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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

new piece about me being both a pretty good teacher & shoplifter in @havehashad.com on wednesday, allegedly

sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A piece of mine in the October Issue of The Brooklyn Rail, a piece from a book of prose in-progress... brooklynrail.org/2026/10/poet...

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april @april-now.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

sophie's book is great and you all should add it to your shelves ☺️ 💙📚 #booksky

a copy of 'two open doors in a field' by sophie klahr

the cover is mostly black with a window framing a sunrise/set

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ah September. Here's a September poem from my book TWO OPEN DOORS IN A FIELD from @univnebpress.bsky.social - this poem is within the core sequence of thirty woven-together poems called 'Like Nebraska.' www.poetryfoundation.org/books/review...

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Come shop my closet on Poshmark! Lots of TRULY INEXPENSIVE new oddities ( baby pink 90's tracksuit anyone?) poshmark.com/closet/sklahr

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Come shop my closet on Poshmark! Lots of TRULY INEXPENSIVE new oddities ( baby pink 90's tracksuit anyone?) poshmark.com/closet/sklahr

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Looking for some literary assistance? An editor for 3 poems or a whole manuscript? Office Hours? Submission management? I've got you <3 www.sophieklahr.org/editorialser...

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GW @gwoltjer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Thank you @sophieklahr.bsky.social for your words and images. This collection of poems invites the reader to be part of a journey that neither begins nor ends and just is as the miles of road pass by. Truly beautiful. Published by @univnebpress.bsky.social.

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"My only advice is not to go away. Or, go away. Most Of my decisions have been wrong. When I wake, I lift cold water To my face. I close my eyes. A body wishes to be held, & held, & what Can you do about that?" always thinking of this Levis poem: blackbird-archive.vcu.edu/v5n2/poetry/...

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In the City of Light , Larry Levis

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

3 pieces accepted to @wigleaf.bsky.social ! very pleased lately to be publishing more fiction

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

check out the book! www.sophieklahr.org#/thereisonly...

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Just had 2 poems accepted to a very good journal --- sent the submission on November 18th, 2024. Three cheers for patience!

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My choices for the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social are ALL anthologies I've never gotten even halfway through (& I have poems in 3)! Squid approves. What are you planning to read?

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The close of the 3 paragraph AI apology from a scammer at FLOURISH BOOKS, after I told them to bugger off in reply to their obviously bogus book marketing email: "I truly respect your instinct to guard your work carefully, it tells me you are exactly the kind of writer worth championing." BARF

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If you'd like a signed copy of my book Two Open Doors in a Field from @univnebpress.bsky.social I have *one left*: ~ $18 (plus a few bucks for shipping, if you feel generous) ~ Venmo handle is @ sophie_klahr or PayPal. More about the book: www.sophieklahr.org#/two-open-do...

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

with code AM250 at checkout, today & tomorrow only, get 50% off my book THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD ( @fictioncollective2.bsky.social ) : www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366203...

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

FC2 fam overlaps with @gasherpress.bsky.social again! 🌠 Get THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD coauthor @sophieklahr.bsky.social's chapbook DRIFTWOOD in the spring, and TANNERY BAY coauthor Katie Jean Shinkle's chapbook TRANSFERENCE now! www.gasherpress.com/product-page...

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

no apologies!!! via www.instagram.com/blank__slate__

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

2027: DRIFTWOOD with @gasherpress.bsky.social read excerpts here: www.sophieklahr.org#/driftwood/ & more in my IG highlights www.instagram.com/stories/high...

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

ONE MORE DAY to register! Have you ever really paused to examine what guides your impulses as a writer? This course is an opportunity to become self-aware in a new, productive, deeply nourishing way! www.sophieklahr.org/classes

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

NEW interview on Meditative Week of Poetry ~ grateful to Nick Hilbourn for looking so deeply at my work & for his thoughtful questions. Audio a little quiet, so best listened to with headphones. open.spotify.com/episode/1nDK...

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Registration is closing EARLY! Sign up before Friday, June 19th! sophieklahr.com/classes

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Registration ends June 21st! Sign up today: sophieklahr.com/classes

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april @april-now.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

'there is only one ghost in the world' by sophie klahr and corey zeller one of those gorgeous haunting books that you can read in an afternoon but will linger in the back of your brain (and heart) for months and months

a paperback copy of 'there is only one ghost in the world' by sophie klahr and corey zeller. the cover is white with a photo of a young person wearing a dinosaur head

My mother was reading a book to me in bed when we saw the reflection of flames on my bedroom wall. Across the street, the neighbor's house was burning. I remember being outside in my nightgown, barefoot, my feet in the runoff the firetruck bled, ambulance-men rustling onto the stretcher something dark.

My parents told me later that our neighbor, the old woman I called Aunt Heppy, had died, and that her old white dog had died too, but that her German shepherd puppy had survived.

It jumped through the big glass window of the living room, breaking the broad pane. At school, everything was uniform.

The kids all wore the same outfits and their parents all had the same medications. You looked out the window most of the time. You learned more than anyone should ever know about the sky. You drew a line with a stick in the new snow and dared a friend on the other side to cross it. Once you cross it, you can never come back, you told him. He was reduced to tears, and you got in trouble, even though his explanation made no sense to anyone. They told me I could never come back, he wailed. Only when I was grown-up did I realize that it couldn't be true, that the puppy could not have broken the glass. I asked my mother, and she admitted: it wasn't true.

There is a kaleidoscope of chemicals Elijah takes now-chest bound, pre-op, new hormones rattling like private thunder, sweet peppering of stubble on his jawline. I am pained when the checkout girl calls him Ma'am. We stand drinking Coke in the thick Texas night outside the washateria, giggle at a chain of raccoons running by on their tiptoes. He is studying theology. God is doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves, he says. You have a poster on your fridge with an illustrated geologic timescale. There is a nautilus, an armored fish, a stegosaurus, an owl. Eon, era, period, epoch. Earth forms approximately 4.6 billion years ago. In the middle of the night, baby mice fall from the rafters onto the bed, looking like kidney beans glowing in the dark. The mice are too small to have been climbing on their own-their mother was trying to take them somewhere. Four have fallen, and you wonder if the mother managed to save any. If by now she is sleeping in her somewhere, holding at least one of the lives she made. You remember a teacher telling you how water was made in second grade. You memorized the periodic table. All those little boxes: pale blue, pale pink, pale yellow. The kid with leukemia who sat in front of you would pass you the pictures they drew. Stick figure drawing a stick figure. Stick figure drawing a house. You drew your own body and passed it back. One day the kid was a solid. Later a gas. Then he evaporated. This, the teacher said, is how you make a cloud.

Your half sister's mother in Arkansas shoots the old sheep she owns. It has grown very sick, and she doesn't have the money to put it down. Then she shoots the donkey that loved the sheep and that the sheep loved. Your half sister explains how her mother believed keeping the donkey alive wouldn't be fair. She didn't want to leave the donkey like that out in its pasture, always waiting, always looking for the sheep. Or perhaps and worse-leaving the donkey out in the pasture knowing how deeply alone it was now. Her mother had a neighbor dig a hole, and shot both animals beside it, one after the other. Rolled them into the hole together. Is this what mercy looks like? I can hear it in the deadbeat sky leaking longline, hooked hard; in the gristle of decades crunching like red pills at the heel of my hand. We watch an episode of Cops. A dog drifts through the scene outside a trailer. Good dog, says one of the cops.

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

FABULOUS choices for final judges! fc2.com/prizes

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Registration is open until June 21st only! sophieklahr.com/classes

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy Pride ! We'll be highlighting books & pieces from our LGBTQIA community all month. Here's a piece from THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD, our 2022 Sukenick Contest winner by @sophieklahr.bsky.social and Corey Zeller: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366203...

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Send a query! www.sophieklahr.org/editorialser...

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Sign up to get online class offerings & whatnot from our 2022 Sukenick Contest winner THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD coauthor @sophieklahr.bsky.social :

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Just sent out a NEWSLETTER - if you'd like some exclusive offerings ( & perhaps a secret-ish class) - you can still get the letter for a few days yet - just sign up! www.sophieklahr.org#/contact/

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Twinkling Stars on 4th of July Night

ALT: Twinkling Stars on 4th of July Night

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Take a 5 session summer course with the co-author of our 2022 Sukenick Contest winner THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD ✨

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

*New Class Announcement* ~ this filled up fast last time it was offered! Mid-summer, 5 sessions, register now! sophieklahr.com/classes

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Grateful to have my poems "Tender" and"One Slaughter" (published in my first book, MEET ME HERE AT DAWN) in this beautiful anthology, THE NEW SENTIENCE: REIMAGINING ANIMAL POETRY. tupress.org/978159534303...

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

@fictioncollective2.bsky.social is such a great press ~ Corey Zeller & I won this contest a few years back for THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD & had a great experience -- poets, get your weird prose together!

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Grateful to @cmu.edu for this tribute to my father. It is wonderful to see affirmed by his colleagues what his family knows to be true: generosity was a core part of his nature. One of the best traits I think a person can have in this wold. www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new...

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Obituary: Remembering Learning Sciences Pioneer David Klahr

David Klahr, a Carnegie Mellon University alumnus and beloved professor in the Psychology Department for more than 40 years, died April 26, 2026.

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

obituaries.post-gazette.com/obituary/dav...

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My father's obituary - www.schugar.com/obituaries?i...

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Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

great teacher and editor here!

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Want some thorough & kind feedback on your work? 🖤 Save up to $50 on editorial services now through May 31 ~ sophieklahr.org/editorialser...

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A humbling surprise have my sonnet "Tender" included in this tremendous anthology, a selection of nearly 100 small press poems and prose works from the past 25 years of The Pushcart Prize (selected from 1,500). Amazing company in these pages!

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Want some thorough & clear-eyed feedback on your work? 🖤 Save up to $50 on editorial services now through May 31 ~ www.sophieklahr.org/editorialser...

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

( here's another I'm-Not-At-AWP-But-My-Books-Are post! ) Here's my first book (published 10 (!!) years ago) over at @yesyesbooks.bsky.social, keeping great company. Booth 546 & 548 !

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I'm not at AWP 2026, but my books are! You can get THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD from @fictioncollective2.bsky.social for $10 at Booth 1135 in the book fair! ( and the promo code for all FC2 online purchases is 25% off with code FC2 ! ) fc2.org/authors/klahr/

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sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

the Literary World is so bloody exclusionary People who make minimum wage basically have to use FOUR HOURS of wages to enter any book contest Standard submission fees are usually around half an hourly minimum wage ugh, what a world Journals & Presses, please offer fee waivers where you can

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