanukkah reading! www.eventbrite.com/e/1976404024...

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From Darkness to Light: Poetry in Celebration of Hanukkah

A group of Jewish poets sharing poetry for Hanukkah. Hosted by NAWP.

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Calling all fiction writers: our MFA application deadline here at UW-Madison is fast approaching! Apply! We fully fund everyone we admit! We’ve got everything: lakes, stellar faculty, snow, cheese, and summer funding!

Maroon UW Madison MFA Program Ad with photos of six faculty: Beth Nguyen, Dantiel W. Moniz, Porter Shreve, Amy Quan Barry, Ron Kuka, and Rickey Fayne. Deadline: Dec 15. 33k/year stipend and summer funding, 1-1 teaching load, and cross-genre work supported. More info at creativewriting.wisc.edu/gradapply

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I love a residency that offers shorter options especially for parents & caregivers alongside standard residencies! Go Saltonstall! Calling all New York artists! #artist #ny #poetrycommunity #artistresidency

Application call for NY artists for Saltonstall: Saltonstall.org (Jan 4 deadline)

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

than gin-&-limes you are cooler, darling, o come back to me (john berryman)

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You should be gone in winter, that Nature mourn
With me your anarch separation, call-
ing warmth all with you: as more poetical
Than to be left biting the dog-days, lorn
Alone when all else burgeons, brides are born,
Children yet (some) begotten, every wall
Clasped by its vine here . . crony alcohol
Comfort as random as the unicorn.Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I
For you a liar am a thousand times,
Scars of these months blazon like a decree;
I would have you—a liner pulls the sky—
Trust when I mumble me. Than gin-&-limes
You are cooler, darling, O come back to me.

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

today was over 20 so i went out skiing. i am trying to winter. this is a color photo. 🥶 #wisconsin

Cross country parallel ski tracks across a snowy expanse with a few trees and an open gray sky

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Hey NY poet + CNF friends! $8k artist awards! Apply! www.nyfa.org/awards-grant... This year: Craft/Sculpture Digital/Electronic Arts Nonfiction Literature Poetry Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts

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NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship - Nyfa

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Tomorrow is December. Only two weeks until Hanukkah! NAWP is hosting our 3rd annual Hanukkah reading with 22 Jewish poets (we know, it isn't chai, but we have some great readers!) Please join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/from-darkn...

From Darkness to Light, Poetry in Celebration of Hanukkah: a list of 22 poets! Jared Beloff
Rosebud Ben-Oni
Robin Rosen Chang
Moriah Cohen
David Ebenbach
Sarah Etlinger
H.E. Fisher
Elisheva Fox
Josette Akresh-Gonzales
Jared Harél
Carlie Hoffmann
Julia Kolchinsky
Maud Lavin
Arden Levine
Mordecai Martin
Erika Meitner
Lynn Melnick
Richard Newman
Hila Ratzabi
Jason Schneiderman
Sean Singer
Yerra Sugarman

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Please join us in congratulating the 2026-27 SWWIM Residency at The Betsy Hotel awardees! Writers in Residence 2026-27 Erika Meitner Bleah Patterson Dorsía Smith Silva Patricia Smith @rika99.bsky.social @littlemissbleah.bsky.social @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social

Flyer that says Congratulations! SWWIM Writers in Residence 2026-2027, with images of Erika Meitner, Bleah Patterson, Dorsía Smith Silver, and Patricia Smith

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/11/2025

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

'"There is no good way to say this" but to say this: AI is the antithesis of education. It is the antithesis of the future. As such, it is a kind of epistemological death, and I recognize... we have long been surrounded by such efforts; we are grieving already. And yet, we go on.'

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

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Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Y’all it’s wild out here tonight in WI! These are from my front yard, with ambient light. The northern lights were visible sans phone/camera they were so bright!

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

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